Hey Bouncers!
Turning Shady Deals into a full game meant changing a lot of things, but that didn’t mean we threw the original idea away.
Some of the most important parts stayed with us. All The Dots kept its name, the gangs came along too, and so did Octane, who went from being Uncle’s mentor in Shady Deals to becoming someone who could guide a much younger Uncle through the world of Roadhouse.
Some mechanics also survived, although most of them changed quite a bit once they had to support a full game instead of a DLC. What stayed was the core idea behind them and everything we had learned while working on the earlier version.
Underneath that, however, Roadhouse is a much bigger rebuild than you might expect. Around 90% of the assets were created or remade from scratch, alongside new code and systems built specifically for the new game.
So while you may recognize some names, characters and ideas from Shady Deals, what you're playing today is very different from what we started with.
In a way, Shady Deals gave us the blueprint.
Roadhouse gave us the chance to build it properly.
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