Steam Next Fest Stream
TACTICAL BANDITS was streamed during Steam Next Fest by the artist on the project. For those of you who missed it, I have posted the video above.
Discord
TACTICAL BANDITS, and Make Good Games, now has a Discord server. You can join me on there as I post about TACTICAL BANDITS , other (unannounced) games that I am developing, or just come and say hi!
Dioramas
Dioramas are fully implemented in the game, meaning the shop and collectibles menus are both complete. If you are not aware, dioramas are one of the items you can buy from the shop, and then you can either view them in the collectibles menu or they will be shown during the menus.
The dioramas also tell the story of the game, about the player going to the Last Settlement and finding what is really happening in the world. There are 12 dioramas to purchase, each telling its own unique moment of the story.
Training Mode
Training mode is now complete and available in the game. In here, you can try out all the weapons you have unlocked against dummies. This is a good chance to see how they feel, how they shoot, and what kind of damage they can do.
There is also a short and simple shooting course where you have to hit all the training dummies as fast as possible with your weapon of choice. See if you are the fastest bandit on the leaderboards.
Summary
A short update this month but that was for a big reason… the game is now dev complete! This means the game is being tested from beginning to end and all bugs are being fixed. One bug which I found was that leaderboards were showing the incorrect score for Survivor mode.
I will also start focusing on getting the text of the game localized, so players from all countries can enjoy the game.
Regarding Steam Next Fest, we had a good amount of players who downloaded and played the game. Some of the players also gave us good feedback and I used that to improve the game. One example is that the goal in singleplayer mode is now more obvious when it is complete, and if the player dies, restarting the game mode is much faster and requires less menus to go through.
I will be keeping the demo live for the foreseeable future and make some final updates to it next month.
As for the future, I have started porting the game to console platforms. This is going to take a few months to complete, and after that the game will be coming out.
Because there is not much dev work remaining, the updates will be much shorter for the next few months until I have a release date for the game. I have also started working on a new game that will become the primary focus after TACTICAL BANDITS, but I am not ready to announce that game yet. But you might be able t take a sneak peak at our new game on my Discord server.
For now, it is going to be a busy few months with porting the game and getting it ready for release.