Hey Everybody! As you can probably tell from each successive Kickstarter update, we've been posting fewer update content. That's because we're in the process of finally closing out our development cycle! While you'll continue to see polish and bug fixes up through release, we'll be transitioning from development to porting and localization over the next few months. Let's jump into the rest of the update!

Release & Porting News

Although we are still locking down timing, we plan to launch on Steam first and subsequently on consoles. We were hoping to have more details around release times for you by this update, but we're still in planning discussions with our publisher. Currently, the team is in the middle of heavy testing, so the amount of time needed to find/fix bugs and the defects with the porting/compliance issues that are sure to rise up will greatly influence exactly when we can target a launch date. We know launch times are important to you backers and fans, so we are working to get you this information as soon as we can.

Shade's Summons

We implemented Shade's Summon skills a couple of months ago, which means this mysterious character is ready for battle with sword in hand.

Dealing With Enemies

We've added in and polished up the enemy skills for every enemy in the game! Some of these attacks will challenge you and have you rethinking your strategy.
In addition to adding many enemy skills, we are currently on our fourth pass of balancing for the game. We've fine-tuned enemy encounters during this run and ensured that enemies have appropriate item drops. Battles were already feeling pretty good, but now they feel rewarding too!

Place Your Bets!

We're excited to showcase card-slinging NPCs. These characters will be happy to play a game or three of CRDTech with you. And happy to take your hard-earned cash while they're at it.

More Polish & Optimization

Finally, we've made several enhancements, including updating and adding a ton more player interactions.
We Added text highlighting to item, skill, & case descriptions.
And lots of optimization to pathfinding to help decrease load times!

New Tunes

Finally, on the audio front, last year composers Hiroki Kikuta and Kunal Majmudar finished out a pretty spectacular boss theme. Does it feature a turbo intense orchestra? Check. Is it full of bloops and bleeps? Double-check. Does it feature Slavic women wailing? Ja! Feast your earbuds on this!

That's A Wrap!

If you're pumped about Pixel Noir, here are three steps you can take to make sure you're in the know: 1. Wishlist Pixel Noir on Steam! 2. Join our SWDTech Games Discord server for a constant stream of screenshots, granular development updates, sprint summaries, and chat with the development team! 3. Check in on development by dropping by Leo's Pixel Noir development streams on Twitch Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Also, remember you can follow our progress on our official Roadmap / Twitter bot. Our next update will be out on August 11th! See you then!