Hellbound news & patch notes

Hello, people! How was your 2022?

Ours, full of news and a lot of different games! Here's the video recap I did telling you about the most important milestones we had at Saibot Studios (IT INCLUDES ENGLISH SUBTITLES): https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/8b3459d6cf4cc43e0308a92b45d3537299f91221.png Watch video on You Tube Below are all our games discounted up to 70% for the next week. Don't miss them 💸 Thank you for all your support! Have an amazing 2023! Tobías Rusjan https://store.steampowered.com/app/1787100 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431780 https://store.steampowered.com/app/753590 https://store.steampowered.com/app/383930 https://store.steampowered.com/app/311250 https://store.steampowered.com/app/248470

Hello, everybody! How have you been? We're doing PRETTY WELL! Closing this crazy 2022 celebrating 🥳 And that's not only because our football team won the World Cup, but also because we have just released a new game on Steam: https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/53ceb798e992c68ae96c207c36012d92b474fc5d.png Out of Bounds is a peculiar title that was originally created for a game jam the past year (Epic Megajam 2021). As a solo dev, I had 7 days to create a game that was later released for free on Itchio. Since I liked the result of the jam, I decided to keep working on that idea for the next months and also some great devs (former colleagues from other projects) joined me to get the best results in visuals (Viktor Ahmed and Claudio "Scuzzo" Sagrera) and audio (David Levill) 🙌

THE GAME

Out of Bounds is a title about "creating" a game and "fixing" bugs... Yeah, it's crazy. You will pickup blueprints, compile shaders, test sound effects, drink a lot of coffee. But watch out for the bugs! Grab your Line Tracer and get rid of them 👾 https://youtu.be/U7Q1M-wRbMg Things are starting to get better here in Saibot Studios and Out of Bounds is part of that process. I'm looking forward to bring you news about bigger projects in the future, but for now give a chance to this crazy puzzle shooter with humor and puzzles 🤓 You can follow Out of Bounds on its new Twitter account: https://twitter.com/OutOfBoundsVg

NEWS ABOUT EXPLOSIONS AND GORE?

Hell yeah! The people at Humble Bundle created a new package of retro style first person shooters based on the one they did in March of this year 🔥 https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/d71afde69b8306dbbb108c8e6fbcb9e42f3a60d0.png This time, you can get 7 awesome titles for only 12 dollars, including our own Hellbound and the great Forgive Me Father was also added to the list. A percentage of the sales will go to charity at Able Gamers and Starlight Children's Foundation ❤️ Hurry up! Get the bundle before the next 24 hours ⏲️ If you have a Twitter account, don't forget to follow us for more news: https://twitter.com/SaibotStudios Cheers and take care! Tobías

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Hello there! How are you? How's your 2022 so far? 😎

From here, we have a few things to tell you... As we mentioned you in our last post, this year we reached an entire decade since we started making games as an independent team in Saibot Studios. But it was just now that we actually make something special to celebrate it. Check out the special video! https://youtu.be/S4-E40ce_Oo Together with this video, we built and launched a collection with all our published games, including: the Doorways saga, Hellbound and The Black Heart 😈 > LINK TO BUNDLE < Buying the games from the bundle, gives you a 15% of discount on all the titles. And if you already have one or more of the games included in the package, it will discount you the titles you're missing without needing to buy the entire bundle 👌

TENEBRIS SOMNIA

On the other hand, we receently announced our new creation: Tenebris Somnia. This is a very unique title by the great Andrés Borghi, creator of The Black Heart 🖤 https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/3dc732cee7c111bb33503e507a649dcf3d66ae79.png We're developing this project Andrés and I (Tobías Rusjan), together with a great team of artists. You can read more about it and the dev team in this other post we did the past week. If you like the concept of the game, don't forget to add it to your Wishlists. We're aiming to have it ready during 2023 👍 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2121510/Tenebris_Somnia/

OUT OF BOUNDS

In the mean time, I keep working on my little jam game Out of Bounds, a rare title with action, shooting and puzzles. We released a demo in June and it's still available to check directly from the store page: https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/53ceb798e992c68ae96c207c36012d92b474fc5d.png My idea is finish the full game for the end of the year. So play the demo and add it to your wishlist if you liked it! 🙌 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1787100/Out_of_Bounds/

HELLBOUND... HELLBOUND?

This month we received the great news from our (now) former publishers that they're giving us back the IP of Hellbound 🤯 What does this mean? Finally, we at Saibot Studios are going to start receiving sales from Hellbound on Steam. Since the release of 2020, all the sales went to the publisher because that was what we stablished: they recoup their investment first, and then we split; but we never reached that last step because they never recoup their part with the sales we had. But now after two years from the release, they're giving us back the game so we can atleast see some of the sales. Also, we got back the full rights of the project to take any desision we want from now on 🔥 https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/5d56edecbe4128de8d9912896496161a814e16f3.png In March of this year there was the Best of Boomer Shooters Bundle, the first collection of Humble Bundle focused on retro FPSs. Hellbound had the honour to be included in that package, becoming the first argentinian game in participate in the iconic Humble Bundle: https://youtu.be/ndqIlyYFVJM Both the sales from this collection and also the sales from now on (September of 2022) at Steam are going to us at Saibot. Yes, finally! But unfortunately, this aren't earnings for us yet, since we still need to recoup all we put to create the Hellbound: Survival Mode in 2016-2018. So the future of Hellbound is still uncertain... The good thing is that everything has started looking brighter now, we'll see how things turn for our Hellgore in the next months 🤞 That would be all for now, people. Hope we have some more news for you soon, follow us in our networks to stay updated:

