Like a fine wine or soft cheese Smith and Winston makes us dizzy and smells like feet! But you want to know why it's not finished yet?
This is a picture of the VOIDs home. He's a tidy fellow really but he's been stealing all those monoliths for some reason and plugging them in! We are very close to finishing. We're planning on releasing the complete game early next week but still marking it as beta. Then after a few weeks of final testing tweaking and poking we'll release it to the world so it can stink up everyones refrigerators. We got delayed by Develop conference in Brighton. We were one of ten games that got chosen from nearly two hundred applicants. It was great fun but quite tiring for two old farts like me and Charlie. Because develop is for industry people we got a lot of crazy feedback but also some really valuable comments on things like the camera and controls that we really wanted to fix. We met up with loads of people we'd seen at EGX-Rezzed and people I worked with over 20 years ago on PSX games and wow that was weird! I wish I had more time to drink and chat but we were working... sort of.

Develop Stand

Here is a picture of our stand and yes we did print out little pictures of Smith and Winston and glue them to our monitor :) There is nothing in life that can't be made just a little bit more silly.

Brighton

This is a picture of Brighton, on the south coast of England. It a lovely old Victorian seaside town. There are quite a few game developers based there. It's only about an hours train ride from London. As with all seaside towns there are a lot of gulls and the big ones attack! Charlie had a whole sandwich taken from his hands while sitting on the beach! Finally, thanks for sticking with us. We'll get the release ready for next week and you should see Steam happily updating and slowing down your Netfix stream. EXPLORE AND DESTROY! dazza.

[ 2019-07-26 16:13:28 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.