Pro Wrestling X News

...kinda!

Later today I'll be opening a proper "Bleeding Edge" beta channel open to EVERYONE who purchased Pro Wrestling X here on Steam. I know some people were a bit confused about the new Patreon campaign we launched and some thought that anyone HAD to pay $1 to get build updates. OH HELL NO! Patreon supporters just get to play these bleeding edge updates early. After Patrons kick the builds around for a few days/weeks they will be posted here on Steam for EVERYONE :)

Turns out I sometimes communicate with y'all even worse than I trim my ear hair. Steam customers get the bleeding edge updates, too. Patrons just get them a few days early in exchange for tossing our crew a dollar towards continued development. It's working well so far! Thanks to Patreon $1 supporters we've delivered bleeding edge builds to them TWICE already since launching the campaign just a couple of weeks ago. Development is speeding along comfortably again and EVERYONE wins!

Also, I think I failed to mention that $1 Patreon supporters get an early peek at these builds, oh it's true, but they do not get the main public build that you all purchased here on Steam. Patreon is really meant for our supporters that were asking to contribute a little more to the crew to help speed up development again. So far so good. It's working!

Stay tuned. I'll post a proper announcement when the new bleeding edge beta channel and build update is ready for everyone :)

THANK AGAIN!
-Dave

Welcome to Newsletter #934!

That was THREE!
Steam Shit Show
Guest List

1) That was THREE!
****************
Daaaaamn, son! We released our first Patreon update just a few weeks ago. Our programmer delivered the SECOND update to the crew earlier this week. And just this morning as I was preparing to share that build with our Patrons I got a message from our lead programmer, Burning Devil, asking me to wait until he can get a THIRD and even better update ready for them instead later today. Ahem. To paraphrase arguably the greatest marionette movie ever made, “Burning Devil! FUCK YEAH!”

If all goes as planned we’ll have that build up for Patrons later today. NOICE! We’ll also be adding a new build for Steam customers who are not yet Patreon supporters as promised. On that note…


2) Steam Shit Show
**********
Pro Wrestling X supporter, Ivatopia, saved me from damn near nuking some of our builds on Steam today. I didn’t personally set up the various build depots we have on Steam and I’m now the guy handling that whole thing. So I nearly made a critically stupid error by assuming the ‘bleeding edge’ build channel was for actual bleeding edge builds. It is not. That’s what the ‘Discord Party’ channel was apparently set up for. I was about to rotate in the current Patreon bleeding edge build to the Steam bleeding edge channel and thereby nuke the build currently on that channel which is actually the last stable Unity 4 build...I think. I dunno that’s what it looks like. THANK YOU Ivatoptia for alerting me to that! I will therefore be creating an awesome NEW channel on Steam specifically for getting actual bleeding edge builds to our awesome Steam customers after our awesome Patrons have had their awesome sneak peek at them. Make sense? Not really? Don’t blame you. Short story: New Steam channel coming this weekend with a new build for y’all :)


3) Guest List
*****************
So f’n glad everyone is digging the first few episodes of my new Talk Shit podcast! The Sanders Keel and Mat Dickie episodes seem like they really hit their mark and I’m happy to share a short list of upcoming episodes with you all that have already been recently recorded or confirmed to be recorded soon:

Zeron: PWX Discord server admin asks me HARD questions about how we pissed off a lot of fans recently.
RetroMania Wrestling: Creator, Michael Herman talks $$$, WWE legal threats, and more.
Graphic Content UK: Owner Rich Baker talks about making money designing cool shit for PWTees, musicians, wrestlers, etc
Patrick Hickey Jr.: Author of Minds Behind The Games book series talked about his new book featuring the creators of Revenge, RAW, Showdown, and Royal Rumble while giving advice on how a wrestling fan can hustle like a bad-ass to make a living doing what you love.
Chikara Action Arcade Wrestling: Creator, Dave Horn, and I gossip like old ladies about wrestling game development, wrestling in general , running a business, and why we even bother at all.
Sanders Keel Part 2: Gonna be a good one ;)
Secret #1: I interview the creator of an unannounced wrestling game in development. The unique way this game intends to focus where no other game does looks pretty rad. Rad is still a word, yes?
Secret #2: I interview the person behind the future PWX DLC they asked us to develop for them FINALLY :)


