We are delighted to announce that our all-boss fighter Furi is preparing for launch on Xbox One on December 2. Pre-order to start November 21.

Watch the official Furi trailer:

Full press release below.

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UNLEASH THE FURI ON XBOX ONE THIS DECEMBER
The Game Bakers’ epic boss battler is slashing all-the-way to Xbox fans

Montpellier, France — November 15, 2016 — Indie developers The Game Bakers, announced today that their award-winning, all-boss fighter Furi, is preparing for launch on Xbox One on December 2. Xbox fans should ready themselves to slash, shoot, dodge and parry like never before, in a frenzied all-out boss assault.

Watch the official Furi trailer HERE: https://youtu.be/iMuHjg5oA-s

After launching to critical-acclaim on PC via Steam and PlayStation®4 earlier this year, as well as garnering an impressive 93% in positive user reviews on Steam, The Game Bakers are thrilled to be bringing their ultra-fast-paced, combat-action hit, Furi, to Xbox fans around the world. The game will be available for pre-order from November 21.

“We are very happy to bring Furi to Xbox One, especially this version that has been really polished and features a complete new bossfight. This fight requires players to master all the skills acquired during the game. It’s a real test of focus” said Emeric Thoa the game’s creative director.

Described as ‘supremely stylish,’ ‘genre-bending,’ and ‘intensely engaging’ by the gaming press, and praised for its unique mix of sword fighting and dual-stick shooting, Furi is a challenging game comprised entirely of wildly varying boss battles over a mysterious quest for freedom.

Inspired by Japanese games such as No More Heroes, Metal Gear Solid and Godhand, Furi captures the combined moment of fright, passion and adrenaline you feel when in a fight. Each of the opponents have been designed by Afro Samurai creator, Takashi Okazaki. Never missing a beat, which shouldn’t be a problem with Furi’s energetic, award-winning soundtrack, each boss presents their own unique threats and abilities, designed to keep players on their toes with every battle.

For more information, please visit www.furigame.com.

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Notes to Editors:

• Furi will be available on Xbox One December 2 and is available on PS4 and Steam
• Furi is a boss-fight game designed to challenge your skills against a wide variety of unique bosses.
• Furi is about you, the hero, regaining your freedom. While you piece the story together it raises questions on what’s worth fighting for.
• Character design by Afro Samurai’s creator Takashi Okazaki
• Award winning electro/synth wave soundtrack with all original creations by Carpenter Brut, Danger, The Toxic Avenger, Lorn, Scattle, Waveshaper and Kn1ght.
• Furi offers a simple set of controls: shoot, slash, parry and dodge, and they can be charged. Furi’s depth comes from the players learning how best to apply their powers against the varied bosses. Timing, reflexes, and execution will determine how you fare against each one.
• Furi is a game that requires skills and reflexes. No button mashing or combo learning. You need to wait for your adversary to show an opening to fight back.
• Furi’s default difficulty is “Furi” mode. Beat the game in Furi mode, and you’ll unlock Furier difficulty (hardcore). Beat it in Furier, you’ll unlock a Speedrun mode (compete against time or number of hits – with leaderboards).
• Double vinyl and digital OST, tee-shirts, poster available on the Furi Store.

Furi sites:
Website: www.furigame.com
Furi store: furi.hitpoint.tv
Furi OST: furi.bandcamp.com and https://va.lnk.to/ZRHWD
Twitter: @theGameBakers
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thegamebakers
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/TheGameBakers

Xbox One players, prepare for the fight! We are delighted to announce that we are bringing Furi, our frenzied all-boss fighter, to Xbox One.

We never have enough of watching Furi’s trailer:

The game will come to Xbox One at a date to be announced, with exclusive new content, in particular a new boss encounter, that we are teasing about in this one screenshot.

