Schwarzerblitz News

FIX: Character dioramas for characters with a larger mesh scale weren't visualized properly, causing clipping with the floor.

On the 15th December, the Schwarzerblitz "Tales from the Epilogue" DLC will be live on all the PC stores Schwarzerblitz is available on!
This DLC contains:

• seven short stories, edited and proofread by Kaleb O'Halloran (co-developer of Duels of Fortune), each illustrated by talented artist Eliz with a full color picture
  
• eight new costumes out of the stories
  
• one new stage with ring out
  

The DLC will be priced around 10USD/10€ (scaled as regional prices on Steam), with all proceedings going towards the development of further games. If you liked the game and wanted to support it, be sure to signal boost this/wishlist the DLC on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198360/Schwarzerblitz__Tales_from_the_Epilogue_Bundle/

Here's the content in detail:


A digital book with seven short stories set in the world of Schwarzerblitz, each one provided with a color illustrations by gifted artist Eliz Bee.

• Tales from the Past — Outback Blues
  
• Tales from Jackson's — Lone Wolf Cub
  
• Tales from Jackson's — Of Mutants and Men
  
• Tales from the Night — A Fleeting Existence
  
• Tales from Jackson's — No Good Deed
  
• Tales from the Ring — The People's Champ
  
• Tales from Crossbones — The Problem with Encorp
  

In addition to the digital book, this DLC adds eight new costumes to the game, all based on the short stories. Notice that costumes are simply cosmetic items and don't change the movesets of the affected characters, even when they change the character's name and sound effects.

• Bartender — costume for Mystery Johnson
  
• Penguin Pajama — costume for Cyphr Wolfchild
  
• Mr. Claws — costume for Evilobster
  
• The Obituary — costume for Evilobster
  
• Chai Constantine — costume for Jenn Husler
  
• Jerediah "Red" Horowitz — costume for Skeleton Skallen
  
• Mao Zereczni — costume for Wally Alba
  
• Gruda Sandweller — costume for Lazor Loyra
  

To relive the magic of Evilobster's arcade ending and his epic showdown against The Obituary, a new stage with ring out "The People's Champ - AWA Arena" is now selectable to duke it out like a real wrestler.

The in-game gallery was searching for pictures that didn't exist in the game's folder (mostly, remnants of the original GameJolt version), causing crashes if some specific pictures were selected. The bug is now fixed.

You are reading this right! The impossible happened! Schwarzerblitz was featured at EVO 2022 in the Indie Showcase stream, so YES, let me repeat it, SCHWARZERBLITZ WAS SHOWN AT EVO 2022, both on the main stage and live on Twitch!

Here's the timestamp to the moment where the Steam trailer was played: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1553151990?t=03h41m15s

Thank you all for your continued support, without you all playing this game, this wouldn't have been possible! Now, let's go and ride the lightning again, once more! After 5 years of work, this is one of the best results I could ever have hoped to achieve! Next step, having a tournament at EVO, maybe? ;)

Due to a small coding error, cheat codes stopped working, so I have issued an updated version with the following changes:

[h2]Bug fixes[/h2]

• Title screen cheat codes are working again. I apologize for the inconvenience.
  

[h2]New features[/h2]

• Added a toggle to switch off all stage elements (except water)
  
• Added prompt for launching native x64 build of Schwarzerblitz instead of the usual x86 build (might help with some mismatched Visual Studio Redistributable installations)