Death and Taxes news & patch notes

Greetings, Grims! Oak here with some fine news. I'm quite chuffed to announce that THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING SWIMMINGLY. We're now finally on track to release the first major update for Broken Alliance, and also getting on the final release track for CraftCraft (announcement for that soon, hopefully!) This also brings me to our beloved Death and Taxes. Meanwhile, we've been working on a lil' update, not as serious as the other ones, but important nonetheless. Death and Taxes is now available in Japanese! It might not be the update you've been hoping for (*cough*endlessmode*cough*), but it's something we have been cooking for the last 6 months or so, and are happy to share with you now ^_^ That being said, please enjoy Death and Taxes at a cool -85% off until May 5th :3 Once CraftCraft gets done though, I want to come back to Death and Taxes for a little bit and give it of extra love. Since it's been taking longer though, it must wait a bit more - I hope you understand. Meanwhile, we're also very happy to be part of LudoNarraCon! Check out the entire event right here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/ludonarracon And a big-big thank you to Fellow Traveller for organizing the entire thing! If you like narrative games (like Death and Taxes >_>), this event should be totally up your alley. So give it a look-see and maybe you'll find something you'll enjoy! That's it for now. Wish us luck - CraftCraft is right around the corner. We're gonna need it ^^' Much love, -Death and Taxes

Hi Grims, This is a special short cross-game announcement for CraftCraft / Death and Taxes! Quartermaster Mortimer from Death and Taxes is back! And he will be your customer in our next game, CraftCraft... Here is a sneak peek of it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UcNWqSWiOU You can get to know him a bit more and see where your friendship leads you. :) We are happy to see our friend return and he is, like always, voiced by the gruff and warm sounding Isaak Wells! You can wishlist CraftCraft here, it will help us a lot! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2226430/CraftCraft_Fantasy_Merchant_Simulator/ See you soon! Leene

Happy Birthday to you, Grims! Creative Director Leene here and I just wanted to let you know that, today, 5 years ago, we released Death and Taxes and this calls for a moment of celebration! And to share some fun DnT stuff you might have missed plus a surprise in the end of the post.... wow, 5 years has gone quick! Let's go over the things that have happened! Well firstly, after 3 years of work, we released Death and Taxes in February 20th 2020. We did that with 0 budget, struggling team with revenue share and most people working on it part time on the side of their jobs. So completely bootstrapped and self published! If you are interested in seeing an Indie Developer documentary and want to see how our release week went and a bit behind the scenes, you can take look at this free documentary about a game dev co-living place in Sweden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4oBSm3QJk4 After that, in October we released a big Halloween update and called the game complete as everything we wanted to add was in there. Adding Cerris bar and plenty of characters to chat to. Including some voice acting by Stupendium who made a really good song about the game, go check out "Rest Employed" on youtube, if you haven't yet! Now over the years we have localized the game in multiple languages and stores, including all the consoles and even a mobile version of the game! We partnered up with Pineapple works to help port it and Hawthorn Games to bring it to the Chinese market as well! The game has sold over half a million copies on Steam, a bunch of copies on other consoles and we have been part of donation events where we gave away hundreds of thousands of copies for charity so I would say the game is owned by around a million people by now! I love reading all of your your experiences and comments about the game, good or bad and I am glad the game has meant as much for some people as it has for me! There has been so much fan art and it's quality has blown me away, sometimes it is better than the art in the game. The most wild thing we saw was this 100 page Fan zine collecting art and fan stories that was made for our 2 year anniversary! You can download the free PDF here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HnT7_E8jzm_iCWuwwDvIpRt7I9eNi1LK/view?usp=sharing Also in 2022, to thank all the fans for their art, I made this free downloadable adult coloring/activity book of the art of Death and Taxes that you can get here: http://media.voog.com/0000/0044/9676/files/DnTColoringBook.pdf Anyways, I don't want to keep this too long, but I wanted to thank everybody who has been part of this, either making the game, doing volunteer localization or just being there to support us as we have been making this game and our new games! You are always welcome to say hello to me and other devs at our Discord. Currently, I have been really busy directing another game that comes out soon too... And about that... ...the surprise! If you love our skeleton pirate, Mortimer the Quartermaster, then you might be happy to hear that he will be back in our next game. More about it in our second post about CraftCraft: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1166290/view/501691675000701042 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/a5bb5d75a6a4654dec36f1ec7241bb78a814b3ee.png Take care! ❤︎ Leene

