Suburban Karate Master
Turner
Goals
2011 saw the release of Turner Broadcasting's headline cartoon series, The Amazing World of Gumball, developed by their European development team. As well as delivering an online destination to support the show, we worked with the Cartoon Network team to develop a casual game that would capture the essence of the show and encourage take up and awareness of the show.
Solution
Suburban Karate Master is a fast paced, 8-bit styled survival action game, where the aim is to travel as far as possible in order to get the highest score. You play Gumball, the eponymous hero and main character who has discovered his talent for karate and wants to use it!
As Gumball, you have to avoid all the obstacles put in front of you, from fire hydrants to traffic cones, road blocks to ginger cats, Kunai knives to Hadoken fireballs, but that's not all. Enemies are quick to appear in true Karate movie tradition, lining up to take you out, so act fast to one-inch-punch them first!
Juice cans litter your way which fuel your focus and and fill up your meter. Once full, you become INVINCIBLE, automatically summoning Darwin and becoming a superpower team that ploughs through the bad guys and obstacles clearing 300m in half the time.
The retro 80's 8-bit styling and the frenetically catchy music make Suburban Karate Master a must play game for the discerning lover of all things Gumball!
Results
The game has been a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and continues to entice people into The Crazy World of Gumball!