Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate News

Hi punks!

It arrived a few hours later than anticipated but it is here! The Shotgun King update that finally brings:

• Controller support
• A scripted tutorial
• New art
• & Steam Workshop modding

To celebrate, Shotgun King is on a Daily Deal sale, with 30% off! We also encourage you to check out our brand new other game Super Algebrawl, which is also on sale for its launch, it came out just two days ago!

It's been a hectic week for us between the Super Algebrawl release and the Shotgun King beta, so the SK update might not be entirely bug free yet. We'll keep working on it for a little bit until it is. There will be some more love given to the modding possibilities as well, though I would say there's already a lot work with!

Thank you to everyone who helped test the beta this week, and a very special thanks to all the early modders who have been coping with the pretty big changes from the earlier modding support. They've been super lovely and helpful and about it and once again we find we couldn't wish for a nicer community than the one we have.

We hope you appreciate the new update, and we hope you have fun with the mods! If you're interested in modding the game yourself, we will add more intructions directly on the Steam Workshop soon, but for now the best place to be is still our Discord where you'll find all the resources and help you need to get started!

Thank you all for the support! Have a wonderful weekend and long live the Shotgun King!
-PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

Hi everyone! Happy new year!

It's been a little while but we have some exciting news!

For the first time since PUNKCAKE Délicieux's creation in 2021, we have made a roadmap! It details our plans for 2024, including plans for 9 new games, and plans for 2 Shotgun King updates, the first of which is coming very soon: on the 20th of January!

We invite you to take a look for yourself at our Seasonal Menu for more info:



Our new game Super Algebrawl is coming out on the 18th! It's a mathematical tactics puzzle RPG with a roguelite dimension about another lousy king using unfair powers (in this case the magic of mathematics; granted it's maybe a little less exciting than a shotgun) to reclaim their status! Wishlist it to get notified when it comes out! This is what it looks like:



We will be doing a short beta run for the first Shotgun King update starting on the 15th! If you're interested in helping us fix some bugs please join our Discord and opt into the beta when it's live!

If you're interested in our other games and projects, then our Discord is also the place to be! You can come chat with us and other players, it's a good time!

Thank you all for your support and see you very soon for that update! We wish you a beautiful year!

-PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

If you’re like me, you probably have at least one treasured memory of being allowed to play an edutainment game at school under the guise of learning. What a blast, getting to play video games at school! For me, it was a floppy disk with a bizarre Pac-Man clone where you had to answer maths questions every time you ran into an enemy or obstacle. I’m sure for others it might be unforgiving classic Oregon Trail or globetrotting trivia quiz Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

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If you’re like me, you probably have at least one treasured memory of being allowed to play an edutainment game at school under the guise of learning. What a blast, getting to play video games at school! For me, it was a floppy disk with a bizarre Pac-Man clone where you had to answer maths questions every time you ran into an enemy or obstacle. I’m sure for others it might be unforgiving classic Oregon Trail or globetrotting trivia quiz Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

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Hi everyone!

Some quick patch notes for you! Last week we did a sneaky engine update on the game. The engine update fixed a game-launching crash that some people had, but unfortunately it also broke a few things inside the game. So then we quickly made a patch for the first few issues that were reported, and just now we uploaded a second patch that fixes some other issues that remained.

Sorry about all this, the good news is that now the game should be even more stable than it was on v1.37! Here's the complete changelog for the two patches!

v1.38 changelog:

• [ENGINE] Engine update
  
• [FIX] Fixed wrong arrow sprites shown around the Black King.
  
• [FIX] Fixed a random softlock with unjust decree + sawed-off justice.
  
• [SAVE] Added basic backup system for saves, so that the game can recover on its own if your save is corrupt for whatever reason.
  

v1.39 changelog:

• [FIX] Fixed a crash that happened when getting pushed back onto a pentagram or an undercover mission tile with Sawed-off Justice.
  
• [FIX] It's no longer possible to get back onto the last of three pentagrams before they're done resetting.
  
• [FIX] Fixed pawn souls not increasing damage with Cannon Fodder.
  
• [FIX] Folly shields will now properly activate in case of an unsafe point-blank kill or blade kill. (still won't save you from discovered checks though)
  
• [FIX] Cannonballs can no longer spawn on the same tile.
  

That's it for now! We hear you about bringing controller support and the console version's tutorial to PC, we're working on it!

Have a great weekend, long live the shotgun king! -PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