Hey Killers!

We've got a brand new update for Slayaway Camp which brings a tonne of great fixes and updates,

• New Unlockable Gorepack: Freefallin’ - Killer takes Victim on a sweet skydiving bro-trip.
  
• Checkmarks in the pause menu have been redesigned to be a much much nicer checkmark. Revel in the beauty that is the all-new checkmark!
  
• Added some super sweet up/down arrows in the movie store, to get you up/down shelves easier. :)
  
• Added a checkmark underneath a movie if you have completed it. We’re working on additional notifiers if the movie’s deleted scenes and NC17 levels are complete, but that will have to come in a future update.
  
• If language is French / keyboard layout is AZERTY, we use ZQSD instead of WASD for movement. Arrow keys still work too, so just use those you silly camper killers.

• Laid some hot & sweaty groundwork for the FREE “My Gory Valentine” DLC movie to come out on Tuesday, in celebration of the iOS release!!!
  
• We've also added brand new "My Gory Valentine" papercrafts to the Deluxe Edition Papercraft folder!

• Increased the amount of time the “Game Over” credit sequence plays so you have time to dig through that drawer in the kitchen for your favorite lighter, spark it up and hold it over your head, waving it gently back and forth in time to the music.
  
• Steam was not checking for certain achievements when the game started up. We’ve taken Steam out to the garage, tied it up in a chair, sprinkled doritos on the floor, told it that if it doesn’t start checking for certain achievement when it launches Slayaway Camp that it will be forced to walk barefoot on those doritos. Steam now checks for certain achievements when the game starts up.
  
• Should have prevented future Linux / OSX Save games from resetting. If you notice your game has been reset in a past update, feel free to get in touch, chances are its still on your system, just in a folder named “Slayaway Camp” instead of a folder called “slayaway camp” apparently letter capitalization is a big deal in Linux, and I respect it for that.
  
• Made some of the ‘Tutorial hint’ things more clear / easier to read, etc.
  
• Background music was turning off after cutscenes. This broke GNÜ TRUNTIONS collective heart. It no longer does this. Rock on GNÜ TRUNTION, Rock on.
  
• Blue Wizard / Staff credits didnt show up when you completed the game anymore. This has been resolved so now you can see exactly who made this game, when you finish every puzzle, of course.
  
• Sometimes game would get stuck after dying to fire on Movie 2 Deleted Scene “Ritual Gone Wrong” this seems like it would have been part of said ritual that had gone wrong, and therefore a perfect sort of meta-joke, but we fixed it because it wasn’t actually intentional, despite the abundance of ironic humour.
  
• Texture and Audio optimizations which should help with performance on older systems, but still look super fly on newer ones.

Get Ready!! On Valentines Day, we will be unveiling the brand new movie "My Gory Valentine" on your video shelves, which boasts a tonne of new puzzle levels, a new killer (Major Miner) and new kill animations. We'll remind you on Valentines Day when it's ready to play!

Happy Slaying,


Skullface & the Slayaway Camp Team

Hey Killers!

We've got a brand new update for Slayaway Camp which brings a tonne of great fixes and updates,

• New Unlockable Gorepack: Freefallin’ - Killer takes Victim on a sweet skydiving bro-trip.
  
• Checkmarks in the pause menu have been redesigned to be a much much nicer checkmark. Revel in the beauty that is the all-new checkmark!
  
• Added some super sweet up/down arrows in the movie store, to get you up/down shelves easier. :)
  
• Added a checkmark underneath a movie if you have completed it. We’re working on additional notifiers if the movie’s deleted scenes and NC17 levels are complete, but that will have to come in a future update.
  
• If language is French / keyboard layout is AZERTY, we use ZQSD instead of WASD for movement. Arrow keys still work too, so just use those you silly camper killers.

• Laid some hot & sweaty groundwork for the FREE “My Gory Valentine” DLC movie to come out on Tuesday, in celebration of the iOS release!!!
  
• We've also added brand new "My Gory Valentine" papercrafts to the Deluxe Edition Papercraft folder!

