Supraland news & patch notes

Have fun with the new trailer! Wishlist Supraworld: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/Supraworld/ If you want to have daily status updates join our Discord: https://discord.gg/DhWbSbfMqx -David

We're 3 years into development and we're finally close to getting the entire first act of Supraworld playable. When that is done, we'll properly test it and go live with it in Early Access. In this progress visualization you can roughly see where it's at: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/8120a6e26bc6e3ec3fb2e22fba10122cb7613381.png For the act 1 release we also need the "Finishing" bar about 1/3 filled (that is the testing, making a trailer - which is required - and maybe localisation). To not miss the release of Supraworld, wishlist now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/Supraworld/ The other 3 acts will progress much quicker than the first, because the code fundamentals of the game are basically there now. The detailed plans for the acts are done for a long time; the level design execution of these plans is not such a big deal now that our tools are finally in place. You can tell we've upgraded to be a AAAA studio because you can pick an edition: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/b7285fe29ade109f831bef9e20a83a5982bfe28b.png If you want to talk with us, get some sneak peaks sometimes or engage with other Supraland fans, join our discord: https://discord.gg/jjuQ5nqXw2 If you like this post, you shorten the development time by 1 minute. A dislike adds 1 hour of extra time. - David

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/b7285fe29ade109f831bef9e20a83a5982bfe28b.png Which edition is it gonna be for you? Btw, you already shortened development time by 2500 minutes with your likes the other day. If you keep going, the game was released last year. And don't forget to wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/Supraworld/

Due to the recent daily deal and summer sale on Steam, Supraland got a lot of new friends. It had the highest player peak since 2020 even. If you haven't yet, please wishlist our upcoming game Supraworld which is in the works since 2021. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/Supraworld/ Then next step for Supraworld is to finish act 1 (out of 4) by the end of august. At first we will test this version privately with a few people and then expand the testing group a bit. When we think act 1 is solid, we want to release it to Early Access. That might be in october. We'll see. We go Early Access because - the experience from Supraland was that making the game while people are playing it to be a great advantage for feedback and motivation reasons. Seeing people play what you're making, you are being reminded why you're actually doing this and try to give people a better time instead of working on something in isolation forever. - we also simply need the Early Access income because we're working on the game for 3 years now and production is expensive. If you now think, if we're only finishing act 1 after 3 years, acts 2-4 will take forever: no, there is a lot done in them too, but it's just lots of loose bits that are not connected yet. You will see stuff around the Early Access area that we'll block off for now though. Some might take that as a challenge. Most of the work on the game is independent from the acts though. It's mostly fundamental stuff of the game mechanics, performance optimisations and things like menus; nothing act specific. Every like on this post reduces development time by 1 minute, as usual. Really.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/bdfd215629f7b27fe3871d55c50e006721c55b89.jpg When Supraworld is done? I dunno! But I made this graphic with a vague estimate so you get an idea where we're at. When the Fundamentals and Act 1 are done we can basically start playtesting up to that point, which would happen in the form of Early Access here on Steam. Liking this post decreases development time by 1 minute. -David

Supraworld

Today I have some screenshots for you from inside the level editor. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/7f1626be06b95e858f631a38233d173dae9c9d9c.jpg The development of Supraworld is now going for roughly 2 years and we're not as far as I had hoped but the quality is great! Remember, Supraland 1 was already finished after 18 months. But Supraland was kinda rushed, not expecting to sell more than 10000 units. Way over a million players later we now have a team of hardcore Supraland fans working on Supraworld and I couldn't be happier about those guys. There is so much love going into all the details of Supraworld, you will be able to feel that everywhere. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/cd232931b0fb705152e5a66f910003c55997df69.jpg We're maybe putting a bit too much effort into a lot of systems even though we only need them once or twice. But we're trying to make the game moddable so you can easily build your own levels with our assets and tools. We're trying to make all the little placeable gameplay scripts easy to use and I even put effort into making them look good in the editor, the things that no player ever sees. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/fe7ea0e117a9db9b5eea0da44bee2b0ac603f00b.png It won't be Mario-Maker-easy to use, it's too complex for that. It's not a casual thing for everyone; you really have to mean it but then you can create your own Supraworlds and share them. The main menu is supposed to have a "Custom Levels" category for this, but I guess it's one of those things that will be added after launch as it's not our primary focus of course but we always have it in mind when creating new things. Some of our little scripts in use: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/57d2dd7d745aaa866037ed1d05ecac9975a1cd24.png We're mostly done creating all the fundamental systems, which took us almost 2 years, so we can focus more and more on the actual game experience. Creating the world is the quick part really; the systems take all the time. So I expect development to speed up a lot. This fluffy red guy has a huge fan: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/2aaf3e638858eb83b5b4e961c0ea23e0e729373c.jpg I would like to talk so much about all the cool ideas we put into Supraworld, but we're making a huge surprise party for you all, so you really want to go in blind. You can't even imagine what the solution to this will be: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/aea2135c876e4c4478d8dc38dc26f21c8fc733ca.jpg My biggest development worry overal is the performance. The whole Unreal Engine 5 thing with its amazing lighting looks great on Youtube videos, but in reality it's not so perfect as it's quite demanding and many players don't have the latest hardware. There are 3 things I'm considering: - Unreal Engine 5 is still improving, we're hoping for it to just perform better on its own over time - Player's average hardware will get better until we release - We might just need to offer 2 options: Raytraced and the old lightmap system. The latter would be a bunch of additional work and look less fancy but maybe it's necessary. We'll see. Random supra meme in the middle of the post: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/89b3e6c18410fa79c11ad5ad7e97523080736c6a.jpg Wishlist wise Supraworld is doing great. We're about to hit 40000 and the magic number to cross, to be taken seriously in the Steam algorithm, is only 10000. This is your call to action if you haven't wishlisted it yet: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/Supraworld/ Meanwhile the FAQ still applies for all the questions you probably have: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1869290/discussions/0/3843305689136654170/

