Update 1.2May 2, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsHey everyone! After listening to your feedback, we thought up a bunch of ways to greatly improve Spirit of Shotgun’s player experience. The changes in Update 1.2 include: A new cinematic introduction – We felt like the story and the game environments we’ve spent a lot of time developing haven’t received enough of a spotlight and were presented rather vaguely. This addition was made to address that. A whole new player camera! – After watching more and more people play the game, we often saw players struggle with the controls when moving in-between the “screen-areas” of the game. We decided that the old-school aesthetic we were going for with the camera style impacted the gameplay negatively – outweighing the positives, and so chose to go for a more modern player-follow camera instead. The classic camera is always available in the main menu settings. An easier introduction for new players – Some players found the game’s controls too difficult to learn in the very beginning. To address this, we used a system that was already present in the game – the random chance to be “saved” by the Spirit was greatly increased in the first stage of the game. New dialogue – Most of the dialogue in the game was rewritten in a more fitting style. Expanded multiplayer – Up to 6 players can now play together in the same lobby. Game optimization, bugs and minor changes – Some players disliked that collectibles would not transfer to a new game after beating the story once. Collectibles now carry over to new save files. Minor improvements to performance and game-stability have been made. Thank you to everyone who bought the game and all those who’ve left us a review! It’s now a better time to play Sprit of Shotgun than ever, so we hope you come back and test your patience on the climb once more! Future of Spirit of ShotgunMar 11, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsHey everyone! With the game’s launch underway, we’d like to share some info about planned future updates and the new content you can expect from us later this year. Allthough Spirit of Shotgun is a fully finished game, we want you to come back to it once in a while even after beating it – to check out some of our planned free content updates. It is vital to us for you to get your money’s worth after you entrust us with your purchase, and you can expect the game to grow as months pass by. Some of our planned features are: A New Game+ mode – with increases to difficulty and new special rewards and collectibles. A new, more elaborate story driven expansion – 8 new stages with new game mechanics, collectibles and secrets. This will be released for free to all previous game owners, and as a paid DLC for new players. A custom map creator / level editor. Use premade tilesets and assets to create your own maps and publish them for other players to experience! This update will come for free later on. Being a small-scale studio, we don’t want to overpromise anything. However, regardless of the game’s success, you can expect quick hot-fixes, optimization patches and launches on other platforms in the weeks and months to come. Spirit of Shotgun is a though challenge to master – believe us when we say we’ve gotten mad playing our own game - too many times to count. Therefore, we wish you the best of luck and hope to see you at the surface! A heartfelt thank you from Maroš and Daniel at Vever!
