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Long Live Long Live Santa! Come play tomorrow!Dec 31, 2018 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31386754/50175e49ea559e975d604d1a9b26a422f652c29c.jpg Ho ho hoooooooooooOOO! Long time no SLEIGH. It's been just over a year since we released Long Live Santa!, an experimental game we built in just under a month to see if we could learn enough multiplayer game development to feel confident adding multiplayer to our main, paid game: Clone Drone in the Danger Zone. As it turned out -- we could! So last year we went to work adding multiplayer to Clone Drone. We converted the whole game over to support multiplayer, and even added dedicated server support. We began by adding 1v1 duels, then built a 15 player fast-battle-royale-style massacre called Last Bot Standing. We even made it so you could use the game's built-in level editor to add MULTIPLAYER LEVELS TO THE STEAM WORKSHOP, and began hosting level creation community events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNMs8FTouLk The most recent level event was METAL CHRISTMAS, and resulted in some seasonal multiplayer Christmas levels being added to Clone Drone (some with some major Long Live Santa! vibes): https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31386754/745093e3859e1ea7b47351e63c090442477a8044.jpg Tomorrow, let's play Long Live Santa! I've loved hearing from a handful of you Long Live Santa! players this year that you remember the game fondly and even went so far as wishing for new content or features to be added to the LLS game. We definitely considered adding something this December (and would have loved to), but unfortunately this year because we're such a small team we didn't have the manpower to split off from Clone Drone to make changes. Who knew -- developing a single- AND multi- player game takes your full attention! :) Maybe once we're further along in Early Access and/or have fully released Clone Drone we can do something to revisit LLS! THAT SAID! How about this -- Tomorrow (January 1st), in the spirit of the holiday season: let's all dust off our copies of Long Live Santa! and relive the former Santa-natural-selection glory. Bring a friend. Grow a beard. Saddle up your reindeer. See you in the Norwegian wilderness! Follow along with our work: Clone Drone 34% off for the Winter Sale If you'd like to continue following our Early Access development on Clone Drone in the Danger Zone, the game is 34% off for the next few days as part of the Steam Winter Sale. It's a great time to enter the arena. See you in the snow, or in the robo-space-arena, or otherwise with whatever wacky game experiment we might do in the future! Thanks everyone for making Long Live Santa! such a fun experiment for us last year. What is going on! We love you all. (Tiny Bugfix Update 0.1.0)Jan 1, 2018 - Community Announcementshttp://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31386754/69944cd6ab548834040a52d7d0b9f57c4e26f4aa.png Just over a month ago, we announced we’d be tackling adding multiplayer to our voxel-based “slice anything with a laser sword” Early Access game Clone Drone in the Danger Zone—and to learn the principles of multiplayer game development, we’d first create a simple test game. Instead of throwing the prototype away, we decided to quickly publish it for free on Steam! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31386754/50175e49ea559e975d604d1a9b26a422f652c29c.jpg Less than a month of development later, & two weeks after launch, Long Live Santa! has now been installed by over 100,000 players?? http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31386754/c6faeababc5e68f4869bac12dce401eac71c59ea.png Early reviews from you rowdy bunch claim such definitely-not-joking things as: “10/10 better than PUBG confirmed” “Definitely better than PUBG” “PUBG has a rival” Special tip of the hat to all you brave souls who hung around to play this game when few others were playing, and all you ever-loyal Clone Drone players in the beta test. Quick bugfix update - 0.1.0 We released a teeny tiny update last week, which should hopefully help with (1) the F button sometimes not registering for picking things up and (2) failure to join games should now display an error message instead of... crashing the entire game. Thanks so much to everyone for sharing your ideas for the game, bug reports, & breakdowns of hacks/cheats -- keep em coming! To be honest, we are a little bummed we can’t spend more time fleshing Long Live Santa out... it’s hard to resist the urge to keep iterating indefinitely. We’ve had a ton of fun playing LLS ourselves, & see as much potential in the game as many of you do. Perhaps we will get a chance to iterate more on Long Live Santa next Christmas (or “Christmas in July”)? In the meantime, we have no plans to stop the Santa-punching-party prematurely, so keep sleighin’, friends! Lessons learned, now on to Clone Drone Multiplayer! This month we start designing and building Clone Drone’s multiplayer integration, using what we learned from the good and bad parts of Long Live Santa to make it amazing. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31386754/6832af2d4cd9e413cbeaa4abe111357ecd5962d9.png Start your Clone Drone training before everyone else While you may have swung a sword or two in LLS, Clone Drone in the Danger Zone’s laser sword is a skill-heavy weapon takes practice to master. Now while we’re busy working on adding multiplayer, it’s not a bad idea to start training with Clone Drone’s single-player Story, Challenge, Endless, and Twitch Modes. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31386754/7616a471b00d4b22af528cdd68562f40555b39a9.gif If you want to start now, it’s currently 34% off, its biggest Steam Store discount to ...What is going on! We love you all. (Tiny Bugfix Update 0.1.0)Jan 1, 2018 - Community Announcementshttp://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31386754/69944cd6ab548834040a52d7d0b9f57c4e26f4aa.png Just over a month ago, we announced we’d be tackling adding multiplayer to our voxel-based “slice anything with a laser sword” Early Access game Clone Drone in the Danger Zone—and to learn the principles of multiplayer game development, we’d first create a simple test game. Instead of throwing the prototype away, we decided to quickly publish it for free on Steam! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31386754/50175e49ea559e975d604d1a9b26a422f652c29c.jpg Less than a month of development later, & two weeks after launch, Long Live Santa! has now been installed by over 100,000 players?? http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31386754/c6faeababc5e68f4869bac12dce401eac71c59ea.png Early reviews from you rowdy bunch claim such definitely-not-joking things as: “10/10 better than PUBG confirmed” “Definitely better than PUBG” “PUBG has a rival” Special tip of the hat to all you brave souls who hung around to play this game when few others were playing, and all you ever-loyal Clone Drone players in the beta test. Quick bugfix update - 0.1.0 We released a teeny tiny update last week, which should hopefully help with (1) the F button sometimes not registering for picking things up and (2) failure to join games should now display an error message instead of... crashing the entire game. Thanks so much to everyone for sharing your ideas for the game, bug reports, & breakdowns of hacks/cheats -- keep em coming! To be honest, we are a little bummed we can’t spend more time fleshing Long Live Santa out... it’s hard to resist the urge to keep iterating indefinitely. We’ve had a ton of fun playing LLS ourselves, & see as much potential in the game as many of you do. Perhaps we will get a chance to iterate more on Long Live Santa next Christmas (or “Christmas in July”)? In the meantime, we have no plans to stop the Santa-punching-party prematurely, so keep sleighin’, friends! Lessons learned, now on to Clone Drone Multiplayer! This month we start designing and building Clone Drone’s multiplayer integration, using what we learned from the good and bad parts of Long Live Santa to make it amazing. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31386754/6832af2d4cd9e413cbeaa4abe111357ecd5962d9.png Start your Clone Drone training before everyone else While you may have swung a sword or two in LLS, Clone Drone in the Danger Zone’s laser sword is a skill-heavy weapon takes practice to master. Now while we’re busy working on adding multiplayer, it’s not a bad idea to start training with Clone Drone’s single-player Story, Challenge, Endless, and Twitch Modes. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31386754/7616a471b00d4b22af528cdd68562f40555b39a9.gif If you want to start now, it’s currently 34% off, its biggest Steam Store discount to ...

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