Six Inches Under

The whole Six Inches Under on Console and Gamepass thing was not handled well and I'm super dissapointed. It's all fine now, but the launch was really messed up. We ourselves have almost nothing to do with those ports, that's why it's especially painful when something that broken is released in your name. We had no worries because they handled the Supraland 1 ports super well. The huge problem was that saving and loading basically didn't work at all. The game went through QA and it was all fine, and then someone made a last minute change that was so fundamental that it broke it all. Many months later it was finally fixed, and that took way too long as well, but the launch is the moment where you get the big attention, especially on Gamepass, which is very big for us to be in. Really sorry to everyone affected by this mess. We'll be much more careful in the future. -David PS: Liking this post speeds up development, obviously.

1. We got the storepage up for Supraworld. There are lots of brand new screenshots to give you a glimpse. Please don't forget to hit the Wishlist button to help support the game! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/Supraworld/ 2. Tomorrow (Thursday, 18. May 2023) don't forget to watch the Humble Games Showcase. It could be supra interesting: https://t.co/KoqCLVh73e

I keep getting Supraworld development news requests, but I don't have a lot to share. Basically we're coming along nicely but slowly and I think it will be amazing, much better than the previous games. Everything takes longer than the first game but we're building a very solid foundation for future games as well instead of yolo-coding everything into place, as I did with the first game. The old code was so messy that we could not really use it to build another game with it. I plan to get the Supraworld store page onto Steam in mid May, for wishlist-hype purposes of course. The full release of course is not near yet but we're coming somewhat closer to Act 1 being playable, which could allow us an Early Access release, if that is something you would be interested in. If you have further Supraworld questions, I'll answer them in the comments (unless you want spoilers that ruin the surprises). -David {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/78bfae514bad1ee797d7da93f40d27d430323720.png

We're of course working hard on Supraworld. It's coming together slowly and I love every bit of it but I have nothing new to show at the moment. I am always holding myself back from posting new stuff we made that I would love to show around. But we're of course preparing a big surprise party and don't wanna spoil it! But besides that I have a couple of other design documents. What else is to be expected from us in the future? - I threw the idea of a Supraland remaster into the room with RTX and stuff and asked everyone what else they would improve on the game. But even my own list of things I would change, is so big, it became clear immediately that it would actually need a Supraland remake +, not a remaster. With Supraworld we're still working into the blue and don't really know how everything will feel in the end because it's all really unique. But in Supraland, after having read about 8000 user reviews, after countless talks with players and after having watched 100+ people stream it, I have an ultra precise idea about all the game's pros and cons. At this point It would be concept wise trivial to make a much better version of it. A little peak into my list of things I would change in a Supraland Remake: - Have everything built out of real objects instead of looking like a normal size landscape (which it originally was until I decided to have it take place in a sandbox halfway through development) - Each area needs a more distinct look (both things were not possible back then due to lack of assets and zero budget). - Throw out all assets that were not original but bought from the marketplace (enemies, music) - Some areas are too big and empty (Carrot town, Supraball pitch), others too linear (Volcano) - My whole concept of puzzles has a improved a lot and lots of puzzles in the first game are just not that good anymore and could easily be replaced with better ones or improved big time. - I don't wanna confront players with puzzles they cannot solve yet. - I wanna tie some mechanics much deeper into the game; as they were only improvised into the game at a late stage and you can feel that (coloring, nom-nom flies, shooting through stuff with the blaster, shield generator bouncing, burning stuff...) - All red barrels are way too pointless while the golden barrels matter a lot - Story wise i would reemphasize certain characters way more early on (the Cousin, Mr Miracle, the endboss were just improvised into the game and not planned ahead in any way!). They could get more depth and foreshadowing instead of suddenly being there. - A much clearer quicktravel system - The combat balance gets completely lost after you get the blaster combo; it needs to stay interesting in new ways afterwards - Generally more interesting enemies; I think the ones in Supraworld will be fantastic and they could even make a comeback or we make new ones - A better way to deal with enemy spawning (we'll see how the new ideas work out in Supraworld and then draw more conclusions) - Make the whole main progression less linear; let players choose which crystals they wanna go to in whatever order - Eventually find a way to actually involve the big kid more (something I threw out of the window for Supraworld because there is just physically no room for him due to all the level design objects everywhere; it would have destroyed all level design if we kept empty room for him everywhere...). - And lots of other little details... Improving all the things in the old code would not make any sense effort wise. For Supraworld we're right now building all tools from the ground up and future proof (we think). It would be much easier to remake everything with them. But even then the remake would be indistinguishable from the original Supraland, so it might just be its own thing with some heavy influences from the first Supraland game. Kinda like many Metroid or Zelda games that are new games but they take/steal heavily from their previous games to basically update the original. I see in the comments, many think it would be the same game again as the first; but no, it wouldn't. It would be a new game that might take the best bits from the first game, improve them and have lots of new stuff as well. You would barely recognize any of it. - But that is for a future that's years away. Our new code for Supraworld will also be kinda multiplayer ready, because everyone is interested in doing what we call "Twopraland", a Supraland coop only game. We keep hearing the request to "pls add multiplayer", but that is technically impossible and design wise total nonsense because most puzzles would not be puzzles anymore when you're together. By multiplayer ready code I mean that the code is now structured in a way that multiple players would technically not destroy the whole game because everything is referenced and modularized properly. A coop Supraland would require both players to get a different set of abilities and both need to work together to solve puzzles and find secrets. It Takes Two has shown the big interest in that kind of game, but it seemed so handholdy and made for like first time gamers. Ours would be less linear and actually be challenging as you can imagine. - Anyway, I think right after the Supraworld development ends, the first thing we will do is to continue and finish work on a special little tower defense game that we already started earlier this year in our spare time and are kinda hyped about because it will add something unique to the genre. It goes by the development name of Supratower. - I also wanna do an RTS Singleplayer game at some point. I'm not a multiplayer fan in RTS at all but I love for example the Command & Conquer campaigns a lot. I only make games when I think I bring something creative and new to the table. What I have in mind could be described as a Metroidvania-Realtime-Strategy-Game. The development name is Supra-Command. Please let me know which of the projects mentioned appeal to you and also which do not appeal to you at all! I know why you are here and that things outside Supralands genre will likely not appeal at first glance to everyone. And is there anything really important I did not mention in my list of things to improve in a Supraland remake? -David

