Hey Killers! Hope you've been having fun with Santa's Slay and all the goodies it brings! If you haven't checked it out, here's a link to check it out! Wanted to give a loving Skullface shout out to Pennie, who did the amazing fan art we featured above! Check out Pennie's Deviant Art page @ http://slimy-pennies.deviantart.com/ for more of her awesome work!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/559670/
MONTHLY MURDERER CLUB
We'll be sending out the new KILLER KODE for the monthly murderer very soon (within the hour!), so make sure you're signed up to the Monthly Murderer Club (the Slayaway Camp Mailing List).
Here's a link you can use to sign up right now, if you're not already signed up: http://www.slayawaycamp.com/mmclub
We send the killer code out via the mailing list on the third Friday of every month (that's today!) with a new killer exclusive to people who have the KODE, keep an eye out for it!
We've also made a bunch of bug fixes and updates to the game in the past couple weeks. Here's a full list of what you can expect the next time you start up Slayaway Camp!
FIXES & UPDATES
Movie Intro Cutscenes now have subtitles in case you're not sure what that gravelly voice of Mark Meer is saying. You can disable subtitles from the pause menu.
Zoom tutorial now shows correct text when controller is plugged in
Backup feature for save games (When loading a new version / updated version of the game, your save game will be duplicated to a backup file in your Application Data / AppData folder just in case something happens, you can restore to your old file.
Killers are now sorted more betterer/more ocd-friendly on the killer shelf
Fixed issue where you could not scroll to the bottom of the pause menu.
Emoji bubbles now appear in front of killer faces where they should be, instead of behind them where they shouldn't be.
Fixed occasional freeze caused by missing bonus kills on Santa's Slay
SFX now mutes properly when entering killer code if SFX is set to mute in menu
Fixed a bug where blood would remain on-screen after rewinding after editing blood settings in menu
Fixed a bug where selecting the Intro Cutscene via blue menu in Santa's Slay would cause a freeze. Thanks to powermad24 for reporting and for his patience whilst we fixed it up :)
Gorepack prices are now displaying correctly in their tooltips
Changes to the Hint Tutorial popup so it's a little nicer to look at.
FOK3 text description is no longer hidden
Fixed bug where pausing while being killed caused unusual idle animations
Minor text fixes
Minor bug fixes
Minor graphical fixes
Minor UI fixes
Over 10 bubble teas were consumed during these fixes.
COMING SOON
We've been doing a lot of work on a couple big things in the background and will have proper announcements coming soon, but to leave you with some tidbits: we've got a few more languages localized and will be able to implement that soon enough, and we also have been working hard on getting an iOS version done, and are almost ready to start beta testing it again. If you want to be part of the iOS beta, make sure you're on the mailing list and we'll send out more info on that soon! Join the mailing list at www.slayawaycamp.com :)
Happy Slaying! :skullface:
SANTA'S SLAY NOW AVAILABLE!
The teenagers of Slayaway Camp thought the summer’s nightmare was over… but... it was only in the middle. When Santaland’s jolly St. Nick is hideously murdered, it’s clear that crazed killer Skullface has returned! And no minimum wage part-time elf is safe in this holiday mall massacre. Remember: he knows if you’ve been naughty or nice… so be DEAD for deadness sake.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/559670
Slayaway Camp: Santa’s Slay is the first official expansion pack for Slayaway Camp and adds a pine needled plethora of holiday content to the original Slayaway Camp experience, including 25 new puzzle levels, new music, new Gorepack animations, new killers, and more! Santa’s Slay is NOW AVAILABLE for your festive enjoyment for only $2 USD!!
Puzzle through levels like Santa's Wonderland at the Cube Central Mall, the frosty skating rink, and the North Pole itself, while attempting to decipher the most brain-busting way to slaughter teenage elves. This icy expansion pack includes allllll the following content:
<*> A brand new VHS tape on your Video Store shelf: Slayaway Camp: Santa's Slay. <*> Santa's Slay includes 25 GOREBLASTING new puzzle levels set in the Cube Central Mall and the ACTUAL North Pole!