As you wait for the Xbox One release, we are also sharing Episode 2 of our “Making Of” Furi, directed by Katya Mokolo (Kitsuney), this time with a focus finding the right recipe for Furi’s gameplay. Check out the video:

Furi Press kit: https://www.thegamebakers.com/press/sheet.php?p=furi

Furi sites:
Website: www.furigame.com
Merch store: furi.hitpoint.tv
Furi OST: furi.bandcamp.com and https://va.lnk.to/ZRHWD
Twitter: @theGameBakers
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thegamebakers
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/TheGameBakers

We are happy to announce that Furi is on sale 20% off today on Steam. It will also launch on new PC stores with 20% discount, and we are releasing a pro-tips video, a making of video and organising an official speedrun race.

20% off PC sale

Furi will go on sale for 20% off with sale price 19.99$/€ on PC stores today September 28 at 10 AM PST. This is the first sale for Furi and it won’t last long. The Steam daily sale runs for 48 hours, from 10 AM PST on Wednesday, September 28 to 10 AM PST on Friday, September 30, so act fast! The game will also be discounted 20% off on the Humble Store, and will launch on a selection of PC stores at a promotional launch price 20% off too.

Making of video – episode 1

Furi fans will be delighted to know director Katya Mokolo (Kitsuney) has followed the game’s development, creating a series of “Making Of” mini-documentaries, for players to get an inside look at the creative process behind the game. Check out the first episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sJ77Gq5y8G8

Pro-tips video

For those Furi fans in need of advanced combat techniques and Speedrun tips, check out this new pro-tips video from The Game Bakers on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3Fh0KUoBjEU

Furi’s First Official Speedrun Race on September 28

Speedrunners rejoice! The Game Bakers are organising the first official Furi Speedrun race. Everyone is invited to participate, and current world champions Spleen, Angelyn and Janthe will be broadcasted as they vie to beat the 32-minute record! The race is taking place today Wednesday, September 28 at noon PST / 8PM GMT live on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/realmyop2.

Emeric Thoa, the game creative director and RealMyop will be commenting the race. More info on the race: https://www.thegamebakers.com/furis-first-official-race/

We are happy to announce Furi’s First Official Race!

WHERE?

Twitch! The event is being hosted by RealMyop and will be streamed live on his channel here. During the event, three selected top runners’ races will be broadcasted. RealMyop and Emeric Thoa, Furi’s creative director, will comment on the races. We expect some of the world best players on PS4 and PC to be joining, to race or even to comment during the races. It will be in English and French.

WHEN?

The race will take place on Wednesday September 28th at 8PM GMT (3PM Eastern time, noon Pacific time, 21h à Paris).

RULES?

• Anyone can join, as long as you have some way of broadcasting your run during the race on either PC or PS4
• Runners must stream their run to Twitch.tv
• PC and PS4 players must create an account on SpeedRunsLive in order to validate their run. We are using this site to moderate and organize the tune, so make sure to get your account set up if you don’t have one already.
• Any runners not joining the official SRL race or not streaming will be disqualified.
• On September 26th (2 days before the event), we will select the top 3 players playing on PC that have expressed interest in the race. They will be the ones who  have their run broadcasted.
• Speedrun Mode will be used and IGT will be the defining factor in the times set.
• If you are a PS4 player but want to give it a try on PC with your PS4 controller, we provide you with a code of the game on Steam

Video presentation in French about the race here – English below!

PRIZES!

• First Place: Winner will receive the Furi Soundtrack on 2xLP Vinyl, a Furi T-Shirt (any color), and a Furi poster.
• Second Place: Player will receive a Furi T-shirt (any color), and a Furi wall poster
• Third Place: Player will receive a Furi poster
• Participation: Any player with a time under 1 hour will receive a 30% off discount code to be used on Furi merch store http://furi.hitpoint.tv/

To celebrate the first month of Furi, we are announcing several tokens of appreciation for the great community behind the game.

Fans of Furi can get free Avatars for PS4, and for PC owners, free wallpapers and profile pictures. Avatars will be available on the PlayStation store from Thursday 11th and the wallpapers/profile pictures for PC are already HERE.

