The narrative is easy: You got abducted and are now competing in an alien gladiatorial TV game show. In order to get back to earth, beat the game show and win the price of freedom.
As a human bring mayhem and entertain the alien audience in the bloodiest game show the galaxy has ever seen! Progress with each run, earn credits, buy your arsenal and perks you start out with until you beat the show and are allowed to return to earth!
- pile up the corpses to build ramps and navigate the maze - entertain the audience with the bloodiest gameplay you are able to deliver and earn yourself a fortune - solve ever new generated mazes and objectives and meet thousands of enemies that all want to kill you
In this stream session we will walk you through the game and tell you what we are up to.
Joins us for some bloody mayhem.
MAZE SLAUGHTER STREAM
The narrative is easy: You got abducted and are now competing in an alien gladiatorial TV game show. In order to get back to earth, beat the game show and win the price of freedom.
As a human bring mayhem and entertain the alien audience in the bloodiest game show the galaxy has ever seen! Progress with each run, earn credits, buy your arsenal and perks you start out with until you beat the show and are allowed to return to earth!
- pile up the corpses to build ramps and navigate the maze - entertain the audience with the bloodiest gameplay you are able to deliver and earn yourself a fortune - solve ever new generated mazes and objectives and meet thousands of enemies that all want to kill you
In this stream session we will walk you through the game and tell you what we are up to.
Joins us for some bloody mayhem.
MAZE SLAUGHTER STREAM - MOVED TO TWITCH
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The narrative is easy: You got abducted and are now competing in an alien gladiatorial TV game show. In order to get back to earth, beat the game show and win the price of freedom.
As a human bring mayhem and entertain the alien audience in the bloodiest game show the galaxy has ever seen! Progress with each run, earn credits, buy your arsenal and perks you start out with until you beat the show and are allowed to return to earth!
- pile up the corpses to build ramps and navigate the maze - entertain the audience with the bloodiest gameplay you are able to deliver and earn yourself a fortune - solve ever new generated mazes and objectives and meet thousands of enemies that all want to kill you
In this stream session we will walk you through the game and tell you what we are up to.
Joins us for some bloody mayhem.
Dev diary #3 - WEAPON DESTRUCTION
"The Maze Slaughter - The greatest TV show ever" is an alien gladiatorial TV game show where our hero is forced to participate as a contestant and has a really hard time to survive.
Hordes of pesky enemies, nasty traps and a dozen of tricky stages with demanding objectives, framed by the certainty of perma death are not enough to challenge our hero.
We are also given very poor tools to handle our misery. The weapons of "The Maze Slaughter" are old and used. Countless of heroes handled them before and they were never really refurbished.
Think about your last visit at the minigolf course. They'll hand you the clubs and you instantly know that these ones are from the 50's of the last century. So this is how the weapons of "The Maze Slaughter" work.
But there is a way out! We distinguish between “picked up weapons” and “armory weapons”.
PICK UP WEAPONS Picking up a weapon in the game area, will give you a worn off weapon that many “Maze Slaughter” contestants already held in their hands. If you are lucky It can still utilize its secondary function. like e.g. the assault rifle has the superpenetrator. A projectile that, once fired, will nail every single enemy in its trajectory to the next solid obstacle.
But yeah, as soon as you utilize this secondary function on a worn out weapon, chances are that it will fall apart really quick and the effectiveness of the weapon will reduce drastically. This will lead to either reduced fire rates or larger spread or just less impact damage for the projectile..or all of this :) But not only will the weapons weaken by the time. All damage is also visualized by plastic or metal parts that will fall off the weapon or exploding barrels and whatnot.
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So at some point you will be forced to look out for a new weapon to shred, however the time between each damage stage is much longer than what is shown in our example videos.
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Also it is very Important to mention that the weapons will never wear off completely. you will be able to defend yourself at all times.
ARMORY WEAPONS The other type of weapon is a bought “armory weapon” it is of the same type of the ones you will find in the game area, but is brand new and will be permanently obtained and displayed in the armory.
