GIMMIKO News

[h3]Heeeeeeeey there Temple Guardians, Ika tip givers and honorary members of the Die Hard Support Squad![/h3]

Surely by now you’re all too familiar with GIMMIKO’s cast of characters! Three plucky heroes on a quest to slay the Jabberwock, and send it galumphing back to where it came from: shrine maiden Gimmiko, boring old doctor Merci and underworld soldier Zo…

…But they’re not the only ones who have it out for the Jabberwock, each with totally different fighting styles!! You can BECOME a dice, you can control the dice WITH TELEKINESIS, you can even SHOOT A GUN!!!

So today we’re introducing you to some of the new faces you’ll get to play as in GIMMIKO at launch starting with…

[h3]DIE HARD[/h3]

An artificial supersoldier from a mysterious distant island... Can't get used to using dice as weapons, so she'll stick to using her trusty gun, Gunmetal Franky.

Die Hard's gun works by shooting bullets that contain gimmicks. Every time a bullet is shot, it'll contain a random gimmick from the one in slot 1 up to the slot # equal to the amount of remaining bullets.

*die hard screaming offscreen: IN ENGLISH, POINDEXTER!!!!!*

...Lower slots are more likely to activate!!! Now quit pointing that thing at me!!!

a-anyway, one last word of advice: try not to be too trigger happy!!! When that gun gets too heated it can… explode.

[h3]MIMIKO[/h3]

An odd looking puppet that seems to move entirely on its own, clattering and giggling as it glides around... Why does she kinda look like Gimmiko?

You won't control Mimiko herself, but rather, a mysterious shadow that follows her around silently... However, only Mimiko can pick up and use dice!

Mimiko can also be tugged and swung around, dealing damage with anything she may be holding. Whip her around the stage with some high STR dice to deal massive damage!

you can still stomp the dice without Mimiko’s help which helps set up some sweet combos!!

[h3]ALPHA FOOTAGE[/h3]

A mysterious little creature that smells kinda like an old person's pillow and feels kinda like a boiled egg... But it's just so cute!

Alpha can't hold dice in its soft and slippery paws. However, using the powerful electromagnet lodged inside its liver, it can cause every dice on the field to be thrown towards it, all at the same time! Rain gimmick chaos upon your enemies!

Be careful, though... It's very fragile…

the more dice, the more chaos!! as long as you can survive : ^ )

That brings us to the end of PART ONE of the new character introduction series! We hope that you’re THRRRRILLED to meet these goobers and enjoy their unique playstyles and we’ll see you next time with EVEN MORE GIMMIKO!!!!!!

until next time. have a good (jabberwock) night!
sorryponiko & critical reflex crew

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[h3]Suuuuuuup Temple guardians, Dice Snugglers and Mary Sue’s Fan Club members,[/h3]

It’s time for your regularly scheduled devlog abou-


hey what’s that over there?


*quickly swaps out your gimmiko demo with a better one*

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Surprise!!! It’s the GIMMIKO DEMO: SUMMER OF SUE UPDATE!!

AND IT’S OUT NOW.
FOR FREE.
(It is still a demo after all)

featuring a really really cool art from Balladofsin, go check 'er out and give her all ur love!!



[h3]And here’s all the new cool stuff that you’ll get IN ADDITION to everything we had before:[/h3]

THE GUARDIAN CAMP: Hang out with your buddies at the GUARDIAN CAMP, a hub zone set up by Gimmiko herself in a corner of an unused wing of Gimmick temple!
Chat with your friends, watch some TV, read emails, browse the MikoPedia, or just stare at the hauntingly beautiful Shadowblighted Moon!

UNLOCKABLE COLOR PALETTES: Try your luck with the new colour palette gacha, gently hosted by the lovable and original Original Colour Palette Testing And Distributing Character Colin Palette!
Gather ZARI by defeating bosses (or randomly from normal enemies) and trade them for a new random colour palette! What are Zari? They’re kinda like sunflower seeds, but that’s not important right now.

NEW DICE QUIRKS: A massive wave of new quirks that all do crazy stuff, from stealing your money, turning your dice into chainsaws, exploding from anger and… Letting you play blackjack for some reason?? 25 NEW QUIRKS!!!

NEW EDITIONS: Golden Gimmicks that generate money! Cursed Gimmicks that seal themselves! Meaty Gimmicks that are bigger and deal more damage! And a couple more!!!!!

NEW AND IMPROVED PEST NEST: Would you rather have 8 pests or 20 pests? Well… Now there’s 18, which is almost 20!!!
Pick a pest from a selection of three every time you enter the pest nest! Strategize! STRATEGIZE!!!!

NORMAL & HARD MODES: Can be toggled at any time from the Guardian Camp! Take half-heart damage on normal mode, and start off worlds with slightly simpler waves. On HARDMODE you’ll take full heart damage and waves will start off at maximum intensity right from the get go, but you’ll be rewarded with more Zari from bosses!! Also, some other stuff!!!

also make sure to unlock every art for mikopedia, theres a loooooooooot of good stuff there!!

