A year ago today, a planet was shattered. Thank you all so much for helping support our development. We're a team of four up here in Montreal, working full-time on our next game, Moon Hunters , partially because of your help! To date, Shattered Planet has sold: * ~18k units on Steam, for an average price of ~$7 * 39k units elsewhere (mostly Humble Bundle) So a total of 57,000 people are playing…
Check out this new behind-the-scenes video of the Kitfox team preparing to take their next game, Moon Hunters, to E3. And, with Shattered Planet on super-sale for under $5 USD, now's the time to cash in those Steambucks in your wallet to get some sweet explosions, aliens, and laser guns! According to Steamspy's report , the average playtime is 3 hours, so... you're sure to get your money's wort…
Tell all of your crew-members to pick up a copy of Shattered Planet while it's only $3.75! Plus, if you haven't yet followed us on Twitter , consider doing so, because we give away free copies on occasion. Kitfox Games will also be showing off our next game, Moon Hunters , at PAX East next week. So if you're attending, be sure to stop by booth #5207 to meet the artist, try out a pre-alpha and g…
If you know someone who would enjoy a game about aliens, explosions, and lasers, now's a good time to pick up Shattered Planet. It has over 200 different items to play with, five player classes, and multiple upgrade systems. Pump yourself up as the Renegade, sneak around as the Assassin, heal your pets as the Tribal Exile, alter fate as the Emissary, or send items back to home base as the Robot…
Shattered Planet was announced as a finalist for the Canadian Videogames Awards, specifically the Fan's Choice Award! We're in the running with great games like Super Time Force and Watch_Dogs, so it's a great honor for us and our little game. So if you want to help Shattered Planet get a bit more recognition, vote here! Though we're not sure if only Canadians can vote...? Let us know if you ha…
We're honored that, alongside many great Canadian games that were released in 2014, Shattered Planet is nominated for: · Best iOS Game · Best Game Design · Best Indie Game · Best Writing · Fans' Choice Award Finalists and winners will be announced in a few months, but we're happy just to be nominated. Wish us luck and feel free to check out the other amazing nominees !
Skulls, candies, aliens, and goo -- all of this CAN be yours! At 35% off, Shattered Planet is only $9.74 for Halloween weekend! So choose a costume (Renegade, Assassin, Robot, Alien Diplomat, or Tribal Exile) and get trick-or-treating. We hope to see you haunting the forums! Spookily yours, Tanya & Kitfox Games
Heya Planeteers! We're happy to report we've fixed a few bugs and clarified a few things. Thanks to those of you who came by our PAX Prime booth as part of the Indie MegaBooth -- it's always great to meet you! We'll hope to also be in PAX East next year, so wish us luck. Apologies to those of you who were searching for the Turret companion -- it never made it into the game (it was missing a bun…
Tell your friends -- and also maybe your enemies that you want to see die a thousand times -- Shattered Planet's on sale for -30% off this week! It's to celebrate not only our recent patch, which added all those new active class abilities , but also the successful end to our Moon Hunters Kickstarter . Moon Hunters is a very different game from Shattered Planet (it's 1-4 player, it's an action R…
First, to everyone who we saw at PAX Prime and Boston Festival of Indie Games, you rock! Thanks for stopping by! With the update we JUST NOW pushed live, each class now not only has a unique passive ability, but also an active ability: · Renegade ability: Activate to gain Strength for 5 turns · Assassin ability: Activate to gain Stealth for 30 turns · Robot ability: Activate to send an item bac…
Hey Planeteers! A few of you stopped by the PAX booth last week and collected a high-five from Tanya or Jongwoo. Thank you so much! If you're in the Boston area this weekend, come to MIT to see the Boston Festival of Indie Games! You can collect your very own dev high-five, plus ask whatever you want about Moon Hunters and get a free backer hug! We're still working diligently on the class upgra…
We've been quiet, but today we updated each class to have new, more interesting powers! The new abilities are: · Assassin: All guns gain +2 range and +50% damage · Renegade: +2 Defense · Robot: 75% discount on Scrapobot 5000 purchases. Also opens locked doors without a key. · Exile: +50% Companion health And the Diplomat (+10 Fate) is unchanged. We're working on a "deeper" system for the classe…
If you missed launch week, you're getting a second chance. You can pick up the game (you get a Steam key) for only $13, this weekend only on the Humble store ! Maybe buy a copy as a gift for a friend? Also, today we fixed a few achievements that weren't activating -- unfortunately, if you qualified for them previously, you'll have to earn them again. Respectively, and mind the spoilers: · Man o…
Our community poll had 100+ responses and the results were: · 1st place (36%): Stronger class buffs/abilities · 2nd place (31%): Pet upgrading system · 3rd place (12%): Keyboard controls So now we have our work cut out for us! We'll be making the classes more interesting to switch between -- look for a biggish update in the coming weeks! Also, we just updated this morning (2.0.7), fixing the li…
AHOY! The programmers have heard your cries of pain in the wilderness, and this is their answer! Fixes in 2.0.6 (Both Windows & OSX): · Fixes to the Tropics, Dissolved and Frozen Achievements. · Fixed the Ice Death Animation for the hero. · Frame rate capped at 60 FPS to prevent overusage of system resources.
We were debating what to work on next for Shattered Planet (in addition to bugfixing, of course), and decided to open it up to the community! If you haven't yet, please take a moment and vote in the poll to tell us devs what to do first!
Hi guys! Someone recently asked, "What are all these updates?!" and I realised not everyone reads the forums voraciously. So! We've been mostly focusing on stability and crashes, so if you had a black screen recently , it has a high chance of being fixed now! But here's a few other random bugs we fixed recently: · (Most) Achievements should now work in the OSX/Mac version · Venom Crablets and C…
At long last, patient Mac players can shatter all the planets! No more waiting to punch those aliens! If you have any problems at all, do feel free to contact us either on the Steam forums or email [email protected] and we'll try to fix it as soon as possible!
Shattered Planet sales across all PC distributors thus far (Steam, Humble, Desura)... over 2,500! Indiegames.com said it was ' pretty great , IGN of Sweden called it ' charming and cozy ', and various outlets use praise ranging from ' fantastic ' to ' lovely ' to ' incredibly fun and addictive '! This is the last day of the 10% launch week discount, so if you're going to grab or gift a copy, no…
We've released a few patches in a flurry over the past few days. Here's what they contained: · Fixing a few different causes of start-up crashes · Fixing a few different 'hanging' or 'black floaty screen of death' issues · Daily Challenge should now not be randomly unavailable sometimes · Launching from desktop shortcut is now properly supported · Supporting 4:3 and 5:4 aspect ratios/resolution…
We pushed the button! Wahoo! Shatter all the planets! Plus, it'll be on 10% discount for launch week, so until July 10th. You can pick up the original soundtrack for only $3 direct from the composer here: If you want to hear about any future sale discounts, giveaways, or contests, join our newsletter . Cheers! <3
This is it! The final countdown! We've uploaded a new trailer, with all-new music from Ryan Roth ! It will go on sale tomorrow, July 3rd, for $14.99, with a 10% discount for the first week. Get ready for some shattering!
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