With the entire upheaval that affected Bungie in 2024, it’s fairly simple to have forgotten that one of many studio’s a number of incubation initiatives has been steadily shifting via the event pipeline. That recreation in query is Challenge Gummy Bears, which has been described by insider sources reporting to The Recreation Publish as a staff vs. staff MOBA with Smash Bros.-style gameplay and a “lo-fi cozy aesthetic.”
Phrase of this undertaking was first shared in 2023, with preliminary particulars in regards to the recreation’s cute characters and colourful visible model, and whereas Bungie didn’t outright share particulars about Gummy Bears, it did seem to reference its improvement in a tweet, calling it “a team-based motion recreation [that] attracts inspiration from preventing video games, platformers, MOBAs, life sims, and frog-type video games, wrapped up in a lighthearted, comedic world.”
Then got here the 2024 layoff spherical, which readers will recall closed down a number of initiatives and moved at the very least one undertaking to an inside PlayStation studio. New insider stories now affirm that recreation is Gummy Bears, which reportedly has moved pretty additional alongside in its now three years of improvement and has a number of ex-Bungie devs engaged on it.
Nameless sources say Gummy Bears now has a number of recreation modes, three distinct class varieties (help, assault, and protection), a central hub the place gamers can hang around pre-match, and fight the place gamers construct a proportion of injury that causes them to be flung off of the map (a la Smash Bros. or Divine Knockout) and the place tower buildings will have the ability to transfer, leap, and interact particular skills, in response to a associated March 2024 patent submitting.
Gummy Bears is being known as the “most enjoyable” undertaking but by insiders and appears to be angling for a youthful viewers normally, however there are nonetheless no particulars on when the sport will enter into testing or launch. The truth that this undertaking has been allowed to gestate for 3 years after all that has occurred at Bungie remains to be fairly heartening and would possibly imply that this one would possibly cross the end line.
