Rushdown Rivals

Rushdown Rivals is a fighting game originally released by Spagato and his team for Pico Day 2021, with an updated version released on November 8th 2022. It features nine main Newgrounds characters in brawler like fighting game where you can beat evil robotic versions of famous and well-known Newgrounds characters.
==Development==
Much like other popular Newgrounds games like Newgrounds Rumble and MADNESS: Project Nexus, Rushdown Rivals was massive project of a well known Newgrounds icons in recent years. The idea for the game started during the making of MonkeyBusiness in 2020 when Spagato and KeithGarces thinking about the idea of making a game for Pico Day. Given they already made a fighting platform game, they decided to run with that idea, but due to many abundance of Smash-like fighting games they had think of a new idea that could be stand out from the crowd. The solution is to make fighting in closes space with other players and turn it into a more co-op experience. The demo for the game is released on May the 1st 2021, just in time for the Pico Day, and it was a hit among users, that the team decided commit for a full game. At first, it was supposed a small update with only 2nd character to be planned, which were revealed to be Cassette Girl on May 20th 2021. Even after the full game has released on November 8th 2022, the game was continuously being update with first one being a Mindchamber's character Alloy, that was announced on March 17th 2023, and the second being ENA. 
In a wake of the controversy surrounding the creator of Cassette Girl SoftDon, which has came to public light on 28th of July 2023, there has been discussion on a Discord server about the character, and whenever if they want to removed her. But fear that their work might go to waste, Keith proposed to replaced her with a different character that is similar to Cassette Girl. With one example being having a Frog Princess from Stress Quest. 
== Characters ==
===Playable characters===
There were seven playable characters that can be playable in Rushdown Rivals with the other 2 release in each updates.
File:Joseph-canlas-rr-characterselect-alloy.jpg|Alloy
File:Joseph-canlas-rr-characterselect-casettegirl.jpg|Cassette Girl
File:Joseph-canlas-rr-characterselect-pico.jpg|Pico
File:Joseph-canlas-rr-characterselect-nene-alt.jpg|Nene
File:Joseph-canlas-rr-characterselect-darnell-alt2.jpg|Darnell
File:Joseph-canlas-rr-characterselect-ena.jpg|ENA
File:Joseph-canlas-rr-characterselect-gf-alt.jpg|Girlfriend
File:Joseph-canlas-rr-characterselect-hank.jpg|Hank
File:Joseph-canlas-rr-characterselect-son.jpg|Son
=== Non-Playable characters ===
==== Allies ====
* B. B. Topper
* Mastermind
* Grey Knight
* Airmen
* Purple Crewmate
* Pirate Queen
* MilkyPossum
* Dieswyx
* Stepford
* Miami Shark
* The Goat
* Cap and Cologne
* Vinnie
* Maple
* Gence
* Stradomyre and Doki
* NoLegs
* Badger
* Ace Pilot 
* Bumbum Guloso
==== Enemies (Bold indicates bosses) ====
* Foamy the Squirrel
* Bitey
* Isaac
* Alien Hominid
* Turtle 
* Dad
* Henchmen
* Strawberry Clock
* Red Abusive Husband (Disordely Conduct)
* Green Knight
* Yellow Knight
* Blue Knight
* Red Knight
* Uberkids
* Satina
* Ritz the Rat
* Red Baron
* Snowball
* Salad Fingers 
* Dr. Bees
* Hatty Hattington
* Killgar
* The Behemoth Chicken
* Satan
* Boyfriend
* Tom Fulp 
==Presentation==
KeithGarces is a lead art & animation director behind Rushdown Rivals, while Teemodoeus is responsible for the additional art and JoeCanvas for the potraits for all of the playable characters. All of the playable characters in Rushdown Rivals looks identical to their original counterpart (just more stylized.). But for Girlfriend and Cassette Girl, their fighting styles were came up from the developers since both characters don't have any in their original source material. Dieswyx, MilkyPossum, and Djjaner are responsible for the game's soundtrack. As-well as additional pre-existing music from Waterflame, and Paragonx9. 
== Reception==
Both versions of Rushdown Rivals are major successes on Newgrounds. The original version, which has over 100,000 plays as of November 2022, was ranked 4th in the Pico Day 2021 contest, while the current version has won Daily Feature, Weekly User's Choice, and Review Crew Pick. Both have a rating of over 4.5 out of 5. 
* Play the game here
*Rushdown Rivals ZERO (2021 Version)
Category:Non-Flash games
Category:Fighting
Category:Teen
Category:Pico Day submissions
Category:2021
Category:2022
Category:Games With Medals