We've been continuing to add new multiplayer modes to Insane Robots, and our newBare Knuckle mode brings a gloves-off play style to local and friends two-player battles with no augments added to robots



Recently launched Best of Three mode brings fiercer competition and longer duels to local and friends two-player battles. Slog it out over three battles, to see who is the true Insane Robots master.



Max the Cash mode has two 1v1 battles where winning the battle is not everything. You need to use runs of damage, overkill, cash tokens, and chains to maximise your score over two battles. (You can find out more about all of those with the new Deck Info feature.) This mode makes for a much more strategic 1v1 challenge.

Together with the original Quick Battle mode, where you play one decider battle, there are now four ways to play in your local and friends 2P Insane Robots battles! We'll keep adding more modes, so watch this space...

Hello everyone!

Two weeks have passed since our Steam release and we got so overwhelmed from all the things to do that we weren’t able to prepare a proper post-release announcement!

So… Let’s do it right away!



We worked very hard on our game for more than two years and its release on Steam was a big milestone. As always, such a big moment can bring fears and doubts which ultimately can cover all the positive things of such an accomplishment.
But every negative thought vanished as soon as we hit the big green release button and saw how much you all liked our game!
We are very happy for such a positive feedback and we would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all your nice messages, for all the good reviews, for all the feedback and for all the screenshots and videos that you posted!



Speaking about screenshots, you accepted the challenge and uploaded lots of them in the Steam Community Hub! Be sure to like and comment your favorite ones to let us know who should win the race for the best screenshot!
And, speaking about videos, we are very thankful to all the creators that took the time to record a video, or even a series: we had a great time watching them play our game, even if we couldn’t understand a single word for any language different from English and Italian, it was great to see them surprised, find references, make jokes, mimic our characters and ultimately have fun! <3
If you haven't done it yet, check them out on the Steam Community Hub and on YouTube, you'll find dozens of videos in many languages, with German and English being the most common!

Enough with the release, now let's talk about our next update!

First of all, we completed the new Item Pack #9 which adds more than 25 new Houseware items to look for and buy!



With these items we have now completed all the item packs we had planned, so now it's your time to let us hear your voice and let us know what you’d like to see in the game! Post your ideas here or on the “Item Requests” card on the Roadmap, we'll keep track of the most desired items when we'll plan our next item pack!

Speaking of planning, you'll soon see a lot of movement on the Roadmap! We are checking all the tasks, both ours and community requested ones, in order to reevaluate them and plan the next releases for the following months!

As per today, in the new 1.15 update we will surely include:

• The new Item Pack #9
  
• Minor text fixes (thank you for reporting them!)

We are also already working on:

• A new graphical improvement on the screen where you examine a customer’s item
  
• Steam integrations: mentioned in our last announcement, with this you’ll be able to unlock our 45 achievements on Steam!
  
• Portuguese localization: approximately at 15%, hopefully completed for the end of the month.
  
• Some dedicated PC improvements (such as keyboard controls)

And then after completing the full reevaluation we’ll surely start working on something else!

Some of these tasks (e.g.: Steam integration or Portuguese localization) will need a special testing phase, so we will also check how to properly provide Beta releases on Steam. Which means that, if you like, you’ll soon be able to opt-in the Beta program and then be able to test our latest releases before everyone else! Of course we’ll also make a dedicated announcement on this and keep you updated on what you’ll be able to test in Beta!

Last, but not least, many of you noticed that Dealer’s Life price on Steam is particularly low, some of you were even scared a bit as usually a low price means a low-quality product.
Well, we obviously appreciate praises about the low price, but here’s the truth: this is the first game we develop and we had a lot of difficulties deciding a price tag. We know that DL is a high-quality product and we know we could have asked for more (on mobile we have been updating it every month for two years now) but being in doubt we decided to be "better safe than sorry".
Again, this may just be us two thinking in a different way than the "market standard", same as we did with IAPs that everyone probably would have included in a game like ours (energy bars, time to wait for customers and deals, and so on...).
Also, we managed to have a chat with a couple of experienced devs during these very frantic post-release days and decided to consider the possibility of raising the price after some updates, which in case will be announced in advance with no surprises.

In conclusion, we’d like to keep updating the game for free, with no IAPs and even no DLCs, evaluating a price increase in some updates. If this keeps going well we will show that there is an alternative which makes everyone happy: you, our players, will keep playing an updated game, we will be supported and we will have the financial stability to be able to update this game and then start developing a new one!
So… keep supporting our game and our decisions, spread the word on social platforms, share the game to your friends and tell us what you think!

That’s all for now, thanks to all the Great Dealers out there and keep up the good deals!

Your friendly indiedevs,
Abyte Entertainment

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2016 - 2019.

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2016 - 2019.

That's four years.

Enderal - Forgotten Stories is now available on Steam.

Also, Chapter Two of "Dreams of the Dying", the official Enderal novel, is now available for Patrons! Public release tomorrow.

Watch Enderal's release trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DHkmHBPs2Q

Pet Swans have arrived in Play Wild! These majestic creatures are waiting to be adopted in the Sapphire Shop!

Since today, Strikey Sisters is available on Nintendo Switch too!

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/strikey-sisters-switch

It looks and plays very well on handheld mode so, if you are interested in this action brick breaker game and own a Switch, maybe this is the best version for you!

Both versions, PC and Switch, have exactly the same content. Well, in fact, all the latest improvements of the PC version are due to the work we have been doing for the Switch port.

Also, Bot Vice is coming next to Switch, and after that, we'll develop a brand new project. Can you imagine a classic Resident Evil game with the look and feel of Viviette? Imagine no more. We're making it.