Hi Grims! Oak here. Happy to see you again! We're delighted to announce that we're going deeper into the abyss with our discounts for Death and Taxes, now at a whopping -85% off! That being said, I also want to give you an update on what we have in store for y'all! We are finalizing our Japanese localization for the game, which should arrive quite soon! In fact, I had hoped that maybe we could finish it for this promotion, but alas, time ran out due to our other projects (Broken Alliance and CraftCraft) needing our attention. In addition, there are a few things I've been pondering and tinkering with, on the side. There have been many requests for an "endless" mode and a statistics screen for your deeds as a Grim Reaper. Again, time and other life events got in the way of those, and while these are still things that I would like to add to the game, they will have to wait for now. I do hope that any new and old Grims will find some joy seeing our game on the pages of good ol' Steam again, and maybe it'll give you that small push to do another run ^_^ I wish you all the best, and hope to give you some more exciting news soon. Much love, -Death and Taxes PS: Big thank you to 'sal' from our Discord server for providing me with endless amusement with their fanart featured on the cover of this post <3

Hello Grims! It is almost 5 years from the initial release of Death and Taxes. We have been very busy making a new games, Broken Alliance and CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator... But we also have small updates to share for Death and Taxes! We are almost done with Japanese localization and also we are planning a small update to show more stats to the player! That will be soon, we'll let you know! And also Death and Taxes is on daily deal on a deep discount! Welcome new players if you are here for the first time! And on to the the big news, Broken Alliance is now out in Early Access today! The game is like a love letter to pixel art, old-school adventure games, mythical creatures and fantasy storytelling. So if you like that sort of stuff, check it out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1704180/Broken_Alliance/ Even though the game is in such a different genre than Death and Taxes, you can still see similar things in the new game: We have full voice over as always, deep story focus ... ...and we are working with same people, so you could hear the new music work from our Composer Adam, we have art from our artists Leene and Raido who worked together on Death and Taxes, just this time in a vibrant pixel art world, we have the same tech lead, Oak. So the gang is all together, just with additional members who bring in a deeper sound design and a lot more art/ gameplay. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/8254504849c489ab53f8ce46f8035f2bff9ecfb3.gif We are so excited!!! Oh and there is a free demo to try of the game too. :) Thanks for your support and we might have more news soon! Leene

Hey everyone! Oak here. I accidentally messed up the streaming settings for SimFest, but now it's live again! Have fun watching ^_^

Hello Grims! Oak here. I love to be the bringer of good news and I'm proud to say that we have finally finished up the Spanish translation! Many, many thanks to all the people who helped get this done! Much love to:

• Luka Giacco
• María Geraldía Villar
• B-Retz
• ChrisDK
• Salvador Manuel Quezada Godoy
• Christine "Dottie" Dottle
• JoseB
• Kassiopeia
• Literally King Arthur (Vic)
• Lucia
• Razsher
• kasseto
• killunya
• Ramiro Cibrián Carrasco

We finally made it. I'm so happy. I know many of you have been asking for a Spanish translation even before we released the full game, so, here it is! I hope you enjoy it. I can't stress enough how glad I am for us to have such an awesome community ^_^ On top of that, we're also participating in SimFest right here on Steam! Give the organizers (Fireshine Games, Stray Fawn, and Future Friends Games) and participants some love and be sure to check out all the cool games being showcased. To commemorate the occasion, we're gonna be a chill -80% off for 10 days until August 3rd! And last but not least, I do want to do a quick reminder, that we did add some new content to the game, namely: hats! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/0cc781d02fcd0c765bad860f82aaca71f2795adc.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/1655bbaf6f7ca58352b63936674a043acdd66c18.png So if you want to give the game another go, and play around while being a bit more dapper, now's your chance ^_^ Ahhh I'm so glad I can finally say that we got the game done in Spanish. Do note that the translation is going to be updated in the coming days and there may be some small adjustments to the texts here and there, because we really wanted to get the update out by today, because of the start of our participation in SimFest. I do hope that you'll have a good time with the game! And that's it for now. Thank you for all of your support, it's been a wonderful four and a half years of Death and Taxes already. Also as a quick teaser... Death and Taxes will also be on mobiles soon >_> I'll let y'all know when it drops. But until then... Much love, -Death and Taxes

