Factsheet
Developer:
Lowtek Games
Based in Dundee, Scotland
Release date:
2024
Platforms:
PC / NES / Dreamcast Kickstarter
Demo itch
Merch Redbubble
Website:
http://www.lowtek.games
Regular Price:
| Digital GBP | £9.99 |
| Physical GBP | £50.00 |
| SE Physical GBP | £100.00 |
Description
Flea2 is a sequel to the 2020 NES game FLEA! It is designed to run on an NES and is a challenging 2D platformer with an intriguing back story. Play as Henry the Hyperactive Flea who just can’t stop jumping! Pick up where you left off in flea with more levels and mechanics to play with.
Master over 90 levels
Meet weird characters
Discover secrets
History
After the sucsess of FLEA! and Tapeworm disco Puzzle We decided it was time for a direct FLEA! sequel whos kickstarter campaign will launch 4 years after the first one. On Febuary 29th 2024 marking the next LEAP year.
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Why the nes?
A few reasons. I grew up playing the nes and always wanted to make a game for it. Then NESmaker came along, it's a wiziwig-esk nes development software. I had the Flea idea many years before but thought its simple mechanics would be achievable on the NES. There is also a growing community for new retro “homebrew games”, and there have been a few very successful crowdfunding campaigns for these projects. This niche group helped the project stand out among the many other modern games on Kickstarter.
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Why Dreamcast?
This one might puzzle a few but like the NES community there is also a large Dreamcast homebrew community with new games being released all the time. Unlike the NES, the Dreamcast had an exploit that allowed people to play burned games making it much cheaper and easier to produce essentially a CD over a custom cartridge.
Lowtek Games commissioned a local programmer “Ross Killgarif” to modify an open source nes emulator for the dreamcast to auto boot the nes game, it also has a custom vmu image.
The process of creating a dreamcast playable nes game has been open sourced by Lowtek Games for everyone to enjoy.
The dreamcast version will be released at a later date.
Features
- Runs on Physical NES and Dreamcast
- Always jumping mechanic
- Over 80 new levels to master Perfect for speedruns
- Awesome original soundtrack by Tuï
- Discover secrets meet weird characters with loads of puns
- Bug fixes and quality of life improvments over FLEA 1
Videos
Trailer YouTube
Images
Logo & Icon
Awards & Recognition
- "Debug Indie Awards" Finalist Most Anticipated Award
Selected Articles
- "“Iv been overwhelmed by the love that people have for flea and final caved to make more. Im itching to see you people make of the sequel. ” "
- Ally Low, lowtek.games - "“It's bloody hard and chronicly moreish” "
- Ally Low, lowtek.games
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Additional Links
Play the Demo
Demo TBA https:.
About Lowtek Games
Boilerplate
Currently a two man studio that outsources stuff when needed. The studio is focused on making fun, challenging, puzzling games that are dyslexia friendly.
More information
More information on Lowtek Games, our logo & relevant media are available here.
FLEA 2 Credits
Alastair Low
Business & Development, LowtekGames
Dale Coop
Coder, Freelancer
Ross kilgariff
Coder, Freelancer
Contact
Inquiries
info@lowtek.games
Twitter
https://twitter.com/Wallmasterr
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