The following is a weekly devlog for MIND CONTROL DELETE, the Early Access standalone expansion to the original SUPERHOT. Check it out HERE
Hey
GUI of SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE has always been a bit of an issue for us. You see, up to this point we have been using GUI based on SUPERHOT and it’s all fine and dandy but those are two slightly different games. MCD is not as linear with playthroughs as SUPERHOT and our GUI should be able to reflect that. Hence the introduction of Pyramid GUI for runs!
Each sector of the pyramid will have to be unlocked with HotCoins. You will not only unlock next runs but Minds and additional bonuses as well.
Will it change much? Well yes and no. It will give us a shit ton of possibilities to diversify how you play MCD. Completion of runs will obviously stay the same. You will just have more choices to make along the way.
Some parts of the pyramid might be impossible to unlock straight away unless you grind out enough HotCoins others might need a a bit of exploration of the internet.exe side of MCD.
This will make players progression through the game unique to their own choices. You might go straight through the runs or you might try unlocking a certain parts of the pyramid. You might just be hardcore and try to unlock every single stage in the pyramid. Your choice :)
Why pyramid though?
First and foremost it lends itself well design-wise and theme-wise . Additionally it fits nicely within SUPERHOT universe lore. Yep we do have lore.
Overall It’s a small change but it will open up possibilities for our future shenanigans in SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE.
PS. If've you read my previous DevLog you might be wondering who will get the swag bags.The pictures were pretty vouge so this wasn't easy.
Well here are the winners:
god 2.0
Zackamon
frostyn
I will contact you all to get your home address and stalk you at night send the package :) .
Brush your teeth daily.
Szymon from SUPERHOT Team
MCD Friday DevLog #9 - A GLIMPSE
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Heeey
Last week was pretty darn busy for us with SXSW and GDC back to back.
Fortunately we have won Gamers Voice Award for SUPERHOT VR and a few days later we received best AR/VR Award during GDC!
This was pretty crazy experience. SXSW was especially interesting since we had a possibility to meet and mingle with players at our booth.
I thought that to compensate for the last week’s lack of update I will make this less bloated with text and a bit more visual. During a week of my absence from SUPERHOT studio, guys made some really fun content. Not everything will be available straight away in the upcoming SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE update but I had to at least give you peek :) .
As the title suggest I obliged myself to give you a glimpse into upcoming levels/content.
What I haven’t done for quite some time is to give you guys a bit of a tease before we have an actual release of content. Please keep in mind that, since it is early access, design might change ten times on a daily basis.
So without further ado:
Can you tell anything from them? What is the main theme of each level? What are those locations?
Let us know what you think about them.
Oh and first three people to guess the themes of levels will get a swag bag from us ;) .
No, seriously just guess the themes of upcoming levels and I will send you a reward.
Back to work
Szymon from SUPERHOT Team
SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE-Skills Pay The Bills Update
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Hey there!
How about that? Another update!
This one really adds a lot of “umpf” to the general gameplay.
We made some changes to MINDS so that they differentiate from each other even more.
I feel that we are getting closer to that overall vision that we had in the beginning. We are slowly giving the players features and gameplay mechanics that we wanted. It’s still a long way ahead but this update should hopefully give you glimpse into the future of SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE ;)
Let’s get right to it shall we?
Gameplay:
EXPAND MENU
Due to clarity reasons we did some tweaking of the overall look. As you might noticed EXPAND menu gained several different MODs for each of our MINDS. Therefore you can create custom builds for your runs. They really change the feel of the game and give a ton of new satisfying solutions.
Another obvious thing that you will notice is the fact that we replaced score with HC (Hot Coins).
You will acquire them by completing levels and decrypting new runs. In the future we plan to add several new ways of amassing HotCoin wealth but for the time being we need to tackle how the general economy works.
HC will be used to unlock new MODs for your MINDS. Once unlocked it will give you an option to chose another, more advanced MOD.
We removed Full Heal MOD but from now players will autoheal 1 heart once they reach the store.
NINJA
Oh me likey Ninja. After this update I enjoy it even more.
Ninja starts the game with 2 hearts and can't increase their number.
Also from the beginning of the game Ninja will use Soft Punches and Lousy shooter MODs. Which basically means that it will take one more punch for Ninja to finish a guy and his reload time is a bit longer as well.
All that is not important really. What is important is the new Deflect Bullets MOD. No one button nonsense. It’s skill based. It’s timing based. It’s sexy. It’s satisfying as hell and you will die a lot while trying it. Fun!
