Its a new year! Over the past few months, weve continued to make a few updates to Necroball to make the experience more fluid, more crisp, and more intuitive.

Our retro game design specialist, Diamonick, has been actively studying the game and finds new ways to improve it from visual acuity to actual gameplay to the overall function of the game.

Its always been very important to us to keep to our retro roots, while taking inspiration from other games we love, to continue to mold the perfect Necromantic experience.

[h2]Some key updates included in Launch:[/h2]

• Upgraded UI/UX
  
• Controller and Ability callouts have been updated for clarity
  
• Streamlined Experience/ More First Time User Friendly
  
• Inclusion of Tooltips and Gameplay Gifs
  
• Balancing
  
• Enemy AI Adjustments and Character Ability Updates
  
• Graphical Overhaul
  
• New Screens, Minions, and Maps
  

• Bug Fixes
  
• Graphical & Quality of Life Updates
  

Here's a list of detailed patch notes for this round of updates to NECROBALL:

Bug Fixes:

• Various UI fixes
  
• Fixed HP regen during Soul Shield
  
• Fixed Summoning Circle overlap
  
• Fixed issue with Pause Screen interaction
  
• Fixed Ultimate Necroball animation
  
• Fixed pumpkin head zombie clipping
  
• Fixed Franken Monster health bar graphical error
  
• Fixed Tombstone Upgrade input
  
• Fixed issue where Players could move a dying Player off screen
  
• Fixed issues with Menu navigation
  
• Fixed unintended exploit with Upgraded Tombstones
  
• Updated old animations on the Loading Screen
  

• Graphical Update to Power Up Collection
  
• Graphical Update to Power Up Text
  
• Graphical Update to Player Character UI (indicator arrow that is only shown locally, small health bar next to character on field, blinking indicator when player health has reached critical/red condition)
  
• Outline added to Minions to distinguish between armies
  
• Graphical Update to the Summoning Circle ability
  
• Background Music added to Menus
  
• Death Timer Increased
  
• Implementation of the New Intro Screen
  
• Graphical Update to the Mausoleum Torches
  
• Graphical Update to Lightning Rod Sprite
  
• Graphical Update to Results Screen
  

The time has come. ARE YOU AND YOUR CREW READY!?

We are thrilled to announce that we are LIVE and in FULL ACCESS ON STEAM!!

Weve made some pretty sweet updates to this game to make it the most Necromantic experience yet, and want to give you all the details as you dive in!

Take down the enemy in this freakishly fast play amongst Necromancers, and summon your own gang of minions to help you destroy your opponent all while playing wizard soccer!

Check out whats new, oh and GOOD LUCK!

GHOULISH UPDATES INCLUDE:

MULTIPLAYER MADNESS

Party style. Play 1v1, 2v2, or 1v3 in local or online competitive play!

NEW MAPS

New maps throw a deadly twist into this wizardly soccer sport. Play in a Day of the Dead arena, a Celtic graveyard, a Medieval graveyard, or a Japanese graveyard to set the stage for the ultimate throw down.

UPDATED MINION ARMIES

You're only as good as your gang, and weve got new minion armies ready for battle. These minions work under your spell and your spell only to help defeat your opponent.

Each Necromancer has their own gang of ghouls to play with and you can choose a Zombie Army (Brunhilde), a Skeleton Army (Necrocorgi), a Shadow Demon Army (Zuzukal), or a Science Experiment Army (Crazy Jack) for battle.

NEW UI AND POLISHED GAMEPLAY

Weve polished and perfected our gameplay for the most fluid and intuitive experience yet. This game isnt for the faint of heart, or the faint of speed. Ghoulishly fast and deathly crisp, we think youll be stoked on the new and improved gameplay experience.

NEW MUSIC

Our new tracks will have you and your ghouls dying for more. Retro, arcade vibes make this an irresistible game to couch play with your friends.

We cant wait for you to experience our best version of Necroball yet! Save the date, tell your friends the time is near, and we cant wait for you to check it out!

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It has been brought to our attention that we are region locked in certain locations, we are currently working with Steam to resolve this issue. Thank you for your patience!

-King Crow Studios

ARE YOU AND YOUR GHOULS READY!?

We are thrilled to announce we are gearing up for our FULL RELEASE on STEAM October 26th, and weve made some pretty sweet updates to make this the most Necromantic experience yet!

Take down the enemy in this freakishly fast play amongst Necromancers, and summon your own gang of minions to help you destroy your opponent all while playing wizard soccer!

