By At long last, Aggro Crab has lifted the veil on a mystery everyone’s been puzzling over regarding Peak, its sudden co-op-climbing smash collaboration with Landfall—does Bing Bong have consciousness?
The verdict is affirmative, or rather, he once did. In a fresh clip, the studio disclosed that team members previously hijacked Bing Bong to chat with streamers, though they’ve since stopped. The behind-the-scenes footage shows devs hopping into the plush avatar for broadcasters publicly playing the title.
“Delivering that chaotic surprise to creators within the launch window of Peak was hilarious,” the footage reads. Aggro Crab also stresses that staff couldn’t slip into private lobbies, and chatty Bing Bong only appeared during those initial weeks. “We disabled the ability midway through June; anyone insisting devs are still invading games via Bing Bong—or any route—are talking crap.”
Bing Bong, a misshapen lime-green doll reclining on the wrecked aircraft at spawn, may no longer house a human voice, yet he remains the game’s unofficial mascot. Plenty of climbers sacrifice valuable inventory slots just to lug him all the way to the summit.
Such close-quarter engagement with streamers isn’t new turf for Landfall. During a Summer Games Done Quick run of its earlier release Clustertruck, devs overrode the build live, slipping messages onto the screen and altering visuals on the fly to freak out the speedrunner.
After being shaped largely inside a single-month game jam, Peak has exceeded all expectations, shifting over a million copies within seven days and continuing to set new player-height records. Frequent updates keep momentum alive—latest patch unveiled the Mesa biome, while the preceding one introduced cannibalism.
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