Guild of Dungeoneering: Pirate’s Cove is the first Adventure Pack we have created for Guild of Dungeoneering. What’s included?

• A new region of the world to explore with 21 new quests to take on, all set in a new watery cave tileset
• Rescue 3 new classes of dungeoneer to adventure with: the Drunken Sailor, the H20mancer and the Swashbuckler.
• Battle 29 new monsters including Merfolk, Giant Crabs, Three-Headed Monkeys and of course more pirates than you shake a wooden leg at!
• Find 27 new equippable items like the Eye Patch, the Barrel O’ Rum, or the Newspaper Hat.
• Listen to a brand new background track & 5 new musical asides from the Bard

This represents about one third more content compared to the base game.

Where do you find Pirate’s Cove ingame?

To find the entrance to the Pirate’s Cove region you need to first reach the Jungle in the main game. Once there you will find a Pirate’s Map that unlocks the new region.

The reason for this is that difficulty-wise the new quests and monsters are at the same tier as the rest of the jungle area. Think of these new quests as an optional extra area within the Jungle (that is about the same size again as the Jungle itself).

While adventuring in Pirate’s Cove you will have the opportunity to rescue the three new classes of dungeoneer to permanently unlock them for your guild. This is a change from how classes are unlocked in the main game (paying for them with gold).

If you have previously beaten the game and just want to check out the new quests straight away we’ve added a shortcut. When you start a new game simply choose the ‘Jungle Shortcut’ option and we’ll skip the whole Grasslands starting region and land you straight into the Jungle.

How does it tie into the existing Guild of Dungeoneering experience?

The idea of the Adventure Pack is to extend the entire Guild of Dungeoneering experience. It’s not just a standalone series of quests to take on. The main mechanism for this is all the new equippable loot you can find.

All of the loot included in Pirate’s Cove can be found anywhere in Guild of Dungeoneering, not just in the new region. We’ve split up the Pirate’s Cove loot between all the existing Guild upgrades that add loot, plus thrown some of them into the starting loot deck. So you will be finding new Pirate’s Cove loot throughout your game, unlocking new pieces as you unlock loot upgrades for your guild.

For example this is the Steel Anvil upgrade which unlocks four new items in the base game. If you have Pirate’s Cove installed a further two are added.

Show us some of the new classes!

Sure thing! First the Drunken Sailor. Their defining feature is the new ‘Rum’ trait: the first time they reach exactly one health in each combat they will swig their rum and heal themselves for two. This is an interesting twist because you want to reach exactly one health to avail of it, which can be risky!

Their starting deck also has a couple of attacks that do self-damage. Turn this disadvantage into a way of triggering Rum exactly when you want it to be successful with the Drunken Sailor!

What about the H2Omancer? This magic based class uses a new battle mechanic called Recycle. The H2Omancer’s cards have self-recycle, but you’ll also find some enemies that cause you to recycle as part of their attacks. A recycle makes you discard a card at random but lets you draw a bonus card to replace it. It can be bad (losing a key card you need to win the next turn) or good (turn that stupidity card into something good, or to dig through your deck for your power cards quicker).

The H2Omancer also has a ‘High Tide’ trait that interacts with the recycle ability. Whenever you have 4 or more cards in your discard pile the enemy you are facing gains the ‘Predictable’ trait, letting you see the card on top of their deck that they will be playing next turn!

I’ll leave the details of the third class you can find in Pirate’s Cove, the Swashbuckler, as a surprise for you. I will say if you enjoyed the Bruiser’s playstyle you’ll also like the Swashbuckler!

Thanks again for your continued support and we hope you enjoy this new content!
Colm Larkin

We’ve gone and done it. We went backwards from the internet to print. Introducing… Sokay Zine!

Download Issue #1 PDF at http://zine.sokay.net

Sokay Zine (zine as in magazine) is an idea that had been tumbling around in my head for a while. It’s a 20 page 4.5×4.5″ booklet. During the development of Donut Get! I was printing out a ton of flyers for our monthly LA Art Walk show, Sokay Play. To come up with the art for the flyers, I was digging through folders of old art work gathering dust on my hard drives. Looking through all of the unseen or unfinished assets got me thinking. There was a ton of stuff that I forgot we even made. I figured something should’ve been done with it.

When I was out on the streets hustling Donut Get! and Sokay, I made a buncha flyers, stickers and buttons. It felt good to be making physical stuff again. Reminded me of drawing on line paper in class back in the day. I’d seen people online making zines about things they’re fans of and I thought, “Why can’t I do something like this for Sokay?”

A Sunsoft newsletter from Summer 1988

I remembered back in the 80s and 90s game companies often used quarterly print newsletters to reach their audiences and let them know more about their games coming out. Nintendo Power started out as one of these. This was another source of inspiration.

The making of our first game Thugjacker became the focus of the zine. We made Thugjacker before I had started blogging so it was a fresh topic to write about. To put it together, spent a ton of time digging up artwork, exporting frames of animation out of the game, looking at cut content and trying to piece together the story. It was a challenge to put it to words and be concise with it (unlike my blog posts).

Example of a Japanese guide for Faxanadu (1987-ish)

My last blog post was a review of The Untold History of Japanese Developers. On the behind the scenes DVD I got glimpses of just how in depth the Japanese game world’s print industry was. You could find a thick strategy guide for just about any game you could imagine. Seeing how they laid out game levels in those books became inspiration for my “walkthrough” of the first stage of Thugjacker in the zine.

