Blackrose Arts is being awarded Epic MegaGrant & Coming patch
Hey guys,
We hope you are staying healthy and safe through these challenging times.
With great excitement, today we want to share that Blackrose Arts is being awarded a MegaGrant!
Our team reached out to Epic back in the summer. This is a huge honor for us to have been selected.
We're incredibly grateful to Epic Games for supporting independent developers at the stage when it is really necessary.
The grant doesn't limit us in any way, we remain ownership and the ability to publish on any platform. Soon we will place a nice badge in the rewards section of our Steam page.
We also thank you guys for your support from the beginning of our journey, we achieved it together.
In the previous update we wrote about the negotiation with investors. They are ongoing, we are considering current proposals and are waiting for several others. This is still necessary for the scale of our plans, but we emphasize that we consider only those options that remain our independence.
Meanwhile, thanks to the grant, we connect more devs to active work and the game state where players can have fun from the full expereince of fighting will be achieved faster.
Grant funds will arrive in May. You will see more frequent patches adding playable content.
Also now we are preparing an evolved official website. It will have detailed info about the game and a short term roadmap. We will publish it in the update.
The patch will be uploaded the next week!
- Improved fighting dynamics.
- Offline mode. Kills score in the end. Timer doesn't break after reload. Fixed respawn loop.
- Bots added.
It's their the first coming, don't surprise if some of these guys lose interest to you during the battle.
They can do combo attacks.
- Mjolnir added.
We got many requests to try the hammer asap even if it is not fully finished - you can smash, but you'll see what what we wrote earlier about the need for animations.
A new bonus is based on your suggestions shared with us through the form in the previous update. Special thanks to @novax for such cordial suggestions and wishes.
There were a lot of interesting ideas. We would like to mention that you will continue to receive new bonuses during the next stages too, as surprises.
The most we liked the concept of making testers feel valued by other players on the battlefield - a new bonus item will have organic glowing elements making you look different. This item is a special one-handed axe. We don't share its name now, but in the next updates we will show how this powerful weapon looks and you will be able to read about its lore on our new website.
Indiegogo backers and Steam tester both will receive this axe. We remind that all rewards will be available in your Armory from the Early Access launch.
In the future updates and on our website you will see new special bonuses announcement and completion
We are sincerely grateful for all the words of support you added to the form.
Best wishes,
Blackrose Arts
We hope you are staying healthy and safe through these challenging times.
With great excitement, today we want to share that Blackrose Arts is being awarded a MegaGrant!
Our team reached out to Epic back in the summer. This is a huge honor for us to have been selected.
We're incredibly grateful to Epic Games for supporting independent developers at the stage when it is really necessary.
The grant doesn't limit us in any way, we remain ownership and the ability to publish on any platform. Soon we will place a nice badge in the rewards section of our Steam page.
We also thank you guys for your support from the beginning of our journey, we achieved it together.
In the previous update we wrote about the negotiation with investors. They are ongoing, we are considering current proposals and are waiting for several others. This is still necessary for the scale of our plans, but we emphasize that we consider only those options that remain our independence.
Meanwhile, thanks to the grant, we connect more devs to active work and the game state where players can have fun from the full expereince of fighting will be achieved faster.
Grant funds will arrive in May. You will see more frequent patches adding playable content.
Also now we are preparing an evolved official website. It will have detailed info about the game and a short term roadmap. We will publish it in the update.
The patch will be uploaded the next week!
- Improved fighting dynamics.
- Offline mode. Kills score in the end. Timer doesn't break after reload. Fixed respawn loop.
- Bots added.
It's their the first coming, don't surprise if some of these guys lose interest to you during the battle.
They can do combo attacks.
- Mjolnir added.
We got many requests to try the hammer asap even if it is not fully finished - you can smash, but you'll see what what we wrote earlier about the need for animations.
A new bonus is based on your suggestions shared with us through the form in the previous update. Special thanks to @novax for such cordial suggestions and wishes.
There were a lot of interesting ideas. We would like to mention that you will continue to receive new bonuses during the next stages too, as surprises.
The most we liked the concept of making testers feel valued by other players on the battlefield - a new bonus item will have organic glowing elements making you look different. This item is a special one-handed axe. We don't share its name now, but in the next updates we will show how this powerful weapon looks and you will be able to read about its lore on our new website.
Indiegogo backers and Steam tester both will receive this axe. We remind that all rewards will be available in your Armory from the Early Access launch.
In the future updates and on our website you will see new special bonuses announcement and completion
We are sincerely grateful for all the words of support you added to the form.
Best wishes,
Blackrose Arts