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February 2015 gameplay trailer | Teaser teaser

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Players control Bathoryn, a hero in a Gothic world, seeking to liberate seven great towers.

Bathoryn must battle his way through a doomed land packed with gruesome pixel art foes before ascending (or sometimes descending) each tower, defeating puzzles, traps and monsters alike. At the heart of each keep, he must confront a mighty overlord. Defeat it and Bathoryn’s quest continues. Fail, and you’ll die gruesomely - mauled by werewolves, disintegrated by floating monstrosities, squashed by great weights or torn apart by hidden blades. And you will fail...

Reminiscent of classics like Altered Beast, Shadow of The Beast, and Ghosts 'n Goblins, the difficulty of the combat and platforming can best be described as... brutal. Save points help but they're rare. So it's down to you and your ability with a sword.

Platforms
PC, Mac, Linux: January 27, 2016
PS4/PS Vita/Xbox One/Wii U: approx. 2016

The game is split up into seven areas, each of which has two distinct and very different sections. The first (horizontal) section is your progression towards the tower and has larger focus on your combat skills, with many interesting and satisfying ways to die... If you complete this part and defeat that section's mini-boss, then you can begin to ascend the Tower. These Towers have a larger emphasis on platforming and timing with puzzles and a whole range of wonderfully creative (and deadly) traps. If you reach the the top of tower, your reward is to meet the area's overlord....

 

[ppor]

2D Castlevania? Sign me up!

 

[afternoon delight]

Backed with furious love, everything about this is what I'm looking for.

 

[snarge]

I love the deaths of the poor hero the most, haha.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Wow, this looks amazing. Pretty small goal too.

 

[afternoon delight]

Wow, this looks amazing. Pretty small goal too.

I think they said they were eighteen months into development? I really appreciate groups that present once they've already laid the foundations so well.

Edit: Might be worth mentioning the Xbox One port in its title? Or make that fact more prominent?

I think it'd help grabbing some of dem console dollars. I mean, I'm not doing anything with my key.

 

[More_Badass]

Wow, this looks amazing. Pretty small goal too.

Devs explain the goal and state of development here:

The Kickstarter funding will cover the team spending the next 3 months finishing the PC version, porting the console versions (if the interest is there) and helping pay for the game's music - which will comprise of orchestra and choir.

The risks relating to Slain! are small to non-existent. The project is already eighteen months into development and we estimate there are only three months left... so barring the death of one of the team members (erk!), the project will be shipping on PC in May 2015. Even with the untimely demise of a team member we will still release, hoping for a Tupac & Kurt Cobain-style postmortem sales spikes.

 

[Conezays]

Nice, looks awesome!

 

[ced]

Holy shit, that actually looks awesome unlike a lot of the pixel art games.

 

[lazygecko]

Loving those visuals.

 

[Haunted]

Looks fantastic.

 

[Agent Matt]

Been watching this one for a while. Backed without hesitation!

 

[scitek]

I like these games, but I'm tired of every single one thinking it has to be brutally hard.

 

[emag]

From the gameplay trailer, it goes a bit overboard on the lighting effects, doesn't it? I'm not fond of making games difficult by making the graphics hard to read. Likewise, attacks seem to lack the weight of something like Classicvania and movement feels like a PC platformer, overly smooth and without momentum.

Hopefully the final product will be great, though.

 

[969]

Backed the moment i read in their newsletter that the ks is up. This absolutely needs to happen.

 

[Pejo]

On topic: This really looks fantastic. I'll need to read up on the KS and back it later at home.

Off topic: How are you doing animated .jpg's?

 

[Draft]

Looks great. Hope that blood spray sound effect gets updated, though.

 

[afternoon delight]

Backed the moment i read in their newsletter that the ks is up. This absolutely needs to happen.

I feel this sentiment.

We will make it so.

 

[benny_a]

Off topic: How are you doing animated .jpg's?

They are gif files. The extension is just .jpg. The extension is unimportant for the majority of systems out there.

 

[More_Badass]

On topic: This really looks fantastic. I'll need to read up on the KS and back it later at home.

Off topic: How are you doing animated .jpg's?

