Spellbreak Dev Tracker

Someone's feelin' froggy🐸

One could say these are... slick moves!

Great job, keep it up! (Great lookin' Keymaster btw!)

Great job, LOVE seeing another Keymaster!

I'm guessing they said, "that.... sucked" 🌪😅

Good one!

Don't forget to activate Windows 👀

Nope. It's unfortunate but very true.

I wish!

Hey folks,

We’ve been investigating the black screen issue that’s unfortunately still affecting Switch players and we’ve discovered a workaround to prevent it from happening. If you disable aim assist in Settings -> Gameplay -> “Aim Assist Enabled”, you should no longer encounter the black screen.

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I know it’s not ideal and I’m sorry I don’t have better news while we work on the actual fix.

Thanks to the many players who have helped us track this down and test out the possible causes!

Let's be real, we're all both people at different times, and that's ok.

Folks don't get worked up about something they don't care about. If players magically stopped complaining or expressing critical feedback about certain aspects of the game, we'd be far more concerned than we are by folks coming here to share their experiences.

As long is the critique stays focused on the work, and not the worker, it's all gravy and welcome feedback.

Our socials! Also, if you look on Twitch, you'll see a schedule tab with times. Tuesday is our community streams with me, Wednesday night is office hours with Seth, Thursday night is after hours with Andy. See you there!

It didn't, and I understand and empathize with what you're saying here.

Hopefully your friends will give Clash a look when that comes out.

I'm not a doctor, but you should get that cough looked at 👀

By no means do we think we're right about everything, and are very quick to be critical of ourselves.

For example: The point that we're working on Seasonal content (the Chapters) is meant to directly address the criticism that we need to give players more reasons to keep playing Spellbreak. We agree with this sentiment, and have prioritized it accordingly :).

We're not afraid to take a stance, and will acknowledge when we are wrong about said stance.

More game modes, improving the new player experience, etc, are all things that are equally as important to us. :)

We're actively working on more reasons to keep playing the game once you're past the initial starting phase.

I understand a lot of the bugs and stuff, game dev is hard but this issue is something that would be easy to fix, I'm sure some of the better players would be willing to wait a little bit just to get a lobby of good players vs bots and fresh players. I know I would at least.

I can understand how it might appear that the items you've outlined above as being an easy fix. While there are some adjustments that we can make rapidly (how the queues are balanced out), many QOL improvements require time invested and prioritization.

Your thoughts are appreciated.

Let's go line by line here:

The playerbase has decreased immensely since launch. It's visible in every platform, and in the game itself. There's zero hype for the game currently despite marketing having apparently been put into motion. The first couple weeks this sub went up 5-10k members a day, and has struggled to go up more than 200 a day since. Twitch peaked at it's highest on launch day at 70k and has died down to 2k at most across everyone, any day of the week. "But social media doesn't determine population". You're right, it's just an indicator. But what's your excuse for the getting lobbies full of bots then? There's so much PR bull about "oh it's just a bug where we get bots".... lol they came up with that excuse once people started to complain about it. There is no bot bug. It's filling with bots because not that many people are playing.

People aren't playing because the game feels alpha at best, and the devs would rather tell new players an...

We've never once said "Vote democratic" or anything resembling it. All of the other keywords I use, such as SupportBlackCreators, have zero to do with politics and align with our goals of creating an inclusive and welcoming community. It's our responsibility to ensure that everyone sees themselves as welcome and represented in the Spellbreak community.

We have convictions behind our belief. We've made donations to the NAACP LDF, have raised funds as a studio for the Marsha P. Johnson Foundation (on our personal time), and will continue to support causes that align with our studio values, such as Extra Life for Kids.

We are very clear as to the reason for the community streams. From the onset, we always clarify the purpose of the streams (to answer viewer questions and engage with players through viewer games and chat), and never market them as anything but.

The people who stream for you on Tuesday and Thursdays are part of the Community t...

Blind Faith was only available for the Limited Edition founder packs from 2018. They aren't given out at all due to being part of limited edition purchases.

We've given them away for a number of reasons. The first time, it was for people who found a dev at PAX 2019 and asked about it. After that, there were various quests we came up with during alpha/beta play tests, events, special things that have been done for the game, etc. Basically, it's an outfit that the community team distributes on a super limited basis in a variety of ways they deem fit.

- Guy who helped develop the outfit concept and originally held the keys for it

The Hollow Outfit will not be in the shop.