We're making a series of videos about the process of making Clone Drone in the Hyperdome! In this first one, Erik, our Creative Director and one of the founders of Doborog Games talks about how he wanted the game to feel and the challenges of moving from PC and Consoles to VR.
Make sure to Wishlist Clone Drone in the Hyperdome before release on December 12th!
Clone Drone in the Hyperdome is coming December 12th for VR!
Clone Drone in the Hyperdome
Hello Humans!
Thank you for all your support in these many years of development. We are so happy to show you the new trailer and tell you the release date for Clone Drone in the Hyperdome.
In Clone Drone in the Hyperdome, sword fight with killer robots in an all-out VR tournament of death! You are Blink, a teleporting robot who is the newest “looprunner” gladiator forced to compete in Crashloop, a deadly roguelike combat sport. Die and reawaken in an endless loop, leap over lava pools, avoid turret fire, take down waves of enemy defendroids, and feel your sword disintegrate their metal bodies. Deal damage exactly where your cut lands using our stunning voxel combat engine! To win your freedom, battle your fellow looprunners for a chance to fight the Captain in the Hyperdome…
Combat Precision & Epic Voxel Destruction
The ability to cut robots with swords has never felt better! Players can slice robots arms, legs, and heads off with their sword precisely where they aimed, but they’ll need to be careful because their enemies can do the same to them.
Incredible Weapon Selection
Inside the Crashloop, players can choose from a wide variety of weapons, including broadswords, scythes, axes, and shields. Every looprunner mini-boss has their own unique weapon called a turbofist, which players can acquire by defeating them in duels or triple threat matches.
Combat Relationships
After a run in the Crashloop, players are sent back to the loading room, where they’ll confront the same looprunners they just battled. The player’s decisions of who they attacked and when will determine their relationships with the other looprunners.
Roguelike Tournament to the Death
The player is the newest looprunner in the Crashloop, a deadly combat arena that changes every run through. To win a run in Crashloop, the player must be the last survivor of the tournament, where they battle other looprunners to the death, so they can move on to fight The Captain in the Hyperdome.
All New Gameplay Experience, Fit for VR
The Clone Drone in the Hyperdome experience, building off the success of Doborog’s indie hit Clone Drone in the Danger Zone, brings robot fighting to VR with new content, characters, story and more. The game has been built from the ground up to push what it's possible to do in VR forward, such as implementing physics based sword combat and interactions optimized for the best VR gameplay experience.
Clone Drone in the Hyperdome is launching on December 12th, 2024 and will be available on the Meta Store for Oculus 2 and 3 and Steam for PC VR.
We also know a lot of you are excited to see updates for Clone Drone in the Danger Zone, and so are we! Right now we're focused fully on finishing Clone Drone in the Hyperdome for you but we will tell you more after release! Until then we highly recommend all the incredible mods that you can find on mod-bot. The modders and artists of this community are really talented and have added amazing things to the game.
All the best, Team Doborog
The Winners of the Apocalypse Competition!
The Apocalypse competition is over! Thank you everyone who made levels, art and animations. You're all very talented and it was a difficult decision. Our judges Nook and TVCat helped us decide what to put on this list so a massive thank you to them too!
We will be contacting the winners soon to organise their prizes.
Here is the full list of winners!
Community Choice Awards
You picked these winners and we can see why! Each one has something special and got the most votes!
While these animations don't all fit the theme of Apocalypse, they put a lot of effort into being fun and well animated! For those of you looking for an award next time, this was our least entered category so there are more chances to be picked! This time there were only 3 entries!
Make sure you congratulate these winners and thank you for participating, whether you entered, voted or played the levels!
Vote for the Apocalypse Community Award Winners!
Well done competition entrants! While our judges decide on who will win the other categories, you can vote for your favorites to win more prizes!
There were over 130 entries into the competition so we couldn't list all of them here. At the link are the shortlisted Competition entries. You can also vote for any of the other entries to win by posting the name or link in "Other" at the bottom!
Because you'll decide first, and entries can only win one prize these winners will be the first to know about their awards and won't be able to win in other categories.
The poll will run until midnight on September 30th so make sure you vote!
Good luck everyone!
The Apocalypse Competition Ends This Sunday!
The Apocalypse Competition is about to end!
on Sunday 22nd September, 11pm UK time
the competition will be officially over! Make sure to submit your competition entries for our judges to see through this link!
What’s next?
The community judges and Doborog team will look at all the entries and decide who gets the awards in each category: Animation, Art, Level Editor and Doborog’s Choice! There will also be a poll sent out soon after the deadline for you all to vote on the Community Choice award!
The winners will be announced as soon as we have finished playing and judging all the entries, hopefully around October 13th!
Thank you everyone who submitted an entry. You all did really well and there are so many awesome levels, art and animations.
The 2024 Apocalypse Competition
Welcome to our 2024 competition! The theme is...