4) Quotes of the Week
*****************
“A lion is fully capable of capturing, killing, and eating a field mouse. But it turns out that the energy required to do so exceeds the caloric content of the mouse itself. So a lion that spent its day hunting and eating field mice would slowly starve to death. A lion can’t live on field mice. A lion needs antelope. Antelope are big animals. They take more speed and strength to capture and kill, and once killed, they provide a feast for the lion and her pride. … So ask yourself at the end of the day, ‘Did I spend today chasing mice or hunting antelope?'” — Newt Gingrich


5) Question of the Week
******************
Got any suggestions for future podcast guests? Don’t be shy about aiming high. I like a good challenge.


In the meantime and in between time, that's it, another edition of
Wrestling Gamers United.

Thank you for your support,
Dave Wishnowski

PWX on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/ProWrestlingX

PWX on Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/ProWrestlingX

Follow Official PWX on Twitter!
http://twitter.com/prowrestlingx

Follow Dave Wishnowski on Twitter!
http://twitter.com/realwishnowski

PWX on Instagram!
https://www.instagram.com/prowrestlingx/

PWX and Talk Shit on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/user/PWXDave

PWX Official site!
http://www.prowrestlingx.com/

This pandemic and quarantine is looking to cost a lot of people their livelihoods. The PWX crew wants to help but as a humble little game developer we don't have much to offer other than the games we make.

That's why we are announcing today that we are working with Steam to indefinitely lower the price of our game to just $1 and, if they'll let us, we'll start giving it away completely for FREE. So if you've been planning to buy our game for a little entertainment while locked down PLEASE DON'T just yet. Use the money for something more important while we work to get PWX in your hands super inexpensively or free asap.

It will take a few days to for new pricing to take effect and we'll announce it here as soon as it drops. If you've already purchased our game here at full price or at a discount THANK YOU! You will still get all of the regular promised updates as they become available. If you purchased recently but wish you waited for a price drop it's totally cool to ask Steam for a refund and come back after the price change.

You're probably asking yourself how in the hell can we afford to keep working on updating the game if we give up all revenue? Good question! Short answer: We'll earn it the old fashioned way, by putting out regular updates that give you value and if you want to support more updates you'll soon be able to that because...

We're finally opening a much requested Patreon to accept support for quicker and more frequent updates. We'll ONLY be accepting $1 from you on Patreon and ONLY after we give you a new playable update! We love this because we take no payment up front from Patrons, we have to earn your $1 by delivering the goods!

And as a special gift from us you'll be getting a FREE copy of our long unavailable first game, Pro Wrestling X: Uprising totally on the house and one or two other surprises as we build out the Patreon page.

This is honestly scary for us. Giving our hard work away for next to nothing is a risky maneuver. But it's the right thing to do for our community and it's the right thing to do for us by making us accountable to keep updating the game if we ever want to leave our day jobs to work on Pro Wrestling X full time again. That's the dream. THANK YOU for supporting us all this time.

The world is changing. We can give up, blame this new reality, and no one would blame us.

Or we can choose to accept, adapt, and stay in the arena to fight another day with the best damn community of supporters on the planet.

We choose to fight.

THANK YOU!

p.s. Psssst Wanna have a heart attack and see some BRAND NEW stuff we're adding to PWX right NOW before anyone else? The Patreon page is officially LIVE right now even though we have more work to do on it before officially announcing it. If you check it out now you can see a video showing a few new things we've been working on and the last 30 seconds will show you something we've been dreaming of adding since we watched Ready to Rumble in 2000. Everyone who's seen it so far has lost their shit ;)

https://www.patreon.com/ProWrestlingX

And if you decide to sign up today for free you can snag the Uprising download right now. Should be working fine. Can you sign up for free, download Uprising, and then cancel before our next update? Yup. But you won't. Because Pro Wrestling X supporters are not twat waffles

