Pulse Red is CLOSED. Huge thanks to everyone who took on the challenge — you pulled off feats we didn’t even think were possible. The dedication and raw skill we saw blew us away. That’s it for now — but not for long. The top players will leave their mark inside Tempo Punk when t
Pulse Red is CLOSED.
Huge thanks to everyone who took on the challenge — you pulled off feats we didn’t even think were possible. The dedication and raw skill we saw blew us away.
That’s it for now — but not for long.
The top players will leave their mark inside Tempo Punk when the full game drops. How? You’ll see soon enough.
Pulse Red burns on🔥 You’ve been tearing through the challenge, and the scoreboard is already stacked with insane runs. Some of you are pulling off numbers we didn’t even think were possible — respect . But the fight isn’t over yet. You've still got time until October 1st to to e
Pulse Red burns on🔥
You’ve been tearing through the challenge, and the scoreboard is already stacked with insane runs.
Some of you are pulling off numbers we didn’t even think were possible — respect .
But the fight isn’t over yet. You've still got time until October 1st to to etch your name into Tempo Punk.
🔥 Pulse Red is LIVE. 🔥 This one’s not for the faint of heart. You’re stepping into an experimental challenge level - raw, intense, and built to push limits. But here’s the twist: we’re testing the boundaries with you. Your runs will help us tune just how far the chaos can go be
🔥 Pulse Red is LIVE. 🔥
This one’s not for the faint of heart.
You’re stepping into an experimental challenge level - raw, intense, and built to push limits. But here’s the twist: we’re testing the boundaries with you. Your runs will help us tune just how far the chaos can go before release.
Your mission: rack up the highest score you can. Your reward: eternal bragging rights. The top 5 names will be carved into Tempo Punk itself when the full game drops.
No sign-ups. No barriers. Just jump back into the demo and face the fire.
You wanted answers after that cliffhanger? Here they are — and they come crashing in with full force. The Tempo Punk Demo is OUT NOW! Step into our beat-driven shooter madness and rip through the most insane vertical slice we’ve built to date. And we’re just getting started - Boo
You wanted answers after that cliffhanger?
Here they are — and they come crashing in with full force.
The Tempo Punk Demo is OUT NOW!
Step into our beat-driven shooter madness and rip through the most insane vertical slice we’ve built to date.
And we’re just getting started - Boomstock 2025 kicks off TODAY.
Catch the live showcase at 10am PST / 7pm CEST and witness the brand-NEW Tempo Punk trailer in all its violent, rhythmic glory. Don’t miss it.
We’ve been grinding on this for months. Late nights, early mornings, countless rebuilds. And now… Something’s about to conclude. Next week, the first piece of Tempo Punk is hitting the surface. No spoilers yet — but trust us, you’ll want to keep both eyes open. Stay sharp. The dr
We’ve been grinding on this for months.
Late nights, early mornings, countless rebuilds.
And now… Something’s about to conclude.
Next week, the first piece of Tempo Punk is hitting the surface. No spoilers yet — but trust us, you’ll want to keep both eyes open.
Throughout the last month we've revealed a bunch of new enemies you'll encounter, they all come from the "Oppressor" faction and haven't been seen at all in our pre-alpha demo. I wanted to share these new enemies with you (aka the few people that'll randomly come across out steam
Throughout the last month we've revealed a bunch of new enemies you'll encounter, they all come from the "Oppressor" faction and haven't been seen at all in our pre-alpha demo. I wanted to share these new enemies with you (aka the few people that'll randomly come across out steam announcements)!
Anyway let me introduce you to the upcoming enemy line-up. Keep in mind these are in very early development and could just as easily end up getting cut, renamed or reworked entirely, y'know typical development nonsense.
Oppressor Harasser
This bipedal mech features rocket pods for arms, it'll jump around the arena and fire off a barrage of rockets in your direction, really it's more of a carpet bombing now that I think about it.
Below you'll see some prototype-level demonstrations of how it'll roughly function in-game, of course it's lacking a ton of animations and seems practically harmless at the moment, we'll worry about its balancing as we implement it into the actual game, just imagine its shooting rockets out of its pods for me please.
