The game was developed with the Unity game engine. Chad Moldenhauer called Fleischer Studios "the magnetic north of his art style". The game was inspired by cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios, Disney, and cartoonists Ub Iwerks, Grim Natwick, and Willard Bowsky, particularly their most "subversive and surrealist" elements. Its development began in 2010, and they worked on the game from their respective homes in Toronto, Ontario and Saskatchewan. Additional animation work was contributed by Jake Clark.
Cuphead has a parry ability that, after successfully parrying five times in a row, enables Cuphead to perform a special move.Ĭuphead is the first game by Studio MDHR, an indie game development studio consisting of brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer. Charms give the player special abilities like an extra life. The player can also purchase more weapons and "Charms" from the shop using coins collected from the run-and-gun levels. It also has a multiplayer local cooperative mode that allows another player to play as Mugman. The levels are accessible through an action role-playing game-style top-down perspective overworld with its own secret areas. Cuphead has infinite lives, keeps weapons between deaths, can continuously fire his blasts and has a quick dash ability that can be used at will. In-game screenshot of Cuphead, showing the player and a co-op partner battling Captain Brineybeard, one of the game's bossesĬuphead features a branching level sequence and is based around continuous boss fights. They tell the residents that they are no longer under control of the Devil and they all cheer the brothers for their heroic deed. After defeating the Devil, the brothers toss the soul contracts in the furnace and race home. If they say no, the Devil then battles the brothers. If they say yes, the Devil turns Cuphead and Mugman into his demonic lackeys and the game ends.
At this point the player can choose whether to hand the contracts over or not. The Devil then asks the brothers about the contracts and in return they will "join his team". Once they make it back to the Casino, King Dice reveals that he too lost a bet, presumably about whether or not Cuphead and Mugman would be able to retrieve the contracts. Eventually, Elder Kettle tells the brothers that when facing the Devil again, they must "do the right thing". The brothers beg for mercy, so the Devil makes a deal with them: collect the contracts of other inhabitants of Inkwell Isle who have lost their souls by midnight the next day.Ĭuphead and Mugman travel around Inkwell Isle collecting soul contracts from residents who have lost their souls to King Dice and the Devil. Cuphead rolls snake eyes and he and Mugman must give up their souls. If Cuphead and Mugman can win another time, they will own the entire casino if not, the Devil will have their souls. When the brothers go on a winning streak, the casino's manager King Dice calls upon the Devil, who raises the stakes. Against the elder's warnings, the brothers wander into the Devil's Casino and play craps. On Inkwell Isle, Cuphead and his brother Mugman are two fun-loving kids who live under the watchful eye of Elder Kettle.
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