Players who have earned all of the Trophies / Achievements in Furi will be acknowledged with a 30% reduction off the Furi T-shirts, posters or vinyl on the Furi store, and 15% off for those who finish the game. To claim their reduction coupons, players should contact Game Bakers at hello@thegamebakers.com with a proof of their achievement (account name PS4/Steam and screenshot of their trophies/achievements), or join a PlayStation club like Furi Platinum Elite. The store is here: furi.hitpoint.tv.

The first month of Furi has taken many fans and communities by storm, with the best Speedrunners in the world reaching impressive times in what has been called a tough, challenging game. The world record is now lowered to below 35 minutes. www.speedrun.com/Furi#Speedrun_Mode

For those who appreciated the brilliant collection of electro and synth bands such as Carpenter Brut, Danger, The Toxic Avenger, and others, we are happy to announce that considering the overwhelming demand for the Furi double vinyl, we are planning on printing more.

For anyone still having a difficult time getting past bosses, watch the official full video walkthrough of Furi HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H26PJh2LObw and a FAQ page HERE: https://www.thegamebakers.com/furi-faq-known-issues/

That’s it, Furi, our skill-based, all-boss combat-action game, is available now on PlayStation®4 and on Steam PC!  Check the new launch trailer:

Furi is priced $24.99/€24.99. For the month of July, Furi is offered for free on PlayStation®4 for PlayStation Plus members.

Furi is all about the tension of one-on-one fights against deadly adversaries. Built to be ultra-intense and ultra-responsive, Furi offers players a unique mix of fast-paced sword fighting, dual-stick shooting, charged power shots and well-timed counter attacks.

“Furi has been inspired by Japanese games such as No More Heroes, Metal Gear Solid and Godhand, and is the result of my desire to capture the combined moment of fright, passion and adrenaline you feel when in a fight,” said Emeric Thoa, creative director, The Game Bakers. “Furi is a skill-based game. The diversity of opponents and attack patterns is there to make the player refine his or her skills and get better and better, instead of increasing the character’s stats or his weapons. Ultimately, feeling your skills improve, as a player, is what feels best in a video game.”

The high-energy action is charged by an explosive soundtrack composed of popular electro musicians, each of whom created original tracks. The full roster of musical artists features: Carpenter Brut, Danger, The Toxic Avenger, Lorn, Scattle, Waveshaper, Kn1ght

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK: Furi’s original soundtrack is compiled in digital and a double LP album. Gamers can check out the tracks and order Furi soundtrack and vinyl on furi.bandcamp.com and soon on all major music stores (and on Steam).

CONCERT: Players and fans alike also can attend a one-of-a-kind live concert in Paris, where Carpenter Brut, The Toxic Avenger, Waveshaper and Kn1ght will play their original compositions and more. The concert takes place on Friday, July 8, at La Machine du Moulin Rouge in Paris. For tickets and more information, please visit: furigame.com/event.

THEME DYNAMIQUE PS4 and FURI STORE: For Furi fans, a dynamic theme is available from today on the PlayStation stores ($3.49/3,49€) and a poster, T-shirts and the vinyl will be available on Furi’s store furi.hitpoint.tv

That’s it, after months of working undercover with amazing musicians to compose Furi’s music we are happy to unveil everything we have prepared around the game’s music: the line-up of musicians who collaborated, the soundtrack and a concert this summer in Paris!

Furi was conceived from the early days with and for electro music, and those who follow the game know that CARPENTER BRUT composed several tracks for our electrifying boss fight game. We are happy to announce that we had the chance to collaborate with seven ultra-talented musical artists who have all composed original creations: CARPENTER BRUT, DANGER, LORN, SCATTLE, THE TOXIC AVENGER, WAVESHAPER and KN1GHT.

As we were designing Furi cyber-fantasy universe – with Takashi Okazaki at the character design – we always had electro music in mind. We selected tracks from existing albums to illustrate the guardians in our reference videos. Very naturally, we ended up with a short list of musicians we dreamed to have on board: CARPENTER BRUT, DANGER, LORN, SCATTLE, THE TOXIC AVENGER, WAVESHAPER and KN1GHT. From there, we only needed to convince them to join the project! We were lucky that those ultra talented – and very busy – artists understood Furi’s unique proposition and agreed to join the adventure.

