Roadie Wars: Stage Climb, the Trailer
The tour is 20 dates long and the crowd bites now. The Roadie Wars: Stage Climb trailer, what's in the game, and what changed in version 2.1.
The tour is 20 dates long. The crowd bites now.
Roadie Wars: Stage Climb is a vertical arcade climber for iPhone and iPad, in the grand old style: girders, ladders, and one stubborn roadie against the whole venue. The band's gear is at the top of the rig, the crew has gone feral, and somebody left the pyro running.
It's free on the App Store. No ads, no in-app purchases, and it plays offline.
What's in it
- 100 stages across five venues, from dingy bars to sold-out stadiums
- A full crew of playable roadies, each with their own stats
- Feral groupies, bottle throwers and zombie hangers-on to fight off
- Pyro jets, falling lighting rigs, rolling kegs and trap doors to dodge
- Eight scavenged weapons backstage, with limited ammo
- Boss nights every fifth stage, from the Super Groupie to the Headliner
- Comic-panel cutscenes that tell the story of the worst tour ever booked
- A proper d-pad, jump and fire, tuned to feel fair
What changed in 2.1
The crew got bigger and the art got sharper:
- 28 new faces on the crew
- Every character redrawn at full resolution, on the crew select and in the comic panels
- The story cutscenes play now (they quietly weren't)
- Ladders you top out properly: hands plant, he hoists over the lip
- Jumps you can aim
- A camera that leans in on the moments worth leaning in on
- New ladders drawn for every venue
- Game Center leaderboards for high score and furthest tour, plus ten achievements
- iPad support in portrait
More Roadie Wars
If you want to know how it was built, there's a six-part dev diary that starts with why our first iPhone game starts at 5. There's also the browser game that came first and a field guide to surviving the tour.
The show starts when the gear is up. Get climbing.