Hey there, everyone! 😊 After a couple of days hard at work, I'd like to announce the next major update, available now!

Introducing... THE ARENA







In the Arena, you'll be able to test your battle skills against waves of enemies. If you survive all rounds, you keep all the coin from your fallen foes. If you die, you lose your earned coins. There are 3 arenas in the game right now - one in Bear Cavern, one in Cecily Town and one in Arun Village. Find them and have fun combatting! :-)







But that's not at all. This major update introduces a lot of new gear for defensive players who love to play with a shield, or perhaps archers who want more range options!

So here's everything new, and everything that's been fixed!

ADDITIONS:
- Added new spell, Homing Dark Orb
- Added 8 new shields
- Added new arrow types: Fire Arrow, Poison Arrow and Triple Arrows
- Added 2 new bows: Mystic Bow and Elven Bow

IMPROVEMENTS:
- Faith spells now scale with reputation
- Dark spells now scale with negative reputation
- Magic staves now scale with intelligence
- Bows now scale with dexterity
- Rebalanced player stats, end-game is more challenging now
- Improved Tooltips to explain better how damage is calculated

Here's all the added shields, if you'd like to take a look:

















And that's it for this week. Hope you enjoy this update, and have lots of fun in the arena :-)

As always, thanks for playing! Cheers

Here's a couple of screen shots of the SU-25 flying in-game.

This will be an A.I. only aircraft.

We've been working with Tarn and Putnam in the lead-up to this beta, and DFHack is prepared to keep pace with DF beta updates. If you're on the DF beta Steam branch, please also subscribe to the DFHack adventure-beta Steam branch to keep the two apps in sync.

Resolved error which cause the game to freeze unexpectedly.

How are you? Spring entered the room with blossoms, and so did us with OSOM news!

LET’S OPEN THE NOSTRILS! (eyes recommended too)




YES.

YES-YES-YES. After months of negotiations, we’re happy to announce that WE SIGNED A PUBLISHING DEAL WITH SELECTAPLAY!



For those who don’t know them (yet), SelectaPlay is the video games publishing branch of SelectaVisión, a Spanish video publishing company with a huuuge catalog of anime and live-action feature films, TV shows, and movies.

“Okay, cool!! …What does that mean?”

Thanks to this agreement, SelectaPlay will bring us all their support and necessary resources for:

• NetherWorld’s digital and physical publishing for Nintendo Switch and PC;
  
  
• Marketing and PR support before, during and after release;
  
  
• Kickstarter rewards management (production and shipment).

Not bad, huh? Oh, and one more thing:

WE HAVE AN ESTIMATED RELEASE DATE!

As you may know, NetherWorld’s development will finish this year. Our intention was to release it at the end of 2024, but both the team and SelectaPlay agreed that to ensure an ideal release campaign (+ great localization, decent QA, physical edition production, etc.) the best option for the game was to move the launch date to 2025.

What hurts us the most is the delay of the release date, and we’d like to apologize for that. After all this rollercoaster of emotions called Indie Dev Life, you’ve kept showing us your support and patience, and we’re working to make this game worth the wait. Thank you <3.


Visiting SelectaPlay’s headquarters a couple days ago!

Can’t wait to show you some of the stuff we’ve started planning with them, heheheheheheMUAHAHAHA...

Meanwhile, you can follow SelectaPlay on any of their official community channels!

• Twitter Spain
  
• Twitter International
  
• IG
  
• YT

Maybe you noticed a little detail in the announcement video... Nope, there are no hidden Illuminati signs (this time), but we couldn’t make such a great announcement without suiting up! Here’s our brand new logo as Hungry Pixel!






OK we lied, that logo is not the only new face in town:

David Lleida has joined the team as Unity Developer to help us with the last steps of the game. He’s now focused on the remaining cinematics and ensuring everything works fine. Welcome!! <3




As you may remember from our last update, we started the process to fulfill the long-awaited Kickstarter "Dark Soul" backer tier reward: Making their own NetherWorld NPC.

Well, we finished Phase 2 and… Here are the HD dialogue portraits!!


Wanna see the pixel art animations too? We're considering showing them in next updates or waiting until you see them ingame.




Having support on cinematics has given us the chance to keep improving details of the biggest urban areas like Gazhova and Pinksburg, such as:

• Elevator system:
  
  Why wasting money in regular elevators having an amazing manhole covers system in Gazhova’s Sewers?
  
