Summer Development Update from Drinkbox Studios

[p]Hey! How’s it going?  [/p][p]Eating well? Sleeping in? Folding clothes? [/p][p]That’s so great to hear.[/p][p][/p][p]- Oh, us? Nah, we haven’t been up to much. [/p][p]Well, except for all the work we’ve put into our new game Blighted. Check it out![/p][p][/p][p]As you know, we announced Blighted back in June as part of Summer Game Fest 2025, and we’ve been hard at work on it since. (Thanks for wishlisting it, by the way. It really does help 🙏)[/p][p][/p][p]We don’t want to spoil too much, buuuut we’ve added a TON of enemies to the game, and are still adding more! Each of them deadly in their own weird and freaky little way.[/p][p][/p][p]It’s hard to believe but we actually built out an early version of the entire game as part of an internal-alpha milestone! And right now we’re in the middle of tearing it all up, choosing the best bits, adding juicy challenges and putting it all back together again.[/p][p][/p][p]Now, it might sound like we don’t have much left to do, but that couldn’t be further from the truth! We’re still fine tuning the gameplay and combat loop to go beyond the standard we’ve established in any of our other games thus far. Blight is getting deadlier, and gnarlier too. Our programmers are working all sorts of technical magic to make Blighted shine, ooze and wriggle. And every new object in the game is another opportunity for our artists to draw up a fresh nightmarish creation to populate the growing world. And Jim Guthrie is still sending us tracks that put shivers down our spines in all of the best ways.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]We're also prepping the soundtrack from Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack to be released on Steam very soon! As one of our first major releases, Mutant Blobs Attack will always hold a special place in our ears - because the soundtrack by Peter Chapman and Shaun Hatton is SO GOOD. If you ever need a shot of caffeine directly into your earlobes, load up this soundtrack, sit back, and get back up again because your toes will not stop tapping.[/p][p][/p][p]On the more human side, we recently took the team out to get their quarterly quota of exercise by running, jumping, dodging, ducking, dipping, diving, dodging, throwing, shooting (basketball), shooting (gun) and yelling with Activate. We then gathered for our biggest team photo to date!! (we’re still missing an international co-worker or two, but we’ll get them one day!)[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Huh. Turns out we have in fact been ‘up to much’! Sorry for all the yapping. As a thank you for listening, we’ve put all of our games on sale on Steam![/p][p][/p][p]Catch you later![/p][p]The Drinkbox Team[/p]