{"id":157706,"date":"2025-06-16T19:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/?p=157706"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:18:29","slug":"big-hops-interview-luckshot-games-chris-wade-talks-speedrunning-community-stellar-team-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/game-interviews\/big-hops-interview-luckshot-games-chris-wade-talks-speedrunning-community-stellar-team-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Hops Interview &#8211; Luckshot Games&#8217; Chris Wade Talks Speedrunning Community, Stellar Team, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fresh and froggy action-platformer, Luckshot Games\u2019 Big Hops is making a splash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/chriswade\/big-hops\">a successful Kickstarer<\/a> and heart to spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gamers Heroes recently spoke with Luckshot Games\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/luckshotgames.com\">Chris Wade<\/a> on Big Hops&#8217; froggy adventure, talking everything from its community to its dream team to even its fantastic voice over work &#8211; learn more with our interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Big Hops Interview &#8211; Luckshot Games&#8217; Chris Wade Talks Speedrunning Community, Stellar Team, and More<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BIG HOPS - Announce Trailer | A new kind of 3D platformer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bd7WIf1peRA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gamers Heroes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;q=big%20hops%20kickstarter\">Congrats on the Kickstarter<\/a>! I saw you just reached your goal this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What has it been like working with the community on this release?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chris Wade<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it&#8217;s not our first time on Kickstarter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 years ago, with our first game <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/574120\/Sausage_Sports_Club\/\">Sausage Sports Club<\/a>, I was coming out of school and learning to make games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My games partner <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/tomaeusd.bsky.social\">Tom Dunkin<\/a> does the audio, music, and sound design for Big Hops.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/chriswade\/sausage-sports-club\">He and I did a Kickstarter for Sausage Sports Club then<\/a>. We learned the ropes, focusing on social media, talking to people about what the message of the game was.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s been fun to do that again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, it\u2019s been weird and different now, because now a lot of people are on Bluesky instead of Twitter &#8211; and a lot of our community is still on Twitter!<br><br>Still, we\u2019ve been talking to people and also <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3735820\/Big_Hops_Demo\/\">put up a demo this time<\/a>, which was different from last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3735820\/Big_Hops_Demo\/\">It\u2019s been reviewed really well on Steam<\/a>, and we immediately had this influx of speedrunners that were all really enthusiastic about techniques and like sharing videos!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a page on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedrun.com\/Big_Hops\">speedruns.com<\/a> with a Big Hops channel there, and they&#8217;ve been owning it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There\u2019s a group speedrunning the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bighops?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bighops<\/a> demo and they got a leaderboard up here:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FT8gDBiO8K\">https:\/\/t.co\/FT8gDBiO8K<\/a><br><br>I think sub 7 is possible, maybe even sub 6!<\/p>&mdash; Chris Wade \ud83c\udf2d\ud83d\udc38 (@chriswade__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chriswade__\/status\/1927773716739453319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They&#8217;ve been pitching to me what they think the categories should be, also inventing new ones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been really exciting and fun to watch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our team is excited and grateful and kind of gratified to see that people are like excited and engaging with what we&#8217;re doing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gamers Heroes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On that same note, I saw Big Hops was inspired by Mario, Sonic Adventure, Breath of the Wild, and the like &#8211;&nbsp; I got 130 emblems in the first, and 180 in the second!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those are all fantastic games, all with heart. Were there any standout elements, like Korok Seeds or anything from those titles that may have inspired Big Hops?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know you\u2019ve certainly got your own unique thing going! Love to know inspirations though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chris Wade<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I&#8217;ll start with Breath of the Wild, because in terms of the spirit of the game, probably the most inspirational when it came out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Playing it, it was so exciting to see a reinvention of a genre I was really familiar with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing that stood out to me the most was this modern feeling of letting the player do whatever they want, having more agency and control &#8211; a real sense of freedom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelda historically is very restricted &#8211; you can&#8217;t even jump from except when going off a ledge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So this title then lets you climb on anything &#8211; it was really, really crazy, and it made the game feel huge, rich, and deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was also a lot of jankiness that didn&#8217;t ruin the game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This kind of gave me permission. Our games are on an indie scale, and maybe we&#8217;ll only ever have five or 10 people working on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, trusting that if we give players something interesting enough, it doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s a little rough around the edges &#8211; this gave me permission to start experimenting with the veggie kind of interaction paradigm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know most people are going to see the frog and the frog tongue, and that&#8217;s going to feel like what the game&#8217;s about.