Hey there, we are just writing to let you know that the X-Mas Holiday events are now active in both The Dope Game and One Way To Die. Besides theme changes and some extra achievements becoming active, users may randomly receive a gift key to one of our games when in-game.
In less than six hours we are starting our 12 Days of CoaguCo Christmas event, inspired in part by the wondrous game Pony Island. We are gifting copies of our games through our games! Three copies per day for twelve days.
The event starts at midnight, tonight, CST. And the gift pile updates every night at midnight for the next twelve days, ending on Chrismas day. There are a total of 36 key gifts available!
How Does It Work? Basically any time you play either One Way To Die, Raise Your Own Clone, or The Dope Game, our system will decide whether you get a gift key or not. If you do indeed win, you’ll see something like this…
You can copy the key using the ball and close the screen with the other one. Make sure to paste that key somewhere or use it as the gift won’t appear again!
Our system does keep track of what keys go to whom, so we know what is going on in case something goes awry.
Some Gifts Weren’t Opened In Time! If any of the gifts aren’t opened before the time expires, then we will give those keys away on SteamGifts.com but will make sure to link and notify the community so there is an additional chance to get it.
We will be checking on the event each day and tweaking things if necessary. Good luck to all the gift recipients and have a happy holiday!
It is that time of year again! Happy holidays to you all! Much has been going on so let’s get down to it, in the order of this post’s title!
X-Mas Update We are pushing the last big update for One Way To Die with the X-Mas Update. This contains 10 new deaths, 1 new achievement (sorry), new menu and button graphics, as well as various fixes. We had intented the update to be live already, however due to some sticky bugs and travel arrangements the update will not go out until later today. Due to this delay we will be extending the X-Mas time frame in the game by three days. This gives you three additional days to get the new X-Mas achievement.
Game Giveaway As we are wont to do, right now we are doing another game giveaway in our Community Hub for One Way To Die. Use that link to get there and post a comment in the thread. Winners will receive one key for the One Way To Die DLC on Steam and one key for Raise Your Own Clone on Itch.io! More information in the thread and good luck to all those who enter!
We will be back later in the day with information about the update when it launches and to squash any bugs that might arise. Have a happy and game-filled holiday this year!
Getting Copies We also started a pre-order, for those of you who do that kind of thing, for the final version over at Itch.io: http://coaguco.itch.io/the-dope-game! We will have a special release bonus for those of you who partake in our early offering, as well as a discount on the release price.
Also we should mention that we have added a Mac version, which we normally do not do. But since we moved from our own custom-built engine to Godot, such a thing is possible now. Granted we really can’t test those builds… sorry.
Acid 0.3.0 - Beta 2 Changelog
Added: if player is past due on their loan, Sweaty Mike will hunt you down!
Added: various keys to interact with game (read manual)
Added: different background screens if player wins game versus loses
Added: rewards for winning combat
Added: disabled states to interact buttons and inputs so it is more obvious your selection is wrong
Added: damage animation/effect to combat
Added: “You are here” markers to bus map
Added: seperate background module for handling that shit
Added: keymap section to options (cannot be changed!)
Added: “e-mail address” and “password” over respective fields in options
Added: message to let player know save data was reset if they choose to
Changed: overall engine from Python/Pygame to Godot
Changed: music module to independent scene
Changed: splash intro sequence
Changed: credit image
Changed: player goes to Garlville automatically after talking to Sweaty Mike the first time
Changed: layout to inventory screen
Changed: slight text in selection screen for back-story
Changed: inventory graphic
Changed: login/register section of options
Fixed: glitch where player could talk to Sweaty Mike again after getting loan to get another loan
Fixed: glitch where player was never caught by police if trying to run away
Fixed: “pause” to “pause” during opening dialog
Fixed: issue with usernames not getting passed to game’s database
Fixed: audio glitch that jacks up CPU usage
Fixed: threading issue causing errors, did not affect game though
Fixed: glitch where not all stats would clear when restarting game
Fixed: weird issue with pause locking up upon resume
Fixed: text when cop frisks you and lets you go
Fixed: glitch where critical miss actually caused damage
Fixed: glitch where player could hold more than coat allowed
Fixed: glitch where drug list would not refresh if player walked from dealing spot to special and back
Fixed: player’s heat rating not going up after fleeing or defeating the cop
Fixed: glitch where if player restarts game you cannot enter amounts
Removed: ability to toggle HUD on/off
Removed: RPG as a weapon (no real reason)
Removed: resolution option from options as engine handles it on resize
Some Features For Beta 3
Achievements
Various endings (how many times experienced) on globals stats
Buy a bigger coat
Ability to find other players’ dropped drugs, money, or weapons (and lose yours)
Add random increase or decrease in drug prices
Hooks for if player owns OWTD and/or RYOC
Continue game
Enable crew to fight in combat
That’s it for now! And again, please let us know about any issues you find and enjoy the second beta! Cheers!
