DrinkBox Studios 2020 Year in Review

Wow… 2020 sure was a year, huh? 😅 Despite, well you know *gestures broadly*, we’re very fortunate to have had a pretty good year at DrinkBox and wanted to take some time to look back, reflect on the year, and share some highlights.

When COVID-19 hit back in March, the city of Toronto went into full lockdown and the whole DrinkBox team transitioned to working remotely from home. There was definitely an adjustment period as we set up our respective home offices, switched to using Discord for our daily stand ups and meetings, and got used to our new co-workers -- ie. our cats and dogs and plants, who were especially excited about this working-from-home we were all doing. We’ve since settled into a nice flow with the whole team working together remotely, and now we have a new Friday night ritual of playing games together via Discord, which is a nice thing to come out of this whole lockdown thing.

Speaking of which, here are some of our team’s favourite games they played in 2020:

• Cass: Spelunky 2
• Gabby: Hades
• Graham: Crosscode
  
• Ian: Devil May Cry 5
• Josh: Rocket League
  
• Kaitlin: Animal Crossing New Horizons
  
• Mayuran: Hades, Factorio
  
• Mike: Hades, Demon's Souls remake
  
• Steph: Astro’s Playroom
  

While we didn’t have any new releases in 2020 ourselves, we did have some exciting Guacamelee! news to come out of this year:

• The Guacamelee! One Two Punch Collection was released in Europe!
  
• Juan made a cameo in Bounty Battle, along with several other indie game protagonists
  
• NOW Magazine named Guacamelee! one of their Top 10 Toronto-made Games (a lot of great games are made in Toronto so we’re very honoured!!)
  
• We partnered with Ship to Shore to create TWO vinyl records for both Guacamelee! and Guacamelee! 2! You can pre-order them both here

We also teased our upcoming unannounced game which we’ve been working hard on over this past year. It’s a brand new IP we’re very excited for, and can’t wait to share more about it with you in 2021 👀



To help us develop this brand new game we’re working on, we added 2 new people to the DrinkBox team, including Josh Davis our QA Tester and Kaitlin Smith our Associate Producer!

Hey actually, did you know we’re currently hiring for 2 additional roles including Senior Programmer and Game Tester? If you’re interested in applying check out the job listings here. We’d love to have you on the team!



Thanks for all your support in 2020. We hope you’re doing well and continuing to stay safe and that 2021 will be a much better year for everyone.

Happy Holidays, from your pals at DrinkBox studios



By the way, all of our games are on sale for up to 80% OFF during the Holiday! These are the steepest discounts we do all year, so there’s never been a better time to pick up our games:

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