Update v0.11 (Vengeful Spectre) is here

We have an extra spooooky update out for Halloween yay!

We always envisioned the ghosts flying all over the place and haunting things but never had a chance to implement it til now, and I’m so glad we did! Zip around the place rattling chains, making paintings bleed, or inhabiting furniture to fling it across the room! We have two fishy new monsters, a crapload of bug fixes, and finally MIMICS! Watch out for those chests, becuase some of them can be sneakily inhabited by spirits, and those things pack a mean chomp!!

Hope you have fun with it all 🙂

-Barney

Teok

This guy is even more normal… a little TOO normal if you ask me.

Teok is hungry.

-Barney

Um… Glub?

Another normal guy… very very normal…

Hail Glub.

-Barney

Had some requests for the Qaahl image

Here he is, in all his completely-normal-dude glory!

Nothing weird going on here, just a regular dude chilling out on his monolithic stone throne…

-Barney

Things remain extremely ratty around here!

We need to do steam trading cards for the release, so I’m doing higher detail images of gods on their thrones for the artwork!

For me the priority really is more bosses, but there are 1000 other things like trading cards and achievements that we need for launch, so I’m trying to get them all done ASAP, to try and buy enough time to have a go at more bosses- fingers crossed!!!

-Barney

Unleash the Vermin!

We have a new update out, chock to the gills with new rodents!

We’ve revamped the store teleporters, to give new heroes a better chance to go to the store for upgrades, and we have a bunch of new weapon-magics along with better art for showing the magic on your weapons. Hope you enjoy it and it tides you over while we plod away on the longer-term stuff 🙂

-Barney

I’ve finally started some CRAWL Dev streams!

I’ve got a new computer that can handle my streaming needs, so I’ve been streaming work animating new monsters for Crawl.

>>Check out our channel HERE<<

You should be able to watch my last two streams up there, where I animate the all new giant mega blobfish, and drink a bunch of tea 🙂 Hopefully I can keep it up and do this as a regular thing every week!

**UPDATE** sorry guys, the streams are lost to the ether! I was planning on backing them up to Youtube, but I got busy and they got deleted by Twitch- turns out they only stay up for 2 weeks if you don’t make them into highlights. Anyway, it was a fun time, and a good learning experience- hopefully I can get streaming more regularly from here on in!

-Barney

Finally got this one out woooooo! v0.9

Well, the hero intros that I thought would take a few weeks ended up taking months, but we’ve finally got them in there, along with a whole bunch of new monsters 🙂

You can see the monsters there, and check out some examples of our randomly-generated intros here:

Our buddy Old Shrimpeyes really came though with the goods for the voiceover, with about 250 new lines recorded so hopefully they don’t get boring too quick!

Have fun with it guys, and as always don’t hesitate to comment here or in the Steam forums and let us know if you’ve got ideas on tweaks and improvements, or if you find and sneaky bugs that slipped through Dave’s withered fingers!

-Barney

Monster time again woo!

Making new monsters is the best part of my job 🙂 I’m trying to put a bunch in this time, as it has been a long wait!

I won’t necessarily get all these guys in, this is just a concept doodle as I think out how the avolution chain might work.
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Statue Worship!

Here is the work-in-progress intro animation for the boss, where the Shaman gives him life 🙂 Obviously there’s a lot more work to do, but you should get the basic idea of what it’s going to look like.

-Barney