Today we released a 4.3MB patch to Smith and Winston fixing a few small issues that have been reported by players and one we noticed in a Twitchsteam.

Hot low endaction

On lower end machines players are having to turn down the amount of debris. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. So weve tweaked the physics a bit to get some more juice from your CPU and get some more debris on screen at 60fps.

Keeping yourhead!

Because we are idiots we didnt think about heads properly. So if you collected one of the hidden Collectable heads in the game you could never switch back to a standard Smith or Winston head. Well now youcan.

More text or space forit

Some of the shippy text when youre at the crash site didnt fit in the little shippy box. We know no one is going to read this text but we really want you to be able to ignore all of it properly, in its entirety withaplomb.

No deadflying!

When you were lying flat on your back, shot, wondering why you even started exploring this cursed ring world of DOOM you could press the boost button and fly up. This wasnt very useful to you and in many ways it was quite funny but NO STOP IT. youre dead;)

No moreequality

If you pressed the equals key (=) you seemed to randomly warp around the level even to places that you cant get to normally. We use this debug feature to quickly test new areas of the level and you were never supposed to have such powers because we just cant trust any of you naughty people can we? Look out for this feature accidentally being re-enabled because we are idiots;).

No more HOME

Another oversight was that pressing the HOME key brought up a very useful debug window with loads of wibbly buttons and sliders and gizmos and yeah, were idiots, thats not for you. Even I dont know what most of those buttonsdid.

Glyphs?

A glyph is a fancy word for one of the letters in a font. We cleaned up the glyphs that represent the controller buttons for PSX and XBox controllers so they are lesspoopy. Happy Exploring andDestroying dazza

[ 2019-01-14 11:38:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

Smith and Winston is a Metroidvania style exploration twin stick shooter.

Taking on the role of Smith or Winston, two hapless mercenaries, you explore a newly discovered shattered ring world and uncover the secrets of the natives and the impending doom of the star system. Only you can save the system from the evil that awaits... or not.

Hand built

The world needs more hand crafted games. We love procedurally generated games but there is nothing like a level designed by a human for a human.

Exploration

There are many strange places to explore in Smith and Winston along with secrets and puzzles to discover and items to collect. You'll need a sharp eye to spot some of them and a bit of dexterity to reach others. But there's plenty to discover.

Challenging twin stick combat

There's no health bars and with limited lives dodging is as important as shooting. Don't worry we've given you the tools to survive. From guns and power ups, grenades and missile launchers, to being able to sculpt the terrain to your advantage. How you defeat enemies is up to you.

Free Flowing Movement

Smith and Winston come with some cool toys, a jump pack boost for going up and a dash for going fast. Great for dodging bullets but even better for reaching new areas. Combine these for bigger and further jumps. Dash, boost, dash can get you a long way but a clever use of the terrain and our in game physics can get you higher and further.

Voxels

We love 'em. In a voxel world the player can destroy nearly everything and you have the equipment to do just that. From mining lasers to dig out secrets to grenades that blast holes in everything. Use these tactically or just to make a hole and laugh as you adversary falls helplessly to their doom.

Camera

Smith and Winston is a full 3D game and to take advantage of that we added in a few things. A rotatable 360° camera lets you see what you want and 3 angles of tilt, fancy a more cinematic perspective, just drop the camera angle.

Collectibles

Collect and swap your heads there a lot to find and finding them all won’t be easy and with our Steam release we'll be adding Steam achievements and cards too.