Battery Jam

About this game

Battery Jam is a local multiplayer game of competitive territorial mayhem! Use the boombox to smash your opponents, capture their tiles, and dominate the arena! Choose one of four Jammers and compete to have the most tiles at the end of every match! Take on your friends or play alone in Free-for-All or Team mode across eight levels!

• Smash your opponents into a pile of bolts with the Boombox!

• Capture tiles with each opponent you destroy!

• Dominate the arena by securing the most tiles!

• Fight your way across a constantly shifting arena as you steal and defend tiles!

• Battle your friends in Free-for-All or buddy up for Team Mode!

• Pit yourself against AI bots in any game mode or variation! Use them to learn the game, to have fun on your own, or to fill out a match with friends!

• Compete in different game modes like Original Territorial Mayhem, Classic Deathmatch and more!

• Tweak the way you play with a dozen settings, including Infinite Energy, Match Length and Fast Mode!

• Play on a variety of arena layouts in wild locales for a unique experience in each match!

Latest news

• Patch Notes·8 Oct 2018Official

  Version 1.1 Update! - New Features

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/cc02c45a253128af7216537d2add5e1afec4e927.png We have some new features and more! We're back with a few new features for you to enjoy! We took some time while we were porting the game to Switch to check a few more boxes off the list of things we would like to have in the game, things like ... Colorblind Support! In the options menu, players can now enable a colorblind mode. This setting will adapt the colors of the tiles a bit, while adding patterns to the tiles to help differentiate players. There are 3 contrast levels for the patterns. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/4f6ec24e4191d9607a2f48c848825c11870491b5.png End of Match Stats When completing a match, you'll now see a stats window in the corner of the victory screen displaying Wins, Kills, Crushes and Dash Captures. All of these are cumulative across all of the matches you've played since selecting characters, and will reset if players return to player select. Don’t forget, you can change maps and match settings through the level select to keep consistent stats! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/70ca9265ef0b0bcabd109d1f21ab5a5785f0ae4a.png We also touched up the game in a few cool areas! Optimization Overhaul The game's performance has been optimized heavily in preparation for the game's launch on Nintendo Switch! This should result in the game running smoother, especially on lower end systems. Smarter, More Stable AI! Several AI bugs have been fixed which should make them a slightly smarter, more natural opponent. Bug and Crash Fixes Lots of miscellaneous bugs have been ironed out, and several potential crashes have been patched. We hope you enjoy the new features, and don't forget, we're coming to the Nintendo Switch this November!
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• Announcements·17 May 2018Official

  Battery Jam - 1.0 Launch!

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/70b6b91703bac9637fb8c111edd93831ffca287f.png It's here! Battery Jam 1.0! We set a goal years ago to release a game, we were lucky enough to get to develop it full time for the last 9 months or so, and here we are. After all our planning, discussions, and hard work getting Battery Jam to what we felt made for a solid and complete experience we're finally here! With that content completion comes a price change. We'd intended to adjust the price at launch since we went live into Early Access, and that's happening as promised. Today, we're bumping it up to $14.99. We wouldn't do it if we didn't think it was worth it, and we hope you agree! If you don't, then make sure you keep an eye on Steam Sales! But enough about money, how about what's being added to this update? Two More Levels! Nebula and Satellite both focus on narrow arena formations to emphasize the ability to control zones of the board with raised tiles. On top of that, they're in outer space, so everything else is irrelevant! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/0d6e7639603725913622a20a6746b6605aa77a96.png https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/1b6749294b0bd8342be6418997b7460333bc0dce.png Language Support! One out of three Halseo employees have studied Japanese a bit. So we went to people who knew what they're doing for this one! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/5355196e7f244fe8b3802cc860dcefc90f1ffe12.jpg Bot Difficulty! We hope the AI difficulty settings allow players to fine tune their experience a bit more! Dig in and crush them at every difficulty! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/0a35c432668a6f93f9eb1dda795bf4254780eda8.png Various Bug Fixes Addressed boomboxes merging Added mouse symbols in options and in game while using Mouse and Keyboard Options menu glitch for keyb...
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• Announcements·10 May 2018Official

  Full Release coming May 17th!

  Great news everyone! We're one week away from releasing our 1.0 version on May 17th! What does that mean? Two more levels being added! Here's a peek at one of them! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/0d6e7639603725913622a20a6746b6605aa77a96.png We have AI difficulty settings coming in! And of course, some general bug fixing! In slightly less positive news... Right now, there is a small hiccup on our side. We had intended to raise the price of the game to $14.99 once we came out of Early Access. You might have noticed, as of this writing on May 10th, 2018 at about 10 AM Eastern, the price has already changed. We were under the impression we would choose when that new pricing would go into effect, and seems we misunderstood! We're really sorry about that. We've reached out to Steam for some help and are working to see if we can kick the price back down for the rest of Early Access. Keep an eye on our Twitter for updates about that situation, we'll inform everyone as soon as we have answers!
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• Patch Notes·30 Mar 2018Official

  Battery Jam Update 0.7 : Levels and AI Update

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/6a2a3ccc01563489ff02178a9ee5e8e0e5477e7a.png SMALL LIST FOR A BIG CONTENT UPDATE! Hope you're ready for our coolest update yet! Not only are we adding two new levels, which happen to be our fanciest levels to date, Plant and Slag, but we're adding AI so you can beat them up IN THE NEW LEVELS! You can add them to a match while you're in character select! Check it out! Here's the list of awesome stuff we packed into this update! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/5e51660b11f52683ac1427856c18ca2dab32c70d.gif Plant - A dense, small new level set in a beautiful and serene jungle! Or is it? Plant is a real tight level where you're always vulnerable! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/c3527f6246783c0827659b80fc7fb4a68af34a47.jpg Slag - This laboratory isn't just eerie, it's also huge and empty! Make the most of the space to attack poorly defended opponents from across the map! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/0d98a7ceb3ffe37d537ebf4b03d5a3a89df3f510.jpg AI Opponents - Now you can play the game solo or use AI to fill out matches with friends! They can be added in the character selection screen! Mouse and Keyboard Support - Now that single player is possible in Battery Jam, it only made sense to properly support keyboard and mouse control! Mouse input is supported across all the menus and the keyboard and mouse control in game has been greatly improved and refined.
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• Patch Notes·30 Mar 2018Official

  Battery Jam Update 0.7 : Levels and AI Update

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/6a2a3ccc01563489ff02178a9ee5e8e0e5477e7a.png SMALL LIST FOR A BIG CONTENT UPDATE! Hope you're ready for our coolest update yet! Not only are we adding two new levels, which happen to be our fanciest levels to date, Plant and Slag, but we're adding AI so you can beat them up IN THE NEW LEVELS! You can add them to a match while you're in character select! Check it out! Here's the list of awesome stuff we packed into this update! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/5e51660b11f52683ac1427856c18ca2dab32c70d.gif Plant - A dense, small new level set in a beautiful and serene jungle! Or is it? Plant is a real tight level where you're always vulnerable! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/c3527f6246783c0827659b80fc7fb4a68af34a47.jpg Slag - This laboratory isn't just eerie, it's also huge and empty! Make the most of the space to attack poorly defended opponents from across the map! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31458831/0d98a7ceb3ffe37d537ebf4b03d5a3a89df3f510.jpg AI Opponents - Now you can play the game solo or use AI to fill out matches with friends! They can be added in the character selection screen! Mouse and Keyboard Support - Now that single player is possible in Battery Jam, it only made sense to properly support keyboard and mouse control! Mouse input is supported across all the menus and the keyboard and mouse control in game has been greatly improved and refined.
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