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But once you get into it, it&#8217;s about planting veggies and growing your own path &#8211; combining the different veggies you unlock over the game to be really crazy and do your own thing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think Zelda letting players climb and giving you the gadgets to be creative &#8211; that was the number one specific game design interaction that was really inspirational.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think everybody also talks about Super Mario Odyssey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think for us, it&#8217;s not one Mario game that was inspirational &#8211; it&#8217;s all of them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll see that we&#8217;ve reference moves from titles like Super Mario Sunshine like the slide dive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Super Mario Odyssey, you can kind of do a mid-air dive and change your direction a little bit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Big Hops, the dive is much easier to accomplish &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t require a bunch of buttons, and you can also change direction. Think more like 90 or more degrees, whereas Super Mario Odyssey was limited to more like the 45 degrees in front of you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also are trying to extend the move set and add more sort of options &#8211; and not just be Mario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s tongue swinging, there&#8217;s hook shotting &#8211; that&#8217;s like the Sonic Adventure games you mentioned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve also got wall-running; there wasn&#8217;t a particular game that we like referenced super-hard for that, but Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is probably the one that I feel it is closest to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing I want people to get, &#8211; especially if they play the demo &#8211; is that the game feels very itself and unique! It doesn&#8217;t feel like a Mario rip off, or a Zelda ripoff, or whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gamers Heroes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s still its own unique thing &#8211; I can respect that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s a tribute, and it&#8217;s taking from all the right sources &#8211; going even further beyond. I love it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing I also saw is that you&#8217;re going to have a full voiceover for Big Hops. I have tremendous respect for VAs &#8211; after my own heart, and nothing but respect.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s it been like working with this talent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chris Wade<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been really exciting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two sort of voice casts that we&#8217;ve that we&#8217;ve gone through the process with so far are the voice of Hop and the voice of Diss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0228356\/\">Ben Diskin<\/a> plays Diss &#8211; the antagonist of the game. He&#8217;s been in a million things!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People are always DMing us, who is this guy? I think I recognize him from somewhere!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hop is played by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13054551\/\">Greg Vinciguerra<\/a> &#8211; he\u2019s a newer guy, but really, really, really talented!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was so funny when he joined the first call to&nbsp; record the first session of Hop. We listened to his reel, and were really excited about his voice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when he joined the call and just started talking to us to kind of prepare his voice was exactly what we think of as Hop!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Tom and I looked at each other, and I said:<br><br>\u201cThat&#8217;s his voice &#8211; he&#8217;s not putting on the voice of Hop; that&#8217;s like, just who he is!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s wonderfully exciting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Working with Ben is really exciting too!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He&#8217;s just such a pro, and has been doing this so long. After recording 10 long lines, we got into this crazy flow and got done two or three times as much as we expected to in the time that we had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is true for both of them, but their takes on the character and their acting choices were surprising in ways that we didn&#8217;t even think of for each of the characters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was just a total joy &#8211; it was really fun, exciting, and energizing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We left each, each one of those sessions being like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOh, this is going to be so awesome!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then Tom rushes to plug everything in as fast, because we&#8217;re so excited about it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then everybody&#8217;s like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOh my God, this is even better than we thought it could be!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just really fun stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gamers Heroes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On that same note, I know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckshotgames.com\/\">Luckshot Games<\/a> has a dream team of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve mentioned the voice actors &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:bz2ndwk2f5x73t5cr3lr2j6v\/post\/3lqqfz422ic2w\">what&#8217;s been like working with such an incredible crew<\/a>?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It sounds like there&#8217;s a really great team making something really great here, and that same heart that you&#8217;re talking about is probably reflected with everybody.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Big-Hops-Interview-Luckshot-Games-Chris-Wade-Talks-Community-Collaboration-and-Voice-Talent-Kickstarer-Team-740x313.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157702\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chris Wade<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for that question! That gives me a good chance to shout everybody out\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our team is amazing! There&#8217;s not too many returning people from Sausage Sports Club, but this time we&#8217;ve been able to have a lot of people!