Hello all, If you or a friend(s) haven’t had a chance to become a stealthy assassin on a floating time ship, here’s your opportunity! Murderous Pursuits has begun hosting a free weekend until Sunday 5th. Throughout this weekend, you can experience the full Murderous Pursuits game, along with our fourth update which includes a brand new game mode, map and more! Not only can you play the game for…
¡Hola Amigos y Enemigos! ¡Feliz cinco de mayo! We’re big fans of a party! It’s time to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. To get the fiesta started, we are giving all owners of The Ship and The Ship Remasted 15% off our latest game, Murderous Pursuits. Muchas Gracias for your support all these years. Murderous Pursuits is our NEW game – here are a few ways its different from its predecessor: Uno: A steal…
Murderous Pursuits is out now! To get everyone in the appropriate mood, we’ve released a new mini-trailer full of glorious murdering! Link to the Steam store here: We’d like to thank everyone who played in the closed and open betas. We hope you all had a blast – we certainly did watching all the murdering going on! We’re excited to start this journey with you, and can’t wait to continue the dev…
Hello Ladies & Gentlemen, Here is the Official Information for the Murderous Pursuits Open Beta this weekend. The Beta is Open NOW until the date and time stated below! Here is the link to the Steam Page where you are able to download the game: Murderous Pursuits Open Beta Make sure you are a part of our official Discord channels . We hope you enjoy the game! - Blazing Griffin Team
We would like to thank all of The Ship supporters over the years by inviting you to our Closed Beta of Murderous Pursuits , Blazing Griffin's newest game. Check out the trailer here ! Those of you who loved The Ship, will love Murderous Pursuits. It's a kill-or-be-killed Victorian stealth-em-up for 1-8 players in which you must hunt and kill your quarry before your hunters do the same to you, a…
Starting with the Steam Summer Sale today, not only will there be a special sale price of 66% off , we've gone totally overboard and you’ll now get 2 Ships for the price of 1 when you buy, or own The Ship: Remasted. Oh buoy, what a deal! For those of you that already own The Ship: Remasted, make sure to update the game in your Steam Library to get access to the freebies. The Ship: Murder Party…
Ahoy Shipmates! With the latest patch we’ve moved Dedicated Servers to the open seas and out of the testing drydock! This will allow for the setup of Dedicated Servers that don't require the The Ship: Remasted to be running. If you are hosting a Dedicated Server you will need to ensure your ports are open so that people can see the server and connect. Opening your ports If you wish to run a ded…
Yay! It's in your Steam library for the next few days and 66% off if you want to purchase it (owners get 25% off the upcoming The Ship: Remasted). Tell your friends!
The Ship: Remasted will launch on Steam Early Access this February and Blazing Griffin is looking for fans of the original game to get involved. One of the challenges of remastering an old game is striking a balance between replicating old features that players have fond memories of, and improving them. A reddit user joked recently that The Ship’s convoluted solution to connect to servers is pa…
On behalf of the team here at Blazing Griffin, Merry Xmas! :) We've seen a whole lot of new players join us recently and would expect to see more over the festive period, so first of all...welcome! We posted a State of the Game announcement a few months ago which has some useful information for new players: We will be launching The Ship: Remasted in 2016 and are pleased to announce that if you…
It’s hype time! As the year comes to a close, we’re looking at our plans for 2016 and the first thing that’s coming our way is a closed testing phase for The Ship: Remasted. We’re looking for fans of The Ship to help us test The Ship: Remasted with a particular focus on a few specific maps and the general multiplayer experience (connecting to games, setting up new games, etc). The game is still…
Last week we asked players what expectations they have of us as a studio - yesterday, we answered! Drop by The Ship: Remasted community with any questions you have, and remember to add it to your wishlist.
We’re excited to be able to launch a microsite for The Ship franchise today. We’ve taken a slightly different approach to this than you might expect, so we just wanted to explain our thinking. The microsite follows the diary entries of Lucille Franklin O’Sullivan who finds herself aboard the SS Cotopaxi when a number of strange events occur… We’ve launched today with 36 entries, but have lots m…
We're pleased to announce that Distant Star won the BAFTA Scotland Game Award at last night's ceremony in Glasgow. There are lots of happy faces in the studio right now! :) If you haven't had a chance to check out Distant Star, it's $9.99 on Steam:
Hallowe’en is upon us! Oooh, scary. Not as scary as being stranded in the middle of the ocean on a murder cruise though! In fact, only one thing is scarier than that! Being stranded in the middle of the ocean on a murder cruise…alone! *sad face* The Ship has seen somewhat of a revival this year with over 170k new players…which is just absolutely crazy for 10 year old game (we also came close to…
Big news today! We're pleased to announce our expansion into film today, as we bring on film and post production partners to create two new divisions that will fall under the Blazing Griffin brand. We've got some pretty awesome projects soon to be announced as well, so keep an eye on our Facebook and Twitter channels for more details very soon! More information on the merger can be found here .
Hi everyone, We've just posted a couple of screenshots of the upcoming The Ship: Remasted on our Facebook page here: Just a quick peek right now, but we'll be releasing more details over the next few months. Here's the teaser trailer if you haven't seen it yet:
Ahoy Shipmates! Here at Blazing Griffin we’ve been watching the developments surrounding Valve’s refund policy announcement with interest (as have most indie devs). While there have been concerns raised about the policy, we believe the spirit in which it is intended is ultimately good for the games industry. With this in mind, we’ve decided for The Ship: Murder Party that it is important that w…
The simple way to find a multiplayer server is via the Steam Client > View > Servers > The Ship. Hey presto, you're done! :) Here's a more detailed way of adding a server manually: On behalf of the team at Blazing Griffin, we hope you enjoy The Ship. We have a couple of other games on sale this week that you might be interested in: The Nightmare Cooperative A quirky little turn-based rogulike p…
Hi everyone, We've made a few changes to The Ship packages on the Steam store, which I've outlined below. Single Player The single player game was previously sold as a separate package, as well as being included in the Complete Package. However, a number of users reported problems with the single player as a standalone game and as we were unable to resolve these issues, we've remove the option…
A quick update on the goings-on with Blazing Griffin! We're Growing Our team has expanded over the past few months, with several new team members joining us. Fans of The Ship will be excited to know that one of our new recruits is Jason Kocemba, who was Technical Director with Outerlight and worked on The Ship (including the original Half Life mod) and Bloody Good Time! :) More info... Distant…
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