Developer posts and news about this game.
We were very honored that BuriedCandy Entertainment / The Calling won the award for Best Studio at the CGM Video Game Awards during Game Con Canada this year! Congrats to all of the other winners, very well deserved. There were some incredible games on display at Game Con Canada!
We are now on the precipice of the 96th iteration of The Calling, the annual fight to the death for MegaCorp supremacy and the contestants that represent them. The Intergalactic Gaming Commission welcomes all Megacorp Contestants... " Fortune Favors the Called. " We’re excited fo
Leave your mark on The Calling! Stream at least 1 hour of The Calling during Steam Next Fest (June 15-22) and we'll graffiti your name onto a new map! A VOD submission form will be available when Steam Next Fest begins. Who's claiming their spot? ːwinter2019coolyulː
Jump into the demo for our anime-inspired free-to-play PvP arena shooter with online multiplayer. Every playable character is based on a real streamer! Check out our socials for Mega Corp Contestant reveals to get to know the playable characters!
We've now switched the multiplayer backend from EOS to Steam, so now everyone can play online! Leaderboards are now live! Welcome Screen added New Loading Screens New Map: Urbex (Elimination) New Map: Scrapyard (Elimination) Updated lockdown mode HUD New sniper zoom and overlay F
RELEASE NOTES: New Playable Character : BraveOkami (plus alt skin) New Character Skin: SullyMacchi default skin Updated Character Skin: New NullifyVT default skin New Character Skin: New NullifyVT premium skin New Voice Lines Added: Aristrella, ArkticArtz, BraveOkami, ChynaMakes,
New Character: Infritx New Character: Willeothy New Character: Musemallow New Character Skin: Officer Infritx New Character Skin: CloudyClairity (Fearity) New Character Skin: CloudyClairity (OG) New Character Skin: Kii_Tsune (KSE) New Character Skin: Pidge (KSE) New Character Ski
Hey everyone! It's been a while since I posted an update here. Things have been crazy the last several weeks, between myself getting hacked and tons of work put into the game. This is a MASSIVE update for you guys who have been testing out the offline playtest version of the game
Hey everyone! We're in the final stretch of the Kickstarter and we've currently got less than 24 hours left to back The Calling on Kickstarter! Award Winning Game...? Before we get into celebrating our final stretch of the Kickstarter, we've got some amazing news if you haven't h
UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS: We've got some special streaming events coming up this weekend that I'm pretty excited about! KayPikeFashion Body Painting Collab w/ Special Guests First event is a collab with KayPikeFashion , one of the streamers featured in the game. Kay is an incredib
Good morning everyone! Exciting news: the Kickstarter for The Calling officially launched yesterday morning with a bang! It's already over 200% funded within the first 12 hours of the campaign, and we've got some amazing stretch goals we're reaching forward to, including the high
Hey everyone! I'm excited to announce that the first public playtest of our super early pre-alpha prototype has been released! I'm excited to see what you all think of what we have of the game so far! Please keep in mind, I'm a solo developer without the big AAA budgets that most
The Calling is coming to ReachConf 2025! Super exciting news! If you've ever wanted to meet some of the streamers featured in The Calling, you can meet many of them at ReachConf 2025 taking place from Nov 6th - 8th in Florida. There are about a dozen streamers that will be wander
Even more streamers to battle as! I may have been quiet, but definitely have been busy the last several weeks! Not only have I been working hard at trying to get Steam authentication working so that I can open the game up to a larger play test here on Steam, but we've also more t
Hey everyone! Behind the scenes, several of us have been working on the lore/world building for The Calling, and we wanted to give you a little teaser of what's to come -- so we made a little Lore Drop Teaser Trailer that we premiered on stream last night. Huge shoutout to Katana
Pets are now a thing in The Calling! As someone who started my streaming career playing Genshin Impact, there is so much inspiration from that game that I wanted to bring into The Calling. I first started off with adding in a dynamic weather system, and now I've added in the litt
Since the first day of development, The Calling has been streamed on Twitch every week for the past almost 4 months since I started developing the game. Mostly by me granted (I am a streamer myself granted), but what's been cool is that since the very first day of development, th