<*> Among them are 4 new ULTRA-BRAINDESTRUCTING Deleted Scenes & 8 new EXTREMELY SEXIFIED NC-17 Puzzles!
<*> Unlocks the Exclusive Killer: Santa Skullface and his Toy Soldier Kill
<*> Unlocks the Exclusive Killer: Krampus and his Bag of Birch Sticks Beatdown Kill
<*> Unlocks the Exclusive Killer: Gremling and her Tannenbalm Kill
<*> Unlocks the Exclusive Killer: Worst Santa and his Santa's Sleigh Kill
<*> Unlocks the Exclusive Killer: Jill Frost and her Do You Want to Build a Snowman? Kill
<*> Unlocks the Exclusive GorePack: Disfigure Skater <*> Special set of Holiday Slayaway Camp Wallpapers & Avatars
<*> New Set of Slayaway Camp Papercraft Templates including Santa Skullface, Festive Victims, AWESOMELY GNARLY trees and rocks with snow on them, and more!
<*> Some new in-game holiday music, Slayaway Camp style.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/559670
Happy Slaying!
Skullface & everyone at Blue Wizard Digital
PS Skullface also thanks you and promises not to kill you probably at least until the New Year.
THE "NIGHT(S) BEFORE CHRISTMAS" UPDATE (v1.1)
Hey Killers!
You may have noticed we have a brand new update to Slayaway Camp today! A lot of the update is preparation for the Santa's Slay Expansion Pack which officially launches in just a couple short days, but there are also a huge stack of fun goodies and updates that you can enjoy today on your puzzle, er... excursions...
As always we appreciate all your amazing feedback, reviews, forum comments, screenshots, videos and more!
NEW FEATURES!
We decorated the video store. We do hope you enjoy the extent of our holiday spirit.
Viewing a Gorepack now shows a random victim, instead of the same dude every time. He got tired of getting slaughtered over and over so we made it a priority to switch it up and give him a break.
Setup a system for more interesting Killer possibilities. You should be seeing some cool new killers soon enough!
Shelf scene shows the Movie name after selecting a movie.
If replaying a level that you've already beat, we used to not give the bonus kill screen after finishing the level. We've changed this so if you do replay a level, you get another chance at a bonus kill, only this time the coins rewarded are about half of what they were originally. This is a nice way to continue to get coins even though you've already beat levels.
More than everything else, we've got everything setup for the Santa's Slay Expansion Pack, so if you have $2 laying around & want to get some holiday slaying done, be sure to pick that up this Wednesday!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/559670/
BUGS FIXED!
SWAT Cops were shooting you in the back even after you teleported away. Unfair! Now teleporters let you escape, just as they should :)
NC17 Boss Levels were not being marked "Green" / complete. This was a huge bummer especially if it was a level that took a long while to solve and you wanted to show off that you completed all the levels (or NC17 levels) in a movie. It now gets marked green / complete. :)
An NC17 level was still completable after you had died on the level. This was super tricky but was resolved so it can no longer occur.
A bunch of minor graphical and design bugs were resolved to help keep things looking shiny and new.
A few minor gameplay / level specific bugs were dealt with in order to make sure you aren't interrupted from weirdness while you solve those puzzles. :)
As always.. Happy Slaying! :skullface::slayawayaxe:
P.S. Person with the best Christmas horror story (short and sweet is best tho) will receive a FREE Santa's Slay Steam key you can use to unlock the Expansion pack TODAY! Just leave a comment below and we'll pick the winner with the best story by 9:00pm PST!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/559670/
Santa's Slay: Coming Soon! PLUS... a Chance to Get it FREE!
Hello, Killers!
The holidays are fast approaching and what better way to celebrate a truly Joy-Axe Noel than to expand upon the gore-osity in Slayaway Camp with a brand new Expansion Pack: Santa's Slay!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/559670/
Want to try it early, for FREE?!
We're going to give 5 lucky killers a chance to try Slayaway Camp: Santa's Slay FOR FREE this weekend, just write a comment below telling us what you'd ask Santa Skullface for Christmas, and your name might get picked to receive a FREE DLC Key to try it out.
