Hey there everyone!

Thought I'd stop by and let you know what we're up to with our first update. As you know we've been a little vague with the exact date of the release, so I wanted to explain why.

One of the biggest problems we see with Early Access comes from ambitious developers over selling their product or their teams productive capabilities. There is nothing worse than planning an update, announcing it, then realising that it's going to take a loooot longer that you thought to build. It's a bad feeling for the players and it sucks for the developers.

Because of this we decided to stay vague and not promise too much in the early days of the EA. We weren't sure how much time wee would have to devote to bug fixes, how some of those bugs might impact on the development of new feature and so we thought it would be safer to not make a promise we might not be able to keep.

Having said that, we're pretty much on track to get this update out next week! So that's good news. As we've already done a post on what should be in it I just wanted to draw your attention to one key feature.



We'll be adding support for several languages with the next patch, but we wanted to let you know that they have been generously donated by volunteers who want to help the game reach more people in their own countries!

Some of the translators are professionals and some are just ordinary folks that speak English. So we wanted to say thanks to them and to ask for your patience if there are any texts that aren't up to scratch.

This is Early Access so we will be pushing regular updates and continuously breaking the translations, so you will definitely see some phrases in English all the way up to version 1.0. Just a heads up in case you're wondering.

As mentioned we'll be adding support for workshop tools that will allow anyone to contribute to the translations. We encourage you to get involved. We'll probably even be able to included your name in the credits of the game if you're interested. :)

I hope this helps answer any questions you might have, like; when is the update coming? Where is my update? When will we get the next update? And so on...
https://youtu.be/y8_sBd5-iMo If you have any questions ask away and we'll get back to you as soon as humanly possible.

Thanks for your support and we'll be back with new stuff soon!

Steve and the MT Team.

Hey there everyone!

Thought I'd stop by and let you know what we're up to with our first update. As you know we've been a little vague with the exact date of the release, so I wanted to explain why.

One of the biggest problems we see with Early Access comes from ambitious developers over selling their product or their teams productive capabilities. There is nothing worse than planning an update, announcing it, then realising that it's going to take a loooot longer that you thought to build. It's a bad feeling for the players and it sucks for the developers.

Because of this we decided to stay vague and not promise too much in the early days of the EA. We weren't sure how much time wee would have to devote to bug fixes, how some of those bugs might impact on the development of new feature and so we thought it would be safer to not make a promise we might not be able to keep.

Having said that, we're pretty much on track to get this update out next week! So that's good news. As we've already done a post on what should be in it I just wanted to draw your attention to one key feature.



We'll be adding support for several languages with the next patch, but we wanted to let you know that they have been generously donated by volunteers who want to help the game reach more people in their own countries!

Some of the translators are professionals and some are just ordinary folks that speak English. So we wanted to say thanks to them and to ask for your patience if there are any texts that aren't up to scratch.

This is Early Access so we will be pushing regular updates and continuously breaking the translations, so you will definitely see some phrases in English all the way up to version 1.0. Just a heads up in case you're wondering.

As mentioned we'll be adding support for workshop tools that will allow anyone to contribute to the translations. We encourage you to get involved. We'll probably even be able to included your name in the credits of the game if you're interested. :)

I hope this helps answer any questions you might have, like; when is the update coming? Where is my update? When will we get the next update? And so on...
https://youtu.be/y8_sBd5-iMo If you have any questions ask away and we'll get back to you as soon as humanly possible.

Thanks for your support and we'll be back with new stuff soon!

Steve and the MT Team.

Hey there!

This week has been outrageously busy, but also exciting and far beyond all of our hopes! A great big thank you to everyone who has trusted us and chosen to support us. With your help we’ll be able to make Dead Cells into everything that we want it to be. We’ve already made it to Steam’s top sellers list, which is a huge achievement for us, but we’re not done yet...

We’re currently focusing on two major areas. Fixing critical bugs preventing people from playing the game and the first content update.

The first content update will happen close to the end of the month and will include a mix match of new things:

• Weapons and items!
  
• NPCs - More of the little chaps hanging around taking the mickey...
  
• Achievements - We hear you like achievements...
  
• Stats - Now you'll be able to measure, compare and brag all you want.
  
• Lots of balancing - Bleed damage we're looking at you...
  
• A new monster - Kill or be killed!
  
• Music is coming - Yoann is hard at work, doing stuff.
  
• New mechanic: Use the elements to turn the tide in your favor!
  
  
  
  
  
  

That’s the exciting stuff, but our real priority these last few days and for the rest of the week is getting on top of some of the critical bugs we’ve seen.

• OutOfBounds Issues
  
• Stuck into walls and floors
  
• Crash when entering in a new level (seems especially happening with the Prison depths)
  
• Fog Fjord unreachable exit on some seeds - We've already fixed a number of issues in the Fog Fjord with the most recent patch, but some may have been left out.
  
• Improvement of the Watcher (root, stun and frost work properly)
  
• Blue/disappearing background - sadly, this is a problem with how Xsplit supports OpenGL. So eventually once we support DirectX this should get better, but it's not going to happen quickly.