Thanks for reading!

Alberto & Dani

Since today, Strikey Sisters is available on Nintendo Switch too!

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/strikey-sisters-switch

It looks and plays very well on handheld mode so, if you are interested in this action brick breaker game and own a Switch, maybe this is the best version for you!

Both versions, PC and Switch, have exactly the same content. Well, in fact, all the latest improvements of the PC version are due to the work we have been doing for the Switch port.

Also, Bot Vice is coming next to Switch, and after that, we'll develop a brand new project. Can you imagine a classic Resident Evil game with the look and feel of Viviette? Imagine no more. We're making it.

Thanks for reading!

Alberto & Dani

14 February 2019

New
- You can now track the progress of players and guilds for every skill using the Leaderboards on the website at https://granskreaonline.com/leaderboards
- New game area 'Yorkhill sewers' with new mobs, 3 house plots and a new lv. 90 boss whose drops include a new ring, amulet, a follower pet and crafting materials for a new bow and a quiver
- New account system
- House type 'Sewer Cage'
- Farming quest 'Growing Pains'
- Added a 2 second cooldown after switching to secondary weapon
- Healing abilities Healing bird (Lv. 30), Transfusion (Lv. 38) and Healing plant (Lv. 45)
- Bank item count is now visible in the bank interface
- Option to change how long damage numbers are visible on screen
- Option to adjust strength of the red overlay when suffering damage
- Pressing Escape now deactivates chat text bar
- Archery ability Explosive arrow now increases the duration of Combustion (Elemental Grimoire fire spell) on all nearby targets
- Added a key to cancel current attack (Default key Y)


Changes
- It is now possible to change weapons during an attack (current attack is cancelled)
- It is now possible to change targets during an attack (current attack is cancelled)
- Added silver to wraith and Zalranaz loot tables
- Reduced Swordsmanship ability Hack and slash cooldown to 40 seconds (from 90)
- Increased Swordsmanship ability Survivor health boost to 50% (from 25%)
- Reduced Swordsmanship ability Charge cooldown to 30 seconds (from 60)
- Reduced Swordsmanship ability Cripple root effect to 5 (from 10)
- Increased crossbow basic attack damage by roughly 50%
- Increased crossbow ability Piercing Shot damage by roughly 50%
- Increased Swordsmanship abilities Brutal slash and Cripple minimum damage to 75% and 50%, respectively (from 1)
- Increased bow basic attack maximum damage by 30% and minimum damage to 50% (from 10)
- Increased broadsword minimum damage to 50% (from 1)
- Increased greatsword minimum damage to 30% (from 1)
- Increased halberd minimum damage to 65% (from 1)
- Increased Archery ability Explosive arrow damage by 100%
- Increased Archery ability Vampiric Arrow damage by 100%
- Using Archery ability Focus now automatically starts attacking target
- Bugs and feedback window text is now cleared when report is sent


Bugfixes
- Targeting players in the party UI sometimes not working
- Wrong recipe for cooked Brarrus meat
- Added several missing buff icons and descriptions
- Right clicking abilities creating multiple info pop-ups
- Keybinds randomly resetting
- World map keybind not working
- Crossbow ability Focus timer not visible in buffs list

-From now on, an account will be required to log in the game.
-Characters will be grouped in this account. There is now a limit of 3 characters per account.

For old players:
-All of your alternate accounts will be grouped into a single account. Just log in to your main character and follow the instructions.
-If any old alternate character you used to have is now missing from your account, associate it using the "associate character" button.
-If no account was assigned to you automatically, it means you haven't logged in since July 2018 or you might have shared your account with other players. Make a new account and associate your character if this is the case.

Using this new account system should be easy and intuitive, just log in to the game as you would normally do and follow the instructions. These changes fix the alternate account abuse issue and will allow several other improvements.

Throughout your experience competing in the hit show, Who Wants To Destroy An Alien, you will encounter many events that convey the degraded setting in this dystopian sector of space: gang wars, muggings, ship-jackings, to name a few.

As your game progresses, you will begin to lose access to many of the world map locations due to these catastrophic events.




Narrowing of the open world tends to be a common mechanic in Battle Royale games. In WWTDAA this mechanic is being conveyed through the dynamic event system as described above.

Each time you move on the world map, all of the other A.I. do the same. Some of them will rush towards the final arena, but others will actually take the time to do quests and trigger events, meaning those events will not be available for the player during the same playthrough.

Many events & quests provide unique items that can help the player build their character in different ways. The A.I. will also have access to these items, meaning that each playthrough will be slightly different, varying not only in which characters arrive for the final showdown, but also varying their builds.

Events and quests help the player progress in levels, gather resources for upgrades, and acquire unique items for specialized builds. However, all of the quests and events are also optional, and player may rush to the final arena if they desire. More info on final arena will be provided in future updates.

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In other news, more NPCs, skills, and locations have been added. Here is a preview of one of the most commonplace ship part providers this side of space, Pep Junk!



Pep Junk is a junkyard location (similar to Left Arm Pete's), but it's only good for buying generic resources for upgrading. Special junkyards may sell devices that can be used in combat, or buff-type items, so be on the lookout for those, but feel free to drop by Pep Junk anytime, if you just need the resources.

Note that all items available at vendors are single-time purchase. So, these stores will sell out their stock. Revisiting locations shouldn't be commonplace, as every character will be in a rush to make it to the final arena. It is a 'Rumble Royale', after all!

Please note that all locations are subject to design changes. We're even open to feedback, as we're still working hard to complete all of the zones on the world map and their associated quests / events.

More info to come as development continues.

Also, don't forget to follow the game for notifications on future updates!


-SZ