To those who are now enjoying the game - join our amazing Discord Community! We'd love to hear from you!
[previewyoutube=2ccZ9wpeq_w;full][/previewyoutube] All of Savant's albums are today 50% Off on Bandcamp to celebrate this momentus occasion! To all new fans of his incredible music, now is the best time to pick up his collection! Savant on BandCamp

The time has come! On Friday we launch Savant - Ascent REMIX here on Steam! Get ready and wishlist the game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2279330/Savant__Ascent_REMIX/

While Savant - Ascent REMIX has been delayed until Sept. 29th, the soundtrack is out RIGHT NOW! Fetch the soundtrack today exclusively on Steam, and get into the groove in time for the game's official launch! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2543430/Savant__Ascent_REMIX_Soundtrack/

Wanna get your hands on the demo of our upcoming follow-up to Savant - Ascent. Check out the demo of the game here on Steam. Savant - Ascent REMIX on STEAM The demo is basicly a remastered version of the original Savant - Ascent in it's entierty, leading up to the continuation of the game, launching on Sep 15th! Put the game on your wishlists, as we're ramping up to launch! Got feedback on the demo? Let us know on Discord or our Steam Community - or even better - fill out this quick feedback Google Form for a chance to win free access to the full game + soundtrack!

Finally - we got a date, but also a redub - Previously known as the 'Anniversary Edition', Savant - Ascent REMIX is launching on September 15th! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2279330/Savant__Ascent_REMIX/ As we worked on the game, it blew up in size and is now more of a follow-up to original than a remaster. Watch the trailer, catch us on Twitter as we reveal more from the game, and throw us a wishlist! [previewyoutube=Ga909BHjCKQ;full][/previewyoutube] For the streamers out there, get in touch as we'll be handing out previews of the game soon. Feel free to use Steam's streamer features to request a key for the game. All of the music in the game will be license free, you can stream all of the music to your heart's content.

HERE WE GO! We couldnt let Savant - Ascents 10 Year Anniversary go uncelebrated! Today, we are officially announcing Savant - Ascent Anniversary Edition, a complete remaster of the game! Check out the trailer for yourself and join the final ascent. More details below: Visit the Steam page: http://bit.ly/savantgame [previewyoutube=Lw5RvCS53hs;full][/previewyoutube]

New Everything!

Welcome One and All!

The Music!

More To Come

Come Januray, we'll share details on how we're going to celebrate this joyous occasion! Check back in on the newyear! steamhappy [previewyoutube=kwoGtG-LtyI;full][/previewyoutube]

This also marks our first Savant collab after he officially joined our team as master of sound! What more will this collab hold? steamhappy For now, check out our art-director Simon S. Andersen's cover art for the new album! Get the new album here Bandcamp: Alcemist 2 Apple Music: Alchemist 2 Spotify: Alchemist 2
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Pre-order VOID on: Bandcamp (link).
Check out the teaser on Youtube: [previewyoutube=ox_TAR2UKbU;full][/previewyoutube] Savant on Instagram | Twitter

Steam now supports official soundtracks, and we've converted all our soundtracks from DLC to proper OSTs. To celebrate, Steam is hosting a gigantic Soundtrack Sale, and Owlboy + several of Savant's albums are now at 50% OFF, now till 14th Feb! Did you know Owlboy's creator designed and painted most of Savant's album covers? We'll be posting musical funfacts throughout the week on our Twitter, tune in! steamhappy ~ DPad

We are celebrating the holidays, and Savant - Ascent and the albums will be 50% off through the holidays!

Xmas Mode

We are celebrating the holidays, and Savant - Ascent and the albums will be 50% off through the holidays!

Xmas Mode

OK GUYS! Savant has recieved an update! This should fix some performance issues the game has been having, and it also includes new languages! You can now play the game in Japanese, Korean and Norwegian! Oh, and did we mention Savant did a remix of the Owlboy theme! As part of the D-Pad Bonanza, we're officially releasing it in 1 hour! (Link to come once it's live)! https://youtu.be/PN-y2dQOhOc We are doing lots and lots of announcements today! Have a look! https://youtu.be/z1nY_xa1uXM Happy Bonanza Day! ~ D-Pad

OK GUYS! Savant has recieved an update! This should fix some performance issues the game has been having, and it also includes new languages! You can now play the game in Japanese, Korean and Norwegian! Oh, and did we mention Savant did a remix of the Owlboy theme! As part of the D-Pad Bonanza, we're officially releasing it in 1 hour! (Link to come once it's live)! https://youtu.be/PN-y2dQOhOc We are doing lots and lots of announcements today! Have a look! https://youtu.be/z1nY_xa1uXM Happy Bonanza Day! ~ D-Pad

The Steam Summer sale is upon us, and this year is SPECIAL!

