Hotfix 1.0g
- Fixed issue where "No Time To Explain" achievement would not be appropriately given.
- - Fixed issue where "No Time To Explain" achievement would not be appropriately given.
Shadowkin
- Released
- Feb 23, 2024
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Updates & announcements
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Patch 1.0f
- Updated Simplified Chinese language to be more accurate. - Added Traditional Chinese language. - Added Japanese language. - Added Korean language.
Original post- - Updated Simplified Chinese language to be more accurate.
- - Added Traditional Chinese language.
- - Added Japanese language.
- - Added Korean language.
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Hotfix 1.0e
- Fixed issue with facing of Hoarfrost Reaver's spikes. - Fixed the Untouchable achievement sometimes being falsely acquired.
Original post- - Fixed issue with facing of Hoarfrost Reaver's spikes.
- - Fixed the Untouchable achievement sometimes being falsely acquired.
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Hotfix 1.0d
- Fixed issue where in-game achievements would sometimes reset.
Original post- - Fixed issue where in-game achievements would sometimes reset.
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Patch 1.0c
Changes - Old Knight Trinket (Relic) now damages enemies in a significantly larger area and inflicts 250 damage instead of 200. - Leoki's evolution which causes projectiles to be destroyed on impact of their main skill has been changed. It is no longer effective on Boss skills or
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- Old Knight Trinket (Relic) now damages enemies in a significantly larger area and inflicts 250 damage instead of 200.
- Leoki's evolution which causes projectiles to be destroyed on impact of their main skill has been changed. It is no longer effective on Boss skills or projectiles generated through Zone challenges.
- War Merchant mines and enemy Ankle Snares can no longer spawn within a short distance of the player. This should stop all issues with these traps being created under your feet when you first spawn in.
- You can no longer Evade while invincible. This is really more of a bug fix than a buff or nerf.
- Repositioned some Relic altars in Zones 4 and 5 so that they wouldn't have text that's cut off on the edge of the screen.
Fixes
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- Fixed: If you have the Quality over Quantity skill tree node active and have Instant Level Ups enabled in your Settings, it would eat acquired level ups and not give you any damage bonus.
- Fixed: If playing Singleplayer, sometimes when Player 1 died, you could not dash as your Ally.
- Fixed: When your Ally or Player 2 died, Player 1 wouldn't actually lose HP during the resurrection process.
- Fixed: Ball Lightning triggers certain kinds of enemy traps.
- Fixed: When Haste or Slow were active on the player, other movement speed bonuses would be ignored.
- Fixed: When encountering a Hero at any point, you could never encounter another Hero for the rest of your run.
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Hotfix 1.0b (2)
- Added Compatibility Mode launch option. In most setups, this is a much worse way to play Shadowkin, however there is some hardware configurations where Shadowkin actually runs better in this mode. If you're unable to launch the game or suffer unusual lag spikes, give it a shot
Original post- - Added Compatibility Mode launch option. In most setups, this is a much worse way to play Shadowkin, however there is some hardware configurations where Shadowkin actually runs better in this mode. If you're unable to launch the game or suffer unusual lag spikes, give it a shot and see if it's better for you.
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Hotfix 1.0b
- Fixed issue regarding save files sometimes loading inappropriately. - Fixed issue where Player 2 would get stuck in the top-left of the screen in boss arenas when playing Multiplayer. - Reduced randomness of Frost Phoenix's rushing attack and reduced how quickly it travels acro
Original post- - Fixed issue regarding save files sometimes loading inappropriately.
- - Fixed issue where Player 2 would get stuck in the top-left of the screen in boss arenas when playing Multiplayer.
- - Reduced randomness of Frost Phoenix's rushing attack and reduced how quickly it travels across the screen. It's now way more reliable to avoid its swooping attacks.
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Shadowkin is now live!
Shadowkin is now live and available for purchase. I hope you all have a good time playing it! I wanted to be completely honest that I encountered a pretty big issue with Cloud Saving at the last minute, and instead of risking save files being wiped, I've elected to not have Cloud
Original postShadowkin is now live and available for purchase. I hope you all have a good time playing it!
I wanted to be completely honest that I encountered a pretty big issue with Cloud Saving at the last minute, and instead of risking save files being wiped, I've elected to not have Cloud Saving for the time being. I'm going to be working on it over the next few days!
Thank you all and as always, stay awesome.
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Shadowkin Launches Tomorrow! + Demo End
Hello! Shadowkin officially launches tomorrow! I'm very excited to see what you all think when that time comes. I also wanted to announce that I'm taking the demo down as the launch date is so close. If you haven't yet, be sure to Wishlist Shadowkin! Thank you all, and as always,
Original postHello!
Shadowkin officially launches tomorrow! I'm very excited to see what you all think when that time comes.
I also wanted to announce that I'm taking the demo down as the launch date is so close.
If you haven't yet, be sure to Wishlist Shadowkin!
Thank you all, and as always, stay awesome.
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Prologue ends on January 23rd. NextFest demo coming soon!
Hello! Hope everyone is doing well. The Prologue, Shadowkin: Dominion of Darkness , will be closing on January 23rd to provide adequate time between the Prologue and the upcoming NextFest, in which Shadowkin will be participating with a demo. In the demo, you can expect more cont
Original postHello! Hope everyone is doing well.
The Prologue, Shadowkin: Dominion of Darkness, will be closing on January 23rd to provide adequate time between the Prologue and the upcoming NextFest, in which Shadowkin will be participating with a demo.
In the demo, you can expect more content and more polish to the game. If you'd like to stay updated on that, it helps to wishlist Shadowkin and join our Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/779FCkeeWT
We've also moved the release date up from February 12th to February 23rd, in order to allow more time between NextFest and the full release.
Hope to see you there!
Stay awesome.
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Shadowkin: Dominion of Darkness is out now!
Hey! Hope you're all doing well. Today, I released a free Prologue to Shadowkin called Shadowkin: Dominion of Darkness . Check it out! It's a bit of an early look into the game and much more is yet to come for the February release of Shadowkin properly, but if you'd be interested
Original postHey! Hope you're all doing well.
Today, I released a free Prologue to Shadowkin called Shadowkin: Dominion of Darkness. Check it out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2731200/Shadowkin_Dominion_of_Darkness/
It's a bit of an early look into the game and much more is yet to come for the February release of Shadowkin properly, but if you'd be interested in taking a look into the game, now's a pretty good time!
As always, stay awesome!
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Upcoming Free Prologue and Playtest End
Hello! Hope everyone is doing well. Signups for the Playtest will end on Monday, December 18th . Current Playtesters can still check out the Playtest as I plan to do a couple more big updates to it over time. I will be closing signups for the Playtest because I will be creating t
Original postHello! Hope everyone is doing well.
Signups for the Playtest will end on Monday, December 18th. Current Playtesters can still check out the Playtest as I plan to do a couple more big updates to it over time.
I will be closing signups for the Playtest because I will be creating the Prologue for Shadowkin here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2731200/Shadowkin_Dominion_of_Darkness/
The Prologue will be a more polished slice of the game. If you're interested in checking Shadowkin out in a less rough state than a Playtest, that would be a great way to do it. I encourage you to wishlist it so that you'll be made aware when it's launched.
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Shadowkin Playtest - Patches So Far
Hello! Hope everyone is doing well. I know not everyone wants to use Discord, and that's okay. I do most of my posting there, but there's no reason for me to do ALL of it there, right? I've done a lot of patching since the Playtest inception. As of tonight, it's on version Playte
Original postHello! Hope everyone is doing well.
I know not everyone wants to use Discord, and that's okay. I do most of my posting there, but there's no reason for me to do ALL of it there, right? I've done a lot of patching since the Playtest inception. As of tonight, it's on version Playtest 1.5. Here's the combined patch notes in case you're curious -- there's a lot! I'll exclude bug fixes to save on space.
Playtest 1.1
- Enemies have been recolored to use colors in the spectrum of yellow, orange, pink, and red. The only player skills that share these colors are fire-related. Attempts were made to recolor fire, but nothing looked better than it's normal colors.
- Enemies now have animated outlines which shift between red and white.
- Many of Kit's arrows have been brightened to stand out more. This should help with keeping track of where they are in the heat of battle.
- The accents on the Boomerang have been changed to a bright blue. This should hopefully help with tracking it in the heat of battle.
- Disabled canopy overlay (this gave the map darker sections which made overall visibility worse).
- Hopefully this solves visibility issues, but please do let me know if you still have problems or have any suggestions on the matter.
- When leveling up, the background screen dims to a darker color.
- Cyclone base damage increased: 14 -> 18
- Arc Sword base damage increased: 20 -> 26
- Glint of Steel base damage increased: 9 -> 13
- Boomerang base damage increased: 5 -> 9
- Molten Volley cooldown reduced: 2.1 -> 1.7
Playtest 1.2
- A message informing you that you have level up(s) in wait is now displayed below your character when an area is completed.
- Path info is now hidden until the area is completed.
- When offered Relics, you are now much more likely to get Relics that are relevant to the kinds of skills you already own.
- When viewing a Relic, it will now tell you how many skills you own that have the tag relevant to the Relic.
- Ball Lightning: Turn radius has been tightened and its projectile speed slightly reduced. It should be easier to direct.
- Ghost Buddy: Opacity now changes with the Player Skill Opacity slider.
- Ghost Buddy: Destroys itself when the room is completed.
- Ghost Buddy: Now transparent by default. This Relic was easily a big contributor to visual confusion and you don't necessarily need to know exactly where they are at all times. Plus, they're ghosts, so that works out.
- The info display for the next room now displays "Boss" and "No Risk, No Reward" appropriately when the next room is the boss arena.
- Reduced SFX of Relic Altars arriving.
- Enemy hit SFX has been overhauled. Some enemies have their own enemy hit SFX to help give them identity and to help in switching up the repetitive sounds that can come from enemy hit SFX. Generically, slimes now have a more goopy sound when taking damage.
- When clearing an area, the barriers preventing progression now wait 1.5s before being removed. This should help with cases where you accidentally leave a room or if you weren't paying attention and were powering through rooms even though Relics or the shopkeeper spawned.
- The player now flashes when taking direct (non damage-over-time) damage.
- The player HP bar is now rattled and flashes when taking direct (non damage-over-time) damage.
- A distinctive sound now plays whenever the player takes direct (non damage-over-time) damage. This sound should help you easily identify taking damage even in total chaos.
- When leveling up and hovering over a skill choice, the level of that skill will now gently oscillate from white and yellow so that it's subtly highlighted as more important information.
Playtest 1.3
- New Nature Skill: Kinetic Marble
- New Nature Skill: Stone Shield
- New Storm Skill: Final Spark
- NEAREST has been renamed to TARGETED
- FURTHEST has been renamed to MISC
- Mouse Aiming now states that it only works on skills tagged as TARGETED
- Squall Salvo: Now properly targets random enemies at Level 5 instead of choosing 1 target and firing all arrows at them.
- Emberwake: Updated description to better match its effect. The effect itself is unchanged.
Playtest 1.4
- New Neutral Skill: Ghost Blade
- - This makes 5 non-character-specific Neutral skills! No more will be created until the game is closer to Early Access release.
- New Water Skill: Subzero Surge (using a temporary icon)
- Interactive skills now have a special outline that's exclusive to them. This also includes skills that can become interactive (i.e; Dancing Dagger), but only when they're actually interactable.
- Shrubbery Solution (Relic) bush now has a duration of 15 seconds. The timer automatically pauses whenever the criteria is met to charge it, this way it doesn't despawn when you're in the middle of using it.
- Reduced opacity of the Shrubbery Solution progress ring.
- Kinetic Marble now moves much slower if you walk into it, and faster if you dash (faster than it was before this change).
- When purchasing an item from the Shopkeeper, the icon for the bought item no longer goes away, but instead gets a "Sold Out" overlay. This should help with the abrupt icon shuffling resulting in misclicks.
- Removed unnecessary text regarding Max HP in the Shopkeeper. Items would say "+10% Max HP of its current value" and this was needless and confusing. The new text will just say "+10% Max HP".
- When pausing the game, you'll now see your damage recap. Please do let me know if you notice weird unexplained jumps in your damage! I'm theorizing that it's displaying damage wrong, but I'm not sure when, why, or how it is, or if it even is at all.
- While invincible, you were always immune to damage-over-time applications, but now you're also immune to debuff applications.
- Hurtbox of Tentacle Slimes (spawned by the Slime Queen) have been shrunken down. Avoiding them should now be more forgiving and make more sense.
- When updating enemy brightness in Accessibility, the change is effective immediately and no longer only applies to newly spawned enemies.
Playtest 1.5
- Many parts of the code were being ran in a way that was not framerate independent, meaning that if you ever lagged, the game would behave strangely. I believe I've fixed this, but it might've had some weird side-effects.
- Max Framerate has been increased from 60 to 144.
- Enemies no longer shatter on death. This effect was really subtle and the cost on performance didn't make any sense. You probably won't notice that it's gone.
- EXP is now automatically collected. Coins remain because I'd like to explore interaction with them later.
- Increased the size of hit effects so that skills provide more visual feedback upon hitting an enemy.
- Icons can now be hovered over. It will display the basic info for the skill. Detailed information can be viewed in Compendium > View Skills.
- -- This currently only applies to skill icons. I will be allowing icon hover for Relic icons soon.
- Enabled the "Item Hover Info" option in Settings > General.
- Ball Lightning: Chance to grant Haste has been increased from 30% to 100%.
- Ball Lightning: Chance to inflict Shock has been increased from 10% to 50%.
- Ball Lightning: Turn radius has been tightened further and it now travels slightly faster.
- Kinetic Marble: No longer picks up bosses.
I'm trying my best to push a new update every day. Thank you everyone for playtesting the game and submitting your feedback and bug reports. I want to reiterate that if you don't use Discord, it's all good. I also check the Steam Discussion Boards regularly, so you've got some input on Shadowkin, I'd love to check it out.
Thank you.
As always, stay awesome!
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Shadowkin Playtest is now live!
Hello! Hope everyone is doing well. The playtest is now live. If you already applied, you should be in automatically. If you haven't applied yet, you should be accepted pretty much immediately upon applying. The big thing here is that the playtest is going to be seeing a lot of l
Original postHello! Hope everyone is doing well.
The playtest is now live. If you already applied, you should be in automatically. If you haven't applied yet, you should be accepted pretty much immediately upon applying.
The big thing here is that the playtest is going to be seeing a lot of little hotifxes and patches. Making posts about them here will be rather cumbersome, so I strongly encourage you to join the Discord to see this information if you'd like to know about it. Here's a link to that again: https://discord.com/invite/779FCkeeWT
Here are some quick notes about the Playtest. Please be sure to read them. Thank you, and as always, stay awesome.
The Playtest is very much so in an ALPHA state. There are incomplete features, temporary setups, and in general not an absolute ton of content. The purpose of the playtest is to get feedback on the direction of the game and what's currently implemented. Let me know what you like and what you don't like. Constructive criticism and feedback are very much welcome and appreciated. Remember: I can't know if something sucks if nobody tells me! Let me know your thoughts!
If you're a content creator, streaming the game or making a video is totally fine, just please keep in mind that the game is in its alpha. It's gonna be more than just a little rough around the edges!
A lot of skills are missing. I'm planning to start with 7 skills per element (excluding character skills), but right now a lot of elements only have 1 or 2 skills in them, with the Neutral element having the most. The skills can be pretty complex, so they take time!
Only Tier 1 Relics are available. Even if the text in the game says it will be offering you higher tiers, it will not. Only Tier 1 Relics are implemented and you will only ever be offered Tier 1 Relics.
Disabled buttons (greyed out) are planned, just not currently implemented.
You currently cannot change the resolution of the game or change how its displayed. This is planned! Just ended up being tricky.
The feature involving hovering over icons to see their information is currently not implemented. I'm going to be working on this pretty soon.
THE GAME DOES NOT SAVE WHEN YOU CLOSE IT. It saves between runs while you're playing it, but if you ever close the game, all is lost. There's no meta upgrades yet, so this is really only going to affect any changes you made in your Settings.
There will be bugs! Let me know if you find any.
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Upcoming Shadowkin Playtest
Hello! Hope you're all doing well. Shadowkin will be holding a Playtest starting tomorrow around this time. I plan to make another announcement when that comes with more details and what to expect. In case you're unaware, I mostly use Discord for discussion. We have a server, you
Original postHello! Hope you're all doing well.
Shadowkin will be holding a Playtest starting tomorrow around this time. I plan to make another announcement when that comes with more details and what to expect.
In case you're unaware, I mostly use Discord for discussion. We have a server, you can join it here if interested: https://discord.com/invite/779FCkeeWT
You can sign up for the Playtest right now. You don't need to do anything special, just click on the button regarding joining the Playtest on the Shadowkin Steam page. When the Playtest becomes available sometime tomorrow, you'll be accepted into it and anyone will be able to openly join it afterwards.
Just remember that a Playtest is pretty much the alpha state of the game. To say things will change and be improved upon is an understatement, but I'll cover more on that tomorrow.
Hope to see you there! Stay awesome.