In many ways Furi was inspired by our experience of martial arts and boxing, and it’s particularly true for the music. For Furi we have been working on recreating the sensations you would be getting from a very intense fight – a duel to the death. We chose the music to convey the tension slowly rising as you approach the next arena and discover more about your formidable opponent. The music that gets you pumped up for the next combat, chases the fear away, and conveys the fury and relentlessness of the high stake fights. The music that fits the tempo of the fight itself, and works with Furi’s gameplay that is also very rhythmic.

It wasn’t always easy to brief the musicians on the guardians, especially early in the game development. For some guardians we had videos of the fight, but for others we only had a drawing by Takashi-san. The musicians also designed dynamic music, in loops that fit the game play evolution throughout the phases of the combat and react to the players inputs. All of that while we were still developing the game!

But the result speaks for itself: they totally managed to capture the soul of each guardian. Their moody compositions convey the bosses intimidating personalities, their unique style, their motivation to fight, and bring an extra dimension to the world of Furi. Their collaboration also give a very unique tone to Furi’s soundtrack.

Of course we wanted to share the soundtrack with the game and musicians fans. We partnered with music label G4F and set-up furi.bandcamp.com so you can discover the first tracks. And for the fans of physical objects, Takashi Okazaki designed a collector double vinyl edition, with its stunning contrast between the pure white glossy outside with silver leaf print, and the dark ambiance inside.

To celebrate this extraordinary collaboration, we are holding a one-of-a kind live concert in Paris this summer with four of the game musicians: CARPENTER BRUT, THE TOXIC AVENGER, WAVESHAPER and KN1GHT. They will play an original set with never heard before tracks from the game together with their latest hits or all time favorite. The concert will take place in one of Paris most mythical clubs, La Machine du Moulin Rouge, Friday July 8th and last a good part of the night. We hope to see you there!

Furi links:

• FuriGame.com for more on Furi and the musicians behind the soundtrack
• Furi.Bandcamp.com for the soundtrack digital and vinyl editions
• FuriGame.com/Event for info on the concert.

Musicians official pages:

• Carpenter Brut: carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com
• Danger: facebook.com/2emeDanger
• The Toxic Avenger: thetoxicavenger.tv
• Lorn: lorn.ws
• Scattle: scattle.com
• Waveshaper: waveshapermusic.com
• Kn1ght: the-kn1ght.com

If you liked our two-minute trailer and blog post Wednesday www.thegamebakers.com/try-again/, then you should check this complete boss fight video of the same boss.

It’s important to note that it’s our best player and Furi’s combat designer, Benjamin Le Moullec, who is taking one this boss, and he is pretty skilled at the game!  He does it without dying once, in a beautiful 10 mn speedrun.

This full-length boss fight will help you see how the combat unfolds, the different combat phases, the boss patterns and special abilities and of course the skill, reflexes, and strategy required to beat her.

You can see one of the game’s fiercest guardians. This tactician, hunter and playful mercenary doesn’t leave anything to chance. She has planned her fight and has weapons to help her win: drones, a laser sniper rifle, a great camouflage, and she can even control every bit of the arena she fights in, raising covers, blocking paths as she wants.

“At first, she’ll hunt you, hidden in her maze, shooting at you while you are distracted by her cyber-bees,” says Emeric Thoa, Creative Director. “You will have to find her, and attack her before she relocates. You’ll get to face her for a while if you can do that, but that’s still playing into her hand.”

To take her out of her comfort zone, players will have to trace her into her nest, in the center of the maze, and knock her out. She’ll then grow really angry and intensify her attacks: she’ll release a series of snipes while unleashing waves of patterned bullets. Eventually, fighters will need to challenge her in hand-to-hand combat while she is invisible.

For this boss, the music has been composed by the amazing  Carpenter Brut.

