Demo Release Hello all! I'm really excited to announce that the Paw Pirates Demo has officially released! You can find and play the demo at this link I really hope that you enjoy playing the demo with your friends, locally or remotely via steam remote play. We'll be updating the demo over the next month, and we'd love your feedback! If you have any notes about the demo (bugs, issues, annoyances…
Hello! Did you miss us? It's been a while since our last update, but that doesn't mean we've been slacking off! We've got some very exciting updates to share with you today: 1v1 Mode We've been thinking about how to make the game as accessible as possible, and we didn't like the restriction of needing 4 players to play. That's why we've decided to add a 2-player mode to the game! We've adjusted…
We're back! The team took a short hiatus to rest and recharge, and now we're coming back at you with some updates from the past few weeks! Beautifying Our Levels One of the things we put a lot of time into recently was making our levels look prettier! We've had one of the artists for the team sculpt a set of docks that really make our levels pop. We don't want to give everything away, but here'…
Welcome back to the devlog! We've got more to share about our visual updates this week: Water Updates We spent a lot of time this week updating the water shader for the game! The previous water shader we used had poor-quality ripples at shallow areas of the water. We fixed this using some creative math tricks, and here's the result: In addition to this, we've made some coloration updates, added…
Hey all! Here's our update for this week: We've spent this week working on visual updates! We're trying to spice up the look of the game to make it more appealing and clear for players. Here's what we did: Color Correction This week we dived into the wild world of Colors in an effort to make the game more appealing to look at and easier to play. Here's the before/after of these changes on our c…
Welcome back! Hello all! Welecome back to the Paw Pirates weekly devlog! Here's what we've been up to: Meet the Team Are you curious about who's behind this game? Good news! We're creating a series of posts on socials to give you a better idea of who's developing paw pirates. We will be posting these once a week on our instagram , tiktok , and youtube shorts , so make sure to follow us on all t…
This week we're excited to be dropping a brand-spanking-new Gameplay Trailer !!! Check it out! We wanted to show off some of the new UI assets for the game, including indicators for the bombs, and player number hovers! The trailer also features our fancy end game screen , which was inspired by the victory screen in Super Smash Brothers: Ultimate. Aside from this, we're almost ready to share mor…
This week we're diving into the technical stuff to give you a look into how we're implementing online multiplayer in the game! Lobbies For invites and lobbies, we're piggybacking off of steam's built-in lobby system, which integrates directly with the steam friends list and game invites! This has been a great tool for us, as it helps us avoid making our own bespoke lobby and invite code (which…
Hey all! This week we've been hard at work bringing online multiplayer to the game, and going over visual updates we've got planned. Here's what's in the works: Online Multiplayer The first big change we have planned is adding online multiplayer. We've been able to take advantage of Steam's lobby system to create player lobbies for peer-to-peer networking! Here's an demo of the invite flow: We'…
Today we wanted to share with you everything about Paw Pirates ; Who we are, what we're making, and when you can play. What is Paw Pirates? Paw Pirates is a 2v2 party game! Grab bombs and blow up the enemy team's pirate ship, last team standing wins. How much money will this game cost? Paw Pirates will be completely free . No features will be gated behind a paywall, and we have no plans to make…
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