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Microsoft have confirmed the waves of games coming to Game Pass in late March and early April, headlined by the expected addition of Diablo IV. This is the first Activision Blizzard game coming to Game Pass since Microsoft's ridiculous $69 billion acquisition, with more due to follow. Beyond that, look forward to games including mech-riding farming game Lightyear Frontier and the colossal alien invasion strategy game from the XCOM Long War team, Terra Invicta.
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SUPERHOT team
SUPERHOT was released half a decade ago. That’s a hell of a lot of time.
Here are 5 years' worth of memories stitched together in a lovely little video. Enjoy.
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Since the release of SUPERHOT a lot has happened. We have grown from a tiny indie team into a fully fledged game studio.
We expanded the SUPERHOT franchise with new titles, helped publish other games, got a bunch of office doggos, switched to full remote and a whole lot more.
5 years is a great time as any to take a look back at what happened. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane, shall we? :)
SUPERHOT prototype
SUPERHOT came to be during a 7day fps game jam.
A bunch of people got together to make a shooter game in a week. This was way back in 2013 (!). We were far less experienced but compensated with blissful ignorance and enthusiasm.
One week old baby SUPERHOT
After we released the SUPERHOT prototype it made waves in the gaming community.
It exploded on youtube. Was trending hard on Reddit. We broke Steam greenlight records within days. That was a crazy moment and running a Kickstarter campaign was the only logical solution from that point.
You can still play the prototype that started it all right 
SUPERHOT around the time we completed our Kickstarter campaign
We came back to development and worked on SUPERHOT for a solid 8 extra months. During that time we've fixed a lot of the problems with the original version of the game, iterated heavily on the art style, and experimented with fun, new scenarios for the levels.
By the time we began the Kickstarter campaign, SUPERHOT already had solid support from the gaming community. This helped tremendously with the campaign. Not only with funding but also with spreading the word.
We’ve asked for 100k and we’ve ended up with twice as much. Shit got real, really fast. Thanks to enormous support from Kickstarter backers we managed to jump into the full development process.
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SUPERHOT Beta gameplay trailer
On August 1st, 2015 we've released our beta.
20 levels, first glimpses into the story, endless mode and improved graphics. We don't miss the shotgun though, although we still get emails asking to bring that ugly thing back.
Fast forward to Feb 25th, 2016 SUPERHOT comes out!
Here is our glorious office and bombastic party from the day of release.
We took our sweet time making SUPERHOT. What started out as a small passion project ended up becoming a 2.5 year adventure. SUPERHOT has far outgrown our wildest expectations.
We also never abandoned SUPERHOT. We love the game and do our best to keep it alive and up to date to this day. Since that launch, we’ve patched the game 41 times on Steam alone. We’ve ported it to pretty much every platform and made it available on every store too.
SUPERHOT VR
Immersion level 1000
Not many people remember that literally months after the release of SUPERHOT we finished the development of SUPERHOT VR. We managed to take a short break and we jumped straight back into development. That was crazy times. We had literally no idea what we were doing and VR was this weird unknown world with few rules or guidelines.
SUPERHOT VR dev at work
We experimented hard with VR and made some (in hindsight) bold design decisions that luckily worked out well. Development was a bit of a whirlwind (to say the least) but we managed to make something we were happy with.
Somehow we managed to release SUPERHOT VR just months shy of SUPERHOT launch.
Honestly, we didn’t put much faith into it. We were surprised by the reception it got. We ported SUPERHOT VR to every possible VR platform. To this day it is one of top selling platforms on any VR headset.
MCD RELEASE
A few months ago, during a global pandemic, with the whole office working from homes in their pyjamas, we released our third game; SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE.
Boy that was a ride. Originally we’ve planned to give something back to the gaming community. We aimed for a free level pack for SUPERHOT owners. Nothing big really. Few levels with some fancy game mechanic for added variety.
Life happened and three years later we ended up with a game bigger than the original SUPERHOT. How that happened is a story for a different post.
What matters though is that the only idea we didn’t change was the intention to give the game away for free to everyone that bought SUPERHOT before the MCD release date.
