Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate News

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Hi everyone!

Shotgun King just released on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series!

In case you missed our last announcement, the console version features a few extra things such as new art, a tutorial, in-game achievements, and lots of interface work to make it ideal to play with a controller! Our friends at Headbang Club did all this and we thing they did a really good job of it all!

We're in talks with the other studio to see if we can port some of these new features back into the PC version, we'll let you know when we have news!

In our last announcement we also said we were going to start releasing our backlog of games here on Steam. Well we are well on our way, with already 4 new games added to the roster in the last month! We even put them all in a nice bundle so that you can get them at a discount if you already own Shotgun King!

We still have quite a few games to put on here, we plan to keep releasing them one per week for the coming few months!

In the meantime we invite you once again to come to our Discord if you want to chat about Shotgun King or our other games! Or if you want to discover the small Shotgun King modding community which we're hosting there as well!

Thank you for your love and support! We hope you enjoy Shotgun King on consoles and our other games here on Steam! Long live the Shotgun King!

-PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

Chess fans and frustrated monarchs of all horizons, hear hear!

We have a double announcement for you today! Both have been in preparation for quite a long while, so we hope you're as excited as we are.

First, Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series on August 24th!!

This is all thanks to our friends at Headbang Club who did incredible work of adapting the game to both the technical and design exigencies of modern consoles, and with very little help from us. The game even has some brand new art, a new interface for consulting achievements directly in-game, new controls, some new localizations, and a tutorial which I personally did the writing for! (though they wouldn't let me put "horse f❤❤❤ers" in there but that's ok) The result is super slick and professional and we can't wait for you to see it!

Plus, I mean, who hasn't been wanting to play Shotgun King on the go with their Nintendo Switch, right?


But that's not all, here comes the second announcement for you PC gamers!

All our other games are coming to Steam, one every week, starting next Thursday!

You may or may not know this but we actually make a lot of games! For half of 2021 and the better part of 2022 we made a new game every month, and we intend to do it again for the entirety of 2024! So we already have 14 games, only 2 of which are currently on Steam: Shotgun King and Moonpong. Well this is about to change!

Our very first game Antecrypt is releasing here on Steam next week on Thursday the 3rd, with an updated Soundtrack as well as Steam achievements and Steam cloud support! And then every subsequent Thursday, another of our games will come out, until we completely run out sometime around 3 or 4 months from now!

Though it's not complete you can see all the games that already have a Steam page here.

And please check-out the new trailer for Antecrypt! It's a single-stick arena shooter where the crosshair simply bounces around the screen and you have to shoot down enemies with your rechargeable laser beam!

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Thanks for your attention! More news for the PC version of Shotgun King are coming at some point in the near future! Have a great week!

-PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

Hi everyone!

We're absolutely stoked to announce Shotgun King is Steam's Weekend Deal for the next 7 days, with a 25% discount which is the deepest discount we've done on the game so far!

We even commissioned an artist to make some sick promo art! Check it out below, we think Fafodill did an amazing job!

We're also featuring on brodcast a speedrun by our Discord member Etilon, achieving an impressive 1min win with the Victoria shotgun! Thanks to them for sharing the video with us and letting us show it off on the Steam page during the sale!

And there's more! If you already own Shotgun King, we still have a discount for you! Our other game MOONPONG: Tales of Epic Lunacy is also on sale for 25% off, with a further 15% discount if you already own Shotgun King and buy it as part of the PUNKCAKE Délicieux Developer Bundle!

And if you got no money but still want to support us you can also wishlist our upcoming strategy dungeon-building roguelike The Wratch's Den!

Thank you all for the love and support as always!
There will be more Shotgun King news in a little while!

Take care and have a great weekend!
- PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

Hi all! Happy new year!!

Here's a small Shotgun King patch to start off the year! It fixes a few bugs, corrects a few mistakes in the translations, and adds a brand new language: Catalan, courtesy of Projecte Ce Trencada!!

Here is the complete changelog:

• [BALANCE] Promoted jesters now pass the hat.
  
• [FIX] You can no longer trigger a right click ability and fire your shotgun on the same frame.
  