These weapons will look brand new and will only fall apart after long time use. After each run a new “repaired” weapon will be ready in the armory to be equipped for the next run. Utilizing its second function will not lead to bigger damage and imminent failure of the weapon.
However those weapons are super expensive and their second function needs to be unlocked by the shopkeeper in exchange for credits. To grind those credits for these weapons, a player needs to play many many runs and store the collected money in the bank before the hero dies in a run.
Dev diary #2 - Who is your hero
Hah! You probably know our iconic key art already, since we desperately use it everywhere!
Yes, you already guessed it! That's our hero being in an intense conversation with a Nacktmull, one of our main enemy creatures.
In this post we want to tell you about our hero and planned other heroes to select from in the game! Every now and then we are working a bit on the lore of our world and here is what we found out yet.
Dan Jerouz (/ˈdeɪn(d)ʒ(ə)rəs/)
Dan Jerouz is a butcher from New York with his own small business.
One day he had a BBQ in his yard with some of his friends. He was happily choppin' the meat with his cleaver when suddenly a green light appeared above him.
The party was quite irritated when they realized that an UFO hovered above the trees and Dan was dragged up into the flying vehicle.. He just got abducted by aliens..
Nobody knew that Dan was chosen to be a contestant in the infamous gladiatorial TV gameshow named "Maze Slaughter"!
The rules of this show are quite simple: "Win the game or your home planet will be obliterated"
However, Dan is not impressed and soon he will show dem aliens who's the real victim!
So that's for our hero Dan Jerouz!
However there are also other heroes planned Meet our other heroes, Ruth Lathe, Barbaro Usley (she/her) and Fin Esher (he/him) in later episodes of our Dev Diary.
Dev diary #1 - What is Corpse Piling
Hello, fellow shooter lover!
I am proud to announce the beginning of a news series which will essentially be our development diary. Occasionally I will post info bits about the game and give insight into our endeavor of developing Maze Slaughter! In this very first posting I'll introduce you to our universe and give you the short version pitch. In later Dev Diaries I will dive deeper into the single aspects of the game.
Maze Slaughter is a fast paced, rogue lite first person shooter set in an alien gladiatorial TV game show.
Your first Hero You play Dan Jerouz, a butcher from New York who got abducted in his yard while having a BBQ. See him here:
Now he is forced to be a contestant in an alien TV show named: "Maze Slaughter".. seems that aliens are speaking english... :D
The aliens themselves are tiny creatures with squeaky voices who are cloning gigantic monsters who fight for them in the arena..
Maze Slaughter is like "Running Man" in an "American Gladiator" arena setting. Super loud and super gory but doesn't take itself too seriously!
Stages
The player has to survive a fixed number of stages with unique objectives per stage and randomly generated mazes (More about objectives in a later episode of the dev diaries.)
A stage can be played indefinitely even when the player cleared the objective and the exit is open, but they get super dangerous by the time. However if you are brave you can try and stay to farm the high value enemies which carry extra cash and buffs.
However you will always need to utilize one of our special mechanics:
Corpse piling.
All corpses are persistent and can form up climbable mountains. We need to utilize these corpse mountains to reach new weapons or objectives or sometimes the body piles are the objective themselves.
We invented a mechanic that can handle such high numbers of persistent enemies and as far as we know, are we the only game on this planet that utilizes corpse piles as a gameplay element. You witness the birth of a literal Unique Selling Point! :)
Rogue-Lite
The player has to survive all that plus 2 boss stages with exactly one life. So of course we will die often, just like it’s common for rogue-likes. However we offer player progression farm credits, buy permanent stuff become a better hero. So we are more a rogue lite than a rogue like.. More on player progression in one of the next Dev Diaries
Coop, Twitch Mode and Modkit
besides our obvious USP’s like the body piling and the game show setting, we plan for more features that will be explained in detail in a next Dev Diary.
