Howdy! First of all, we wanted to offer a HUGE thanks to all of you for making the Kiera Plush Fiesta a massive success! With your help we were able to blast through our initial target and nearly double our Patreon backers in Diamond. We wanted to make a post to update everyone on the schedule this fall, and everything in progress, so check the infographic below!
Alongside...
2025-10-17 20:41:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy! As part of a new thing we'll be adding to Patreon is our internal work on a comic that explains everything leading up to the game. This comic was originally printed on the back of the Cereal Box we deployed- But we will be deploying new chapters (And a prologue explaining how they get here from the disc era). We have multiple comics in progress that will drop soon. Excited to share what we're cooking on. <3
Hi everyone! Following a ton of requests and navigating these crazy tariffs, we have finally confirmed a new batch of Kiera plushies and will be running a limited time upgrade event for backers. Upgrade to Diamond Tier now and you will receive a Kiera plush and access to the first internal playtest in early October for our roguelike mode. The previous batch of plushes sold out in 3 hours when we sold them at a con last December.
YO! Howdy again and we are back following the EVO showing in early August, which went well. To top things off, wanted to show off the brand new banging track, Desert Standoff by StriderTempxa and a preview of the latest miniboss, Drill Commander in the new dusk stage we created for minibosses. You can see some of Drill Commander's abilities during the video- And his whole gimmick will be: Don't try and block this guy as he'll chip you down to nothing.
So what h...
2025-08-22 06:40:21 +0000 UTC View PostROAAAAR! EVO is upon us friends! And we have been head down for a while now as we've been focusing on a few goals. At the moment we have the team split into two groups- One for the single player and the other on versus. This is what has had us busy:
A) Getting Kiera ready as playable character #2 for EVO and Patreon testing.
B) Getting the single player Act 1 complete for internal testi...
2025-07-18 06:04:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy folks!
Let's start things off with a preview of what our events in our game will look like with Oz (Above) and a premiere of his new track, Void Vision by StriderTempxa. We are currently animating all our mystery events and story encounters in a Live2D fashion to give them some SAUCE. Originally they were all just 2d images but I felt they were too static so we decided to do an animated pass on ALL Of them. Oz ...
2025-05-15 21:02:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! Time for the latest devlog- We've been working on a lot of new stuff. Between refreshed talks with publishers, we are continuing to move towards building out a full Zone 1 enemy list. Fridges are the latest and they are now up and running in game.
Here's one of the latest moves, fridge barrage. Alongside using missiles and combos to keep you on your toes, there will be other variants tha...
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Hi everyone! All the reward items have come in and it's time to start packing and shipping. Please fill out this survey in a timely manner and packages will be sent out in batches through April. Cheers! Please send any questions in the Discord or via DM here ...
2025-04-01 18:28:15 +0000 UTC View PostYo! So we just wrapped up a pretty aggressive push that ended on March 15th, correlating with GDC (The Game Developers Conference). For context-This is where a lot of business happens in the game industry every year. People go to pitch their games, find publishers and investment and so on an so forth.
So we hauled ass (We're talking a few months work compressed into a few weeks)- And our first p...
Let's get dumb with it. SB here, edited an incredible video to show off why we've been a bit more quiet- We have a massive deadline looming we've all been working on to hit. And that is to get the first prototype of the roguelike up and running with the ideas we pitched internally and to the community. As of now it's up and running, all systems are built and the single player proto will be complete and sent off on March 15th. It's been crazy but it's now playabl...
2025-03-07 23:29:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks! Just wanted to fill you in on what's coming on the Diamond Backer front- This is also a chance for people to upgrade their tier before the cutoff on February 19 to receive this. With the addition of new backers and your support, we've been able to upgrade our offerings, which is dope! This is probably our coolest backer package yet.
Our first item is a 1:1 in uni...
2025-02-12 22:13:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! We were having a bit of a hard time deciding on this so we wanted to put it up for a poll. One of the encounters we're working on features a rather caffeinated ambassador from the feline empire (Aka Queen Kyu's merchant realm).
As a roaming Kyumart bot, she'll offer you a choice of two items to choose from that will provide refreshment/heals. A freshly blended capuccino (Blended from th...
2025-01-30 15:03:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy new year everyone! We're back with a new update after a short break from socials for the holidays. Let's cut to the chase:
A familiar face makes a return in the form of Queen Kyu! Completely visually updated and with an incredible new face rig (We're collaborating with the amazing A Large Wooden Badger), she'll have a completely new life ...
2025-01-08 12:23:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy! So we just got back from MFF, and happy to report it was an amazing success. To take a step back, we got some intel from fellow indies AIM (Animal Insurgent Mercenaries), an advance wars style title that these cons might be worth attending. We put together a plan months ago to pitch the idea to the MFF staff to have indies, and we had zero clue if they'd go for it. The main issue a lot of indies are having atm is that costs to exhibit at PAX continue to rise, which is making them nearl...
2024-12-13 07:15:37 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy! SB here with fresh intel on the single player. Today I want to introduce you to the mysterious Void Emissary- The first character you will meet as you journey into the Paradox void. The Emissary is a timeskip version of another character, who is there assist you on each run you make. As the single player will be a roguelike, she'll offer you boons (And potentially cursed stronger ones) on every loop you make.
I worked with our new composer, 2024-11-14 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends, learned that some of our Diamond backers might not be on Discord atm, so reposting the poll here for the October promotion being sent out this month. We are still missing a few survey respondents so please take the time to fill this out so we can get your package out in a timely manner!