• Increased the amount of time the “Game Over” credit sequence plays so you have time to dig through that drawer in the kitchen for your favorite lighter, spark it up and hold it over your head, waving it gently back and forth in time to the music.
  
• Steam was not checking for certain achievements when the game started up. We’ve taken Steam out to the garage, tied it up in a chair, sprinkled doritos on the floor, told it that if it doesn’t start checking for certain achievement when it launches Slayaway Camp that it will be forced to walk barefoot on those doritos. Steam now checks for certain achievements when the game starts up.
  
• Should have prevented future Linux / OSX Save games from resetting. If you notice your game has been reset in a past update, feel free to get in touch, chances are its still on your system, just in a folder named “Slayaway Camp” instead of a folder called “slayaway camp” apparently letter capitalization is a big deal in Linux, and I respect it for that.
  
• Made some of the ‘Tutorial hint’ things more clear / easier to read, etc.
  
• Background music was turning off after cutscenes. This broke GNÜ TRUNTIONS collective heart. It no longer does this. Rock on GNÜ TRUNTION, Rock on.
  
• Blue Wizard / Staff credits didnt show up when you completed the game anymore. This has been resolved so now you can see exactly who made this game, when you finish every puzzle, of course.
  
• Sometimes game would get stuck after dying to fire on Movie 2 Deleted Scene “Ritual Gone Wrong” this seems like it would have been part of said ritual that had gone wrong, and therefore a perfect sort of meta-joke, but we fixed it because it wasn’t actually intentional, despite the abundance of ironic humour.
  
• Texture and Audio optimizations which should help with performance on older systems, but still look super fly on newer ones.

Get Ready!! On Valentines Day, we will be unveiling the brand new movie "My Gory Valentine" on your video shelves, which boasts a tonne of new puzzle levels, a new killer (Major Miner) and new kill animations. We'll remind you on Valentines Day when it's ready to play!

Happy Slaying,


Skullface & the Slayaway Camp Team

Get your iPhones and iPads ready because in just a couple short weeks we will be officially launching Slayaway Camp on the Apple App Store!!

It's been a long journey from Kongregate and Steam to this new mobile version, and we're so proud of the end results! Slayaway Camp launches on Valentine's Day: February 14, 2017 and will cost only $2.99 USD. It includes all the bone-chilling movies and psycho murderers you know and love!


As an extra special thank you to our amazing Steam Community we are also releasing the brand new expansion pack "My Gory Valentine" for FREE. This expansion pack will appear on your movie shelf permanently once you launch the game on Valentine's Day. (Make sure you've completed the first couple movies as it will become available after Slayaway Camp 2.5 unlocks.) This new movie features tonnes of new levels and Gorepacks set in a small mining town on the east coast of Canada, plus a brand new killer: Major Miner.



For news on the mobile version, be sure to be subscribed to our Mailing list (sign up at http://www.slayawaycamp.com), which doubles as our Monthly Murderer Club, where on the third Friday of every month, we'll give you a free Killer Kode to enter into the Steam and/or Mobile game to unlock a brand new exclusive killer! Our next Monthly Murderer is going to be an awesome homage to a well known indie game about a dungeon that gets pretty dark...


Thank you all so much for your support, comments, kind words, bug reports, and, of course, logic-based murdering. You've truly helped us make Slayaway Camp the greatest 1980's horror-inspired isometric puzzle game ever.

As always, please help us spread the word:Stalk us on Facebook, Hunt Us Down on Twitter, tell your friends, and don’t forget to leave a long, bloviating Steam Review!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/530390/

Your Friends,


Skullface and all of us at Blue Wizard Digital

Get your iPhones and iPads ready because in just a couple short weeks we will be officially launching Slayaway Camp on the Apple App Store!!

It's been a long journey from Kongregate and Steam to this new mobile version, and we're so proud of the end results! Slayaway Camp launches on Valentine's Day: February 14, 2017 and will cost only $2.99 USD. It includes all the bone-chilling movies and psycho murderers you know and love!