Variety of interactions in games

The central part of my game design philosophy is variety of interactions. It means: how many different ways are there to interact with the game world? While making Supraland I wasn't that conscious about it, it was more of a subtle feeling that I tried to weave in. It worked well enough because I was working alone. But the more people I work with, the more I'm bringing those game design feelings to the surface and become more aware of them, because when you're discussing why a puzzle does not feel good, I need to justify it with good reasoning. So this is me trying to put one of my core concepts into words.

So what's the issue?

A common thing in games is, that your ways to interact are limited to causing damage, jumping, opening doors, pressing buttons, talking, managing your inventory. That's like the default set for most games and I'm bored when I think about it, because what can I expect from the game after many hours if that's all there is and it's things I know inside out from other games? How can I still be engaged and surprised if I know I'll be killing, opening doors and pressing buttons all the way through? The opposite of that are point'n'click adventures like Monkey Island or Day of the Tentacle. You never know what kind of things you will be doing and using with each other to cause totally different things to happen. While in a generic open world adventure game nowadays you're roaming the world, picking up loot, killing badguys, evaluating skill tree options and watching cutscenes, in Monkey Island 2 you were trying to get a guy dirty to then steal his clothes from the laundry... and a bunch of other ingredients... in order to create a voodoo doll of him. In those point'n'click adventures it's always unclear what you're gonna do next while in today's generic adventure games it feels like everything is kinda predictable from start to finish. Am I saying that oldskool point'n'click adventures are absolutely fantastic? No, not at all unfortunately. I think it's well justified that the genre has no more mainstream appeal nowadays and is kinda dead. They just pretend to give you freedom of interaction in their game world but they are actually so very limiting. You can actually only do very few things and what you can do is completely on rails. You can only do exactly what the game designer has planned for and not really approach things in a creative way. There is no possible way to deviate from the programmed progression. The underlying ideas of what you're doing in those games are so much better and interesting, but their pure point'n'click gameplay is so very meh. What I feel I'm chasing is to put those cool ideas into a form of modern gameplay that gives you real freedom on how to interact. For example in the old adventures you dragged an object from your inventory onto something else in the game world and it would either be correct or not. A purely binary thing. In Supraland I want you to actually move those objects around, trying to make them interact.

Just try!

In the old games it would just say "that doesn't work" while in my games you're supposed to see and feel exactly why it makes or makes no sense. It can sometimes even lead to solutions that were not intended. But even if it didn't work you should have had fun experimenting with the objects instead of just bruteforcing the binary options in the point'n click games. A key aspect of my philosophy is that the player can legitimately suspect interesting interactions and combinations of objects everywhere. The acid, the sponge, the carrots, the flies, the balls, the lava, the color machine, people with certain desires walking around... there might be something useful when you use them with each other. That is where the magic is for me. Actually most game objects I just mentioned do interact with each other and some effects might not help you at all right now, but you're not on rails and you can make up weird stuff that no-one else did nonetheless.

