Oh Child! Video games launches Oh Child Kart racing title in SpongeBob universe



Oh Child! Video games is marking its entry into gaming with the launch of its inaugural title, Oh Child Kart.

Representing a refreshing tackle the basic kart racing style, Oh Child Kart is billed as an enticing cross-platform multiplayer expertise with revolutionary gameplay mechanics and a collaboration with Paramount International’s SpongeBob SquarePants mental property.

The corporate stated Oh Child Kart is a cross-platform multiplayer extravaganza, infusing the basic kart racing style with intricate skill-based gameplay and fascinating narratives throughout various maps and modes.

Breaking away from conventional fashions, Oh Child Kart operates inside a dwell service framework, designed to prioritize participant satisfaction. Initially accessible for closed beta on Home windows and MacOS beginning December 14, the sport will broaden to cell and console platforms in 2024, the corporate stated.

Teaming up with Paramount International and Nickelodeon, Oh Child Kart options iconic SpongeBob SquarePants characters like SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs, amongst others, as playable racers. These fan-favorite characters will be a part of a assorted solid of over 20 characters racing throughout 26 programs, together with a particular map set within the fabled Bikini Backside.

Oh Child! Video games is making Oh Child Kart.

Oh Child Kart introduces numerous gameplay options:

It has over 20 unlockable characters, together with 4 limited-time SpongeBob SquarePants racers, and 26 programs accessible throughout the closed beta. With lots of of kart customization choices, gamers can personalize their model.

It additionally has a racer expertise system that permits mid-race stat and talent buffs, empowering gamers to refine their character’s Grand Prix construct. Every racer boasts a novel passive trait and a number of final talents, charged by way of kart drifting.

The sport additionally has a dwell companies mannequin. It can have common content material updates with new characters, tracks, and fixed steadiness changes guarantee a dynamic, evolving gameplay expertise.

With a seamless cross-platform matchmaking and in-game social chat system, the sport facilitates related gameplay with mates.

And Oh Child Kart has 100-plus quests, together with boss battles and in-race quests, including thrilling dimensions to the usual Grand Prix and Duo Racing codecs.

The sport additionally has aggressive tiered leagues based mostly on previous efficiency and an asynchronous player-versus-player mode permitting gamers to compete in opposition to one another’s greatest occasions.

Pasteur Tran, CEO of Oh Child! Video games, stated in a press release, “I’m thrilled for gamers to get their arms on Oh Child Kart. Rising up, I beloved the basic kart racers like Mario Kart and Diddy Kong Racing. However I see Oh Child Kart as an extended overdue replace to the style, providing a totally on-line expertise for the subsequent era of kart racing followers. At Oh Child! Video games, we’re constructing a complete gaming platform from the bottom up, an area that focuses on nice video games and the imaginative methods fashionable avid gamers inhabit these worlds. Past Oh Child Kart, I can’t wait to point out everybody what else we’ve acquired coming down the pipeline.”

Oh Child Kart is Oh Child! Video games’ maiden launch following a profitable $6 million seed spherical earlier this 12 months. The studio has a number of titles nearing completion, all slated for launch on its custom-built Oh Child! Video games launcher, serving as a central hub for the studio’s burgeoning gaming group.

Oh Child! Video games is a world gaming studio devoted to crafting revolutionary social video games. Led by founder Tran, the group has worldwide sport builders with expertise on titles like Age of Empires II, Name of Responsibility, League of Legends, Loopy Fishing VR, and Magic: The Gathering. The studio goals to revolutionize well-liked gaming genres, specializing in social interplay, creator financial system, and aggressive ecosystems.

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