As an extra special thank you to our amazing Steam Community we are also releasing the brand new expansion pack "My Gory Valentine" for FREE. This expansion pack will appear on your movie shelf permanently once you launch the game on Valentine's Day. (Make sure you've completed the first couple movies as it will become available after Slayaway Camp 2.5 unlocks.) This new movie features tonnes of new levels and Gorepacks set in a small mining town on the east coast of Canada, plus a brand new killer: Major Miner.



For news on the mobile version, be sure to be subscribed to our Mailing list (sign up at http://www.slayawaycamp.com), which doubles as our Monthly Murderer Club, where on the third Friday of every month, we'll give you a free Killer Kode to enter into the Steam and/or Mobile game to unlock a brand new exclusive killer! Our next Monthly Murderer is going to be an awesome homage to a well known indie game about a dungeon that gets pretty dark...


Thank you all so much for your support, comments, kind words, bug reports, and, of course, logic-based murdering. You've truly helped us make Slayaway Camp the greatest 1980's horror-inspired isometric puzzle game ever.

As always, please help us spread the word:Stalk us on Facebook, Hunt Us Down on Twitter, tell your friends, and don’t forget to leave a long, bloviating Steam Review!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/530390/

Your Friends,


Skullface and all of us at Blue Wizard Digital

Hey Killers!

We've been very busy and are proud to announce some very big things for Slayaway Camp: localization & a mobile version! We've been focussed on iOS and are prepping for our big launch on the Apple App Store next month, with the Android version to follow soon afterwards. In celebration of the mobile launch we're going to be releasing a whole new movie's worth of Slayaway Camp goodness: New Levels, More Deleted Scenes & NC-17 Levels, A Brand New Special Killer, plus Awesome New Gorepacks & Bonus Kills!

The best part is, this brand new movie, called "My Gory Valentine", will be available FOR FREE for all you girls and guys as a thanks for your amazing support! "My Gory Valentine" will become available the same day we're launching on iOS: Valentine's Day! We'll have more news on it in the next couple weeks, including a sneak peak at the new killer & theme. :)

Now... let's talk about what's in today's update!

• We've translated the game to a few new languages: French, German, Russian, Spanish should now get fully localized variations of all our horrible, horrible puns!
  
• Subtitles on the intro cutscenes, and the ability to turn them off in the pause menu.
  
• Your Gorepack collection just got a lot bigger! We've added gorepacks for all the 'Standard' kill animations you see when just starting the game.
  
• We've also added Gorepacks for every boss kill you unlock. Just beat a movie to unlock that movie's boss Gorepack.
  
• We've also added Gorepacks for every special Killer Kill. Just unlock a killer with a special kill, and their Gorepack will also appear on the shelf. More killer special kills to come in future updates!
  
• With all these Gorepacks, it can get a little unruly, so you can now disable Gorepacks which you would not like to appear in-game. Boss Gorepacks can't be disabled, since they are tied directly to the puzzle itself.
  
• New On-Map non-cutscene quick kills.
  
• New Bonus Kills added: Piranha Pool, Telephone, Brain Surgery
  
• New water trap / drowning animations added: Piranhas, Crocodile, & Giant Clam
  
• If you're bothered by the blood (you might be playing the wrong game...) you can turn the blood/gore settings to off in the pause menu and it will also disable blood and gore in cutscenes.

• The skip button is no longer invisible on Santa's Slay NC17 shower cutscene and Space Camp's NC17 shower cutscene.
  
• "Need a hint" tutorial no longer appears if the game is paused.
  
• Fixed issue with some NC17 levels displaying incorrect turn count after viewing the walkthrough.
  
• Fixed a bug where going through a teleporter and into an electric fence could cause a game freeze.
  
• Movie complete music now correctly plays at the completion of Movie 3.
  
• NC17 button should now be easier to select.
  
• Game would sometimes freeze after viewing a special killer kill under certain conditions.
  