Check out whats new and get your crew ready for battle:

MULTIPLAYER MADNESS

Party style. Play 1v1, 2v2, or 1v3 in local or online competitive play!

NEW MAPS

New maps throw a deadly twist into this wizardly soccer sport. Play in a Day of the Dead arena, a Celtic graveyard, a Medieval graveyard, or a Japanese graveyard to set the stage for the ultimate throw down.

UPDATED MINION ARMIES

You're only as good as your gang, and weve got new minion armies ready for battle. These minions work under your spell and your spell only to help defeat your opponent.

Each Necromancer has their own gang of ghouls to play with and you can choose a Zombie Army (Brunhilde), a Skeleton Army (Necrocorgi), a Shadow Demon Army (Zuzukal), or a Science Experiment Army (Crazy Jack) for battle.

NEW UI AND POLISHED GAMEPLAY

Weve polished and perfected our gameplay for the most fluid and intuitive experience yet. This game isnt for the faint of heart, or the faint of speed. Ghoulishly fast and deathly crisp, we think youll be stoked on the new and improved gameplay experience.

NEW MUSIC

Our new tracks will have you and your ghouls dying for more. Retro, arcade vibes make this an irresistible game to couch play with your friends.

We cant wait for you to experience our best version of Necroball yet! Save the date, tell your friends the time is near, and we cant wait for you to check it out!

-King Crow Studios

We've been working hard to revamp our character select and make it streamlined while maintaining our retro style! We brought in a new dev with a real eye for design for this revamp and we're pretty pleased with how it turned out!

We eliminated a lot of clutter with this design by giving map select it's own screen and turning options into a pop up. We also updated the ready notification when you have your character choice locked in! We went for a classic tombstone design to go with our necromantic theme.

Stay tuned for more updates!

necropalm We're excited to show off our Day of the Dead Map! necropalm It is one of the final two maps we will be adding to the game and is inspired by Da de los Muertos, "Day of the Dead." We really wanted to make the maps feel more like arenas and be distinct so we added some small touches like the Necroball papel picado banners, sugar skull Necroball, and sugar skull scoreboard icon. We hope this map becomes one of your favorites!

Here's a character sheet of all of the minions we will be including when the game fully launches out of early access! Minion armies will now be permanently tied to each character! What army are you going to main?

Brunhilde: Zombie Army
Necrocorgi: Skeleton Army
Zuzukal: Shadow Army
Crazy Jack: Science Experiment Army

Hello Everybody!

Were excited to announce that Necroball is back in full development! As a company we have been able to sustain and grow by acquiring outside work that has enabled us to finish Necroball. We have designers, programmers, and artists making changes based on user feedback to deliver you a satisfying, finished necromantic experience. [skull emoji] So far we have implemented a new UI, added new maps, improved the multiplayer experience by enabling Steam Remote Play Together, and optimized the overall gameflow and user experience. Were doing it all on our own timeline and will keep posting progress to keep you informed as things are changing. Thank you so much for your support, were aiming to make it worth the wait. This is the start of our games division making a lot of new games and we appreciate your patience as we learn and grow.

Below are some content examples of some work we have done!

New Map Concept: Japanese Graveyard


New Map Select


We will be continuing to post updates as we continue to work on this project. There is much more to come!

Hello everybody!

We wanted to let you know there are a lot of things at work with Necroball and our plans to fully launch in Q1 of 2018.

Stay tuned for more information in the following weeks.

Thanks for playing Necroball!

-King Crow Studios
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Hello Everybody!

Necroball is taking part in the Steam Summer Sale this year! Here's your chance to get Necroball at the low, low price of $3.99!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/563410/Necroball/

Help spread the good word and let us know what you think about Necroball with a review!

Enjoy your summer!

-King Crow Studios

Hello Everybody!

Steam Trading Cards have arrived!
Collect 'em all to unlock unique Necroball emoticons, Steam Profile backgrounds, and coupons for other games!

In addition to that we've made some bug fixes, changes, and for this week Necroball is 25% off!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/563410/

Please leave a review and let us know what you think of Necroball! We only need a few more reviews to get our positive rating to the public.

If you would like to know more about Steam Trading Cards, go here: https://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards



PATCH NOTES 1.3:

- Removed the health bars on tombstones. This helps reduce the visual clutter and the tombstones already change their sprites to show more damaged versions as they lose hit points.
- All games are 5 minutes long. This currently solves a high-severity multiplayer bug that crashes the game at some point after 5 minutes have been played. Once we solve the issue, game time options will be reactivated.
- Removed damage numbers inside the projectile impact animations. These were originally for us to track damage buffs to make sure they were working and now that we know they are, we have removed the numbers to help reduce visual clutter.

