Just over a month ago, we announced we’d be tackling adding multiplayer to our voxel-based “slice anything with a laser sword” Early Access game Clone Drone in the Danger Zone—and to learn the principles of multiplayer game development, we’d first create a simple test game.
Instead of throwing the prototype away, we decided to quickly publish it for free on Steam!
Less than a month of development later, & two weeks after launch, Long Live Santa! has now been installed by over 100,000 players??
Early reviews from you rowdy bunch claim such definitely-not-joking things as:
“10/10 better than PUBG confirmed”
“Definitely better than PUBG”
“PUBG has a rival”
Special tip of the hat to all you brave souls who hung around to play this game when few others were playing, and all you ever-loyal Clone Drone players in the beta test.
Quick bugfix update - 0.1.0
We released a teeny tiny update last week, which should hopefully help with (1) the F button sometimes not registering for picking things up and (2) failure to join games should now display an error message instead of... crashing the entire game.
Thanks so much to everyone for sharing your ideas for the game, bug reports, & breakdowns of hacks/cheats -- keep em coming! To be honest, we are a little bummed we can’t spend more time fleshing Long Live Santa out... it’s hard to resist the urge to keep iterating indefinitely. We’ve had a ton of fun playing LLS ourselves, & see as much potential in the game as many of you do.
Perhaps we will get a chance to iterate more on Long Live Santa next Christmas (or “Christmas in July”)? In the meantime, we have no plans to stop the Santa-punching-party prematurely, so keep sleighin’, friends!
Lessons learned, now on to Clone Drone Multiplayer!
This month we start designing and building Clone Drone’s multiplayer integration, using what we learned from the good and bad parts of Long Live Santa to make it amazing.
Start your Clone Drone training before everyone else
While you may have swung a sword or two in LLS, Clone Drone in the Danger Zone’s laser sword is a skill-heavy weapon takes practice to master.
Now while we’re busy working on adding multiplayer, it’s not a bad idea to start training with Clone Drone’s single-player Story, Challenge, Endless, and Twitch Modes.
If you want to start now, it’s currently 34% off, its biggest Steam Store discount to date (ends January 4th).
http://store.steampowered.com/app/597170/Clone_Drone_in_the_Danger_Zone/
That’s all for now, see you either in the robot arena, riding a killer reindeer at the north pole, or in our January update about Clone Drone in the Danger Zone multiplayer development progress!