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Cheers, everybody! Take care! Tobias

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Hello, people! How are you? How did you started 2022? 🤓

In a day like today, but from 2012, we officially started a crazy adventure called Saibot that continues to date. Actually, the very begginning was in 2011 with the conceptualization and prototype of what ended up being our first title Doorways (read more). But it wasn't until March of 2012 that, after I partened with my Uncle and friend Ivan Rusjan, we finally started working as a team. We built the first Saibot "office", which was actually my room along side the bed and at my Mom's department, and we used some old tables as desks that my Grandma gave us ❤️ And from then, a lot of enechdotes and experiences started hapenning. With tons of fails and drop downs, but also with some wins, we were able to keep going to date doing what we love the most: creating our own games and delivering them all over the world 🌎 So I decided to take some time to build and share with you a quick recap of some of the main milestones we have achieved together with you during the last 10 years of Saibot...

2012: The Origin

• Started the team and office with only two members (picture)
• Started the development of the first game and saga: Doorways
• First public presentation of the game at the event EVA 2012

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/d9a7ea9b6833fb127135c0a1ac1a73a9c7a57c20.jpg Left: Tobias Rusjan (me), right: Martin Voychisko

2013: Prelude

• Trip to E3 thanks to a contest we won at Indies Crash E3
• Approval of our first game at Steam Greenlight after a lot of big Youtubers played it
• Official launch of Doorways: Prelude on Steam (first argentinian game to be released on Steam after being approved on Greenlight)
• Launch of VR (virtual reality) version of Doorways: Prelude with the Oculus Rift Dev Kit 1 (first argentinian game published with VR compatibility)

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/7284455e8752bf7471fd8c426f1d49e7950547b9.jpg Most popular Youtuber Pew Die Pie playing Doorways: Prelude

2014: Underworld

• Moved to new home-office with our own space
• Team got bigger with 4 full time developers
• Development and release of the second game Doorways: The Underworld
• Hosted a special event with Youtubers Alfredito and international guest Xoda (Chile) playing Doorways: The Underworld live
• Trip to Esquel (Chubut, Argentina) together with the development team (picture)

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/c679b99e4bf7fe08ac1620b56872e7961c403691.jpg From left to right: David Levill, Sergio Juarez (my Father), Damian Teixeira, Tobias Rusjan (yo), Maximiliano Schneider

2015: Holy Mountains

• Team got even bigger with 6 developers working full time
• Started the creation of the biggest title of the saga Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
• Release of an early version of the game as Early Access in Steam
• Published the first live action promotional video directed by Andrés Borghi (picture)

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/3cbde0802de6ab11d99a3696b008f75ae9c7cd9e.jpg Dev team members from Saibot together with the cast and live action video creators (see tags)

2016: Transition

• Final release of Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh on Steam
• Built and release of the old version of Doorways: Old Prototype created in late 2011
• Started working on new series Hellbound
• Team member David Levill decided tattoo himself the logo of "Doorways" on his skin because of the love he had to the project (picture)

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/3ac04849ab6987f9a81b8ce7f204ebefe967ee22.jpg Tattoo painted by Fernando Muzzio (main artist from Hellbound) over the left arm of David Levill (music director and SFX composer)

2017: New Beginning

• New team members were introduced for a much bigger project in Hellbound
• Recorded motion captures (MoCap) for animations of Hellbound (Hell Knights, Vladers)
• Built and published Hellbound's teaser trailer (picture). For the creation of this particular video, we did live action takes as references, then did motion captures (MoCap), and finally rendered everything with high quality specs; everything done here in Argentina 🇦🇷

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/ef74d4400d6d1c3adf4ac89a721dd304af39c413.jpg Watch the first presentation of the teaser trailer at the expo EVE 2017

2018: Survival Mode

• Launch of Hellbound: Survival Mode as Early Access
• Created a Kickstarter campaing for Hellbound to complete the funds for the campaign
• Had a TV showcase with Santiago Do Rego and Sebastian Di Nardoon at TNT Sports about Hellbound's Kickstarter
• Allied with NGD Studios (currently named Nimble Giant Entertainment) to publish Hellbound's campaign mode
• Hellbound wons an Unreal Dev Grant for the development of the project (first argentinian game to get one)
• Hellbound: Survival Mode wons a price at expo EVA 2018 as best game created in Unreal Engine (picture)

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/c9f3becc315ac9143daa5282e07e34a79a98eb57.jpg From left to right: Paulo Souza (Epic Games evangelist), Tobías Rusjan (me), Miguel Martín (director at ADVA)

2019: Campaign Mode

• Moved with the team at a bigger and better home-office located in the town of Vicente Lopez (Buenos Aires)
• Definitive launch of Hellbound: Survival Mode (first published argentinian game to have animations withe motion capture)
• Launch of Hellbound's demo (campaign mode) together with a presentation at EVA 2019 (picture)

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/79bddaa6553a1977e41a6bd2da46dcdfd8d69f3b.jpg From left to right: Juan Caratino, Federico Tessandori, Fernando Muzzio, David Levill, Viktor Ahmed, Tobias Rusjan (yo)

2020: Hellbound

• Released the campaign mode of Hellbound (picture)
• Published the Mayhem Pack DLC with the digital artbook and soundtrack
• Updated the game with all the Kickstarter digital rewards at The Heroes' Cemetery (statues, headstones, busts and wall)
• Released a big update with new content for both games Hellbound and Hellbound: Survival Mode
• Published as Early Access the first game created by another developer: The Black Heart by Andres Borghi

