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Hi friends,

It’s only been a week since launch, but more big news from our end! 

As of today, The Bench is heading to DevGAMM Lisbon with a digital Steam event running from November 3rd to November 9th. To top it off, the game is currently 34% off until November 7th, so there’s never been a better moment to grab your copy and take a seat. 

We’re also preparing a substantial localisation update, expanding support with new European Portuguese and Standard Arabic translations, along with refinements to many existing languages.

Our puzzle adventure world continues to grow! We’re grateful for everyone who left a review so far (wow 95% positive, thank you!) and we’d love for more of you to be part of the game: play, share your thoughts in our Discord (pigeon photographs not mandatory), and help us shape what comes next. 

Whether it’s your first time taking a seat or you’ve been here since day one, your feedback and support mean everything to us.

– VOXEL Studio

Imagine a world of humble knights, roguish rogues, and valiant heroes… Now imagine them at your local trivia night… That’s Legends of Trivia!

Jackbox’s next trivia game is cooperative and inspired by RPGs. And like the trivia-defeating team you’ll find in the game, we had an amazing team come together to work on the project. Read below to learn more about what went into making Legends of Trivia.

 

Please introduce yourself and your role on Legends of Trivia.

Hi! I’m Nate Sandberg, the Audio Lead and one of the people who make the original concept pitch for Legends of Trivia! - Nate

Hi! I’m C.J. Tuor, the Editorial Lead and one of the people who created the original concept and pitch for Legends of Trivia - Nate

Hi! I’m Warren Arnold, the Director for Legends of Trivia.

 

How did you come up with the idea for Legends of Trivia?

I play a lot of tabletop RPG’s with friends, and I’m sometimes a little frustrated with the randomness of dice. Like I’m a legendary Yuan-Ti Sorcerer and I just entirely miss with my firebolt because I rolled a 2?! Ridiculous. So I always thought that a skill based test for success would be fun to try. That’s when I came up with the idea of using trivia questions instead of dice! Turns out Hector had already thought of this idea and pitched it at Jackbox years before haha! So I worked with him and a bunch of other team members to put together the final pitch version of this game. - Nate

 

Do you have any fun stories from making Legends of Trivia?

The first appearance of the Ogre in a company play test was really great. Up to that point, players faced the same monster design over and over as we uploaded new assets and refined the mechanics. There was such glee when he came riding in and asked his questions in his unique Ogre tone. - Warren

 

What makes the Legends of Trivia dev team so special?

Everybody on the team was dedicated to making this game as special as possible. Everyone had such great ideas for bringing this world to life. The dev team did a great job of taking all of those ideas and making them work with the confines of a trivia game. - Warren

 

What was one challenge you had to overcome during production?

The biggest hurdle was the overall balance of the game. We were merging answering trivia and fighting monsters and those two concepts can sometimes butt heads. What we tried to focus on were trivia types that required everybody to work together but also didn’t outstay their welcome. - Warren

 

What were you inspired by while designing the look and music for Legends of Trivia?

I always try to mash together a few different inspirations when I’m working on new music for a game. For LoT, I listened to the soundtrack from the original Final Fantasy for NES. It’s amazing. I also listened to the music from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. This was a great reference for the bard songs as well a big orchestral fantasy sound. And I listened to a lot of Medieval and Georgian Polyphony. I find this kind of music so beautiful and I definitely wanted to reference it in this game. - Nate

 

What is your favorite part of Legends of Trivia?

The ending. We knew what we wanted to do very early in production and I think it turned out great. I can’t share footage because that would spoil the fun! - Warren
 

Any fun glitches or unexpected gameplay moments that happened during production and testing?

Image trivia started out as the way you revived yourself from death. Players hated it… but I really liked the mechanic. It felt like you entered another game and most players just wanted to get back in. So, we made an Image Trivia category and found that it worked immediately. - Warren

 

What has been your favorite memory of making Legends of Trivia?

I had a great time at our recording sessions with Austin Packard \[who plays the host in Legends of Trivia]. He not only did an amazing job with the voice over for the game, but he also had to sing a bunch of songs! And the music I wrote is pretty tricky in spots, but he absolutely nailed it! - Nate

My wife had a baby during development and if you buy the game, we’ll be able to feed her! -C.J. 

Honestly, the last part of production because the full vision came together. It was so cool to watch people play and enjoy something that had been in our heads and hearts for months - Warren

 

Legends of Trivia is a part of The Jackbox Party Pack 11

Hello everyone! 👋

Our second game Tavern Keeper🍻 is now out in Early Access, meaning we’re finally living up to our name and adding the “S” to Greenheart Games!