• Skip button no longer overlaps subtitles on Intro scenes.
  
• Graphical fixes when highlighting icons on shelf scene.
  
• Improvements to shelf swiping.
  
• Hover color in pause menu changed to yellow to improve readability.
  
• Minor fixes to sliders in pause menu.
  
• Minor localization fixes.
  
• Minor bug fixes.
  
• Minor graphical fixes.
  
• Minor text fixes.
  
• Various optimizations for UI and localization.

Happy Slaying, Everyone! ːskullfaceː

Hey Killers!

We've been very busy and are proud to announce some very big things for Slayaway Camp: localization & a mobile version! We've been focussed on iOS and are prepping for our big launch on the Apple App Store next month, with the Android version to follow soon afterwards. In celebration of the mobile launch we're going to be releasing a whole new movie's worth of Slayaway Camp goodness: New Levels, More Deleted Scenes & NC-17 Levels, A Brand New Special Killer, plus Awesome New Gorepacks & Bonus Kills!

The best part is, this brand new movie, called "My Gory Valentine", will be available FOR FREE for all you girls and guys as a thanks for your amazing support! "My Gory Valentine" will become available the same day we're launching on iOS: Valentine's Day! We'll have more news on it in the next couple weeks, including a sneak peak at the new killer & theme. :)

Now... let's talk about what's in today's update!

• We've translated the game to a few new languages: French, German, Russian, Spanish should now get fully localized variations of all our horrible, horrible puns!
  
• Subtitles on the intro cutscenes, and the ability to turn them off in the pause menu.
  
• Your Gorepack collection just got a lot bigger! We've added gorepacks for all the 'Standard' kill animations you see when just starting the game.
  
• We've also added Gorepacks for every boss kill you unlock. Just beat a movie to unlock that movie's boss Gorepack.
  
• We've also added Gorepacks for every special Killer Kill. Just unlock a killer with a special kill, and their Gorepack will also appear on the shelf. More killer special kills to come in future updates!
  
• With all these Gorepacks, it can get a little unruly, so you can now disable Gorepacks which you would not like to appear in-game. Boss Gorepacks can't be disabled, since they are tied directly to the puzzle itself.
  
• New On-Map non-cutscene quick kills.
  
• New Bonus Kills added: Piranha Pool, Telephone, Brain Surgery
  
• New water trap / drowning animations added: Piranhas, Crocodile, & Giant Clam
  
• If you're bothered by the blood (you might be playing the wrong game...) you can turn the blood/gore settings to off in the pause menu and it will also disable blood and gore in cutscenes.

• The skip button is no longer invisible on Santa's Slay NC17 shower cutscene and Space Camp's NC17 shower cutscene.
  
• "Need a hint" tutorial no longer appears if the game is paused.
  
• Fixed issue with some NC17 levels displaying incorrect turn count after viewing the walkthrough.
  
• Fixed a bug where going through a teleporter and into an electric fence could cause a game freeze.
  
• Movie complete music now correctly plays at the completion of Movie 3.
  
• NC17 button should now be easier to select.
  
• Game would sometimes freeze after viewing a special killer kill under certain conditions.
  
• Skip button no longer overlaps subtitles on Intro scenes.
  
• Graphical fixes when highlighting icons on shelf scene.
  
• Improvements to shelf swiping.
  
• Hover color in pause menu changed to yellow to improve readability.
  
• Minor fixes to sliders in pause menu.
  
• Minor localization fixes.
  
• Minor bug fixes.
  
• Minor graphical fixes.
  
• Minor text fixes.
  
• Various optimizations for UI and localization.

Happy Slaying, Everyone! :skullface:

Hello, slayers! We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting the #SkullfaceAndMe photo contest! Pose with Skullface in your creepiest, most slasheriffic outfit and you could be made into a REAL in-game Slayaway Camp killer! Check out Mr. Candyworms awesome photo above, he's our first official entry into the contest to become a Slayaway Killer :)



1) Make papercraft Skullface**


2) Suit up in your best slasher/horror outfit


3) Take a picture with Skullface!