Hello Grims! Oak here again, bringing good news and updates galore. Just recently we launched the demo for one of our new games: CraftCraft! Make sure to give it a whirl if you like... well, crafting. Additionally, we're on the final stretch of our Spanish translation effort, it's about 90% done now, and all we need to do is finish it up, proofread it, test it, and let it into the wild for y'all to play :) Once that's done I'll make a separate announcement. Also in more Death and Taxes related news, it's also coming to mobile phones (both iOS and Android hopefully). I will keep you posted about that, but it's already running on Android, and I will try to get it up on mobile storefronts as soon as possible. ALSO, as you may have noticed, Steam Summer Sale has finally started! Death and Taxes is a cozy -80% off, so it's pretty much the best time to get into the game if you haven't yet! I'm also going to run a stream on the store page so you can see what the game is actually like (and share some behind-the-scenes trivia as well). So yeah, that's it for now! I hope all you Grims have a cool summer! Much love, -Death and Taxes

Hi Grims, Creative Director Leene here! We have been busy at work on our 2 new games and I am happy to announce that you can try the free demo of CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator now here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2226430/CraftCraft_Fantasy_Merchant_Simulator/ So excited for this milestone! Demo includes: *A quite varied character creation! (be a mysterious moth-person, or goth elf, or a whimsical cat-person or anything in between) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/32ddf67d741adaba45201ad942d039b3715870d4.png *A desktop simulation like in Death and Taxes, but even more hands on! Express your creativity, make jewelry and smith in 2D Simulation! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/f2089e590b3c3f1ff82af18b76030df5ea09d30b.png *Meet first 3 fully voice acted characters and sell jewelery and swords to them! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/e1a00f284090983ff81766ea4c26739fb77c8b21.jpg *Death and Taxes fans might also recognize the music in CraftCraft from our awesome composer, Adam Bow. Try it out now and optionally tell us what you think. Looking forward to seeing some characters/jewelery you come up with too if you would like to share! Also wishlist the game so you get notified when it releases fully (SOOON). https://store.steampowered.com/app/2226430/CraftCraft_Fantasy_Merchant_Simulator/ Thank you for your support! -Leene

Hello Grims! Oak here. Since Leene was busy with CraftCraft, I took it upon myself to stream a bit of Death and Taxes for y'all! Tune in if you want to see a bit of behind-the-scenes stuff, and if you want to get some smol announcements as well ^_^ Stay Grim! Much love, -Death and Taxes

Hi Grims! Oak here. Excuse my terrible puns, but I have an announcement to make! Death and Taxes is available now on XBox and will be released on the 18th of April on PlayStation! If you have not taken the *grim* plunge yet, now is the time! Additionally, we are available also on the Nintendo Switch! If you've been waiting to enjoy Death and Taxes on consoles, this is the moment to do so! ^_^ That's it for now (yes we are still hard at work on the Spanish translation, it's getting there!). Much love, -Death and Taxes

Hello Grims! 'tis the season again! Death and Taxes turned FOUR years old! Unfathomably cool to think about. As has been tradition, we try do take care of our first game, which means that occasionally we get the urge to just... put more content in the game. And we did. Again. We added hats into the game. I repeat: you can now wear *hats*. Also, we're a historic -80% off for 2 weeks to celebrate the occasion (big thanks to Valve for giving a helping hand in organizing this!) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/91e8de403c1cfcbcf01ebbe228c22554e5f977c4.png We had a whole bunch of ideas for accessorizing one's Grim Reaper, and it always felt that hats would be such a natural addition to everything. After having added them to the game, it really feels like they totally have belonged there from the start! You have 15 hats to choose from, out of 3 types and 5 variations for each. So uhh, yes! Try them! It'll be neat, I promise. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/0cc781d02fcd0c765bad860f82aaca71f2795adc.png Also, the Spanish translation is also coming along nicely. Hopefully we will have more news about this quite soon ^_^ In addition, we're also joining a bundle with the games Orwell and CorpoNation, the Difficult Decisions Bundle! Thank you everyone for your continued support! It's always a delight to see new players discover our lil' game. And if there's something that goes awry with the update, please let me know so I can start fixing it immediately >_> But in any case, as soon as you get the mirror, you should be able to equip hats! Also, don't forget that we're working on 2 new games! CraftCraft and Broken Alliance! Do wishlist them if they pique your ineterest ^_^

Hello everyone！ Death and Taxes is now participating in the Lunar New Year Festival 2024. Hope you like our game!