APOCALYPSE
There are lots of things you can do with this theme! Try to include it in your art, level or animation. It could be asteroids or robot invasion or anything else that the theme "Apocalypse" makes you think!
Rules
It must be your own work.
It must be created after the start of the competition.
No AI images, videos or anything else. Anything made with AI will be disqualified.
You can work together in groups, if a group project wins, all participants will have the option of a prize.
You can submit as many entries as you would like, you are only eligible for one prize
Length: 2 Months. Runs from Tuesday 23rd July to Sunday 22nd September at 11pm England Time.
Judging: Up to 1 month from Sunday 22nd September, depending on the number of entries.
Winners will be picked by the Doborog Team and Community Judges except for the Community Prize which will be voted on by the community.
Categories
There will be 3 Winners of each category. One win per entry. Judges from the community will help pick the Animation, Art and Level Editor winners! Our Community Judges are Nook and A TVCat.
Animation
A video entry animated with the level editor or 2D or 3D animation software. Submitted as a link from YouTube, BiliBili or Vimeo. This is both for safety and so that the community can easily find them to vote in the Community Choice Award.
Art
Can be screenshots, 3D renders, drawn physically or digitally.
Level Editor Award
This is for Challenge type levels only.
Community Choice Award
The community’s pick of all entries. Animations, Art and Challenge Levels.
Doborog’s Choice Award
Team Doborog pick their favourites.
Prizes
Everyone who enters will get the “Everyone Wins when you’re having fun” and "Rest in Pieces” Emotes.
Winners of the awards will get:
A choice of one of Human, Spidertron or Garbage Bot Plushie Plushie prizes are subject to limited numbers and location. We may run out of some Plushies. Russians will be unable to receive these because of delivery restrictions. Instead Russian winners will have the option of a free Clone Drone game key.
The “Good Luck, Have Fun” and other Emotes
Shared on official Social Media and in Front page Level Editor collection
The Competition starts NOW! Make sure you get your entry in before Sunday 22nd September at 11pm England time. Use this link to send us your entry: https://inj5jehpdl0.typeform.com/to/yLMtrQu7
Best of Luck! The Doborog Team
The Human is now a plush!
Hello Humans!
The robot body that we put your mind into is now a soft and huggable plushie from Makeship! It has a Sword that it can hold or detach so make sure to buy one so that you have a clone to respawn into!
Get yours here:
https://www.makeship.com/products/the-human-plush
Take a look at it from all sides to see how great it is!
To check if the plush can be shipped to you, check this page: https://www.makeship.com/shipping-destinations
The sale will run for 30 days so make sure to order yours soon: https://www.makeship.com/products/the-human-plush
Enjoy your new clones! The Doborog Team
Attack of the Enemy Zombies Update
Happy Halloween Humans!
In this new update for PC and Consoles we have unleashed new zombie enemies and a new adventure level to go with them!
The Fleet Overseer has discovered an experimental crystal to upgrade the robots, but it all goes wrong and you're the only Business Bot that can stop the zombies!
There are 4 new enemy Zombies to fight and they are introduced during this short new Adventure level. You can find the new level in the Challenges menu!
As well as new Zombies and the Adventure, this Update includes:
General updates & bug fixes
Added a “Restart Adventure” button to the pause menu
Added a loading screen when loading challenges
New Level Editor Objects (PC only)
GeneralTriggerArea - Improved version of AITriggerArea
CounterTrigger -Fires it’s output after it has received x inputs
MusicManager
RandomZombieSpawner
New Level Editor Hotkeys (PC only)
6 - Toggle Selection Window
7 - Toggle Hide Special Items
Home - Play Level
Enjoy your new Adventure! The Doborog Team
Winners of the "Imagine Chapter 6" Level Editor Competition!
Hello Everyone!
Thank you for sharing what you think would happen in Chapter 6 of the Clone Drone story!
The "Imagine Chapter 6" Level Editor Competition is over and we have 6 winners! Congratulations to the winners and to everyone who made a level for this competition. It was really difficult to pick these levels as our favourites because there were so many excellent levels.
Wild Epic Cool Chapter 6 Adventure
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3022285377 Very funny and chaotic level set in a Walmart full of weird robots.
Going Downhill
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3033897686 "I am the hero!" shouts a Mark 5 Bot as it get chopped up again.
Infinite Arena
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3032895709 There is a really fun mini game in here where you have to dodge lasers.
Humanity Must Fall
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3033670194 If you enjoy being a secret agent then this infiltration story is for you.
Zealot
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3033398711 A very fun mindspace interrogation story with a real tic tac toe mini-game.
故事模式幻想第六章 (Story Mode Fantasy Chapter 6)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3033792551 Beautiful cutscenes and great use of the camera and lighting.
Here is the Workshop Collection for all of the Winning levels: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3041549687
We recommend taking a look at all of the levels that people entered because so many people worked hard and made amazing levels. Here is the Workshop Collection with lots of entries: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3024695153
Good Luck in the Arena, Josh, Doborog Community Manager