Doors and buttons

If a game designer has no idea, they'll put a door in front of you and make you search the key or button. In point'n'click adventures most of the time you try to trick an NPC which somehow blocks your progress. It's much more interesting than a closed door if there is someone who doesn't provide you with what you need, because they think you are not from the correct family tree and then it's up to you to find a way to make that person believe you belong to that certain family. From that moment on you see the game world with different eyes. The satisfaction comes from figuring out your goal on your own and also getting to the solution by yourself. The opposite happens in your generic open world adventure where an on screen marker tells you where to go. Even when it's detective work, you simply switch to your magic viewmode where you then follow a red glowing breadcrumb trail. After eventually finishing that quest I did not really contribute anything myself to the solution and feel empty. The game designers did not plan for me to do something smart at all. Supraland 1 still had way more of those "activate button to open door" moments. It is ok sometimes, just if you overdo it, it gets really boring. So if you see lame button/key+door action in my games, come complain to me and remind me of my own words! In Six Inches Under we experimented a lot more with other reasons (than doors) to stop your progress. Like a guy doesn't let stinking people into town. Suddenly your own smell was a new element in the gameplay that you never thought about before. So the game world was recontextualized for this moment for you to figure out a way to get to that door without stinking. One of my favourites moments was in Supraland Crash where a guard was waiting for his shift to end at 12:00 and you needed to make him believe it's that time of day to go home. The interaction you needed for this was something you've done many times before, but in this case it had a new context which made it an absolutely unique thing you've never done before or afterwards in that way (I'm not gonna spoil it here!). And I guess that sums up what I'm after: the games should allow for new and interesting interactions with the world all the time and not just 'open door' or 'kill monster'. It is much harder for us to come up with that stuff as there is no formula to follow. But it's worth it.

Supraworld Development

Meanwhile Supraworld's development is going really well, I'm really happy with everything we're making quality wise and idea wise. The code takes longer to make but it's really clean and future proof. But sadly barely any bit of the game is coherently playable yet, as we're remaking the whole code and lots of fundamentals are still being worked on. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/ffe37e17118251ff621d13bc438dbee48bda22cc.jpg

Puzzle design process

We're designing lots of puzzles together all the time and lay them out in the world. Lots of places are planned with their functionalities, but we can only build the environment without the functionalities right now. Designing the puzzles is a very fun process with such surprisingly good results. It's much better than when I was designing the puzzles by myself in Supraland 1. Throwing our ideas back and forth keeps making each puzzle better and better. And I can't think of any buttons that open doors yet. We're always challenging each other to find another way to make the puzzle at hand useful. If you see any "box on button that opens door" in the final game, it's because we really could not think of anything else. Anyway, the puzzles in my opinion are gonna be much better than previous ones as we're never settling for "ok" puzzles. When I had to do everything by myself I was just too stressed out to spend too much time thinking through everything multiple times and to later severely change things that were not great. The only part I kept making big changes to was the first hour, because that's clearly the most important one. Many other regions in the game were kinda rushed together and I kept the first draft because it was good enough. The barrels from SL1 make a return, but they look different: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/1401e5ff2c72d27b761f03e736ff8cae531e5593.jpg Supraworld is supposed to have 3 or 4 acts. The current goal is to get act 1 playable. The worldbuilding is mostly there, but the interactions are only like 30% there. When act 1 works we have the possibility to bring this into early access and have everyone involved in the feedback process who is willing to play a very unfinished game over and over again. I would suspect the actual release is in 2024, but what do I know at this point besides "we're done when it's done" and "things that much longer than I expected". Under the floor planks: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/14eb745bee46c9fcbb247e89b1d3e96955f72395.jpg In a drawer under the bed: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/3b792970962741b63ce713566892cac149bfbe52.jpg Green carpet: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/3a88ed3c2924c08c628a82aa00d31a33a1d39542.jpg (If you rightclick the images and open them in a new tab, you see them in full resolution) -David

- Added Dual Input Profiles setting (bottom of keybinding menu): Allows using Keyboard and Controller at the same time ⌨️ 🎮 + Other small things

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1522870/Supraland_Six_Inches_Under/

Six Inches Under:

First of all, we put up the Six Inches Under Trailer today. If you want to not get spoiled at all, don't watch it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfXXy1cA8Ms I'm very curious how new players will feel about the game. For oldskool Supralanders it is mostly familiar territory and for others it is a much more unique experience. It will also be interesting how those, who start with 'SIU', will react to Supraland 1 if they happen to play it afterwards. I guess a while after release I'll also write a 'SIU'-Postmortem article, like I did with 'Crash'. There were a lot of lessons learned during the development and after the release we'll sure be made aware of more things to learn. Here you can wishlist 'SIU': https://store.steampowered.com/app/1522870/Supraland_Six_Inches_Under/

Supraland 1

Other good news is that Supraland 1 will be yet another year on Gamepass, which is a very significant thing to us.