Fortunately for us and you, these critical bugs don't seem to be impacting too many people. However, these are the ones that we've seen popping up the most frequently on the forums and they're behind the majority of people who haven't been able to have fun with the game.

The uncaught exceptions, access violations and nul access related crashes are caused by many different factors and in each and every case they require a good deal of time to track down and fix. So we will have to ask for your patience on these ones.

As for the smaller less critical bugs, we'll be fixing them little by little with each patch during the early access, but the priority is anything that stops people from playing.

We've noticed that a good deal of people are afraid to start a new game for fear of losing their progress (unlocked runes/health flasks/weapons etc)... So we wanted to clarify. CHOOSING NEW GAME WILL NOT RESET YOUR PROGRESS. It will only restart a new run. The only way to reset a save slot entirely is by going to the save slot and selecting 'RESET'.

This is a little UX issue that we will fix ASAP.

If you're having a problem with OpenGL or your Intel HD card. That might be because you're using unsupported equipment. Remember that we only support more recent Nvidia and Radeon graphics cards and we require i5 processors or better.

We're working on improving this and we will only increase compatibility during the early access. You can fins out a little more here.

Once again, many thanks for your support, ideas and of course, bug reports!

Cheers!

Hey there!

This week has been outrageously busy, but also exciting and far beyond all of our hopes! A great big thank you to everyone who has trusted us and chosen to support us. With your help we’ll be able to make Dead Cells into everything that we want it to be. We’ve already made it to Steam’s top sellers list, which is a huge achievement for us, but we’re not done yet...

We’re currently focusing on two major areas. Fixing critical bugs preventing people from playing the game and the first content update.

The first content update will happen close to the end of the month and will include a mix match of new things:

• Weapons and items!
  
• NPCs - More of the little chaps hanging around taking the mickey...
  
• Achievements - We hear you like achievements...
  
• Stats - Now you'll be able to measure, compare and brag all you want.
  
• Lots of balancing - Bleed damage we're looking at you...
  
• A new monster - Kill or be killed!
  
• Music is coming - Yoann is hard at work, doing stuff.
  
• New mechanic: Use the elements to turn the tide in your favor!
  
  
  
  
  
  

That’s the exciting stuff, but our real priority these last few days and for the rest of the week is getting on top of some of the critical bugs we’ve seen.

• OutOfBounds Issues
  
• Stuck into walls and floors
  
• Crash when entering in a new level (seems especially happening with the Prison depths)
  
• Fog Fjord unreachable exit on some seeds - We've already fixed a number of issues in the Fog Fjord with the most recent patch, but some may have been left out.
  
• Improvement of the Watcher (root, stun and frost work properly)
  
• Blue/disappearing background - sadly, this is a problem with how Xsplit supports OpenGL. So eventually once we support DirectX this should get better, but it's not going to happen quickly.

Fortunately for us and you, these critical bugs don't seem to be impacting too many people. However, these are the ones that we've seen popping up the most frequently on the forums and they're behind the majority of people who haven't been able to have fun with the game.

The uncaught exceptions, access violations and nul access related crashes are caused by many different factors and in each and every case they require a good deal of time to track down and fix. So we will have to ask for your patience on these ones.

As for the smaller less critical bugs, we'll be fixing them little by little with each patch during the early access, but the priority is anything that stops people from playing.

We've noticed that a good deal of people are afraid to start a new game for fear of losing their progress (unlocked runes/health flasks/weapons etc)... So we wanted to clarify. CHOOSING NEW GAME WILL NOT RESET YOUR PROGRESS. It will only restart a new run. The only way to reset a save slot entirely is by going to the save slot and selecting 'RESET'.

This is a little UX issue that we will fix ASAP.

If you're having a problem with OpenGL or your Intel HD card. That might be because you're using unsupported equipment. Remember that we only support more recent Nvidia and Radeon graphics cards and we require i5 processors or better.

We're working on improving this and we will only increase compatibility during the early access. You can fins out a little more here.

Once again, many thanks for your support, ideas and of course, bug reports!

Cheers!

• 11 levels - Each with a variation of enemies, design and ambience.
  
• 20 monsters - More in fact, but there will be plenty of ways for you to die.
  
• 50 items - Tons of weapon, active skills, traps, amulets and so on to experiment with!
  
• 1 fluid fun combat system - Wait to you get to explore. It feels pretty nice.
  
• Hours and hours of gameplay - anywhere from 10 to 30 hours or more depending on your skill level.

If you’re a streamer then feel free to reach out to us through Keymailer. You’ll find Dead Cells in there and we would love to work with you! A little note though, we will be focusing on people with 1000 plus followers.



We've put a system of forums in place here on Steam. You will be able to give us feedback on critical bugs, small annoying ones, suggestions for weapons, monsters, new worlds... Anything you can think of.

• 11 levels - Each with a variation of enemies, design and ambience.
  
• 20 monsters - More in fact, but there will be plenty of ways for you to die.
  