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/eccd89c6364fcbc3c5f7679bbbc7ca2f490ef567.jpg Hellbound's launch trailer

2021: The Black Heart

• Built and sent all around the world the Kickstarter physical rewards of Hellbound: game big box, hardcover artbook, CD with soundtrack, stickers, posters and t-shirts
• Final release of The Black Heart by Andres Borghi (picture)
• Published the Soundtrack DLC of The Black Heart
• Released the Chaos Bundle of The Black Heart, including both game and soundtrack (all items are on sale right now, don't miss them!)
• Created and published a mini game for a jam called Out of Bounds at Itchio

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/a3d08dc69a5703d303cc18f3500d682472bb91e5.jpg Cover art created by Fernando Muzzio (Hellbound) for The Black Heart by Andres Borghi

2022 (coming next): Out of Bounds and MORE...

• Final release of Out of Bounds on Steam (picture). See the last development updates here
• And more... (news coming soon!)

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/c2342cb224aec4660f26d102c5607a2ed98079a1.png Add it to your Wishlist! And this right here is just a quick recap... We thank you all of you for being part of this adventure, for playing our games, for sharing them or just for writing and supporting us 🙌 We have more news to reveal you soon. So follow us on our social networks!

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🎉 Happy new year, everybody! 🎉 As always, here's our 2021 video recap by Tobias Rusjan. We talk about Hellbound, The Black Heart by Andres Borghi and the upcoming projects 👾 https://youtu.be/BHg3TkYGutc Don't forget the sales! All our games are discounted up to 90% OFF 💸 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431780/The_Black_Heart/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/753590/Hellbound/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/383930/Doorways_Holy_Mountains_of_Flesh https://store.steampowered.com/app/311250/Doorways_The_Underworld https://store.steampowered.com/app/248470/Doorways_Prelude And Out of Bounds is coming soon... Add it to your Wishlist! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1787100/Out_of_Bounds/ Wish you all an amazing start of 2022! Cheers! Tobias

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/6a4bcd39b38af1c4b00be6a413c8b1cb036f3aa1.jpg Happy-creepy Halloween, people! How are you? All our darky and bloody titles are on sale until next Monday: November 1. Check them out! 💸 The Black Heart (2021) developed by Andres Borghi 10% OFF https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431780/The_Black_Heart/ Hellbound (2020) 66% OFF https://store.steampowered.com/app/753590/Hellbound/ Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh (2016) 50% OFF https://store.steampowered.com/app/383930/Doorways_Holy_Mountains_of_Flesh/ Doorways: The Underworld (2014) 60% OFF https://store.steampowered.com/app/311250/Doorways_The_Underworld/ Doorways: Prelude (2013) 70% OFF https://store.steampowered.com/app/248470/Doorways_Prelude/ Cheers and have a spooky weekend! Tobías

Hello, people. How are you? It's been awhile. Tobias Rusjan here from Doorways, Hellbound and Saibot. I wanted to let you know about the projects in which we're currently working at Saibot Studios. Let's start with the one next to release...

THE BLACK HEART (OCT 2021)

The game The Black Heart, created in its majority by Andrés Borghi, a very talented multimedia artist with whom we had the pleasure to work with for promotional videos of Doorways and Hellbound. The past year we joined forces with Andres to publish his masterpiece on Steam. We started with Early Access, we kept improving the game and we finally got a definitive version ready to launch 🙌 The full game release is next Thursday: October 21. IN LESS THAN A WEEK! So go to the store page and take a look. And if you like it, add the game to your Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431780/The_Black_Heart/ By the way, the new cover for The Black Heart was made by one of the main artists of Hellbound: the great Fernando Muzzio And the music for the release version is going to be remastered by the sound especialist of Doorways and Hellbound: David Levill

OUT OF BOUNDS (EARLY 2022)

On my side, during August I participated in the Unreal Megajam 2021, and I managed to create a little full game on my own in just 7 days 🤯 You can play that version for free on Itchio; but since I really liked the results, I decided to keep working on this project and to invite another great former-Saibot so we can get the game to the next level: the master of art Viktor Ahmed The idea is to keep improving it for a couple of months and release a new version during early 2022. So if you like it, add it to your Wishlist as well! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1787100/Out_of_Bounds/

ARRAN: THE BOOK OF HEROES (APRIL 2022)

And outside Saibot, our friends and coleagues who helped us in the past with our games created together Pal'Sur Studios. They are working on an action RPG that looks and plays spectacular 👌 I had the luck to play directly with the creators. So I can really recommend you to add it to your wishlist as well, without a doubt: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1545080/Arran_The_Book_of_Heroes/ Don't forget to follow us on our social medias for more content:

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Cheers and have you all an amazing end of the week! Tobias

HELLo again, warriors! How are you? How's your weekend so far? ːhellonː The other day I did a quick fix for some crashes reported by many of you after the last update v1.1.3. Thanks a lot for the feedback and I wish I could have fixed that before, I've been crazy busy with some personal stuff. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/a2258e2b3b53f6af3a0365c07ab9d37a61bfcb86.jpg