[h3]CHANGES AND FIXES[/h3]

• Better Dice Shop: Dice stats and quirks are no longer written in incomprehensible riddles. You’ll still have to learn what quirks do, but it’ll all be right on the box, stats and all!
  
• Free Hot Springs: Remember not to drink the water.
  
• Speedier Catacombs: Filling up the lucky cat all the way to 100% is now super duper fast!
  
• Improved Mikopedia: Characters and shopkeepers, and they all have cards too! You can now also learn what all the gimmicks do while vibing to the mikopedia music!
  
• Gimmick Balancing: Some were too good, some were too bad, others literally didn’t work at all and luckily no one ever noticed. Thanks to The Great Gimmick Balance Machine, now everything is good!!
  
• Heat System Rework: Common Gimmicks heat up dice way less! Spam ‘em with d2s!
  
• Damage System Rework: As in, dealing damage. Now enemies can get hurt from multiple sources all at once, so more gimmicks will actually kill stuff faster!!
  
• Performance Improvements: Probably!! Hopefully!! Let me know if your game runs badly SMILE
  
• Dice No Longer Get Crushed By Buildings: …and don’t forget the mustard.
  

did i already mention there's a new hub world?? maybe??

[h3]AND PROBABLY MORE STUFF I FORGOT ABOUT!!! OK THAT’S IT STOP READING GO PLAY THE DEMO BYE!!!!!![/h3]

[h2]SEE YA NEXT JABBERWOCK NIGHT![/h2]

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Helloooooooo Temple guardians, Gimmick enthusiasts and Jabberwock believers!


At this point you might be all too familiar with the monsters and yokai that roam the world of GIMMIKO. But what if we told you that there’s more than meets the eye? That deep, deeeeeep underground (or between some enemy waves lol) dwell mysterious creatures known as…

[h2]PESTS. IN THEIR NESTS.[/h2]

These are monsters and characters stemming from cultures all over the world who can aid you on your journey to end the Jabberwock Night! Some are scary, some are tough, some are cute, some are nasty... But as long as you’re willing to play by their rules, every encounter with a Pest might help in one way or another.

So today we’ll dive deep into the unknown to try and befriend a few of these pests!
(for better or worse)
(we’re not really sure…)

[h3]OBARIYON[/h3]

An extremely heavy creature from Japanese folklore who clings on travellers' backs and asks them to bring him to their home... Where they'll suddenly turn into a pile of gold coins!

Clings to your back, preventing you from jumping or moving fast. After a couple of waves it turns into a special coin that you can use as a 2-sided die. It's very powerful: the less sides a die has, the more consistent its output!



[h3]JACK THE RIPPER[/h3]

An infamous and mysterious english serial killer from the 1880s...

In exchange for 1 max hp, removes a side from all of your dice. Pair this with obariyon's coin and you've got yourself a 1-sided die that'll always land on the same side!

we are still not sure if he got a loicense for this

[h3]MARY SUE[/h3]
The very embodiment of absolute perfection, flawlessness, and creativity, with a tragic backstory and a huge harem of husbands and boyfriends... Or so she says.

Two very interesting choices: you can either fill up all your empty dice slots with Mary Sue's badly drawn "husbands", in exchange for some max hp, or you can seal the faces on all your dice (cementing your current build permanently) while also making all your dice much stronger... Because you're already perfect, just the way you are!

the real question is are *you* enough of a mary sue to make it work?

[h3]JINMENKEN[/h3]
A nasty dog with the face of a human. Enjoys getting shitfaced drunk while betting on horse races, but doesn't really have the income to support this hobby.

He'll ask for a random amount of money, in exchange for which he'll reward you with a sopping wet cardboard box full of.... Stuff. Could be lots of good stuff, could be nothing at all. Are you willing to gamble?

you call this gambling, we call it strategic investment

[h3]VENUS[/h3]
The ancient, yet ever-present ideal of love, beauty and fertility.

In exchange for nothing at all, will either increase your max hp by 1 or fully heal you. Lovely!! Not all pests come with drawbacks or tough choices: sometimes you just get to appreciate a small, loving gift.

free healthcare? in this economy?

So how about it, found yourself a new fav pest yet? Or maybeeeee you want to see more of them?

…Well, you’ll have to wait for the game to come out first! However what we can say for now is expect to see a few familiar faces among the pests crowd………….

until next time. have a good (jabberwock) night!
sorryponiko & critical reflex crew

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[h2]Helloooooooo Temple guardians, Dice nerds and Jerrod Sorelli smoochers![/h2]

today we’re gonna fill the gimmiko shaped hole in your gimmiko shaped hearts with more… gimmicks. More specifically... Gimmick mods!!!

MODS are the latest breakthrough in Gimmick technology patented by Suezaki Pharmaceutics. with the power of magic, science, and a ditzy middle aged catboy you are now able to MODIFY your dice with new properties and change gimmicks work, move, and deal damage!!

this is the apex of pure scientific genius.

and you’ll get access to them starting from WORLD TWO? wow!!!!

