What started out as a simple concept for a player-versus-player brawling game, transformed into a co-operative, story-driven, monster mash-up.ĭawn of the Monsters takes place a few decades into the future, where Nephalem – a horde of creatures dedicated to destroying the planet – have shown up on earth and started wreaking havoc.
And at the end of Double Cross, we saw this opportunity to revisit and evolve this idea that had just been sitting on the shelves or the backburner of 13AM.” “He’s a huge kaiju fan, as are many of us in the office. “It’s an idea our creative director Alex Rushdy has had for a while,” said art director Takashi. Now, 13AM is looking to expand their gaming genre reach even further with their 2.5D-animated Dawn of the Monsters, the company’s first official kaiju project set to release in early 2022.
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Four years later, the independent video game studio in Toronto released their second game, Double Cross, an inter-dimensional, single-player, action-adventure game for the Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One. While Shacknews wasn't able to review this one, reviews from the gaming world as a whole were mixed.ĭawn of the Monsters is currently set for a 2020 release with specific platforms to be revealed later, but PC and console releases should be expected.In 2015, a group of creatives from the advertising, civil engineering, film, writing, graphic design and programming industries came together to release 13AM Games first title, Runbow, one of the biggest local multiplayer, and award-winning, experiences ever brought to the Wii U. Earlier this year, the studio released Double Cross, an action-adventure game centered around solving a central mystery within an intergalactic agency. And sure enough, 13AM Games will also produce soft vinyl figures of some of the game's characters, like the game's poster beast Megadon.įor those unfamiliar with 13AM's previous work, rainbow-colored foot racing game Runbow remains a Shacknews favorite. With Rushdy being a kaiju fan and also running a toy company called Seismic, LLC, the move to monster brawler seemed to be a logical one. This will be followed by a Dawn of the Monsters panel with 13AM Games CEO Alex Rushdy.
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The full reveal, complete with the game's first trailer, is set to come this Friday, July 12 during the G-Fest XXVI opening ceremonies. Those who manage to survive the base game can challenge themselves to enter The Maw, which will offer endless brawls against a neverending line of kaiju. This beat-'em-up will run across four worlds, all filled with fully destructible environments. They're seeking to defeat the Nephilim, a horde of monsters that are out to destroy the planet. And sure enough, it's a monstrous announcement, as 13AM has announced Dawn of the Monsters.ĭawn of the Monsters is being billed as a couch co-op brawler, with up to four players traveling the world and wreaking havoc along the way. The indie studio has been teasing a reveal for the upcoming G-Fest XXIV, which is being billed as the world's largest kaiju convention.
13AM Games, the folks behind Runbow and Double Cross, are already hard at work on their third game.