Report Happy 3rd Birthday, Skullgirls!

[Flotilla]

Today on April 10th, 2015, Skullgirls turns three! "The little indie fighter that could" has come a long ways since its 2012 release; despite the setbacks Lab Zero Games experienced along the way, Skullgirls has done nothing but grow. It's always nice to put things in perspective though, so...


Since April 10th, 2012, Skullgirls:

• Sold over 50,000 units in its first ten days after release.
• Sold an estimated 300,000 units on PC from release to now.
• Participated as a sidegame at EVO 2012, 2013, and 2014.
• Attempted crowdfunding to complete its first DLC character, Squigly. The community gave Lab Zero Games 533% of what they asked for, and funded enough characters to keep Lab Zero busy for the next two years.
• Raised $78,000 for breast cancer research via its loving community.
  
• Received six new DLC characters, all of which were charitably given away for free.
• Received a new playable character just because Lab Zero thought it'd be funny.
• Released on Windows, with ports to PS4/Vita and Mac/Linux coming soon.
• Cared about your feedback, and released the Skullgirls Endless Beta to PC players. Since then, the Beta has seen hundreds of patches in Lab Zero's undying effort to create the perfect fighter.
• Became the first Western fighter to make it to Japanese arcades in over a decade.
• Received 13 new and unique stages, bringing the total from 8 to 21.
• Received 12 new stage themes, jointly composed by Michiru Yamane (Of Castlevania fame), Vincent Diamante, Brenton Kossack, and Blaine McGurty.
• Has been a part of Salty Cupcakes for 2 1/2 years.
• Survived its development team being laid off, its American publisher being sued, its Japanese publisher going out of business, its 360/PSN publisher going bonkers, and its developers not receiving sales revenue until last year (while working at near-minimum wage).
  
• Holds the Guinness World Record for most frames of animation per character, with an average of 1,439 frames for each fighter.
• Holds the Guinness World Record for Longest Launch Party, which now stands at 1095 days (and counting).

If Skullgirls can come so far in a meager three years, I look forward to seeing where we'll be in 2018.

Happy birthday, Skullgirls! We would never forget.

 

[BeatNinja]

Seems like 10 years rather than a measly three. Regardless, we've come so damn far.

 

[SkullMan]

Happy Birthday, Skullgirls! Through trials and obstacles, you still continue to shine!

 

[Zidiane]

You forgot to mention the colors. We got 15 new colors per character. Remember only 10 colors per character? Never going back.

 

[Ninja]

oh Wow. It's been THREE YEARS? Man Time has sure gone by quickly.

Three years ago I was just getting out of HighSchool and getting my hands onto this game thinking "This game is going to be awesome." I was not disappointed. Thanks L0 for making the last three years cool.

 

[Magma442]

Happy Birthday Skullgirls. Thanks for getting me into fighting games and way to obsessed with 'certain' characters

But yeah like ninja said I picked up this game on a whim after Squigly came out and never regretted my purchase.

 

[JamesMcCloud]

This is great! Congrats, guys! Keep on hanging in there, hopefully Lab Zero won't run into any more issues. *party noisemaker sound*

 

[Nevins]

Awesome points listed, especially the first one, last three points & being the first fighter to hit Japan's arcades in a decade.
Three cheers (for three years) for quality video games! (especially indie)

 

[Broseidon Rex]

• Received six new DLC characters, all of which were charitably given away for free.

Should probably mention that they were given away for free (for a 3 month period)

 

[Tank]

Wow I didn't realize, or forgot, the team has been through so much crap.

 

[Delphox]

Happy 3rd birthday Skullgirls! Sorta ironic how I uploaded several Skullgirls protos to the Wikia earlier today (consider that a birthday present of sorts).

 

[EA575]

Survived its development team being laid off, its American publisher being sued, its Japanese publisher going bankrupt, its 360/PSN publisher going bonkers, and its developers not receiving sales revenue until last year (while working at near-minimum wage).

Jesus Christ, those were terrible times. At this point, an average development team would have given up by now. I'm really glad Lab Zero never did.

 

[dead]

I hope to be playing this game 10 years from now.

 

[KaboomKid]

It's also cool to see how much of an impact Skullgirls has had on the Training Modes for more recent fighters. I believe it was only VF(4) that was comparable at the time SG came out, and thankfully Reverge/Labzero were able to work around those patents to indirectly pave the way for other developers.
Heck, even button config at the select screen, and holding start to pause weren't common things before Skullgirls.