Checked online and they're still gifs, but Imgur renames them as .jpg for some reason

 

[metsallica]

I think I'm in love.

 

[Imbarkus]

You got your Weaponlord on my Blackthorne! You got your Blackthorne in my Weaponlord!

Looks good to me.

 

[Draft]

Dae think the title is a not so subtle homage to this bamf?

 

[metsallica]

You got your Weaponlord on my Blackthorne! You got your Blackthorne in my Weaponlord!

Looks good to me.

You are speaking directly to my heart.

 

[Imbarkus]

Are boxed copies no longer a thing for KS's these days? Surprised not to see it as an option on there.

Still I'm in for at least a digital copy next payday. Thanks for the thread!

 

[More_Badass]

Oh, so it's not very clear, but it seems like Slain is also coming to Xbox One in September, according to the higher tiers

And the devs also want to bring the game to PS Vita

 

[jimboton]

Beautiful. it gives me amiga vibes more than anything else, you know Myth and stuff

Obvious instaback is obvious.

 

[Wolfgunblood Garopa]

$12k goal? How do we know they won't just take our pledges and buy a used car?

 

[BabyFaceKillah]

kinda reminds me of volgarr

 

[More_Badass]

$12k goal? How do we know they won't just take our pledges and buy a used car?

Serious or sarcasm? Can't tell

 

[Living Proof]

Backed @ $10. Would consider offering more if the incentives were actually worthwhile or there was a guaranteed PlayStation release.

 

[ced]

Oh, so it's not very clear, but it seems like Slain is also coming to Xbox One in September, according to the higher tiers

And the devs also want to bring the game to PS Vita

Any word on PS4?

 

[indigo-cyclops]

Will back, holy shit it looks beautiful. Amazing artwork. Love the split level concept.

 

[CHC]

Came in rolling my eyes at the "throwback" idea....

But THAT ART - holy moley, it's really amazing. This looks fucking great.

 

[FunkyPajamas]

Any word on PS4?

They want feedback from people backing to gauge interest.

 

[More_Badass]

Any word on PS4?

PC, Mac, Linux is a given. Xbox One is a given. And for PS4/Vita:

We also would also like to assess the interest in following the PC version up with a PS4/Vita version. Slain! on Xbox One is already going to be happening. So let us know if you would like to see this on your PS4 or Vita?

 

[drotahorror]

Looks amazing! Love this kind of stuff.

 

[Stainless]

"The Vita version is something that we are super super keen on, so we are really hoping the the funding reaches a point where we can make that happen."

"Feedback is key to making this game the best it can possibly be and we feel feedback from an active and engaged Kickstarter community is the best there is. We would also like to assess the interest in following the PC version up with a PS4/Vita version. Slain! on Xbox One is already going to be happening. So let us know if you would like to see this on your PS4 or Vita?"

Good stuff, the game looks great. I'll drop $10 for pc version but gonna let them know I would also love it on ps4.

Edit- beaten, maybe that should be added to the op

 

[Oneself]

I'd get that on PS4 for sure!!

 

[Auctopus]

Amazing art. Will pray for a PS4 version .

 

[More_Badass]

Added the platforms and release info to the OP

 

[Danneee]

Looks freaking awesome! I love that indies are heading to the 16/32 bit era.

 

[Moofers]

Dude that looks killer. I want that on PS4/Vita. I guess I could contribute to the KS and let them know I'm doing so with hopes for PS versions.

 

[Imbarkus]

$12k goal? How do we know they won't just take our pledges and buy a used car?

Serious or sarcasm? Can't tell

It's a pretty low number.

 

[8 X 11 Printer Paper]

$12k goal? How do we know they won't just take our pledges and buy a used car?

The 12k is just being used to help them for the next 3 months to finish the game for PC release. Also the kickstarter is there to help gauge interest in the console ports.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

That art is glorious. Right up my alley.

Why the limited tiers everywhere though? So weird.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Looks awesome. If it gets a release, I might pick this up. Love the pixel work.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

Love it

 

[Schryver]

Looks gorgeous

 

[afternoon delight]

It's already been designated a KS Staff Pick, I hope that goes a long way in securing backing.