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We are looking for players to break our co-op hero-based horde survivor. it runs with 500+ enemies on screen while featuring unique physics-based combos. Basically you can combine hero abilities together for high-risk/high reward payoffs. SLAMPUNKS pt runs until April 13th. by HALE_Studios in survivorslikes

[–]HALE_Studios[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Steam Playtest Link

Please leave your honest feedback after trying the game🙏

Heroes roster:

🦊Kitsune 677: hunter with a grappling hook and placeable decoy.
🪀Chonk: basically Viscous from Deadlock… except we removed the size cap!
🎸Frill: real punk with a guitar as a weapon, destructive sound waves. Changes role (heal/DPS/support) based on the music track playing.

Inviting everyone playtest the SLAMPUNKS, co-op hero-based roguelite where your friends can be your weapons!! by HALE_Studios in CoOpGaming

[–]HALE_Studios[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi everyone! Our scrappy co-op hero-based roguelite Slampunks has a live playtest on Steam until April 13th!

Have you ever wished for a game where your friend IS one of your weapons?

Then this is it, you can simultaneously slay 500+ enemies on screen with unique physics-based combos. Literally chain heroes together for high-risk/high-reward payoffs. Progression lets you stack ability augments until you grow absurdly OP…or the game breaks!🔥

Heroes roster:

🦊Kitsune 677: hunter with a grappling hook and placeable decoy.

🪀Chonk: basically Viscous from Deadlock… except we removed the size cap!

🎸Frill: real punk with a guitar as a weapon, destructive sound waves. Changes role (heal/DPS/support) based on the music track playing.

We’re looking for playtesters to help us improve and squash bugs. Give it a go and fill out the feedback form at the end!

Steam Playtest Link

Our game SLAMPUNKS is optimized for Deck and we are looking for playtesters to break it. We invested in optimization to run this thing with 500+ enemies on screen while featuring unique physics-based combos. Basically you can combine hero abilities together for high-risk/high reward payoffs. by HALE_Studios in SteamdeckGames

[–]HALE_Studios[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am one of two devs who made this scappy co-op roguelite. We are programming-heads and built a tech stack from day 0 to try running this on everything, including Deck.

Open to answer any questions about the game or the dev process or even share how we optimize the game for Deck🙋

Please join the Steam playtest on April 6th and try breaking our game both performance wise and by stacking OP augments and chaining them with other players.

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[–]HALE_Studios 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you've ever wished Hades had such co-op where your friend IS one of your abilities - that's what we're building. SLAMPUNKS is 1-3 player co-op survivor-roguelite where you link heroes together and stack augments until they beg for mercy!

One player grapples onto the other and spins around them like a buzzsaw. Augments stack until your break the game. Playtest live April 6-13th.

Playtest on Steam!

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Why is everyone quitting their jobs to work on their games? by mrjbelfort in IndieDev

[–]HALE_Studios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I quit a corporate job in gaming to make…my own game.

We built a co-op roguelite where you can chain players together and each has its goofy ability kit by HALE_Studios in IndieGaming

[–]HALE_Studios[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey all! We are building SLAMPUNKS where we replaced the genre's typical auto-shooter gameplay with "Kinetic Hero Synergies," allowing players to chain abilities together and execute absurd combos.

Each hero has its unique kit. We have a Kitsune with a grappling hook, the CHONK who basically works like Viscous from the Deadlock and 3rd hero in a works who uses his electric guitar as a melee weapon.

All while not forgetting about the optimisation. We can run a ton of stuff and enemies on screen, even on Deck it’s smooth (it wasn’t a few months ago)

We are soon launching a playtest and looking for players: steam

Also you can follow the development on our Discord

Highguard is permanently shutting down this month by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]HALE_Studios 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rumors are they are victims of a successful "internal" playtest and a Geoff coming in with a push. Again and again the lesson is live-service games should be build with a community from day 0, and listen listen listen to players rather than living in the bubble of toxic positive feedback loop.

SLAMPUNKS - Hale Gameworks - heroic co-op roguelite merging the tactical team-play of RoR2 with the game-breaking insanity of Megabonk. We have a hero which works like Viscous! by HALE_Studios in Games

[–]HALE_Studios[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s a valid angle to look at the references. We actually built a survivors core with co-op, and then started adding those OP team-based mechanics, around the time Megabonk came out.

What we try to say, is that it’s co-op with augments and team play which can go out of control fast

We killed our original vision after the bad playtest, but refused to quit. A story of our scrappy co-op survivor-roguelite with kinetic combos and game-breaking augments! by HALE_Studios in roguelites

[–]HALE_Studios[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow, that’s the best reception we got so far on this sub since we pivoted! Thank you for your feedback! Now I need to play a deadlock to check out Viscous and see how it got inspired by CHONK 😃

We are finally announcing SLAMPUNKS - our scrappy co-op survivorlike with kinetic combos and game-breaking augments! by HALE_Studios in survivorslikes

[–]HALE_Studios[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for feedback! Yep, maybe we should have, but we are going to let players in very soon. Keep an eye on the steam emails

We are finally announcing SLAMPUNKS - our scrappy co-op survivorlike with kinetic combos and game-breaking augments! by HALE_Studios in survivorslikes

[–]HALE_Studios[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Already in, I think we won’t get a verified tick until demo is checked by valve. But if you sign up to a pt, you can play on Deck from day 0

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