Hey there! We forgot to post about the current Steam Summer Sale that is going on now. You get get our games (though one is slightly cheaper on Itch.io) at a discount!
Hey, dope fiends! We are pushing another small patch to upgrade some stuff behind the scenes. While there is nothing really too exciting added, here is the change log so you can find out what was:
Changed: holiday date ranges to be consistent with other CoaguCo games
Changed: functions handling achievements and statistics
Hey, dope fiends! Today we are issuing a small patch to deal with a bug that sometimes screws up people’s stash drugs. Here is the small, two item change log for your viewing pleasure:
Changed: API system to now store stash details to CoaguCo servers
Fixed: issue with stash not updating correctly with Steam servers
Hey, dope fiends! The game has had a small update prior to the “Hard Case” content update later this month. This addresses a few small issues and adds a few new things. Here is the change log:
Added: music and sound volume sliders instead of on/off
Changed: stat loading procedure to prevent lost data from Steam
Removed: CoaguCo login
As mentioned above, we are now phasing out the CoaguCo server login from our games and sticking strickly to Steam accounts. It will smooth over some statistics issues and prevent players from having to login into our system on top of Steam.
See you later this month for the second big content update!
Here we are in 2016 and lots to do, as well as a few topics to cover.
2016 Line-Up
We are launching three new games in 2016: The Dope Game, Haulin’ Oats, and Into Oblivion. More on these as they are closer to release and such, or just read on. Also we are releasing our mockumentary, The BWF: After The Sun Sets finally.
Engine Rebuilds
Our Python game engine is being overhauled and moved out of Pygame. The main reason for this is because Pygame does not seem to play nice with OpenGL and we need OpenGL for some of Steam’s other features. Also, for performance and flexibility, we are reworking the whole engine. This has, however, caused delays for Raise Your Own Clone and The Dope Game. But we are chugging ahead.
Raise Your Own Clone
This being our current game out, we’ll talk about this next. Story two is in testing and being held up by the engine rebuild. Super late, we know, but totally worth it in the end. We’ll probably do a new giveaway once story two launches as well as a secret key giveaway… somewhere.
Our next game, and currently in development, is The Dope Game. It is based on John E. Dell’s original DrugWars from 1984; with our usual twists and tastes. We will reveal more on that soon along with a Steam Greenlight campaign, pre-sales on Itch.io, and trailers!
The art is almost done, one trailer is finished, and is running on our newer engine so we’re almost there.
It is kind of pointless to mention this shit now but we have been asked a few times about Kitten Simulator. As long as everything goes smoothly (which it rarely does), we will begin work on Kitten Simulator and our secret game in late 2016 / early 2017! Don’t hold your breath just yet though.
Oh, hello there, stranger! The time-off has come to and end and here we are… time for another development diary for Haulin’ Oats and The Dope Game Remaster. As I mentioned in the previous post, these diaries are being cut down to every other week. And, of course, never again once each project launches. That being said…
Haulin’ Oats
A fair amount of the time after my time-off was spend on The Dope Game’s networking system. However, what work Haulin’ Oats got was divided between setting up music and polish for the next alpha which should be out sometime this month.
To prevent music from getting horribly repetitive throughout a game session, the music will be set up like a radio. One song will play then the “radio” will “scan the channels” looking for the next song; like driving in a big rig. Some tracks have been assembled so far and more are coming. The current ones will be added into the next alpha version so folks can hear them.
The polish phase is almost done and (I hope) most of the bugs have been squashed. I’m going to try to jam in the racing feature before releasing it to the folks who have alpha access but we’ll see how that goes.
Also some accessibility features will be added prior to launch. I have to get in touch with some folks to go over what all needs to be added and then create a plan to add it!
The Dope Game Remaster
Most of the work done around my time-off has been networking. This is actually a drawn-out process; especially when testing it against yourself on a LAN. Nonetheless, the Steamworks integration is going pretty well.
All the lobby stuff, after multiple iterations, is now done. So far all the testing works, thanks to pulling some stuff from other CoaguCo games. Currently I am implementing the multiplayer P2P framework in the game itself so folks can run around and slang together. Well, more against each other.
You will be able to play against six other friends or foes though currently there is no option to join an in-progress game. While it was considered, I think it might be too hard to catch up once a match starts. However, maybe down the road that will get added.
Next update I will talk more about the character and server customization. There will be a decent amount at launch with some add-ons over time.
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