Sentinels: Returning in January
This isn't a post I wanted to make, but here we are. TL;DR: Not abandoned, not by a long shot, just accepting the inevitable that we need a longer break after the great lockdown of 2020 broke... literally everything. We'll be back at the end of the year after a proper recharge an
This isn't a post I wanted to make, but here we are.
TL;DR: Not abandoned, not by a long shot, just accepting the inevitable that we need a longer break after the great lockdown of 2020 broke... literally everything. We'll be back at the end of the year after a proper recharge and upgrade.
If you want more details - we kept promising updates, and I know they never came through -put simply, I bit off more than I can chew. If you hadn't seen the general discussion posts, I foolishly thought that I could juggle full time gamedev work along with a new move, new job, and essentially new life, along with a whole host of other issues. I kept optimistically thinking things would get better, sugarcoated the posts here, and then promptly was dragged back under with a million things that demanded my attention. I've had far, far too many sleepless nights trying to put all the pieces together, and all it's resulted in is poor updates that don't even deserve to make it to the beta.
This game is an enormous passion project that I've poured years of my life into, and our other dev even more - and we will never abandon it. But it was a mistake to continue to try to jump in half-cocked when my outside life was in shambles. Despite our best efforts, all the coffee and goodwill in the world can't manifest a working build from a week of no sleep. This is the last thing I ever wanted to have happen, but I didn't forsee having to build everything back from the ground up, and at this point it's obvious that a proper break is needed.
For those of you who have stuck with us this long, thank you so much for your support. We'll be back at the end of the year, after we've had time to recharge and properly set a roadmap for the future. I'm hoping to sprinkle in some updates here and there, but promising absolutely nothing until this year is in the rearview mirror. But what I can promise you is we'll be back in January, bright and early, and hopefully a bit better rested. :)
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Say hello to Captain Sparrow Whiskey Tyrian Druid the Third... Sparrow for short. ;) Though to be honest, we're still not sold on Sparrow as her name - anyone got a fun name for her? We are accepting any and all suggestions, my eyes are crossed from all the online dog name lists. She's a corgi mix from the Ukraine and the best dog ever, as well as the literal only reason the lockdown hasn't driven me insane.
Wishing all the best to all of you and yours - stay safe out there!
You won’t be able to shoot while in this mode, but nothing can shoot at you either. So besides to just feeling cool as hell, it can also double as an ‘oh #&*@!!’ button when you’ve got too many fighters on your butt.
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In addition to that, we’ve added some new cinematics featuring some earnest bad guys with questionable intelligence. Enjoy a preview here.-->
It’s been a long journey (boy have I said that before) but I mean it when I say I don’t regret it for a second. With this new frenzy ability, as well as a lot of tweaks and QoL changes we’ve added, we’re finally feeling like Sentinels is nearly feature complete. We’ve come a LONG way from when we first released in 2017… I went back to check how the game looked when we first released, and it was a bit of an eye opener to say the absolute least.
As a fledgling indie dev, it’s impossible not to look at the mistakes we’ve made along the way. But we didn’t let it stop us, and I can finally say with certainty that we have a game to be proud of. I hope you’ll see that as well :)
We went from... this...
To this...
To this!
And it plays even better than it looks ;)
And if you wanted to see what happened when I revisited the 2017 version, well, here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-krdxLH4r8
We’ve decided to raise the price to fit the expanded roster and mountains of new content – but not before giving you one last chance to pick it up for the price of a cup of coffee. The sale ends on the 26th, after which the price will go up to what we expect to be at for full release.
Seriously, I will buy you a coffee if you decide to give Sentinels a chance. You can find me on twitter at