Happy New Year From Team SWDTech!

We hope you've had a great holiday season. We're all very excited about what we have in store for 2023. But for now, we wanted to focus on the progress we made in 2022. Last year saw a major shift in the game's development. We moved from a very long development to post-production and throughout the year crushed many many many bugs and added a lot of great polish edits, culminating in an update to the Early Access last month! Let's take a trip down memory lane!

Major features implemented in 2022

One of the bigger changes to the game was how skills are managed. This included changing how characters acquired skill points, as well as adding skill bonuses to gear, effectively reducing skill cost.
We updated the CRDTech card game, adding in tons of skills, new BGM / SFXs, and even implemented Gambling NPC's throughout the city who will gladly throw down some cards to win your hard-earned cash. [previewyoutube=mKO9xTgLlZE;full][/previewyoutube] Speaking of NPC's, we put in grifters, traders and bums who you can potentially get some goodies from. We even added some random dialogue to all shops. and we updated all the bartenders in the game, they now sell alcohol!
Time at the bar!
Charitable giving can be rewarding.
Damn inflation! We implemented New Game + which will allow you to replay the game and carry over things like experience, cash, and gear from your last play-through. You can even see which choices you made on your previous play-through so you can make some different choices and maybe take a different path through Pixel Noir's story!
Yeah you signed in on your first playthrough, remember? We've added the bounty hunting system, effectively giving players another whole set of side-quests & cases to solve!
Track down some of the most notorious thugs in the city! We've also made a lot of little changes such as updating the design of the club in Uptown (inclusive of flashing lights, obnoxiously loud music, & all!), varied the typing SFX's for all characters, added more polish to the casino games, and decreased load times. GUI upgrades were another big focus area including "quality of life" upgrades such as highlighting key terms or call to actions with red/green text, the ability to zoom in/out when looking at the the Map of the city, and lots more!
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Call to attention highlighting so you don't miss the important stuff.
We even added more ways to fast travel to parts of the city.
The house always wins.......maybe. Most recently we updated the Early Access build on Steam with another update on the way in the coming weeks! If you either previously played the Early Access or were planning to, give it a shot and drop us a line in the Community Forum to let us know how you like it!

Signing Off

That wraps it up for us in 2022. But as we move into 2023, If you're excited about Pixel Noir, here are three steps you can take to make sure you're in the know: 1. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/754320/Pixel_Noir/]Wishlist Pixel Noir on Steam! 2. Join our SWDTech Games Discord server for a constant stream of screenshots, granular development updates, sprint summaries. You can even chat with the development team! 3. Follow our daily progress on our official Twitter bot. Our next update will be on March 23rd! From our 16-bit family to yours, we hope everyone had a great holiday season! //Team SWDTech

[ 2023-01-13 15:19:04 CET ] [ Original post ]