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s see if I can run through them\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I definitely want to shout out everybody like our art team! Jonny, Zo\u00eb, and Brody all have different styles, but all bring a truly unique, interesting design reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I mentioned this in the Kickstarter update, but <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/jlorp.bsky.social\">Jonny<\/a> &#8211; one of the one of the references he brought to our ocean area was the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2101441\/\">Spring Breakers<\/a> that was directed by Harmony Korine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spring Breakers | Official Trailer HD | A24\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/imDML4om8z8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s kind of like gangsters in Miami, Florida with <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/31IZdHrCZ5pRhLz4zBxN3o\">RiFF RAFF<\/a> the rapper &#8211; it\u2019s really weird.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not something you would necessarily associate with Big Hops style, but the costumes of the sort of pirate-y characters in our ocean area pull all of this Miami-punk gangster reference that&#8217;s so interesting and unique.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/saphizzle.bsky.social\">Zo\u00eb<\/a> has added such a such an interesting touch!&nbsp; I don&#8217;t want to say the word cutesy, because that simplifies it too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She uses almost like a Tumblr-aesthetic to the shopkeeper characters in our interior spaces that gives the game a lot of the character and charm that we&#8217;re talking about!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/zoostrikers.com\">Brody<\/a>, who&#8217;s who&#8217;s off the project a while, helped us kind of define a lot of the art style. He built test scenes and has done experiments.&nbsp; We created such a rich, varied world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are a couple of images on the Kickstarter page that are slices of all the different scenes in the game. There\u2019s just so many &#8211; almost 35 different art styles or flavors to the game that feel very unique.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Big-Hops-Colors-Gamers-Heroes-556x416.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157705\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think when Big Hops comes out, something that will stand out for everybody is how much of an adventure it feels like!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a result of how many different feeling places players will go to &#8211; and so quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gamers Heroes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know that each world of Big Hops features its own self-contained story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have a favorite you can speak of right now, an \u201cEXCLUSIVE WORLD PREMIERE\u201d scoop &#8211; SGF style?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chris Wade<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s talk about our ocean world! This is the second world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first world is the desert, and then players will go through the ocean after that, which is focused on otters and seagulls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Hop shows up, you show up to this Junker town &#8211; an ocean village featuring shacks built out of like found materials on the ocean, very inspired by Waterworld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city&#8217;s kind of on fire when you show up as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everybody&#8217;s panicking, and Hop has been invited to help.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it turns out, there\u2019s this pirate who&#8217;s kind of got a vendetta against an oil company who&#8217;s moved in and has started setting the different oil rigs on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s causing a ton of havoc, creating a dangerous situation for the workers of the oil rigs &#8211; and also the people of the Junker town village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so Hop was asked to help them. You might be able to find your airship part, but you also have to put out this fire and fix the situation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pretty, pretty quickly you&#8217;re able to solve that problem, but throughout the ocean you stumble into more and more chaos and disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At one point, Hop gets kidnapped, and another point one is forced against their will to join a pirate crew!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess that&#8217;s as much of a hint I want to get to the story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gamers Heroes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s great! I was  about to say &#8211; love how one can experience it for themselves!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chris Wade<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gameplay wise, the oceans have a lot of cool stuff too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You pretty quickly learn to swim deep underwater &#8211; you can see it in the reveal trailer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the coolest veggies we have are a bubble fruit that when you throw it at the wall, and it spawns many bubbles that Hop could hookshot into. And when you hookshot into these bubbles, you can launch yourself almost like a pool cue ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From there, you can bounce off walls and other things, chaining things together to get super high up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other cool one is our oil balls. If you throw them at a wall, it sort of sticks and creates a hookshot point that will help the player ricochet off and give you a jump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our trailer, you can see a clip of Hop chaining multiple things together to do a really cool fast route during the ocean levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gamers Heroes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s pretty cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also saw there&#8217;s going to be Mixtapes coming to the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re talking about VAs &#8211; and that&#8217;s fantastic! &#8211; but music is great too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are there any stand out tracks you&#8217;re especially proud of?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chris Wade<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think my favorite is one that Tom reworked recently from the desert world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of the desert has players going into the sewer to sneak into an organized crime family. On that note, the Mixtape is a collection of several songs from this area.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mixtape is called \u201cSewer Jazz,\u201d and it provides a dark, creepy feeling. You&#8217;re kind of doing stealth stuff, but it&#8217;s also funky and jazzy &#8211; and has a little bit of like saxophone in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gamers Heroes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, I know I want to keep this short &#8211; can I get you a burrito?