Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate News

[p][/p][p]Royals, today is a special day.[/p][p]For years, you've asked us if the game would ever be on mobile. Some even justified their query, saying that they would simply really love to play the game while on the throne. And one had to admit, there's a beauty in that.[/p][p]But honesty cuts both ways, and to be honest, we weren't too interested in porting the game onto mobile. We made Shotgun King with a custom engine that was built with PC in mind. Our friends at Headbang Club worked miracles and ported the game (and the engine) to consoles, but surely mobile was a whole other can of worms, right?[/p][p]Well, yes, it was. But nevertheless, after the console port was done, Headbang Club asked us whether they should do a mobile port as well, and we were like... "You can do that??"
[/p][p]Dear reader, they could. They did!
[/p][p]It took about a year to get it all done, but here it is at last! Shotgun King is finally available on mobile, from Google Play for Android, and from the App Store for iOS. So that now, when you feel powerless to take a sh*t because you didn't eat enough fiber, you can blast some pixelated chess pieces with your royal shotgun and feel strong and victorious instead. But maybe try eating some more fibers too.[/p][p][/p][p]To celebrate, we also teamed up with our friend Farhanaz Elahee(aka Joy) for an animated trailer! Check it out:[/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][h3]But that's not all! We also have some news for the PC version![/h3][p]Benjamin has been working on some fresh new content for Shotgun King v1.6. Such delicacies as a new game mode, a new shotgun, and quite a few new cards are on the menu! These are coming soon to the beta branch, which you can opt into from the game's properties![/p][p]Please make sure to also join our Discord to give us feedback on some of the... choices... that were made.[/p][p][/p][p]Here's a little teaser as a parting gift:[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]That's it for now! Love you all! See you soon for more news about that update![/p][p]Long live the Shotgun King![/p][p]-PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞[/p]

[p]Hi royals,[/p][p]It has come to our attention that the last build broke the tutorial. Now we all know that you're all very intelligent (perhaps more intelligent than players of other games, but we don't have the numbers) and you certainly never needed a tutorial in the first place, but nonetheless we have finally taken the time to fix the crash.[/p][p]That's the only change on this version. If anything else breaks, please let us know on our Discord![/p][p]Cheers, wishing you a regal day, evening or night.[/p][p]-PUNKCAKE Délicieux[/p]

[p]Hi royals![/p][p]It's been a little while but we finally found some time to fix the issues with some of the languages on Steam Deck and MacOS. We sincerely apologize for the time it took to figure this one out. To be completely honest I'm still not sure what was wrong in the first place, but we managed to fix it.[/p][p]Complete changelog:[/p]

• [p]The game should no longer crashes on launch for some languages[/p]
• [p]You can now select all languages independently of which platform you're on[/p]

[p]2025 is turning out to be a year of experimentation with new ideas for us, with lots of new games being prepared for their Steam release, but we haven't forgotten about Shotgun King, and we're still wanting to make new content for it. We'll have news in 2026.[/p][p][/p][p]Cheers![/p][p]-PUNKCAKE Délicieux[/p]

Hello royals!

As the game turns 3, we have reached a little over 500,000 units bought or activated on Steam! This is a huge milestone for us. Back when we created Shotgun King over a weekend, we never thought the game could possibly reach so many people!

For us small indies, having such an audience is a huge privilege. We sincerely appreciate every last one of you all.

We've been meaning to give you some news for a little while now, and so we figured this was the perfect opportunity!

[h2]Thanks for your help with the survey![/h2]
Not only are you numerous, you're also helpful! We got just about 2000 answers to the survey we posted back in January. That is much more than we were expecting and we thank you for that! The survey is now closed and we've taken some time to look through the results, and will do so again when we get around to do a new update for Shotgun King.

Some highlights from the results:

• The ratings for the guns are mostly level, which we appreciate, though it seems lots of your haven't gotten a chance to play the new guns we added in the massive update from last year yet!
  
• Over 85% of respondants are enjoying the game's balance as it is currently, which is nice too.
  
