Greetings, Heroes-in-the-making!

Are you ready to embark on an epic quest filled with puzzles, strategy, and a dash of revolution? Look no further! As part of the BE A HERO event at Stuttgart ComicCon, we're calling all brave souls to join the vibrant and challenging world of Let’s! Revolution! 🌈✨

For a limited time, from December 9th to the 19th, gear up and prepare to chase down a cowardly King in a realm buzzing with adventure – at a heroic 25% OFF!

Why Join the Revolution?

🧩 Puzzle Meets Strategy: Dive into a roguelite puzzle mashup, where Minesweeper meets procedurally generated mazes.
⚔️ Turn-Based Combat: Face off against quirky foes in strategic battles.
🎲 Accessible Yet Deep: Whether you're a puzzle pro or a newcomer, our board-game inspired gameplay offers depth and accessibility.
🎨 Artistically Unique: Enjoy a world beautifully illustrated, brimming with satire and contemporary nods, crafted by our global team of artists.
🎼 Eclectic Sounds: Get immersed with original music and sound design by Antfood, featuring international talents.

Art and Revolution – In creating Let's! Revolution!, we at BUCK have harnessed the creativity of over 30 artists, most of whom had never worked on a game before. This isn't just a game; it's a canvas where art meets play, where each level is a stroke of genius from an underrepresented artist, bringing to life themes of unrest and resilience.

Innovative Gameplay – We've turned the traditional dungeon crawler on its head! Blending casual appeal with tactical depth, Let's! Revolution! offers a fresh take on turn-based strategy with an inviting look and feel.

So, heroes, are you ready to take up the challenge? To laugh in the face of danger while untangling the puzzles of Beebom? Your adventure awaits!

Grab your cape, sharpen your wits, and let’s start the revolution – with style, strategy, and a whole lot of fun. See you in Beebom City!

Smack Studio Online is here!
After months of testing and working to perfect our rollback netcode, we finally feel that we’re in a place to open up online play to the public with a beta release!

Both online and offline, we have a 2-frame delay in-game (roughly the same as Super Smash Bros. Melee and Slippi online). That’s 3x faster than Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's 6-frame delay offline, and 5x faster than Ultimate's online (11-fame delay minimum).

You can play with up to 4 people in a session, whether it’s a free for all or a team battle, and each player can customize their input delay. So if 3 players are on the WC server, and one is in the EU server, they can all have the same experience with customized input delay.
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🍄 Mushroom Heights
🌇 Neon Metro
🌄 Highland Ruins

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There are nearly 800 playable fighters in our Steam Workshop, so don’t forget to browse the workshop for characters before heading online.

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Do workshop characters work online?

Yes! When a player in your session selects a workshop character that you haven't downloaded, it temporarily downloads the character the second your opponent selects it.

Is this a full release for online?
Our online play is still in beta and some bumps still need to be ironed out. With a larger player base, we hope to find bugs and causes of desyncs much faster to make any necessary changes (if needed) for our 1.0 launch.

Can I play a character online that I haven’t uploaded to the workshop?

No, the only way you can play characters online is if they have been uploaded to the workshop. This helps us maintain version control and fight against desyncs and crashes.


What if characters are extremely overpowered?

Since the power of a character is determined by its creator, characters can be extremely OP. When you create a session, you can decide if workshop characters are allowed. In the future we’d like to implement “collections” of characters, so online sessions will have “workshop collections,” and only characters within that collection can be played.

How can I find a game?

You can see a full list of sessions around the world, so in most cases you can find a match quickly. To voice chat with other players or find matches, join our Discord and grab the Matchmaking role!

Hello everyone! I've been working on the upcoming update (v1.2) for quite some time now, and as we approach the new year, I wanted to write a brief devlog article to keep you in the loop about our progress.

