It’s the ”perfect program” they said, letting them self-fund the PC version whilst also achieving quality you can only get from an ”actual beta community of players.”
It’s top-down and players dual one another as the main focus is PvP. Players fight to gain reputation and notoriety, and the controls are similar to twin stick shooters.
”Since we first previewed the game at PAX East there has been an overwhelming amount of demand to bring the game to PC in addition to PS4, and we always promised we would do our best,” said Yousuf Mapara, creative director at Switchblade Monkeys. ”We realized Early Access would be the perfect program for this; it creates an environment where we can self-fund development of the PC version to make it a reality, in addition to exposing all versions of the game to a broader round of polish and tuning that you can only get when developing with an actual beta community of players.”
Secret Ponchos is playable at PAX East. Every character has a dual-function weapon as well as a secondary item to use, like a stick of dynamite. Currently the game has five maps and multiplayer game modes.
