Atom Zombie Smasher news & patch notes

It is the 15TH ANNIVERSARY of Atom Zombie Smasher! To celebrate this anniversary, we launched a merchandise store for our Blendo Games titles (Atom Zombie Smasher, Gravity Bone, Flotilla, Thirty Flights of Loving, Quadrilateral Cowboy). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3953203/fb76b2300de91005c20b2c377c56e809be149e4b.png Wear a cool shirt! Slap a sticker onto your laptop! It was a lot of fun designing these designs. We hope you like it.

Click here to check out the store!

But that's not all! We also made a brand new game update to celebrate the occasion, with various additions, quality-of-life improvements, and fixes.

Atom Zombie Smasher 15th Anniversary changes:

Timescale can now be 1%

The slowest timescale used to be 10%. This update now adds a new, even slower timescale: 1%. This is a quality-of-life addition that grants you more time to think and decide.

Can now more easily deselect unit

Pressing ESC willl now deselect the active unit. Sometimes you just want to view the cityscape without having a unit selected -- this makes it easier to do that. (Note: if you don't have a unit selected, pressing ESC will open the pause menu. This is the same behavior as prior to this update)

Vignette fixes

The seams in the comic vignette images are now fixed. This issue was caused by images ""bleeding"" in their neighboring pixels, which created what looked like a seam or gap.

Behind the Scenes UI

The Behind the Scenes screen now correctly limits how far it scrolls, to prevent you from scrolling into outer space and beyond.

Social buttons

There were some buttons linking to social media that was no longer updated. These were changed to newer, updated links.

Showfloor demoing fix

In the past, Atom Zombie Smasher was shown at various expos and conferences and conventions. During these showings, it was helpful to have a button that instantly reset the entire game. Somehow this showfloor functionality snuck into the release version (oops). This issue has been fixed.

Crashes will now ask to submit a form

If the game crashes, it now generates crash information and submits it into a form. This makes it a lot easier for us to receive information about any technical issues.

Mac startup issue

There were some outdated files in the Mac build that prevented startup. This is now resolved. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3953203/c5807dc73f8ac5ac0d9a254f85b94eaa3b7747bf.png Big huge thanks to Ethan Lee for technical help on getting this update out the door. And additional thanks to folks on our Blendo Games Discord for helping verify some fixes!

Hello all, here's the update for August 2023:

Hotkeys

We've added new hotkeys to streamline the zombie smashing experience.

• Left/right bracket: will select next/previous unit.
• Home/end: will fully zoom in or fully zoom out.

Mods

The online mod fileshare download now works again -- you can now browse user-submitted mods, download them, and play them.

Legacy stuff

Disabled some ancient stuff that had broken down over time: the report-a-bug, mod uploading, and the newsletter functionality. Additionally, the new hotkeys should make the game more playable on the Steam Deck. Enjoy!

I'm very excited to announce Quadrilateral Cowboy will be released on July 25, 2016 at 10AM PST. Quadrilateral Cowboy is a first-person cyberpunk heist adventure from Blendo Games, developer of titles such as Atom Zombie Smasher and Thirty Flights of Loving. The initial launch will be for Windows, with the Mac and Linux builds coming in September 2016. Read more info at: http://blendogames.com/qc See you in a week!

I'm very excited to announce Quadrilateral Cowboy will be released on July 25, 2016 at 10AM PST. Quadrilateral Cowboy is a first-person cyberpunk heist adventure from Blendo Games, developer of titles such as Atom Zombie Smasher and Thirty Flights of Loving. The initial launch will be for Windows, with the Mac and Linux builds coming in September 2016. Read more info at: http://blendogames.com/qc See you in a week!