Greetings, friends! Welcome to the first of many blogs that will showcase three amazing Playgrounds from our incredibly talented Grounded community. Moving forward, you can expect these blogs on the first Wednesday of every month on here, Steam, and Discord! (Except today, it’s Friday).

Heard of Only Up? How about Only Down! Created by JADEPG, you have to traverse this platforming course all the way down to the bottom to win. It’s not as easy as it looks. Fortunately, Jade set up some checkpoint systems, so you don't lose all your progress. Do you have what it takes to get to the final platform?

Download Code: D4Y-Y7E-4QZ


Always dreamt of running your own lemonade stand? Then check out Lemonade Tycoon by M09264! Make Lemonade, grow your business, and attract new customers! Get started by mashing lemons, mixing ingredients, and making juice. Once you start selling a steady stream of lemonade, you’ll get access to the upgrade store where you can unlock new customers and other perks. Get enough rare coins and you can unlock even more abilities to help your business grow and become a Lemonade Tycoon!

Download Code: TGG-NZQ-2XQ


Mordor
Experience Middle Earth in the Backyard! Created by Loodarav87, get whisked away to another world and explore the land of Mordor. Pass through the Black Gates where the armies of men prepare to take on the evil forces of Sauron, visit Minas Morgul where the Witch-King resides, experience the scorching heat within Mount Doom, and behold the magnificence of the Eye of Sauron! Explore all that Mordor has to offer.

Download Code: AKP-BKH-6XG


That's all for this blog, I hope these Playgrounds inspire you to make your own creation, and who knows, maybe your Playground will be featured in these monthly blogs! We can’t wait to see what you all create and see the conversations unfold in our official Discord server!

Thanks for reading, and remember, stay safe, and stay Grounded.

Hello AdrenalineRs!
This week, we focused on numerous small improvements that, together, should enhance the gameplay experience. This includes both visual elements and gameplay mechanics. We have almost completed the Gorilloid model. Elements of the location, lighting, and fog have been refined. Additionally, work on improving the interface has been carried out.

Step by step, we continue to move towards our common goal. The goal is to create a game that evokes many emotions, fun, and adrenaline!

Play demo and give us feed back, please :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2419720/Adrenaline_Rampage/?curator_clanid=44851119

Gameplay
1. Changed enemy spawning; now they appear close to the player only in extreme cases
2. The duration of the slowdown effect (victory and defeat) has been doubled
3. Removed melee attack from enemies: Grenadier
4. Refined the starting level: unnecessary elements have been removed
5. Increased the activation zone of terminals at the base
6. New boss in development - Gorilloid. What mechanics develop for him?



Interface

1. Began extensive work on changing the entire interface
2. Shortened the phrase that appears when activating the portal
3. Added subtitles to the video in both Russian and English
4. The hint "Hold button to skip" has been made more noticeable and translated into Russian
5. Coins replaced with energy cells

Visuals

1. Completed the development of the new interface art
2. Replaced the background on the loading screen
3. The fog effect now displays further
4. General visual quality improvements

Localization

1. Changed the Russian voiceover of the character
2. Various text corrections

Balance

1. The speed of some saws on the game level has been reduced by 30%

Bugs

1. Fixed invulnerability issue when taking damage from saws after a dash. Now you can dash through saws
2. Fixed passage display on the minimap
3. Fixed stretching of the skill selection window
4. Fixed loading of the dash effect

Miscellaneous

1. Disabled data collection for analytics. Removed the data collection request window

v0.1.0.1

• Minor UI fixes
  
• Made "Keycards" meshes larger

Each map will contain a special flying trasure goblin that you can hunt down for additional treasure! But beware some might fight back!



For this race we decided to update our Striving for Light Demo to make it possible for all players to fully participate in this event with the Demo Version without any restrictions. This is a unique possibility to invite all your friends & content creators to join the event and experience Striving for Light.

