Hi friends!

It's a real whirlwind over here! After the surprise mobile launch last week, this week follows up with some more banger news:

Crossover Community Challenge

Ever since I started working on my new games Crownbreakers, I had an idea: It would be a ton of fun to bring one of the characters from my new game into Nowhere Prophet as a playable class! And while I'm currently laser focused on building the new game I thought that it might make for a great community challenge in the wake of the demo release! So here goes:

Let's bring Ten Winds from Crownbreakers into Nowhere Prophet!

Who's Ten Winds?

The best way to find out about her is to play the demo. But to sum it up: She is a hard-hitting brawler with lightning powers. There's a lot more to her but that's the gist. Her class name in Nowhere Prophet would be The Hammer.

What's the challenge?

You can make suggestions for class-specific content! If we get enough good ideas I'll put them all in a blender and into the game as a new playable class! So, what are the things we need to create a new prophet?

Each prophet comes with a starting deck of 12 cards (2 of which are rare), a set of 18 learnable leader cards (5 common, 5 rare, 5 legendary and 3 mythic) and an unlock condition that makes them available as an option. These are the questions we need to answer, so now you can:

• Suggest a starting deck (or just cards you think would be a good fit)

• Suggest new leader cards (individual ones or even an entire set)

• Suggest a set of learnable cards (including new and/or existing cards!)

• Suggest an unlock condition

I have also created a new mechanic inspired by the Knockback feature in Crownbreakers: Push / Pull with Crash X. When pushing or pulling a unit, if the last / first slot is already occupied, both targets are moved as usual but take X damage!

So, what ideas can you come up with?

If you want to contribute, the best way is to join the Discord Server to discuss your ideas with others. But I have also created a Steam discussion topic and a post on the Nowhere Prophet subreddit if that's easier!

I'm excited to see what we can build together!

Easiest Difficulty Upcoming

As part of the work we've done for the mobile version, we created an easier difficulty than "Chosen". As mentioned in the past, the comparably high difficulty floor is one of Nowhere Prophet's biggest hurdles for new players. So making that easier difficulty available on PC is something I really want to do to help more people enjoy the game.

Ideally that update to the game also contains a Crownbreakers crossover class to tie it together into a nice, chunky update! But for now I've uploaded a beta version including the mobile difficulty changes to Steam. If you are curious and want to give them a go, you can use the BETA feature and enter the password newmobiletimes to access that version.

If you give it a go, let me know what you think!

And that's the news on Nowhere Prophet, but that's not all!

The Crowbreakers Demo is OUT NOW!

View game pageIf you've enjoyed Nowhere Prophet you should give it a go! And if you did NOT enjoy Nowhere Prophet (what are you doing here?) you NEED to give it a go! It's building on many of the lessons I learned making Nowhere Prophet and I think it's so much better for it.

So if you give the game a spin, let me know what you think! There's a handy feedback form available in the demo itself, but of course you can also leave a review or post in the discussions on Steam. There's a subreddit for you or you can jump on the Sharkbomb Studios discord and share your feedback!

Whichever option you chose, I'm most likely going to read it. Sharing your experience with and thoughts is one of the best ways to help me make a better game. Also hearing nice things is always such a motivation boost for me. People having fun playing the game is why I am making it, after all!

Now what are you waiting for? Crash some Tyrants!

Crownbreakers Dev Stream

The Crownbreakers demo launches as part of Turn-based Fest on Steam! A celebration of turn-based games that lasts this week! And as part of that event I will be streaming while I play the Crownbreakers demo and talk about its development this Thursday!

I'd love to use that opportunity to answer some questions you folks might have about my games, or game development in general. I'll bring a bunch of questions into the stream so I am prepared to have some useful things to talk about but for that I need your help:

So if there's anything you ever wanted to ask me, let me know!

Crownbreakers Crowdfunding

And here's the last bit: I've been working on a crowdfunding campaign for Crownbreakers that will launch later this year. It will feature some exclusive rewards that will only be available there! If you remember the "First Access" days of Nowhere Prophet, you might know what I'm talking about.

So if that sounds like something you would want to join in, then subscribe to the pre-launch page on Kickstarter to get notified immediately once the campaign goes live! A great way to stay in the loop and to signal to others that this is going to be a cool campaign!

And that's it for today! I'm excited to see what this week brings with the release of the demo to all the players on Steam!

Much love,

Martin