GIMMIKO News

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

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2101420/GIMMIKO/

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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

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2101420/GIMMIKO/

You can also join CRITICAL REFLEX discord to discuss new cool stuff! JOIN NOW AND FEEL GOOD

[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

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2101420/GIMMIKO/

You can also join CRITICAL REFLEX discord to discuss new cool stuff! JOIN NOW AND FEEL GOOD


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