Blade Kitten Announcement
An Update on Episode 2
Hey Everyone!
Things have progressed to the point that we have an update that we can share with you, on what’s happening with Episode 2 and our plans.
Yes, it is still being worked on!
Episode 2 Specific Work Remaining
We have a few things still on our list of Ep2 specific items that we have to get finalized before we can do final QA testing:
- Finalize Episode 2 specific achievement implementation.
- Implement enemies in a few areas of the levels that weren’t quite finished in 2010.
- Try to remember what we were thinking with the game logic in 2010 and fix up some AI brain issues in the level scripting.
- Fix up some level placement issues and camera issues that are causing out of memory and/or rendering problems.
- Finalize plans for bonus goodie.
General Work Remaining
We’re also trying to resolve these general game issues:
- Crashes on some configurations, if you enter the Breaker menu.
- Crashes on some configurations, if you try to change the resolutions/enumerate the resolution options.
- The list of full screen resolutions is missing some resolutions, on some configurations.
The Bad News
Now the bad news – we don’t have a timeline that we can share at this point, as we’re working on this around other projects that are paying the bills, in our own time. We have made significant progress on getting it finalized though, and we are hoping to have more to share with you in the next few months.
So What IS Episode 2?
Episode 2....
- Continues (and puts a nice little exclamation mark on!) the story from the original release.
- Has full voice acting throughout the Episode – just like in the original release.
- Will give you 5 more huuuuge Blade Kitten levels, with a bunch more collectables, two mini bosses and a final Boss battle!
- As well as 3 new blades – unlock the power of the Darque Blade!
- Also it has 15 new unique costumes (so long as we can count properly!) – 7 to unlock and a few you get just for buying the Episode! (we’re nice that way).
- With 7 new achievements.
- And, if you have a save game from the end of the original release and hit continue… it should segue straight into Episode 2! So you can start Hex farming now!
How Is It Being Distributed?
- Episode 2 will be paid DLC (we’re still figuring out the price point), distributed solely via Steam at this point in time. You’ll have to own the base game to be able to get Episode 2.
- We will probably also offer a “complete” pack (the original game and Episode 2) as well.
- We are not currently planning on offering any pre-release/pre-purchase options – it’ll be released when we have it completed.
So that’s the information we have to share right now – laying things out as they are and letting you guys know what we can! Hopefully you’re all as excited about what’s to come as we are!
Cheers
Krome Studios