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Update to version 1.0.2May 20, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsHola, amig@s! In this small 1.0.2 update we squashed some bugs and improved menu handling in pause: BUG - minor - when jumping on dialog init with NPCs char can stuck in the ground blocking other actions BUG - trivial - jumping on dialogue start may not display the very first message BUG - medium - when rushing through the objects in powerup mode char can be killed by the objects UI - reduce navigation delay in the pause menu Extra - entering dialogue mode with NPCs is improved Ensuring correct version 1.0.1May 13, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsEnsuring correct version 1.0.1Marketing package update to v1.0.1May 13, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsMarketing package update to v1.0.1Contest time!May 6, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsHello everybody! In order to celebrate the launch of Flippin Kaktus next week, we decided to spice things up and bring you even more excitement! Yes, that's right! Contest time! The rules of this contest are very simple. It's time to activate your creativity! What would one of our characters say to our spiky hero? And what would be the answer? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/a99edcaacf3ed1bd1b88cdb6782d12ae8043ca24.png All you need to do is to write your own text on the picture above and send a link to it in the comments. The contest lasts until the premiere day - 12.05.2022. We will announce the winners the day after. We have 5 Steam Keys to give away 🌵 Good luck and have fun!Flippin Kaktus Date RevealApr 20, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsHello everybody! It's been a while since we posted something here, but don't worry - the game is still in development and we are working on it as always, with great passion and involvement. This post will be special because we have amazing news for you! It's time to announce the Launch Date for Flippin Kaktus! Yes, the big day is coming! Flippin Kaktus launches May 12, 2022! We wanted to say a huge THANK YOU for wishlisting our game, it really means a lot. 🌵 We also prepared a date reveal trailer for you, so feel free to watch it down below and of course, leave the feedback - it's always appreciated! Thank you for reading, and have a nice day!Flippin Kaktus Steam Playtest is Here!Dec 9, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsWe are at an exciting time where we are almost ready for people to get a closer look at Flippin Kaktus! Our game has now been accepted onto the Steam Playtest feature. In light of this, we have decided to gather some feedback about gameplay, mechanics, and level design so that we can adjust it before the release.. If you are a fan of action-filled side-scrolling run-and-gun types of games we invite you to sign up for the playtest of the latest version of the game Playtest feature TODAY! From the 9st December, we will be granting access to a small group of you in order to get as much info about the game as possible. We will use this time to incorporate some fixes, and adjust the gameplay so that the game will shine! After playing the game you’ll be asked to do a quick survey - please fill in all the details and give us as much as you can - it will help the game, we promise :) Any further questions, please feel free to join the community discussion over in our Discord channel. Check out the Steam Playtest Q&A below for more details about it. Steam Playtest Q&A So what is Steam Playtest and how does it work? The Steam Playtest feature allows anyone interested in trying out Flippin Kaktus to enroll onto a list of playtesters from the Steam store page. Once enrolled, we will be giving playtesters access to the game in batches starting today. Steam will alert you once you have been accepted. Once you have been granted access, you will be able to play the full latest version of the game without any time limits for as long as we decide to run the playtest. How do I enroll as a playtester? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/f7e0e2674c1375b02aa24fe61dc800e3a24f88d3.jpg Visit the Flippin Kaktus page and you will find the option to enroll in the same location as the purchase button. Click the button to sign up and you’re all set. Once Steam notifies you that you have access, the game will be available to download in your library. You’ll also find the form for feedback here! https://forms.gle/dJ9omojQr8EkDjsk9 Flippin Kaktus pokes its way into the Indie Cup Event! + Screenshot ContestOct 7, 2021 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/be34cdd6691986690a8a72f61989c3318afd4e3e.png Hello, my cacti with or without black ties! First things first, I have to thank all of you for wishlisting the game here on Steam and for leaving feedback through the various top-or-not secret channels. Both of these things not only help me reach more people to share my labor of love with but also let me know that there are people out there who care! They care about something I made! It still feels crazy to this day, and I am so grateful to all of you for this crazy feeling, may it never go away. Now then, vamos al grano, as they say. Today I’m happy to announce that Flippin Kaktus is taking part in the Indie Cup Event on Steam that runs from 7th to 11th of October (aka it starts now!). I’m so excited for my game to reach more people, and I’m honored to participate in this competition. I hope I can count on your support and that you will cheer me and Flippin on in this contest. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/d1b3d2ef0f40f3be2eaa0cd68b4f23b86a1e9742.png Screenshot Contest Now, with that out of the way, I can share with you some other awesome news. We’re running a Screenshot Contest in which you can win a FREE key to Flippin Kaktus on the day of release! What should I do? 1. Download the demo here! 2. Take a cool and amazing screenshot by Steam overlay (default - click F12). 3. Make it public by clicking Views -> Screenshots and click “Upload” below your beautiful screenshot. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/cc08ab19462e7db662663fa9b0a211d273e6b4e8.png 4. Now all you need to do is to click “View Online”, copy the link to your screenshot and share it HERE. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/f22cc8a6bc7c04076659e45f3cc09f2fd136f83f.png You have time until October 13, we’ll announce the winner shortly after. Hope you’ll participate, and have fun doing so! Don’t let the kaktus sting you. ;) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/43f19112ac96bb4f11016306723de7c420d2b2d0.png That's all I’ve had to say for this announcement. If you haven’t played the demo yet - try it, if you have - leave some feedback here on the forums. I intently read and appreciate every single comment, even (or especially) the negative ones! It helps the game evolve, grow and improve and when the game improves - I improve. If you could also click that wishlist button, I cannot stress enough how much it helps with the game’s discoverability. And the more people discover it, the more will try the demo and leave feedback! Thank you for reading, and have a nice day, friends! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1119010/Flippin_Kaktus/FLIPPIN KAKTUS with the Best Audio award at Indie CupSep 16, 2021 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/e9de38ad3b917a416c24f74174a38f53fbf4b042.png GREAT NEWS! We're so happy to announce that our action-driven, pixel art game has been awarded in the BEST AUDIO category at Indie Cup. We couldn't be more proud of this distinction :) Check out the winners in all categories here: Cheers! rage++ & No Gravity Games https://store.steampowered.com/app/1119010/Flippin_Kaktus/Flippin Kaktus nominated in two categories at Indie Cup!!!Aug 12, 2021 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/d2941869537e7801354a53ab239f8ec673575528.png GREAT NEWS! Our platform game is nominated in two categories at Indie Cup and we can't express how much we're excited about it! Flippin Kaktus is nominated for: 🌵 BEST PC GAME 🌵 BEST AUDIO {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/5c323a00651a16caf487be0f4863d4c3c103db06.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/634b5660a6b0fef0e24ffc903e8c4b8e24726838.png Keep your fingers crossed for out little amazing, sometimes angry, cactus! Cheers! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1119010/Flippin_Kaktus/DevLog #1: The Rise of Kaktus!Jul 29, 2021 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/788343c03c0e458bc2a6365365ce6d0086fd9531.png Hello, my cacti with or without black ties and welcome to the first devlog, the Rise of Kaktus! First I’d like to thank everyone for leaving feedback on the forums, and wishlisting the game. I appreciate hearing from you guys, and the wishlists give me the motivation to keep working because I can see how many people appreciate what I do. But anyway, let’s get to the meat of this post. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/0f7fd92c493f5429973dd84881c1493ed362bc8a.gif Let’s go back in time... I’ve always wanted to make a game but I didn’t want to make it just for the sake of it. It needed to be something that comes from the heart, an expression of me as an author with all my quirks and special attention to detail. For example, the original "Flipping Cactus" is a joke image I made for fun. In it, a cactus plant (the stereotypical one with the "arms") has one thorn longer than others, which makes it look like it’s, well, flipping somebody off. Then, I got hit by this oxymoron-ish idea about a CACTUS drinking TEQUILA, and for whatever reason, it stuck with me long enough to get implemented into a game. Starting on this project was just a matter of me realizing I have all the resources to make it happen, and so when I did I got to work. There was a lot to learn because I had to do most of the stuff myself. Working on the small pieces and big features, sketching the art, producing the music, learning scripting and storytelling, and finally assembling it all together into its final shape was huge amounts of hard work but seeing the game progress and having that feeling of “it’s real, I made this” kept me going. But why Kaktus? It’s not much of a story, at the time I was learning German, and "Kaktus" is the German word for "cactus". {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/b59a611d50912ad02e4ccba6e8ad8789ce2ff080.gif The roots of the problem To say that I had a full picture of how “Flippin Kaktus” is going to look like when I started, would be a huge exaggeration. In the beginning, it was just a bunch of ideas and gimmicks that I thought would make for a cool game, swirling around in my head, some of them half-formed, subconscious. My inspirations though? There were many. Some, like Robocop and Scarface, were more direct, others like Breaking Bad, Half-Life, or For Whom The Bell Tolls (the book, not the song), less so. In retrospect, I can say that the styles of Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, and Matthew Vaughn movies had a lot of influence on the style of the game. Honestly, it’s impossible to name all of the inspirations that culminated in Flippin Kaktus, so I should just stop trying. