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Slain - A homage to gory hack-&-slash games of the 80's & 90's (Out now on PS4)
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No prob...happy to go over anything again!
Glad to see a post for this on GAF. I was literally the first backer when it went up. Can't wait.also cool to see the ps versions announced.
Ha hi Slasher you certainly were the first! Much obliged! This was you http://puu.sh/geR9q/bdeafa8620.png
SlasherJPC
Banned
More_Badass
Member
From the comments, seems like Wii U and 3DS versions will be part of the stretch goals
Also here's the list of release dates for confirmed platforms:
PC, Mac, Linux: approx. May 2015
Xbox One: approx. September 2015
PS Vita: approx. September 2015
PS4: approx. December 2015
Also here's the list of release dates for confirmed platforms:
PC, Mac, Linux: approx. May 2015
Xbox One: approx. September 2015
PS Vita: approx. September 2015
PS4: approx. December 2015
Vindicator
Member
This looks fantastic, like Myth + Moonstone.
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
Fantastic art design. If the "brutal difficulty" is fair in the same way Volgarr the Viking was, then I'll be enjoying this a bunch.
afternoon delight
Member
I'm all for difficulty but that game fucking broke me
Oniken however is a much better example in my eyes... And coordinated hands.
After playing Turtles in Time last night I have to agree with the idea to speed up the attack and movement speed by maybe a tenth or so, just a little faster. Nothing beats that instant swing/button press reactivity.
FlyingSaucer
Banned
Looks sexy as hell, in a Amiga/Shadow of the Beast kind of way.
jackissocool
Member
Art style is incredible. So beautiful. Not sure I'd dig the actual combat, though.
I'm in when it's released.
More_Badass
Member
New screenshot. Seems like you can buff your sword with a flame modifier
8 X 11 Printer Paper
Member
Game is shaping up nicely, will be part of my Kickstarter Picks for March article.
immortal-joe
Member
Vita you say? Money in process of being thrown.
Stilton Disco
Member
Looks awesome, and hits all my nostalgia buttons. In for the Vita version!
Sidewinder
Member
Hi chaps, I just posted this to the Kickstarter page so thought I'd copy it here too, hope its interesting to you.
I just wanted to talk a little about how Slain! and I came to be.I have been making games for years. I made my first game, which was just a bunch of text strings, on a ZX81 when I was eleven years old. Even though we had no internet connection, as there was no internet, I managed to fool my parents into thinking I had hacked into their bank account and was transferring thousands of pounds into the account. Then, a message came up saying I was being traced and the police were on their way. My parents flipped, and I thought it was great fun! From that point, I knew I wanted to make games.
At that time, computer magazines contained pages of code that you could type in to make your own games. I would buy the magazine, spend my time typing thousands of lines of code into my Spectrum, and give them to my friends to play. Once again, great fun!
I left school when I was fifteen, and had several jobs before I managed to get my first job in the industry at Imagitek Design at the age of nineteen. We worked in an old mill house in the North of England. I became a sprite animator there putting my training in martial arts to good use and learning all I could about games, art, and life. It was an invaluable experience.
I quit working in the mainstream games industry about four years ago. The industry, to me, had become stale. At that point, I was making assets from other peoples concepts for other peoples games. I was essentially, a 3D printer producing game-ready art. I missed small, effective teams, where I got to design, build, and animate my own creations. And I was tired of being told, Andrew, I think this is a little bit dark, can you make it more...um cute? About two years ago, I started designing Slain! which was then called The Seven Towers. I wanted to make a dark, Gothic, side-scroller using pixel art influenced by the music of Metal. I had made many games back in the day using pixel art and I wanted to do all the things I could not do back then using todays tools and Fxs in an old-school looking game.
So, I set off on my adventure into indie game development. I spent many days alone in my room cranking out art to the sounds of Candlemass, My Dying Bride, Katatonia, Anathema, Iced Earth, Entombed, Bathory, and Satyricon, to mention a few. After about a year of work, Slain! was starting to gain some interest from the right people. It seemed others were also in to dark games, Metal and pixels. So my direction changed a bit, to not only make the game for me but for others who shared my love for these things.
Of course, I could not do this alone and finding people willing to leave their cushy industry jobs to work with a wild-card developer was difficult. I would show all my friends my work on Slain!, and ask for help with the code side of things, or the business side of things, so I could focus on the art and game. Then one day my good friend, Asa Dang, gets back to me and offers to help! Shortly after, he left his awesome job at Rockstar to work full-time at Wolfbrew, bringing with him years of coding experience and an unusual tolerance for my personality. Around the same time, I was approached by Nick Alfieri from Digerati with an E-mail that said something like, I want to have sex with your game. This was the final piece, Nick bought his business development and marketing skills to Wolfbrew, allowing us to focus on making the game.
