Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate News

The Chinese text reads "Shotgun King now available in Chinese!"

Hi all!

We've just uploaded patch 1.25 for Shotgun King!

It contains a lot of bugfixes and some minor improvements and balance changes. And it adds simplified Chinese to the game's available languages!

We've spent a lot of time working on our game engine so that it would support unicode characters, and then so that it could display them at a different resolution without utterly butchering the game's looks. And now that it's done, it means we can support many more languages. Chinese is the first to come to the game but we have plans for more, more info further below!

We also took the time to add back accents and special characters to the existing French and Spanish translations, as well as rework the French translation a little bit.

Here's the complete changelog:

• [Controls] SPACE shortcut to reload
  
• [Controls] King Shoulders now use drag & drop to be activated
  
• [Balance] Castle now stuns king and rook so they can't attack you right after swapping
  
• [Balance] Castle now offers +1hp to rooks
  
• [Balance] Secret Heir is now theocracy compatible
  
• [Balance] Theocracy and throne room now exclude each other
  
• [Engine] Grenades now explode right after being launched.
  
• [Engine] Surrender now happens on last leader death. It won't happen anymore if there's no leader in the level setup.
  
• [Engine] Taunting Hop can now override Folly Shields if it kills its target
  
• [Engine] Folly Shields now take extra damage from Unjust Decree into account
  
• [Engine] Sacred crown now ignores Folly Shields when you use a soul.
  
• [Visual] Heir animation is skipped if there's only one pawn.
  
• [Visual] Moat floating animation is now compatible with flying bishops and spotted heirs
  
• [Bugfix] reloading shotgun now waits for full ammo regeneration
  
• [Bugfix] Folly shields now check for 3 dmg (not your firepower) if you throw a piece at close range with King's Shoulders
  
• [Bugfix] You can now throw pieces with King's Shoulders even if your shotgun is empty
  
• [Bugfix] Pause is now activable only during your turn
  
• [Bugfix] White Pieces and Black King starting their turn in the moat can now move within the moat without constraint
  
• [Bugfix] Thrown pieces can't overlap knocked back pieces anymore
  
• [Bugfix] Folly shield now take account of the Royal Loafers target
  
• [Bugfix] HP Bar now display correctly when 10hp+ pieces fall below 10hp
  
• [Bugfix] Theocracy bishops can now be thrown at each other, without Castle's rooks crashing the game.
  
• [Bugfix] Exorcised steam achievement doesn't block the unlocking of Avenged steam achievement anymore.
  
• [Bugfix] using black mist to escape a grenade won't make you invicible to other grenadas.
  
• [Lang] added Chinese translation!
  
• [Lang] reworked the French and Spanish translations
  
• [Lang] "souls" has been added to translation file
  
• [Lang] difficulty mode now displays correctly in the game footer
  

Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and issues with the game! We hope you'll appreciate all the fixes and changes!

As usual, all these changes also apply to the demo which we just updated as well.

And now that the game supports non-latin characters, we're looking to add more translations. We already have a few community-made translations that we'd like to officialize, including Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Romanian! Those all need to be updated for the new version, and more importantly they need to be tested by other players who understand the language before we can add it in.

If you'd like to help test out new translations, or that you'd like to propose a new one, please come to our Discord! That's where we're storing all the translations right now and where we coordinate everything. Your help would be more than welcome!

We're excited to make the game accessible to more players all around the world with your help!

Once again thank you all so much for your support and for making Shotgun King the success it is! It's been barely four weeks since the release and we're still overwhelmed with how well it's been doing! Thank you!! ❤

Have a great week!
-PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

Hi all!

The new patch is here! It's mostly bugfixes, plus a few QoL improvements you've been asking for.
As promised, both the full game and the demo get the update!

Changelog:

• [Ergo] Added a "resign" button to the pause menu
  
• [Ergo] Left-click to speed up level complete sequence
  
• [Ergo] Triple-click at the start of the intro to skip it
  
• [Bugfix] Crash on lifting secret heir
  
• [Bugfix] Weird patterns after waking up computer from sleep with the game still running
  
• [Bugfix] Fixed some annoying mod folder crashes
  
• [Bugfix] Black Mist now saves you from the boss and the Kingly Alms
  
• [Bugfix] Free turns give you back your folly shield
  
• [Bugfix] Now checking on white king death after using magic wands
  
• [Bugfix] Now processing white king death before free turns
  
• [Bugfix] Menu back buttons now update when changing language
  
• [Bugfix] Fixed crashes and freezes that could happen after the splash-screens or during the game
  

We hope you like what you see!

If you catch anymore bugs you can report it on our Discord or on the game's Steam forums!

We're blown away by all the attention the game has been getting. and so, so glad to see so many of you enjoying the game! Thank you all for the support!

Have a lovely week,
- PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

Hi all!

