CRYPTARK news & patch notes

Hey everyone! We've made Cryptark free on Steam for the next 48 hours (free to own forever!): https://store.steampowered.com/app/344740/CRYPTARK/ Send to anyone you think would like complex roguelite shooters. We're releasing the 3d FPS sequel GUNHEAD next month on November 8th, so wanted to give more players a chance to check out Cryptark before then. Can wishlist Gunhead here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/704000/GUNHEAD Along with that we also updated Cryptark: adding a 'Easy Mode' option (asks for 'Easy Mode' on first time playing, and can be set in Settings). 'Easy Mode' reduces costs, and adds more player health. We also add a No Screenshake toggle. thanks! - Lee

Our FPS jetpack roguelite sequel to Cryptark finally comes out November 8th! Demo out now https://store.steampowered.com/app/704000/GUNHEAD/ Check out our release date trailer: Let us know any thoughts on the demo in the forums or our Discord! - Lee

GUNHEAD is alive! And coming out this year! Our FPS roguelite sequel to Cryptark is finally almost ready. After a long time of no news... We just released a gameplay overview video showing one of the Gunhead enemy ships, and a few of the large bosses. Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/704000/GUNHEAD We also created a Discord: https://discord.gg/4gB9JvsS78 We're looking for playtesters to try the game next month - so if interested join our Discord! Info on how to test the game will be posted there. Thanks for still following Gunhead! - Lee

Hey everyone! We've updated Steam page for Cryptark's FPS sequel Gunhead with a November dev log: https://steamcommunity.com/games/704000/announcements/detail/1702818230682589269 Let us know what you think of our changes! We're hoping to make Gunhead feel like a streamlined more action focused Cryptark, thanks, - Lee

Hello again! For the past month we've been focused on getting Gunhead ready to show at PAX West, since it got accepted into the PAX10: http://west.paxsite.com/indie We were really surprised to get into this! We’ve always submitted our games to PAX10 and never got a game in so early in development (the build we sent them was a pretty old demo of the game). So we are happy to get some external validation that the game is actually very fun. Some of the things we are working on include: Refining how procedural generation algorithms work for adding enemies/systems to ships: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9243225/7960e0e09e16e1b9d47a93a13576e2d71a5d9290.gif Ship Salaged UI for after a ship is beaten: https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SlimyBlankAmurminnow-size_restricted.gif End stats shown after failing (similar stats shown after beating the campaign): https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ZigzagFailingEeve-size_restricted.gif And we are working on bringing Cryptark’s Mission Objectives system to Gunhead. These are bonus objectives you can go for to get additional bonus money. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/9243225/a338e30b51a5b828d493d68baff4bfb7999ec5e9.png And finally completely unrelated to PAX, we spent a few hours trying out a VR version of Gunhead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUM4d1rJedg&feature=youtu.be It is definitely fun - and I think we know a good way to handle locomotion for this (not just teleporting). After testing this we decided that if we did make a VR version it would need to be its own tailored experience - a large amount of the game would need to be adjusted, and doing it now would negatively affect the desktop/non-VR version we want to focus on. So if we do make a VR version it will only be after the game is released. If you haven’t yet you can wishlist Gunhead on Steam to keep up to date on development! It’ll also help us gauge interest in the game from players - and help with our release http://store.steampowered.com/app/704000/GUNHEAD thanks! - Lee

Updated Cryptark to version 1.22 fixing a long standing issue where rogue mode saves were sometimes being deleted when exiting the game with the Exit button in the main menu. Edit: Also fixed bug where inventory wasn't being properly saved for Rogue mode - fixed and updated to 1.23 Sorry this took so long to get to! Thanks to Photon on the Steam forums for pointing out the fix, - Lee

Hey! We've posted a update on the sequel to Cryptark on the Gunhead Steam page: https://steamcommunity.com/games/704000/announcements/detail/3428810198737136806 Detailing some of our plans for Gunhead's campaign and how it will be different from Cryptark. Let us know your thoughts! You can wishlist Gunhead on Steam to keep to date with development https://store.steampowered.com/app/704000/GUNHEAD/ Also - all our games are on sale this week. If you liked Cryptark, you might also enjoy Apotheon: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/565/Alientrap_Collection/ thanks! - Lee