4) Post photo to social media (or just reply to this thread on the Steam forums)


5) If posted on Twitter or Facebook, tag your photo #SkullfaceAndMe so we can find it!



Slayaway Camp Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/SlayawayCamp


Slayaway Camp Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/slayawaycamp



You can also e-mail your submission to us at slayawaycamp@bluewizard.com if you would prefer!

The Slayaway Camp team will choose one submission to become a real voxelated killer in-game for all to enjoy!

Contest runs until January 31st, 2017.



**If, for some reason, you are unable to create a papercraft Skullface (perhaps your giant meaty killer hands are no good at making tiny paper things) feel free to use a photo of Skullface instead! Or maybe a piece of toast with his face burnt into it. Be creative!

Don't have the Skullface papercraft pattern?
Download it here: http://slayawaycamp.com/Skullface_Toy.pdf

ːskullfaceː

Hello, slayers! We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting the #SkullfaceAndMe photo contest! Pose with Skullface in your creepiest, most slasheriffic outfit and you could be made into a REAL in-game Slayaway Camp killer! Check out Mr. Candyworms awesome photo above, he's our first official entry into the contest to become a Slayaway Killer :)



1) Make papercraft Skullface**


2) Suit up in your best slasher/horror outfit


3) Take a picture with Skullface!


4) Post photo to social media (or just reply to this thread on the Steam forums)


5) If posted on Twitter or Facebook, tag your photo #SkullfaceAndMe so we can find it!



Slayaway Camp Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/SlayawayCamp


Slayaway Camp Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/slayawaycamp



You can also e-mail your submission to us at slayawaycamp@bluewizard.com if you would prefer!

The Slayaway Camp team will choose one submission to become a real voxelated killer in-game for all to enjoy!

Contest runs until January 31st, 2017.



**If, for some reason, you are unable to create a papercraft Skullface (perhaps your giant meaty killer hands are no good at making tiny paper things) feel free to use a photo of Skullface instead! Or maybe a piece of toast with his face burnt into it. Be creative!

Don't have the Skullface papercraft pattern?
Download it here: http://slayawaycamp.com/Skullface_Toy.pdf

:skullface:

Hey Killers! Hope you've been having fun with Santa's Slay and all the goodies it brings! If you haven't checked it out, here's a link to check it out! Wanted to give a loving Skullface shout out to Pennie, who did the amazing fan art we featured above! Check out Pennie's Deviant Art page @ http://slimy-pennies.deviantart.com/ for more of her awesome work!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/559670/


We'll be sending out the new KILLER KODE for the monthly murderer very soon (within the hour!), so make sure you're signed up to the Monthly Murderer Club (the Slayaway Camp Mailing List).

Here's a link you can use to sign up right now, if you're not already signed up: http://www.slayawaycamp.com/mmclub

We send the killer code out via the mailing list on the third Friday of every month (that's today!) with a new killer exclusive to people who have the KODE, keep an eye out for it!

We've also made a bunch of bug fixes and updates to the game in the past couple weeks. Here's a full list of what you can expect the next time you start up Slayaway Camp!

• Movie Intro Cutscenes now have subtitles in case you're not sure what that gravelly voice of Mark Meer is saying. You can disable subtitles from the pause menu.
  
• Zoom tutorial now shows correct text when controller is plugged in
  
• Backup feature for save games (When loading a new version / updated version of the game, your save game will be duplicated to a backup file in your Application Data / AppData folder just in case something happens, you can restore to your old file.
  
• Killers are now sorted more betterer/more ocd-friendly on the killer shelf
  
• Fixed issue where you could not scroll to the bottom of the pause menu.
  
• Emoji bubbles now appear in front of killer faces where they should be, instead of behind them where they shouldn't be.
  