Trading Cards

Album Time

The Steam Summer sale is upon us, and this year is SPECIAL!

Trading Cards

Album Time

Hi guys! Our next game now has a Store Page and a new trailer! Owlboy Steam Store: http://store.steampowered.com/app/115800 We're announcing the release date at PAX West in September, meanwhile, feel free to put it on your wishlist :-)

Hi guys! Our next game now has a Store Page and a new trailer! Owlboy Steam Store: http://store.steampowered.com/app/115800 We're announcing the release date at PAX West in September, meanwhile, feel free to put it on your wishlist :-)

Our upcoming game Owlboy has been choosen for the PAX Rising this summer, and we've put Savant - Ascent up for sale to celebrate! Come and try the demo for our next title!
If you're going to PAX West this September, make sure to give our booth a visit at PAX Rising, smack in the middle of the main floor, we'd love to meet you and let you try Owlboy! Its a big one - as it's been in development for almost 10 years(!!!). At PAX, we're going to finally reveal the launch date for our biggest game yet!

Our upcoming game Owlboy has been choosen for the PAX Rising this summer, and we've put Savant - Ascent up for sale to celebrate! Come and try the demo for our next title!
If you're going to PAX West this September, make sure to give our booth a visit at PAX Rising, smack in the middle of the main floor, we'd love to meet you and let you try Owlboy! Its a big one - as it's been in development for almost 10 years(!!!). At PAX, we're going to finally reveal the launch date for our biggest game yet!

From us at D-Pad Studio to all of you! [img=http://www.dpadstudio.com/img/Art/dpadXmas.jpg] DPadStudio (To activate an extra festive mode in Savant - Ascent this christmas, press the 'X'-key in the main menu) - Available till the 1st of January. God Jul! :-)

From us at D-Pad Studio to all of you! [img=http://www.dpadstudio.com/img/Art/dpadXmas.jpg] DPadStudio (To activate an extra festive mode in Savant - Ascent this christmas, press the 'X'-key in the main menu) - Available till the 1st of January. God Jul! :-)

Sorry for the delay guys, we've been all wrapped up in meeting Owlboy deadlines and traveling lately, but the new update is finally live for Mac, and it should work for the new El Capitan OS. [img=http://www.savantgame.com/img/misc/miniSavant.png] The changes are the same as the PC version, but here's the list nonetheless: Change list:

• Changed CD achievement from 6 to 7 CDs.
• Getting to the space stage now requires you to aquire the Philosophers Stone.
• Golden Enemies no longer disappear in Endless Mode.
• Removed flash effect on first shot.
• Adjusted some colouring in the cape upgrade effect.
• Fixed auto shoot! Press Middle Mouse Button to enter AutoShoot mode. This mode will take away uneccessary strain to your fingers.(remember also that you can press Q to auto-grab CDs)

Sorry for the delay guys, we've been all wrapped up in meeting Owlboy deadlines and traveling lately, but the new update is finally live for Mac, and it should work for the new El Capitan OS. [img=http://www.savantgame.com/img/misc/miniSavant.png] The changes are the same as the PC version, but here's the list nonetheless: Change list:

• Changed CD achievement from 6 to 7 CDs.
• Getting to the space stage now requires you to aquire the Philosophers Stone.
• Golden Enemies no longer disappear in Endless Mode.
• Removed flash effect on first shot.
• Adjusted some colouring in the cape upgrade effect.
• Fixed auto shoot! Press Middle Mouse Button to enter AutoShoot mode. This mode will take away uneccessary strain to your fingers.(remember also that you can press Q to auto-grab CDs)

Happy Halloween everyone! We celebrate by doing a couple of tweaks to the game, and you'll find list of changes below! [img=http://savantgame.com/img/misc/savantMask.png][/img] Change list:

• Changed CD achievement from 6 to 7 CDs.
• Getting to the space stage now requires you to aquire the Philosophers Stone.
• Golden Enemies no longer disappear in Endless Mode.
• Removed flash effect on first shot.
• Adjusted some colouring in the cape upgrade effect.
• Fixed auto shoot! Press Middle Mouse Button to enter AutoShoot mode. This mode will take away uneccessary strain to your fingers.

Happy Halloween everyone! We celebrate by doing a couple of tweaks to the game, and you'll find list of changes below! [img=http://savantgame.com/img/misc/savantMask.png][/img] Change list:

• Changed CD achievement from 6 to 7 CDs.
• Getting to the space stage now requires you to aquire the Philosophers Stone.
• Golden Enemies no longer disappear in Endless Mode.
• Removed flash effect on first shot.
• Adjusted some colouring in the cape upgrade effect.
• Fixed auto shoot! Press Middle Mouse Button to enter AutoShoot mode. This mode will take away uneccessary strain to your fingers.

