We have a Discord! This was very exciting for us. So exciting, in fact, that instead of working on JOIN US we spent time making a silly graphic for the blog header.
We hope to see everyone over on Discord so we can talk about cults. Most of the devs are on Discord at all hours of the day and night anyway, but we’re going to make a point to hang live a couple times a week (times are on the Discord server under Events).
The team has been dialing in various elements of the gameplay loop. In a typical game session you’re building up your compound, recruiting Followers to work your compound, issuing Teachings to keep your Followers in line, and expanding your territory through a mix of propaganda and combat. We made all of this harder on ourselves because we decided do a co-op game, but what’s the point of a cult game if you can’t bring your friends?
Also we broke all the chickens in the game and they started running really fast and knocking everybody over. To retaliate against the chicken hordes we made the player’s power-slide move (sprint and hit crouch) automatically explode chickens on impact. Then we practiced power-sliding into chickens and exploding them. Then we fixed the chickens that were running too fast. But we kept the part where the power-slide explodes chickens because it was cool.
Power-sliding through a chicken. Cult stuff.
The team is in active development so there’s plenty of time to get in requests, particularly for weapons and teachings. One request we included recently was to make a Snake Gun, which is a gun that shoots snakes. We thought about making the gun extremely deadly, but then decided it would be funnier if it was really weak – our version of “Slappers Only” in Goldeneye. If you know you know. Snake gun in action. Observe the diagram for greater detail.
JOIN US has been living in the dark for a long time, so it’s great to finally have it out in the world. The wishlist response means a lot to us and we’ll keep pushing to make sure everything is awesome.
Anyway, come hang out on Discord!