• [FIX] Fixed Iron Maiden description.
  
• [LANG] Added Catalan language option! Thank you to Arnau Frago from Projecte Ce Trencada!
  
• [LANG] Fixed a few issues in the Ukrainian, Korean, Chinese and Spanish translations. Thank you very much to players who submitted corrections!
  
• [LANG] Added translator names on the credits screen
  

And let me say it here again, thank you to the players who reported mistakes in the translations, and huge thanks to Arnau from the Projecte Ce Trencada for the Catalan translation! He even went through the trouble of remaking the trailer in Catalan which is just crazy!! You can watch that below by the way, and you should, it's so well done!

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I asked Arnau if he wanted to add a message to this post in Catalan, here's what he had to say!

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Renoi, des del Projecte Ce Trencada ha sigut un plaer enorme treballar amb Puncake Déliceux per traduir al català aquesta peça d'art mestre tan entremaliada.

No és cada dia que podem traduir de manera tan còmoda i lliure, un projecte tan il·lusionant com és Shotgun King The Final Checkmate.
Ens han ajudat en tot allò necessari, facilitant-nos des del material necessari per traduir el tràiler del videojoc fins a aquest espai per a explicar-vos que ja podeu gaudir del català des del propi menú d'opcions del videojoc.

Fa goig poder treballar amb estudis de videojocs que s'impliquen i que entenen la importància de la llengua per fer arribar l'experiència d'una manera més íntima i directa a l'usuàri/a final.
Col·laboracions com aquesta tornen l'esperança en la humanitat en contraposició d'aquells que veuen aquest esforç com quelcom innecessari o indigne del seu temps fins i tot quan se'ls hi ofereix de manera gratuïta.

Són grans passos per al català però també per al futur dels videojocs com a indústria, doncs s'hi uneix un altre estudi amb consciència i valors.

Esperem que podeu gaudir d'aquest videojoc de jugabilitat trepidant i addictiva tant com ho hem fet nosaltres i que us aporti moltes estones d'augusta frustració i oimés somriures.

Què per què l'hauries de comprar? Visita la nostra pàgina web i ho entendràs: https://www.cetrencada.cat/shotgun-king-the-final-checkmate

Esperem poder col·laborar en molts projectes més,

Projecte Ce Trencada.

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We really couldn't have said it better. (we unfortunately don't understand Catalan) Arnau was a wonder to work with, we feel really lucky for him to have approached us!

This is it for now, but I can confidently day there will be more Shotgun King news this year again! I won't spoil anything just now but we hope you look forward to it!!

Have a wonderful 2023!
- PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

Hi everyone!

Here's a new patch that fixes a few bugs and crashes that were reported to us! As usual thanks to everyone who reports these, it really helps a lot!

Here's the complete changelog:

• [BALANCE] Heir status is now preserved after promotion.
  
• [BALANCE] Iron Maiden now deactivate if there's only queens on the board.
  
• [BALANCE] Guillotine and Iron Maiden are not excluding each others anymore.
  
• [FIX] Fixed a crash bug involving Kingly Alms and Black mist
  
• [FIX] Healer won't heal cannonball anymore
  
• [FIX] It's no longer possible to jump over knighmares with taunting hop.
  
• [FIX] Fixed a bug where you can over-reload your gun if moving too fast after reload
  
• [FIX] Fixed a bug preventing the use of unjust decree if moving too fast after reload
  
• [FIX] Healers can no longer heal boss over max hp
  
• [FIX] Game won't freeze when secret heir, last guardian and king are killed with the same shot.
  
• [FIX] Philanthropy extra turn now work even if grenade fall off the board or in the moat.
  
• [LANG] Wording for iron effect : can't die -> can't take damage
  
• [LANG] Fixed Ukrainian plurals in descriptions
  
• [LANG] Now correctly replacing the $leader tag in disruption descriptions
  
• [ACHIEVEMENTS] Theocracy replaced with sanctity in the RELIGION achievement
  

That's it for now! We're slowing down the rate of patches to focus on other games for now, but we'll be back to give Shotgun King some more love soon enough, rest assured. :)

Have a nice weekend! Long live the Shotgun King! -PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