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy6iAEi7Ym0 Steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/704000/GUNHEAD/ Announcement tweet: https://twitter.com/Alientrap/status/931566405547446272 We love the world of Cryptark, and the design, and wanted to make a sequel that took the game in a completely different direction. Check out the store page for more info and to wishlist! Thanks! - Lee & Jesse

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy6iAEi7Ym0 Steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/704000/GUNHEAD/ Announcement tweet: https://twitter.com/Alientrap/status/931566405547446272 We love the world of Cryptark, and the design, and wanted to make a sequel that took the game in a completely different direction. Check out the store page for more info and to wishlist! Thanks! - Lee & Jesse

We will have something Cryptark-related we are working on to announce next month! In the mean time check out the first teaser for a new game we are working on called Wytchwood - from the same artist as Cryptark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3dZgMx6Ymg Steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/729000/Wytchwood

We will have something Cryptark-related we are working on to announce next month! In the mean time check out the first teaser for a new game we are working on called Wytchwood - from the same artist as Cryptark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3dZgMx6Ymg Steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/729000/Wytchwood

Cryptark is 50% off this week - along with all of our games in a 'Alientrap Collection' bundle http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/565/Alientrap_Collection/ This update adds rogue mode saving. When in rogue mode, you can 'save & exit' before breaching the enemy ship, 'continue rogue' will then show as a option alongside the campaigns in the 'continue' menu Other fixes: - Fixed any reported level generation issues - Fixed exploits with Weevil (allowing player to teleport out of ship without going into space mode) - Now shows mouse cursor when in spacemode - Fixed possible crash after hitting a nuke pod, then reflecting it with a reflection shield Update will be live on Mac/Linux today, and GOG/Humble within a few days, thanks, - Lee

Cryptark is 50% off this week - along with all of our games in a 'Alientrap Collection' bundle http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/565/Alientrap_Collection/ This update adds rogue mode saving. When in rogue mode, you can 'save & exit' before breaching the enemy ship, 'continue rogue' will then show as a option alongside the campaigns in the 'continue' menu Other fixes: - Fixed any reported level generation issues - Fixed exploits with Weevil (allowing player to teleport out of ship without going into space mode) - Now shows mouse cursor when in spacemode - Fixed possible crash after hitting a nuke pod, then reflecting it with a reflection shield Update will be live on Mac/Linux today, and GOG/Humble within a few days, thanks, - Lee

For those interested in how the art for Cryptark was produced (getting that 2d mixed with 3d look took a lot of work) - we posted an Imgur album explaining the process: http://imgur.com/gallery/5Yr0U And for a more indepth piece, a Gamasutra article that just came out today: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/300214/Game_Design_Deep_Dive_Visualizing_Cryptarks_2D_scifi_world.php thanks! - Lee & Jesse http://i.imgur.com/T3T6kQ6.gif

For those interested in how the art for Cryptark was produced (getting that 2d mixed with 3d look took a lot of work) - we posted an Imgur album explaining the process: http://imgur.com/gallery/5Yr0U And for a more indepth piece, a Gamasutra article that just came out today: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/300214/Game_Design_Deep_Dive_Visualizing_Cryptarks_2D_scifi_world.php thanks! - Lee & Jesse http://i.imgur.com/T3T6kQ6.gif

Thank you to everyone who picked up Cryptark! This update fixes some issues with higher resolution (invisible walls / misaligned yes/no dialog), COOP playing, and a error that caused some rogue mode artifacts to not show up.