Supraworld

In 2021 we worked with two teams basically. The core team was busy wrapping up 'SIU'. The art people were preparing lots of assets for Supraworld (formerly known as Supraland 2). We have so many fantastic looking objects and characters, it's gonna be beautiful. We also have a lot of newly written music for Supraworld by Daniel Sadowski and I'm eying having it recorded by a big orchestra. But it's expensive, so I'll have to wait for the 'SIU' sale numbers first before I make a decision. Our art team did a fantastic job with the assets and Unreal Engine 5 makes it all look so beautiful, I can't believe it. I prepared a little 1 minute clip of Supraworld assets: https://youtu.be/IF6YPgH_XY0 Be aware that this is barely gameplay; there is not really any functionality coded yet, it's mostly just visuals. You can only jump around and dash. The coding will start once the 'SIU' team wraps up completely. With Supraworld we are making the jump to having every asset tailor made for the game. In Supraland 1 all the environment was made by us but I was using stock music and stock enemy models. In Crash and SIU we upgraded to our own music, but we still used stock enemies. But it's not like you just buy enemies from a store, put them in and it works. Nope, it's just the models and some animations. You need to create all the behaviour, sounds, AI, effects, interactions with other systems... it's a lot of complicated work you still need to do. That's also a thing we learned a lot about in the past year and it will just get better in Supraworld. I expect that after the upcoming 'SIU'-Release it will take a couple of weeks of maintenance before we can all switch over. While a lot about Supraworld is already pretty clear, there is still a lot of story and general game structure things we need to figure out and it's shaping up more and more every day. I'm totally obsessed with Supraworld and pouring all my heart into it! - David Münnich

Wishlist Supraland Six Inches Under to get a notification the moment it comes out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1522870/Supraland_Six_Inches_Under/ This week we fixed the last important things in Supraland Six Inches Under, so we should be able to release it on 14. January '22 - 16h CET. What's left to do is finishing up translations and the trailer video. And some other little fluff here or there, like creating a presskit and so on. We also consider making a demo version. We just can't agree yet where to end the demo. There are 3 moments up for debate. We sure wanna end the demo at a moment where you absolutely wanna continue. :) The demo would once again smoothly carry over its save status to the main game. Hit the like button to make sure the release date doesn't get delayed any further. I'm pretty sure it works like that. - David Münnich

Changes: - Improved NPC roaming code so it is much less demanding for the CPU - Windowed mode is not borderless anymore - Gun pickup not so bright anymore, which made the entire screen glitch for some people - Fixed problem with gold nugget puzzle when you try to steal them - Broken glass can now be shattered with giant steel balls - Fixed getting stuck behind red kings house - Fixed getting into Blue ville too soon with a complicated hack - Changed appearance of closed pipes in Crash DLC where you can attach a purple pipe but people didn't realise they could - Serbian Translation updated - Optimised "sea of skulls" spawning procedure to maybe reduce crash likeliness for the rare ones affected - Added SixInchesUnder reference to wheelie temple in Crash DLC - Fixed other small details Six Inches Under Supraland is in extensive testing by our crowdfunding backers and doing well. Expect the release in mid january! We would have released in late december, but releasing during a xmas sale is a very bad idea because you get zero visibility in the store. Wishlist and follow here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1522870/Supraland_Six_Inches_Under/ Supraland 2 will be called Supraworld and I have two very early production screenshots A very unfinished start village: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/d93b87457d656a6cbb6fd70b54778044f44ddbd6.png An egg that you very much want to open! (No more finding barrels!) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/5786b1a52a8d12543e9a174f26373c5fc996ed0f.png Don't ask about release dates for Supraworld. It's far away.

On 1. Oct 2019 we started with the concept for "DLC2"; a 3 month mini project. On 1. Oct 2021 we're releasing "Supraland Six Inches Under" into beta testing. Testing Today we start sending out beta keys to the crowdfunding backers from 2019. We separated you into 2 groups. The first group will get the keys today; the 2nd group will get their keys in a few weeks, after the first group gave us a lot of feedback and we worked it into the game. This is to make sure we have fresh perspectives on a more polished state of the game lateron. If you are a Tier2 backer and you don't have an email by tomorrow, check your spam folder. Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions! The best way to stay up to date is being on the Supraland Discord And no; you cannot become a backer anymore. SIU Development The making of Six Inches Under (SIU) has really been an odyssey because none of us were prepared for how big it became, but we ultimately ended up with something we're really confident about. We did major changes multiple times because things just didn't feel good. I think the big changes were worth it and our early testers have been very positive and they had no preknowledge of the Supraland series. Some of the big things we had to change: We had this system with different kind of ores in the map and you could mine with your pickaxe. But it was simply not fun for anyone so we completely cut all of that and replaced it with a good old money system. It was bad because the mining process (or the inability to do so because of lacking pickaxe quality) was just annoying and it creates a big mess if you have 4 currencies. Now we're back to one currency. The other big change was that halfway we noticed the no-enemies-approach of the game didn't feel right. So we designed a combat system with new enemy types from the ground up and integrated it for a long time. Without enemies you could not really reward the player with anything for finding the plenty secrets. Also the world felt pretty tension-less. The combat is far from perfect now, but it's taking a lot different direction from Supraland 1. I'm curious what you think. The introduction of the abilities (which you mostly already know, but not all) were pretty short but since we swapped from DLC to Standalone we had to build new regions for these abilities with good introductions. Because now we can't expect all players to know them already. I guess most players of this game will never have played Supraland 1 before. We also just weeks ago did a major change to core parts of the story because it was just too convoluted and weird. While you're making this stuff up everything seems obvious. But players never get that deep into it and won't really understand what's happening unless it's really simple and straight forward. I really like what we have now and it has a really bizarre twist that is so weird that I love it. And I don't think I'm spoiling much when I say: While Supraland solved racism and 'Crash' solved Flat Earthers, SIU solves capitalism :D SL2 After those first two games will have solved three of the world's major problems, Supraworld (SL2) will probably not solve anything like that but it will be a gaming-satire most of all. A meta comment on generic gaming tropes, sort of. Three of us having been working on Suprworld all year already creating assets and I've actually started building the world of the game recently. When SIU is out of the door the rest of the team will join us on this project. I honestly love it so much already! I can share some of the assets that we built. Three images are just asset tests, one image is actually from the game; in a very very early development stage. https://imgur.com/a/HfECJ0d

