Today, we have an exciting update: Duncan and Paul, alongside many other talented members at Hopoo Games, will now be working on game development directly at
@valvesoftware
!
Remember, Overloading Magma Worm, when I promised i'd kill you last??
"⚡️🔥THATS RIGHT COMMANDO... Y'DID!!!🔥⚡️"
I lied. (I will be killing you in 2 days lol)
We love making games - and will continue to do so, for years to come. We're excited to be working side-by-side with the talented people at Valve. But for now - sleep tight, Hopoo Games.
We're incredibly grateful to Valve for their partnerships in the last decade, and are excited to continue working on their awesome titles. However, this does mean that we are stopping production on our unannounced game, "Snail".
It's been an exciting and transformative 12 years. We feel lucky for the opportunities we've had, and deeply appreciate both our team and fans that have supported us and our games.
All of us at Hopoo want to take this opportunity to say a massive THANK YOU to the very good people at GameMaker & YoYo for helping make Risk of Rain Returns possible!
Survivor Reveal Stream!
July 19th @ 9am CT (3pm BST)
* New Animated Survivor Reveal Trailer by Remus and Kiki!
* New Survivor Gameplay Trailer!
* Dev Thoughts 31 Survivor Ability Showcase!
* Exclusive Risk of Rain Returns Soundtrack interview with Chris Christodoulou!
Today we pushed a patch for Risk of Rain Returns! While this patch has a whole bunch of different balance changes and bug fixes, its biggest feature is the inclusion of horizontal mouse aiming!
Read all about it here:
Upcoming bug/balance fixes coming in a patch soon
- Momentum repeatedly throwing you off the stage
- Ignite/Burn effects lasting too long
- Void fog damage reduction in Void Fields
- Void Infected Collapse damage fix
- HUD markers for last 3 Void Seed enemies
and many more!
I think our community knows best - So are you an artist *with a portfolio* and a fan of Risk of Rain who thinks they could design a kick-ass Tshirt for our coming-soon merch store? My DM's are open!
To cover most of the feedback asked in yesterday's tweet - In the next Dev Thoughts i'm going to conduct a video interview with Duncan and Paul..
If you could ask the development team ONE question what would it be?
Quick reminder that once the Acrid pre-orders are closed on Wednesday 19th it will be taken off sale never to return! If you havnt already secured yours get on over to
Dwayne Johnson says that he is doing another video game movie.
“We're going to bring one of the biggest, most badass games to the screen--one that I've played for years.”
(Source: )
I should be recording the Q&A video later today with Duncan and Paul that I mentioned last month with questions gathered from the community - anyone got any last minute questions they want answered?
(plz no "console when?")
For those curious the reveal animation was directed by Remus and Kiki for Wizz Design - they've re-uploaded it to their YouTube channel, they were an absolute pleasure to work with! Go and show them some love in the comments:
Need to pass the time between now and Risk of Rain Returns release later today??
Why not marathon 49 facts about the game in this convenient playlist!
Heres a fun game: try and guess which of the so called "facts" are no longer correct...
Join us tomorrow on YouTube for the Premiere of Dev Thoughts 29 - learn all about the alternate survivor abilities coming soon in Risk of Rain Returns!
10am CT, 4pm GMT
This Sunday our biggest streamers and content creators are going HEAD TO HEAD on Twitch in the first ever Risk of Rain 2 Scavenger Bingo!
"What is Scavenger Bingo??" I hear you ask? ...Find out on the day!
On Monday 20th Nov at 5.30pm I will be hosting a LIVE Q&A with Hopoo Games Composer
@AstronautDown
on the Hopoo Games Twitch Channel.
Questions will be coming from the Community - if you have a question pop into our discord and check out the announcements channel!
Risk of Rain 2 is part of
@GamesDoneQuick
(AGDQ) this year! Being speedran by Gothrand!
The schedule can be found here auto-adjusted to your local time (its 1.23AM GMT Thursday):
and the stream will be found here:
Looking for some last-minute teasers and hype before Survivors of the Void launches at 10am CT on Tuesday 1st March? Join us on YouTube for some Void Fiend Simulacum mode footage!