  
  Also, we added a manhole cover “caller” in case you get trapped in the stinky underground, as well as the possibility of calling it from the upper level.
  
  
  
• First Church Throne Room:
  
  Who sat there?
  
  
  
• Tick Joe urban entrances:
  
  We’ve placed most of the tick mounds in the cities, both with distinctive elements. We used little pipes instead of dirt mounds in Gazhova because, you know… it’s kinda hard digging in a 100% metal city.
  
  Tick mound models from Gazhova (left) and Pinksburg (right).

Last update we talked about bars and Tick Joe stuff, but what about new hanky-panky stuff?

As always, our amazing artist Alex has been doing some research to find inspiration for all the specific kinks and positions listed in the game design documents. Sorry, mate.

The irony of searching NSFW content to work.


But do you know what is incredibly sexy too?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/672420


If you have any questions or insults, please comment below or send us a mail to http://mailto:info@netherworldgame.com.


Thanks so much for your support and see you in the next devblog! :)

Hungry Pixel team

Heroes of Arkesia,

A Turtle Skin Twitch Drop accompanies the Darkness Unleashed Update, available for members of the Lost Ark Creator Program to enable on their channel. There are three Drops, and unlike tiered Drops, watch time for each Drop is earned simultaneously.

• Drop 1 - 2hrs - Amethyst Shard x1000
  
• Drop 2 - 5hrs - Stronghold Structure: Angel Wing Photo Zone
  
• Drop 3 - 8hrs - Turtle Skin Selection Chest

Make sure to head over to Twitch and watch your favorite Lost Ark content creators to earn the Drops before they end on May 15. Looking for creators to watch as you earn your Twitch Drops, especially with the new Thaemine Legion Raid releasing? The content creators featured are members of the Lost Ark Creator Program— learn more about them below!


Twitch Channel

My name is Nikki and I have been playing Lost Ark since the Beta release! I am known for being a proud enhanced weapon Deadeye main since the launch. Gunners are my favorite class. My roster consists of every single one! I look forward to any future male or female gunner releases! One of my favorite things about Lost Ark is the character creation. I enjoy making new characters and giving them a story for even more immersion. As someone who grew up playing RPG's and reading books, I also enjoy storyline quests and will always do a cozy story time stream when new content releases. Lately, I like to help new players experience endgame raids for the first time and am always willing to raid with players whether new or experienced. If you are looking for a comfy place to sit while you do your dailies or a safe place to ask questions about the game feel free to come by!

Twitch Channel

Hi everyone! My name is Aikaiita and I have been streaming Lost Ark since the Western launch. I love playing with my community and strive to create a welcoming environment for everyone. Each week I organize reclear parties with my chat and occasionally set up learning parties or groups for hell content. I am currently a Soul Eater main! However I love playing Gunslinger, Wardancer, Sorceress, and Artist as well. Let's hang out together! Feel free to ask me anything and I hope you all have fun in Arkesia.

Twitch Channel

Hi guys - I’m Revyll! I’m a lifelong gamer, athlete, and developer. I achieved my B.S. in Computer Science and work full time as a software engineer. I started playing Lost Ark 7 months ago when the Jump Start servers released and have been hooked ever since. My passion for the game and storytelling motivated me to share my experiences through YouTube videos & more recently streaming. When I’m not gaming or coding, I’m out golfing or hanging with my incredible wife and German Shepherd. I’m so excited for the future of this game and community and would love to share this ride with you on Twitch as we prepare for Thaemine and beyond!

Heyo!

It has been a while since the last dev blog, so you may be wondering “what might these folks be doing?”. Well, we are working hard on a lot of different stuff, as usual! 😀

On the one hand, we are preparing a nice thing that we’ll be announcing probably next week. We are really excited about it and can’t wait to share it with you all!

Also, we are working on bringing CLeM to Sony and Microsoft consoles. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are ready, so our efforts are currently on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series, and almost done! We will be releasing CLeM on all 4 platforms simultaneously very soon so if you don’t want to miss them, stay tuned.

Last but definitely not least, we have been preparing something cool to celebrate that CLeM will soon be available on all platforms: a Psychotized version for our beloved SEGA Mega Drive (a.k.a. Genesis), the SEGO Hiper Drive!



Mariona has been crafting this edition's elements with loads of details so she could fill it (literally) with a really unique look. Most of us in the studio are huge fans of transparent hardware (please, be in fashion again soon!), so we couldn’t miss the opportunity to make a super special cartridge for this edition (the PCB is made of cardboard, in case you are wondering xD)



Mariona also designed a slipcover, as in modern collector’s editions. It almost seems like a real version of the notebook from the game! It gives the edition a perfect final touch, don’t you think?



