Our tiny crew put out Shoulders of Giants earlier this 12 months, 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 1,000,000 issues we’re dedicated to enhancing.
That first massive set of enhancements debuts in our new The World is Alive 1.2 content material replace. Check out the trailer above and hold studying to our strategy to conserving updates recent for our co-op roguelike.
I’m a agency believer that the surest means to enhance a murals is to seek out its weakest components 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 crew was content material with Shoulders of Giants’s improvisational fight and sturdy development system. When the critiques began coming in, nevertheless, one pattern emerged: gamers really feel the worlds you discover and the mission aims you undertake can get type of same-y after a dozen hours.
We all take care of criticism in another way, however to me the criticism that actually will get into your head isn’t the loud, unhinged, and hateful type–it’s the delicate type 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 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 title is sensible should you’ve performed the sport) grew to become an exploration-heavy “hunt” mission with a give attention to taking up more durable foes with technique. Our very one-note “storm” mission sort that after challenged gamers to run round in a darkish procedural world via a dense thunderstorm looking for an exit is now a way more guided expertise constructed round defending climate probes from enemy onslaughts–for many of our crew, that is now their favourite mission to play.
But 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 can’t spoil right here.
We’re extraordinarily excited to get this out to our followers. This replace is simply the start! To hold updated with our roadmap, take a look at 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 house frog in Shoulders of Giants, an explosively colourful sci-fi roguelike. Play alone, with a pal, or as a part of a four-person crew, chopping via waves of enemies on a quest to rescue the galaxy!
The forces of Entropy are spreading chaos via the celebs, corrupting dwelling planets and urging on the warmth dying of the universe. Led by the psychic Owl, one scrappy crew of house survivors are preventing to revive the stability. A mysterious mech! A sharpshooting amphibian! Together they need to reduce via waves of enemies and restore gentle and life to the galaxy!
