Welcome to our first-ever Dev Diary for KILL KNIGHT!
We’ve been completely overwhelmed by the positive response to last week’s announcement (thank you!), and we can’t wait to share more details about the game over the coming months!
But to get things started, we’ve seen A LOT of your questions since the reveal. While some details will need to wait - we wanted to shed some light and provide a little more detail on the game - so let's delve a little deeper into the Abyss.
KILL KNIGHT is not a roguelike, or survivor-like. It is a visceral, violent, and fast-paced twin-stick action shooter at its core, demanding skill and mastery, rather than a reliance on builds and random buffs.
The KILL KNIGHT development team - codenamed Team Phoenix - is a small, experienced, and independent team here at PlaySide Studios. As a smaller team within a larger studio setting, we have the support to bring the KILL KNIGHT vision to life - to create the game we’ve always wanted to play - something exciting, something that would have an impact…
KILL KNIGHT is heavily inspired by our love of top-down shooters, however we wanted to bring a level of intensity and violence that we hadn't yet seen in the genre. Our goal is to create a relentless dance of death, where every move - and second - counts. You will need to learn to juggle the complexities of building wrath, balancing damage output with regaining ammo and health, and exploiting enemy weaknesses, while striving to maintain your combo to progress through each layer, and compete on the game’s global leaderboards.
This intricate balance of mechanics is core to our design and the KILL KNIGHT gameplay experience, demanding both precision and aggression.
Immerse yourself in the arcade brutality of KILL KNIGHT, where every moment is a fight for survival and every victory is earned through blood, sweat, and steel.
We are beyond excited to have finally shared KILL KNIGHT with the world, and seeing the response from players just as hyped as we are has been nothing short of incredible! We aim to continue to share regular Dev Diaries as we approach launch later this year - and would love to hear from you around what you’re keen to dive into along the way! Our Discord and Twitter have officially launched, so jump in and let us know what you think!
In the meantime, we’ll have more details around future demos, our planned release date, and other exciting KILL KNIGHT updates to share soon, so stay tuned and prepare yourself for the onslaught of chaos and carnage to come!
The KILL KNIGHT Team
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