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/01463f67a6caa6bbb9c7af152312a1d461555112.gif Trials and tribulations The biggest challenge for me was keeping a good work-life balance, and reigning myself in whenever I had too many crazy ideas. It would be nice to implement everything that pops into my mind but I’m just one man, already learning too m...Flippin Kaktus - Progress Update #3Oct 31, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsHi there! In this weekly progress update we'd like to share with you the latest news of the game development. Added flag for the helper to enable/disable via script; Added mechanism of smashing beasts by pushing the wagon; Added refactor stories output, skipping text and slides; Changed alpha of blur layer for deep undergrounds; Added simplify of anger and HP mods logic. And a few new NPCs added: NPC Cactus ghost that scares enemies; Padre NPC char; NPC Splinter + Pixel art update; NPC Survivor; Thank you for staying, see you in the next update! Yours, Flippin Kaktus Dev. Team Flippin Kaktus - Progress Update #2Oct 24, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsHi there! In this weekly progress update we'd like to share with you the latest news of the game development. Updated game core - player progress save, statistics, records, delete some progress on a new game: Added rare power-ups that modify the character's health and rage; Added game finished, level and max level settings; Added level statistics after completion; Added enemy kills counter, powerup counter, time counter, and player deaths counter; Added refactor settings and default settings. And a few other updates: Adjusted blood particles flow when filled by a dash and / bullet; Added camera mechanism - pan, move to, move to a player; Added Ghost helper function; Ghost attack - sound FX added; Thank you for staying, see you in the next update! Yours, Flippin Kaktus Dev. Team Flippin Kaktus - Progress Update #1Oct 16, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsHi there! In this weekly progress update we'd like to share with you the latest news of the game development. Added PostFX for the main menu; Set horizon levels for the birds to prevent flying on and under the ground; Added bounce effect for TNT/grenade; Added zoom in / zoom out camera mechanism. Few dialogue improvements: Dialogue mechanism - enabled widescreen stripes and initialization talk sequence; Added the mechanism for turning off the music volume during the dialogue, and turning it on after. Correction player's position when the dialogue starts in front of NPC; Thank you for staying, see you in the next update! Yours, Flippin Kaktus Dev. Team Flippin Kaktus Discord Q&A sessionOct 7, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsHello there! In connection with the Steam Game Festival, we are also launching a Q&A session with the developer of Flippin Kaktus! We would like to invite you on 10.09 Friday from 2:00 AM (PDT) to 11:00 AM (PDT) in our discord channel where this event will be held in text format. Link to join the Guise discord: https://discord.gg/uZsZzaR Thanks for your support! Sincerely, Flippin Kaktus Dev. TeamFlippin Kaktus Steam Game Festival Live StreamOct 7, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsHello there! We are happy to announce our participation in the Steam Game Festival! In connection with this event, we encourage everyone who follows our game to join Flippin Kaktus Steam Game Festival Live Stream. The broadcast will be on Steam from Friday 2:00 AM (PDT) to Sunday 11:00 AM (PDT). It will be interesting and informative, we're waiting for all of you to come! Thank you for staying with us! Sincerely, Flippin Kaktus Dev. TeamFlippin Kaktus goes to DevGAMMOct 18, 2019 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/133d3704a113ab8be540f26c8a39c4ff8d343361.png Short but important update for us! Flippin Kaktus goes to DevGamm in about a month. We received quiet good feedback at Digital Dragons this year, but guess what - it gets better every day! Looking forward to see you at Showcase, present unseen features and majorly updated gameplay and maybe even fantasize about concrete release date ;) Here's link to the official site: https://devgamm.com/minsk2019/ And as usual, most current updates on Twitter! ¡Hasta luego! Thug city level and Robo armorOct 14, 2019 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/0f7fd92c493f5429973dd84881c1493ed362bc8a.gif Hey there amigos! Long time no see, right? Buried in tasks and feature updates rushing towards you: Gene K is here with another dev diary session and some general updates from the Flippin world! We're finalizing thug city level, which was really really a challenge, but sure is inspiring and rewarding (in XP and more inspiration). We've added 2 new armors: one is a heavy barrel that reflects bullets and smashed enemies below. Another one is inspired by sci-fi action masterpiece from 1987 - Robocop. It's a bit bizzare when you know that game action happens in 1984, but it's fun, just let it go! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35457696/d404bbc28d58c0bd9440be5ab34de2008b84e407.jpg This badass Robo suit allows Kaktus to use actual weaponry and has decent shielding that protects from bullets, fire and even missiles, launched from the brand new missile turrets. What's next? We're going back to 1914 to create levels in mountain area where Kaktus learns to handle a shot of tequila and fight back those rascals. As usual, most recent and very graphical updates can be found on Twitter, so check it out 😉 Stay brutal!

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