The Oyster Hotel is set in purgatory where mobsters, crooks and basement dwellers battle for redemption in the afterlife. You play as Ned and Julia, two crooks who love each other more than life itself.

You get to drive things, shoot some gorgeous weapons and you get superpowers from drinking different kinds of coffee. The Oyster Hotel features hand-to-hand fighting inspired by martial arts, fencing, tai chi and a wide range of dance from swing to breakdancing.

The game has been in production for two years now and was created with the goal of creating a game that would be the ultimate way to spend some hours with your favorite partner in crime.

The Oyster Hotel is currently being developed in Michigan by married two-person team, Erin and Elijah Hamilton. So far it has been created without any funding, the goal of the Kickstarter campaign is to raise $75,000, which after fees and taxes will provide the budget needed for motion capture gear, audio equipment, computer repairs, data storage and additional voice talent.

When we started writing The Oyster Hotel, we knew we wanted to build a game that would strengthen partnerships, friendships, relationships between family members and loved ones around the world and really help bring people closer together, no matter what kind of partnership they have. We really focused on making this game fun, interesting, and a partnered experience for you and your best bud, better half, business partner or other favorite person.

We've worked together for quite a while now, first as co-workers and teammates at an advertising agency and then at our own businesses, and then as a married couple. Through all of that time, whenever we felt like we needed to be working more as a unit, our go-to warmup has always been to jump on some good co-op games. Something about it really gets you in sync with each other so that you can approach whatever you're about to tackle competitively in unison.

Anyway, we've always played co-op games to get lined up before an important meeting or before an important task, or just if we needed to feel closer to each other as a couple. So we put a lot of effort into creating a game that really focuses on working together as partners in crime.

The official demo of The Oyster Hotel will be released on Tuesday, April 9 as a free digital download and you get to:

• Experience a few of the different worlds in The Oyster Hotel.
• Play with partners in crime and in the afterlife, Ned and Julia
• Meet some of the characters including Felix, Lenny and Florence
• Drive The Florentine and defend (and taste) the coffees.
• There is a single player option in there too