So after assembling the zine digitally, I had to print these things out. I had a short timeline since I was aiming to print about 100 for my trip to Bitsummit in Kyoto, Japan. So I opted to print them in my bedroom rather than look for a professional printer. For 2 weeks, I was swimming in CMYK. I learned a lot through trial and error but I’ve got a decent system for printing up batches when I get a chance. Up to now I believe I’ve printed about 160 copies but I’m always short. Hit me up if you’re interested in a copy! Still need to look into a printshop though!

So take a look and let us know what you think.

• Download the Sokay Zine Issue 01 PDF at http://zine.sokay.net

5. Color Strike Down

Strike down enemies the same color as your comet. Earn shields and max combos to get further and score higher.

4. Marvin Spectrum

Test your reflexes and earn hats while running through the lab as Marvin Spectrum. Change your suit to match the gates. If the normal stages are too easy, test your mettle with Endless Mode and beat personal records.

3. Minute Hardcore

Cycle through colors in this vertical scrolling shooter. Rack up combos to level up and last longer. The longer you last, the more medals you earn and the higher your score. Compare your high score with friends and other users on the high score table.

2. Neon Rider & Neon Rider World

Ride the lights with a color-changing bike. Collect bonuses and perform stunts for a better score. Not enough levels? Create your own levels to share in Neon Rider World.

1. Primary

Save the Hueman Race from the Void and restore color to the world. Jump, dodge, and use the powers of the primary colors to fight your way through Prizim Tower and stop the Void in this action platformer.

Want more color? Check out our Coloring games.

Who knows what secrets lay hidden in this world?

Link:

• New Quests on Knighttron!
• Talk about Knighttron Quests

Screenshots:

Take a look right meow! :3

Links:

• Buy Sushi Cat Plushie
• Play Sushi Cat Games!

Sushi Cat Pictures:

Here’s a peek:

If you’ve already unlocked the Heavenly quest, then head over to your profile settings to try them out. The ‘Change’ link under your current Armatar and the King of Towers Armatars are under the Game-Based tab.

Related links:

• The King of Towers
• The King of Towers Quests

A Knight’s Quest is an action-adventure-RPG inspired by The Legend of Zelda and Metroid with an emphasis on humor, exploration, and combat. You control Rusty, a bold yet clumsy adventurer who accidentally releases an ancient evil…

Teaser:

Screenshots:

For the Strike Force Heroes 3 fans, they will be putting a huge update out soon which fixes all the bugs, and adds a brand new unique hero!

What is this chat bar all about?

1. Remove Chat

If you don’t like the chat at all, you can click the remove chat button, but you will make all the bunnies and ferrets in the universe very sad. If you change your mind, you can undo this under your profile settings.

2. Armor Games Rules

Yes it does, but clicking the white asterisk will lead you to the rules of Armor Games for the chat, comments, and forums.

3. Friends

This tab lets you see which of your friends are online and you can also send them private messages. The ‘Change Theme’ icon on the right lets you change the theme of the chat bar. Tricky, right? The ‘Options’ button on the left lets your manage your Friends tab as well as your block list.

4. Chat Room

Chat Rooms are the meat and potatoes of the chat bar. You chat with any other user in the same room as you, even if they’re not playing the same game. You can even be in two rooms at once. Just pop out one of them with the ‘Popout chat room’ button and use the chat bar to enter another. If you want to leave, pop it back in if it’s popped out and just click the ‘Leave Chat Room’ button to return to the chat room list.

5. Notifications

It’s the notifications tab! Moving on…

6. Hide Chat

If you don’t want to chat but don’t want the bar to disappear, you can click this button minimize the chat. You won’t receive any chat notifications until you ‘Show Chat’ again.

But wait! What’s the image of a wooden block puzzle have anything to do with chat? If you scroll down in the Chat Room tab, you’ll see some very peculiar locked rooms, including one with a description that looks like gibberish. Break the codes to figure out the passwords to these rooms and win.

(Note: Passwords are case-sensitive and spaces do matter.)

The first ten winners will earn themselves one month of AFG+. One lucky winner chosen at random will find themselves with a very difficult Interlocked burr puzzle (pictured above). This will be open until we get ten winners or one week passes.

Can you uncover the secrets of the locked chat rooms and win yourself one month of AFG+ and a very hard Interlocked puzzle?

(Note: All ten winner spots have been filled, but you can still play along until the rooms disappear.)

The solution to Chat and a Puzzle is up and you can find it on the forums here if you don’t want to spoil yourself. Our lucky winner chosen at random at the end of the post is #10. Congratulations Boarmaster!

‘SUP!

Alright, so I know that we only first announced this project’s existence mere weeks ago (and that this post makes a total of only two posts on here about it..), but…..  IT’S HERE!!

We had a great time working with the fellas over at Super2Games and we’re incredibly stoked by how well the original game (Star Forge) translated over to mobile! The game is available for both iOS AND Android!

Chrono Space details:

Defend your rugged space outpost against an onslaught of alien attackers! Watch their seemingly endless numbers fall to your mighty defenses, fully customized and bristling with destruction, in this fast paced, action packed, single player game where time is your only resource!

• Unique game mechanic whereby time is your only resource! Will you spend a pause before the next wave building new towers or producing some explosive new add-on components for your existing towers?
• Tower components allow you to fully customize each tower by upgrading, unlocking devastating abilities, and changing the look of each individual tower based on the mixture of components added!
• What you focus on building, how you stockpile resources, and where you freely place towers gives you limitless strategy options for constructing the ultimate defense!
• Multiple game modes including an infinite survival and an accelerated progression gameplay mode bring with them an endless variety of challenges for you to test your skills!
• Compete in the Leaderboards to prove you are the best!

 
Head on over to the game’s Official Website for further information!