Weekly Dev Update #74
Week of July 18, 2022

This week at Mutant, let’s get you caught up on how our summer has been: Busy and hot. We’ve had multiple moves for I think everyone on the team this year, so it’s been a little stop and go.

But! We’re feeling inspired. We all took the time this week to watch Sea Beast on Netflix and it was a fun monster adventure. Always exciting when we get a new kaiju movie. I was actually already feeling spoiled for how many movies this last year have ended with a surprise "kaiju" fight, Turning Red being the most surprising.

Anyways, we each came away from Sea Beast with different ideas for our little project so we had a few meetings this week about it. If you haven’t watched it yet, I recommend it.

Here’s a few images of our kaiju in progress. He’s needed a lot of special attention and detailing to be able to do the boss fight we’ve got cooking, so Sarah is updating his model and adjusting some details.



Oh, did I mention a boss fight? Guess I should show you something about that then, eh? How about a quick tease from some of our earlier work on him. We’re testing his moves with a test-dummy kaiju at the moment because our big boy is still in progress. Zach has been nailing the scale and movement so I'm stoked to show you more in the coming weeks.

This is just one of his attacks we’re testing and implementing: a massive tail slam! I would recommend: dodging.


The monster fight is also the culmination of our mechanics so we are finalizing a lot of tools (which I'll show you more of next week) and polishing our movement even more.

We've got plenty more to showcase with this behemoth and we're planning on having a test fight for him soon... I'm not saying you should join our Discord in case there's a playtest buuuuuuut... (you should join our Discord anyways!)

That’s all for this week. Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!

Be sure to check out the Demo and share the game with your friends! Every little bit helps. You can also join our Discord if you want to share your best catches amongst our community, give us feedback, and get access to the newest test builds. We love seeing all the new faces (well, usernames) who are playing the game and we can’t wait to give you more!

As always, thanks for reading! Stay safe out there. <3 If you want to stay up to date with KAIJU FISHING, you can Wishlist the game on Steam, join our Discord or follow us on Twitter @MutantStudios.

• Added Reactor Survival
  
• Updated Hanger map

Note: All maps atm are testing maps and will be recreated in the final build

• Reduced enemy health
  
• Player has stamina
  
• Limited Ammo

• Ally soldiers target enemies when in range
  
• Infected will only attack when close or too close

Make sure you follow Hunter Project Operation Survive on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1892040/Hunter_Project_Operation_Survive/


Stay alive Cleaner
Spearhead Interactive

- Increased out of combat movement speed from 20% faster to 25% faster
- Increased out of combat dash cooldown from 20% faster to 25% faster
- Fixed bug where necromancers could spawn skeletons behind obstacles
- Fixed bug where built trap at end of dialogue when using gamepad
- Fixed not being able to backtrack in Tuskhorn Outpost
- Fixed Crystal Guardian not moving or attacking if far from it
- Fixed unlocking solaris turret when respawning at Cedrid's Camp
- Fixed getting Heroic/Legendary Warsmith achievements if beat game on Normal

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Lastly for a limited time only enjoy 10% off College Kings 2, including the Deluxe Edition on Steam.
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Release party! Come play with people from all over who want to play some Soccer.. but.. different!

I remember watching sports as a kid and wondering if they have a meta like video games do- new features, balance changes, and maps? Imagine my heartbreak when I found out we've been playing roughly the same Soccer for like 200 years. In this game, all players are given cards while playing that they can use to change the rules of the game and change things up. "Randomize the map, change the ball, strap ice cubes to everyone's feet- LAUNCH EVERYONE WITH ROCKETS- ADD 10 MORE BALLS- RANDOMLY TELEPORT EVERYONE- FINALLY SOME GOOD SPORTS!" I cried to my parents as I ran up to my room at the ripe age of just 10. I hugged my stuffed dinosaur. Dino understands me. He would play my game. Maybe he can be the main character. Someday.