All the Ninja MODS are as follows:
Faster Movement (Uhm you move faster)
Deflect bullets (Slice bullets to send them back at the enemy.)
Piercing katana (Thrown Katana goes through multiple enemies)
Master Swordsman (Increased range and speed of katana slashes)
Recall shuriken (Recall your piercing throwables just like a katana)
Bouncy shuriken (Piercing throwables bounce off enemies)
Hidden shuriken (Pressing “throw” when unarmed spawns a shuriken)
ADDICT
Addict now starts with Soft Hotswitch instead of Hotswitch MOD. That means that enemies will only get stunned after your Hotswitch.
Addict starts with 3 hearts and can't increase their number.
Even though I still have a soft spot for Ninja those MODs really made me smile.
Addict will have three levels of hotswitch now. THREE! Dude, just reach Ultra Hotswitch! No question asked.
MODS for Addict:
Start with pistol (Start every level with a pistol)
Start with shotgun (Start every level with a shotgun)
Start with rifle (Start every level with a rifle)
Strong punches (Break the enemy with one less strike)
Strong Throws ( It take less throwables to break enemies)
Slomo jump (Jump in slow motion by holding space)
Hotswitch ( Disposed body breaks after Hotswitch)
Perfect Hotswitch (Switched body doesn’t lose his weapon)
Ultra Hotswitch (You can hotswitch multiple times in a row)
MUSHROOMS
Oh and boy oh boy we have Mushrooms as well! You know that type of red mushrooms that grow on the wall and explode with a glorious cloud of bullets whenever you get to close or shoot them? They also make this creepy sound to let you know about their location? Spawn on levels on higher difficulties?
No? Ok so read up about them over HERE .
Bugfixes
Minor fixes for existing bugs.
Potentially a ton of new bugs ;)
Keep cool and call your mum sometimes.
Szymon From SUPERHOT Team
MCD Friday DevLog #8 - MODIFICATIONS
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"Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time." Alfred Russel Wallace
Hey
So this will be a mixture of topics because there is a few things I want you guys to be up to date with.
SUPERHOT is 2 years old!
First and foremost SUPERHOT has been released over 2 years ago! Damn time flies(enter a time joke here).You can watch how the game changed throughout the years of development on our Anniversary stream over HERE. That was a very sweet trip down the memory lane and, personally some stuff where a first see for me as well. Thanks for being with us all this time.
Dude where is my story update?
I know that a lot of you await story updates and worry what the heck happened with them.
They are coming. We haven’t resigned from separate story updates but we had to leave the crazy two per month schedule thing since it was taking a toll on the quality of the content. Our story dev team iterated like crazy but not every single change was visible on the surface (like the behaviour tree a bit more about it over here). We want the Story Updates to be a wee more beefy so from now on we will release them on a less regular schedule. Next story update should arrive later March.
Soo what about next gameplay update?
Oh we plan to drop it on ya’ll on 8th of March. There will be a bunch of updates to the “core” SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE gameplay.
One of those will be an update to the in-game shop. Finally, right?Choice in our mod store has been scarce to say the least ;) .
We needed to give a bit more options to the hands of the players as soon as possible.
So before adding new mind it only made sense to actually give people more options in the shop
Therefore upcoming unlockable mods in the store will be focused around two current minds Addict and Ninja.
Available purchase will revolve around current skills and themes of Minds and expand them to add a bit more depth to the gameplay.
So let’s do a short run through what’s in store (hah I made myself smirk).
Preview of upcoming mods in MCD store.
Addict Mods:
Start with (weapon) -A set of mods that allow player to start with specific weapon (pistol, shotgun,
rifle, katana etc)
Strong punches -Punches deal one more point of damage (Basically it will take two punches
to get job done instead of three).
Ultra Hotswitch -After performing a hotswitch you have X seconds until the cooldown kicks in.
During that time you can keep hotswitching as many times as you want. The
cooldown is longer than in normal hotswitch.
Ninja Mods:
Piercing katana -Thrown katana can go through multiple enemies.
Master Swordsman -Higher range and lower cooldown on melee katana attack
Shuriken recall -Can summon not only his katana but also any other “sticky” throwable. Just
press “E” while targeting a throwable.
That’s it folks. I will give you a full run through mods and all remaining goodness next week after we release the update.
Stay healthy, sleep at least 8 hours.
Szymon from SUPERHOT team
MCD DEV LOG #7 - SHROOMS
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“The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.” Terence McKenna
Mushrooms are truly special beings. They thrive on dead matter and can’t really be considered a plant due to the lack of chlorophyll. They are in the kingdom of their own. Weird and powerful.