Hello Grims! Oak here again! Long time no see ^_^ I'm happy and extremely proud to announce that Death and Taxes was selected to be a part of the Storyteller's Festival! If you are interested in narrative-driven games, this is your one stop shop to satisfy all those needs. Many thanks to Two and a Half Studios for hosting us! ADDITIONALLY! If you've got this far (I hope!) I'm also pleased to tease that there will be a teeny tiny little update coming for Death and Taxes soon. Something to do with the Grim Reaper's attire, perhaps? >_> More to come on that soonish, as we approach the FOURTH (holy heck) anniversary of Death and Taxes. Thank you everyone for sticking around so long X_X And last but not least, we are still underway with localizing the game into Spanish, so stay tuned for that! I will share more news about this as it comes by. Much love! -Death and Taxes

Hi Grims, Please enjoy the Autumn Sale! Hurry amd get Death and Taxes at 70% off to start your reaping life!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/1cfcb04a05492f1f77732bb572614ac3d88f1374.png It's been about a year since we started work on CraftCraft, a Fantasy Merchant Simulator where you use your wits as a blacksmith to fight for the creative future of a town. To be honest, it's been an adventure. From interesting bugs to changes in look and style and adding new faces to the team . One of the most beautiful things about Game Development is that it's not a race, it's a journey. And we are so glad to share this journey with so, so many wonderful people. If you want to be the first person to know when the demo comes out, go ahead and wishlist CraftCraft on steam. Or, if you just want to see our progress, feel free to follow us here! Additionally, since it's the three-year anniversary of the Death and Taxes Halloween update, we'd like to take this moment to wish you all a Happy Halloween! If you haven't had the chance to play it through yet, we highly recommend you check it out. Our Creative Director, Leene Künnap, will be playing the game **tomorrow** at 8pm EEST, or 2pm EST at https://www.twitch.tv/spelkollektivet ! To all fans of our previous game, Death and Taxes, and those excited for our next games: Thank you so much for all your support, from all of us here at Placeholder Gameworks. We can't wait to show you what else we have in store. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/9e54857d12f76d9e33ca8b681cd1c2b3cac78eec.png

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/1cfcb04a05492f1f77732bb572614ac3d88f1374.png It's been about a year since we started work on CraftCraft, a Fantasy Merchant Simulator where you use your wits as a blacksmith to fight for the creative future of a town. To be honest, it's been an adventure. From interesting bugs to changes in look and style and adding new faces to the team . One of the most beautiful things about Game Development is that it's not a race, it's a journey. And we are so glad to share this journey with so, so many wonderful people. If you want to be the first person to know when the demo comes out, go ahead and wishlist CraftCraft on steam. Or, if you just want to see our progress, feel free to follow us here! Additionally, since it's the three-year anniversary of the Halloween update, we'd like to take this moment to wish you all a Happy Halloween! If you haven't had the chance to play it through yet, we highly recommend you check it out. Our Creative Director, Leene Künnap, will be playing the game **tomorrow** at 7pm EEST, or 1pm EST at https://www.twitch.tv/spelkollektivet ! To all fans of our previous game, Death and Taxes, and those excited for our next games: Thank you so much for all your support, from all of us here at Placeholder Gameworks. We can't wait to show you what else we have in store. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/9e54857d12f76d9e33ca8b681cd1c2b3cac78eec.png

