Our super awesome free demo is now LIVE! Feel free to play it, share it, stream it.... you can even print the page and put it on your wall! (But who does this?!)
It features
- 7 awesome levels with both double kick & Snares!
- 3 difficulties : hard rock, rock, metal (hardcore players will have to buy the game on Steam ;) )
- Glimpse of the scoring update (available next week, on beta right now)
To get it >
SCORING UPDATE NEXT WEEK
We're still working on the content of the main storyline but guest packs & UX improvements are making a nice boost next week!
We'll be publishing the SCORING update, which features:
- Scoring local, worldwide, among Steam friends
- Nice clean UI & UX at the end of every game + in arcade menu + in escape menu during the game to show leaderboard
- Improved stats with perfects, frags, hits, etc. at the end of the level
- 3 new guests! Not making too much noise right now but we'll be showing music gameplay video next week!
- Minor fixes
HELLGATE Update is Live!!
The HELLGATE UPDATE is live!
It's full of awesome stuff, here they are:
Features
Hellgate with 3 starting tracks: Kammthaar (Ultra Vomit), The Scarecrow Paradox (Fundamental Wisdom Of Chaos), Cold (Hell In Town)
The Furnace (opt-in beta on gameplay options to play it), a roguelite mode!
Better zombies warning. You now have red spikes on up or down when they're approaching the car.
Better boss warning. You now have big arrows with directions popping
Huge optimization. The game should be 3x more stable for everyone. Please keep reporting if you have issues.
Different UI & UX improvements
Future plans
We still have big work to do around The Furnace mode, scoring systems & stuff and we should have 3 more awesome songs coming in the June Update. Also, your support has been incredible so far, be sure that we're listening to your feeback! It's far from over and the Story mode is also making good progress among the team.
Here are the patchnotes you may have missed! As you can see we improved the game a lot and it is MUCH MORE STABLE now :)
Patch Notes
update #33
- improved level diff adjustment when resetting on guests levels
- adjusted line height in extreme
- make leaderboard accessible from guest menu
- more hp for kammthaar in hard rock
- simplify scarecrow in rock
update #32
- fix for fx_warning wrongly fetched
- fix for guest_menu badly behaving when hovering right zone
- fix for parition sometime exhibiting empty space between tiles
- adjustments for cold, kammthaar and scarecrow
update #31
- open hellgate
- fixes ""should not get there"" on win screen
update #30
- remove doPause from 1-5 after first try
- prevent ColorMixer.fromArray error
- add more hp to 1-5 boss in rock mode
- tweaked some texts and objectives
- workshop will not open an unreachable content windows
- add tuto buttons for borne mode
- bosses now warn where you must go to avoid them on certain difficulty, visibility will be improved later
- zombie danger zone is now much clearer
- tutorial explain danger zone a bit
- in story mode, restarting won't cause dialog starting again
- revamped a tiny bit bosses bars to make it clear what are mid bosses and that they can stack gravefully
- uplift james attack power
- add directionnal warning on bosses
- add furnace first bricks
- prepare hellgate levels
update #29
- updated Stoner1 parts and music, here come vocals for Rust In The Wind!
- remove doPause from 2-5
update #28.6697
- Add support for nvidia and amd apis to force discrete gpu and good performances.
update #28.6696
- fixed potential issue for libraries causing browser failure thank @Gillouw.
- fixed for server error leading in game crash instead of message thanks @Jeremy _
- fixed for potential workshop save problems thanks @Jeremy _
- enhanced steam cloud quotas and made custom levels public
- fix for loading broken being broken thanks @cyphermaster
- fix for potential leaks
- fix for song libraries incorrectly crawled @Senryoku
HELLGATE UPDATE Incoming > Ultra Vomit + Hell In Town +Fundamental Wisdom Of Chaos
We have to tell the truth, we hid something from you. When we announced the Hellgate Update last week, we wanted to keep the surprise. One of the biggest French Metal band called Ultra Vomit will be playable in the Hellgate with their song Kammthaar. Remember we’ll also get the excellent The Scarecrow Paradox & Cold as well! (they’re super awesome songs!)
We will be live-streaming with Manard (Drummer of Ultra Vomit) on Thursday 30 May, 8.30pm GMT+1 on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/djboucherie). The update will be live in the afternoon.
Reminder of what the hellgate is
To show you a glimpse of the Hellgate levels, here they are:
Also remember that we’ll have shittons of bugfixes, ui improvements, the infinite mode alpha… so get ready to unleash HELL!
See you Thursday!
Tavrox, CM
Announcing HELLGATE UPDATE + Early Access Roadmap
Hello Headbangers! We’re revealing our next update the HELLGATE UPDATE. It may come at the end of May along with the slick prototype of the Infinite Mode. We’re also revealing our Roadmap in today’s post!
Early Access Roadmap
We’re super careful about announcing dates so please, please DON’T TAKE THIS FOR GRANTED. Game development is a rocky craft that always takes more time than planned. We truly believe in being open but it also means potential delays.