Spore.
Here in SUPERHOT studio our minds tend to wander. We let it go so that ideas can come.That’s how you make magic. You let it happen.
One day Panos, our hot-headed level designer, came crashing down the studio with this unhealthy glow on his face.
“Shrooms!” He yelled.
“Mushrooms are the environmental Hazard!” We could still hear his voice long after he locked himself in his room.
Two days passed. No one knew whether Panos sleeps in the studio or starts work really early. You could only hear his roaring voice coming from his room. Well, at least we knew he is alive.
On a third day he came back. A bit thinner, hair resembling a forest after a storm, with a smirk cutting across his pale face.
“Thi-this! Play this, Szymon, ask nothing!” Said Panos with an order in his stare.
So I did. Mushrooms have arrived.
Mycelium.
Those were the early days of a very early prototype of exploding “mushrooms”. Once shot at or triggered with a throwable they responded with a burst of bullets, killing everything in radius. Simply "beautiful destruction" (I borrowed that term from Cub Swanson, he deserves your googling) with a puzzlish twist.
"Hmm should I shoot that thing on the wall?"
"Oooh Snap!"
While creating so many game object bullets might be dreadful for our fps count it opened up so many tactical opportunities for players that we simply didn’t care. We had to implement it in MIND CONTROL DELETE as soon as possible.
Andrzej, one of our programmers jumped on this task with a fury and dedication. We are still testing it and working on optimization but if everything will go according to plan you should be able to test our shrooms in the next update ;)
Mature mushroom.
Andrzej is currently adding some randomization element to them. So they might fit more into our glitched feel of MCD. We want our shrooms to spawn in various spots and have also different spread of their deadly spores.
MIND CONTROL DELETE mushroom in it's natural environment.
While it brings an undeniable joy to shoot multiple red dudes with one glitch mushroom ,they also bring a bit of stress to the table.You see,not only the player is entitled to use them, enemies can trigger them as well. Now when you play MCD you have to plan your next moves not only according to enemy placement but also those damn shrooms.
Hopefully soon you will be able to have a go at them yourself.
Stay healthy and exercise daily.
Szymon from SUPERHOT Team
MCD DEV LOG #6 -TREE OF POSSIBILITIES
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“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.“ Joyce Kilmer
Hey there.
Sometimes we make an advancement in certain part of the game that comes unnoticed. It might streamline our workflow and deeply enrich the game but on the receiving end, in the hands of the player, it might end up completely overlooked.
A great example of such situation might be with our recent addition of new behaviour tree system to SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE.One of our programmers Marcin Jozwik came up with a pretty judicious solution for, till now, quite linear story development systems in our game.
Look a tree.
So what is it?
In last Story Update, the system of relationships between individual elements boiled down to a one-to-one relationship, each new story element (like our ASCII article, note, chat) has been unlocked only by one condition. That would be actions like opening a specific article or conducting a particular conversation. With the development of our ASCII Story part of the game, such a basic system started to become insufficient. The demand for more complex unlocking conditions for individual elements increased and more emphasis was put on integration with events from the "core" gameplay elements of MCD. That is why, with the upcoming story update, a new dependency management system based on behavior trees will be introduced. Designers will get a fresh, new visual editor in the Unity engine based on the xNode library.
So now individual relations (one action - one reaction) shall be replaced by logical expressions. This will enable us to create waaay more complex conditions consisting of a combination of sequences and selectors.
So uhm, what does it do exactly?
Well let’s say we want you to be able to unlock a certain page in MCD internet.exe . Previously you would have to do exactly specific action in certain part of the game to do that. Now we can check multiple actions for that, not only one. Also since we can present any event from the game as a node (eg. shooting 123 red guys, beating a highscore in your run or playing ninja 1000 times) it makes it possible to consider it as condition for unlocking the given story element. It gives us multiple options for designing how to blend story with gameplay without having to change the game code. Coolness!
Tl;dr We can do more cool shit. Trees are awesome.
Stay safe,stay healthy eat your greens.
Szymon from SUPERHOT Team
SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE - Know Your Enemy Update
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Today we released another "mechanical" update for SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE. It's a pretty fat one, with lot's of coolness in it. Let's dive right in.
Gameplay:
Two new enemy variants
Concrete guy. Only part of his body is vulnerable to your attacks.
Attacking his concrete bodyparts only stuns him.
Glitched weapon enemy will turn anything he grabs red and therfore make
it unusable for you.
