ButtKnight news & patch notes

Take up arms, ye Knights of the Round Booties!

Our journey was very long and very hard, but the time is now. Thanks for all your support! Today is the day to become the ButtKnight. Fair maidens and fierce battles await... so start downloading! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45012397/d6bfd537cd30c75eb7467eb08799116f9712e345.jpg

Hey degens, Critical Bliss here! We've been hard at work alongside Goblin Stew cooking up this game for you to enjoy. We're stoked to report that the time has come—ButtKnight drops in 3 days on April 25th! The team's wrapping up the final preparations, and we've been given the all-clear by Steam. See you again real soon, and thanks for supporting ButtKnight! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45012397/d65b446c0225ec6345c58a0834b269b300f7e865.jpg

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Long time no see.

We were a bit late with the update due to being super concentrated soley on development, but now one of our final milestones is complete and we practically have the full game running, starting from main menu to end credits. Yay! All the stages and scenes are now there, only some polishing and balancing jobs remain. Our plan is to spend our next two whole months soley on polishing, day and night.

New Control Options

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45012397/a35c0746cdba482098817c0c08dfee3303340e8e.png Now you will be provided with an option to move with WASD, and shoot with either JKL or mouse buttons. We also looked into one-hand control options™ as requested, but couldn't figure out a "universally" feasible way to ram all controls that we currently have into mouse buttons. This made us sad also. We may spend more time researching then come up with a solution after launch, but at least for now we recommend using remapper softwares for personalized gaming experience.

Full Gamepad Support & Vibrations

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45012397/b95a1edd0358f6d7ebe67a2771b7cc38e2fdad45.png ButtKnight now fully supports Steam Deck, Xbox and Playstation controllers with proper visual keyguides, and we also binded vibrations to various ingame events such as explosions and charge slash attacks.

Steam Achievements

We are also adding various challenging yet accessible achievements into the game. Our intention is to make sure that even non bullet hell gamers can achieve all trophies, (there won't be a single achievement that is directly binded to difficulty settings) but that does not mean it will be easy since some of them will include challenges such as completing a level without being hit. Hardcore shoot 'em up fans will be able to enjoy the game fully in harder difficulties. We are putting extra effort into balancing harder difficulties, since the team truly loves hard yet barely beatable games.

Community Items

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45012397/2f27fb29b684bec195511da892ac86c6671b831d.png This was an also a popular requested feature, we're still not 100% sure if we can manage to add community items (profile backgrounds, trading cards...) before launch and not after launch since we are on a very tight schedule, but we'll still do our best.

Again, Full Release Wen

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45012397/be00e854b8051c90499e0b95d014d309c21e2d82.png Our initial intended release date was around February and March as noticed in the previous update, but due to some Steam reasons regarding seasonal sales period we decided to spend just a bit more time polishing the gameplay and release it during April. Specific launch date will be fixed then made public once we are done with some mandatory checks with Steam. Sorry for the delay, we'll make sure the game is fully polished with no bugs in the full release. If you feel like we missed any important features or have something to tell us, please feel free to leave them in the comments. Our next update will go up just before launch, stay tuned!

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First, thank you all for your support.

We're posting this update a bit later due to being super concentrated on making sure everything is polished and well, and thankfully there were no reported gamebreaking bugs at all! ...For now at least. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45012397/c24862e5ad549178137b5b8d5f0f1e7bca9e34b0.png

Keymapping

We followed general Japanese style shoot 'em up games for default keymapping, but figured out not all people are familiar with the genre, and decided to add additional keymapping options that maps Arrow Keys & ZXC to WASD & JKL. We're really sorry for people who played the game with WASD and ZXC and also thankful for them to not leave an instant thumbsdown, but to let us know in the general discussion. We'll make sure either to update the demo build with the option later or include it in the full release.

Language Support

We plan to support as many languages as possible, but we decided to concentrate on the full release build and spend more resource on drawing H-scenes and polishing jobs. We feel sorry for all global supporters who wanted to play our demo with their own language, but we'll make sure that the full release version will be localized in all major languages in high quality, with potentially even more languages such as Portugese, Spanish and French.

Feedbacks & Reviews

Both writing feedbacks in the forum and leaving a review for the demo (yes, it's a new steam feature) is super recommended, and we check all of them and discuss about it everyday. We do our best to make as many people as possible happy, but making everyone happy is physically impossible due to people having different preferences, naturally. But still, your feedbacks will have an impact on our decisions. We'll keep making games even after ButtKnight, and who knows what kind of characters and mechanics we'll be trying out by then?

Full Release Wen

Our goal is to release the game sometime between next february and march, and we're currently doing our best on coming up with new H-scene ideas and more dynamic enemies and boss battles. We intentionally designed the first few stages to be a bit more static, general, and easy to follow than being dynamic in terms of game mechanics, but for later stages we're working on new enemies with unique attack patterns and behaviors! Our team is super small, we want to soley concentrate on development and user feedbacks, so do not expect frequent updates regarding development status but still we'll do our best to post an update each month or two at least.

Last but not least...

Our composer, g3ntlebreeze who worked on the original soundtrack of Castle in The Clouds will post a soundtrack video of ButtKnight Demo shortly, stay tuned! Again, thank you all for your support. Thank you for playing our demo. Take care.