Our tiny staff put out Shoulders of Giants earlier this yr, and whereas the response from Xbox gamers has truly been higher than we may have ever anticipated (on the time of writing our consumer evaluation rating is above 4.5!) there’s nonetheless one million issues we’re dedicated to bettering.
That first huge set of enhancements debuts in our new The World is Alive 1.2 content material replace. Check out the trailer above and preserve studying to our method to retaining updates contemporary for our co-op roguelike.
I’m a agency believer that the surest means to enhance a piece of artwork is to search out its weakest parts and attempt to flip these into its strongest. That’s precisely what we aimed to do on this long-coming replace, working tirelessly to merge participant suggestions with our personal to make some important adjustments to our already-released title. Here’s the story:
At launch, our staff was content material with Shoulders of Giants’s improvisational fight and strong development system. When the evaluations began coming in, nevertheless, one pattern emerged: gamers really feel the worlds you discover and the mission aims you undertake can get sort of same-y after a dozen hours.
We all cope with criticism otherwise, however to me the criticism that basically will get into your head isn’t the loud, unhinged, and hateful sort–it’s the delicate sort that claims one thing you understand deep down is true.
We, and our followers, each needed to take the extent environments and mission sorts to a better tier with our first huge content material replace. We began by taking our less-loved mission sorts and redid them from scratch.
Our combat-focused “butterfly collector” mode (belief me, the title is smart when you’ve performed the sport) grew to become an exploration-heavy “hunt” mission with a deal with taking over more durable foes with technique. Our very one-note “storm” mission sort that when challenged gamers to run round in a darkish procedural world by means of a dense thunderstorm searching for an exit is now a way more guided expertise constructed round defending climate probes from enemy onslaughts–for many of our staff, that is now their favourite mission to play.
But that wasn’t sufficient, to make the surfaces of these procedural planets extra meaningfully distinctive between runs, we’ve launched a brand new Planet Anomaly system that may fully change how ranges behave–including meteor storms, indoor area battles, low gravity fights that take you into outer area, and a few extraordinarily goofy enterprise that I cannot spoil right here.
We’re extraordinarily excited to get this out to our followers. This replace is just the start! To preserve updated with our roadmap, test out the sport’s retailer web page and official web site, or be part of our discord.
Shoulders of Giants
Moving Pieces Interactive
$19.99
Simultaneously management a sword-wielding robotic and a gunslinging area frog in Shoulders of Giants, an explosively colourful sci-fi roguelike. Play alone, with a pal, or as half of a four-person staff, chopping by means of waves of enemies on a quest to rescue the galaxy!
The forces of Entropy are spreading chaos by means of the celebs, corrupting residing planets and urging on the warmth loss of life of the universe. Led by the psychic Owl, one scrappy staff of area survivors are combating to revive the steadiness. A mysterious mech! A sharpshooting amphibian! Together they need to lower by means of waves of enemies and restore mild and life to the galaxy!
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