Steam Summer Sale 2019

Howdy!

The summer is here, and the heat in Finland is immense. Seriously, I thought last year we had a fantastic summer up here in the Far North, but now it's been even crazier. During midsummer, last weekend that is, I witnessed huge thunder storms and sunshine during one day.

This year has been incredible so far, and a lot of stuff has happened. In February we released an RPG on the mobile called Crypts of Death, and its reception has been great! I've also been helping out on an unannounced horror shooter project, doing character art and additional code for it.





In March I created this prototype demo for a story-oriented action-adventure game, called Hybrid Children. I applied for a grant of 5000 euros (approximately 5680 dollars), but sadly wasn't able to get the funding to develop this prototype further. What do you guys think, should we do an Indiegogo campaign on the game, to get the funding necessary to finish the project?

The screenshot above and the ones below are from that prototype. It was created in Unity, and is fully 3D as you can see. I also did a couple of test with a more Kalaban style perspective in addition to these.







To celebrate this Steam Summer Sale, I have decided to share a few screenshots uploaded by the community on Steam. It's always great to hear feedback and reviews on the game, and it's especially nice to see user-created content and / or fan art.

We spent two years slaving away on the game, and I don't think many people realize how long it took to implement all the open world elements and the story into it. Let alone all the unique background art that we created! After the release I have been updating the game, ironing out all the bugs reported by the community.



Some user in our community went into the game's ini file and gave himself loads of vitality and ammunition. It's always great to mess around with data files and see what happens.




Tyler, a user in the Kalaban community, uploaded several screenshots with his own captions drawn on them. I remember taking screen grabs and making my own modifications into them, like drawing a new first person weapon in Duke 3D.



"Sometimes a Small WC just isn't enough." Ain't that the truth?


Okay that's it for the screenshot review! Kalaban is on discount on Steam, Itch, Humble Store and Gamejolt.








If you haven't bought Kalaban yet, or have not tried the Horde mode demo, you can try it out beforehand:


Download Kalaban - Horde mode - Indie DB

Spring Sale 88% !

Hello there!

My birthday is coming up, and I wanted to put Kalaban on sale to celebrate it! The game is available on 88% sale on itch.io, Gamejolt and HumbleBundle store and will be coming on sale on Steam.

The game was recently updated to a new 1.1.9 version, so there will be new stuff to see even for previous players. Many of the fixes in the new version were requested by our community.

Now is the best time to get the game, if you don't own it already.

2 Year Anniversary Patch

Phew! It's been a crazy year since I last updated Kalaban's blog page.

A lot has happened, and now Kalaban is finally being transferred to a new publisher in Steam. I have gotten my Steamworks developer account back, and I just recently released a new patch for the game. Here's a short list of the updates:

• Auto-attack while you keep your Attack button down, and keep attacking through reload.
• The description box on objects has been altered.
• Esc on main menu will also act as a back function.
• Main menu intro can be skipped.
• Brightness setting fixed so that you cannot underset or overset the brightness.
• All the white edges on the level backgrounds fixed.
• WMV format on the Main menu background video clip.
• Paula & Kaarina quest bug fixed where you cannot get the item if they have left.
• Paula’s freezer taunt fixed after the story has gone forward.
• Enemy health bar sometimes not appearing fixed.
• Super armor now visible on paper doll in Inventory screen.
• Fixed flamethrower damage on the Brambler monster.
• Horde Mode item pickup recognition enhanced.
• Horde Mode scene changing taken off because of confusion.

A lot of features on the update are stuff that I have planned to include in the game for over a year. Especially the auto-attack feature really enhances the gameplay feel in combat.

If you own Kalaban and haven't played the game in a while, give it a spin. Let's enjoy the 2 year anniversary of the game together!

Kalaban on Steam

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100 Years of Independence

 

 
Howdy!

Today marks the 100th year of independence for Finland. To celebrate this, we have decided to release an early prototype version of Kalaban for all the gaming historians out there.

This version was released in September 2016 as the first Early Access version, and it was available at Gamejolt. Proto-Kalaban pre-dates the current Steam version by over a year. Many of the final scenes are in place, and all the basic enemies are featured. The gameplay is really rough, and you can see how much the game has evolved compared to the current version.

The vitality and food mechanics are in place, but as you can see from this version, the UI was still being perfected, and many of the features were missing. You can drop items to your hotbar for example, but you cannot drag & drop items to the Bob's full body portrait. Player character also has no animations for different weapons, only the axe and the pistol.

Many of the NPCs are missing, and the game doesn't keep track of your quests, and the levels don't remember which quest items you have already acquired. There are also way too many graphical glitches and bugs to even mention. Most of which have been fixed since.

Proto-Kalaban can be seen as an audiovisual portfolio of the game, and almost all of the music is in place already. If nothing else, people may find it curious to see a game in such a rough state, before it was perfected. It's quite remarkable that this game was developed with Clickteam Fusion 2.5, which is not meant for open world action-adventure / RPG titles of this magnitude.

Naturally, there is no support for this version, as we've ceased the development of Kalaban already. You can find the up-to-date version of the game from Steam. Enjoy!


 Download Proto-Kalaban from IndieDB:

Spring Sale -50%!

 

Hello there!

The spring is here and our game Kalaban is now available with a 50% discount on Steam. If you still haven't grabbed your copy of the game, then now is the perfect chance!

We've recently updated the game and fixed some of the UI issues that we've had. During these past few months, we've read user reviews and feedback, and have fixed the bugs and glitches that have been listed.

Recent fixes include tweaking the loot drops from the enemies, adding destructible crates and barrels, and adjusting the player's movement speed. We've also fixed the brightness slider, and fixed its save game value.

So, if you haven't tried the game in a while, or you have not yet played through the game, now might be a good time to give the game a revisit. The game does feature a three-hour long story campaign with lots of NPC encounters and unique places to explore.

The campaign was beefed up in January, when we released the larger content patch, which added more detail into the Kalaban backstory, and revealed some of the mysteries related to the cultists. All of this is of course found in-game through exploration and discovering the clues in the environment.

To accompany the new discount, we put together a new short trailer for the game. You can find the video from below, and you can visit our Steam page here. Enjoy!