Hi again everyone, it's time for a July update!
I don't have any clever things to say in this intro, let's just get into it. This month we'll take a sneak peek at Colorless Cards!
The Cards Without Color
Hey everyone, Anthony again with some more card previews. This time, we are showing some Colorless cards that any character can make use of. We are making a bunch of new Colorless cards, tweaking some old ones, and even changing some old cards to now be Colorless.
Thrumming Hatchet might look innocuous, but the consistency it provides is surprisingly strong. You may have noticed an older version of this card on our store page, but we are constantly iterating in development and will be refining balance up until release!
Rolling Boulder is an inevitable powerhouse and one of my favorite new cards to build around.
Scrawl sure looks familiar.... what is that doing here? 👀
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Q&A with Casey & Anthony
Most of the questions seem to revolve around fishing for spoilers so it's been difficult to get content in here this month. I'm an extreme spoiler hater so do keep that in mind when you submit stuff to [email protected]!
TabbyCat asks: Will there be more "written" lore for STS2 (like a bestiary with descriptions of the enemies you fight)?
The Aloner asks: Hello! I recently started playing Slay the Spire, and was wondering if StS2 will have more lore/worldbuilding regarding the characters. I really liked the events in the first game.
Casey: Ya
Kodiak Crew asks: Can you please show us a new card for the Necrobinder? Pleaseeeee.
Anthony: No
Casey: Sure ok. But only this much.
The Twig asks: Pretty much every humanoid character either has an obscured face or lacks one altogether. I interpret this as a stylistic choice, but is there an in-universe reason for this?
Casey: There's not an in-universe reason for it, it's a stylistic choice since I feel that players feel more like the character they play when a face is obscured/masked/covered
makeshiftotaster asks: Why is the client icon for Slay the Spire 2 currently the card art for Burst? Is this just placeholder, or will this be the client icon for the early access release? If the latter, is this subtle confirmation that Burst (and Double Tap/Amplify) will be back?
Casey: I want the icon to be green
Spire Spotting
Demi here! Time to resume our research into the Spire's mysterious flora, fauna, and fiends!
As a refresher, this was last month's silhouette:
Now let's see whose hypotheses we chose to highlight...
The award for best (and seemingly only) Spire Spotting comic goes to PixelPenguin!
The secret bonus award for referencing Demi's current favorite game goes to Alina, who used this as an opportunity to guess the Roaring Knight's true identity.
The award for most inaccurate yet strangely accurate at the same time goes to Zwebbo!
And the award for most accurate overall goes to Mästerbläster!
Here is a selection of other great submissions we received! You'll notice people saw spherical objects and instantly thought of orbs for Some Reason.
Credit from left to right: Anybodyyoudontknow, whoness, Tank, kgrmeagc, 唠个beaker, Wolfluoride, yaza33, 名陈弦上, KSA, WildSamich, Ada, Neossir, z4nzimoon, GreatGopher, INactiveRadio, vexnator
And now all that's left is to unveil the monster in question:
It's a knight with flails!! A Flail Knight, even. I wonder what happens to you when you're inflicted with its flailing... only time will tell. That's all we've got to cover today, so--
...Or not! It appears something just emerged from the overgrowth, but we can't quite make it out just yet. If you have any clues as to what this creature could be, be sure to submit them via [email protected] or in our Discord's fanart channel!
Connections Section
Grab your popcorn folks, it's time for another Slay the Spire Connections puzzle!
Community Corner
Thank you to rat mama for our very detailed, beachy cover image this month! Next month's theme is: Neow underwater! If you'd like to submit your art for consideration, reminder that it must be submitted to us via [email protected] or in our Discord's fanart channel, have dimensions of 800x450px, feature no text, and leave room for a title!
Now for our usual community highlights...
This incredibly dynamic illustration of the Defect defeating Gremlin Nob by @taydungeon (timelapse on TikTok!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCVRfwIoLCY
A very funny animation of The Ironclad vs Gremlins by Flurry of Bricks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XkC6XPiq1c
One of the latest instalments in Asukii's series of Slay the Spire song parodies!
Wow, we're already at the end of this month's Neowsletter, that was a slightly shorter one! See you all next month :D