It should not be expected unless we officially announce we're adding it in a patch. We'd love to have multiplayer on the consoles and it's a possibility we'll continue to explore going forward, but there remain significant development hurdles.

Will you add multiplayer to the consoles later?.

We never would have been able to bring the game to consoles and include multiplayer.Īdditionally, the extra memory and performance requirements of the multiplayer mode as it is on the PC would have been infeasible for the older generation of consoles. The development workload involved in adding and supporting multiplayer on the consoles was far outside the scope of what we could achieve in any reasonable time-frame. There are 2 primary reasons we weren't able to support multiplayer on the console versions of the game which are related to the size of our team and the extra performance and memory requirements of the multiplayer implementation.

Why is there no multiplayer on consoles?.

The PC version has a Sandbox level, a Level Editor with Steam Workshop support so players can create and share levels and it also features cooperative multiplayer for up to four players for the Scenarios, Arena and Beneath. While all the console versions of the game are essentially identical outside of graphical/resolution and performance differences, the PC version contains some extra features.

What differences are there between platforms?.

We have a lot of ideas, but right now we're developing an entirely new game as our follow up to Paint the Town Red. We'd love to continue to surprise people with new, innovative technology, gameplay and environmental storytelling in a sequel to Paint the Town Red. We will be continuing to add to the game, particularly supporting the Level Editor and Workshop

Originally only featuring the Biker Bar and Disco Scenarios, we continually added to the game until was ready to leave Early Access on July 29 2021. We released the first version of Paint the Town Red on Steam in Early Access on October 13 2015. While that version was rudimentary compared to the final game, it was massively popular on itch.io and inspired us to make the full game. We originally developed Paint the Town Red as a game jam game in late 2014 for the 7DFPS Game Jam over the course of 6 days.

The game was entirely developed by Matthew, Shane and Jeff, along with some additional sound effects work from Matt McCamley from Focus Audio and lots of grunts and screams from a bunch of talented voice actors and friends. In early 2019, Jeff van Dyck, a BAFTA award winning composer and Audio Director that Matthew and Shane had worked with previously at Creative Assembly and SEGA, was brought on to the team. South East Games is a company founded and operated by cousins Matthew Carr (programmer) and Shane Carr (artist).

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