Hi friends!

If you are in europe, more specifically Germany, and more specifically Köln and more specifically attending Gamescom, then, GOOD NEWS (I hope)!

We are showing Slice & Bite at the GameMaker booth, Hall 10.2 , corner at the entrance.

Come early and you can get a sticker!

I love when this happens!

Just found a video on YouTube of someone playing our ENTIRE demo (40 mins!) , and even making voices for all of the characters!

We've changed a few things from the demo since then, but its still a good overview of it .Certainly good for us to learn about what we did wrong and what we did right.

Go check it out if you are interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnpo7GjaWxw

We've been working hard at Slice & Bite for over 3 years at this point. 

Most of that time we were spending a few hours a week after work and weekends, and only recently we've been able to dedicate a greater portion of our time to developing the game. After getting enough feedback we've found out that people usually really like how our game looks, how it sounds, and the premise, but the gameplay is "just ok". 

I'm sure other developers can agree this is a difficult thing to accept. Especially when it comes to "just ok", because it's so hard to parse! "It's too difficult" at least feels more actionable than "just ok".

So we were at a crossroads. Maybe our game doesn't have the magic. Maybe we should give up and do something else.

Testers usually agree that there is something interesting in the gameplay, but that it was untapped or hindered by other mechanics. So we decided to revisit our main systems, overhaul them, give the game another chance. After 3 years of working on this world we are not ready to let it go just like that. 

Sometimes to go forward you need to take a couple steps back ( in this case is almost literal , as you can see in the screenshots we've widened the camera quite a bit). 

 Now Slice and Bite focuses more on the speed of the delivery (which was a planned feature but not as relevant as it is now) and we've simplified the UI and the systems quite a lot. Now you use the blood you collect from enemies as fuel for your carriage to go faster. It remains to be seen if the players find this more engaging than before, but so far our own testing feels more dynamic, you get a bit of an adrenaline rush trying to keep the pedal to the metal and gorge your engine with monster blood. If you are curious about how the game played "before", go ahead and download the demo. We are still welcoming of any feedback that might come our way. 

We love the world of Slice & Bite and we hope we can share that world with players too. 

 Carpe Noctem 

 Delfos (programmer, artist)

Before:

Now:

Not a huge difference in graphics but it does change the game feel quite a bit.

Hey everyone!

I haven't used Newgrounds in what it feels like a thousand years, but I come with good news.

Me and my friends finished making a demo for our latest game, Slice & Bite!

In Slice & Bite you play as Cosimo, a pizza delivering vampire living in a demon infested medieval Italy. Choose your delivery routes and upgrade your magical carriage. Save your family pizzeria from certain doom by slicing your way through levels, defeating challenging bosses, uncovering secrets and exploring the world of the Dark Dark Ages.

You can't play the demo in Newgrounds yet, but you can download it from the itch page : https://tinymoldgames.itch.io/slice-and-bite

And of course, if you are interested, we would greatly appreciate if you can wishlist us in Steam , follow us in Twitter, join the Discord, all those sorts of things.

I will keep you all posted with new developments here as well. Hope you like the game!

If you liked the band of the music video I made you can buy their latest album here:
http://valhallalights.com/my-gracious-highway/

Hi everybody!
I am very pleased to announce that my last animation is now online! Is a video clip for a kick-ass band called Valhalla Lights, and their song "Hammer The Witch"

https://youtu.be/7puRU892gbI

I'll make a post in the animation forum to share some development screens, videos, and I really want to make some tutorials, so I am open to suggestions about what shots do you want me to explain. There are some cool rigging tricks using DUIK that I am sure will be handy.
You can also like our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/raravisanimacion
Special thanks to all the band who've been super supportive and gave me a lot of creative freedom, and to EleKlap that helped me doing some illustrations and animation. Without her I would have ended completely insane :)

I paste the band's release post:

‪#‎HammerTheWitch‬ is finally here!

Byron Bay heavy rockers release their sixth installment from their brand new album 'My Gracious Highway'..

'A heavy and melodic tale set to the dark and primitive history of religion and the famous 'Crusades' and the infamous book 'Malleus Maleficarum'.

How its menacing purge, demonstrated such dogmatic and callous belief in misanthropic murder that humans were practically hypnotized into violence and blindly controlled by fear..

A fear that not only has the power to lead people astray but also resonates with contemporary man and the mass media mayhem that tries to oppress us all..'

Enjoy this one rockers ⚡️ ⚡️

https://youtu.be/7puRU892gbI

Special thanx to Matias @ https://www.facebook.com/raravisanimacion/

Want to see more Valhalla Lights clips? Why not head on over to our YouTube channel and subscribehttps://www.youtube.com/user/valhallalights

Hey everybody!
If you are at Melbourne this week you should go to the Melbourne International Animation Festival. This wednesday my short Termonster is going to be screened, along with many other great south american shorts at the SouthAmerican Showcase #3.
So, if you happen to pass by, please tell me how it was!

Here's the festival's web site: http://www.miaf.net/2014/25june.html