Santa's Slay is an all-new expansion of levels, killers and kill animations for Slayaway Camp themed with holiday horror insanity. Everything from a Mall Santa Skullface slasher, to an appearance by the cutest Krampus you've ever dragged teenagers to the underworld with, and an homage to everyone's favourite packed-snow killer: Jill Frost.
Puzzle through levels like Santa's Wonderland at the Cube Central Mall, the frosty skating rink, and the North Pole itself, while attempting to decipher the most brain-busting way to slaughter teenage elves. The Santa's Slay Expansion goes on sale December 7th, for ONLY $2 and includes allllll the following content:
A brand new VHS tape on your Video Store shelf: Slayaway Camp: Santa's Slay.
Santa's Slay includes 25 GOREBLASTING new puzzle levels set in the Cube Central Mall and the ACTUAL North Pole!
Among them are 4 new ULTRA-BRAINDESTRUCTING Deleted Scenes & 8 new EXTREMELY SEXIFIED NC-17 Puzzles!
Unlocks the Exclusive Killer: Santa Skullface and his Toy Soldier Kill
Unlocks the Exclusive Killer: Krampus and his Bag of Birch Sticks Beatdown Kill
Unlocks the Exclusive Killer: Gremling and her Tannenbalm Kill
Unlocks the Exclusive Killer: Worst Santa and his Santa's Sleigh Kill
Unlocks the Exclusive Killer: Jill Frost and her Do You Want to Build a Snowman? Kill
Unlocks the Exclusive GorePack: Disfigure Skater
Special set of Holiday Slayaway Camp Wallpapers & Avatars
New Set of Slayaway Camp Papercraft Templates including Santa Skullface, Festive Victims, AWESOMELY GNARLY trees and rocks with snow on them, and more!
Some new in-game holiday music, Slayaway Camp style.
Click below to add it to your Steam Wishlist!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/559670/
Happy Slaying!
Nominate Skullface for a Steam Award!
Steam's doing something mega exciting this December: the Steam Awards!
At first we shrugged... we don't need an award to tell us how awesome Slayaway Camp is, your 99% Positive reviews already do that for us!
But then we saw one of the categories:
VILLAIN MOST IN NEED OF A HUG
I mean, come on... The emotional anguish coursing through the evil blood of Skullface has already been fully documented in his Journal of Die-Kus!!!
We would be honoured if you would vote for Slayaway Camp and more importantly, Skullface to receive this prestigious Steam Award. Just go to the Slayaway Camp store page to cast your vote:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/530390/
ANNOUNCING: THE MONTHLY MURDERER!
We are happy to announce an all new real-world feature of Slayaway Camp! On the third Friday of every month, for the next 6 months, we will be releasing a new Monthly Murderer via our official mailing list (sign up at the Slayaway Camp website).
As long as you're on the mailing list, every month you will receive a super secret Killer Kode which you can use inside the Slayaway Camp settings menu to unlock an exclusive permanent killer for your collection!
To commemorate the US Election, this month's murderer is... President Skullface! Republican or Democrat, we can all come together for a bipartisan slaughteration of annoying sex & drug crazed teenage camp counsellors.
To get President Skullface, open up the Settings menu inside Slayaway Camp and slide the Slider of Sliders all the way to the right, then scroll down to the bottom of the settings!
Enter the Killer Kode: campgate2016 to unlock President Skullface! (Be sure to enter it exactly as shown)...
Feel free to keep the Killer Kode a secret, or share it with your closest friends. This is the last one we'll post to the Steam forums, so to get any of the future killers, be sure to sign up to the mailing list today!
Happy slaying, everyone, and have a great weekend!!
The "CURSE OF THE UNDEAD" Patch (v1.08.2)
I knew i was shooting myself in the foot calling the last update the 'Deadly Blessings' update. :|
We've just pushed a new fix (1.08.2) which resolves an issue with last night's update for players who use a system language other than English. The errors were due to some in-development work we are working on behind the scenes in preparation for wider localisation in the future. One of the changes accidentally made its way into a live build and was wreaking havoc, but has since been patched and everything should be back to normal again.