• Fixed rogue mode artifacts that required other artifacts not showing up (3 of them). Thanks Stovich for the error report
• Fixed invisble wall issue with higher resolutions. Higher resolutions are now slightly zoomed out also
• Fixed dont trip alarms and dont destroy alarm system bonus conflict
• Added new resolution option (1280x800)
• Fixed game exiting so quick in Steam Big Picture mode it would reselect Play for some players

Coop fixes: (Thanks to skinneejoe for these error reports)

• Cloak now happens on both players
• REPSI now heals if either player picks up key
• Fixed Rooks shield not working on second player after second player teleported
• Fixed Intruders teleport beacon only working for player 1

- Lee & Jesse

Thank you to everyone who picked up Cryptark! This update fixes some issues with higher resolution (invisible walls / misaligned yes/no dialog), COOP playing, and a error that caused some rogue mode artifacts to not show up.

• Fixed rogue mode artifacts that required other artifacts not showing up (3 of them). Thanks Stovich for the error report
• Fixed invisble wall issue with higher resolutions. Higher resolutions are now slightly zoomed out also
• Fixed dont trip alarms and dont destroy alarm system bonus conflict
• Added new resolution option (1280x800)
• Fixed game exiting so quick in Steam Big Picture mode it would reselect Play for some players

Coop fixes: (Thanks to skinneejoe for these error reports)

• Cloak now happens on both players
• REPSI now heals if either player picks up key
• Fixed Rooks shield not working on second player after second player teleported
• Fixed Intruders teleport beacon only working for player 1

- Lee & Jesse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O8B4-X-NBw After 2.5 years of development Cryptark is now released! Check out our new launch trailer. We love this game more than anything else we've ever made, and are very happy to finally release it! Again thank you to all the early access players who helped shape the game with feedback, and who've stuck with us over the last year. We plan to keep updating the game after release (specifically with some local coop changes) Thanks! - Lee & Jesse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O8B4-X-NBw After 2.5 years of development Cryptark is now released! Check out our new launch trailer. We love this game more than anything else we've ever made, and are very happy to finally release it! Again thank you to all the early access players who helped shape the game with feedback, and who've stuck with us over the last year. We plan to keep updating the game after release (specifically with some local coop changes) Thanks! - Lee & Jesse

We decided to release the Cryptark soundtrack a few days before our June 20th release! Full soundtrack with 15 songs is now on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple music, and Steam Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQdeMOqANw&list=PLC2JRJDXgYZAYI_gQFz0JZAfXz-Hh4jxa&index=6 Bandcamp: https://cryptark.bandcamp.com/album/cryptark-ost Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/3tv36VVTuoENWVIbhNmOSZ?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/cryptark-original-soundtrack/id1247610711 Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/424120/Cryptark_Soundtrack/ Soundtrack by Ryan Roth and Ryan Henwood

We decided to release the Cryptark soundtrack a few days before our June 20th release! Full soundtrack with 15 songs is now on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple music, and Steam Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQdeMOqANw&list=PLC2JRJDXgYZAYI_gQFz0JZAfXz-Hh4jxa&index=6 Bandcamp: https://cryptark.bandcamp.com/album/cryptark-ost Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/3tv36VVTuoENWVIbhNmOSZ?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/cryptark-original-soundtrack/id1247610711 Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/424120/Cryptark_Soundtrack/ Soundtrack by Ryan Roth and Ryan Henwood

After 2.5 years of development, we at Alientrap are very proud to announce the release date for Cryptark: Tuesday, June 20th! http://i.imgur.com/TIpaid8.gif We will keep the same price for launch, and have a launch discount of 25%. Thanks to all the early access players who stuck with us throughout development! We plan to keep updating the game before/after release Thanks! - Lee & Jesse

After 2.5 years of development, we at Alientrap are very proud to announce the release date for Cryptark: Tuesday, June 20th! http://i.imgur.com/TIpaid8.gif We will keep the same price for launch, and have a launch discount of 25%. Thanks to all the early access players who stuck with us throughout development! We plan to keep updating the game before/after release Thanks! - Lee & Jesse