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t have five figures to give you, but at the very least, I can DoorDash it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s as good as California one, but we can see what we can do [laughs]\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Big-Hops-Chris-Wade-Burrito-Gamers-Heroes-697x416.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157704\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chris Wade<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would feel so guilty taking a burrito from you! I appreciate that offer though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m just happy to talk about the game! It\u2019s exciting to have your interest and to be able to talk more about the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8HUGE News\ud83d\udea8<br><br>\ud83d\udc38BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward!<br><br>\u2728Free demo out NOW<br>\ud83c\udfaeComing to Nintendo Switch 1 &amp; 2 in Q4 2025<br>\ud83d\udcb0Our publisher dropped us, so we&#39;re KICKSTARTING<br>(links below) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YncY3MVUYr\">pic.twitter.com\/YncY3MVUYr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Chris Wade \ud83c\udf2d\ud83d\udc38 (@chriswade__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chriswade__\/status\/1926738836010254725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be sure to check out Big Hops <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1221480\/Big_Hops\/\">via its official Steam page<\/a> &#8211; a demo is also available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, one can pledge their support to the Big Hops Kickstarter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/chriswade\/big-hops\">via its official page<\/a> &#8211; there are still seven days to pledge your support as of this writing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One can also join the conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/ErnAdJYr7h\">via the official Discord channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background-color: #d9edf7;color: #31708f;border-left-color: #31708f\" class=\"ub-styled-box ub-notification-box wp-block-ub-styled-box\" id=\"ub-styled-box-554cead3-3fe5-4e97-85a8-4317d538a703\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"ub-styled-box-notification-content-\">Thank you to Chris Wade for his time!<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-ub-post-grid ub-block-post-grid align  is-equal-height preserve-post-image-aspect-ratio\" style=\"\" id=\"ub-post-grid-9255c460-2644-4630-bf1c-37d16d9ae41d\"><div class=\"ub-post-grid-items is-list\" style=\"row-gap: 32px; 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Interview KV - Gamers Heroes\" style=\"max-width: 600px; \" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/KuloNiku-Bowl-Up-Interview-KV-Gamers-Heroes.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/div><div class=\"ub-block-post-grid-text\" style=\"\"><div class=\"ub-block-post-grid-header-content\"><header class=\"ub-block-post-grid-header\"><h2 class=\"ub-block-post-grid-title\"><a style=\"--ub-post-grid-title-color: #ffffff; \" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/game-interviews\/kuloniku-bowl-up-interview\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">KuloNiku: Bowl Up! 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Interview \u2013 Gambir Studio Talks Characters, Community &amp; More<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"post-171298\" class=\"ub-post-grid-item post-171298 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-features category-game-articles category-game-interviews tag-features tag-game-articles tag-game-interviews\" style=\"\"><div class=\"ub-block-post-grid-image\" style=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/game-interviews\/sam-haft-interview\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAYYAAADcAQMAAABOLJSDAAAAA1BMVEUAAACnej3aAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAACJJREFUaIHtwTEBAAAAwqD1T20ND6AAAAAAAAAAAAAA4N8AKvgAAUFIrrEAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" class=\"attachment-full size-full lazy-img\" alt=\"Sam Haft Interview KV - Gamers Heroes\" style=\"max-width: 600px; \" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sam-Haft-Interview-KV-Gamers-Heroes.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/div><div class=\"ub-block-post-grid-text\" style=\"\"><div class=\"ub-block-post-grid-header-content\"><header class=\"ub-block-post-grid-header\"><h2 class=\"ub-block-post-grid-title\"><a style=\"--ub-post-grid-title-color: #ffffff; \" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/game-interviews\/sam-haft-interview\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sam Haft Interview \u2013 Platinum Artist Talks Living Tombstone, Favorite Lyric &amp; Favorite Curse<\/a><\/h2><\/header><\/div><div class=\"ub-block-post-grid-excerpt\"><div class=\"ub-block-post-grid-excerpt-text\" style=\"\"><p>From the Hellaverse to The Living Tombstone to even his favorite curse word, we recently joined Sam Haft to discuss his runaway success\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><p><a class=\"ub-block-post-grid-more-link ub-text-link\" style=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/game-interviews\/sam-haft-interview\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sam Haft Interview \u2013 Platinum Artist Talks Living Tombstone, Favorite Lyric &amp; Favorite Curse<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"post-171152\" class=\"ub-post-grid-item post-171152 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-features category-game-articles category-game-interviews tag-features tag-game-articles tag-game-interviews\" style=\"\"><div class=\"ub-block-post-grid-image\" style=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/game-interviews\/kelsi-davies-interview\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAYYAAADcAQMAAABOLJSDAAAAA1BMVEUAAACnej3aAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAACJJREFUaIHtwTEBAAAAwqD1T20ND6AAAAAAAAAAAAAA4N8AKvgAAUFIrrEAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" class=\"attachment-full size-full lazy-img\" alt=\"Kelsi Davies Interview - Gamers Heroes\" style=\"max-width: 600px; \" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kelsi-Davies-Interview-Gamers-Heroes.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/div><div class=\"ub-block-post-grid-text\" style=\"\"><div class=\"ub-block-post-grid-header-content\"><header class=\"ub-block-post-grid-header\"><h2 class=\"ub-block-post-grid-title\"><a style=\"--ub-post-grid-title-color: #ffffff; \" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamersheroes.com\/game-interviews\/kelsi-davies-interview\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Kelsi Davies Interview \u2013 Psychic\/Clairvoyant Talks Haunt Escape, Disneyland &amp; More<\/a><\/h2><\/header><\/div><div class=\"ub-block-post-grid-excerpt\"><div class=\"ub-block-post-grid-excerpt-text\" style=\"\"><p>A Professional Actress, Content Creator, and Clairvoyant, Kelsi Davies has welcomed millions on her spiritual journey. 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