I've got some exciting news for our game, and I can't wait to share it with you all! Our game is currently taking part in the Steam SHMUP festival, and we've prepared a major update for our demo for this event. I'd like to go over the exciting new features we've introduced to our game, and I hope you'll enjoy them while playing our free demo. Here are the most important added features:
Settings and Input rebinding
We've added various settings for our game, including audio, graphics, gameplay, controls, and language settings.
We've implemented input (keyboard/gamepad) rebinding so players can freely rebind controls to their liking!
We currently support any Xbox or PS-type controllers in our game.
All settings are saved and loaded when players run the game again.
Weapon improvements
All weapons are now continually reloaded, and continual reload speed can be upgraded by buying or obtaining permanent upgrades in levels.
The weapon assignment screen now displays all weapons, including primary weapon stats and descriptions.
New upgrade/unlock weapon animations, including weapon tier display on the research screen.
Hangar and ship selection screens
The hangar screen has received a complete makeover. Now, all your weapons, including primary, secondary, and special, are conveniently grouped together at the bottom of the screen.
Ship information now includes both base and upgraded values for each attribute (except boost time limit and continual reload, which depend on boost or weapon, so we display "Per Boost" or "Per Weapon").
Ship selection screen has a fresh new look. Now, you can easily view both base and upgraded stats for all available ships!
New dock upgrades screen
In our game, you acquire upgrades for your ships by completing optional or mandatory objectives within levels. Now, you also have the option to purchase these upgrades using credits on this new screen.
On the upgrades screen, you'll find all available upgrades (dock buildings). Each dock building has multiple tiers, and each tier enhances your ship's capabilities, such as HP, primary weapons, boost time limits, continual reload, and more.
Upon purchasing a new upgrade, the corresponding building will appear in your docks, resulting in upgraded ships.
These are only the most important updates, and we've improved and polished our demo a lot with many other features.
We would love to hear your feedback, and we hope you'll enjoy playing our new demo!
Consider to Wishlist our game if you haven't done that already 😉
You can also join our discord for some more news, discussions, bug reporting or to join our testing squad.
Stay tuned!
Galaxy Highways Team.
🚀Next Fest Developer Livestream #2
Hey everyone!
Join us and watch special developer livestream of our new Next Fest demo! Feel free to reach us in the chat and ask us anything about the development of Galaxy Highways. This is the second live stream slot during Steam Next Fest event.
Enjoy and have fun!
Roman & Stano, Galaxy Highways team.
🚀Next Fest Developer Livestream #1
Hey everyone!
Join us and watch special developer livestream of our new Next Fest demo! Feel free to reach us in the chat and ask us anything about the development of Galaxy Highways.
Enjoy and have fun!
Roman & Stano, Galaxy Highways team.
Demo available now!
Hello everyone!
We are very excited to make an announcement that Galaxy Highways demo is now available for you to play on Steam!
The demo has a interactive tutorial, 3 standard levels and one special level, where you'll be able to play with the mighty battleship! Choose from a variety of unique ships, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Explore an arsenal of weapons to match your playstyle. With lasers, rockets, mines, and defensive turrets at your disposal, you'll never run out of options.
Please Wishlist our game if you haven't done that already and don't forget that you can also join our discord for some more news, discussions, bug reporting or to join our testing squad.
We hope you'll enjoy our demo!
Roman and Stano, Galaxy Highways team
Galaxy Highways Demo Announcement
Hello everyone!
We are very excited to make an announcement that Galaxy Highways will release free demo on February 2nd! Take a look at our demo announcement video!
The demo will have proper tutorial, 3 standard levels and one special level, where you'll be able to play with the battleship! You can choose from 3 different ships and you will be able to unlock and upgrade a lot of different secondary and special weapons.
Wishlist our game if you haven't done that already and don't forget that you can also join our discord for some more news, discussions or to join our testing squad.
Enjoy!
Galaxy Highways team
Czech and Slovak Games Week on Steam
Hi all!
Our game was part of Czech and Slovak Games Week on Steam event and our game was in upcoming games section. As part of it we were doing also pre-recorded gameplay with developer video broadcast on our Steam page. If you are interested, you can check it out! It will be broadcasted for few more days.
Another great conference called Game Days 2022, which took place in Košice, Slovakia, is behind us. We had an indie booth at the conference and our game - Galaxy Highways made it as a finalist into the TOP 5 indie games at the conference. The games were evaluated by an international jury and we are incredibly happy about this success. Thank you!
As usual we met a lot of friends from indie game development community and made some new contacts which is great! A lot of people played our game and we collected a lot of feedback. We are extremely happy that the feedback is very positive and people had some great ideas for the game.
Galaxy Highways team at Game Days 2022 (On the left: Roman - Game Design, Programming, Music | On the right: Stanislav - Game Art, Animations, VFX)
Don't forget to WISHLIST our game and join our discord!
We participated in the Game Developers Session 2022 conference in Prague, Czech Republic where we presented our game in an indie expo booth.
Galaxy Highways team at GDS 2022 (On the right: Roman - Game Design, Programming, Music | On the left: Stanislav - Game Art, Animations, VFX)
We met a lot of new people from the industry, a lot of people played our game and gave us excellent feedback. We are extremely happy that the feedback on our game has been very positive and that people really like the game.
Don't forget to WISHLIST our game and join our discord!
We participated in the Game Access 2022 conference in Brno, Czech Republic, where our game was nominated in the BEST ART category! The nomination came from the VISIONGAME (http://visiongame.cz) portal, which archives all Slovak and Czech games.
We got a lot of feedback, met a lot of great people from the gaming industry and had a lot of fun.
Galaxy Highways team at Game Access 2022 (On the left: Roman - Game Design, Programming, Music | On the right: Stanislav - Game Art, Animations, VFX)
Don't forget to wishlist our game and join our discord!
Galaxy Highways has a new gameplay trailer that shows various player upgradable weapons, player ships, enemy ships, space stations and bosses including some comix style story cutscenes.
It shows also special battleship level gameplay where player plays with the battleship built by getting technology rewards in standard levels.
Let us know if you like it!
Don't forget that you can join our discord for some more news, discussions or to join our alpha testing.
