Nikson and I are rebooting Dead Acres as Farmocalypse in the same manner that Dark Deception got rebooted. I think that one turned out pretty decent, so I'm looking forward to doing the same for Farmocalypse. You can follow our progress with the game on our (now active) Farmocalypse Twitter page.

Farmocalypse on Twitter

Once finished, Farmocalypse will sell for much more, but we will keep the price as is at a massive discount for the remainder of Early Access as a small thank you to everyone who has been so patient as I struggled to get this game finished. I promise you will be happy with the final product in a bit. Dead Acres is my tribute to old school FPS games like Blood, Doom, Serious Sam, and Duke Nukem. It will be very over the top and a lot of fun with tons of monsters to mow down.

Hey everyone! Dec update time! I know I haven't updated in a couple months, so I wanted to let you all know what is going on with Dead Acres development.

As I have been called out for several times, I am horrible at accurately projecting release dates. Sometimes the delays are my fault and sometimes they are due to occurrences that are out of my control. In this case it was kind of half and half. My main programmer went MIA. It's highly unlike him to not communicate and we are all a bit concerned for his safety. He has been with us for almost 2 years. We have brought on a new guy to help out, but it was one of the main reasons for the delay. The other issue was Dark Deception. This one is my fault and goes back to my (very) poor decision to develop 2 games at once. Dark Deception had a publisher milestone come due (we are working with a very well known AAA publisher), so we had to divert focus to DD for the past 2 months due to contractual obligations. It is looking pretty awesome so far though and I am working with Nikson (TJOC:Story Mode) on it.

So.....what about Dead Acres??? Yes, there is actually good news for that. I am getting things back to normal and have a little breathing room with DD now. When I last updated, Stone Cold was pretty much done minus the vehicle mechanics. That is still the case and you can expect to see some new levels early in 2018. So get ready to have some fresh gameplay in the near future. From now on, I'm not going to talk about the level release dates until they are 100% playable and all I have to do is press a button to update Steam with them.

That said, I just want to thank all of you for your patience and for not chewing me out daily over the past 2 momths :P. You guys are great fans and gamers and I'm 100% committed to finishing Dead Acres and fixing the bugs I've seen reported so far. If you are in the LA area, I may plan something fun for Dead Acres full launch and also give people a sneak peak at Dark Deception.

Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas to everyone!!

Stone Cold is almost complete and targeted for release sometime in the next 10 days. Stay tuned! A new level is finally coming and we are going to get more on track, releasing a new level every 2 weeks from here on out until finished.

Multiplayer v1.1 is dropping tonight before midnight (PST). Here are some of the update fixes & features:

- IP entry for "join game" has been removed
- Joining games is now handled by a traditional matchmaker system
- Games from both Steam friends & non-friends will be visible
- Checkbox to filter out non-friends added
- Ability to join/re-join matches already in progress added
- Fixed various multiplayer bugs

I hope this makes playing a match with your friends a lot easier for everyone! This is why we are in early access. You guys let me know what sucks (ex - IP entry system) and I will do my best to fix/replace it!

Oh man, finally. Multiplayer is up and playable :D! Some compiler issues for the Linux export slowed things down a couple of days. I hope you guys enjoy it with your friends. I will be starting a thread to report multiplayer bugs, should you encounter any.

A couple known multiplayer bugs that we will address before the final game launches:

1. If non-host players quit or disconnect, the host needs to quit as well and resume the game. If not, the pathfinding for enemies gets messed up, which messes up the flow of gameplay. Exiting and resuming keeps everything normal.

2. If resuming a multiplayer game immediately after a play session (without exiting the application), 25% of the time it will fail to let non-host players rejoin the game. This is fixed by restarting the game and resuming.

The Stone Cold update is up next and *should* be out before the end of August. Stay tuned!

Update time! The Multiplayer update is getting close to dropping (finally). The one thing to point out is that there will be a single player mode as well (identical campaign) and that they will each reference separate save files (not shared). I am also getting rid of the level select screen for those 2 modes. Progression will be linear from start to finish. New Game and Resume Game options will launch you straight into gameplay. I understand that people will want to replay their favorite levels with their friends (after beating the campaign) without having to actually play through the campaign again. As a result, Infinite Mode will be added in before the game fully launches. This mode will allow you to replay any level that you've unlocked in single or multiplayer mode - infinitely with no day cap. You will have the opportunity to see how long you and your friends can survive in each level :)!

Hey everyone! Time for a new update on the feature that everyone has been requesting the most: multiplayer ːsteamhappyː. That said, the 4 player multiplayer update is coming very soon. We are targeting to have the push out before Steam Summer Sale hits. Additionally, the Early Access pricing will also be raised to the final launch price once the multiplayer update drops, so get the game at this cheaper price while you still can! It won't be much longer now, so stay tuned!

Here's 90% of the items currently in Jack's store. Needless to say, there will be plenty to buy. See if you can guess what they are :P.

Here's a sneak peek at just a few of the enemies that will make an appearance in Dead Acres. There are still many, many more not shown. Enjoy!

Just a heads up. Our launch build is set to have 30 weapons. We will add more in future updates based on player feedback. I will drop the list here shortly.

I would also like to say thank you to all of the Early Access supporters by providing an exclusive reward. I am still giving it some thought as to what that reward should be. Most devs make an exclusive weapon skin, weapon, or player model. It could also be an exclusive RV upgrade. Additional stuff like exclusive Dead Acres wallpaper would be easy to add in. I would love to hear your suggestions.

As usual, keep your comments appropriate for all ages :P.

UPDATE: Here are some of the weapons that will be in the final build! ;)