Shot One Fighters!

Devlog: Fall Schedule Update!

Howdy! First of all, we wanted to offer a HUGE thanks to all of you for making the Kiera Plush Fiesta a massive success! With your help we were able to blast through our initial target and nearly double our Patreon backers in Diamond. We wanted to make a post to update everyone on the schedule this fall, and everything in progre...

Chapter 1 Comic: Awakening

Howdy! As part of a new thing we'll be adding to Patreon is our internal work on a comic that explains everything leading up to the game. This comic was originally printed on the back of the Cereal Box we deployed- But we will be deploying new chapters (And a prologue explaining how they get here from the disc era). We have multiple comics in pr...

Diamond Tier Upgrade Event! Kiera Plush Fiesta!

Hi everyone! Following a ton of requests and navigating these crazy tariffs, we have finally confirmed a new batch of Kiera plushies and will be running a limited time upgrade event for backers. Upgrade to Diamond Tier now and you will receive a Kiera plush and access to the first internal playtest in early October for our rogue...

Devlog: Drill Commander, New Music, Demo Progress, World Hub Concept!

YO! Howdy again and we are back following the EVO showing in early August, which went well. To top things off, wanted to show off the brand new banging track, Desert Standoff by StriderTempxa and a preview of the latest miniboss, Drill Commander in the new dusk stage we created for minibosses. You can see some of Drill Commander...

Devlog: EVO, Kiera kit, Publishers and more~!

ROAAAAR! EVO is upon us friends! And we have been head down for a while now as we've been focusing on a few goals. At the moment we have the team split into two groups- One for the single player and the other on versus. This is what has had us busy:

2025-07-18 06:04:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Devlog: Oz and Void Vision, Game Guide, Other Goodies

Howdy folks!

Oz/Void Vision And Animated Events:

Let's start things off with a preview of what our events in our game will look like with Oz (Above) and a premiere of his new track, Void Vision by StriderTempxa. We are currently animating all our mystery events and story encounters in a Live2D fashion to ...

Devlog: FRIDGES!? Bosses? EVO!? More?

Hi everyone! Time for the latest devlog- We've been working on a lot of new stuff. Between refreshed talks with publishers, we are continuing to move towards building out a full Zone 1 enemy list. Fridges are the latest and they are now up and running in game.

2025-04-18 09:51:13 +0000 UTC View Post

The Cereal Package Diamond Survey!

Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hGJ04SYmROeAYkm5fgJQQEli330menwUnzPqhzJy0v4/edit

Hi everyone! All the reward items have come in and it's time to start packing and shipping. Please fill out t...

Devlog: THE Fighters Single Player Trailer (Internal cut)

Yo! So we just wrapped up a pretty aggressive push that ended on March 15th, correlating with GDC (The Game Developers Conference). For context-This is where a lot of business happens in the game industry every year. People go to pitch their games, find publishers and investment and so on an so forth.

2025-03-20 18:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Devlog: The Fighters Roguelike Prototype Footage/GDC/More!

Let's get dumb with it. SB here, edited an incredible video to show off why we've been a bit more quiet- We have a massive deadline looming we've all been working on to hit. And that is to get the first prototype of the roguelike up and running with the ideas we pitched internally and to the community. As of now it...

Diamond Update! The Project Cereal Package!

Hi folks! Just wanted to fill you in on what's coming on the Diamond Backer front- This is also a chance for people to upgrade their tier before the cutoff on February 19 to receive this. With the addition of new backers and your support, we've been able to upgrade our offerings, which is dope! This is probably our coolest ...

The Cat-puccino Poll! MeeeOW!

Hello! We were having a bit of a hard time deciding on this so we wanted to put it up for a poll. One of the encounters we're working on features a rather caffeinated ambassador from the feline empire (Aka Queen Kyu's merchant realm).

As a roamin...

Devlog: Happy New Year! What's Cooking?

Happy new year everyone! We're back with a new update after a short break from socials for the holidays. Let's cut to the chase:

Queen Kyu Visual Update

A familiar face makes a return in the form of Queen Kyu! Completely visually updated and with an incredible new face rig (We're collaborating with the ama...

MFF (Midwest Furfest Report)!

Howdy! So we just got back from MFF, and happy to report it was an amazing success. To take a step back, we got some intel from fellow indies AIM (Animal Insurgent Mercenaries), an advance wars style title that these cons might be worth attending. We put together a plan months ago to pitch the idea to the MFF staff to have indies, and we had zer...

Devlog: The Void Emissary, Her Theme and Lore!

Howdy! SB here with fresh intel on the single player. Today I want to introduce you to the mysterious Void Emissary- The first character you will meet as you journey into the Paradox void. The Emissary is a timeskip version of another character, who is there assist you on each run you make. As the single player wil...

