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Security update

[p]The latest update addresses a serious Unity related security vulnerability. It was recently discovered that all Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android games made with Unity 2017 and later might have this security vulnerability. Unity released new editor versions that fixes it, but all affected games still need to be rebuilt with the recent editor. [/p][p][/p][p]So Pawn of the Dead is re-built with recent Unity versions that fixes the vulnerability. Clown House 1 was updated yesterday, the rest of Aslan Game Studio games in Steam will be updated, too. [/p][p][/p][p]Besides the security fix, some visual details are slightly improved. Smaller file and ranks on the chessboard is one of these improvements. [/p]

Land of the Crescent 2024 Broadcast

Land of the Crescent: Games from Türkiye aims to celebrate the versatility and hard work of Türkiye’s video game development community over the last decades. Pawn of the Dead is a part of this event.

Ahmet Kamil Keleş (lead developer of the game) will be playing it in a live Let's Play to celebrate this event. It will be broadcast in Steam and Aslan Game Studio's YouTube channel and Facebook page.

Remote Play Together Fest livestream



Pawn of the Dead will be a part of Steam's Remote Play Together Fest, which will be held during Feb 12-19.

Our Steam live stream is on Sunday, Feb 18 2024 GMT 16:30 (TSİ 19:30). We will be celebrating the anniversary of Pawn of the Dead's Steam release, as well.

Patch (February 2024)





Pawn of the Dead has a better gamepad support now. Issues about DualSense has been solved. At right upper corner, correct gamepad glyphs are shown. Gamepad can rumble, too!

Also, improvements on visuals, optimization are made and some minor bugs are fixed.

Native Silicon support for macOS, Improvements for Linux

macOS
Pawn of the Dead supports Silicon processors (M1, M2, etc.) natively now. It could already run on Macs with Silicon processors before, though, this update is about performance upgrade.

Linux
Pawn of the Dead's Linux port is built with IL2CPP backend, it was Mono before. And Vulkan works better (you can use -force-vulkan parameter to open the game with that). This update is about performance, as well.

Windows build didn't need any change.