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Join Gary Burchell, Team Lead on SENTRY while they play the Next Fest demo!

Hi everyone,

We're due to take part in the upcoming Next Fest, but we thought we'd release the demo a few days early!

Current plans are to have it available till the end of Next Fest so make sure to jump into the action ASAP :)

This is just a snippet of the main game, so it's not got final balancing, polish etc. plus in the Early Access release you'll get extra stuff like the dynamic campaign, upgrades, loads more enemies/weapons/abilities/deployables and co-op. But you'll get all that when you check out our launch version - right now you get to shoot a bunch of aliens and vent them into space!

We'd love to hear your thoughts on the demo, whether those be bugs, feedback or whatever. Best place to contact us is either the Steam forums or Discord

Hi everyone, this monthly update is a bit later than usual because we’ve been exceptionally busy getting our Next Fest demo ready!

That also means this is a slightly different post compared to previous Dev Transmissions because we’ve spent the month exclusively polishing and bug-fixing all of the content that’s in the demo.

So rather than having things like new enemies, levels or weapons there were hundreds of little changes that have improved the core gameplay. That ranges from reworking the HUD to ensure everything is prominent and easy to read, through to removing small friction points in the controls – and everything in between.

We did this by running private test sessions with handfuls of people each weekend. We’d send out a build on Friday, which would be tested over the weekend. We’d watch the videos of these tests and prioritise what we were going to fix, working toward a new Friday build that would be sent to another wave of testers.

We’d like to extend our thanks to our community for dedicating their time to help us make the game better – and we can’t wait for you to all get your hands on it during Next Fest. Or maybe we’ll release it a bit sooner? Keep your eyes peeled, put it that way…

[h3]Realms Deep Trailer![/h3]
We participated in the recent Realms Deep event with our new Combat Gameplay Trailer. Check it out!

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Hi everyone,

Take a look at our new trailer showcasing combat gameplay:

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This debuted at the recent Realms Deep event and we made it to celebrate our upcoming Next Fest demo - we'll have some exciting news on that shortly!

Hi everyone, if you're interested in helping us playtest SENTRY we've just opened up a call for Next Fest demo testers.

Just head to our Discord and check out the Announcements page for more details.

We'll be running continuous playtests for both the demo and main game from now on, so there'll be lots of testing opportunities going forward. Of course the October Next Fest is just around the corner and with our Early Access release due late this year, one way or another you'll be able to join the SENTRY Defense Progam before you know it :)