• 50 items - Tons of weapon, active skills, traps, amulets and so on to experiment with!
  
• 1 fluid fun combat system - Wait to you get to explore. It feels pretty nice.
  
• Hours and hours of gameplay - anywhere from 10 to 30 hours or more depending on your skill level.

If you’re a streamer then feel free to reach out to us through Keymailer. You’ll find Dead Cells in there and we would love to work with you! A little note though, we will be focusing on people with 1000 plus followers.



We've put a system of forums in place here on Steam. You will be able to give us feedback on critical bugs, small annoying ones, suggestions for weapons, monsters, new worlds... Anything you can think of.

Hey there!

We're now only 5 short days away from releasing Dead Cells into the wild and things are coming along nicely! Streamers have started to be given access to the full version of the game, so if you find a good one you might get to see a little more of the new levels.

The road-map has been put together, well at least for the overall goals and the first few weeks of production. On top of that we've also chosen a price. So let's have a look.

At day one of the Early Access we'll be a little ahead of schedule. We've managed to complete:

• 11 levels - Each with a variation of enemies, design and ambience.
  
• 20 monsters - More in fact, but there will be plenty of ways for you to die.
  
• 50 items - Tons of weapon, active skills, traps, amulets and so on to experiment with!
  
• 1 fluid fun combat system - Wait to you get to explore. It feels pretty nice.
  
• Hours and hours of gameplay - anywhere from 45 minutes to 30 hours or more depending on your skill.

This represents about 40-50% of the content that we would like to add to the world as we go. That means more levels, more bosses, more items, more meta skills and progression. This however doesn't take into account feedback from the community and things that you guys are going to want to see in the game.

We estimate that we will need at least 8 months, but up to and perhaps beyond 12 months to incorporate new asides, finish our vision for the project, balance it and prepare for any eventual console releases.

https://youtu.be/ndzo05T10d4
As such we're going to be launching the game based on a price of $16.99 USD. This will mostly likely increase as we progress and add content to the game, however as a little thank you for every one who jumps on board day one, we'll be launching at 15% discount. Meaning you'll be paying less than $15 for the game.

We'd love to hear what you think about this, but basically we think that a game that currently takes a skilled player between 16 and 25 hours to finish once, without talking about unlocking everything or any replay value, is worth between 15 and 20 dollars.



On one last note, we'd also like to thank everyone who got involved in the beta, who took the time to stream our game, those of you who have been sharing and following along! As a sign of our gratitude we want to let you know that if you have received a demo or beta copy, that is yours for good and it will be upgraded to the full version a few days prior to launch. So keep streaming and keep on enjoying the game.

If you know any streamers that want to contact us they can reach out through keymailer, however we will be targeting channels with 1000 plus followers from now on.

Thanks to everyone for your support, help and ideas. Wish us luck!

Steve and the Motion Twin team.

Hey there!

We're now only 5 short days away from releasing Dead Cells into the wild and things are coming along nicely! Streamers have started to be given access to the full version of the game, so if you find a good one you might get to see a little more of the new levels.

The road-map has been put together, well at least for the overall goals and the first few weeks of production. On top of that we've also chosen a price. So let's have a look.

At day one of the Early Access we'll be a little ahead of schedule. We've managed to complete:

• 11 levels - Each with a variation of enemies, design and ambience.
  
• 20 monsters - More in fact, but there will be plenty of ways for you to die.
  
• 50 items - Tons of weapon, active skills, traps, amulets and so on to experiment with!
  
• 1 fluid fun combat system - Wait to you get to explore. It feels pretty nice.
  
• Hours and hours of gameplay - anywhere from 45 minutes to 30 hours or more depending on your skill.

This represents about 40-50% of the content that we would like to add to the world as we go. That means more levels, more bosses, more items, more meta skills and progression. This however doesn't take into account feedback from the community and things that you guys are going to want to see in the game.

We estimate that we will need at least 8 months, but up to and perhaps beyond 12 months to incorporate new asides, finish our vision for the project, balance it and prepare for any eventual console releases.

https://youtu.be/ndzo05T10d4
As such we're going to be launching the game based on a price of $16.99 USD. This will mostly likely increase as we progress and add content to the game, however as a little thank you for every one who jumps on board day one, we'll be launching at 15% discount. Meaning you'll be paying less than $15 for the game.

We'd love to hear what you think about this, but basically we think that a game that currently takes a skilled player between 16 and 25 hours to finish once, without talking about unlocking everything or any replay value, is worth between 15 and 20 dollars.



On one last note, we'd also like to thank everyone who got involved in the beta, who took the time to stream our game, those of you who have been sharing and following along! As a sign of our gratitude we want to let you know that if you have received a demo or beta copy, that is yours for good and it will be upgraded to the full version a few days prior to launch. So keep streaming and keep on enjoying the game.

If you know any streamers that want to contact us they can reach out through keymailer, however we will be targeting channels with 1000 plus followers from now on.

Thanks to everyone for your support, help and ideas. Wish us luck!

Steve and the Motion Twin team.