Before anything else, thank you to everyone who has taken the time out of their day to leave reviews and comments on the Steam forums. While we might not be able to respond to every single thing, we do read your posts and they have been very helpful. To put it in some kind of perspective, the attention so far is roughly equal to the first two years of the first game condensed into less than a w…
A hotfix has been deployed for Brigador Killers v0.6 - 57e2f611. Here are the details. Please note there are some (minor) spoilers. Enemies · Corvid cinderblock AI reworked, increasing its lock-on time and chance to be flinched. · Lobo aggression increased. · Enemy count reduced on all post-narrative maps. · Enemy reinforcements reduced on all post-narrative maps, while reinforcements take long…
Welcome to the Early Access version of Brigador Killers. This is the most ambitious and elaborate game Stellar Jockeys have ever made, taking the better part of a decade. We hope you have as much fun diving into it as we have had losing our minds making it. The Deluxe Edition includes the all-new soundtrack by Makeup and Vanity Set, and the accompanying audiobook. Also available is the Double D…
A couple of weeks ago during the Convergence Games Showcase , we revealed that Early Access for Brigador Killers will begin on August 20th 2026 . We're going to go over a few details about it today. But first things first: here's the Makeup and Vanity Set song used in the recent trailer, called True Believer. This track is also heard in the Vandenberg level in the demo. Now onto the topic of Ea…
As revealed on the Convergence Games Showcase today, Brigador Killers will begin Early Access on Thursday August 20th 2026 . Stellar Jockeys expects the game to spend the rest of the year in EA. The song used in the trailer above is called "True Believer" by Makeup And Vanity Set and is heard in the Vandenberg level in the demo. The song will be added to the YouTube playlist soon, while the ful…
Later this week Stellar Jockeys will be part of the Convergence Games Showcase, which will be broadcast live on Twitch and YouTube . The main show kicks off at 11:30 Pacific/14:30 Eastern/19:30 BST/20:30 CEST on Thursday July 16th and is hosted by Jesse Cox and Dodger, who will be joined by other streamers like LobosJr, Bricky and BaerTaffy among others to showcase a lineup of indie games. See…
For June, here is another Makeup and Vanity Set song from the Brigador Killers soundtrack, titled "Never Trust A Death Cult". This is the track that plays during the Wilderness mission in the demo, where the player can find the carmine rig to unlock for the garage – assuming they can get past all the NOSPOL APCs. We are light on news this month due to how busy things have been with the recent N…
A few features of Brigador Killers are not explicitly tutorialized in the demo, though some players may have found these out already. Let's start with some practical ones. Inventory management These actions are for when the inventory screen is open such as at the ARMORY in the garage or interacting with containers. Action Default bind Toggle inventory open/close Tab Pick up one item/ a full sta…
The Brigador Killers Demo has been updated to 0.5b. Here are the biggest changes: · Enjoy several quality of life improvements to UI/UX as mentioned in a previous post like directly accessing backpacks and containers and overall reducing menu downtime. · Check out the revised outro to the introductory campaign (no spoilers!) and transfer directly into THE GARAGE afterwards. · Scrap, fabricate a…
First off, thank you all for your reception to the recent demo. There has been a lot of feedback and even though we can't watch every single stream or respond to every single message, we do look through a lot of it. This month's dev post is to address some of the most common feedback to the Brigador Killers demo as well as explain what we are up to. Speaking of the demo, the trailer for it uses…
This is a short news post to address a couple of common reports we've received since the demo's launch the past 24 hours. Thank you all for your feedback so far. Convoy mission crash A hotfix was deployed yesterday to address this issue but reports are still coming in. The cause of this crash is complicated, but it almost always happens on destroying the third and final vehicle in the convoy wi…
The demo for the sequel to Brigador, Brigador Killers, is live on our store page. Go and play it. A Technical Issues subforum is open on the Brigador Killers forum . Please check out these two pinned threads if you have trouble running the game: · Brigador Killers Tech Support · NVIDIA Card Owners Please Read
Another month over means a new track from the Brigador Killers OST by Makeup and Vanity Set. This one is titled "Synchnet Intel". If you have already played the recent builds of Brigador Killers, this is the track heard on the Salvage Yard map that contains the suit parts for the Cinderblock Rig. The past month has been a flurry of activity with the release of the Fabricator and Obstacle Builds…
Before we get to the post - it's time for another MAVS track from the Brigador Killers OST titled "Where's the Beef". If you have already played the Garage Build or the recent Fabricator Build, this is the track that plays during the Dromon sniper fight after you make your way through the Villa or Undercity mission. Now onto the post. A new layer to map making A while ago we looked at some of t…