The storepage is now online so you can now wishlist Supraland Six Inches Under https://store.steampowered.com/app/1522870/Supraland_Six_Inches_Under/ To receive further newsposts also "Follow" it, because I might not be posting more updates on the Supraland 1 news. Just very briefly, because I keep getting asked about the SIU-development daily, we're doing a lot of testing and polishing and it's all going well. I think release is realistic in november/december. But it's done when it's done. -David

Changes: - Fixed landscape cracks at edges of screen - Fixed default map controls for French keyboards - Fixed some problems in French translation - Fixed problem with battery respawns while they were electrified - Fixed missing translation for when you pick up armor - Fixed wrong player position in the giant kid's hand in Crash DLC I hope this is the last update for the game. But if small things come up, we'll fix them for sure. But I might upgrade the game to Unreal Engine 5, once the engine is production ready. It could improve visuals and performance drastically without too much effort.

We're making good progress, but we're taking our time and won't crunch for a date. World: The game world with all the exploration and puzzles is more or less there and ready to go. We wanna add some little puzzles here or there, and maybe some more combat encounters, but nothing major. We recently threw out an entire region because it wasn't fun and rebuilt that. The replacement region now feels like Supraland. Previously it was lacking motivation, direction and the puzzles were too fetch-questy, not supralandy. We also came up with a new puzzle mechanic that I'm currently building a new world area for, and this one will be available only after the end credits. It uses physical mechanisms that might not be easy to understand for most people, that's why I decided to put it after the ending. Balance: The biggest thing left to do is balancing in terms of currency, upgrades and combat. We recently removed an entire system from the game because it was creating more frustration than fun. It was basically a mining system where you could mine different kind of ores with different pickaxe upgrades. The two things that made this unfun were that you could not mine something you stood in front of, but your pickaxe wasn't buffed enough yet and you would have to memorize where exactly this was and come back to it later, which is not an interesting interaction at all; just a tedious one. The other problem was, that we had so many currencies: coal, iron, diamonds, coins... it was really annoying. We're getting rid of all of that and limit it to just coins. But currently we have no balance in the game at all in regards to how many coins you find, what upgrades cost, what upgrades you can buy at all. So that's coming soon. Combat is equally unbalanced as some weapons and enemies are not fully done yet. We'll get to this soon, and it's the kind of thing that makes or breaks a game. If combat is boring, too easy or too hard, and if the secret upgrades are not balanced well, the player won't be engaged. I felt that myself in my last playthrough where combat was way too easy and coins were useless. Which led to two things: - I didn't care for secrets because I didn't need upgrades anyway - I had no fun collecting coins, because I couldn't use them for anything. Combat itself will be separate from puzzles. Some encounters are more puzzly though. There is no more one-fits-all weapon and most enemies need slightly different approaches. There are no more respawning enemies, but the encounters are mandatory and you cannot run past them. If you die during an encounter, it will get reset and you need to try again. The idea is that they are properly challenging but by finding lots of secret areas with upgrades, you can make them much easier. Performance: We're currently spending a lot of time optimising the code. It's the same problems that I recently fixed in Supraland 1. It's all about objects on the other side of the world being active while you're not even close. There are 500 coins spinning in the world somewhere? The engine won't spin them because they are not visible, but it will ask the game on everyframe "should I spin? should I spin? should I spin?". Same for NPCs that are roaming around in a far away region or the glowing sparks and bubbles rising out of a lava hole somewhere. All of these things combined can take so long for the CPU to check that your FPS is cut in half. So we came up with a system that automatically disables all these things when they are out of range so the game won't even ask if they should do something. This saves a lot of CPU time and this system only gets pinged every few seconds, not every frame. So when your FPS in Supraland was not great in the past, it was probably not a problem of your GPU. Drawing the image is easy peasy. But all the work the CPU had to do before drawing was what took so long. In Supraland 1 I fixed this in a more complicated way. But now we have this system which automates a lot and does most of the work for us. Testing: When we have an OK balance, we'll let some handpicked people play it with us watching. In the next round it goes out to Tier 2 Crowdfunders. Then we'll go either Early Access or Release right away, depending on how we feel about it at that point. I have no dates for either of those steps, but upvoting this post surely speeds it up... probably. -David

