The Polus map in Among Us is the third and most recent map available in the party game, but like any level, it didn’t always look the way it does now when it was first conceptualized. To give players a peek at the early stages of Polus, Among Us creators InnerSloth shared a sketch that showed [.]
Original Among Us Was a Much Different and More Stressful Game
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Among Us is the biggest game in the world right now, but it wasn t always the game it is now. During the early stages of development,
Among Us was a much more different and stressful game. According to the game s co-creator, Forest Willard, the game is actually based on the combination of 1982 s
The Thing from John Carpenter and a Mafia-like game fellow co-creator Marcus Bromander played as a child.
Among Us doesn t just have some unexpected inspirations, it was also a different game during the early stages of development. According to Willard, at one point during development, the ship was always in crisis and tasked crewmates with trying to keep things together while Imposters would perform tasks wrong to mess things up. However, this was apparently too stressful and didn t provide players the chance for detective work, and thus it was changed, as were the tasks themselves.
While Among Us from developer InnerSloth has yet to seriously get in on crossover content in the same way as, say, Fortnite or Fall Guys, that may not always be the case. The crewmates are basically the perfect canvas for skins and costumes and the like, and one fan has taken it upon themself to [.]
Among Us Netted a Record-Breaking Number of Users Last Month
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Among Us managed to pull in a staggering number of users last month according to a new report. SuperData had the scoop recently as they saw the Nintendo Switch title actually logged half a billion mostly active users for November. It’s no secret that the game got a huge boost this year from the coronavirus quarantine period. During those weeks, it was not uncommon to find your whole social media feed taken up with just
Animal Crossing earlier this year, and then it quickly morphed to
Among Us in the last third of 2020. Over on Twitch, the game has a jaw-dropping 6.5 million followers and is picking up new ones all the time. As more people get in on the fun, that wild number will just continue to climb. SuperData’s results show that November proved to be a huge month for games overall with $11.5 billion earned in just that short period.
Among Us Comes to Rocket League in Playable Custom Map Rocket League content creator, Lethamyr, has brought
Among Us to the popular soccer-with-cars game. The
Rocket League content creator is perhaps best-known for his custom
Rocket League maps, and how he uses these custom maps to sometimes bring the experience of other games to
Rocket League. For example, he recently did something similar with
Fall Guys and
Rocket League.
Among Us is the most popular game in the world right now, and one of the most popular games of all-time. Whether it will be able to sustain this popularity remains to be seen, but right now, it s all many streamers are playing. Tapping into this, Lethamyr has created a fully playable