It's sad that we've gotten so many innovations with this one title, and yet today goofballs will still want to call it a game full of "stolen ideas." lol

 

[K.Radical]

That's a really cool and impressive list! It makes sense, but i didn't realized that the first version was 3 years ago! It's not normal that a fighter hold my interest to that point that long!

Frankly such a list should be used for sales pitch, like in the back of the game box or as bullet points to convince publishers!

The games have gone very far since it's release, so thanks for everything! 3 cheers and High-five for everyone!

 

[LayZ]

Wow, 3 years? The old cliche is true, "Time flies when you're having fun!".

 

[Fat-Ass ♪]

Aw, "The little indie fighter that could"...makes me a tad emotional. lol I remember when the game didn't have the chars movelist. I'll always keep the days of Strugglegirls in my heart.

 

[Wenzel]

Aw, "The little indie fighter that could"...makes me a tad emotional. lol I remember when the game didn't have the chars movelist. I'll always keep the days of Strugglegirls in my heart.

and the hitbox flashes random and infinites....goods 1 weeks days lol

 

[Caleb]

Congrats! I love you all

 

[Muro]

Happy birthday, old chum. We had plenty of good times together, here's to having many more.

 

[Fizzxwizz]

Happy birthday, scumbag.

 

[Kai]

BLESS THEM WITH SALT

WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE

BUT RISES AGAIN

HARDER AND STRONGER

 

[DDB]

Three years, still no Annie.

 

[Dio Brando]

Still no Marie, anyway...

Happy Birthday!

 

[BallotBoxer]

Hey three-years-ago, what do you think of Skullgirls?

Still amazing as it always has been. Let's raise another $828,768!

 

[EA575]

Hey three-years-ago, what do you think of Skullgirls?

Still amazing as it always has been. Let's raise another $828,768!

lol lobbies...

 

[southpawper]

Happy birthday SGs! <3

The game sure has grown into something even greater than when it started out. The community, too. It's nice to see new players joining up and all the veterans still going strong. Congratulations to everyone, and thank you Lab Zero for your hard work.

 

[Coco]

Today is Cerebella's B-day too.

 

[Shockdingo]

Happy 3rd birthday you magnificent Warriors of Patience and Sacrifice! You beat back the odds, the naysayers and the cosmic confusiosity that brought bad luck to your door. You've done real good, real good indeed. Here's to Lab Zero! Drinks are on me*!







*=disclaimer, will not be paying for drinks, but rather getting so drunk that drinks magnetically cling to head

 

[Number 13]

It might be just me, but those last three years felt like a day. Nice to see a summary of how much the game and community evolved since then.

 

[WaterMystic277]

Good lord, I can only imagine how far Skullgirls is gonna come in 5 years. (Maybe Skullgirls 2: Electric Boogaloo?) To be honest, it seems like a month ago we were celebrating it's second birthday.

Obvious we have to thank @Mike_Z, Alex, Rev, Kinucakes, Persona, all of the artists, animators, voice actors, programmers and anybody else who I forgot, thanks for making Skullgirls an experience.

 

[EA575]

Today is Cerebella's B-day too.

Bella's birthday is on April 11.

 

[blackbookalpha]

The Skullgirls you know and play is Rei 3.33. The first one died during an Angel Attack, the other was the Third Impact.

 

[majorgalaxy]

Man already 3, oh how the years fly by.

But it's still THE BEST western fighter.

SUCK IT MORTAL KOMBAT!

 

[Eryx Blue]

Thanks, lab zero games, for creating one of my favorite fighting games of all time!!

Alongside Tekken and Mortal Kombat.

 

[Mike_Z]

Wow I didn't realize, or forgot, the team has been through so much crap.

That was nothing compared to the Beta thread. :^)

 

[ArgonBern]

Here to at least 3 more years of awesomeness

 

[dead]

That was nothing compared to the Beta thread. :^)

I know its rough dealing with all the complaining but it's really good of you to take feedback the way you do, I think it'll be worth it in the long run.

 

[K.Radical]

That was nothing compared to the Beta thread. :^)

Well, it's mighty impressive that you have retouched the game so much time in such a short time! By Guilty gear standard, we should be at the fourth rerelease of the game!

 

[majorgalaxy]

Well, it's mighty impressive that you have retouched the game so much time in such a short time! By Guilty gear standard, we should be at the fourth rerelease of the game!

By street fighter 4 standards we should be on our 28th rerelease.

God SF4 sucks