Concrete guy can be pretty tricky to finish.
Glitched red baseball bat.
New melee weapons
Crowbar, plank and knife (with cool flip animation).
Added INFINITE RUN.
For all of you people that are just too good and finish MCD fast. So try
finishing something INFINITE now.
All RUNS have been rearranged and renamed.
Visuals:
New animations for players melee attacks and katana recall.
Drop everything and check Ninja punching. It's so friggin satisfying to
use now.
Changed visual cue for hotswitch
Added RUN stats and leaderboards.
Now you can compete against the rest of humanity and track your
progress.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed reset.exe vanqushing all the game progress.
Minor chat.exe fixes. Mostly regarding our "ponglish" approach to english.
Various other fixes for teeny tiny bugs
That's it! I won't take more of your time. Just go test latest update and let us know what you think.
Cheers
Szymon from SUPERHOT Team
MCD Friday DevLog #5 MOMENTUM
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Hey there
I think we are getting a hang of this whole Early Access thingy ;). Regular updates for SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE involved changing our usual workflow. We have to do things in short dedicated sprints while at the same time leaving some space for cheerful improvisation that we love so much. Even that freestyling part needs to be planned with future updates in mind.
We had to divide our team into even smaller groups so that we could cover creating various content simultaneously. Panos is going cholo with levels, Bartek cooked some sweet animations Kuba tries to keep up with new ideas coming from Discord filtered through Czarek.
All is really good, it’s exciting and I can only tell you so little. Eeh.
Upcoming update on 8th of february will showcase a bit of our recent endeavours.
So what’s in store in the upcoming update?
Well, first and foremost we have fixed the issues that arrived along with previous oStory update. “Let’s Chat” update brought some ruckus to the MIND CONTROL DELETE especially the bug with reset.exe and performance drops.
New enemy variations ! We did some experiments with those and we will give you at least one new red guy to fight. Trust me, this will change the gameplay a lot.
Furthermore, new punching animations, new throwables and ... hmm I don't want to spoil too much before we release the update on 8th of february.
You will see everything in less than a week!
Stay tuned.
Szymon from SUPERHOT Team
SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE-Let's Chat Update
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Hey there
Today we dropped Let's Chat Update. First one in the series of updates dedicated solely to story of SUPERHOT:MIND CONTROL DELETE.
As I wrote earlier,you should treat it as a foundation for next plot developements. We are presenting you with three tools for gathering bits and pieces of MCD storyline. In following story updates we will slowly expand the sleek ASCII side of SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE.
internet.exe
Here you can take a peek inside the world of SUPERHOT:MIND CONTROL DELETE. Explore through the walls of telexted (mis)information. Expand your understanding of your surroudings.
chat.exe
Because, in life talking is important.
Talk with your buddy. Let him pull you more into the game.
notepad.exe
Take notes. Be diligent. Clues can be anywhere.
They will prove useful later.
That's it for now. Next update is coming in early february. According to the plan this time we shall drop some sweet mechanical changes on ya'll.
Stay safe and wash your teeth daily.
Szymon from SUPERHOT Team
MCD DEV LOG #4 -STORY
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Hey there!
Storytelling is a tricky subject in games . It's hard to blend with the game mechanic and is very often treated as na addition rather than a crucial part.
In general games are not the best means of telling a story. They are great at teaching you gameplay patterns that you can master but not really at creating a plot. Games with balanced gameplay and storytelling are rare gems. We tend to either skip a boring story or skip the game itself. Also writing a story for audience to participate in is totally different from writing a linear story like in movies or books.
Fortunately games are a very unique medium that have all the visual and audio capabilities of film but with exclusivity on interaction.
Why am I rambling about that though?
Well the reason is that with SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE (and it’s daddy SUPERHOT as well) we want to try telling a story with means that are given us from the game and within it’s “ecosystem”.
Hence in SUPERHOT, to tell a story we tried to use everything from game chats like #hacking to even GUI. We want to continue and explore that direction with MCD. Upcoming story update will lay some groundworks and foundation for that.
Plot in SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE will be layered. You might finish whole game and get glimpses of story. To get to the nasty and juicy bits though, you will have to do some exploring. We will give you tools for that but not much guidance ;). Finding out what the heck is going on is your part.
One of the new additions will be in-game “internet” where you will gather your info. Visually we decided to base it on those 90’s teletexts. You know those graphically obscure places in your telly that you visit by pressing “txt” button? It might change but it will look somewhat like that:
I will leave it at that for now ,don't want to take away too much from upcoming update.