• 25% of you placed Karma in your top 3 white cards to be reworked, making it the least appreciated card overall. Interesting that all of you playing a homicidal king would hate karma so much.
  
• The Wand of Gust is noticeably less popular than all the other wands, might need a rework.
  
• The most anticipated additions to the game's content are new cards, followed by new shotguns, and then new effects. We're happy to say this aligns well with our plans.
  
• Etilon, who made the survey, has gotten your feedback, and apologizes for the excessive amount of time it took some of you to go through it.
  
• Someone sent a picture of a fish. Not sure why.
  

Of course this is only skimming the surface. We got a lot more stats that will be useful for us, and also so many suggestions and written feedback. Thank you so much!

[h2]What have we been up to?[/h2]
So far this year we've been very busy creating new games. We've been making a new one every month, bringing our total number of games to 24 with the one we just finished for May. Doing this certainly doesn't make us as much money as working on Shotgun King, but we're really enjoying ourselves and every game is special to our eyes. We have 6 games that are not yet released on Steam but which you can wishlist if you like the sound of, or if you want to support us:

• Hot Wax is a falling-block puzzler about placing candles and then burning them down in chain-reactions.
  
• Smol Gods is a card game about maximizing synergies between small creatures.
  
• Fire & Brimstone is a tight little traditional roguelike about finding an artefact that may let you have friends.
  
• If Letters Had Pants, Would They Wear Them Like This? What About Numbers? What If They Has Small Shovels And They Dug Stuff Up To Put In A Museum? is a word game where you give letters pants to make stronger words.
  
• Serpentes: Anniversary Edition is a game of Snake with a twist.
  
• And finally Build The Sun is a minimalist god game about exploring the world, building settlements, getting ressources, and ultimately building the Sun.
  

Besides wishlisting, please consider following our developper page so that you get notified whenever we announce or release a new game!

[h2]What about Shotgun King?[/h2]
Of course all these games don't mean we're forgetting about Shotgun King! We still have a lot of love for the game and we're hoping to update it later this year, though we really can't tell you anymore than this for now.

We have heard reports that the game was having small issues again on Steam Deck and we'll be looking into this shortly. We appreciate your patience.

We also want to say that last year's massive update is finally on the way to consoles. The team who is working on it, Headbang Club, has been very busy with their own project DeathTower which was recently successfully funded on Kickstarter. We apologize on their behalf for the delay on the console update and here too we thank you for your patience!

[h2]Birthday PUNKCAKE and community competition[/h2]
Finally, to celebrate our studio's 4th birthday, our Discord community is organizing a competition with challenges on some of our games. One challenge is on the Shotgun King free demo, another is a mod-making competition that's open to beginner-modders, and some of the others are on other free demos for our games. The challenges were just announced on our Discord, which you'll have to join in order to participate. Everyone is very welcome to compete and we're looking forward to having you on our Discord server!


That's it for now!
Thank you all once again for your support! Much love.
- PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

Hi all,

This is a really tiny patch, since we didn't get any new bug reports since v1.515f! (yay for that!)

When we did the 1.5 update, we tried to have all the translations updated in time for it, and for the most part we succeeded. But sadly the person was going to take care of the German translation had some last minute personal issues to deal with. Initially we decided to wait it out, but after 3 months we finally decided to simply give the job to someone else. And so we have a full German translation again! Many thanks to Raven who ended up being the one to take care of it.

We also got word that the French translation had a few mistakes in it, so we also took the time to fix those as well.

And that's it, this is the full changelog:

• [LANG] Updated the german translation
  
• [LANG] Fixed a few minor issues on the french translation
  

Since it appears we're finally at a point where the game is as stable as it's gonna get, we'll be sending this version to the console folks, so that they can begin the work of porting the 1.5 update to consoles. Hopefully it won't be much longer until it gets there!

Thanks for playing everyone, and thank you for the many answers to the survey we posted last week! We'll leave it open for another week and then we'll close it and let you know about the results.
Have a wonderful weekend!
-PUNKCAKE Délicieux