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The Six One Indie Showcase is a bit of a new kid on the block when it comes to video game presentations, but it's certainly working hard to justify itself. Early today the latest showcase was held showing off a huge range of indies, 48 in total, some of them being brand new reveals, others smaller showcases.

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🎪 PATCHED & PETTED! 🎪
Hey Spankrs!
Just a tiny patch this time. Some bugs got squashed like digital roaches beneath the almighty Spank Stick. You might not feel the changes, but Spunk assures you: they hurt him deeply. Emotionally. As is our right, and dare I say, our duty.

Quick News! We're part of the upcoming Six One Indie Showcase Steam Festival!

Now onto JUICY JUICY SNEAKS! We’re saving the meatiest reveals for our Newsletter, but here’s some carnival chaos for your corrupted eyeballs:


Ever wished you could take Spunk on a date to a beautiful carnival to look deep in his angry, angry eyes? No? WELL TOO BAD, IT’S HAPPENING.



And what about that pet bowl in the SPANKR HQ? What's with that? Well, let me give a hint!


That's right, Pets are officially added to the game! They're ugly and broken (Spunk made them after all), but we'll try to fix what Spunk broke by launch. His pets are a little... odd.


There's plenty more! Dozens of levels! But I shan't spoil them for you, not yet! If you do like being pampered, spoiled, and granted in game gifts, feel free to join Our Newsletter link above!

Hey there Spankers! It's Update Time!

We've been working hard on the full game (Sneak peeks below!) but took the time to expand the demo with new levels, mechanics, and Quality of Life polish!

We've also made the game's demo page Standalone on Steam. This is a relatively new Steam feature, but it should let you guys leave reviews on the demo itself. Not that you have to, it'd just be, you know, kinda cool. Might help the game spread. It'd also get Spunk off my back about it, he's pretty stinky, you know?

TL;DR Please leave a review on the demo page, the support helps MASSIVELY!





We've made a spicy little update video so you can see some of this new content in action!

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We've added a new level to the Friend Path! You can now try to protect Spunk against waves of his fans! He may have created these gross abominations himself, but that's not important! What's important is that you hop in the Crack Wackatronic Defense Turret to shoot some zombies! Oh, not zombies, Spunk's Groupies! Close enough, though.



New Mechanic Unlocked: Free Cam!

You can now Press C to freeze time and fly around the level! It's pretty neat being able to see broken things floating in the air, or freezing time right as you give Spunk a good, solid slap.



Other Stuff!
-We've expanded the Restraint level, now there are some secret tunnels to explore, now with Easter Eggs!
-Expanded Controller support: You can play the game a bit better with controller, but it's not fully integrated. You may still need a mouse for navigating the UI, for now at least.
-Secret ending expansion
-Resolution support! Finally, a basic staple of gaming has been added to GlitchSPANKR! Play the game in full screen. Play it in windowed mode! Play in any resolution you desire. Wow!




I wont spoil anything for the full game, so here are some screenshots of a few of the new levels!

Heyo Spankers!

I'm here to explain some new changes and updates. You can get the full list in depth explanation of changes and in game rewards with our monthly Newsletter Found Here, but I'll give a quick rundown!

Demo Changes
A few levels have been revamped as they felt a little boring. This includes the "Excited" and "Clubbing" level. Various other levels have been tweaked or upgraded with new art styles as well!

Different quality of life things have been added, such as allowing pausing/settings in the bedroom, adding the ability to skip Spunk's dialog with Q, redesigning secret areas to help catch the eye, and adding more intractables to play with.


The bigger change is the WIP addition of a Fan Art Gallery in the SPANKR H.Q.! It should be out next week and it will have a museum style location featuring each piece of fan art, Patreon reward submitted 3D models, Discord contest winners, content creator easter eggs, and Newsletter Subscriber art submissions.

Each "art installation" will showcase the art/model/Spank stick piece and the creators name and possible note.



That's all for now! The full Newsletter goes more in-depth (spoiler free) showing sneak peeks of various new levels, characters, and mechanics. This month even has a special Valentine's Day Spank stick with exclusive heart effects (so fancy!), along with how to get your grandparents IN GAME!

Next week will also have some updates and expansions to the demo, so stay tuned!

-Mahelyk

Hey there SPANKRs!

Exciting news! Matt from TheRealCivilEngineer played our demo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkVlGHWlK8Q

We've nearly had more traffic and Steam wishlists from this one video than we did from our award nominations with Indiecade 2024, and the video only came out a day ago!

This traffic brought in a ton of new players, and with that we even got some feedback and bug reports. It turned out when we fixed a bug, it caused a few more to pop up. The version RCE played in the video was older and those issues were fixed, but some new ones came up after that, namely getting soft-locked on the tower defense level when you unlocked collectibles.

Well that's fixed now! We've also fixed a few other things and some small quality of life changes.


What's Ahead
If you want to stay up to date, feel free to join our Newsletter or Discord! We post updates, have giveaways, and even give out codes for in game content! But self promotion aside, what's the future look like?
Newsletter Our Discord


Well this week we've been writing out and finalizing the full game. The demo has around 25 levels or so. As of writing this, the full game will have well over 100 different levels, around 10 different "endings", and 5 new characters, unseen in the demo (though some of the Newsletters mention some of them).

We've been loving all the positive feedback, and we're excited to make a game people hopefully love! We're at around 3,500 wishists, but Steam games tend to need 7000+ to make a splash on the algorithm. If you can, we'd appreciate if you shared our... strange little game with friends or influences, every bit helps!

Thanks again everyone, keep Spankin!
-Kyle Frost (Mahelyk)