Our tiny group put out Shoulders of Giants earlier this 12 months, and whereas the response from Xbox gamers has really been higher than we may have ever anticipated (on the time of writing our person evaluate rating is above 4.5!) there’s nonetheless 1,000,000 issues we’re dedicated to bettering.
That first massive set of enhancements debuts in our new The World is Alive 1.2 content material replace. Try the trailer above and maintain studying to our strategy to holding updates contemporary for our co-op roguelike.
I’m a agency believer that the surest means to enhance a murals 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 vital modifications to our already-released title. Right here’s the story:
At launch, our group 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 goals you undertake can get sort of same-y after a dozen hours.
All of us cope with criticism in a different way, however to me the criticism that basically will get into your head isn’t the loud, unhinged, and hateful type–it’s the delicate type that claims one thing deep down is true.
We, and our followers, each wished to take the extent environments and mission sorts to a better tier with our first massive 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 identify is sensible for those who’ve performed the sport) grew to become an exploration-heavy “hunt” mission with a deal with taking up harder foes with technique. Our very one-note “storm” mission kind 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 group, that is now their favourite mission to play.
However that wasn’t sufficient, to make the surfaces of those procedural planets extra meaningfully distinctive between runs, we’ve launched a brand new Planet Anomaly system that may utterly change how ranges behave–including meteor storms, indoor area battles, low gravity fights that take you into outer house, 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 simply the start! To maintain updated with our roadmap, take a look at the sport’s retailer web page and official web site, or be a part of our discord.
Shoulders of Giants
Shifting Items Interactive
$19.99
Concurrently management a sword-wielding robotic and a gunslinging house frog in Shoulders of Giants, an explosively colourful sci-fi roguelike. Play alone, with a buddy, or as a part of a four-person group, slicing by means of waves of enemies on a quest to rescue the galaxy!
The forces of Entropy are spreading chaos by means of the celebrities, corrupting residing planets and urging on the warmth demise of the universe. Led by the psychic Owl, one scrappy group of house survivors are preventing to revive the steadiness. A mysterious mech! A sharpshooting amphibian! Collectively they have to lower by means of waves of enemies and restore mild and life to the galaxy!