We are very close to release! After over 1.5 years on early access. We hope to have a launch date we can announce soon. We've been working on making sure everything runs as fast as possible - along with that solving the last bugs / balance issues. Changes - v1.01: - Large optimizations to drawing, and CPU use. Including to the Fluid system. - Excavation Mission Balancing: Changed the amount of health/item drops. Blacksuit enemies no longer are hurt by nuke explosions on the ship. - Slowed down chase speed of Juggernaut / Leviathan / Viper. Also limited their max spawn amount. They are still a large threat, but if you keep moving you can avoid them Fixes: - Enemy amount balancing - Fixed slowdown when exiting a ship - Fixed coop second player lights disappearing after teleporting - Fixed a lot of background holes in generated ships that were showing the outside space - Fixed cloaker shipclass not having flak system - Lowered 10 healthpack cost from 30 to 20 - Fixed leviathan / viper shooting player in space - Helper drones can now go through ship gates - Fixed Intruder not starting with saw - Fixed issue where enemy shield was active when graphic wasn't showing - Fixed shield effect being in wrong position on systems after system positions shuffled Let us know if you have any comments or issues in the forums! Thanks, - Lee & Jesse

We are very close to release! After over 1.5 years on early access. We hope to have a launch date we can announce soon. We've been working on making sure everything runs as fast as possible - along with that solving the last bugs / balance issues. Changes - v1.01: - Large optimizations to drawing, and CPU use. Including to the Fluid system. - Excavation Mission Balancing: Changed the amount of health/item drops. Blacksuit enemies no longer are hurt by nuke explosions on the ship. - Slowed down chase speed of Juggernaut / Leviathan / Viper. Also limited their max spawn amount. They are still a large threat, but if you keep moving you can avoid them Fixes: - Enemy amount balancing - Fixed slowdown when exiting a ship - Fixed coop second player lights disappearing after teleporting - Fixed a lot of background holes in generated ships that were showing the outside space - Fixed cloaker shipclass not having flak system - Lowered 10 healthpack cost from 30 to 20 - Fixed leviathan / viper shooting player in space - Helper drones can now go through ship gates - Fixed Intruder not starting with saw - Fixed issue where enemy shield was active when graphic wasn't showing - Fixed shield effect being in wrong position on systems after system positions shuffled Let us know if you have any comments or issues in the forums! Thanks, - Lee & Jesse

Balancing and bug fixes! Thanks for all the feedback! There are still a few things we are optimizing and balancing - but release is getting near Big Fixes: - Changes to Advanced Factory enemies (Juggernaut / Viper / Leviathan). They will now find the player after spawning a lot quicker, and will also keep going towards the player when the player is in space. This might be something we will keep adjusting - Fixed invisible enemy bug after nuking them offscreen - Fixed a few ship generation problems shown recently on forums - Fixed issue with items staying as 'armed' for some character suits Other Changes: - Better Coop character/suit selection screen - Changes to how bonus objectives are given, so there could be multiple of 'destroy _ system', 'keep _ system', and 'no _ weapons'. Also increased the max loadout bonus objectives - Changes to how tech advances are given so there is more diversity - Bully no longer does damage, but pushes player a lot better - New Minimap icons / sidebar icons for enemies - Swapped gauntlet and sawarm weapon names. Pointed out in the forums and we decided it made sense - Made hornet slightly faster (can now slightly outrun player to catch up) - Changed Alientrap logo in splash screen to square version - Lowered viper combat range and changed their weapon - Increased autocannon ammo to be on par with other cannon weapons - Lowered cyclerifle ammo slightly to be on par with other cannon weapons - Added proper particle beam effects for laser and cutterbeam weapons - Added death effect and sound to beehive and cage mine - Made some weapons 'quiet' with half noise radius (laser, emp blaster, saw, javelin, cutter, recycler, taser) - Made some weapons 'silent' with no noise radius (ram spike, slime gun, gas projector, napalm projector) - Inscreased flamer and slime gun ammo - Made gauntlet (previously 'saw arm') fullbright - Much faster knockback item recharge rate - Increased rogue mode key amount - Better Drone Armor system graphics - Fixed Coop tractor beam - No more double locked doors inside ship Thanks! - Lee & Jesse