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/a6b6c081d8b7a20b308688196f7c06affcfc8834.jpg - Added frequently requested Map upgrade If you wanna get spoilered where to find the map: It can be found on top of the facility at the blue crystal. I think this is a great moment to get it, because it's the first moment in the game when players could get seriously lost sometimes. It is an optional upgrade that can be found in the game world. It only shows you the regions you've already discovered, the rest is black until you go there. You can freely paint anything on the map that you like. So you can do what any self-respecting, mature person would do: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/c35c39235007321a1673a2bd1f58d1eab4645ebe.png - Added DLSS support DLSS is an AI upscaling feature that new graphic cards support. It allows to run the game in a lower resolution and the AI automatically scales it up to be sharp. Magic! - FPS improvements With a lot of little optimisation work done to the game, the CPU has to do much less work now. The GPU load should not be affected by this. My FPS went from ~60 up to ~120. So it can be really significant. Please tell me about your experience in the comments. - Added easy to use backup save system We always saved backup files incase you needed to dial back time but it had to be done with manual file management. Now you can select backup savegames from the main menu. - Huge kid is now animated instead of static - Skeleton warrior now throws you back while parrying during sword combat - Laptop puzzle is now less confusing - Fixed rare bug where you would get robbed in Blue Ville again after loading - Orange in color machine looks more orange than yellow now - Fixed small problem with ammo-recharge number after loading game - Fixed ammo-recharge speed; it was faster or slower depending on your FPS; now it's the same for all - Fixed a way to glitch way up into the air with the cube + beam - Cosmetic improvements here and there - Lots of little improvements and fixes all over the place Hotfix 1.22.9 - Fixed missing jumppads in Crash DLC Hotfix 1.22.10 - 12.05.2021 - Fixed NPCs talking with wrong text color - Made tiny adjustment to cube-on-rising-pillar puzzle in volcano area

Supraland 1 Supraland now has had over 600,000 unique players (plus pirates) and word of mouth is doing fantastic for it. And there is more great news in a few days. Supraland 1.5 / Six Inches Under But let's get to the one question you're here for: When is Supraland Six Inches Under done? Short answer: Not Q1 or Q2. But in Q2 we'll sure start public alpha testing. Most of you just want to play the final version and not alphas or betas. But many are also waiting for the unfinished version. But because I'm not alone anymore, we can push the early access phase back a lot. We get so much feedback from internal testing that we have a huge todo list to work on. Once internal testing can't provide more useful feedback we'll release the game to the Tier2 crowdfunders. And after that, we'll release it Early Access on Steam. After that comes the actual release. Currently the game is pretty much playable from start to finish, but there is a lot to be done. Meanwhile a screenshot from the current pre-alpha: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/71d3905182d0e7fd09181070a4c20704a894dcdb.png If you missed it: it started as a DLC for SL1 and was more like an experiment. But it grew into a standalone game that we consider something like Supraland 1.5. Not quite SL2, but way more than a DLC. Since we changed plans from DLC to standalone we had to rethink a couple of things. We can't assume that players know all the abilities, so we had to come up with new ways to introduce them from the ground up. So we're putting in some small new areas here and there. We also noticed pacing problems that we're trying to fix and there is small stuff that should be improved around every corner. The new enemy/combat system is getting into the final stages now. The combat balancing process and the exact spread of upgrades will only start now. This is a crucial step and I want to spend as much time on it as needed. There is no deadline besides "when it's good". In SL1 the combat was only interesting up to the point where you got the blaster combo and beyond that it kinda fell apart because it was too simple afterwards. The combo was just destroying everyone too easily. From now on there is no more one solution to killing every enemy type. The blaster won't even exist in this game. There will be completely new weapon types. An often requested map feature is currently in the works and it's soon finished. It will also be added into SL1 when it's done. But I don't want everyone to just have the map; I think it's much more valuable if you have to earn it. So it will be an optional map that only shows the areas you've been to. If you like, you can paint on it to mark stuff. There are no symbols on it at all, because I think that's the worst a map can do, because it takes you out of the 3d world and you're just staring at the map. I remember that moment I had when I played Assassin's Creed Unity and I realised, all of this beautifully crafted world is irrelevant; it's just gameplay wise useless geometry with nothing to discover. All interactable things were marked on the map. There was no more need to look at the actual world, which should be what makes adventure games interesting in the first place. Anyway, if you have more questions regarding Six Inches Under, put them in the comments! I usually answer everything. Supraland 2 Meanwhile the Supraland 2 pre-production is in full swing. I'd love to talk about all the great ideas, but that would ruin the surprise party we have planned for you in 2-3 years I guess. I'm making this number up. I have no idea when it's done. But nothing besides a doc exists yet. But basically the set of abilities is being specified at the moment and the order in which you get the abilities will soon be locked down. I'm planning for half of the game to be purely optional, with lots of completely optional abilities. They will make puzzles and combat encounters easier, but they are not necessary. I'm also trying to work in planned sequence breaks (instead of accidental ones...) and completely alternative ways to beat the entire game. It's a complex web to weave but should be mindblowing if it works out as planned. When coming up with abilities for metroidvanias everyone tends to mostly go for stuff that allows you to reach higher places or break stuff. I try to avoid this pattern in favour of things that let you think in new ways. I'm pretty bored by all metroidvanias doing the same stuff... higher jumps, double jumps, dashes, wall climbing and lots of different attacks that break different kinds of walls. Our new set of abilities will be far less about verticality and jump'n run stuff but more about intelligent and versatile interactions. Also the combat encounters will be far more puzzly. Certain enemies only react to certain interaction types, not to others. It mostly depends on the materials they are made of. So fire works great against the paper enemy but is useless against the metal one. The enemies are being designed and sketched right now. A big question remains: should we call it Supraland 2 or something else? When you see a 2, do you think you need to play the first? We don't want the number to stand in the way for new players. Most of the movie and game industry seem to totally avoid numbers on their sequels. Only very few still do that. Opinions in the comments are very welcome! The name "Supralandland" was suggested in the comments. Why do I like this way more than I should? :D If you want to help work on Supraland 2, amaze us with your skills! We're looking for FX artists, Sound Designers, 3d Modelers (assets and characters), Voice Actors (if you can make a voice that suits our NPCs) and whatever else you think would be great for the game. Send us whatever will make it impossible for us to reject! To not miss any game we ever release, follow Supra Games on Steam here: Steam: Supra Games And as usual, upvoting this post speeds up development dramatically! - David

