Zaxterion - Space Frenzy News

Okay, so it's overly obvious that Zaxterion: Space Frenzy! is getting a LOT of attention it's first week on Steam. It's had over 200,000 impressions its first week on Steam with an impressive 8.2% click through rate. The first 48 hours the demo has been made available, over 2,000 people have added the demo to their library and/or played it!

To help my 10th Steam game sell better to those interested, I've decided to drop the price by a whopping 45% down to just $4.99 USD. Please understand that this price drop is not because I don't believe my game is worth the launch $8.99 price point, but its more to try and help get this game in more peoples hands and enjoyed by more Steam users.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This price reduction will go for a minimum of two weeks and I reserve the right as the developer to move the price back up to the original price point should lowering this price not help it gather more sales. Bottom line is that if you are interested in Zaxterion: Space Frenzy, the next two weeks would be a great time to make the purchase.


The demo has now been available since the evening of September 14th and seems to be well received so far. Be sure you give it a try and see if you don't also agree that this game is well worth the asking price. You can't even buy a kids meal at McDonalds or a cup of coffee at most coffee drive through locations across America at this very competitive price point!

Most importantly, I hope you all enjoy whatever games you decide to purchase and spend your time playing.


ZaxtorGameS ..... (Solo Indie Game Developer)

This update added a new "options" screen where you can now see and adjust your game volume, your controller dead zone setting, and even rebind the WASD keys and the default space bar for placing dynamite to whatever keys you desire! (The keys you change to must be either a number or an alphabet character. Whenever you change your key binds to, the game automatically immediately saves them so you'll never have to change them again, unless you want to change them again! There is also a "default settings" button for the key binds to just set them back to WASD and the Space Bar if you ever want to.

The also now constantly detects if you're using a keyboard and mouse to play or if you're using a gamepad controller. If you're using a controller, all functions before and after a game have the controller buttons associated with them clearly defined and easy to see.

This update also includes four new interesting Steam achievements that reward you for scratching death, looking it in the eye with just a single hitpoint, and then rebounding completely up to 100 or more health!

More changes are coming including lots more Steam achievements and all new enemies such as the eye and the ice man.

Thanks for reading and for playing my game if you're already purchased it and are playing my game!


Sincerely,

ZaxtorGameS ..... (Solo Indie Game Developer)

In this update, just two days after I launched this game, I've created and added 36 new Steam achievements, bringing the total achievements to 58.

The starter ship (The Reliant), The soon-coming Golden Poggers DLC ship, and the Halcyon ship all have 12 new achievements that are obtained by both surviving and scoring in your games. All of the other seven ships will soon get the same 12 Steam achievements each, but 120 Steam achievements all at once would have been a big task. This update at least gets you started on the starter ship and the next two ships that make sense as far as game progression goes.


Here's some other things added to the game since launch in this update:

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* Added a new healing effect and sound when you move upwards through your mothership to buy a heal

* Added a red exclamation point that pops up over you when you get webbed by the spider

* Added a new sound effect when a spider shoots you with a web attack projectile

* Added new shine effects to show power-ups that drop from opening a golden chest

* Added new shine effects to show a ship you have not yet purchased before you start a game

* Added new effects to help show you when you purchase a power-up time upgrade, a "Ammo Kablamo" upgrade, or a "Hurt Me Less Daddy" upgrade from the Big Brother ship

* Changed the golden chest spawn points to the upper left or upper right sides of the screen to help avoid power-up loot items from being confused with mother-ship offerings

* Added Triple uploads at different times over a few seconds when uploading your score to Steam for posting your high scores. This should ensure that your high score will always post to Steam assuming that Steam is not down at that moment and that you have good working internet

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I think that's about all for this update. As with all of my games after launch, this game will continue to get many more updates that both make the game a better experience and add more depth and content as the weeks and months go on.


Enjoy your day and thanks for reading!


ZaxtorGameS .... (Solo Indie Game Developer)

Hello everyone!

I am proud to announce that my latest arcade action retro game has now launched. This is a title I am very proud of and one that I started work on back in April of 2021. It got put on the back burner sometime in the early summer of that same year and I started working on it again around May of this year. I've put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into this game over this last several months, but I believe the result has been well worth it!

I want everyone to know that just as with all my Steam games, this one is far from being "complete" in my view, but after a couple of delays, I knew it was time to just launch it already. There are lots of ideas I still have to make the game deeper and add even more value to this already addicting and fun game!



One of those ideas is coming to life and should be added soon with a new foe to face, and I simply call it "The Eye". The eyes will be a very formidable foe indeed, especially when you have many eyes on you at once with all the chaos that is already going on! I'll save all the details of this new creature for you to experience first hand in the game because I don't want to spoil your fun, but trust me you'll want to keep an "eye" out on this one!


I decided to not launch this game as version 1.0 because in my mind, it still has so much I think I can add to enrich it even more. Do note that this game is way more complete right now than most 'early access' titles here on Steam, but I just want this game to be the best that it can be.

I've been so hard at work the last month in particular that lots of stuff like Achievements and Controller Support were just added just hours before I launched this game! So with that, please understand that many more Steam achievements will be added over the coming weeks, including some really interesting ones like an achievement for rebounding from 1 hp to 100 hp. The information that currently pops up on the left side of the screen about your game pad controls will be changed to make everything much more seamless and fluid. ..What I'm saying is that this game is only going to get better in the coming weeks!

I want to thank you for reading this and do sincerely hope you enjoy this game should you decide to purchase it and support me as a solo indie developer! ..Thanks in advance! =)


- ZaxtorGameS .......... (Solo Indie Game Developer)