The forthcoming update introduces two exciting modes: Custom Run and Challenge modes. In Custom Run mode, you'll have the flexibility to adjust various parameters, set goals, and explore different ways to modify your runs. On the other hand, Challenge mode will feature unique runs with various gimmicks and goals, offering a fresh and engaging way to experience the game. Completing challenges will also unlock new content in the Credits Shop.

An early screenshot of the challenge selection screen.

The development of the Challenge and Custom Run systems is nearly complete, and I'm actively working on expanding the content within these frameworks.

Version 1.2 will add additional metaprogression, unlockable items, numerous challenges, events and more! (Maybe even a new area?) My goal is to provide enough content so that players who have already completed the game can return for a new experience.

New content not shown here, but an unlock notification screen is added.

While budget constraints prevent a professional translation of the game, I've invested time in creating a system to allow custom localization. I've implemented a system, and started transferring all in-game text to this system. Though this task has consumed three weeks of effort so far (which was kind of discouraging), I'm still committed to completing it. (More like, too far in not to complete...)

After finishing the localization system, I plan to offer machine translation as a starting point. Additionally, volunteers can edit a spreadsheet file within the game files to enhance translations. I'll include these improved translations in official patches.

If you'd like to volunteer to assist with translating the game into another language, please reach out to me (@crawlygames) on our Discord Server.

An early screenshot of testing the localization system in the Options menu. New fonts will be added to fix the special characters.

The v1.2 update will be a free, DLC-quality update. While there's no official release date as of now, it's unlikely to be completed by year-end. I extend my best wishes for a happy new year in advance and am optimistic about releasing the update early in 2024.

While I was busy with the localization and custom runs, we fell a bit behind on fix patches. A small fix patch (v1.1.1_p2) has been deployed, and more will come soon as I work on balance changes and bug fixes.

Draft of Darkness is part of the Be a Hero event on Steam scheduled for December 9th and 10th. To celebrate, DoD will be discounted by 25%. Be sure to check out the event and take advantage of the special offer!

Update Notes for Patch v1.1.1_p2

* Fixed Glitch event teleporting the player to the boss room while locked door events are present, causing a soft lock.
* Fixed an issue where selling / buying items caused the scroll bar to move to the top.
* Fixed an issue where filtering / sorting cards when editing the starting deck caused the edited deck to reset.

"buy game pls! slime thank"

You heard the man thing! Slime 3K will be on sale until December 16th, so break your piggy banks open and...

Get the game while the offer stands:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2348610/Slime_3K_Rise_Against_Despot/

We're working on the first big update, so be prepared.

• Changed placement of items shown to you by some yard sale vendors.
  
• Can now view items not yet ready for sale at barns when the required level is reached.
  
• Fixed 1 achievement not recording.
  
• Fixed white tables so that cards can be picked up off of them.

It's coming up to Christmas, which means we need money to buy ourselves other people stuff!



So, buy SpiderHeck for 40% off - it's an excellent Christmas present, or, just fun to play!

Follow us on X (twitter...) here: https://twitter.com/SpiderHeck_Game

Join the Discord here: https://discord.gg/KpzuAm6rVJ

-Auto save bug fixed.
-Blackjack game stuck fixed.

- SAAF Impala strike aircraft will be intercepted by MIG 23 fighter jets
- 70% of the Impala aborting mission and 30% chance of it being destroyed
- Deployed SAAF Mirages will automatically intercept any MIG 23 in the air
- 100% chance of interception with a 50% chance of destroying the MIG 23
- There is a 15% chance the Mirage gets shot down
- Manual updated

Improvements have been made to the gameplay.
Exactly:
1. The key was moved to a more convenient place to search at the beginning of the game.
2. The area of interaction with the doors has been increased.
3. The chase segment has been slightly shortened and simplified.
4. The sound of rain should become quieter and less annoying.
5. Some minor edits that should bring more clarity to the game.

Hello Everyone!

Another busy year for No Man’s Sky is drawing to a close, and this holiday season we are pleased to revisit our tradition of running remixed editions of this year’s expeditions.

