The Pillage
The Pillage Summer Sale
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The Pillage Halloween Event
VERSION 3.2.1 - HALLOWEEN EVENT
- Limited time Halloween changes.
- Gothic theme is temporarily replaced with the Halloween theme.
- The moon is a blood moon for Halloween.
- Some buildings are celebrating with pumpkins.
- While the Halloween event is NOT going on, the gothic theme looks better than before this update.
The Pillage Update
The Pillage Version 3.2.0 is out now!
- Added a new power swing weapon: the katana! This weapon is the fastest of the big weapons and still deals 3 damage. This one's for you David - it took me three years to take your advice but I did it.
- Changed blood effects on the ground to look more cohesive.
- Added more options to make the game run better on lower end systems
- Added a new leaderboard for new scores. This should help with upload times as well as give new players a chance to make their mark. Old scores can still be viewed.
Also, if you haven't checked out my other game recently released, please check out Captain Clive: Danger From Dione!
My Next Project - Captain Clive: Danger From Dione is now on Kickstarter!
If you are interested in the game or have beta tested and like what you see, check out the Kickstarter! If you can't donate, don't worry that's OK. CCDfD will still be coming to Steam, so please wishlist it!
There are bonuses to backing, so check it out!
LINK @ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bishopa/captain-clive-danger-from-dione
The Pillage Week-long Stay At Home Sale
Since we're here already, I want to update everyone on the progress of work. Currently, The Pillage is on the back-burner for new updates with most of my time and resources going to my new game, Captain Clive: Danger From Dione. Here's some pictures! If you like what you see, please follow my Twitter or Instagram or something :)
Working on a new game ~ Captain Clive: Danger From Dione
What is this game?
Captain Clive: Danger From Dione is not a direct sequel to The Pillage, but instead is a personal sequel. It's been nearly two years since the release of The Pillage and I wanted to make something new.
In CC:DFD, you play as Captain Clive, or one of his crew members. You land your small ship in Ophacland, a residential colony of Dione, moon of Saturn. Upon exiting the ship you find that there are no humans left in the colony and that aliens have overthrown the area.
Your goal is to mow down hordes of aliens while staying alive. As you play through the waves, the game continues to get more difficult. To deal with this difficulty, you must balance your resources while making strategic decisions through combat and spending.
Is this game for me?
Do you like first person shooters? Do you like third person shooters? This game has both.
Do you like endless waves of enemies? This game has it. Right now there are around 50 different enemies.
Do you like big guns? Yes, me too.
Do you like lots of guns? Yes, as do I.
Explosions? yes.
Killing civilians for kidneys? This game is fun, but The Pillage might suit you better.
When will this game be released?
There is no exact date at the moment, but I do not plan for release until I feel this game is ready - hopefully in the 6-8 months range.
What's to come for The Pillage?
I hope to continue to release updates and patches for The Pillage in the future, but as of right now, Captain Clive: Danger From Dione is taking most of my time and resources.
Screenshots?
Here's a few screenshots of the game. These may not fully reflect what the game will look like when it is released because I'm constantly changing things, but pictures are cool.
If you are interested in keeping up to date with the progress being made on Captain Clive: Danger From Dione and The Pillage, check out my twitter/instagram @barmstronggames
If you are interested in playing this game in alpha prior to it's release, comment on this post or email me at barmstronggames@gmail.com
Also, if you haven't checked it out, there's a new update for The Pillage!
The Pillage Update: Angelic Intervention
Base game
- added a new enemy: the principality. This enemy is a human-sized naked angel which is spawned in the angelic intervention event. They are much faster than the player but have one heart.
- added a new event - angelic intervention. Every 250 kills, starting at 500, a large mother angel releases 5 principalities to attack the player.
- added a new weapon: the power saw. This weapon is a saw blade on a stick that rips anything it comes across to shreds!
Bug Fixes
- made footstep sounds louder so they're noticible again.
- fixed a bug that made achievements show up more than once.
- fixed an issue with reseting the save game.
The Pillage Update: New and Improved Themes
Base Game
- Added rainbow lights to the rainbow theme: retro.
- Added new theme.
- Added new post processing effects to all themes.
- Renamed vintage theme to washed out.
- Made windows and blood shiny.
- Added parallax scrolling to the interior of buildings to give them depth.
- Made the ability sidekicks faster.
- Changed the weapon particles to be cooler.
- Added emissive lighting to static buildings.
- Added a coffee shop building.
Bugs
- Actually fixed the theme buttons' usability.
- Themes now show properly on the main menu.
The Pillage Halloween Update - A Major Overhaul
The halloween theme changes the look of the whole world! When enabled, no longer is the world the iconic red of the pillage, but dark and orange! All of the civilians will be celebrating spooky season with all black attire this year!
BASE GAME
- Added a whole load of detail to the world graphics. There is now more shading, noise, and other little differences and variants of textures.
- The world now supports true lighting. This means real dynamic lights and shadows now characterize the world.
- With the new lighting, street lights have been added to arcade mode. Torches light up the wave mode area.
- Added two new weapons - the keysword and the executioner.
- Added game themes which change the look of the world and the ai.
- Updated the UI again.
- The player jumps higher and vertical hitbox size reduced.
- Wave mode now has it's own setting.
- Added the parallax effect back, but this time it's good.
- Added bonus achievements to give the player more goals.
AI
- Added a new enemy: the archangel. This enemy has 6 hearts and will spawn after god's wrath has ensued enough times in a round.
- Angels are now faster.
- Enemy health bars are more informative.
- Added more diversity to death-blood-explosion animations for ai.
OTHER
- Added a new song by inamic, blood, to the soundtrack.
- Hearts now have a new homing system, so there should be less left behind.
- Added a bunch of new static buildings.
- Added more diversity to the normal buildings.
- Made static buildings 25% more common.
- Special abilities are now called abilities
- Adjusted weapon prices and level unlocks. Additional balances happened on some weapons.
BUGS
- Fixed extra xp being added in certain quit conditions.
- Fixed the game breaking when players walked too far to one side.
- Window size and fullscreen mode now save
- Added a lot more
New Update - V 2.1.0 - New Gamemode, New Weapon, New Enemy
- Added a new gamemode: Wave Mode - fight through waves of police that increasingly gets harder.
- Velocity aim now has right/left auto-aim during attacks.
AI
- Added the new armored mobile cop - spawns late game in increasing values as the game progresses. 6 hearts.
- AIs now have weight, so knockback applies to different ones at different strengths.
Weapons
- Added the power weapon Beartrap - twice as powerful as the staff and also has the double hit property.
- Weapons now level up with the number of kills on them. This is purely cosmetic. High level weapons have particle effects when they are used with color corresponding to their level. This can be disabled.
Other
- Added flags to the leaderboard.
- Updated some of the user interface.