Release27 Oct 2020Spooky new content: Get ready to fight the "Seven Deadly Sins"!Hey there, Lock and load and get ready for the brand new "Seven Deadly Sins" update spooking from today on in Dead End Job ! Grab your plasma blaster and your trusty vacuum pack and fight the seven deadly sins in blasting battles and unleash new powerful perks and incredible items. Check out: · 8 new enemies! · 7 new perks! · 7 new pickups! Thank you all very much for your ongoing feedback and…
Hey there, it’s Tony from Ant Workshop again! I have some pretty bad news for all you ghosts out there (but great news for everybody else): Dead End Job is available on Steam right here and right now! ːsteamhappyː Take on the role of Hector Plasm and get yourself into a madcap, Ren & Stimpy-esque world to bust up ghosts. Dead End Job is a procedurally generated, couch co-op, twin-stick shooter…
Hello dear reader, and welcome to the last weekly developer article. I wanted to spend this update writing about the ways that you can make your life easier in Dead End Job , and some of the fun trinkets you can find lying around the locations you bust ghosts. Just like in real life, the main way that you can make things easier for yourself is by getting promoted, and in Dead End Job this happe…
“Ok so now I know about the devs, how you came up with the idea, the art style and the characters, but what do I actually do in Dead End Job ?” I hear you ask, ”Is it a dating simulator, or a match 3 game, or a kart racer?” No, friend, it is none of those things (but a kart game where you date 3 matching ghosts at the same time sounds pretty good doesn’t it?). Dead End Job is a game where you s…
Hey, welcome back - this week I’m going to be writing about the workers of Ghoul-B-Gone, and some of the ghosts they fight. We set out to create a cast of characters based at a blue collar job. I didn’t want a typical hero and felt that making a world where ghost catching would be as glamorous as any other pest control was a nice twist. None of the people you rescue are afraid of ghosts, they’r…
Hey there, it’s Tony again! How has your week been? Oh no, your boiler’s broken? That’s always a pain, especially going in to Winter. Anyway, in this update I wanted to write a bit about the thing that probably first drew your attention to Dead End Job - the lovely art. As I mentioned in an earlier article, I realised that my art “skills” wouldn’t be anywhere near good enough to do the game jus…
Hello, it’s Tony again! After last week’s post with the team behind Dead End Job , I wanted to write about how the game itself came to be. The very core of it came from asking the question “how would you make a twin stick shooter without any shooting?” I really enjoy playing games like Enter the Gungeon, Binding of Isaac, Nuclear Throne, and Tesla vs Lovecraft (though I am usually quite bad at…
Hello! I’m Tony and Ant Workshop , the developers of Dead End Job , is my company. So I guess I’m probably the best person to tell you all about us and how this crazy ghost-filled shooter came to exist. Which I will do, over the coming weeks. It’ll be exciting, waiting for the next instalment. Like TV in the old days! Ant Workshop ’s based in Edinburgh, Scotland (which is a lovely city that is…
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD! I am really thrilled to announce that our madcap twin-stick shooter Dead End Job is (ghost)busting its way onto Steam on Friday, the 13th of December — hauntingly appropriate, wouldn’t you agree? Within the upcoming weeks we are going to release several updates here on the Dead End Job page to talk about the various aspects of creating the weird, Ren & Stimpy-esque world of…
PAX East is around the corner, there is only one week to go! If you want to take a deeper look on Dead End Job , get your hands on a plasma blaster and strap a vacuum pack to your back, let's meet in Boston! You find us at booth #23078 on the main floor! Come by, meet the nice guys of Headup, let's have a chat and get your hands on five more gems of the Headup portfolio: Colt Canyon , Vambrace:…
After an unfortunate accident (WORK-UNRELATED!), Ghoul-B-Gone Ltd. is looking for a temporary assistant to help out our Chief Exterminator Officer Hector Plasm in his ghost-extermination duties. Promotion prospects come regularly, making this anything but a Dead End Job ! What to expect from your new job at Ghoul-B-Gone Ltd.: Applicant requirements: · Nothing to lose · Fearless in regards to po…
Hi folks! First off I'd just like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has wishlisted the game so far, it's been really great to see so many of you this keen to play! And also thanks to everyone who came and played at Insomnia 62 and EGX Rezzed last month. I love chatting to our players and hearing what stuff you're excited to see in the game. With that in mind I thought it'd be a good idea…
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