Maiden & Spell
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| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
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| Esports | RABBIT & STEEL - A raiding roguelite Hello maidens! My next game, RABBIT & STEEL, has officially been announced! Wishlist it now! Do it! You can tell all your friends that you got in before it got big. Features online co-op, random loot, awesome bosses, and of course, rabbits! If you enjoyed Maiden & Spell, I garauntee you'll enjoy this one too. Hope to see you rabbits there! | — | |
| Game update | September 2022 Patch Notes Garnet Flare (Offensive Special) - Move slowdown on use .35x > .4x Sniper Shot (Basic Attack) - Fully charged fire angle increased 4 > 8 degrees Bind (Wide Attack) - Draw layer adjusted downwards Knife Juggle (Offensive Special) - Draw layer adjusted upwards Vanish (Defensive Special) - No longer has a slowdown at the end - Using knives no longer resets movespeedmult during Vanish - Movespeedmu… | — | |
| Community | Updates & updates! Hello Maidens! ...Are you still maidens? A lot can change in... 15 months since the last post, gosh. I've been busy myself with a plethora of different things, so I'll try to bring you up to speed. First off, new patch notes for a new balance patch! ......... Uh, on second thought, the patch notes are pretty long. Maybe I'll separate that out into a different post. ......... A few months ago, a… | — | |
| Game update | Balance In All Things Hello maidens! It's almost halfway through the year now. I hope that news doesn't bring you dread! If you're the kind of person who would click into this announcement, you might be aware that the Maiden & Spell Discord has been doing a bit of a balance thingamajig. That has now ended; thanks everyone for your feedback! I think we've gotten the game to a place where it's pretty okay. There are s… | — | |
| Community | Maiden & Spell is now on the Nintendo Switch!!! Maiden & Spell is now officially out for the Nintendo Switch!! Purchase it via the Nintendo E-shop today! The Switch version has all the things you'd expect in a Switch version... Take it anywhere, snap the controller in half, hand one half to a stranger on a train, and bond over some bullet hell battles. Also has some cool new features, like emotes! I added these so that even people with paren… | — | |
| Community | Maiden & Spell is coming to the Nintendo Switch!! I'm awake! Alive! What year is it?! Oh, it's the one year anniversary of Maiden and Spell's launch! Happy birthday Maiden and Spell. I've come to you on this momentous occasion to announce that Maiden & Spell is finally heading to the Nintendo Switch, with the help and publishing of none other than Nippon Ichi Software! Check it out! When...? Uhhh, soon! Very soon. Look for a news post as to th… | — | |
| Sale | Steam Summer Sale!! Hello everyone! Maiden & Spell is 30% off during the Steam Summer Sale! If you're reading this you probably already have the game... but do all of your friends!? Just think! Social interaction is precious in these dark times. For the low price of just under 10USD, you could make your best buddy feel obligated to play some online matches with you! (Or you know, just recommend the game to them if… | — | |
| In-game event | Version 1.1.0.0: End of Beta + Korean Localization!! Hello everyone! After about 2 and a half weeks, the balance-beta is over! We made a LOT of changes and adjustments. Many of the characters got new movement options, buffed moves, opportunities for counterplay in certain matchups, and more. If you've been playing with friends on the main branch, you might be surprised at the new tools your favorite character has. Be sure to check them out when y… | — | |
| In-game event | Beta Balancing Branch Hello everyone! I hope you've all been staying safe. As it'll likely be a little while before I do more serious content updates, I wanted to try to get the game's balance in a better place for those that are playing online on a regular basis. After reading a lot of feedback on the Discord, I thought that the best move going forward would be to temporarily open a beta branch so we can try a lot… | — | |
| In-game event | 1.0.2.0 Update, and Future Content Plans! Hi everyone! I present to you... a minor bug-fixing update! Well, there are a few new things. Selectable skill levels! Feel free to warn people of what they're about to get into by taking you on. Or to convey how terrible you are. With that out of the way, let's talk future content! My original plan with Maiden & Spell was to gradually introduce new costumes and characters over time. You might… | — | |
| Release | The MAIDEN & SPELL Official Soundtrack is available now!! MAIDEN & SPELL's OST is now available for purchase! (Sorry it took so long!) Includes all of Hagane's great tracks from the game in high quality format! Feel free to listen to your favorite song on repeat for as long as you'd like. Hagane has also commissioned a few members of his circle to do special bonus arrangements of the tracks! They'll be included on his special version of the CD that yo… | — | |