A defensive variant will carry two ballistic shields, it'll deploy a shield barrier which pulses with the level's music. While it has the shield barrier deployed it'll toss pods at the player, these pods will open up to release two slicer drones that aren't super tough, but we feel like it'll definitely add more to the encounter.
And here's a better look at those drones, features a very neat pod opening animation.
This wraps up what we've been cooking up since the pre-alpha demo, of course there's more to show but we gotta keep some surprises to ourselves, right? As always join our Discord server or follow us on Twitter/X if you wanna see these dev logs the moment they're posted.
Today is the final day to check out our semi-private demo, to gain access all you have to do is claim the key from a bot in our Discord Server . We've also been keeping track of the leaderboard , maybe you can top that high score? Update: The demo has now ended, thank you for pla
Today is the final day to check out our semi-private demo, to gain access all you have to do is claim the key from a bot in our Discord Server.
We've also been keeping track of the leaderboard, maybe you can top that high score?
Update: The demo has now ended, thank you for playing our demo! You may get a scary notification later on about the demo getting revoked, but don't worry about that, it's just big red text on your screen, nothing to worry about... maybe you should be worried if you don't get it, actually...
Our first demo is available right now, it's the same demo as the one used for TwitchCon at the moment so personal customization will be lacking since we're hard-focused on the gameplay itself, but there is one catch. We kinda wanna keep this demo semi-private so you're only able
Our first demo is available right now, it's the same demo as the one used for TwitchCon at the moment so personal customization will be lacking since we're hard-focused on the gameplay itself, but there is one catch.
We kinda wanna keep this demo semi-private so you're only able to access it through a Steam key, more specifically through our Discord Server since we've setup a bot that grants you keys from a large pool of them... we implore you to join the server, you can even join just to claim the key and leave - we wont judge!
Don't forget, this demo will end sometime on July 7th!
We are going to TwitchCon 2024 in Rotterdam, but most importantly we are launching our first ever demo here on Steam this Saturday! More specifically: 2024, June 29th at 10:00 UTC+2 , the demo will be available for a week and ends sometime on July 7th
We are going to TwitchCon 2024 in Rotterdam, but most importantly we are launching our first ever demo here on Steam this Saturday! More specifically: 2024, June 29th at 10:00 UTC+2, the demo will be available for a week and ends sometime on July 7th
What's up Hey, thought I should catch you all up on what's been going on with us. So shortly after our first devlog video we wanted to keep people updated on our overall progress and decided that sometime in 2024 we'd start posting weekly devlogs and completely failed to mention
What's up
Hey, thought I should catch you all up on what's been going on with us. So shortly after our first devlog video we wanted to keep people updated on our overall progress and decided that sometime in 2024 we'd start posting weekly devlogs and completely failed to mention that fact on here...
These devlogs of course range from showing brand new level sections to small things like certain music tracks receiving some adjustments, now we are not about to force you to join our Discord server to keep track of our development... but you will have to use Twitter as the alternative... ew...
And of course there's more, these are just 4-5 out of 12 weekly devlogs we've made thus far! No guarantees if we'll be able to keep it up forever though, especially since as of recent we've been doing a lot of internal development that doesn't really give us much to showcase.
Text Summary this'll be a paraphrased summary of the video We generally call this thing we're making "Project Black". It initially started as a passion project inspired by the surge of retro shooters from around the year 2019. While V1RAL had neat retro visuals and interesting id
this'll be a paraphrased summary of the video We generally call this thing we're making "Project Black". It initially started as a passion project inspired by the surge of retro shooters from around the year 2019.
While V1RAL had neat retro visuals and interesting ideas, it was self-admittedly very rough around the edges, the enemies felt practically useless, not to mention the complaints we got about the game's pixelization being much too intense. Then there was virtually no progress made on V1RAL in the year 2022, when it came time to return to this project it felt like we were missing the retro shooter train, but felt inspired by the way V1RAL's music corresponds to what was happening in-game, hence why we greatly shifted focus.
This is where the project evolved to become Tempo Punk, the art style has completely changed but at its core this is still V1RAL. We're using a lot of what we learned from our past development and made tons of improvements with a rhythm-based twist. As different as the game looks we believe that this is still V1RAL at its core, we've kept what worked about our previous iteration and improved upon it. Overall we're feeling confident with the switch to the rhythm genre and hope you'll stick around as we continue development!