• Screenshot by BFG-12000

On the other hand, there're some cases were the game freezes during the loading screen because you're trying to load a saved game from an old version (v1.1.2 or earlier). If this is happening to you, I need you to send me your save files via email. To locate those files, just copy-paste-enter the next line into your Windows Explorer: %localappdata%\Hellbound\Saved\SaveGames Send me the most recent files you see there (or just all of them), I will check them and then send you back the ones fixed. Email: [email protected] And to finish the week, here are some AMAZING shots made by a gamer from Steam by the name of BFG-12000 🙌 Click on the images to see the originals in high definition, and let's follow the guy and his outstanding work at his new Twitter account. Besides Hellbound, he takes great shoots from other games as well. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/78c02a5a97e72e65c9a11a680be174808902aab5.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/93980ff4538d342626e75a79860be1119f2fbedd.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/342b590f2f3cde403fa48e253ddf48fb48f99407.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/e1942e1beab3299337e478bd03bc0332b356d187.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/b7e01c64ef555c5284c4c8c53bbc0baa5b91a50a.jpg Cheers, everybody! Have a hell of a weekend! Tobías

An update on a Wednesday afternoon? Hell yeah! How are you, demonic creatures from the depths of Hell! ? 😈 During the last months we have been working with our friends at 3ogs (Pablo and Mauricio Navajas) and with our talented art director Viktor Ahmed, to bring you that thing you've been asking for a long time... STEAM ACHIEVEMENTS! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/836c01528b870b7143edfef12b01e861416f4264.jpg I also recreated the language system entirely, and added (finally) our own natal-Argentinian Spanish option. And a bunch of other fixes and improvements have been made to the game. Check out the entire list on the bottom of this post 👇 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/277c7450886c72224644c827286778db68ded6d3.jpg I want to take this opportunity to share with you our last Kickstarter update, where I did a recap about all the things we have accomplished together during the last years: Don't miss it, here's the link! As I mentioned in that post, I want to start working on a new project next month. Hellbound has been without a doubt an incredible journey for us at Saibot Studios. But unfortunately, we haven't seen a single sale from it, since the third party investment was never recouped. So this right here is probably our last update, or at least for now. You can follow us on our social networks to stay in touch with us and to keep updated on new things to come: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and You Tube. Once again, I want to thank you all who have been supporting us during this time. This has been a wonderful era in our careers, with a ton of anecdotes and experiences to share ✊ And now... Let's get those freaking achievements unlocked! Tobías ---- CHANGELOG HELLBOUND v1.1.3 New features:

• Achievement system
• Spanish language option added for all texts, including in-game and interfaces
• Steam Cloud added for saved games, progress and input settings

Bug fixes:

• Input configuration resets every time you reopen the game
• Video quality preset sometimes appears empty and doesn't work properly
• In configuration pages the scroll menus and the focused option reset everytime the unsaved-changes-window appears
• Sometimes enemies die or crash the game when a door closes above them (thank you Franco Venica for the report)
• Pygon enemies appear freezed after specific saved game
• Pygon enemies keep attacking after you die
• Green light at catacombs entrance turns off after loading a saved game on campaign level 3 The Heroes' Cemetery
• Colliseum side doors can be open manually in campaign level 3 The Heroes' Cemetery
• When falling down the final sector of campaign level 4 Dead Forest, screen fades black but have to wait several minutos to die
• Top switch for main elevator can only be used once at campaign level 5 Flying Souls
• Clipping floors on the sides of the survival arena at campaign level 6 City of Fury
• Color lights from exit door turning off after loading a saved game at campaign level 6 City of Fury
• Sometimes after finishing the survival arena of campaign level 6 City of Fury, the final door doesn't open
• The ending text sometimes doesn't finish to show entirely before the screen fades to black
• Grotesque quality for textures is showing Low quality textures for some graphic cards
• First time you reset the video settings, gamma goes down to 0
• After finishing the campaign, the camera changes the field of view (zooms in) affecting the entire game until restart
• Voices, Power Up pickups and cinematic sound effects are not affected by the SFX Volume from audio settings
• Ferlord is not being able to attack when the player is between his legs

General improvements:

• Item Ammo Pack now gives you +20 Slugs, +6 Shells, +40 Bullets and +4 Rockets (same as individual ammo boxes combined)
• Added "All clear" message after finishing a survival arena from the campaign
• Multiple spawns at the same time during survivals are now well distributed in different locations
• Input keys updated on screen messages Loading Screens and Interactions based on the current configuration settings
• Video settings reorganized, simplified, and only working when applied
• Little tweaks and fixes over menues and interface: Correct difficulty name on Load Game screen, Secret Discovered pop-up empty offsets on the sides, updated Quit Screen for demons
• Smooth disapparition added to chunks of useless weapons, exploding fruits (pumpkins) and container fruits (green onions)
• Credits margins fixed and finishing properly on different screen resolutions
• Damage area of Rocket Launcher's projectiles increased from 200-800 to 500-1000
• Ferlord's energy projectiles slowered down in speed (50%), but increased in size (150%)

Warriors from the Underworld! How have you been? As I mentioned you in the 2020 recap video, during the first months of this 2021 I have been dedicating most of my time to build the physical rewards we promised from our Kickstarter. But even so, I managed to continue working on fixes and improvements for the game. Among other stuff, the game now has...