- Fixed that upgrade-text-windows sometimes don't disappear - Start of Crash credits scene now also awards the "to the house" achievement

V1.21.15 - Tutorial texts when getting upgrades were broken sometimes - Fixed bug with non gold trophy for Crash - Fixed "to the house" achievement in Crash - Fixed small stuff here and there

General: - Upgraded the Unreal engine to the latest version 4.26. Due to that we had to rework the lighting and post processing everywhere. - Improved widescreen support: y-axis is always maintained, so a wider screen lets you see more to the side now. Previously it maintained the x-axis, which meant a wider screen gave you less field of view vertically - Fixed some slippery rocks out of bounds - Reduced enemy respawning rate in the main game and reduced mini-volcano amount (=less enemies) - Made the grave-jumping much easier to handle - Added trophies (silver or gold) to main menu for finishing and 100%ing the maingame and the DLC - Supraland now available for 'Geforce Now' cloud gaming - Improved NPC pointing animation (now also shows verticality not just horizontal direction) - Improved Italian localization - Fixed missing characters in Korean - Fixed green moon bug when closing game - Added a new easter egg (behind the giant wood bucket) - Misc. small improvements DLC: - Added Russian translation - Added Serbian translation (first draft) - Added Polish translation - Reworked some of the lift-off cutscenes to make em less boring and more fun - Added more options to trigger shady stick gag - Made last race a bit easier - Misc. small improvements

We're in need of some feedback on the new version. It can only be accessed in the testing branch of the game. To play it rightclick Supraland -> Properties -> Betas -> select "testing" from the dropdown (don't enter a code). Please put your feedback in the comments here, also if everything goes smooth! This also includes the long awaited russian DLC translation. Добавлена русская локализация для DLC "Крушение". Спасибо Албычевой Светлане (Vargie) за перевод дополнения на русский. V1.20.9 Changes list: Upgraded the Unreal engine to the latest version 4.26. Due to that we had to rework the lighting and post processing everywhere. General: - Improved widescreen support: y-axis is always maintained, so a wider screen lets you see more to the side now. Previously it maintained the x-axis, which meant a wider screen gave you less field of view vertically - Improved NPC pointing animation (now also shows verticality not just horizontal direction) - Improved Italian localization - Fixed missing characters in Korean - Fixed green moon bug when closing game - Added new easter egg (behind the giant wood bucket) - Fixed some slippery rocks out of bounds - Reduced enemy respawning rate in the main game and reduced mini-volcano amount (=less enemies) - Made the grave-jumping bit easier to handle - Misc. small improvements DLC: - Added Russian translation - Added Serbian translation (first draft) - Added Polish translation - Reworked some of the lift-off cutscenes to make em less boring and more fun - Added more options to trigger shady stick gag - Made last race a bit easier - Misc. small improvements

I personally never cared a bit about steam achievements, but I figured it's the easiest way to track how far players progress in the game. There are lots of optional achievements, but I made sure the are mandatory ones frequently. That way I can see where people are most likely to drop out. In this list I cut out all the optional ones and just kept in the main quest ones (except for some completionist ones at the end): {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32165181/1e0b88e07e8e68184f642031c6ac82a421360189.jpg Around 30% is how far many people get in their first play session after 3-4 hours. They are likely to just forget about it and not return. Not because of a specific problem in the game. If you dropped out, where did you drop out? What was the problem? Were you close to dropping out and some point and why? Would love to hear all your thoughts! I could make some adjustments to the game and it should help us learn for future games. - David