Hello Grims! I have a few cool updates for you (and a special hello to all our visitors from the Visual Novel Fest)! First of all, we finally hit 300 000 copies sold on Steam! This is quite the milestone for us, especially considering that the game has been out for nearly THREE AND A HALF YEARS (unholy macaroni that's a lot). We're still amazed at how the game is making rounds into new and more varied communities, which gives us a lot of hope for our other games as well (please wishlist Broken Alliance, CraftCraft and Artist Life Simulator) >_> That being said, I want to extend our thanks from the entire team at Placeholder, because we couldn't be making games if it weren't for you. Thanks for being around ^_^ In other news, translation efforts are going well for Death and Taxes! We have reached 41% in French, over 80% in European Spanish and 22% in Latin American Spanish, and a recent addition, Ukranian, is plowing in strong at 11% done. A big, heartfelt thank you to all our translators! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/623debcffd5865d2f5827c1f85cf4bf637d242d3.png Oh, and one last thing... we had a fanart contest in our Discord server, and here are the submissions! Tadopole - Dead End {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/1e1cc3981c2c33957d3718920fb30ddb3f1a36db.png Urzula - Postcard {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/adc1e11f1a7601728cc2b30e1bea222dc862e004.jpg Sam - Atro on a Swing {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/a92365ed8c4d0127d1e8c6fe805d116361ff0741.jpg Ladyybugg3039 - Suns Out Buns Out {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/19bc9c78d9ac8676ce2feb5a6f18b04778718bd5.png Nerdy McFarland - Jack O Lantern Attack {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/1572f0637f9ecedd5c21639cae815035dc7bb303.jpg Lienpixels - Horned Reaper on Beach {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/4a3261c0b2359bb72de3b501a706eb963a6a4f78.png Mich - Away on Vacation {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/0cb0e3e4f46a0c2c34ff8241f1aca218455a3e75.png Stay tuned, because we will announce the winners soon! But until then, let us know which of these picture *you* like the most! And that was it for this time! I hope you enjoyed this small update ^_^ Much love, -Death and Taxes

Hi Grims! We hope you all can enjoy the Summer Sale. If you're interested in Death and Taxes, take this opportunity to purchase the game at 70% off. Happy reaping!

Hi Grims! We are pleased to announce that we are now participating in LudoNarraCon 2023!

Hi Grims! It's Oak here, with a small update on what we've been doing with Death and Taxes. We've continuously strived to get Death and Taxes localized to other languages, and so far it's been going quite well! Recently we've added Turkish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese into the game, and these languages how now received a new round of playtesting, editing and rewrites, increasing the quality of the translations. In addition, I fixed some smaller bugs related to text rendering, with text being cut off in some places. Last but not least, I reworked the credits scene after you finish the game, adding the people who have worked on the translations and also making it a bit prettier! Our next steps is to translate Death and Taxes to Korean and Japanese, and so far they are 12% and 31% done respectively. Stay tuned for more updates on this :) There is also a community effort to translate the game to Ukranian, and it's already been done as far as 2% ^_^ Spanish translation is also coming along strong at 77%. So, I hope y'all enjoy the Spring Sale and if you haven't yet, do considering buying Death and Taxes, it would support us immensely to bring new games to you (watch out for an announcement about a new project in this space very soon!). If you have any feedback for us, feel free to share it with us here on Steam or on our Discord! Much love, -Death and Taxes

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Hi Grims! We are pleased to say that we have been chosen to be part of the EAST MEETS WEST GAMES FEST! I have no idea if I should be writing that in caps, but even then, it's pretty cool so caps are okay I guess >_> I would like to take this moment to appreciate your continued interest in Death and Taxes! And a big thank you to our publisher Hawthorn Games for bringing the game to our Chinese-speaking audience! We have performed so well, and we're overjoyed at the response. Being included in the East Meets West festival is absolutely banger! Many thanks to you all and hello to any newcomers! We really hope you like our game ^_^ Much love, -Death and Taxes

