Added new character Ice Guardian

8 new skills added
- Solid Iceberg
- Cold Blast
- Spiky Ice
- Thorn Attack
- Press
- Thorn Skin
- Shattered
- Offense and Defense

improvement
- Reduction of sound effect amplification
- Credits page skip function

bug fix
- Shadow Slash Skill: Fixed a bug where additional damage due to stacking curses was not applied

We wanted to celebrate the upcoming Paper Planet release with an official Art Contest, complete with cash prizes (up to $500) and game keys to be won! Don't forget to add the game to your Wishlist if you haven't already :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1504250/Paper_Planet/

1. Create a Paper Planet (reference material) themed piece of artwork (any style/medium is fine), based on ONE of the 5 in-game bosses pictured below (Phobos & Deimos come as a pair)
   
2. Submit your work to the Newgrounds Art Portal with the tag paperplanet by Sunday August 20th, 2023
   
3. (Optional) Tweet your artwork out with #paperplanet

• You are allowed to submit one piece PER boss
  
• No NSFW art
  
• Submissions after the deadline will NOT be counted
  
• By submitting your art to this contest, you agree that we may use your art (with credit given!) for digital "Trading Cards" on Steam

Myself, Willops, and the rest of the dev team will pick our favourites.

There are no ranked placements. Instead there will be 1 top prize and 1 runner-up for EACH BOSS! So there will be 5 Top Prizes and 5 Runner-Ups awarded total.

• Runner-ups: 1 Steam game key
  
• Top prizes: $100 + 1 Steam game key + Your art featured on a digital Steam Trading Card

• We will announce the winners through the Newgrounds Forums, as well as on Twitter as quickly after the contest as possible
  
• Copies of the game will be distributed to the winners as Steam keys upon release.
  
• Cash prizes will be paid through PayPal.

Thank you for all the support so far. Paper Planet has been in development for years, and we're thrilled by the prospect of people finally getting the chance to experience the complete game!

We hope you enjoy playing through a few runs of the Demo for inspiration!
And one more time, please be sure to add it to your Wishlists!

You thought it was over, soldier?

Guess again!!



This new physical weapon... only two shots, but... HITS HARD!!!



Also, can you find the new changes on the UI?? More stuff to come...

We associated with the creator of Abridge, another mind-bending Sokoban game, to release the new bundle "How hard can it be?"

For this week only, Minimal Crypt is at a 40% discount, while the bundle will permanently stay at a 20% discount when purchasing both games! That's a total of -50% on both games for the first week ːsteamhappyː

Gen’l,

We're happy to announce, that the DLC to Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865), Whiskey & Lemons, will be released on 25th of August, 2023 (17.00 UCT / 10.00 PDT)! On the same day we will also release Volume 2 to the game's Soundtrack, and a major update to the main game. Details below:


Whiskey & Lemons DLC introduces a new career mode, where you can play any campaign in the game starting from a low position, caring only about your unit and your career, with the AI taking care of the rest. With prestige and promotions you may rise all the way to the top of your nation's military leadership, which will open up more options to influence the war effort. Career mode includes role playing elements for character development. The possibility to take only a smaller role in the campaign may also suit players that feel the main campaign is too overwhelming. In addition to the career mode, W&L DLC introduces a new regiment scale Eastern Theater focus campaign.

Whiskey & Lemons will sell for USD 24,99. On release, the DLC will have a 10% discount.

For more details and wishlisting, visit:
WHISKEY & LEMONS STEAM STORE PAGE
GAME PLAY VIDEO FROM CAREER CAMPAIGN


Volume 2 of the game's Soundtrack features 20 more old time and traditional tunes from the Civil War era, hand picked & recorded live by Wasel and the Weasels. Like with Soundtrack Vol.1, the music will be included in the game, even if you don't own the Soundtrack or any other DLC. Buying the Soundtrack will allow you to enjoy the music also outside of the game - it's also a good way to support Grand Tactician -project, and especially the talented musicians!

Soundtrack Vol.2 will sell for USD 9,99.

For more details, including the track list, and wishlisting, visit:
SOUNDTRACK VOL.2 STEAM STORE PAGE


We will also update the Bundle option for the game, which includes all the content for 10% off.


With the DLC release, there will also be a major new patch for the main game. The patch includes bug fixes, some new features, balancing, performance & AI improvements, and the new music.

For more information:
SEE THE FULL PATCH NOTES

Most Respy,

Grand Engineer Corps

The next update is imminent. Plunder will deploy this Thursday, August 3!


Let’s have a look at what you can expect throughout the rest of the year before we delve into Plunder’s component parts.

This roadmap is by no means exhaustive, we will continue to explain what each update comprises – in detail – with future dev logs.



First off, the wipe. As we’ve reiterated in past dev logs – we must enforce wipes for technical reasons, and will continue to do so throughout Early Access. We will be changing how wipes work once we’ve launched! Please read more on wipes here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1789480/view/3653033508018088743?l=english




To aid and onboard solo players who don’t have any loot – Raider Mode offers an alternative, faster paced match! We’re determined to give solo players the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the mechanics and weaponry of Marauders. We’ll be monitoring feedback, and will adjust this mode accordingly.

