Sir Whoopass™: Immortal Death News

Hey all, soon time for release! Aug 19th!

We are both anxious and exited, and try to be very careful with "last minute fixes", to avoid messing things up by introducing some embarrasing bug during stress,

We're super glad that we've reached this point! We're happy that we've managed to put this together and from what we have seen, people seem to find the game amusing :-)
Also, we seem to have reached the top 10 of the popular upcoming games list on Steam now - cool!

We're also gonna set up some game streaming here on Steam, hopefully tomorrow and as much as we can up until release. Just gotta learn how to set it up first, haha :-P

Ok, all the paragraphs above happened to start with "We". That was unintentional. But the game is for YOU. And also, this marketing poster. "You're gonna need a bigger boat".... ;-)



That's it for now! Stay tuned, check the game videos out, and our upcoming streaming! Au revoir!

Hey all,
we've received some negative comments lately about us using "stock assets" in the game, after watching the gameplay teaser trailer.

That's sad to hear, as we've put tons of effort (2+ years!) developing the game. It's not something that we've whipped (flipped?) together during a coffee break. :-)

But still, the stock asset part is true - we've used a lot of (awesome!) assets. That was the only way we would be able to create a game like this, being the small self-funded studio that we are.

And of course we do have the permissions to use these assets in the game from the creators - we haven't stolen anything :-)

We're no professional 2D/3D artists or animators, we're just a few sweaty developers - gluing together these (awesome!) assets into a unity(!), to produce the game that we wanted to create, with a story and a soul.

It's still not flawlessly good looking by any means; animations can be a bit off, the lips don't move as characters speak and such things.

But we don't have that multi-million-dollar budget to create everything that we would like to, it's not an AAA title :-P

Our goal is to get the game to be fun and smooth to play, despite these quirks. We hope that when you play, you can overlook the non-moving lips etc and enjoy the whole experience. If you do find a major bug though, please let us know and we'll do our best to fix it ASAP.

Some info on what we've been up to lately: find and bash bugs, general polish/wrapping up, optimizing and try to get the word out about the game. We noticed some issues with auto saving games where it could affect the game flow, we found some situation where you could get stuck and some tooltips showing up where they shouldn't. Those are hopefully fixed now :)

We've tried hard finding and eliminating major bugs, but we'll probably miss a few that might still be in there somewhere, lurking in the digital shadows..

Think of the old saying; "If you like our game, tell your friends. If you don't like it, tell us!".

Anyways, we hope to be able to afford hiring some great artists of our own in the future! That would be totally awesome. Plz help us get there. Plzplzplz. :-D

...That said, we have also received lots of positive feedback from the teaser trailer! That feels super great and we sure hope you'll have a fun time with the game when you get your hands on it.

And meanwhile, check out another (developer-designed!) marketing poster!




Please keep on having a great summer, and stay tuned for the release @ August 19 ! ːsteamhappyː
(ps
Actually it's totally OK to also tell us if you like the game, not just your friends ;)
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Hey all, things are happening fast now :-)

Release date is set to Aug 19, 2022 !
- Yess, finally. Set up a reminder :)

Steam page updated
- Yup, check it out, there is a new "Gameplay Teaser Trailer" and updated screenshots, updated description/texts about the game etc.
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Dev update video
Acually these movies are almost starting to get outdated, but here is a "old sneak peak" at Skeleton cave, a hostile place that Sir Whoopass, our hero, needs to fight his way through in order to retrieve a can of elbow grease for Goddess Cling. If he succeeds, he will get a jetpack as a reward :)

Posters!
We've made some marketing posters! Here is the first one. What do you think? :)
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead - or other posters - is purely coincidental..



Have a nice weekend, all ! ːsteamhappyː

Hey all,
yeah, long time since last update .. (have you heard that one before).

But lots of stuff has happened, We mentioned in a previous update that we had a first round of beta testing. We collected feedback, adjusted stuff, added more stuff, removed stuff, balanced stuff, and ran another round of beta testing - and the updated feedback hinted that we were probably moving in the right direction :)

We've been working on this game for a long time now, 2.5 years-something. That's crazy long :D ..We actually had something pretty nice, rather early on in the development - but we felt that .. yeah, it's OK.. But honestly, it wasn't that fun to play. Something was missing, and we couldn't release a game that not even we ourselves thought was fun - and expect others to appreciate it.

So, that's what we've been struggling with now, for a loooooong time. Make it fun to play! It's pretty hard to tell exactly what makes a game fun - it's some magic combination of bits and pieces matching up together that gives that nice feeling when playing it.

And now, we think that we've gotten it in place pretty good. Of course, every gamer out there probably won't think the same - but at least we ourselves think it's "actually" fun to play now! And that even after having played and tested it over and over and over and over again during development. We should be sick of it - but we're really not! That gives us a nice feeling :) (or, should we be worried...? :-P)

It's not perfect, it still has bugs, and will probably have bugs for all eternity - we're a tiny indie studio, remember? "Six sweaty developers" .. Or rather two, actually. The other four of us are just sweaty :-P.
And, we still have tons of features we think would be cool to add to it .. But we think that the known bugs are "manageable" and doesn't break the game play (ok yeah, that'll probably bite back later ^^). And we have lots of features now, making it a fun experience that can be enjoyed for quite some time.

So, we are confident enough to actually declare that the game will be released in late August! (yes, this August, 2022) Nice, huh?

Until then, we're going to continue polishing it, do some stuff that needs to be done in order to release a game, try to figure out something around marketing etc. Stuff like that. And - we're going to enjoy the summer.

We hope you will too! Thanks for sticking around :)

Some more gameplay videos will be posted soon also. Checkout these screenshots until then, where our hero enjoys some views and engages in various combat.

















Glad Midsommar / Happy Solstice, all !

Stonedale is a (so far) safe haven, shielding from foul creatures by its thick stone walls. Here can Jens the Blackschmidt be found, to aid our hero with better equipment on his adventures. This is also where The Jolly Barrel Inn is located, where Melisande hangs out, serving the locals who have come to quench their thirst and to enjoy some tunes from the very capable bard.

Melisande hangs out there after having been resurrected by our hero (Sir Whoopass), following a little.. mishap, accidentally caused by the very same hero. And, since the resurrection ritual didn’t go perfectly well, our hero needs to take Melisande's place in fighting The Immortal and his evil empire - while Melisande takes care of the Inn and does some strategic planning.

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Have a nice weekend, all! ːsteamhappyː