• Full Controller Support with keybindings and configuration settings 🎮

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• Loading background images for tally screens on mission replays:

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• Configuration menus recreated and improved in their navigation:

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• The artbook from Mayhem Pack (DLC) with new pages and definition:

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/70e620ae08634d7641112f20d1c07d31d34e732e.png And many other things, from bug fixes to general adjustments, you can see in the list from below 👇 Hoping to have more news soon. Cheers from Saibot Studios! Tobías Rusjan - CHANGELOG HELLBOUND v1.1.2 New Features:

• Full controller support with keybindings and configuration settings: separated x-y sensitivity; toogles for invert look, vibration and move states by holding down keys

Bug fixes:

• Pygon enemies sometimes freeze after loading a saved game or after spawning
• Missing secondary bindings for Next Weapon, Previous Weapon and Switch POV Side (now key as default)
• Interval text "Entering Ground Zero" removed after finishing campaign
• Entering back and forth between campaign replays and survival arenas used to remove levels from the lists
• Total ammo of weapons Indolora and Rocket Launcher was showing only one at a time in HUD
• Country flags were not showing after finishing a campaign replay or a survival arena
• Clipping wall on last switch at campaign level 1 The Resistance
• Getting stuck on walls at last room from campaign level 1 The Resistence
• Hellgore's statue clipping to catacombs at campaign level 3 The Heroes' Cemetery
• Castle door switch not working after closing the door from level 4 Dead Forest
• Secret heart item can be reached through closed secret door at campaign level 5 Flying Souls
• Secret soul was opening another secret door when pickup at campaign level 5 Flying Souls
• Clipping eye on walls inside the theater hallways at campaign level 5 Flying Souls
• Loading a checkpoint from the main elevator make bottom enemies disappear at campaign level 7 Endless Hive
• Replaying campaign level 8 The Core doesn't allow you to go back to main menu in tally screen

Improvements:

• Win screen for campaign replays now shows the cover of each level as background, instead of the roadmap
• Quick load key (F9) now shows a confirmation window before loading
• Restart Level option added to all in-game menus
• Options available from Lose and Win Screens
• Menus redone entirely: selecting flow, centered configuration screens, fadings, sound effects
• Moving with arrow keys in all menus, including sound effects feedback for every movement
• "Survival level unlocked" pop up redone and placed correctly when return to main menu options
• Continue option removed after finishing campaign
• Added informative text about playing the campaign to unlock stages for survival and campaign (replays)
• Survival "stages" are now called "arenas", and now you can also get access to the sub-menu from start
• Confirmation windows buttons now work when you release the click/key, instead of instantly touch it
• Sound effect concurrency reduced in menus skull-selection to avoid saturation
• Total ammo in HUD is now displayed centered, in two columns and shows "----" when there's no ammo left
• Tooltips and interact messages with keycodes updated with gamepad buttons
• Current level stats now appear on new campaigns after finishing it once, also 100% stats turn green color
• "Press fire key" messages changed to "Any key" to allow keyboard and controller inputs
• Trying to escape from the death screen using keyboard or gamepad now shows the exit confirmation window
• Sliders from configuration settings focused directly for faster changes
• Pop-up message added when trying to quick save during campaign survivals
• Fixed collision issues in secret stairs at castle from level 4 Dead Forest
• Sound effects added to main hall elevator and secret door at campaign level 5 Flying Souls
• Avoid climbing to secret from top tunnel at campaign level 5 Flying Souls
• Last game checkpoint at campaign level 8 The Core moved before the boss confrontation
• Logo back to basics

Mayhem Pack (DLC) - Artbook:

• New pages: introduction, level 5 Flying Souls, ending
• All pages are now in Ultra Wide resolution at 3440x1440 pixels
• Numerations added to most of the pages
• A lot of tweaks on different images, like color correction and rescales

Hello, everybody! And happy new year! We have a 2020 recap video for you, including all you need to know about Hellbound, The Black Heart and the future of Saibot Studios. Check it out! https://youtu.be/4XNlS8nNaNQ And don't forget the end-of-the-year sales for all of our titles: https://store.steampowered.com/app/753590/Hellbound/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431780/The_Black_Heart/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/383930/Doorways_Holy_Mountains_of_Flesh/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/311250/Doorways_The_Underworld/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/248470/Doorways_Prelude/ Thank you once again for your awesome support. Have you all an amazing 2021! Tobias Rusjan

Soldiers from Hell! How are you? We hope you guys are having an incredible end of the year 😎 During this weeks we´re participating in the Steam discounts with 50% OFF: https://store.steampowered.com/app/753590/Hellbound/ And don´t forget about the Mayhem Pack: DLC with art and music! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1461510/Hellbound__Mayhem_Pack/ f you didn´t have them already or if you want to gift them to someone special, now it´s the right time! Cheers and have an amazing start of 2021! Tobías

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Major Update: Flying Souls (v1.1.1) 🌋

HELLo, soldiers of Hell! How have you been? We’ve been in overdrive preparing things for the end of the year and have some explosive new stuff for you! Are you ready? Check this out! https://youtu.be/1Jc_yza1upM Since we released the update in August, at Saibot Studios we have been working non-stop fixing bugs, improving the game in general, and at the same time creating new content. So we bring you...