Another twist is the dynamic price pool. The price pool will depend on the amount of participating players and increase by 1€ / each participating player that reaches at least 50 challenge points in the leaderboards and has registered for joining the event on the Igniting Spark Games Discord.

• 1. Place: 50% of price pool + Design Weapon/Skill/Trinket together with the devs which will be implemented into the game.
  
• 2. Place: 30% of price pool
  
• 3. Place: 20% of price pool
  
• 4.- 6. Place: Striving for Light: Survival Steam Key

Price pool will be rounded up to available steam gift cards, price pool can't exceed 1000€

• Join the Igniting Spark Games discord & introduce yourself in #treasure-race
  
• Please stick to fairplay, no cheating, no offensive player names, violation will result in disqualification of this and future events

• Complete seasonal challenges to earn challenge points, the player with the most challenge points wins!

• Each map contains a special flying treasure goblin that can be hunt down for additional treasure. But beware some might fight back!
  
• You can fully play the whole treasure race event with the Striving for Light Demo.
  
• Dynamic Price Pool: So invite all your friends and your favourite content creators to increase the price pool!
  
• Refined challenges.
  
• Race is hardcore only

Update 0.9.4.2 also features:

• New minimap icons for treasure goblins to better seperate them from map bosses

Feel invited to Join the Igniting Spark Games discord !

Demo 2.1 of Back To The Dark is now available!

The main changes are an update to the lighting, item highlight outlines, character shadows, and some more performance tweaks.

• Updated lighting.
  
• Added shadows to characters.
  
• Highlighting of interactable items.
  
• Added Attack Speed statistic.
  
• Added new treasures.
  
• Performance improvements.
  
• Updated logo.

Check out the updated visuals in the latest trailer:


There's also a comparison screenshot of Demos 1 vs 2 vs 2.1 from a previous DevLog:



Hope you like it all! Please feel free to leave comments etc etc...

Jane’s been asked to shoot a TV program called “Cooking Strike” to show off her incredible cooking skills, and she needs to complete five levels in a row to make sure she’s ready!

While you complete the levels to get ready for the show, the TV crew will bring some more professional equipment.

If you fail a level, your progress will be reset and you’ll have to start from the beginning!
You can try as many times as you want. The TV show’s paying for the food, so you won’t be using yours up.

When you finish the fifth level you’ll receive a big reward that includes booster parts, Coins, Rubies, and blog points!



If you don’t complete all the levels before the event ends, don’t worry. You aren’t losing anything, and there’ll always be another TV program!

Whether you're stuck on a puzzle or getting stopped by Aya, our community will be ready to help!
Or if you have your own playthrough and would like to share, our Discord is open!
Or you just want to keep up to date with us and talk with other players, you're all welcome!
Also, we're still improving chapter 3 after the recent early access, look forward to it.
There are a lot of grounds to cover and we're doing our best.

Whether you're having a hard time defeating Lucifer or trying your best to challenge Faust, our community will be ready to help!
Or if you have your own playthrough and would like to share, our Discord is open!
Or you just want to keep up to date with us and talk with other players, you're all welcome!
Also, there will be a little update planned for Lastone along with the launch of this game on one particular site. So, stay tuned!

🤗Hi, everyone! 🫶

We've got some exciting news to share! To celebrate the 🌞Summer Game Fest, we've released a new trailer and screenshots! 📺 You can check them out on the game's store page.

💭 We'd love to hear what you think! Have you spotted anything you like? Join the developer in the discussion forum and tell us what your favourite item, character or snack in the new footage is!

💡 Got any requests or ideas? We'd love to hear them! What's a furniture theme you would like to see in the game? What's a beverage or snack you would want to make?

📱 Don’t forget to follow the developer on her social media profiles!

• https://twitter.com/anaisenserio
  
• https://www.youtube.com/@anaissalla
  
• https://www.tiktok.com/@anaissalla

- Fixed issue with panties being able to toggle on/off when other clothes are active
- Improved some UI in character selection