This month we're going to look at some more inventory beauty renders and some of the lore that's been written for them. Before we get to that, two things. The first is another Makeup and Vanity Set track. This one is called To The Ground and is heard in the introductory junkyard mission of the Garage Build that unlocks the first parking slot. Another track will be posted at the end of next mont…
Happy new year! Last month we released the Garage Build of Brigador Killers and in case you missed it we recently put up about twenty minutes of gameplay from it. This video will be on the store pages until a proper trailer replaces it, but you can always find it in the development playlist on our YouTube channel . In addition, here's another Makeup and Vanity Set track from the Garage Build, t…
There are three short pieces of news to announce. The first is that the Garage Build of Brigador Killers is available over on Itch.io. You can read a detailed breakdown of the features of that build over on Itch.io right now . READ ITCH.IO DEVLOG Second, to mark the occasion, we've put up another track from the Brigador Killers OST by Makeup and Vanity Set, called We're Hunting Jackals . This s…
November's post focuses on one of the major feature changes to the next build of Brigador Killers: the narrative system. The narrative system was touched upon before in this post . A lot of the things from that previous news article still apply, but the presentation and utility of the system has changed. This time around we'll show these things in action, and then explain the moment-to-moment.…
This is not the first time vehicles in Brigador Killers have been mentioned - a handful of these were seen in a previous entry and another one outlined what went into the production of one of the cop vehicles - but they've not really been placed side by side for scale. For the purpose of this post, the vehicles are grouped into roughly four categories. As in previous news posts, this is only wh…
In the previous two posts you saw beauty renders of some ammo boxes in the inventory screen and got a look at a few of the firearms you can use . Now it's time to see how those things will appear on the ground. Here's Dave strutting past some sprite renders of various weapons and ammo boxes in a GIF. Mousing over any gun or ammo drop on the ground will highlight the item and display an informat…
Beauty renders of weapons in were teased in a previous post . In addition to these inventory screen renders, Brigador Killers will continue the tradition of Brigador's lore entries. That means the return of at least one character from Brigador's intel section: Marvin Beck. MB has been gracious enough to give us his writeup on a few of the firearms from the recent Combat Build, while we have add…
We've been looking forward to giving the player something pleasant to look at while they use the inventory system in Brigador Killers. Since a lot of the art assets in this game start off as 3D objects before being turned into sprites, we can use these objects to both make static beauty renders (so you get a good look at the thing you are picking up) and silhouettes for the chosen weapon slots…
The following article is an accompaniment to this recent video of Brigador Killers to explain in plain text what is happening on screen, as well as add a few other minor details that couldn't be squeezed into the footage. Please note that everything you see in this video, particularly the UI elements, are still subject to change and should not be considered final. 00:00-00:19 Introduction The v…
Two months ago we wrote that we planned to have a demo ready for the upcoming Steam Next Fest in June. We are instead aiming for the Steam Next Fest after that, which should be some time in mid-October. We still plan to put up a demo for Brigador Killers, but including ourselves in the Next Fest at this time would not meet the expected bar of quality either for ourselves or our audience. What w…
Earlier this month we released the next audiobook in the Brigador universe - Brigador Killers: Pilgrim - and since then there's been plenty of chatter. This post will not be spoiling any details of the plot but we suggest refraining from reading if you want to go in blind. Before we get to some of the community's reactions... A few notes about the production of the audiobook The original text o…
Available on Itch.io right now is the next audiobook in the Brigador universe titled Brigador Killers: Pilgrim . Both Brad Buckmaster and Ryan Cooper return as writer and narrator respectively and this book takes place both before the events of our next game and is a direct sequel to the first book. You can listen to the first part of the audiobook entirely for free on this Itch page . The free…
By summer of 2025 we expect to have a demo ready in preparation for the next Steam Next Fest. That Next Fest will begin on June 9th, or about three months from the time of this post. As a result a few things are going to happen, though not all at once. First, the storepage - which was set up in haste after Rock Paper Shotgun covered our appearance at BitSummit in 2019 - will finally get its lon…
The video above is about a new debug tool added to Brigador Killers called “Ghost Lights”. The rest of this article repeats the content of the video in text form with some additional details. A brief note about map making Like in Brigador: Up-Armored Edition, the Brigador Killers engine uses a combination of global illumination and small destructible props called “minis” to light its levels. Gl…
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