Diamond Backer Poll Reminder! (October Event)

Hey friends, learned that some of our Diamond backers might not be on Discord atm, so reposting the poll here for the October promotion being sent out this month. We are still missing a few survey respondents so please take the time to fill this out so we can get your package out in a timely manner!

As a reminder, this is only for new Dia...

Devlog: Building a Godbuster Map Icon

Rigman here, I had the job of figuring out how to make an animated icon for our map screen, here's a little behind the scenes.

Given the scale of what the icon would be on screen at 1440p, I figured that an 800x500px resolution would be a solid enough of a jumping off point. A 5x6 sprite sheet layout would come out to 4000x3000 pixels...

Final Call! October Upgrade Event. Also, Happy Halloween!

Hello, and happy Halloween patrons! First of all we'd like to thank all the new Diamond Members for joining and supporting us, as well as all the other Patrons supporting us. Wanted to remind you all that today is the final day to do a Diamond Upgrade to take advantage of the mini care package. After this it's back to norma...

Limited October Upgrade Event! Kierariffic!

Hello to both our new members and existing ones! This month only we're running a special for people that upgrade to our Diamond Tier ($25) in honor of us starting work on Kiera as a playable character. For people that are on the fence, this will be a great opportunity to jump in and get a cool Kiera themed goodies package with plenty of perks! 2024-10-09 19:18:14 +0000 UTC View Post

September Dev Update Pt.2: Multiplayer! Queen Kyu Special :3

Hello! Part 2 of this month's update is focused on mutiplayer-And we're covering a few things. First of all- Our VS screen multiplayer screen got completely updated UI wise and here's a preview of the new current VS screen theme created by StriderTempxa- Who just joined our crew as ...

Dev Update: Roguelike Work Mega Update! Let's Cook!

Hey folks, know it's been quiet but the team has been cranking on content for the single player prototype atm. This update will focus on single player while next week will have some updates on multiplayer production. August was a bit content sparse as it was programmer heavy, with them working on systems required for our rogue focused single pl...

Dev Update: Queen Kyu, Roguelike Progress and More!

Howdy howdy! Sorry for the delay but July's chonky update is here for everyone. I ran into a minor delay as I was called in late last week to be sworn in as a citizen, which is dope! (I'm finally Americaaaaan after all these years! So let's start things off with the gif above, which is a first run on a new throw concept for Volley by Arthur Muno...

The Kiera Package! Survey For Backers

Howdy! It is time to finally ship out our mystery packages for all of you. Appreciate your patience as we had the delays with the plushes but everything is now in hand and will be shipping out by end of week! There will be surprises!

Survey Link:

2024-06-18 20:28:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Devlog: Kyu Or Kiera? Roguelike Design, MattMcMuscles?! More!

Hey crew! SB here It's been a good ass few weeks (very productive) and wanted to share an update on what's cooking. Internally we've been busy with a few things.

ROGUELIKE/LITE DESIGN UPDATE:

We j...

Character Lab #2: Exodus

Howdy! Today we're returning with a series on characters in development- Today we're bringing you Exodus. If you missed the last character lab, check on our profile on O-.

Exodus (Codename atm) represents the Anti-Volley archetype, a membe...

Devlog: Rollback Netcode Testing Breakthrough

Hey crew! Hello to both old and new faces. Just wanted to report that we had a major breakthrough in the last week or so regarding getting a successful rollback netcode test. We ran our first set of test runs between members from the west and east coast of our team without any major desyncing. While we still have some issues to iron out, this is...

Diamond Update: Post PAX Kiera Plush Clarity

Howdy! Back from PAX, sick as hell (And I sound like it) but I squeezed in a little video to showcase the entire prototype line for the Kiera plush (Which is in production as we speak).

So wanted to show off every prototype made so far, including...

Dev update 03/14: Fight For The Future! Pre-PAX Fighters Update.

Hello friends! SB here again with a chunky update for March. So we've been balls to the wall with work on the Shot One Fighters Proto- And we are basically at a state where it's ready for PAX East, GDC, and everything in between. The new UI reflects how I feel about it- Fight for the Future, Rebirth Awaits. If this is the direction we need to go...

January Devlog Part 2: Badlands Gameplay, Fixer Bar, Kiera Fig, MORE!

Hey again, SB here! Fullscreen this one please. So since December we've basically been all gears firing on the Shot One Fighters prototype. Atm we are in the polish phase with a 1 character, 2 stage prototype. In the last week or two we basically assembled a Badlands theme stage, complete with a fully functional Godbuster and minions nearby heck...

January Devlog Part 1: Let's Talk Timeskip Vlad (Spoilers)

Hello again and happy January to everyone- Today we're returning with a discussion that's been going on regarding just...Vlad. This post contains some story SPOILERS so proceed at your own risk:

As we are working on the Sh...