Key Furi Sites:
Game Page: www.FuriGame.com
Press kit:www.thegamebakers.com/press/sheet.php?p=furi
Twitter: @theGameBakers
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thegamebakers
YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/TheGameBakers
Music: Carpenter Brut carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com/

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We are happy to unveil Furi new gameplay trailer, and a new guardian, as well as share some information about the game play.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better
Rewarding perseverance and skills in Furi

By Emeric Thoa, Creative Director, The Game Bakers

There is a feeling that I remember from when I was a kid playing video games: the huge, intense satisfaction when I finally beat a level or a boss I had been struggling with for a while. The feeling of learning how to overcome a challenge, with my brain and my thumbs. The combination of understanding and execution felt like a reward in itself. I remember it from games like Super Punch Out, bosses from Metal Gear Solid, combat in God Hand. There are many games that gave me that feeling, but recently I felt that maybe games try too hard to be « user friendly ». Adaptive difficulty, dynamic checkpoints, in-game tips… Everything is explained and balanced to make sure nobody drops out. With Furi, we want to give the player an extreme satisfaction when s/he beats a boss. That means s/he’ll have to sweat a little for it.

The game is heavily inspired by the Japanese way of making games. It’s not trying to be realistic in its style or animations. It’s fast-paced and requires a lot of timing, reflex, and judgment. When you press a button, the character reacts immediately. It’s part of what makes it “fair.” Too often in modern games, we press a button and then, in order to make the game look realistic, the character will start an animation that “looks good” but “feels heavy,” and is unresponsive, even laggy. Responsive controls feel good and are a must have in a combat game.

The gameplay is the essence of the catch line «easy to learn, hard to master». There are very few buttons to press or abilities to remember. You can slash with your sword, shoot with your gun, dodge and parry. That’s about it. You can charge the slash attack, the gun shot and the dodge. It’ll result in a more powerful slash that stuns the opponent, a more powerful gunshot that knocks him or her down, and a longer dodge. But once you’ve got that, you can play Furi. It’s like a guitar: it has six strings, but you need practice to play it correctly. And there’s no limit to how much you can improve, it’s simple and deep.

The challenges are mostly based on a simple formula: get warned – react – punish. Dodge a laser. Parry a sword attack. Wait for the weakness in your opponent posture, and BAM, punish. The real depth in the gameplay comes from the differences between the bosses. It’s not about learning tons of combos to beat the next boss, it’s about how you play a few moves differently to beat a different opponent. Some bosses, or “guardians,” will focus more on shooting, some other will challenge mostly your sword fighting. Some opponents are deadly and will knock you down in two or three hits. Some fights will require a lot of focus over a long time. A fight can last 10 minutes or a hour and a half depending on how you play. And of course, each guardian in the game has one or two special tricks, a special weapon, and ability that makes him or her unique.

In this trailer, we are showing one of the fiercest guardians. She is a tactician, a hunter, a playful mercenary who doesn’t leave anything to chance. She has planned her fight and has weapons to help her win: drones, a laser sniper riffle, a great camouflage, and she can even control every bit of the arena she fights in, raising covers, blocking paths as she wants.

At first, she’ll hunt you, hidden in her maze, shooting at you while you are distracted by her cyber-bees. You will have to find her, and attack her before she relocates. You’ll get to face her for a while if you can do that, but that’s still playing into her hand.

In order to take her out of her comfort zone, you’ll have to follow her into her nest, in the center of the maze, and knock her out once or twice. Once this is done, she’ll get pissed off and she’ll keep sniping at you while you have to dodge waves of bullets coming fast at you. Eventually, the final challenge is to fight her hand to hand… while she is invisible! This requires sharp reflexes and focus.

I recommend taking a break after beating her. Because I know the guardian that comes after!

We’re interested in hearing your feedback to today’s post and to the trailer. Let us know what you think and if you have questions.

Key Furi Sites:
Game Page: www.Furigame.com
Press kit: www.thegamebakers.com/press/sheet.php?p=furi
Twitter: @theGameBakers
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thegamebakers
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/TheGameBakers
Music: Carpenter Brut carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com/