Across the following dates, 2023’s community expeditions will be available once more, taking place in new sections of the universe, offering explorers another opportunity to experience these stories and events and earn exclusive rewards.

In addition to the 2023 expeditions, we are also bringing back a limited run of the community favourite Cartographers, from 2021. The bundle of rewards includes some of the most popular items from across a number of past expeditions, including the coveted Golden Vector starship – an exciting opportunity for players who missed out on the chance to earn these rewards during the original expedition runs.

Work together with other Travellers to rebuild an abandoned solar system for the mysterious Utopia Foundation. Utopia welcomes all contributors to our ambitious new communal habitation project!

Begin to unveil the history and origin of the harmonic camps in this precursor to Echoes. A mystery that touches upon artificial intelligence, the will to exist, and the very nature of what it means to be alive.

Awaken stranded on the fiery planet of Coul Major, and deeply explore its surface as you work to repair your bespoke starship.

A relaxing journey of exploration, encouraging Travellers to seek out remarkable worlds, reach planetary summits and oceanbeds, and catalogue your findings.

Rewards for the 2023 expeditions include the Robo-Warden and HoverDroid Companions, the Fearsome Visor and Wayfarer’s Helm, the Crimson Freighter Trail, and much more.



Cartographers presents some of the most exciting and popular rewards from previous expeditions: the Jetpack Bubble Trail, Feasting Casque, Exotic Wingpack, Streamlined Jetpack, and the legendary Golden Vector starship.




Today’s expedition update includes a bonus feature that we have been wanting to implement for a long time: left-handed mode for motion controls in virtual reality. VR players may now toggle their preferred handedness between left and right.

The handedness setting in VR links your grip on the Multi-Tool, interactions with menus, selection and placement of base building objects to the dominant hand, while attaching the wrist menu to the secondary hand, allowing left-handed players a more comfortable and intuitive experience.

This year we celebrated 7 years of post-launch development and support for No Man’s Sky and 10 years almost to the day since we announced the game to the world at the Game Awards (VGX). It is overwhelming to look back at how much the game has grown since 2016 – and to look ahead to where it is going. We’re excited to share a little taste of what’s yet to come!






Another feature in today’s update that we wanted to highlight: the rendering clarity on Switch has enjoyed further improvements. When we added FSR 2 on Switch in ECHOES, we were so happy to see the positive response from players and press (“With the recent patches, No Man’s Sky is now one of the cleanest, most visually stable games on Nintendo’s hardware.” – Eurogamer), and we’re pleased to be able to expand on that.

In particular, with today’s update, Switch players will experience a reduction of ghosting artifacts – visual noise that can linger on screen when the image moves – and an overall improvement to image sharpness, via a highly bespoke implementation of AMD FidelityFX’s Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS), customised to perform optimally on Switch.


The Quicksilver Synthesis Companion has working continuously throughout the year, powered by Travellers completing missions available at The Nexus. Their current synthesis project is a trio of cargo-themed base parts: an industrial crane as well as covered crates and silos, whose contents may well be of Outlaw provenance…



Global community progress towards unlocking these exclusive decorations can be viewed in the Mission Log, at the Quicksilver Bot’s kiosk, or at the Galactic Atlas site.


Iteration: Mercury, custodian of the Space Anomaly’s teleporter, has established links to a new set of Featured Bases. Visit them to tour the cosy Polestar Potions & Apothecary and Wizards Rest, the tranquil Butterfly House and Ealpha Base, or the magnificent Last Egg from the First Dragon-UD22 – CCAS.


Polestar Potions & Apothecary by Nerozii-


The team are already hard at work creating new content and features for No Man’s Sky in 2024 – we are dreaming up some exciting new things that we can’t wait to share!

Update 4.46 is available across all platforms today, which includes the 2023 expedition remixes, left-handed VR mode, and a number of stability and gameplay fixes. Full patch notes are available here.

Our journey continues.

Sean