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===Development of Lock's Quest & Second Rejected Drawn to Life Pitch===
===Development of Lock's Quest & Second Rejected Drawn to Life Pitch===
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Digital Continue's first game was a remaster of [[:wikipedia:Lock's Quest|Lock's Quest]], 5th Cell's second [[Nintendo DS]] game, which would see release in 2017. Production on this remaster had not been smooth; a few reasons had been cited by Tringali, notably the short development time given by [[:wikipedia:THQ Nordic|THQ Nordic]] and being the first game in a new studio. This resulted in the remaster being released in an unfinished, buggy state, with Tringali expressing disappointment over how it turned out. [[:wikipedia:HandyGames|HandyGames]], a subsidiary of THQ Nordic, would release a mobile port of that same remaster in 2019. This version would receive updates for the next few years, and is considered by many to be better refined and more polished than the flagship release. This version was delisted in December 2025 following a deal with [[:wikipedia:Crunchyroll|Crunchyroll]], and was subsequently re-released as part of their Crunchyroll Game Vault service.
Digital Continue's first game was a remaster of [[:wikipedia:Lock's Quest|Lock's Quest]], 5th Cell's second [[Nintendo DS]] game, which would see release in 2017. Production on this remaster had not been smooth; a few reasons had been cited by Tringali, notably the short development time given by [[:wikipedia:THQ Nordic|THQ Nordic]] and being the first game in a new studio. This resulted in the remaster being released in an unfinished, buggy state, with Tringali expressing disappointment over how it turned out. [[:wikipedia:HandyGames|HandyGames]], a subsidiary of THQ Nordic, would release a mobile port of that same remaster in 2019. This version would receive updates for the next few years, and is considered by many to be better refined and more polished than the flagship release. This version was delisted in December 2025 following a deal with [[:wikipedia:Crunchyroll|Crunchyroll]], and was subsequently re-released as part of their Game Vault service.
Also in 2017, a second Drawn to Life pitch was made to 505 Games. A concept screenshot was shared by Tringali, depicting a more realistic [[Mike]] and two characters only known by their names, Alana and Nolan. This pitch reportedly depicted a different interpretation of the series, and would be the inspiration behind [https://store.steampowered.com/app/872720/SuperMash/ SuperMash].<ref>[[File:SuperMashDTLPitch.PNG|100px]]</ref> This pitch would also be rejected, leading to Tringali thinking up another pitch during development of the studio's other games.
===Development and Reception of Their Other Games===
===Development and Reception of Their Other Games===
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The next two Digital Continue titles released in 2018. The first of these, which took roughly 17 months to develop including time spent in Early Access on Steam, was Next Up Hero, an online roguelike action game published by [[:wikipedia:Aspyr|Aspyr]] where the player can respawn "Echoes" of any fallen player to fight by their side as an NPC companion and have their audience participate on Twitch and Mixer streams. Next Up Hero was negatively received, citing the imprecise controls, unfair difficulty, the storyline and dialogue vignettes not lending themselves to the gameplay and online-only elements. Prior to the game's release, a two-issue comic series titled Spoken World would come out, written by Tringali and lettered by Justine Raymond. This comic detailed the backstory of the game's protagonists and the world they explore within the game, which has any creation influenced by song. The trademark for both the game and the Spoken World comic would be declared "Abandoned" by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office<ref>[https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87482494&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch Next Up Hero, USPTO]</ref><ref>[https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87384669&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch Spoken World, USPTO]</ref> - despite this, Next Up Hero's servers remain active as of November 2025.
The next two Digital Continue titles released in 2018. The first of these, which took roughly 17 months to develop including time spent in Early Access on Steam, was Next Up Hero, an online roguelike action game published by [[:wikipedia:Aspyr|Aspyr]] where the player can respawn "Echoes" of any fallen player to fight by their side as an NPC companion and have their audience participate on Twitch and Mixer streams. Next Up Hero was negatively received, citing the imprecise controls, unfair difficulty, the storyline and dialogue vignettes not lending themselves to the gameplay and online-only elements. Prior to the game's release, a two-issue comic series titled Spoken World would come out, written by Tringali, lettered by Justine Raymond and illustrated by Adam Szary. This comic detailed the backstory of the game's protagonists and the world they explore within the game, which has any creation influenced by song. The comic was released via ComiXology; however, only Issue #1 was transfered to Amazon Kindle following ComiXology's closure, with Issue #2 rendered mostly lost outside of a few pages archived on [https://adamszary.com/spoken-world-vol-1-and-2 Adam Szary's website]. The trademark for both the game and the Spoken World comic would be declared "Abandoned" by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office<ref>[https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87482494&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch Next Up Hero, USPTO]</ref><ref>[https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87384669&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch Spoken World, USPTO]</ref> - despite this, Next Up Hero's servers remain active as of November 2025.
|-|JumpStream=
|-|JumpStream=
JumpStream was the second Digital Continue game released in 2018, developed in only four months. This was a competitive platformer that utilized streaming interactivity, allowing for the audience to co-operate or mess up the player's progress within a level. Unlike Next Up Hero, which had Twitch integration, this was solely utilized with Mixer. According to archives within the Wayback Machine, no playthroughs of JumpStream were featured on Mixer, and the game was nowhere to be found on the site. The game had very little critical reception, with the Steam score of 65% Positive Reviews coming from just 20 players. With Mixer itself closing it's doors in June 2020, the game's interactive elements were discontinued, rendering it unplayable. The game is still available for download on Steam, however, and is able to load menus and let players explore the level select area, but very little of it can actually be completed.
JumpStream was the second Digital Continue game released in 2018, developed in only four months. This was a competitive platformer that utilized streaming interactivity, allowing for the audience to co-operate or mess up the player's progress within a level. Unlike Next Up Hero, which had Twitch integration, this was solely utilized with Mixer. According to archives within the Wayback Machine, no playthroughs of JumpStream were featured on Mixer, and the game was nowhere to be found on the site. The game had very little critical reception, with the Steam score of 65% Positive Reviews coming from just 20 players. With Mixer itself closing it's doors in June 2020, the game's interactive elements were discontinued, rendering it unplayable. The game is still available for download on Steam, however, and is able to load menus and let players explore the level select area, but very little of it can actually be completed.