• Flying Souls: The true new level 5 of the campaign. The most complex and varied scenario of all: with indoor and outdoor confrontations and with the highest amount of secrets: 10 (SPOILER: 3 of which are almost-impossible and combined); and aesthetically SHOCKING: a floating island in the clouds, with two huge rings rotating around it.
• Pygon: a completely new enemy that’s different from all the rest. It flies, spits energy balls that deal area damage, and teleports to dodge your attacks. We also added this creature to the next levels, so we recommend re-playing them as well.
• Ground Zero: We recreated the classic Survival Mode scenario that we launched back in 2018 in the new version of the game, and we included it both in the original game (optional) and in the campaign. Among many other improvements compared to the classic, the new one has high-quality textures, new and improved 3D models, character ragdolls, bloodstains on the stage, new animations and visual effects for weapons, remastered music, Hellgore character voices, and much more!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/bff2bb193701adc63fef2e5570d1d716da91a00c.jpg Doing all this was an investment that was not in the plans. Our Publisher Nimble Giant supported our development until the August release and we are grateful for that. Although both teams were very proud of the product we achieved, the sales results were not as expected. We at Saibot then decided to go one step further and invest what little money we had left to continue improving and expanding the game, thus giving Hellbound the closure it deserves. Unfortunately, we are far from the game recouping its investment or for us to see any revenue in sales and thus be able to continue expanding the game even more. That is why this update that we bring you today is a gift for all of you who have been supporting us, so that you can enjoy even a little more of this crazy project that was so important to us. It won't be as big a gameplay extension as you expected, but this is because our vision (commercially flawed probably) was always focused on making a small, high-quality product in all aspects of the game by adding tons of handcrafted details in each scene, enemy, item, weapon, etc. That was always our main objective; in addition to (of course) invoking the spirit of the classic FPS that we are so passionate about. Each level of the campaign took us between 3 and 4 months of hard work, with an incredible development team of 6 people (of which only 4 were full time). The levels are built by hand, without any type of pattern or modular objects like tiles. This makes everything look more varied and organic, which was what we wanted; instead of repeated and simple. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/50bf5b35fe32b20ece8bb66d579ebf92350fbdc9.jpg We’re taking this update as an opportunity to say goodbye to Saibot's current team as we will not be in a financial position to continue supporting the team until further notice. Next year a new phase will begin for everyone, with new journeys, opportunities and new projects. Thanks again to everyone who supported us, these past 5 years have been truly AMAZING, we grew SO MUCH and built something GREAT together. We leave you with screenshots of the new content, we hope you like it as much as we do. Cheers from the unstoppable team at Saibot Studios! Tobías Rusjan Campaign level Flying Souls: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/e167343417dfb98a833a9774c96f0e587404736b.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/2f2d27cd0f314aa4fc35721e1b32f599b50cc170.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/a3339760bd904776ba0ff72b7957a3ecbcd66b80.jpg Survival Mode Remaster level Ground Zero: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/32abad8cebd44d04778c65afa6231168d869fba8.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/0675701689f1cca41ec55fdca5f857987707a3f8.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/b2f76ff79237f444e1906ba8a3797e1b55ea0597.jpg

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Just another day like today but in 1993, the true father of FPS was born and it was called DOOM. So here's our present! Originally created by our talented teammate Fernando Muzzio for the 25th anniversary of DOOM: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/48074bd4c7841f3347f0758e27dff5164305e67d.jpg And we want to take this opportunity to tell you to GET READY! A big update is coming next week for Hellbound, so stay tuned! ːhellonː Cheers! Tobias and the team at Saibot Studios

HELLo demon killers! How are you doing? We're super busy working on new content for the game, and we want to have it ready next month for the end of this INFERNAL YEAR 😈 In the meantime, we want to invite you to vote for the Hellbound's Soundtrack in the Steam Awards! Composed by our lovely and talented teammate David Levill, and with invited titans Christian Fernando Perucchi and Federico Ágreda "Zardonic", the music of Hellbound is a huge part of what we have created here and we think it deserves a recognition 🤘 If you didn't listened to it outside the game, you can get the high quality version in the Mayhem Pack: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1461510/Hellbound__Mayhem_Pack/ Or you can also play it on Spotify or iTunes. In other news, the Steam Autumn Sales have just started and Hellbound is currently 35% OFF! So if didn't get the game yet or want to give it away to a friend of yours, now is the right time! https://store.steampowered.com/app/753590/Hellbound/ Great new content is coming soon, guys... Stay tuned! Tobías Rusjan

Warriors from the underworld! How are you? Today we have something special for you. We have been working on new content for the game (news are coming soon on that too), and also this thing right here: THE MAYHEM PACK! It’s the first DLC of Hellbound with exclusive material from the game: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/00c9f79f84faad97ce730bc99f611159a10e9557.jpg The Mayhem Pack includes: Artbook: 100 page PDF with concept art, illustrations and development commentaries from art directors Fernando Muzzio and Viktor Ahmed Soundtrack: 10 extended version songs from Hellbound, composed by David Levill. Including classic Ready to Die, Soul Breaker (ft. Christian Perucchi) and Hell & Gore (by Federico Ágreda "Zardonic"). Full tracklist: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/abb563bdca3d9a44ccf5a05c637ba5c8d7d5c5b4.jpg Besides the super cool images created by great artists, the Artbook also includes years of interesting development content, and never before seen parts of the Hellbound story that can’t be found in-game-Don’t miss it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1461510/Hellbound__Mayhem_Pack/ Check out some of the Artbook’s content below! And since we’re on Halloween, both the DLC and the game are on sale! Cheers from the team at Saibot Studios! Tobías Rusjan Artbook previews: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/08da74815065e574d78d056554019353c5f9c786.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/97b0172117849ca52a985901ee72ea7aaed22d54.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/c40773243a11c428609dec4b5e174ee5b1b7a53d.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/e3feae25df89dc32906400d2dae572b3950f8d6d.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/713ec482f4f5c375a9220fbffdd1d926a469599f.jpg