We deeply apologise for the inconvenience this caused, and appreciate your patience and reports as we worked to resolve it for you as quickly as possible. The fix should now be available for you to download - if you're still having issues, be sure to fully exit out of Steam to ensure it does the full update.
Some other quick fixes were also made:
Replaying some NC17 Levels was causing a bug. A bug which has now been eradicated from existence.
When hovering over buttons in the Deleted Scenes menu the UI wasn't responding to your hoverability. It now does.
The Bolumetric Dog stops barking at the end of a level - so you'd have to enable him every time you start a new level. We think this is fair. It takes a long time for him to travel between scenes to appear in the background audio of each level, so we felt we needed to give him a rest.
Typing in the Killer Code box was restarting your level progress.. we've fixed that for now. BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE TYPING IN THERE YET, YOU DON'T HAVE A CODE... YET! :) Yet!
Thank you all for your support and kindness as we continue to improve the game...
Happy Slaying!
THE ‘DEADLY BLESSING’ UPDATE (v1.08)
Hey Killers! :slayawayknife:
Just wanted to let you know while EVERYONE ELSE was either flipping out or cheering heartily about the voting results of some sort of Electrical College something or other (sounds pretty deadly, but we’ve got a game to make, people), we were hard at work plugging away on cool new updates for Slayaway Camp. Here’s a list of what you can find in the latest version!
UPDATES MADE
We’ve made it a little easier to grind for extra Skull Coins with a couple very important changes. 1) You now get 10 coins for every kill in Faces of Killed 3. This means if you only kill one victim, you will still get 10 coins. Previously you had to reach tiers, meaning you would only get 50 coins if you reached 5 kills, then only get 50 coins until you reach 10 kills, at which point you’d get 100… etc. Now 1 kill = 10 coins, 2 kills = 20 coins, etc. ALSO if you reach a certain streak of kills you will begin getting double coins (20) for every kill, so it pays to do well! We’ve also optimized some of the Faces of Killed animations so they should be a bit smoother / not affect your accuracy when animating the kill bar. COINS!!!
You know how sometimes you get stuck on a puzzle but you don’t want to cheat and use the walkthrough for the puzzle, but you also can’t really figure it out so you leave the game and go make spaghetti or something, then you think of the answer to the puzzle because you can’t stop thinking about it? Well now you can just skip the level (using the FFWD button) instead of making spaghetti, and come back to complete the level later. While this does mean you won’t be making spaghetti, it does mean you can continue solving puzzles that might be a little easier and the resulting brain massage might give you new ideas on how to solve the previous puzzle! We made it so you can’t skip “boss” puzzles (the final puzzle in every movie) since those ones are supposed to be hardcore and if you can’t do it it just means you need to TRY HARDER! Or you can always get the hint ;)
You know how you buy a Gorepack from the shop shelf and it sits there all shiny on your shelf looking cool, but not much else until you actually play a puzzle and hope that random Gorepack comes up? Well now Gorepacks can be previewed from your Gorepack shelf. So you can watch them with your friends over and over until you DIE FROM LAUGHING.
If you pause the game when playing with a gamepad, you should see nice little gamepad prompt showing you what gamepad buttons control what on-screen options. Its helpful and they go away if you un-pause.
Menu text now appears highlighted on menus when tooltips are disabled. Minor bug. Was annoying.. now fixed.
Sometimes you’d be playing a beach level and you’d get a weird alien guy as your bonus kill. It was weird. Aliens should only appear if you’re in space. Now Weird victims no longer appear during bonus kills. It’s not as weird anymore. Though I guess the concept of a bonus kill is a little weird in itself…
We fixed a few bugs that appeared on the super hardcore NC17 levels. Only the super hardcore players will care about this.
A handful of minor bug fixes. Only a handful of minor players will care about this.
OH!
