Paper Planet News

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1504250/Paper_Planet/

[h2]ABOUT[/h2]
Paper Planet is a planet-defender, arcade roguelike with a doodley, Flash-inspired artstyle. Battle through waves of unique enemies and bosses. Combine items with strange and wacky effects for insanely overpowered runs. Play with 1-4 players, for some chaotic co-op fun!

📎 Over 160 items, with layered synergies
🪐 Multiple Planets types with unique mechanics
🎮 Support for local co-op with 1-4 players
📝 Standard, Creative, and Boss Rush modes
🌱 Seeded runs
🎉 LOADS of references!

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[h2]MORE TO COME![/h2]
After 5 and a half years of development, as I'm sure you can imagine, it's a difficult thing to find a cut-off point. The game is fully release-ready, but we've already had talks of what's to come next!

1. Localizations - We unfortunately had to remove our Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean localizations for now. They simply needed more work, and we'd rather they not debut in an unpolished state. These will be added back in the moment they're ready. We are also crowdsourcing various other translations. Learn more about that here.

2. Mod Support - We've always known that Paper Planet's simplistic art style would lend itself well to mods. It keeps that artistic barrier nice and low! Work has already begun on crafting proper mod support with the Steam Workshop. We'll announce this as soon as it's ready!

3. Dialogue System - Many who played the demo will remember pre-battle banter with the bosses. This system is currently deactivated. The plan is to further polish and expand on that, while implementing localization support.

As soon as we've tackled some of these additions, we'll head back to the doodling-board, and will attempt to develop a longer term roadmap. There are heaps of ideas already circling!
Want the most up to date information on development? Hop in the Discord!

[h2]COMING SOON[/h2]
Already looking for the next hot new roguelike? Keep an eye on the deep, unique, challenging sci-fi bullet hell looter shooter: Schism. Be sure to Wishlist NOW so you don't miss out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2084300/Schism/

We wanted to celebrate the upcoming Paper Planet release with an official Art Contest, complete with cash prizes (up to $500) and game keys to be won! Don't forget to add the game to your Wishlist if you haven't already :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1504250/Paper_Planet/

[h3]The Contest:[/h3]

1. Create a Paper Planet (reference material) themed piece of artwork (any style/medium is fine), based on ONE of the 5 in-game bosses pictured below (Phobos & Deimos come as a pair)
   
2. Submit your work to the Newgrounds Art Portal with the tag paperplanet by Sunday August 20th, 2023
   
3. (Optional) Tweet your artwork out with #paperplanet
   

[h3]Other rules:[/h3]

• You are allowed to submit one piece PER boss
  
• No NSFW art
  
• Submissions after the deadline will NOT be counted
  
• By submitting your art to this contest, you agree that we may use your art (with credit given!) for digital "Trading Cards" on Steam
  

[h3]PRIZES:[/h3]
Myself, Willops, and the rest of the dev team will pick our favourites.

There are no ranked placements. Instead there will be 1 top prize and 1 runner-up for EACH BOSS! So there will be 5 Top Prizes and 5 Runner-Ups awarded total.

• Runner-ups: 1 Steam game key
  
• Top prizes: $100 + 1 Steam game key + Your art featured on a digital Steam Trading Card
  

[h3]Useful info:[/h3]

• We will announce the winners through the Newgrounds Forums, as well as on Twitter as quickly after the contest as possible
  
• Copies of the game will be distributed to the winners as Steam keys upon release.
  
• Cash prizes will be paid through PayPal.
  

Thank you for all the support so far. Paper Planet has been in development for years, and we're thrilled by the prospect of people finally getting the chance to experience the complete game!

We hope you enjoy playing through a few runs of the Demo for inspiration!
And one more time, please be sure to add it to your Wishlists!