Mods affect the behaviour of every single gimmick in the entire game… For better or for worse. Let’s take a look at a few combos!!!

[h3]MOD COMBO #1: SPRAY N PRAY + TRIGGER FINGERS + GUNPOWDER GELATINE[/h3]
unleash a barrage of bullets with the Spray n' pray gimmick, then EXPLODE those bullets on impact with Trigger fingers + Gunpowder gelatine! Basically: turn a ton of weak bullets into fodder for carpet bombing yokai!!

Featuring El Diego from Pizza Tower! (Who unfortunately also inherits the exploding effect)

[h3]MOD COMBO #2: BZZZZZOMG + GUN WITH A GUN[/h3]

Combine BZZZOMG which spawns a ton of bees with a Gun with a gun mod and you now have a bunch of bees with guns. We’re still conducting research on the ethics of giving bees guns, but they don’t really seem to mind em at all!!

You could also make guns shoot guns if you really want to.

[h3]MOD COMBO #3: K-JIG + KICKSTAND + RABBIT TILE + NOSE OF A BLOODHOUND[/h3]

K-Jig’s thorns are already a great way to deal tons of damage all at once…. But wouldn’t they be even better if they marched towards enemies? Let’s add some speed with Kickstand, multiply it with Rabbit tile, and make those thorns rotate towards enemies using Nose of a Bloodhound!

by the way, everything from above still applies here!! so you can totally give those thorns guns if you really felt like it. And maybe make the bullets from those guns explode while you’re at it.

look at those tasty, tasty damage numbers

[h3]MOD COMBO #4: SPICE HIT + STICKY COATING + DICE CHARM[/h3]

Let’s pack some explosive punch into our dice!!! The Dice charm mod makes gimmicks target Dice! so if we make our Spice hit mines sticky using Sticky coating, they'll immediately attach to the die they spawned from, letting us gather a ton of them and throw them at enemies all at the same time!

or you could just turn other bombs into mines using Trigger fingers. You know. Explosions.

we’d love to show you even more mods, but then you’d have less stuff to figure out on your own, so we’ll let you daydream about the infinite possible amount of combinations of Gimmicks and Mods for now and wrap up for today!!!

thank you for sticking around!! we can’t wait to see how you’re gonna put all these tools to use and hopefully not break our game too much in the process. or actually maybe do that because breaking the game is fuuuuuuun.

until next time. have a good (jabberwock) night!
sorryponiko & critical reflex crew

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[h3]HELLO HI TEMPLE PRIESTS!![/h3]

Look at the time! It’s HUGE DEMO UPDATE TIME! We found ourselves a publisher – CRITICAL REFLEX. And with their help brought you a lot of new stuff! (and also fixed some of the old stuff)

New gameplay features, UI overhaul, new Gimmick types, bugfixes, localizations — all this can be yours if you launch the demo and play right now!

[h2] Localizations [/h2]
With the help of our publisher the game was fully translated to Japanese and Simplified Chinese! Woooooooooo!~

We’ll add many, MANY more languages in the future, don’t you think we’re gonna stop muahahahahaha

[h2]New cool stuff![/h2]

• New movement options: press jump twice quickly and you’ll DIVE, it lets you get away from danger quickly! If you hold RMB (or RB) you don’t pick up your dice, but you can STOMP on it to activate!
  
  
  
  
• Character exclusive mechanics: Merci now buffs his INT by collecting Retsu during the wave! And Zo’s demon heart charges by damaging enemies buffing her STR! More fighting - more powerful fighting. SIMPLE
• MikoPedia: it keeps track of defeated enemies and gives you info about them. MAKES YOU SMARTER. It also features cute boss stickers drawn by our community (we love you)
  
  
  
  
• Gimmick editions: some gimmicks come with modifiers! Negative gimmicks are free, but may unexpectedly disappear. Glitched gimmicks have a chance to cast twice!
  
  
  
  
• Pest nest: There is a cast of WEIRDOS and FREAKS! But they offer upgrades, trades and challenges!
• ”Once more”: Now sometimes you’ll have to beat TWO waves back to back for rewards.
  
• Gameplay variation: new weather events, arena variations, new “stringed” dice quirk
  
• Crash-test zone: test your builds from the editing screen before waves!
  
  

[h2]Improvements![/h2]

• Made a new cool animated intro and an even cooler title screen
  
• Edited character animations to be more expressive and detailed
  
• Rewrote some dialogues to be more funny and fitting, updated some voicelines to be more consistent.
  
• Added subtitles and new character-specific portraits to Jabberwock Solitaire.
  
• Added damage numbers so you can see how strong you are
  
• A LOT of subtle graphical improvements: UI, backgrounds, lighting and much more!
  
• Bug fixes, bug extermination, bug slaughter even.
  

There’s A LOT of new things. We might’ve even forgotten something, that’s how big this update is. AND ALL THIS IS AVAILABLE NOW GO PLAY IT

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That’s it for today. Go play the demo and tell us what you think!
[h3]SEE YA![/h3]