We spent the weekend trying to address a few of the bugs that has been reported in the Savant Steam Community, aswell as adding a little something extra! GOTY mode has now been fixed up, and you can activate it by completing all of the achievements in the game. This will add a button on the Main Menu which let's you turn on GOTY mode. When GOTY mode is turned on, enemies in the game will be replaced by goats-themed robots(and yes, we know it's a terrible pun). We've added two new leaderboards for this occation, Vario GOTY(Time Attack) and Endless GOTY. Other issues addressed in this patch is: + Fixed a crash when selecting CDs in the pause menu. + Fixed a crash that would occur when using chain attacks on enemy. + Fixed a couple of grammar errors. We will continue to fix issues as they are reported, so please feel free to turn to the discussion community to report any faults. Enjoy!

We spent the weekend trying to address a few of the bugs that has been reported in the Savant Steam Community, aswell as adding a little something extra! GOTY mode has now been fixed up, and you can activate it by completing all of the achievements in the game. This will add a button on the Main Menu which let's you turn on GOTY mode. When GOTY mode is turned on, enemies in the game will be replaced by goats-themed robots(and yes, we know it's a terrible pun). We've added two new leaderboards for this occation, Vario GOTY(Time Attack) and Endless GOTY. Other issues addressed in this patch is: + Fixed a crash when selecting CDs in the pause menu. + Fixed a crash that would occur when using chain attacks on enemy. + Fixed a couple of grammar errors. We will continue to fix issues as they are reported, so please feel free to turn to the discussion community to report any faults. Enjoy!

This week we put Savant - Ascent up for a 50% sale here on Steam, and our artist Simon(who also draws Savant's album covers) made a new poster to commemorate this! Full-res version here: Savant Poster on Imgur Alot of people have been asking whether there will be more content updates for Savant - Ascent, and while it's tempting to continue adding new ideas to the game, we are currently working full-time on our other project, Owlboy. We've only just got started making games, and we've got a ton of projects coming, so feel free to keep up with us through our official website DPadStudio! We hope you enjoy playing our games as much as we enjoy working on them!

To activate Xmas mode, press thy X-key on the main menu! Xmas mode Is available till the 1st of January.
Happy Holidays from Savanta!

The free expansion to Savant - Ascent is live! New Features: + New stage, drifting through space. + The Samurai is waiting for you in the void! + Additional soundtrack and ability, now seven total. + Stage selection screen. + Achievement/Progress screen. + Now supports up to 1920x1200 resolution. + Additional time attack challenge. + Steam leaderboards have been split among the new challenges, and reset. You can filter friends or global leaderboards. The new update brings a new and even tougher challenge than before! Hope you will enjoy it! <3

Hallo everyone, Last weekend we presented Savant at Raptus, and left the audience with a teaser of what's to come for Savant - Ascent. You can view footage from the presentation here: Youtube: D-Pad presents Savant at Raptus(sneak-peek at 6:48).
We'll be announcing the official release-date soon, meanwhile, here's some additional info on the game: Will the expansion be free to download? - Yes, all the new content will be free for those who already own Savant - Ascent. This is because we love the players(you guys). You're the ones who's been making this game a success. We've collected the numbers, soon surpassing 300.000 copies of the game sold. We're thinking this is cause for celebration and new content worthy of the players! What will the expansion add to the game? - A looong list of things! We were originally gonna update the game slowly over the weekends, but it turned out way bigger than we thought, and we decided to bundle it all up in one go: Here are just some of the improvements:

• New level + boss showdown
• New soundtrack and ability
• Stage selection screen
• Full controller support
• In-game achievement screen and progress tracking(cds collected etc.)

Ok, second part of our weekend bug eradication is live! This version makes further fixes to shaders. You can now set shaders to: advanced, basic or off. Basic shaders will do a simpler shading on things like enemies and Savant's powerups. Advanced shaders will require more resources out of your graphics card but will perform some advanced color swapping on Savant's cape when it is powered up(if your graphics card does not support this, it won't change color at all). I didn't get the chance to check out the possibility of adding Trading Cards, but will look into next weekend, as well as keep an eye out in the community for additional bug fixes/suggestions. All the best ~ Jo, D-Pad

I'm back from sick leave, and I've been looking at the bug reports coming in, which I will try to sort out during weekends when we're off from development on Owlboy. This fixes a couple of things: + Added keyboard layout support for AZERTY(commonly used in France/Belgium) and QZERTY(commonly used in Italy). You can find these settings in the options menu(press the cog in the lower left corner of the title screen.) + Hopefully I was able to make enough changes to the shader so that it compiles on more systems now. I will continue to work on the shader till it works properly. Please don't hasitate to report bugs in the community, I'm reading through them once I'm free, and will hopefully be able to sort most of them out within a few weeks, working the weekends.

