At IAAPA last month, Laser maze specialist Funovation launched a new game, Beam Buster, described by the company as the “perfect counterpart” to its Laser Maze Challenge.
In Beam Buster, players have 30 seconds to break as many laser beams as possible. Utilising the same space and components as Laser Maze Challenge, players must complete mission objectives to activate more lasers and earn bonus points. Unlike Laser Maze Challenge, the aim is to achieve the highest score to earn a place on the leader board.
The inspiration for the new game came from a casual observation made years earlier, said Funovation’s CTO, Ted Ziemkowski.
“One of our Laser Maze installer’s three-year-old son was playing in the maze while waiting for his dad,” he explained. “He played for what seemed like forever, just running around breaking lasers – not caring that the objective was to avoid them. When we were recently challenged by Chuck E Cheese’s to make a gameplay mode more appealing to their target audience of three to eight-year-olds, we instantly thought back to the boy’s delight and started to develop Beam Buster.”
The company believes that the “high-energy” gameplay and complex scoring algorithm of Beam Buster will appeal to players of all ages, he added.
Funovation is now included the new game with Laser Maze Challenge and will be available to existing customers through a simple upgrade.