1) Trashed
2) Congrats Mat!
3) Quote of The Week
4) Question of the Week


1) Trashed
***************
Why is the massive engine upgrade we’re in the middle of so important? More reasons than I will bore you with here. But overall performance is the main reason. Our current Steam build chokes hard and frame rate drops from all of the physics and things we ask of it. But check the video attached to this newsletter for a peek at a bleeding edge build in the new engine. How many weapons can you grab from behind the crowd barrier? ALL OF THEM! Even with the physics reactions set to 10 and things flying out of the way the frame rate holds. This matters now and will matter even more as we add more wrestlers in the ring, more moves, more interactive environments, more more MOAR :)

2) Congrats Mat!
*******
I fucking LOVE Mat Dickie! His recent award from YouTube is not well deserved...it’s well EARNED. Do we agree on everything under the sun? HELL NO! Who cares? Fact is, he didn’t let pussy internet trolls deter him from pursuing his vision and his goals. I can relate. Visions may differ and our unique life perspectives as well, but I would proudly fight alongside this man in any and every war against the keyboard chikenshits bleaking “give up!” while doing absolutely NOTHING to make the gaming world a better place.

https://youtu.be/fWnn5fj47wY

3) Quote of the Week
*****************
“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world” -Steve Jobs

4) Questions of the Week
*******************
AEW: a serious contender to dethrone the empire or another ‘ATM Eric’?


In the meantime and in between time, that's it, another edition of
Wrestling Gamers United.

Thank you for your support,
Dave Wishnowski

PWX on Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/ProWrestlingX

Follow Official PWX on Twitter!
http://twitter.com/prowrestlingx

Follow Dave Wishnowski on Twitter!
http://twitter.com/realwishnowski

PWX on Instagram!
https://www.instagram.com/prowrestlingx/

PWX on YouTube!
https://goo.gl/tUSG4w

PWX Official site!
http://www.prowrestlingx.com/

Welcome to Wrestling Gamers United Newsletter #927


1) Come Together
2) Refreshed
3) Quote of The Week
4) Question of the Week


1) Come Together
***************
Big thanks to the Pro Wrestling X crew for all coming together to Skype last week. It can be a real challenge with the team being separated by four time zones. Usually we all plan and discuss over development and funding strategy but I had to leave the meeting early and it was actually nice to have the art and programming guys just talk shop without my dumbass on the line all the time. They worked out a little hiccup with the main character file that was preventing some update progress for the programmer and it just went to show how much more these guys can get done when they can literally work together and communicate in real time.

The next meeting just a few days ago was without our lead programmer, unfortunately (damn his day job crunch). But we all agreed that getting crew paid to work some guaranteed hours is obviously important but we must also work towards getting people to work together at the same time as much as possible, especially for troubleshooting testing things back and forth.

Proud of the baby steps these guys consistently take for PWX. Just foaming at the mouth knowing what they can do when unleashed to work on PWX more often. Love these guys.

2) Refreshed
*******
Thank you to everyone and your positive reactions to the fresh coat of paint we’ve been putting on our social media stuff. We updated the classic PWX logo a while back and recently updated our N64-style header images as well. I love that image so much. It instantly and simply conveys the DNA of the project to anyone with a fondness for the AKI classics like we do. Huge props to our lead artist, Mr Wrestling 5, for helping freshen everything up especially with all of the new Steam page art asset requirements we needed to comply with. He da man!

3) Quote of the Week
*****************
“Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.” -James Clear
4) Questions of the Week
*******************
New Sony and Xbox consoles are on their way. Hearing a lot of people are in no big hurry to grab them at launch this generation. A real trend? Are people still perfectly happy with current gen? What about you?


In the meantime and in between time, that's it, another edition of
Wrestling Gamers United.

Thank you for your support,
Dave Wishnowski

PWX on Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/ProWrestlingX

Follow Official PWX on Twitter!
http://twitter.com/prowrestlingx

Follow Dave Wishnowski on Twitter!
http://twitter.com/realwishnowski

PWX on Instagram!
https://www.instagram.com/prowrestlingx/

PWX on YouTube!
https://goo.gl/tUSG4w

PWX Official site!
http://www.prowrestlingx.com/