• Fixed occasional freeze caused by missing bonus kills on Santa's Slay
  
• SFX now mutes properly when entering killer code if SFX is set to mute in menu
  
• Fixed a bug where blood would remain on-screen after rewinding after editing blood settings in menu
  
• Fixed a bug where selecting the Intro Cutscene via blue menu in Santa's Slay would cause a freeze. Thanks to powermad24 for reporting and for his patience whilst we fixed it up :)
  
• Gorepack prices are now displaying correctly in their tooltips
  
• Changes to the Hint Tutorial popup so it's a little nicer to look at.
  
• FOK3 text description is no longer hidden
  
• Fixed bug where pausing while being killed caused unusual idle animations
  
• Minor text fixes
  
• Minor bug fixes
  
• Minor graphical fixes
  
• Minor UI fixes
  
• Over 10 bubble teas were consumed during these fixes.

We've been doing a lot of work on a couple big things in the background and will have proper announcements coming soon, but to leave you with some tidbits: we've got a few more languages localized and will be able to implement that soon enough, and we also have been working hard on getting an iOS version done, and are almost ready to start beta testing it again. If you want to be part of the iOS beta, make sure you're on the mailing list and we'll send out more info on that soon! Join the mailing list at www.slayawaycamp.com :)

Happy Slaying! ːskullfaceː

Hey Killers! Hope you've been having fun with Santa's Slay and all the goodies it brings! If you haven't checked it out, here's a link to check it out! Wanted to give a loving Skullface shout out to Pennie, who did the amazing fan art we featured above! Check out Pennie's Deviant Art page @ http://slimy-pennies.deviantart.com/ for more of her awesome work!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/559670/


We'll be sending out the new KILLER KODE for the monthly murderer very soon (within the hour!), so make sure you're signed up to the Monthly Murderer Club (the Slayaway Camp Mailing List).

Here's a link you can use to sign up right now, if you're not already signed up: http://www.slayawaycamp.com/mmclub

We send the killer code out via the mailing list on the third Friday of every month (that's today!) with a new killer exclusive to people who have the KODE, keep an eye out for it!

We've also made a bunch of bug fixes and updates to the game in the past couple weeks. Here's a full list of what you can expect the next time you start up Slayaway Camp!

• Movie Intro Cutscenes now have subtitles in case you're not sure what that gravelly voice of Mark Meer is saying. You can disable subtitles from the pause menu.
  
• Zoom tutorial now shows correct text when controller is plugged in
  
• Backup feature for save games (When loading a new version / updated version of the game, your save game will be duplicated to a backup file in your Application Data / AppData folder just in case something happens, you can restore to your old file.
  
• Killers are now sorted more betterer/more ocd-friendly on the killer shelf
  
• Fixed issue where you could not scroll to the bottom of the pause menu.
  
• Emoji bubbles now appear in front of killer faces where they should be, instead of behind them where they shouldn't be.
  
• Fixed occasional freeze caused by missing bonus kills on Santa's Slay
  
• SFX now mutes properly when entering killer code if SFX is set to mute in menu
  
• Fixed a bug where blood would remain on-screen after rewinding after editing blood settings in menu
  
• Fixed a bug where selecting the Intro Cutscene via blue menu in Santa's Slay would cause a freeze. Thanks to powermad24 for reporting and for his patience whilst we fixed it up :)
  
• Gorepack prices are now displaying correctly in their tooltips
  
• Changes to the Hint Tutorial popup so it's a little nicer to look at.
  
• FOK3 text description is no longer hidden
  
• Fixed bug where pausing while being killed caused unusual idle animations
  
• Minor text fixes
  
• Minor bug fixes
  
• Minor graphical fixes
  
• Minor UI fixes
  
• Over 10 bubble teas were consumed during these fixes.

We've been doing a lot of work on a couple big things in the background and will have proper announcements coming soon, but to leave you with some tidbits: we've got a few more languages localized and will be able to implement that soon enough, and we also have been working hard on getting an iOS version done, and are almost ready to start beta testing it again. If you want to be part of the iOS beta, make sure you're on the mailing list and we'll send out more info on that soon! Join the mailing list at www.slayawaycamp.com :)

Happy Slaying! :skullface: