Developer posts and news about this game.
Area Zero v1.6.0 (08/30/2026) Added direction vector to attacks. Now the character receiving an attack will always face the direction of the attack at the time it was detected. Iterated on CPU opponent behavior. Updated Patreon supporters in the credits. Thank you! Iterated on th
Area Zero v1.5.0 (06/18/2026) Iterated on back dash. a. Increased recovery. b. Reduced invulnerability frames. c. Reduced velocities for the entire roster. Revised damage and blue meter scaling. Reduced guard meter capacity for all characters except for the Violets. Revised the e
Area Zero v1.4.4 (05/20/2026) Revised end of match so that there is always a winner. Ties are resolve by internal scoring. Added post fight game state with win quote and ranking for the match. The player's rank is determined by the same internal scoring that resolves a tie. Allow
Area Zero v1.4.3 (05/14/2026) Reduced recovery rates for the entire roster. Increased manual parry activation window. Prevented crash from Michael's taunt bonus introduced in v1.4.0. Disabled hit detection for the brother in Michael/Christopher's puppet super.
Area Zero v1.4.2 (05/11/2026) Cleaned up various art assets. Iterated on combo trials, correcting some subtle bugs. Restored and revised combo trials for Niven, Michael and Christopher to account for changes made in v1.4.0. Completed Adrian combo trials. Moved combo trial hints t
Area Zero v1.4.1 (04/20/2026) Prevented Adrian infinite (s.lk -> s.hk -> step forward, ...). Iterated on Adrian walk and down super animations. Moved normal chain tutorial objective from advanced to basic. Iterated on Violet (Y) back special and dash forward animations. Beg
Area Zero v1.4.0 (04/15/2026) Adrian added as playable character. Increased damage for all normal attacks and universal grapple/throw attacks. Increased activation window for manual parries from 2 to 4 frames. Iterated on all character special attacks, emphasizing MEGA cancels (i
Area Zero v1.3.0 (12/10/2025) Improvements to asset loading, reducing load times. New announcer voice assets added. Iteration on animations and character art assets. Added super activation portraits. Added Adrain as playable character for Patreon supporters. Whiff recovery frames
Area Zero v1.2.1 (09/28/2025) Updated Patreon supporters in credits. Thank you for the support! More improvements to asset loading, which should reduce loading time before a match. Reduced start up frames for Richard's down super. Made improvements to reduce initial loading time
1.2.0 (09/02/2025) Prevents crash on more recent Vulkan drivers, which may have extensive lists of device extensions. Characters will always face the direction of the attack source on block. Reverts cross up attack attribute added in v1.1.1. Reassigns Niven's back and down supers
1.1.1 (08/27/2025) Reduces time for initialization by removing redundant file reads and shader compiles. Reduces time used for swap chain recreation (resizing window, tabbing in/out of window, etc.). Updates versus loading screen with new layout and assets. Adds "cross up" attack
1.1.0 (08/19/2025) New super attacks for each character. a. Similar to specials, super attacks are now activated by holding a direction and pressing the super (Su) button. b. Each character now has a super corresponding to holding left, right or down on the controller. Updated tu
1.0.2 (07/27/2025) Rework Vulkan physical device selection to avoid potential crash on Nvidia 5070 devices.
1.0.1 (07/20/2025) 1. Prevents an infinite combo for Violet and updates her advanced combo trials to accommodate the changes. 2. Prevents potential for a crash when the combo counter exceeds 99 hits or 9,999 damage.
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