Disney Should Tap Cuphead's Studio MDHR For a 2D Video Game

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Cuphead's success is largely attributed to its focused vision. While the game tells a simple narrative of two anthropomorphic cup brothers tasked with repossessing souls for the Devil, its gameplay, aesthetics, and soundscape will appeal to those who love 2D run-and-gun platformers and traditional animation. Cupheadcan be difficult at times, but its difficulty reflects an older age when games were designed to squeeze players for every quarter they had at the arcade machine.

Creators Chad and Jared Moldenhauer have said Cuphead's art style, animation, and music took inspiration from the 1930s cartoons they watched as kids. Warner Bros. Cartoons, Fleischer Studios, and Walt Disney Animation Studios are just a few of the groups whose works inspired Cuphead's style. Seeing as Disney is one of Studio MDHR's influences for its breakout game, it would be interesting if Disney looked to the studio to create a game based on one of its beloved franchises.

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Studio MDHR spent seven years developing Cuphead. During this time, everyone worked hard to painstakingly recreate the 1930s cartoon aesthetic with characters, backgrounds, and items all animated by hand. Though some assets were digitally colored to save time, everything retains the old-timey cartoon. To go with this old-school theme, composer Kristofer Maddigan created a jazz soundtrack befitting the inspired time period.

While most modern games try to increase their framerate as much as possible, Cuphead's gameplay runs at 60 frames-per-second while the animations run at 24 frames — the standard for American film. Even with this modest FPS, Cuphead's run-and-gun gameplay is precise, unforgiving, and ultimately satisfying. Combining