Hello there! How are you doing? We're currently working on various things that we're going to reveal you very soon... In the meantime, Trading Cards are live! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/30112e02047fa2cde62782a3ee8595b08c30c2c7.jpg This is the work of our talented teammate Fernando Muzzio, who was in charge of the design of all characters and weapons for the game (among other stuff). Here's a look to the full version of the cards: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/0695abde26a153d74e84b4ecf5b1d4aff45a9a02.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/5e95e0624dfb4e52ad53c5ef44f9d1b7047b7bc7.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/366f71815d17ff57f2b577e83ade694c1d0b284c.jpg You're going to receive some of the cards by playing, and others exchanging them with the community. And when you have completed the set, you can combine it to level up and get some awesome Steam Profile Backgrounds and Emoticons of Hellbound. Don't miss them!! More news are coming in the next weeks, stay tuned and take care! Tobías Rusjan

Hello everybody! How are you? The Black Heart, the fighting game created by Andrés Borghi, is now available on Steam! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4466206/df4c4bcbd53d2e53e4d72aad442dad66418d185d.png Current Early Access version includes:

• The 6 main characters ready to fight 🎃💀👁🐍🕷💃
• The first 2 chapters of the Story Mode (Hashi and Noroko)
• Texts available both in English and Spanish
• Full controller support
• Versus and Survival Modes for single-player and local multi-player

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431780/The_Black_Heart/ Time for the massacre... Share the news if you like it, thank you! Tobías Rusjan from Saibot Studios

Warriors from the Underworld! How are you? :zombie: Today we have a new update for Hellbound (v1.0.3), which includes a lot of fixes and improvements based on your awesome feedback! You can see the entire changelog below 👇 And we want to take this opportunity to thank our friends at 3ogs (Pablo and Mauricio Navajas), who have been helping us fixing most of the bugs here. You guys rock! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/454f2361d5a6b110a7aac7b0396bea080cdb8f82.png Among other stuff, we finally finished creating (and adding to the game) the full body statues of our amazing backers from Kickstarter and from our official website 🙌 This is a task we have been doing for the last year and a half. You sent us your idea, we conceptualized it (Fernando Muzzio), then created the final 3D version (by Juan Caratino), and finally added to the game. All the statues are located inside the level 3 of the campaign: "The Heroes' Cemetery". Some of them are on the surface, others at the coliseum (survival sector), and the rest can only be found in secret rooms... Hope you guys like it as much as we do. Below you will find some examples :eyes: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/8df66588d556b7dd9353dea5f4929b0d57a32b25.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/c2c2f4b5f7cd0d29caecb67f91fe132c4b473d32.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/086db8b28440323c55d7ae08b0c06bee5c9e627d.jpg Cheers and have a hell of a weekend! Tobias Rusjan and the team at Saibot Studios - CHANGELOG HELLBOUND v1.0.3 New Features: - Quick save (F5) and quick load (F9) - Show current stats (Kills, Items and Secrets) on the top-right of the screen during missions Tweaks and Improvements: - Weapon Simple Shotgun now only shoots by clicking (no more holding down) - All full body statues of backers created and added to The Heroes' Cemetery - Winning a separated level from the Campaign now goes to the Tally screen with the scores (instead of returning to the main menu) - Finishing a separated mission (Levels from Campaign or Stages from Survival) now lets you replay, choose another one, and see rankings - Death and winning states flow made quicker and more polished - All visuals and audio from menu-windows improved - Showing current ranking after ended match (level, difficulty and type) - Secrets detection tweaked at levels The Resistance, Dead Forest and City of Fury Bug Fixes: - FOV resets everytime game reloads - Save files drastically increased in size in some specific cases, making levels imposible to load - Rankings from campaign levels were showing incorrect results - Rankings from survival stages were not showing current player row on the bottom - Game crashed when picking up first-time-weapons during saved-games on version v1.0.1 - Pressing Escape during interval screens (tally) was blocking the game - When playing on HELLMARE! you kept loosing health during interval screens - Sound effect for sand storm at survival stage Fury Road was playing during loading screen

Hello, everybody! How are you? On October 22 we'll be publishing our first game created by another studio, in this case by one single guy: Andrés Borghi 👍 We have been working with Andrés in the previous years for the creation of promotional videos for our games Doorways and Hellbound. But in this case, we'll be publishing his own creation called The Black Heart ːdoorways_heartː https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431780/The_Black_Heart/ It's a true honor for us to have the opportunity of publishing this awesome, crazy and spooky fighting game of Andres. You can follow the game on Facebook and Twitter for more news. Have a great day/night! Tobias Rusjan

Hey guys! How's it going?! 😎 October, the month of Halloween, has just begun with all the darkness, creatures and blood... So we have some creepy news during this month for you at Saibot Studios 👻 We're currently working on v1.0.3 update for Hellbound, including a lot of fixes and improvements based on your awesome feedback. So hopefully we'll get it live during next week 🤘 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/a3bfb6487183c7045375bafa4311f5cd927c18eb.png And we want to hear from you too. Have you been playing the new Serious Sam? What do you think of it? Are you excited for the DOOM: Eternal DLC coming this same month? Let us know! Stay tuned for all our news, here and at Saibot's pages: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaibotStudios - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SaibotStudios/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saibotstudios/ Cheers from the dev-team! Tobias "Toba" Rusjan