SOME THINGS WE ARE STILL WORKING ON:
- Bugs involving team names being incorrectly assigned when playing multiple games in a row.
- Multiplayer Necroball sync issues.
- Ability modifications (lots of abilities will change in the next patch for the better!)
- Improved aiming mechanics and reticles

Thanks for playing!

-King Crow Studios

Hello Everybody!

Have you been waiting for Necroball to go on sale before buying a copy?

Next week we got you covered with a sale to promote Steam Trading Cards coming to Necroball!

There will also be some mechanics tweaks and UI changes to reduce visual clutter and give emphasis to the important things on the battlefield.

We'll post more details next week when the sale begins and the cards are available to collect! (Should be Monday!)

Thanks,

-King Crow Studios

Hello Everybody!

We put out a patch earlier this week and have been testing it's efficiency with great success! There was a lot of work done around fixing some Necroball multiplayer authority issues involving who owns the Necroball after collision between the host and client.

While the desync happens much less often than it used to, it might still occur and if you see it please send us a bug report to bugs@kingcrowstudios.com or leave a post on our community forum here!

http://steamcommunity.com/app/563410/discussions/

Keep sending us bug reports and let us know what you think about Necroball by leaving a review!

PATCH NOTES 1.2

- Player names should now always show up in multiplayer matches
- Version difference stops the client from joining a match and gives an error message.
- Shadows no longer spawn in the middle of the screen for the client.
- Brunhilde can correctly shoot over ice wall if playing as the client.
- Changed mouse mechanic - now all mouse movement affects reticle
- Removed Unity Splash Screen
- Latency indicator added to in-game portraits
- Added mouse sensitivity slider to options
- Mouse sensitivity and outlines on/off now set by player rather than by match
- Jack's Lightning Rod now correctly affects players.
- Necrocorgi charge-up ability increases minion spawns much more and increases minion speed
- Horde power-up removed from Survival Mode
- Friendly minions removed from Survival Mode
- Ultimate minions and Big Shadow minions have had their HP reduced
- Some crash bugs have been solved
- De-sync issue with the Necroball in multiplayer matches improved

Thanks for playing!

-King Crow Studios

Hello Everybody!

Today we added in Survival Mode for Necroball!



You'll face several waves of enemy minions while you try to keep them out of your goal and survive until the end!

All you have to do is start a game with just one player in the lobby, or everyone on the same team if you want to do co-op, and you'll activate Survival Mode and choose your enemy horde to face.

Please let us know what you think about the new Survival Mode and we'll continue modifying and polishing the existing mechanics in the game.

Speaking of modifying and polishing mechanics, here is our first list of patch notes!

PATCH NOTES 1.1

- Survival Mode added! Play alone or with friends against hordes of enemy minions!
- Zuzu's summoning circle ability no longer allows you, or the Necroball, to jump out of bounds.
- If another player leaves the lobby while the other players are "Ready" it no longer forces the "Ready" players to back out and rejoin.
- Error message now appears when you are disconnected from a multiplayer game due to latency.
- Levels should update automatically when you go back to the lobby, instead of having to exit and recreate the lobby to see the changes. (This bug seems to have spawned some other smaller level tracking bugs we are working on)
- You can now select Yes or No with the controller when trying to Quit Game.
- Game no longer uses the Unity icon when playing.
- Added in Windowed Mode option to Options > Graphic Settings.
- You can now scroll between characters while looking at their character info in the lobby.
- There is now a Controls Screen option in the Options menu.
- Changed flashing text in the lobby from "Press Start or A to Join" to "Press Start or Enter to Join"

Thanks for playing!

-King Crow Studios

Hello everybody!

Necroball is now available on Steam!

Thanks to everyone that helps support Necroball's development by purchasing a copy in Early Access. We promise to keep updating our builds regularly and fix bugs as fast as possible.

Speaking of bugs, with any Early Access release we know our game has them and we want to address them asap. Right now we are noticing some inconsistencies in our online multiplayer matches and that is our first priority on the bug list. Dropped games, latency issues, and abnormalities in the game lobby are under examination and we should have some progress on fixing them soon.

Our knowledge of these bugs is only because we've had tons of bug reports sent to bugs@kingcrowstudios.com and the Steam forums. This allows us to prioritize things users are encountering the most. Thanks for those emails!

We really have a lot to be thankful for. Our community has been amazingly supportive and we have a plethora of local game dev allies to help us out.

We'll update here with patch notes when we get the next build ready!

-King Crow Studios