Dropped a mail to the addy in your profile. Look forward to hearing back.

It took a bit longer than I expected, but the megaupdate is here! As always, here’s a gameplay video to give you a taste of what to expect in the update:



The changelog for the patch is as follows:

• rebalanced early game to be easier
  rebalanced late game to be harder
  nerfed pretty much every item
  changed credit sequence
  changed health upgrades to give you full heart containers instead of empty ones
  fixed floors occasionally containing only a few rooms
  fixed bombs dealing extra damage to certain bosses and enemies
  fixed long silence between certain songs
  fixed dobee glitching out of the level (again…)
  Fixed glitching out of rooms before beating them
  added damage indicator to HUD.
  added new HUD
  added new randomized splash screens
  added new textures for late game levels
  added invincibility timer
  added 2 new floors
  added 10 new items
  added 2 new enemies
  added 5 new bosses
  added 2 new guns
  added 1 new miniboss
  added 5 new rooms per floor

Just dropped a huge blog post about the megapatch. What's done, what's coming, and loads of screenshots. http://codeavarice.com/post/48483292923/progress-on-the-megaupdate

We added minibosses! Check out a video of them in action here:

Just released a new patch and accompanying gameplay video.

Here is the video:



and here is the changelog:
Added 1 new weapon: Poseidon's Trident
Added 5 new items
Added 2x as many room variations!
Added Lava floor trap
Added Giant swinging blade trap
Added New wall textures, randomized textures

Fixed Crossbow refusing to fire after pausing/picking up another weapon
Fixed? Item room wall not being placed correctl
Fixed? Bosses occasionally glitching out of the world

Replaced old placeholder songs with songs from the OST

Just released a huge patch today. Nearly doubles the content, fixes a ton of balance issues, and got rid of a bunch of bugs.

Here's a gameplay video showing off some of the new stuff:



The changelog for this patch is as follows:
Added 1 more gun
Added 2 more bosses
Added 2 more enemies
Added 2 more floors
Added 5 more items
Added better gun sounds
Added gamepad support
Added new boss items
Added new environment textures
Added new splash screen for the main menu
Added randomized bosses
Fixed Skullito falling out of the level
Fixed backless lightning bolt render glitch
Fixed doors sometimes locking you out of a room
Fixed elevator occasionally leaving you
Fixed ledge jump glitch
Fixed misplaced map glitch
Rebalanced crossbow
Rebalanced item drops

Over the past few days we did a major overhaul of the environment textures.

Then I implemented 4 new items. As well as 2 new enemies, The Boom Brothers and Gaangus.
Finally, I implemented a new gun, the grenade launcher.

I also did a bunch of little stuff like fixing bugs, gamepad support, ect.

We're hoping to release a patch in a few days.

Woah woah woah. In Beta does not mean out now.

Well, it's available now.

Thanks for the support man!

People have started posting screenshots and let's plays, and I'm getting super addicted to watching people play the game.

My 2 favorite LPs thus far:







In development news, we started a new boss, and we made a new title screen.

[Beta Trailer:]

Paranautical Activity is a crazy fast paced voxel roguelike FPS set on a ghost ship. It's available now on Desura for $5.99. Buying the beta get's you all future updates for the game, as well as the full game when it comes out.

Beta Trailer:



Get it now on Desura! ($5.99)








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Paranautical Activity is out and available for purchase on Desura!
http://www.desura.com/games/paranautical-activity/#3573734

Our new music guy made an awesome song for the beta trailer, and he recommended a friend of his who does video production who offered to edit the trailer for free!

I uploaded a new video preview:



In this video, I show off our new plasma rifle-ish weapon. As well as our new boss, a whale named Dobee.

I also show elevators, which are used to advance to the next floor once you’ve killed the boss.

We’re shooting to release a public beta very soon. Hopefully in a week or so. Keep an eye out for it!





I also implemented a GUI and a cool death screen, but I forgot to show them in the video. Whoops!

Very cool, I really like the video of the gameplay looks awesome! I also checked out your other game Eris Alpha, both have a lot of potential.

Thanks man!

Indeed execution is what matters, ideas alone worth next to nothing. I think there will be some similarities, naturally, but differences too, of course.

I'm planning to polish some visuals and release video in a couple of weeks.

Anyway, not to hijack tread anymore, wish you good luck and tenacity to finish and release this!

Cool, I'll keep an eye out for that gameplay vid!

Since I'm working on a FPS roguelike of my own for quite some time, I will be watching this, so please post all good ideas you have so I could steal them, thank you.

But yeah, no, it's cool to see what you guys are going to make. And what design decisions will you take.

Yeah, I saw your project as well. We've got pretty similar concepts, but our execution is really different.

I'd love to see a video of your game, couldn't find any though...it looks neat!

We’ve been working on adding some more weapon variety lately. We implemented a crossbow and a machine gun to that effect. The crossbow is a ton of fun to use. Very difficult to get good at it, yet insanely satisfying once you master it.

We also added a new enemy. It’s a giant moth. He flutters around, occasionally shooting homing shots. We call him Lecter.

Finally, we added item rooms. Item rooms contain special items that can make or break your run. Most items are stat upgrades that increase damage, movement speed, fire rate, ect. Some have more interesting effects like making your bombs stick to enemies.

Is there any kind of strafejumping/bunnyhopping in the game? Or why are you jumping all the time?

I'm not jumping *all* the time, what you might be noticing is the really over dramatic head bobbing. A few people have mentioned it, and I'm gonna tone it down a bit.

Interesting stuff. I, for one, quite like the art direction. THe enemy designs are pretty good, and the lighting looks really beautiful.

I'm not entirely sold on the gameplay, though - it seems like at present, there is little challenge other than being a really good shot. Not much strategy, or interesting terrain/ai to take advantage of. That judgement could quite obviously be premature, though.

The game is inherently simple, all you do is shoot and dodge shots/run away from enemies. However, we're making that simple concept as deep and interesting as possible.

We're adding more enemy types every week or so, and they really help make the combat more interesting. When we added the guy that hops around and explodes, it dramatically changed the way I play. I had to not only circle strafe around shooting enemies, now I had to make sure I kept my distance from the hopper as well. I was actually considering starting health in half before we added that enemy, now I'm not so sure.

So, once we've got more enemy types, the game will be a bit more interesting.

Also, the rooms in the video are far from final. They're just test rooms. I'm more focused on implementing and balancing weapons, items, and enemies right now. I'm not dedicating much time to level design yet.

Cheers!