Raider Mode sees you and up to five other solos masquerade as low life raiders. You’re assigned a random loadout and starting position inside a raid location, with the directive of making it to the escape pods.

• Raider Mode automatically puts players together in solos and doesn't have any crew functionality
  
  
• You can only use this mode if you have nothing equipped (You will be extracting with gear)
  
  
• Players spawn as “Raiders” within a raid location using player starts (no in ships, just within the POIs) These Spawns are well-placed, random and are assigned to each player.
  
  
• There are little to no A.I. in the Match (depending on feedback, at the moment there are zero), instead there are 5 to 6 Players. No Backfill, (everyone starts around the same time, this is obviously dependent on hardware, however the maps are light and shouldn't be an issue.)
  
  
• Players are given a preset loadout (much like the A.I. raiders do) and sometimes can even get lucky with a blowtorch, but all loadouts are supposed to be low tier with semi automatics taking front and centre.
  
  
• Raider mode features *a lot* more green uncommon containers than the other mode as a chance to earn an advantage (akin to battle royales) but also loot that can be extracted as a “free loot” dynamic. However, because players can't bring in loadouts the chance to get into the vault is near zero as balance (unless you are the one lucky soul to spawn with the blowtorch loadout)
  
  
• Using the Escape pod (end of the animation) Extracts.
  
  
• No XP Bonuses (For balance) Just Kill & Loot XP, No Raid Missions.
  
  
• Faster Mode, Around 10 Minutes of Oxygen. (subject to change)
  
  
• Approx. 15 Minute cooldown before you can do it again (subject to change)
  
  
• Smaller Rotation of Maps, breach only locations, for plunder its merchant ship or mining frigate.

We’re looking forward to seeing how this mode pans out! This should help you acquire some stash before heading into the ominous, unforgiving space.




The Marauders arsenal continues to expand in Plunder! The SVU Special utilises the recently added Dart ammo. The location? Classified. More information to follow in the patch notes on Thursday! Boasting match-grade accuracy with an unforgiving stream of bullets – you’ll want to watch your head if the enemy gets their hands on this rifle.


We’ll post the patch notes on Thursday, providing full detail on the Loot Goblin, SVU Special and more!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1789480/Marauders/

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2023.08.01.1

TWEAK:
- Jacek, Barabasz: attacks take a bit less Stamina
- Samuel: increased size of the weak portion of the blade
- Isabella: shorter recovery time of High Guard attacks

FIX:
- Isabella: Canceling (in place) X and (in place) Y attacks now respects the "no canceling on active frames" rule
- Isabella: tweaked the Posta Di Donna Attacks trajectory

Two weeks after release, and after a bit of a holiday for me to rest and rebuild, work can resume on Shadows. I've not yet fully planned out how things will go, just getting to V1.0 full release was enough of a task.

The first new addition is a new god, which is now available on the beta-branch. Its powers and mechanics are roughly playable, but need polishing and almost certainly bugfixing.

Going forward I'd like to avoid breaking mod compatibility as rarely as possible. There were a few issues even with V1.0, and I'd like to avoid repeatedly forcing mod creators to update their work. This may mean working towards one big release in October, rather than releasing this new god onto the main branch at the end of the month.

This god itself is quite a technically challenging one, which required a fair amount of changing stuff under the hood in the past few months. It involves games of many thousands of turns, letting players reset the world after each victory, and playing against a more powerful humanity which adapts to how the player has won in the past. Expect even more bugs than usual, as this infinite gameplay pushes the game's systems to their limits, past what they were initially intended to do.

Its gameplay mechanics build on this cyclic system, and it has the ability to curse families, then empower these curses by harming the family, in order to create powerful agents in the next cycle out of their descendents. It can also buff its current agents and harm heroes, making it quite an individual-focused god.

Hello, dear community members.

The 2.0 update has launched with overwhelming success. We have been analyzing the feedback and looking at issues since the launch yesterday. Today, we are pushing our first hotfix for the update to tackle the critical issues we spotted.

Hotfix Patch 2.0.2

(01/08/2023)

The update is deployed to the default branch. The database changes only apply to new games, and code fixes apply to ongoing games.

Bug Fixes and Polish

- Added space bar function
- Added drag function to right-click of mouse
- Fixed a rare issue about exile that had no condition fallbacks
- Fixed a very rare issue with the flow step system calculation that caused certain triggers to disappear
- Fixed an incidental rare database issue
- Fixed missing and broken false condition in turn 7 ministry Gus results meeting
- Reduced economy integer for business taxation condition
- Fixed a missing condition in the queen phone call scene
- Fixed a few typos

We are aware of an issue completing payments in the game for Crystals. The team is working to resolve it quickly. Players currently progressing the Battle Pass can still earn the VIP rewards as these will be awarded when you are able to upgrade to VIP once this issue is resolved.