Obviously, this edition is one of a kind and it’s not for sale (sorry!), but do you know what is on sale and currently with a 20% discount during this week?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1861440/CLeM/

And if you want to stay in touch with us and our awesome community, learn about our upcoming games and any other related news about CLeM and the rest of the Psychotic Adventures (like next week's surprise!), make sure to follow us on Twitter/X and join the Psychotic Army on our Discord server.

Mariona, Jordi and Javi

using these daily updates to do some rapid difficulty calibrations, apologies for the flux

• The player will now always try to enter levels near wall clusters, instead of it being totally random -- this should somewhat alleviate "firing squad" scenarios
  
• Re-adjusted some enemy frequency (Death Knights had been recently, mistakenly set to spawn up to 6 in a level, haha)
  
• Virya now also transforms your starting weapon(s) into Mighty Blade, regardless of damage type -- can get fun things like a Mighty Blade shield with this
  
• Zasadzka Claw now counts as a bare fist
  
• Bolga now causes you to lose 1% all resistances per stack of charge on self
  
• Hazar description clarified, only heals from enemies on acid terrain
  
• In the end screen, you if you mouse over the stats (like damage dealt) it will show some more number-info in place of the poem -- will add more to this

We have always enjoyed being in these type of events but this year was very special: we had a solo booth for Toy Tactics where we received a lot of people of all ages, influencers and press, who enjoyed the game, gave us their feedback and as a thank you for stopping by, we gave away exclusive merch for them to take home a little bit of Toy Tactics.







Really, you don't know how grateful we are for your kind comments, to all the people who came back to play 3 or 4 times because they fell in love with Toy Tactics and for all the support during and after the event. All this love inspires us and we are more than excited to announce that Toy Tactics will be fully released on all consoles in Q3 of this year.








Toy Tactics was launched in Early Access in March 2023, and since then, it has received significant content updates, resulting in over 25 hours of gameplay where you can enjoy:

• 5 armies with their own abilities: Imperium (Roman Army), Pendragon (Medieval Army), Kyoukai (Samurai Army), Freebooters (Pirates Army), and Draugr (Skeleton Army: Before your enemies, now you can control them).
  
• 6 unique main units (infantry, archer, cavalry, heroe, king and queen) and unique secondary units (animals, siege units, and special units). More than 40 units available with different strengths and weaknesses.
  
• 5 different spell trees: one per faction, with 16 spells related to the main abilities of the armies. 80 different spells to cast anywhere 💀
  
• 5 relic collections: one collection per faction, 3 relics to choose for each unit to change passive abilities, 18 relics per army and 90 different relics.
  
• 5 settings: including terrains, vegetation, trees and faction related contraptions.
  
• 6 final bosses.
  
• 5 playing modes:
  
  • Campaign: 5 campaigns with more than 60 levels filled with primary and secondary objectives.
    
  • Skirmish: 5 long levels to conquer and defend while producing new units.
    
  • Puzzles: 6 campaigns with over 60 puzzles to solve, based on strategic concepts.
    
  • Mercenaries: 6 mercenary campaigns to beat while buying any unit within an initial budget. More than 60 challenges available.
    
  • Creative: 10 different levels in which to create your own battles.

Toy Tactics will arrive on all consoles this year, featuring a mode highly anticipated by many: online multiplayer.

In the "multiplayer mode," you'll be able to engage in both competitive and cooperative experiences.

On one hand, there's "1vs1," which will be the "competitive mode" where you'll face off against another player, where strategic skill and quick decision-making will be paramount.

Looking for an intense battle? In 1vs1 battles, you can carefully build your army, select powerful relics and spells, and meticulously plan your tactics to emerge victorious.

On the other hand, in the "cooperative mode," you can have your ally, join forces, and combat the formidable opponent controlled by the AI. Together, you'll need to devise strategies, coordinate your actions, and efficiently produce units to survive the relentless siege.

All roads lead to Rome... and victory! ⚔️

Whether competing head-to-head or joining forces to defeat your enemy, with Toy Tactics' multiplayer modes, you'll experience exhilarating, prolonged skirmish battles full of excitement and challenge.

Stay tuned for more news and remember that Toy Tactics is currently in Early Access, so you can buy it right now and share your duels with us on Discord.