Here is the order of our NON GRANTED BUT WANTED updates:
Hellgate Pack 1 + Alpha Infinite Mode
Hellgate Pack 2 + Beta Infinite Mode
Infinite mode v1.0 + Chapter 4
Hellgate Pack 3
Chapter 5
Hellgate Pack 4
Chapter 6 (and thus, 1.0 Release = out of early access)
(to be decided…)
We’re also continuously improving the UI & UX because we still have feedback around that.
THE HELLGATE OPENS SOON
Our first big update will be the opening of the HELLGATE! The first two bands to get introduced in the Hellgate are Hell In Town with Cold and The Fundamental Wisdom Of Chaos and their song The Scarecrow Paradox. It’s only the beginning because we are talking with even bigger bands to get them in the game!
The Hellgate is a much more complete and “safe” experience, a bit like you could enjoy in Guitar Hero! It’s a bit more expensive for us but it ensure that good bands with good levels are in the game.
(Work in Progress and not DEFINITIVE, please don’t take it as granted)
TO THE INFINITE AND BEYOND
Blackmagic & Gyhyom are working on a new game mode that some of you may heard about. We're calling it "Infinite mode" right now, but is it metal enough?
We still have a lot of undecided options on this mode such as if we should make short version of music tracks to make this mode "faster". But the prototype is already being started so hopefully, we can show something within the next weeks or so.
To finish, I’d say this is a big push from the team who wants to diversify the game and make it even more appealing for different kind of. This is only the sprout of what could be a great tree (a gloomy death tree, obviously).
Cheers,
Tavrox, CM.
Update #28: New fixes and difficulty tweaks
- removing steam overlay for users so we can track down memory leaks properly
- rebuilt gfx quality system so it doesn't get messy
- fixes some trex crashes when a shot hit the mob after disposal
- fixes when trex get killed before phase 2 ( on rock difficulty for example )
- fixes for duplicate partition allocations
- detected some leaks quite obvious on 1-5 but impossible to understand where it does come from, we are investigating.
- 2-3 will behave properly when plance gets shot after all notes are terminated.
- added some credit elements
- 2-1 metal slightly easier
- boss 1-5 launch his final attack later
Also we'll be announcing our roadmap for the next months pretty soon.
News after the storm
Thank you to everyone who helped us fix the crashes & bugs in the last few days! The team is still working pretty hard to improve the game.
Elmobo (composer) is putting the music on different platforms and has started making new songs for the game.
Gyhyom (art director) is improving the store page because we realized some countries are converting sales poorly compared to others.
Blackmagic (coder) is pushing at least one update every day to avoid crashes and optimize the game. He works kinda late recently to help with those last first weeks of Early Access.
I (marketing) am at EGX Rezzed in London to show the game to British! Blackmagic and I will also be at Play by Pax (Paris) to show the game. Next convention after that will be Stunfest (May, in Rennes, France).
Sales wise, the game has been doing OK but we expected a lot more obviously. We have some difficulties to reach countries other than France and China so we'll keep working on making Double Kick a world wide game!
We have a few features & stuff in the pipeline that are really awesome, I promise you that. We have to discuss internally what we can say about our roadmap (next features intended).
The team is also discussing about what should be put first among the feedback you've requested. Future content is also heavily discussed.
Thanks all and we still need you to share the game with your friends! We are amazed from your support and help with crashes & issues. It helps us A LOT.
Double Kick Heroes Early Access is out NOW with a new trailer!
After 2 years and a half of work, we're ready to let the zombies out! You can now play Double Kick Heroes on Steam and share the word!
For this occasion we're showing off a new trailer, with one of the game's song. It has this cool "Iron Maiden" vibe :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sReT3XbSYik
We have a new story Trailer to show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2bbITg05w4
Our story mode is roughly 4 hours long and made of 3 chapters. 3 more will come during the Early Access. It's a good way to uncover the stories of the main headbangers. You'll travel all around the world with some freaking good heavy metal, what's better than that, HUH?!
UPDATE NOW OR REST IN PIECES
Hello!
Blackmagic here, we are working hard to prepare the Early Acces. Am very happy for this week's patch as it fixes many problems y'all encountered and bring the brand new Mac version... Woo that has hard.
Stay tuned and let's MEAT AT PAX EAST!!!
update #13
- Macintosh Version
- Fixed some nasty memory leaks on Chicken Farms and Trex Helpers
- Added some preparation for guest songs
update #12
- memory optimisation
- add some options in the editor
- allow seek in the wave in the editor.
- fix some error on some midi files
- add lyrics on Die Untoten
update #11
- lower metronome sound
update #10
- Incoming portuguese
- Reworking the browser ui
update #9
- feature : added song library capabilities to the editor, now when you pick a level, the game will autoscan these folders to see if
the song is already known.
- fixed: omitted notes in Rock now does not count in
- fixed: some errors may arise on steam read, we tried to improve this and added extra code to retrieve errrors
Get your favorite song in Double Kick Heroes!
We recently asked the community to give us the ONE SONG they would like to play. We had so many answers that we decided to make it a real thing! We setup a google poll to get your answers.
VOTE for the best metal song! http://doublekickheroes.rocks/voting.php
As you can see we added a Youtube playlist so if you don't know the songs, you'll discover great hits!
Cheers,
Early Access on April 11th bois, let's do this!
