Astervoid 2000 has been released on Steam! We'd like to thank everyone for their support while we launched this game. Also a big thanks for those that have already covered the game by writting a review, streaming on Twitch, or posting a Let's Play to YouTube. This game is our love letter to couch multiplayer gaming. It's the way we enjoy games the most, sitting side by side screaming at the screen and each other. Enjoy! Chuck & Justin

Astervoid 2000 has been released on Steam! We'd like to thank everyone for their support while we launched this game. Also a big thanks for those that have already covered the game by writting a review, streaming on Twitch, or posting a Let's Play to YouTube. This game is our love letter to couch multiplayer gaming. It's the way we enjoy games the most, sitting side by side screaming at the screen and each other. Enjoy! Chuck & Justin

So what's new? - New songs - Achievements! - A few new environments - Bots no longer kill each other - Bots don't get as close to each other so they're harder to take down - When a player takes the lead in versus, there's a new sound for that - Team score are aggregated together, and all players on a team will indicate when they've taken the lead - New music when a game is over, different tunes for both Versus and Survival - Megasplosives all have a consistent radius / effect, no more randomly wondering how big an explosion will be - Sparks fly off ships that have entered into critical mode - Every ship you destroy in Versus is shown at the end on the score screen - Updated gamepad & keyboard instructions, and you can now disable them entirely from Settings - Bugfix: Sometimes bots would stop spawning in Survival mode. Not anymore! You can now play on forever (and ever) - Bugfix: If a player's shield was down when they mélee, don't reactive it right away when they exit melee And a bunch of other goodies. Happy space brawlin' !

So what's new? - New songs - Achievements! - A few new environments - Bots no longer kill each other - Bots don't get as close to each other so they're harder to take down - When a player takes the lead in versus, there's a new sound for that - Team score are aggregated together, and all players on a team will indicate when they've taken the lead - New music when a game is over, different tunes for both Versus and Survival - Megasplosives all have a consistent radius / effect, no more randomly wondering how big an explosion will be - Sparks fly off ships that have entered into critical mode - Every ship you destroy in Versus is shown at the end on the score screen - Updated gamepad & keyboard instructions, and you can now disable them entirely from Settings - Bugfix: Sometimes bots would stop spawning in Survival mode. Not anymore! You can now play on forever (and ever) - Bugfix: If a player's shield was down when they mlee, don't reactive it right away when they exit melee And a bunch of other goodies. Happy space brawlin' !

While we're in beta, we're going to be clearing the leaderboads every now and then. And then, finally once again on Nov 25th (release day). This is normal. Score amounts per game may change as we tweak things here and there. Also, new silvery-chrome artwork for the AI bots is in for Survival mode, and a less bass-punchy projectile sound (it was too overwhelming on some stereos in 3 and 4-player match-ups).

While we're in beta, we're going to be clearing the leaderboads every now and then. And then, finally once again on Friday Dec 1st (bumped from Nov 25th) (release day). This is normal. Score amounts per game may change as we tweak things here and there. Also, new silvery-chrome artwork for the AI bots is in for Survival mode, and a less bass-punchy projectile sound (it was too overwhelming on some stereos in 3 and 4-player match-ups).

Leaderboards are now a thing. When you finish a Survival game, you will see the top 5 in the lead as well as the other scores near you, and where you placed. We call this, "online multiplayer" ;) Charged-up missile graphics now match their hitbox. No more seeing a giant frickin' missile beam that cuts right through a player and let's them live. Justin tweaks the AI boosting a bit, so it's a little less insane. But, it may be a bit easier because of this. Let us know if those suckers are just too easy to pick off! A few other particle system & audio touch-ups, cuz that's how we do. Oh, and if you want to increase performance but decrease "prettiness" you can now turn off the camera image effects in the Settings menu. Happy space brawlin' !
(Ignore the 3.5 million score, that was just from testing) :D

Leaderboards are now a thing. When you finish a Survival game, you will see the top 5 in the lead as well as the other scores near you, and where you placed. We call this, "online multiplayer" ;) Charged-up missile graphics now match their hitbox. No more seeing a giant frickin' missile beam that cuts right through a player and let's them live. Justin tweaks the AI boosting a bit, so it's a little less insane. But, it may be a bit easier because of this. Let us know if those suckers are just too easy to pick off! A few other particle system & audio touch-ups, cuz that's how we do. Oh, and if you want to increase performance but decrease "prettiness" you can now turn off the camera image effects in the Settings menu. Happy space brawlin' !
(Ignore the 3.5 million score, that was just from testing) :D

​- New Announcer voice clips for Survival & Team Deathmatch game modes. Announced by yours truly - Survival mode's scoring is more fun. Much more fun. Your score is now based on how quickly you dispatched of them bots. So do it fast, space brawler - New gorgeous high-res backgrounds. Pixels were chosen and placed carefully by Lachlan Cartland - Less "crazyass" bass on explosions (seriously, that's what the Git commit msg said) - Some sound effects were hurting ears, especially UI ones. That's no longer the case, so leave your ear plugs at home - Simplified start / menu, since those old perspective ships were old and no longer in the game - Better object pooling. This helps performance, uses more RAM but less CPU and slowdowns while you're trying to muss each other up (in space) - Warship now shows up at random times, because who likes a predictable warship? (Answer: no one) - Reflective icy asteroids only crumble and break down into smaller reflective icy asteroids, and life made sense again ps. There's nothing Halloweeny in our game. So if you came here for that, you may be sorely let down.