We’ve put together a special “Greenheart Games 💚” bundle with both of our games - feels good to say that! - making Tavern Keeper even cheaper for everyone who has been with us since our first title. 

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/60019/Greenheart_Games/

This wouldn’t have been possible without your support and love for Game Dev Tycoon!

Patty, 

Social and Community Manager @ Greenheart Games 💚

Finally, our love letter to management sim games is here 💚

Tavern Keeper 🍻 is now available on Steam Early Access!

We’re offering a 20% launch discount for everyone jumping in to help shape the game. There’s also a complete-the-set bundle with Game Dev Tycoon, making it extra worthwhile for our long-time fans!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/60019/Greenheart_Games/

Now that Tavern Keeper has entered Early Access, if you want a refresher of our planned roadmap (and you are in the mood for some reading!), you can find it in this article.

Now go ahead, you have a tavern to run!

Patty, 

Social and Community Manager @ Greenheart Games 💚

• Removed Halloween themed content.

  • Removed decorations from bar scene.

  • In game costume sale ended (But costumes remain in the shop!).

  • Removed 'Halloween Special' rule preset.

• Changed Trick Or Treat ability to Chance.

  • Ability works the same just without the Halloween theming.

  • Added the ability to the aggressive and duel rule set loot pools.

We’ve added a new Daily Replay feature to help you on your journey to collecting challenge stars!  Every day you’ll have the chance to replay an earlier daily or monthly challenge. This will give  newer players the chance to catch up on the leaderboards from our last major update, and long-time fans the chance to pick up the challenges they may have missed the first time around.

• New Daily Replay feature gives you a chance to replay missed challenges

• Shorter, streamlined tutorial gets new players to the fun parts quicker

• New weekly and monthly challenges

• Game remembers scorecard view preferences in landscape mode

• Fix splash screen flicker when loading game

• Fix appearance of accessibility outlines when resetting the game

• Update Unity to address potential security issue

• Clarified rules text for Prize Rush challenge and the Magic Watering Can rule

Hello, dear players!

We - the DoubleTap team, in collaboration with publisher Valkyrie Initiative - are pleased to announce that our strategy game Blades For Hire is taking part in the Ancient Costume Game Festival on Steam.

In this game, you will take command of a guild of mercenaries in a world where honor has long lost its value, and survival depends on tough decisions - your decisions.

To celebrate the festival, we would like to invite you to sign up for the playtest.
To register, click the “Request Access” button on the game’s Steam page.



Today, as promised, we are sharing more details about the playtest - but first, we suggest watching a short trailer dedicated to the festival and the start of registration.



- An improved version of the game, based on feedback collected from the currently available demo version.
- Bonus content.
- Two available Steam achievements, one of which will unlock unique equipment.

For participating in the playtest and fulfilling certain conditions, each participant will have the opportunity to receive unique body armor and a two-handed sword when the game is released.




Conditions to receive the reward:
- Add the game to your wishlist.
- Follow the publisher page on Steam.
- During the playtest, earn the Steam achievement "Old Guard".

To earn the "Old Guard" achievement, you must complete the playtest without hiring new recruits.
This means you can only use the mercenaries available from the start. Since they can die, flee, or quit if not paid on time, this can be quite a challenge.

When the playtest begins, you will receive a notification.
For now, you can already complete the first requirement by adding the game to your wishlist so you don’t miss the start of the playtest.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3180000/Blades_For_Hire/

The next Community Event has officially begun - and with it a whole new set of challenges! While frost settles on the land, the Norse prepare for the Greant Hunt! Complete objectives now through December 1st to unlock a new god portrait: "Odin - God of Midwinter." 🐦‍⬛

Remember, challenges for each week no longer lock after the week ends. After challenges become available to complete, they will remain available until the end of the month so you can now jump back in and help the community push toward the 100% completion goal!

A week ago, I post a Reddit message to show off the steam capsule for Super Candle World, and the feedbacks where... mixed. The art was too bright, the name too small, and the volcano looked like... well you know what I mean haha! 😅

So I worked on it, and here is the last version, I really hope you'll like it, because as a solo dev I'm working on everything on my own, from the development to the marketing asset, so there's a point where everything, every step is a challenge, but it's also very rewarding! 😎

I'm now focusing on finishing the game, and maybe I'll try to release a playtest version to gather feedbacks, so you'll hear from me very soon! 💖