Dear Malcom,

Below you will find some bug fixes we have made to make the experience with the new update work correctly.

• The mannequin will now advance towards you when a hallucination happens

• Fixed a bug where the mannequin wouldn't kill you on Nightmare
  
• Potential fix for a bug that would clip the player out of the factory on Nightmare
  
• Potential fix for screen elements being cut off if using an ultra wide monitor
  
• Fixed a bug where the action figure would spawn outside of the map
  
• We understand there is a bug where the lighting still strobes after a hallucination has ended, it is not completely fixed but should happen less often

Thank you,
Eve
Mannequins LLC

...to all who have played, streamed, tweeted, reviewed and shared Stones Keeper: King Aurelius.

It means the world.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1723530/Stones_Keeper/

And, as always, we have carefully collected and considered your feedback. A lot of it will go into the production.

• Fixed crashes in German version
  
• German localization has been updated and will soon be completely corrected
  
• Fixed bug in Chinese localization for "knight"/"mounted knight"
  
• Turkish localization was added
  
• The track name does not appear when the music is off
  
• Fixed bug with the small resolution
  
• Evasion system has been rebalanced

Join the Discord server!

Oh hey, Passengers!

As promised in a few newsletters back, it’s time for a deep dive into Space Boat’s inspiration and lore!
So keep reading for all our juicy secrets and a new graphic!!

Why would space travel be treated any differently than anything else humanity has been involved with?
The Space Boat universe was developed in the 80s and 90s, during a time when the thirst for Sci-Fi was at an all-time high. Franchises like Star Trek and Star Wars coloured the popular landscape, and though both have different ways of looking at humanity’s possible future, Space Boat takes a more cynical and satirical view of the future: If humanity had developed an easy method for interstellar space travel, it would capitalize and trivialize it, converting the miracle of space travel into commercial transportation.
Underneath the colorful, fun, and goofy exterior, there’s the beating heart of a true Sci-Fi.

While updating the I.G.C.L. Princess Andromeda, much care was taken to answer underlying technology that exists in this whacky universe. We came up with some ideas that we think Isaac Asimov would be proud of like: Artificial atmosphere. In most Sci-Fi shows, oxygen is treated simply like it is on current day space stations while gravity is thrown in like “future space magic”. Sometimes you get Babylon 5 levels of ingenuity where they spin a ship to create artificial gravity while sometimes you get the Wall-E treatment where people are somehow thrown around a ship depending on the ship’s orientation. Seeing that we wanted to allow people to vacation on the exterior of the ship while in space, we wondered if we could have a legitimate scientific approach to having an oxygen environment without being in an airtight structure. It turns out the answer was gravity all along. After all, the earth does not have a dome and somehow maintains it’s atmosphere from going into space. In the Space Boat universe, you can not only take a stroll on the outside of the ship while star gazing with the naked eye, but you can also swim in outdoor pools and take a ride in water parks.




Thanks for reading, and until next week!

fixed bag

Hello everyone!

This month we are very excited about Steam Survival Fest (August 1 - August 8). It will be the first festival/event to which Hired 2 Die is exposed. We will start recruiting players for our closed Alpha. Stay tuned! Join our Discord Channel if you want a free key to play our closed Alpha!

Because of the Survival Fest, we are improving the quality of our store. Most of the visuals were placeholders or needed to be changed. Also, we will upload a new trailer, showing better the experience of playing Hired 2 Die with a friend, which required us to upgrade a lot of stuff and improve the assets.

Help us boost our visibility during the event, wishlist our game:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1729140/Hired_2_Die/

What you will find new on our Store Page when the Survival Fest starts:

• New capsule (already uploaded);
  
• New trailer;
  
• New screenshots;
  
• New short description;
  
• New long description.

And these are some of the assets we are improving. The old version on the left and the new one on the right:

Image: Organization Boxes.

Image: Time Clock.

Image: Camera System.

See you later! ːsteamthumbsupː