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Gunstorm Released

Thunderstorms are rising! Our latest game, the space shooter Gunstorm is released today.

Gunstorm is a rotary, arena space-shooter that (by default) uses mouse left/right movements to rotate your ship, giving your craft huge manoeuvrability. You can also play with a 'follow the cursor' mouse mode, or using an X-Box 360 style game controller, or the keyboard if you prefer.

The plot is simple. Xodar of Gorn, in his vast battle-station, challenges you to 100 levels of alien craft. Each level has more enemies which appear faster. Each enemy reacts and moves in a different way. There are different level types too, from a level like arcade classic Asteroids where rocks are blasted into smaller and smaller chunks, to levels with static gun turrets, motherships and end-of-level guardians, and more surprises to discover.

You can choose a fixed or random level layout, and set the game speed, to make it as easy or as hard as you want. As well as the normal game you can choose to play stand-alone Asteroids, or the 'Onslaught' game featuring one huge level of different enemies. Gunstorm features games continues, automatically saves progress and settings in Steam Cloud, and awards a Steam Achievement if you defeat Xodar.

Gunstorm includes the classic theme music 'Deflexion', plus an optional remix of the 2007 Gunstorm song sung by Tor James Faulker. The Gunstorm EP (published by Cornutopia Music) includes several 1980s-style electronic pop tunes, and will be released on Steam as DLC in due course.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2787740/Gunstorm/

Enjoy battling Xodar!

Mark

Future Pool and Future Snooker Updated

Future Pool and Future Snooker have been updated, just in time for the Steam Remote Play Together Sale which is active now.

In both games you'll discover:
-A new hi-res font and pointer.
-Better zoom handling, the screen now fixes height on different screens creating a much bigger display.
-A new control to centre the camera on the bat (Return or D-pad down on your controller).
-An extra rules page which lists mouse and camera keyboard controls.
-Steam Cloud support to keep settings between sessions.
-And lots more behind the scenes...

For expert users, the Options.txt file includes a few settings for custom display set-ups, such as setting a specific screen resolution. A new flag 'robustinit' can fix display freeze issues when using the desktop resolution on some systems; and 'fixaspect' which will stretch the screen rather than zoom, if you wanted to do that.

Future Pool, Future Snooker and Radioactive are all part of the Steam Remote Play Together Sale, and have 33% off for the next 7 days.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177310/Future_Pool/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177390/Future_Snooker/

Mark

SFXEngine All Set Bundle

A new SFXEngine Bundle containing all of the Bolt-on DLC at a 25% discount is now live. The new 'Bolt-on Full Set Bundle' contains all ten 'Bolt-on' Engine Sets: Sample, Analogue, Amplitude, Pitch, Pan, Filter, Delay, Reverb, Distortion, and Special.

This full set of over 50 powerful plug-ins transforms your sound making ability! From the sample-bending Proteus, though the unique Nitroverb and Oxyverb reverbs, to Oscillator Synchronisation, this ultimate kit of audio effects transforms the vanilla SFXEngine into an insanely powerful professional sound creation tool.

As with all Steam Bundles, you pay only for what you don't already own. The bundle has 25% off from today:
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/38164/SFXEngine_Bolton_Full_Set/

Not tried SFXEngine yet? Find the full app and the free demo, here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2438590/SFXEngine/

Enjoy creating,

Mark

Flatspace Soundtracks Updated

In preparation for the up-and-coming Gunstorm Soundtrack release, the Flatspace Soundtrack and the Flatspace II Soundtrack albums here on Steam have been updated. Both albums now include fully tagged mp3 files, and all tracks in high-quality wav format. The complete 300dpi album artwork is supplied too.

The Flatspace Soundtrack Store page now includes the 2019 HD video to Snow, and both albums include the full track list and durations in the description.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1235660/Flatspace_The_Official_Soundtrack/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1235670/Flatspace_II_The_Official_Soundtrack/

Happy listening.

Mark

Gunstorm Coming

Here it is! Here is the first look at the 2024 Gunstorm remaster. This is our biggest upgrade to date, and existing games will, at some point, be updated to the latest engine too. Wishlist Gunstorm here, and prepare for the new Gunstorm II remaster hot on its heels:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2787740/Gunstorm/