Who would have thought that giving away a game for free, to around 2 million players, on different platforms might cause any problems :)
In the end, everything went great. The community loved the game as well as the soundtrack. Oh right there even is a 
We set out on a mission to find cool, fun, unusual games that might need some help (funding) and support (still funding but also unsolicited advice and mentoring). Our little way to give something back to gamedev community. This mission has been a super success and a few courageous teams decided to join our gang. Without further ado, we proudly present 
This is small yet beefy patch that will give those watching MCD on Twitch the option to take part in the gameplay.
When a streamer has enabled the chat integration, all the shops in the game (standard runs, infinite mode, endless levels) will turn into Twitch chat-based shops. Control over which hack the player receives is now given to the viewers using the new chat voting system.
How does the voting work?
SUPER easy!
During the "hack choosing stage", viewers have two commands to choose from, type in the chat:
Wash your hands!
SUPERHOT VR has just turned 4 years old! Like all sensible people, we shot some cool drone footage to celebrate. And SUPERHOT had its 4th birthday in February. They grow up so fast! 2020 did give us SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE though, the newest (and biggest!) member of the SUPERHOT family.
Thank you for being a continuously awesome community. Please come say hi on 
SPREAD THE SYSTEM
...but have you seen it all?
Complete your collection with Midweek Madness SUPERHOT Sale, lasting only until October 23rd!
Amongst general tweaks and improvements, you might have noticed that you now have an option to pause the game. This might not sound like much but just wait and reach final stages of the game. You will be more than happy to have this option ;)
Without getting into spoilers, we’ve also changed some of the more hmmm “hidden” parts of gameplay. There is slightly tweaked access to them so that even the hardiest of MCD veteran players will have a fresh challenge.
A lot of love has been shown to replays. They run smoother than ever. You can share them without a hassle on socials. There is even a special secret photo mode but it’s a secret so let’s not spoil the fun.
Along the way, we've also added achievements to fulfil your progress hunting needs.
Visually speaking the game went through an overhaul. Our Art Director went to town and relit the levels, improved shaders and rebaked every single lightmap. The game looks and performs better than ever.
Check out the changelog at the end of this post for further details.
The rules are simple: record your absolute best while playing MCD, then post your in-game recorded replay on Twitter with #MINDCONTROLDELETE #MCDCOMPETITION and @SUPERHOTTHEGAME.
10 most mind-blowing gameplays win.
Good luck. We look forward to reviewing your attempts to wreak havoc and look good while doing it.
Competition will be announced on our Twitter. Stay tuned.
Surprise!
Throughout the many years of development SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE changed drastically a couple of times (and a couple MORE). We were searching for the right shape of our game – a shape that would satisfy both us and you, our supporters who decided to get MCD during its Early Access stage. Your contributions to this fun project were pivotal to making MCD what it is now: a bigger, heftier, more sophisticated younger sibling of SUPERHOT. What started out as an idea for “a couple of levels”, morphed into a game at least 4 times as extensive as the original SUPERHOT, polished to crystal clarity, offering far MORE hours of this beautiful dance of destruction in the midst of slow-motion mayhem, now with a pool of abilities to pick from and COREs to choose your own way of decimating MORE red (and sometimes partially greyish) dudes.
A game you can experience in its full glory right now. Being a part of Early Access, you deserve earlier access to the complete game before everyone else, obviously.
See you very soon.
July 16th, save the date.
SUPERHOT Team
How our studio currently looks like.
We stole every last bit of toilet paper from the office together with a couple of VR headsets, quite a few vodka bottles, and went into full lockdown mode. There is work to be done, be there virus or any other distraction.
Surprisingly the transition to remote work went quite smoothly. Everyone managed to rearrange their workflow accordingly. We’re doing a little more online meetings. Office parties transformed into online get-togethers. We play a bit more games than usual (for reference purposes…). Additionally, some people are doing actual work.
Technology is awesome, but still - nothing beats old school, face to face interactions.
Work on SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE continues. I’d say that we can even see a ray of light at the end of this white concrete tunnel. The end is near (relating to the development, not the world) but I’ve written this so many times I won’t blame you for not believing me ;)
I can’t give you dates or specifics because there is a lot of things connected to releasing a game that are in constant motion. But It’s so damn close. So close.
SUPERHOT Presents helped publish another wonderfully weird game!
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