Hawthorn Games' first anniversary coincides with the Steam Winter Sale. Therefore, we are now offering discounts on games we published and launching the 5th game recommendation jointly with DouYu, especially for Death and Taxes. There are lots of gifts including game discounts, CDKeys and merchandize. We are looking forward to your participation! Happy first Anniversary and wonderful holidays! Death and Taxes offerd at a historical low 70% discount during the Winter Sale. Experience the office life of the Grim Reaper for only $3.89 (¥12.9)! The game recommendation campaign will run from Dec. 25th to 31st. Several games published by Hawthorn Games will get reviews and recommendations. There are also ongoing lucky draw and live events during the campaign. More details: 5th game recommendation at Douyu! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/61b95c6b612c29b22e8e224d5c56c594adde2c68.png The game recommendation campaign includes： 1. Live stream of playing Death and Taxes! Watch Live to participate in the lucky draw that can get CDKeys and merchandize. Streamer 秋山澪 will start on Dec. 25th Streamer 甜心战士 will start on Dec. 31st 2. Game Review & Game Trial Review and trial of multiple games get started during the campaign! For more information: 5th game recommendation at Douyu. Apply for participation in the Game Review section. 3. Merchandize Lucky Draw in QQ Group To thank the players for their continuous support to our games, we will make Lucky Draw in QQ Group: 540300028(including theme folder, two different sizes of Mindset cards and official coloring book). Enter the group 540300028 and view the announcement to participate in the lucky draw! Best wishes from Hawthorn Games!

Good day, devoted Reapers! After more than one month of overtime working on the translation and localization of this game, 100,000+ words and 8,700+ items are all done! Thank you for your patience. (Thanks for asking, our working environment is cozier than the Death Office, because you know, we no longer use the fax machine - v -). While we've done LQA multiple times to make sure the quality, massive game script and severe constraints of time really hindered us to make it into perfect. So we will continue to optimize translations and localizations along the way. If you encounter any flaws in the text or bugs in the game, please join our Discord. Give us feedback or share your insights with other Grim peers! Anyway, we are happy to announce that the Simplified and Traditional Chinese version of Death and Taxes is officially released today! Yes, today! Happy reaping! you fellow reapers! https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/36100298/4c13c73e7ffd18388d0456541c21384a7fb94ad5.jpg

Hello Grims! Oak here. Just wanted to let y'all know about the progress we've had with Turkish and Chinese localizations! We're happy to announce that the Turkish localization has been completed thanks to our diligent fans. It is available in our new update that you can grab on Steam right now! In addition, I'm happy to announce that we have partnered with Hawthorn Games to bring the game to the Chinese audience due to popular demand! Hopefully we will have more to share with you soon, but we aim to have the game finally available in Chinese in November already. Keep an eye on this space ^_^ As you may know, it's Steam Scream Fest right now, too! So to celebrate the occasion, you can find Death and Taxes at a smooth -70% off. And as is already custom for our posts, here's a bit of fan art from our community members for your viewing pleasure. Give them some love! Fate minding the news {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/4943781efed7bda59b19c4011090d20a06ad39ba.jpg Fate just being a hot dilf {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/63d1adca1849d77f83c0e8c41175142976c42f98.jpg by Riddlester (also on Instagram) Despondence, it seems like? Hm... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/08b53dd8bb23d7ca184597ef8f1bbf71e97f0af8.png By SherlockonOpium ...and Lady Pawdington up to her usual shenanigans :| {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/c70f2f89eea1d0101cd5e5b6e79fbc8635e515af.png By Stanley the Stanlet And that's it for now! Hope that you enjoyed this little update :3 Much love, -Death and Taxes

Hi Grims! Just wanted to let you know how things are going with our next game, Broken Alliance!! This style of game usually has two main layers, the adventure and the combat layer. In the adventure mode, you travel the world map, gathering resources, hiring creatures, building towns and in the combat part, well, you fight. Lately we've been working a lot with the combat section of the game, and earlier this year, we made a pretty big step of going for a deckbuilding style combat. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36100298/af6f7425b7d5b6457ebf223d64db497008a086e7.png We haven't nailed down how it will work exactly yet, but day by day we're getting closer to figuring it out. We're also trying it out in the engine (which totally works) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42278832/569a1c9a3e424aa1966067390b1710c452ca8b70.gif ok maybe it doesn't totally work yet. BUT WE'RE GETTING THERE! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42278832/f9b846795f2d1887f1091e701fc0cea1f5d9d9aa.png The goal this week is to have the combat in such a shape that we could show it off at a private demo event this weekend, and after that we want to work on a more public demo, something that y'all can try out yourselves, too ^_^ Also, we're going to be at Gamescom! And maybe we're going to have a playable demo of Broken Alliance there >_> ...only time will tell. So, if you like what you see, please do wishlist and follow to keep up with our progress! Till next time! Much love, -Oak