The story is centered on a team of four women working in an anime-themed special forces unit, attempting to liberate a space station.
In July 2013, the company ran a Kickstarter campaign, asking for $5,000 to port the game to PC and Mac, in addition to iOS with the release targeted for August 2014.
It received mixed reviews for its story and gameplay by critics, but won the 2014 iOS Action Game of the Year award from iMore.
Revolution 60 is set an unknown time in the future, where political issues have grown between the US and China, and space has undergone major militarization.
An elite team of spies called Chessboard, led by Holiday, disembark onto the station with the aim of reestablishing control with the onboard AI.
Production of Revolution 60 began in 2011, approximately a year after developer Brianna Wu met animator Amanda Stenquist-Warner through an advertisement on Craigslist.
[7] In July 2013, the company ran a Kickstarter campaign, asking for $5,000 to port the game to PC and Mac, in addition to iOS.
[8] Wu acknowledged her dislike of microtransactions, and wanted the balance between a one-off cost yet still allowing players to try the game.
[9] Wu, who described the sci-fi themed action-adventure as "Heavy Rain meets Mass Effect", was credited as head of development.
"[1] Because of feminist criticism, Wu declared the characters' figures for the sequel to Revolution 60 would be more realistic, saying, "Having learned to draw from anime is not a great basis for running a studio that's held up as a poster child of feminism.
[18] While this allows for more emotion and communication in the cut-scenes a trade-off occurred due to hardware limitations, requiring less detail on the body of the game characters.
[19] The game was initially written around a film-style screenplay; however, based on feedback at PAX 2013, it was considered overly-reliant on long cutscenes and was rebuilt around continuous interaction.
[24] iMore listed it as the "iOS Action Game of the Year" in 2014, saying that "the modeling is gorgeous, the animation delightful, the music engrossing, and the voice acting outstanding".