After years of updating and supporting the public demo of Paper Planet, alongside all of your feedback and support, we are finally ready for a final release! Paper Planet will release on AUGUST 21st, priced at $15 USD (with a launch discount). Be sure to WISHLIST the game so you don't miss out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1504250/Paper_Planet/

[h3]ABOUT[/h3]
Paper Planet is a planet-defender, arcade roguelike with a doodley, Flash-inspired artstyle. Battle through waves of unique enemies and bosses. Combine items with strange and wacky effects for insanely overpowered runs. Play with 1-4 players, for some chaotic co-op fun!

📎 Over 150 items, with layered synergies
🪐 Several Planets types with unique mechanics
🎮 Support for local co-op with 1-4 players
📝 Standard, Creative, and Boss Rush modes
🌱 Seeded runs
🎉 LOADS of references!

[h3]LOCALIZATION[/h3]
Want to contribute to a crowdsourced localization effort? You can do so here!

As a small team, localizations often need to be a late-development consideration. This wonderful, beautiful community has taken it upon themselves to voluntarily contribute a complete Russian localization!! We are working to ensure that is fully implemented in time for our launch.

We will continue to add additional languages when time and resources allow. In the meantime, we wanted to create a centralized location where fans can contribute localizations for their preferred languages. Registration for Localizor is entirely free, and will allow you to submit suggestions, and vote on those provided by others in the community. The more languages we're able to crowdsource, the faster they can be added to Paper Planet! ❤️

[h3]DISCORD[/h3]
What do you mean you're not in the Discord?!
Hussle those buns on over! The more the merrier :)

- Gave Raw Adamantine a shield icon over health and sound effect when it triggers.
- Item text now renders over the planet.
- Fixed clicking on book background of statistics scrolling to the top.
- Fixed Railroad Bullets not interacting with items correctly + updated its descriptions.
- Fixed Dividers erroneously having their speed exponentially grow when splitting due to Spice of Zoomies.
- Fixed Lerben Cola not functioning with Plane Planet.
- Fixed Phase Bullets and Rubber Band Ball not removing their planet-phasing effect when removed.
- Fixed generic items that give Max Health not removing their health modifier when removed.
- Fixed Max Health in general not recompiling its stat correctly at all.
- Fixed enemies that killed you never being recorded.
- Fixed Bay Blade not using the correct rotation when being fired from non-player sources.
- Fixed the seed in the post-run screen not being the actual run seed.
- Fixed game events TryPlayerHit and TryComboLost not preserving successes correctly.
- Gave Magnet a custom bullet sprite
- Gave spiral bullets a custom bullet sprite
- Fixed Mr Stabby sometimes flying offscreen AGAIN
- Fixed beam buddy spawning stationary flasks with flask cannon
- Doubled the amount of metacurrency bossrush gives
- Reduced base planet price and made planet price increase with each one you purchase
- Added backgrounds to item box descriptions (and pickups)
- Fixed seeds so they now work with unlocks and metaprogression!
- Gave the continue box a propeller and slightly increased the amount of time you have to shoot at it
- Fixed item effect animations playing at the wrong speed
- Buffed the maximum rate lightning bottle can spawn extra bullets
- Fixed tesla coil electricity masking UI elements
- Buffed Joyous Oil to take 35% of your HP instead of 30%
- Added lots of new background debris!
- Fixed the post-run screen's "Killed By" window having weird bits in it

Welcome Paper Planeteers!

As of today, local co-op support has officially been added to the Steam demo, and will be available in the game's full release! You can now enjoy Paper Planet with 1-4 players. While there isn't integrated online support, you can still play together using Steam's Remote Play Together feature.



[h3]WHAT ELSE IS NEW?[/h3]
While most of this will be excluded from the demo, we are hard at work expanding the main game! Here's some of what you can expect:

• Over 150 items
  
• New Planet Types
  
• New Game Modes
  
• Improved bullet synergy
  
• Improved performance and optimization
  

We are starting to eyeball potential release dates!
Q3 2023 is still looking incredibly likely. We'll be sure to update you as SOON as that's locked in!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1504250/Paper_Planet/

Please be sure to Wishlist the game in the meantime