As a reminder, this is only for new Diamond members who joined up for the October promotion! A separate one will be sent out for the new package.
Poll Link: 2024-11-08 20:33:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Rigman here, I had the job of figuring out how to make an animated icon for our map screen, here's a little behind the scenes.
Given the scale of what the icon would be on screen at 1440p, I figured that an 800x500px resolution would be a solid enough of a jumping off point. A 5x6 sprite sheet layout would come out to 4000x3000 pixels and give me 30 frames to play with. It’s a bit big, but I think it'll work—or at least, I hope so. That's a problem for future me to solve. 2024-11-04 21:33:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, and happy Halloween patrons! First of all we'd like to thank all the new Diamond Members for joining and supporting us, as well as all the other Patrons supporting us. Wanted to remind you all that today is the final day to do a Diamond Upgrade to take advantage of the mini care package. After this it's back to normal devlogs! So bear with us. :)
Surveys will be sent to new Diamond Backers, and legacy Diamond backers to update their addresses and info for t...
2024-10-31 20:12:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello to both our new members and existing ones! This month only we're running a special for people that upgrade to our Diamond Tier ($25) in honor of us starting work on Kiera as a playable character. For people that are on the fence, this will be a great opportunity to jump in and get a cool Kiera themed goodies package with plenty of perks!
So for anyone that joins in October, including peeps that joined Diamond tier earlier this month- You're all grandfathered in to this offer. A bi...
2024-10-09 19:18:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! Part 2 of this month's update is focused on mutiplayer-And we're covering a few things. First of all- Our VS screen multiplayer screen got completely updated UI wise and here's a preview of the new current VS screen theme created by StriderTempxa- Who just joined our crew as a composer. We're leaning on that Y2K vibe with an EDM/House vibe to all our tracks.
2024-09-26 01:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks, know it's been quiet but the team has been cranking on content for the single player prototype atm. This update will focus on single player while next week will have some updates on multiplayer production. August was a bit content sparse as it was programmer heavy, with them working on systems required for our rogue focused single player mode. Our focus is to have a playable build that you all will be able to start testing and giving feedback on this fall.
2024-09-06 17:50:56 +0000 UTC
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Howdy howdy! Sorry for the delay but July's chonky update is here for everyone. I ran into a minor delay as I was called in late last week to be sworn in as a citizen, which is dope! (I'm finally Americaaaaan after all these years! So let's start things off with the gif above, which is a first run on a new throw concept for Volley by Arthur Munoz.
We sent him this as a mockup, and he delivered...
2024-07-17 19:27:32 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy! It is time to finally ship out our mystery packages for all of you. Appreciate your patience as we had the delays with the plushes but everything is now in hand and will be shipping out by end of week! There will be surprises!
Survey Link:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Z5HGKSV
As a note to new Diamond/Paradox tier backers that have joined us, you w...
2024-06-18 20:28:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey crew! SB here It's been a good ass few weeks (very productive) and wanted to share an update on what's cooking. Internally we've been busy with a few things.
ROGUELIKE/LITE DESIGN UPDATE:
We just wrapped work on our Fighting Roguelite design document, which will lay out our game plan for the prototype we work on. We've been concepting up id...
2024-06-14 17:27:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy! Today we're returning with a series on characters in development- Today we're bringing you Exodus. If you missed the last character lab, check on our profile on O-.
Exodus (Codename atm) represents the Anti-Volley archetype, a member of the Crimson Brigade who works as a mercenary under Czar and his faction. As a fellow augmented type, her design is centered around agility and he...
2024-05-15 19:17:48 +0000 UTC View PostHey crew! Hello to both old and new faces. Just wanted to report that we had a major breakthrough in the last week or so regarding getting a successful rollback netcode test. We ran our first set of test runs between members from the west and east coast of our team without any major desyncing. While we still have some issues to iron out, this is a major development and breakthrough.
Unlike the previous Shot One project where we didn't address netcode from the start (Which ended up bein...
2024-04-26 07:32:17 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy! Back from PAX, sick as hell (And I sound like it) but I squeezed in a little video to showcase the entire prototype line for the Kiera plush (Which is in production as we speak).
So wanted to show off every prototype made so far, including the ones that ahem- Didn't quite make the cut. Watch the full video above!
2024-04-03 18:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostHello friends! SB here again with a chunky update for March. So we've been balls to the wall with work on the Shot One Fighters Proto- And we are basically at a state where it's ready for PAX East, GDC, and everything in between. The new UI reflects how I feel about it- Fight for the Future, Rebirth Awaits. If this is the direction we need to go, may it be our guiding light.
The video above demonstrates some concepts we'd like to illustrate from the second you boot up the game. A Y2K ae...
2024-03-15 03:05:53 +0000 UTC View PostHey again, SB here! Fullscreen this one please. So since December we've basically been all gears firing on the Shot One Fighters prototype. Atm we are in the polish phase with a 1 character, 2 stage prototype. In the last week or two we basically assembled a Badlands theme stage, complete with a fully functional Godbuster and minions nearby heckling you.
This little video shows Volley in action, alongside a chunk of her moveset- Including her Bunker Buster hyper...
2024-02-01 02:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again and happy January to everyone- Today we're returning with a discussion that's been going on regarding just...Vlad. This post contains some story SPOILERS so proceed at your own risk:
As we are working on the Shot One Fighters prototype, we decided that the events of that game will take place in a time period following the events of the core game. As...
2024-01-24 21:25:57 +0000 UTC View Post