| In-game event | Character Balance Patch + Training Mode Update! Hello Maidens and others! Ever since the game launched I've gotten a lot of feedback, replays and discussion of the character balance right now. In addition, I've gotten the chance to fight a lot of different people online! I had predicted that there would be at least one unwinnable match-up or broken move at launch... yeah, there were a few. So the patch to fix some of those imbalances is comi… | — | |
| Steam news | MAIDEN & SPELLBINDERS: the First Official MAIDEN & SPELL Online Tournament!! I hope everyone's been enjoying the game so far! Personally, it's been a very, very exciting week of bug fixing. Hopefully I've got most of the kinks out of the game. Just in time for.... The first official tournament, run by the community's own Azure Valkyria! For more info, please join the Discord. We're organizing the tournament there. Hope to see you there! | — | |
| Steam news | NOW AVAILABLE Maiden & Spell is now available for purchase!! The price is 13 USD, but it's on sale for 11 right now. I made it under 15 so that you could buy your friends copies, so do that! ːsteamhappyː Steam lobbies are also up, ready and running right now! So let's get those matches going! Have fun in the game, and hope to see you in a lobby soon. | — | |
| Community | Art Countdown! SOON!! | — | |
| Community | NETPLAY BETA IS LIVE! (and netplay F.A.Q) THE NETPLAY BETA IS LIVE LIKE RIGHT NOW! Update the demo, and you should be able to play! Of course, everyone opened ports like I said to do in yesterday's post, right? Right? Cause if you don't open ports you won't be able to play!! NETPLAY TROUBLESHOOTING FAQ: Q: I am trying to connect to a lobby, but it won't connect. What's wrong? A: The person you are trying to connect to likely hasn't ope… | — | |
| Steam news | We're having a netplay beta! Starting TOMORROW! I promised you all a netplay beta! And we didn't get it in January, but we're getting it now! Current plan is to run the beta from 12PM Saturday, February 8th to 12PM Tuesday, February 11th. The beta will have two characters playable online: the Royal Arcanist and the Lich of Flowers. But real quick, SOME IMPORTANT INFO: Maiden & Spell does not yet have the Steam Multiplayer API implemented. I… | — | |
| Announcement | Maiden & Spell is Releasing February 25th!! Maiden & Spell is releasing February 25th! This announcement comes combined with a cool new trailer! Give it a watch: In other news! If you played the demo already, you might have seen that part where I said there would be an Open Beta of the online netplay. Things did get delayed a bit (January didn't happen), but I'm happy to announce that it's currently planned to happen the weekend of Febru… | — | |
| Community | Maiden & Spell will be at Magfest 2020!! I'll have two setups with all 8 characters, and there will be a tournament for cool prizes on Saturday! Hope to see you there! | — | |
| Steam news | Demo is out on Steam! Featuring: 👑 4 Playable characters and 3 stages! 👑 The first bit of the first two Story Modes! 👑 Extra-hard True Magnus challenges! Found in the Extras! 👑 Silly settings! Play with the game speed turned way up, or cooldowns turned off! 👑 Secret open network beta plans! Yeah that's right! We're doing an open public online play beta, in January most likely! How to get in? It'll be a demo upd… | — | |
| Community | It's November! Hey all! You might have noticed that the date of the game's release has changed from "2019" to "2020" up in the corner there. Does this mean the game is getting delayed a year? Nope! In fact, I hope to release it very early next year, probably by February or so. For those who aren't following the game too closely, I thought I'd just give a quick update on development progress, and the planned s… | — | |
| Community | Try the Maiden & Spell free demo!! Did you know that Maiden & Spell has a demo? It does! On itch.io and GameJolt: itch: gamejolt: (I'll put it up here on Steam too when the game is closer to being launched) The demo includes 4 playable characters, 3 stages, and a few cool optional challenges! So check it out! | — | |
| Community | The Unofficial Official Steam Group! Maiden & Spell has a Steam Group! Run by AzureTarot ! I will be working on Maiden & Spell's online battling soon, once I finish up work on foreign language support. Join the group to find people to fight when the game launches! Alternatively, join the Discord! | — | |
| Community | Pick sides in the Maiden & Spell Discord Bullet Hell Contest Maiden & Spell has a Discord Server! We're running weekly-ish "Discord Bullet Hell" (read: emote spam) contests, where the winners request art to be put into the finished game's art gallery. How to play: 1) Join the Discord server, and pick a team: "Monster" or "Adventurer". 2) Post an emote spam message to the #bullet_hell channel. (You can post up to once every 10 hours) 3) At a secret time,… | — | |
| Community | Steam page is now live!! Welp, this has been a long time coming! The Steam page is now live for the bullet hell fighting game Maiden & Spell. If the game looks interesting, please consider putting it on your wishlist! It really helps. In case you found this through the Steam listings, here's a couple of links to random social media game-related things! Check out the game and play the free demo from the website: Discord… | — |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.