We are now running a Kickstarter campaign to fund Slain! for a few more months and test out the market to see what the gamers think of Slain! I hope you that gave you a little insight to the origins of Slain! and we hope to see you all in the Slain! community soon. Thx
Nick here now! I also posted this on our blog last night, please have a look through it...it should give a little bit of an explanation on why our tiers are as they are! http://www.wolfbrewgames.com/slain/kickstarter-update/
Hey everyone Andrew here, aka Mrawolf....I just wanted to talk a little about how Slain! and I came to be.I have been making games for years. I made my first game, which was just a bunch of text strings, on a ZX81 when I was eleven years old. Even though we had no internet connection, as there was no internet, I managed to fool my parents into thinking I had hacked into their bank account and was transferring thousands of pounds into the account. Then, a message came up saying I was being traced and the police were on their way. My parents flipped, and I thought it was great fun! From that point, I knew I wanted to make games.
At that time, computer magazines contained pages of code that you could type in to make your own games. I would buy the magazine, spend my time typing thousands of lines of code into my Spectrum, and give them to my friends to play. Once again, great fun!
I left school when I was fifteen, and had several jobs before I managed to get my first job in the industry at Imagitek Design at the age of nineteen. We worked in an old mill house in the North of England. I became a sprite animator there putting my training in martial arts to good use and learning all I could about games, art, and life. It was an invaluable experience.
I quit working in the mainstream games industry about four years ago. The industry, to me, had become stale. At that point, I was making assets from other peoples concepts for other peoples games. I was essentially, a 3D printer producing game-ready art. I missed small, effective teams, where I got to design, build, and animate my own creations. And I was tired of being told, Andrew, I think this is a little bit dark, can you make it more...um cute? About two years ago, I started designing Slain! which was then called The Seven Towers. I wanted to make a dark, Gothic, side-scroller using pixel art influenced by the music of Metal. I had made many games back in the day using pixel art and I wanted to do all the things I could not do back then using todays tools and Fxs in an old-school looking game.
So, I set off on my adventure into indie game development. I spent many days alone in my room cranking out art to the sounds of Candlemass, My Dying Bride, Katatonia, Anathema, Iced Earth, Entombed, Bathory, and Satyricon, to mention a few. After about a year of work, Slain! was starting to gain some interest from the right people. It seemed others were also in to dark games, Metal and pixels. So my direction changed a bit, to not only make the game for me but for others who shared my love for these things.
Of course, I could not do this alone and finding people willing to leave their cushy industry jobs to work with a wild-card developer was difficult. I would show all my friends my work on Slain!, and ask for help with the code side of things, or the business side of things, so I could focus on the art and game. Then one day my good friend, Asa Dang, gets back to me and offers to help! Shortly after, he left his awesome job at Rockstar to work full-time at Wolfbrew, bringing with him years of coding experience and an unusual tolerance for my personality. Around the same time, I was approached by Nick Alfieri from Digerati with an E-mail that said something like, I want to have sex with your game. This was the final piece, Nick bought his business development and marketing skills to Wolfbrew, allowing us to focus on making the game.
We are now running a Kickstarter campaign to fund Slain! for a few more months and test out the market to see what the gamers think of Slain! I hope you that gave you a little insight to the origins of Slain! and we hope to see you all in the Slain! community soon. Thx
Nick here now! I also posted this on our blog last night, please have a look through it...it should give a little bit of an explanation on why our tiers are as they are! http://www.wolfbrewgames.com/slain/kickstarter-update/
Neat stuff. Always fun to read about people with similar backgrounds. I remember typing programs from magazines into a TRS-80 when I was like, 10 years old or so.
Incidentally, I was pointed to this thread via the GAF Metal Thread. It's a (mostly) friendly metal community and I've found it to be a good source of listening suggestions over the years.
More_Badass
Member
New info on defense
And more info on the game's gore and combat
And more info on the game's gore and combat
afternoon delight
Member
So. Very. Close.
Hopefully a string of updates will push us over ZE TOP.
Hopefully a string of updates will push us over ZE TOP.
afternoon delight
Member
35$ so I can playtest and give feedback- PC only so no need for console keys.
hmmm I should consider that
More_Badass
Member
11k! So close now
Devs said in the comments that they'll revealing the stretch goals on Monday or Tuesday
And here's some cool Slain artwork:
Devs said in the comments that they'll revealing the stretch goals on Monday or Tuesday
And here's some cool Slain artwork:
afternoon delight
Member
Like Odin with a giant f'ing sword.
swooooon
swooooon
More_Badass
Member
Where do you work that indie devs just waltz in for a chat?
More_Badass
Member
New screenshots!
More_Badass
Member
New info on combat
And currently less than $300 to go till reaching the funding goal!
And currently less than $300 to go till reaching the funding goal!
afternoon delight
Member
So. Very. Close!
SLAIN! has just passed its funding goal!
Stretch goals to be announced very soon.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1348640000/slain
Stretch goals to be announced very soon.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1348640000/slain
threelights
Member
Yooo, never heard of this before.
It looks quite fun.
Congrats on the funding too. I'll be there to play it for sure.
It looks quite fun.
Congrats on the funding too. I'll be there to play it for sure.