If you’re browsing the menu, you might see a cool new menu option called “Killer Code”… We’re super sinister, so we’re not even going to tell you what that’s about until the next update! But…. if you’re interested and are worried you might be making spaghetti when we announce it, be sure to sign up to our mailing list at www.slayawaycamp.com — it’s a new feature we’ll be announcing very very soon and I promise you gals and guys will want to be involved from the very start :)
HELP US HELP YOU
Also don’t forget to leave a review on Steam if you like what we’re doing. It goes a long long way when telling other people that you think the game is awesome! If you don’t think it’s awesome… well, just tell us why and we can make it more awesome for you!!!
Happy Slaying! :skullface:
ANNOUNCING SPACE TYRANT!
Wanted to give you guys a heads up we at Blue Wizard have just announced our second game, Space Tyrant and it has launched in Steam Greenlight like a newborn baby ready for your oohs and aaahs at just how DAMN TYRANTY IT IS!!!
It is a space strategy game in the 4X vein, but with a heavy lean on humour and rapid fire fun, meant to be able to be played in shorter sessions. Where usually space strategy games are super dry and spacey and technical and take forever to do anything, Space Tyrant is all about destruction and domination and giant lasers and explosions and pretending you're a waaaay cooler version of Kylo Ren.
You can vote YES for Space Tyrant right now, and that means it will hit Steam sooner than later!
UPDATE: We have temporarily rolled back to 1.063 version until we determine the cause of a saved game data corruption. This issue did not occur in our tests so we're currently trying to determine the origin and resolution ASAP.
Hey Killers! ːslayawayknifeː
Well, here we are -- ready for the weekend. So calm, so quiet. Just wanted to let you know while EVERYONE ELSE was either flipping out or cheering heartily about the voting results of some sort of Electrical College something or other (sounds pretty deadly, but we’ve got a game to make, people), we were hard at work plugging away on cool new updates for Slayaway Camp. Here’s a list of what you can find in the latest version!
UPDATES MADE
You know how sometimes you get stuck on a puzzle but you don’t want to cheat and use the walkthrough for the puzzle, but you also can’t really figure it out so you leave the game and go make spaghetti or something, then you think of the answer to the puzzle because you can’t stop thinking about it? Well now you can just skip the level (using the FFWD button) instead of making spaghetti, and come back to complete the level later. While this does mean you won’t be making spaghetti, it does mean you can continue solving puzzles that might be a little easier and the resulting brain massage might give you new ideas on how to solve the previous puzzle! We made it so you can’t skip “boss” puzzles (the final puzzle in every movie) since those ones are supposed to be hardcore and if you can’t do it it just means you need to TRY HARDER! Or you can always get the hint ;)
You know how you buy a Gorepack from the shop shelf and it sits there all shiny on your shelf looking cool, but not much else until you actually play a puzzle and hope that random Gorepack comes up? Well now Gorepacks can be previewed from your Gorepack shelf. So you can watch them with your friends over and over until you DIE FROM LAUGHING.
If you pause the game when playing with a gamepad, you should see nice little gamepad prompt showing you what gamepad buttons control what on-screen options. Its helpful and they go away if you un-pause.
Menu text now appears highlighted on menus when tooltips are disabled. Minor bug. Was annoying.. now fixed.
Sometimes you’d be playing a beach level and you’d get a weird alien guy as your bonus kill. It was weird. Aliens should only appear if you’re in space. Now Weird victims no longer appear during bonus kills. It’s not as weird anymore. Though I guess the concept of a bonus kill is a little weird in itself…
We fixed a few bugs that appeared on the super hardcore NC17 levels. Only the super hardcore players will care about this.
A handful of minor bug fixes. Only a handful of minor players will care about this.
OH!
If you’re browsing the menu, you might see a cool new menu option called “Killer Code”… We’re super sinister, so we’re not even going to tell you what that’s about until the next update! But…. if you’re interested and are worried you might be making spaghetti when we announce it, be sure to sign up to our mailing list at www.slayawaycamp.com — it’s a new feature we’ll be announcing very very soon and I promise you gals and guys will want to be involved from the very start :)
HELP US HELP YOU
Also don’t forget to leave a review on Steam if you like what we’re doing. It goes a long long way when telling other people that you think the game is awesome! If you don’t think it’s awesome… well, just tell us why and we can make it more awesome for you!!!