- New Announcer voice clips for Survival & Team Deathmatch game modes. Announced by yours truly - Survival mode's scoring is more fun. Much more fun. Your score is now based on how quickly you dispatched of them bots. So do it fast, space brawler - New gorgeous high-res backgrounds. Pixels were chosen and placed carefully by Lachlan Cartland - Less "crazyass" bass on explosions (seriously, that's what the Git commit msg said) - Some sound effects were hurting ears, especially UI ones. That's no longer the case, so leave your ear plugs at home - Simplified start / menu, since those old perspective ships were old and no longer in the game - Better object pooling. This helps performance, uses more RAM but less CPU and slowdowns while you're trying to muss each other up (in space) - Warship now shows up at random times, because who likes a predictable warship? (Answer: no one) - Reflective icy asteroids only crumble and break down into smaller reflective icy asteroids, and life made sense again ps. There's nothing Halloweeny in our game. So if you came here for that, you may be sorely let down.

New: - New ice asteroids, reflect some fired projectiles - New artwork! Asteroids and background artwork greatly improved - Explosive asteroids grow as they take damage, will add an animation to show they're about to explode - Motion blur on ships when boosting Updated: - In the middle of adjusting new background artwork so it works on Retina, hi-DPI, and other various screen resolutions (will be adding a resolution switcher to Settings) - Optimizations to prevent game from locking / stuttering - Tweaked SFX volumes - Removed Chromatic Aberration image effect during gameplay as it was annoying Bugfixes: - Clicking on the game during warmup will not show the score behind each player's ship in Versus mode - Fix the sometimes-missing tense music when only 2 or 1 kills left in Versus mode

New: - New ice asteroids, reflect some fired projectiles - New artwork! Asteroids and background artwork greatly improved - Explosive asteroids grow as they take damage, will add an animation to show they're about to explode - Motion blur on ships when boosting Updated: - In the middle of adjusting new background artwork so it works on Retina, hi-DPI, and other various screen resolutions (will be adding a resolution switcher to Settings) - Optimizations to prevent game from locking / stuttering - Tweaked SFX volumes - Removed Chromatic Aberration image effect during gameplay as it was annoying Bugfixes: - Clicking on the game during warmup will not show the score behind each player's ship in Versus mode - Fix the sometimes-missing tense music when only 2 or 1 kills left in Versus mode

New: - Team Deathmatch! ːsteamhappyː 6 selectable ship models w/ 6 different factions (various colourways). Choose the same faction to play with a teammate: (2 vs 2), (3 vs 1), (2 vs 1 vs 1), or classic Free For All. - Better scoreboard screens, showing which ships you destroyed, hazard deaths and overall score - Larger asteroids colliding w/ other larger asteroids, the warship, and player ships can cause damage - Add a 'start over' button to quickly restart the current game w/ the same setup of players, game mode, etc Updated: - Tone down some image effects - Music improvements - Increase projectile firing kickback - Lower the boost impulse audioclip volume (better on the ears in singleplayer survival mode) - New Warship damaged / destroyed graphics - (keyboard controls) Right-shift boosts, similar to left-shift - Fixed 'dust' particle effect Bugfixes: - (keyboard controls) Enter / return key no longer pulls up ship scores UI during warmup

New: - Team Deathmatch! steamhappy 6 selectable ship models w/ 6 different factions (various colourways). Choose the same faction to play with a teammate: (2 vs 2), (3 vs 1), (2 vs 1 vs 1), or classic Free For All. - Better scoreboard screens, showing which ships you destroyed, hazard deaths and overall score - Larger asteroids colliding w/ other larger asteroids, the warship, and player ships can cause damage - Add a 'start over' button to quickly restart the current game w/ the same setup of players, game mode, etc Updated: - Tone down some image effects - Music improvements - Increase projectile firing kickback - Lower the boost impulse audioclip volume (better on the ears in singleplayer survival mode) - New Warship damaged / destroyed graphics - (keyboard controls) Right-shift boosts, similar to left-shift - Fixed 'dust' particle effect Bugfixes: - (keyboard controls) Enter / return key no longer pulls up ship scores UI during warmup

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Sept 30th, 2016, Updated to build 1795: Survival Singleplayer: - Improve the AI difficulty - Warship now fires on players and bots - Add UI elements to show what kill & wave # you're currently on Versus (Local Multiplayer): - Current leader fires a rainbow burst and spits out colorful engine trails (target them) - Killing another player with a succeful critical chase awards that player a kill - Warship now fires on players Both: - Added new song: LREVG - HIIT ANND RRUN - Tripled up Memorecks' Victory song so it is 3 minutes long instead of 1 minute - Added ship callsigns in player select panels - Change how we unload / load scenes, fade out the music first to avoid crackles and pops which could damage speakers and are fucking annoying to ears everywhere Next Up: - Juice up the scoreboard UI - Versus Team DM, 1vs2, 1vs3 and 2vs2 - Survival Mode: Leaderboards - Allow toggling of image effects in Settings - Add new environments - Reflective asteroids

Sept 30th, 2016, Updated to build 1795: https://youtu.be/_WuPQXN702w Survival Singleplayer: - Improve the AI difficulty - Warship now fires on players and bots - Add UI elements to show what kill & wave # you're currently on Versus (Local Multiplayer): - Current leader fires a rainbow burst and spits out colorful engine trails (target them) - Killing another player with a succeful critical chase awards that player a kill - Warship now fires on players Both: - Added new song: LREVG - HIIT ANND RRUN - Tripled up Memorecks' Victory song so it is 3 minutes long instead of 1 minute - Added ship callsigns in player select panels - Change how we unload / load scenes, fade out the music first to avoid crackles and pops which could damage speakers and are fucking annoying to ears everywhere Next Up: - Juice up the scoreboard UI - Versus Team DM, 1vs2, 1vs3 and 2vs2 - Survival Mode: Leaderboards - Allow toggling of image effects in Settings - Add new environments - Reflective asteroids