Thank you all so much for such a warm reception for our first game on Steam!! In less than 24 hours Shotgun King already paid back its development costs in full! 🎉

That's just amazing, we really didn't expect it to do that well, but we're super glad you're enjoying the game! Thank you for your support!

We want to adress some questions we've seen pop up here and there, then we want to tell you about the first patch we just uploaded, and then we want to tell you a bit about our plans for the future of Shotgun King. If you're interested in any of that, please read on!


[h2]About the demo[/h2]

We've seen some confusion as to what the full game brings on top of the demo, so here's clarification about that and about the demo in general:

The demo is basically the full game's endless mode with half the cards. On top of the endless mode and double the cards, the full game has a story mode with 5 different difficulties to beat, Steam achievements, and mod support. (mod support is experimental for now, more info further below)

As some of you have noted, the demo is quite generous and stands well-enough on its own. We're ok with that, we hope that if you really love the demo you'll find it in your heart to buy the full version and get the extra content. If you're broke or just don't care about the full version you can just keep on playing the demo, it is here to stay.

Not only is it here to stay, it will also receive all balance fixes, bugfixes and new localizations from the full game. We already updated the demo when the game released and we'll do it again with every new update. We don't care if this is a stupid business move, y'all deserve to have some good things in your life for free.


[h2]First patch[/h2]

We just put up the first patch! It's a pretty small one but it should fix all the bugs and crashes that were reported to us so far.

If you find bugs or that your game crashes, please do let us know! The best place to do that is on our Discord in the dedicated #bugs channel, the second best place is in the game's Steam Forums, in the Bug Reports category. If you are reporting a crash, please look into the game's folder and give us the crash_log.txt!

Here is the changelog for version 1.244:

• [Bugfix] Unjust decree won't lock aiming anymore on folly shield use
  
• [Bugfix] Fixed bullet trajectory (some ~45° bullets had a chance to miss)
  
• [Bugfix] Game won't crash anymore after you throw a heir with King's Shoulders
  
• [Bugfix] Fixed a random crash on level complete when the game is in French
  
• [Lang] Renamed the card "Crossdresser" to the more positive, inclusive and safer name "Genderqueer"
  

[h2]Future plans[/h2]

The good news is, yes there are future plans for Shotgun King! The bad news... no, no bad news! Future plans yay!!

Besides bugfixes, we do have actual updates coming. We want to rework the game's different difficulties to give you something a little more interesting (that's actually why there are no achievements for completing the difficulties for now, we did make them but we're keeping them warm for that update), and we want to integrate Steam's Workshop for mod support.

The game already has experimental mod support. You can download the sample mod off of the game's Itch page (scroll down to the Downloads) and play around with it. If you'd like, you can find some people to help you and to share mods with on our Discord server.

We also want to bring more localizations to the game besides the existing French and Spanish ones. Let us know what languages you'd like to see!

We do not have a precise ETA for these things yet, but we expect to bring them to you in the coming months.

Besides Shotgun King, we'll also keep on making new games! Our thing is to make a new one every month. Even though Shotgun King is the first to get on Steam, it's actually our 9th game. We have a Patreon subscription where you get the new game every month, and we're also selling all our previous ones on Itch io. Check out our previous games if you want, we promise they're all pretty good!


[h2]In the meantime[/h2]

You're still here?? Woah, thanks for reading all that, that's dedication!

Well, since you're so dedicated, what better moment to tell you some things you can do to help us make Shotgun King a complete hit! If you're enjoying the game so far, please consider doing the following things:

• Leave the game a short review! Those really help the games sell, the more positive reviews we have the better! Note that if your main language isn't english, your review is even more valuable!
  
• Tell your favorite streamer about Shotgun King! This is seriously the second best thing you can do for the game besides leaving a Steam review. Help us show the game to more people!
  
• Join our Discord! That's the best place to be in contact with us, receive news and be part of our little community of players! We have a team of moderators keeping things safe and we try to be personally present to chat with you as well. Only good vibes allowed~
  

Ok, I think that's it for now! We hope you're looking forward to what's next for Shotgun King!

Once again thank you all so so much for your support!!

Much love, PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

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Hi there!

We know you've been waiting for this, here we are, PUNKCAKE Délicieux finally releasing one of their games on Steam!

Until now we've published all our games on Itch.io and on our Patreon and that was cool, but we figure if we want to go mainstream, we have to go where the main stream of players is, right?

Of course, we're PUNKCAKE, the only reason we want to go mainstream is to destroy the status quo, break the wheel so to speak, then make a new wheel, make it octogonal and give it little silver spikes, crush the industry elite with the octogonal spiky wheel, sow utter chaos and desperation, and finally reinvent video games as we know them.

But I digress, there will be time for that later, right now we're in a bit of a hurry, because...

We're releasing Shotgun King, the game of Chess where your army is replaced with a royal shotgun, here on Steam on May 12th!



That's next Thursday! We have tons of stuff to prepare, so I'll go now. We hope you're excited!

Have a nice few days, see you on Thursday! ❤
PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