Balancing and bug fixes! Thanks for all the feedback! There are still a few things we are optimizing and balancing - but release is getting near Big Fixes: - Changes to Advanced Factory enemies (Juggernaut / Viper / Leviathan). They will now find the player after spawning a lot quicker, and will also keep going towards the player when the player is in space. This might be something we will keep adjusting - Fixed invisible enemy bug after nuking them offscreen - Fixed a few ship generation problems shown recently on forums - Fixed issue with items staying as 'armed' for some character suits Other Changes: - Better Coop character/suit selection screen - Changes to how bonus objectives are given, so there could be multiple of 'destroy _ system', 'keep _ system', and 'no _ weapons'. Also increased the max loadout bonus objectives - Changes to how tech advances are given so there is more diversity - Bully no longer does damage, but pushes player a lot better - New Minimap icons / sidebar icons for enemies - Swapped gauntlet and sawarm weapon names. Pointed out in the forums and we decided it made sense - Made hornet slightly faster (can now slightly outrun player to catch up) - Changed Alientrap logo in splash screen to square version - Lowered viper combat range and changed their weapon - Increased autocannon ammo to be on par with other cannon weapons - Lowered cyclerifle ammo slightly to be on par with other cannon weapons - Added proper particle beam effects for laser and cutterbeam weapons - Added death effect and sound to beehive and cage mine - Made some weapons 'quiet' with half noise radius (laser, emp blaster, saw, javelin, cutter, recycler, taser) - Made some weapons 'silent' with no noise radius (ram spike, slime gun, gas projector, napalm projector) - Inscreased flamer and slime gun ammo - Made gauntlet (previously 'saw arm') fullbright - Much faster knockback item recharge rate - Increased rogue mode key amount - Better Drone Armor system graphics - Fixed Coop tractor beam - No more double locked doors inside ship Thanks! - Lee & Jesse

http://i.imgur.com/LF6frh6.png 34% off this week until April 2nd http://store.steampowered.com/app/344740 Main additions/changes: - 'Cryptark Excavation' end game - Unlocked once Campaign and Rogue mode have been beaten - a final battle against the Contractor to claim a alien artifact - Heavy amount of difficulty balancing - with enemy damages, costs of items/health, and bonuses. We've decreased the amount of waves in the Campaign to 6, and to 5 for Rogue mode - Massive amount of optimizations (all over, but a lot with AI pathfinding). - Added HUD voice telling player when systems destroyed, repaired, and other ship actions. Volume set by Voice control - New graphics/effects: glowing parts on all systems, new 'shielded' system effect, large amount of new particle effects - 'Cryptark' final ship in campaign/rogue is now a new double core system - New Artifact screen with detailed descriptions, including unlocked artifacts - Fixed Bug with losing past artifacts/progress - Fixed audio cracking/pop bug on some systems after destroying slimer/liquid hazards This is our final update before we release (hopefully around end of next month). Now that the final content is in we will be focused on balance / more optimizing / bug fixing Bunch of other changes... - New Credits video - Added a 'no weapon equip' random objective, is randomly either 'Bombs / Shields / Energy' - Fixed a lot of COOP bugs: each player can have different skins, fixed issues with energy weapons and recharging with second player - Knockbacks a lot more powerful, pushes away enemies regardless of their mass - Updated weapon/item descriptions adding more detail - A lot of dialog has a random chance of showing up now when triggered - Added a delay for the Tank and shielded picket bringing up their shields - Increased shield barricade so less spinning - Enemy nuke explosions now have a green effect - Added starting loadout costs to character select screen - Removed charge up from Railgun - Removed cage from nuke system death - Player now stops holding enemies with tracker beam when going into space - Better snapping to system in map - Drone Helper now catches up to player more easily - Changed 'failure fee' text to read 'pilot recovery' - Thruster light added to player when in space - Fixed saw blades doing damage when deactivated - Fixed shuffle system not drawing correctly after being shuffled - Fixed issues with Crushers not rotated properly in map - Fixed music playing over intro video / credit video Thanks! - Lee & Jesse