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Working on Savior!

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Despite a challenging year, Team Savior continues to bring the dream of this 80s kid to life. To everyone who has stuck with us: thank you.
We’re fighting to the end. Happy 2025!

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We're closing in on Savior's first public Demo!
Details in our February update here:
https://t.co/93s79QeBbh

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@RealLifeFakeWiz Help us Fake Wizard, you're our only hope! https://t.co/Eje3mV3HnT

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@MrAwolf Always so gloriously dramatic. Love it!

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@day_patch Yes, I played through half of Katana...thanks for the reminder.
I don't care for hit-stops...but I know they are in the biggest modern MetroidVanias.

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Anyone have examples of 'dramatic' slow-mo working well in 2D-Action games? I love the idea of it, but it's been tricky to make it not annoying in the heat of battle.
#ScreenShotSaturday #SaviorGame

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@Liquish40 Thanks for sticking with us long enough to catch that. I don't even think we improved it : O
We've got lots more newer clips over at https://t.co/e6BNccl3ua
I invite you to poke around.

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@ia97lies Exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for, thanks Christian.

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@SongbirdPro @johnnycookiedoe Thanks for the feedback. My thinking was that the slow-down would trigger when you'd hit the dodge perfectly, then you'd get a reward for that (other than not getting skewered by an arrow).

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@johnnycookiedoe Thanks for the feedback Teemu. I want to experiment with tying a reward to the slow-down, and/or making it part of a powerful, rarely used move.

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@TVGBL Thanks for your patience...I made some colossal mistakes...but I spent the last 18 months fixing those mistakes. We're headed in a much better direction now.

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@AICultureWorld Good idea!

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We’re back — with a new site!
Same address: https://t.co/e6BNccl3ua
For the first time, Savior will be fully on display: progress, plans, and unfinished edges included (still filling it in!).

We hope transparency beats hype.
I invite you to come poke around 👀.

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Ray, you made my day.
I won't discontinue the game, as long as I'm physically and mentally capable of continuing.
We're deep in a crucial tech overhaul. The core reason the game has taken so long is our tech/complexity debt had spiraled out of control.
Because I didn't know how code.
I've spent the last year learning C# and our code base. I've also been re-writing our systems so they're simpler and more performant.

Big things are coming.

This isn't going to be the game we Kickstarted... it's shaping up to be much more special.

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Is there anything the Bucket can't do!?
#PixelArt #Metroidvania #SaviorGame

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@PatchworkTweed Thanks for noticing the weight. It's something we strive to convey...a sense of realism.

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We've got ill-tempered Robo-Turkeys with FRICKIN' Laser Beams attached to their arms!

#ScreenShotSaturday
#Metroidvania
#SaviorGame
#PixelArt

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@profoundbad Thanks...yeah. That trailer took us a while to put together. But the majority of those shots don't represent the current state of the art in the game.
I was thinking of starting with adding SFX/Music to our GIFs and re-releasing them on YouTube/Facebook shorts.

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@profoundbad Thank you so much. We need all the help we can get... getting the word out is one of our biggest blind spots : (

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@MagoryNET So glad you like it! Our animator used a bunch of sorcery to make that happen. I think an ancient 3D modeling program with fabric simulators may have been invoked.

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Crush your enemies and hear the lamentation of the clerics...
(the Conan option).

#pixelartist #metroidvania #indiegame #saviorgame

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@CarlocGames What? And give up my bucket!?

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@SirLynx7 Oh no...can I give you a hug somehow?

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@profoundbad Ridiculous is the operating word there. Feature creep is real...hopefully you guys will reap the rewards.