Infernal creatures! How have you been? 😈 We have been working on fixes and improvements for the game since the release, and today we finally have the first patch in v1.0.2 🤘 There're still things to fix; but we're going to keep working on that, so don't worry! Most of things for this update are fixes and improvements based on your awesome feedback. Among other things, we added a pop-up message every time you found a secret (CLICK FOR GIF): {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/09e12b7d7f5ce204243988ccf5be5d1bc679d723.jpg The full list of changes for this version v1.0.2 is shown below 👇 More news are coming soon. Keep in touch at Facebook, Twitter, Discord, Instagram and You Tube! Cheers from the team at Saibot Studios! Tobías Rusjan - CHANGELOG HELLBOUND v1.0.2 New Features: - "Secret Revealed!" pop-up after each secret is discovered, with current amount and total Tweaks and Improvements: - Checkpoints added in all campaign levels (not only at Key pickups) - Autorun is now ON as default (based on majority community voting) - Karnal hit points reduced from 45-45 to 35-25 (attack with jump - attack in place) - Difficulty Old School and HELLMARE! increased - Difficulty HELLMARE! is now the last one with -1 of health per second, until 25 - Power Ups over screen visual effect lowered down for better game recognition - Audio feedback everytime time you pick up a new weapon ("Triple Shotgun!") - Level "The Resistance": adjusted secret area detection box at final room - Level "The Core": cinematic audios integred with Hellgore's voice - Updated backers content at credits and tombs: The Big Wall, Headstones and Busts Bug Fixes: - Keybindings were not working on Main Menu - Secrets were not being detected after loading a saved game - Crouching during autorun was moving with run-speed, instead of crouch-speed - In some cases after playing the campaing, weapons and ammo stay in inventory at survival stages - Level "The Resistance": Vladers were getting stuck inside secret corridor at final room - Level "The Heroes' Cemetery": enemies were getting thru red key fence - Level "City of Fury": door to red key and final gate (fence) were able to be open manually - Level "City of Fury": sand storm not showing on borders after loading a saved game - Level "Endless Hive": enemies alive above red-elevator stay floating when calling elevator - Level "The Core": Ferlord's presentation trigger area was skippable with a jump (outisde map fall) - Level "The Core": framedrops during final battle with Ferlord

HELLo, everybody! How are you doing? We're currently working on fixes and improvements based on all the awesome feedback you have been sending us. Hope we have solid news on that on next week 🤘 So we want to ask you something... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/efd78c0c69df855fbfe3c40e71c3b9f3abf5f51c.png Some of you had troubles with the first jumps in the game, and it was because you were not running using Shift. In order to make it "old-school style", we didn't add any kind of tutorial over screen to let you know about that controls. So to keep that spirit, we're thinking about turning the Autorun option ON BY DEFAULT. What do you guys think? It won't change anything to you, since you already have the game. But it will make the difference to newcomers. You can answer right here in the comments or voting at this other post on Facebook, Twitter or Discord (#dev-updates) Have a hell of a weekend! Tobías Rusjan and the team at Saibot Studios

Hey everybody in Hell! How's it going?! 😈 We're analyzing all the great feedback you guys are giving us, so we can organize the tasks and then see what we can fix and improve ✍️ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/54aeaf01b42bf7a0b1b9e4497c5655a38400f315.jpg We are well aware of the critiques that have to do with the duration of the campaign. About that, we can tell you that our idea from the beginning was to make an intense experience that feels like the classic FPSs but putting our full dedication to visuals, audio, and gameplay.That resulted in a few, but SUPER AWESOME, levels that can be completed quickly (even more so because of the pace of the game). Making more levels was a possibility but that would have resulted in a lower quality experience, and we didn't want that at all. All in all, be sure that we're reorganizing things and analyzing how everything moves on from this point forward. We’ll be updating you on that soon enough 😉 We thank all of you who have been supporting us and supporting our vision. A big HELLGORE-HUG to you from the dev team at Saibot Studios! Don't forget to join our Discord! And have a hell of a weekend! Tobías Rusjan

In case you missed the Launch Trailer in the previous post, CHECK IT OUT! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/f785c8b41716da465e52bb61220cf578c3efdfda.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3f3W9e_59M Don't miss the discount. Only one week at 20% OFF! https://store.steampowered.com/app/753590/Hellbound/ Share the video if you like it, and SEE YOU IN HELL! Tobías Rusjan and the team at Saibot Studios

The day is finally here! It’s time to get revenge and to exterminate any living creature that walks through your path 😈 So reload your Triple Shotgun and GET READY FOR THE MASSACRE! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/19eae4903212539686f79617bea8dcc2242860ea.jpg They call you Hellgore, and you’re the last of your race. The humans have revived you to be used as a weapon so that you can annihilate the demons who killed your people. Your mission is simple: to destroy the pillars located in the core of Hell, and stop the invasion to Earth. 600 pounds of vengeance is about to rain on those bastards. So they better get ready... START KILLING NOW! https://store.steampowered.com/app/753590/Hellbound/ Wanna take a quick look through Hell before the start? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3f3W9e_59M Also, check these new screenshots out 👇 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/4d3a5c25b6adc7ca284200bbfb8264f2188fe258.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/85ef389881779cc975115ca24451d1cb9e815e08.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/2833ee64e01517f367f269d777b4192c42d8c23a.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/35cc4f830a0e844f77ec87c51b84b7d03955a961.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/31e6b34f469738b404427b4b82beb70d84e418ce.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/fb8e66efac9912a7b13115eb0b55e01ed90d1ad6.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/c609b7b698545075823ae3ec2b66919f92490ee5.jpg Enjoy like it was 1993! Tobías Rusjan and the team at Saibot Studios

It's amost there, people... Get ready, it's comming big! ⌛️ Tuesday August 4th at 6:00am PST 👍 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31193015/4fd4a283927b9d5f92d1f2daee22f3fd9161a298.jpg Last call to add the game to your Wishlist! https://store.steampowered.com/app/753590/Hellbound/ And don't forget our crazy Discord! Good night and let's wait a bit more! Tobias Rusjan and the team at Saibot Studios