Wonder what's next for Savant - Ascent, how we're working on it, or maybe need some tips on how to play the game? Head over to reddit today, and we'll answer all you're questions: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamemaker/comments/2422ap/we_are_dpad_studio_developer_of_savant_ascent_and/

Allright everyone, the update is live! Press the special button in the lower-right corner at the main menu for a more Go(a)ty experience while playing the game. We're sorry in advance.
Now, for a couple tweaks that are actually useful: - Support for additional languages(translations will be added very soon). - Screen tearing issues should have been fixed. - Further balance to gameplay difficulty. - Optimization for low-end computers(if game is running slow, try adjusting graphics options). The new enemy type will later be added as a standard enemy, but for now, it's there just for fun. The update is live for Windows first, Mac and Linux will follow.

Hi everyone! The game is currently on a 50% Steam sale, celebrating Savant - Ascent hankering in 2 Game Of The Year awards! We're getting ready to upload a very special GOTY update to the game for everyone who's bougth it, so keep checking back. Hope you will enjoy it! All the best ~ D-Pad Studio

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We launched an update for Savant last week, I've summarized the highlights below: (NOTE) The game has been nominated as for the Best GameMaker Release Of 2013, and the voting has started! If you enjoyed the game, you can vote for Savant - Ascent here: https://www.facebook.com/yoyogames/app_303561899745219 FEATURES: + Online highscore lists now supports higher scores than 2 billion. + Enemies are now color coded, showing how they differ in strength/points. Example: A red enemy yields more points than a green enemy, but is also much tougher. [img]http://www.savantgame.com/img/misc/savantUpdate1.jpg[img] + You can press Q to obtain the closest CD-piece. + You can press middle mouse button to enable auto-attack. + Wyrms now get smaller in length to show you how damaged they are. + When you progress in Endless, the enemies and background colors will change according to which wave you're currently facing.

Happy Holidays everyone! We've just uploaded a very special version of Savant - Ascent, and it's currently live for PC(Mac/Linux following soon).
A short list of features:

We've been hard at work adding achievements to the game, as achievements can provide a more solid sense of accomplishment when making progress throughout the game. BUT, as I see it, achievements in themselves are not enough to fulfill a sense of accomplishment when playing our game. We've tried to pull off a few things when keeping the implementation of achievements in mind: [img=http://i.imgur.com/sR2i8Jx.png]

• 1. They need to be actual achievements. Grinding for an achievement is not reward enough in itself, we like to see people mastering this game, and as such, will be adding only achievements that we feel the player has to really fight to earn.
• 2. We're eager to add more achievements as we see players getting better, and if we see that achievements actually brings value to the game experience. If you have any ideas for future achievements, please let us know.
• 3. We've avoided adding achievements for scores and best times, and instead added online leaderboards so you can challange friends/rivals. We've intentionally split the game into an online mode and a local mode, so that players who are happy with their own progress can avoid competing on a global scale.
• 4. We wanted to reward the player in-game while also being awarded an achievement on Steam, but the game has many versions, some without any Steam connection. We've hopefully added enough content for players to do a new round of exploration, and later we might explore further the possibility of joining both in-game rewards with achievements.
• 5. BUT, we thought it may be a great idea to hint at the new hidden content that is being added. From reading the descriptions of the achievements, you can now figure out that there are a total of 6 albums in the game, that there are secret new moves, and that you can obtain Ultimate Power etc. So the achievement page in itself becomes useful when trying to completing the game.

We're getting some reports in that: 1. People are unable to control the game. This might be because the game has detected the controller, and is trying to look for input using the currently plugged in joypad. We will fix this bug asap, but for now, this can be fixed by either playing with you're controller, or unplugging it to play with keyboard/mouse. 2. The game does not support 1080p, which is because the in-game levels are acctually to small for this resolution. We will add support for this as soon as possible. All the best, and hope you're enjoying the game :-D

Savant - Ascent is Now Available on Steam!
A malicious orb has cast Savant out of his tower and transformed his surroundings into dangerous enemies!

Dodge and shoot your way back up the tower, and blast down waves of enemies as you make your way towards the top! As you progress, you unlock CDs that not only give you new tracks to play to, but also grant you powerful new abilities!

Can you make it to the top?

• OS: Ubuntu 13.10
• Processor: 1.3 GHz Intel Core i5Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000
• Storage: 120 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Minimum 1024x768 screen resolution