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Toronto-based indie studio Massive Damage (@Massive_Damage) announced their upcoming tactical squad-based rogue-lite RPG Star Renegades (@starrenegades) is releasing on PC September 8, 2020.
Read MoreUbisoft Toronto (@UbisoftToronto) has announced that Vivid Foundry (@VividFoundry) has earned the Grand Prize and Kitten Cup Studio (@KittenCupStudio) has won the Special Prize in the 4th Indie Series, with Massive Damage (@massdmginc) getting an honourable distinction.
Read MoreMassive Damage have announced their retro-style space strategy RPG Halcyon 6 is heading to Nintendo Switch. Starting January 31st you’ll be able to download the game for $22.99. If you’re unfamiliar with Halcyon 6, it launched on Steam in 2016 and got an updated version in 2017. The gang at Massive Damage are also working on Star Renegades which is due out in 2019.
Halcyon 6 was declared a "sumptuous video game stew". Grab your spoon and take this tasty stew of base building, alien diplomacy, and tactical space combat on the go on the Nintendo Switch! #nindies #nintendoswitch
— Massive Damage (@Massive_Damage) January 18, 2019
🍲 Coming January 31st! 🍲https://t.co/DAAIwLE8et pic.twitter.com/EipIj60guQ
Published by Noodlecake, and developed by FaceIT, the previous Mobile/Steam game Summer Catchers will be hitting the Nintendo Switch tomorrow (February 11th)
Reptoid Games (@reptoidgames), the developer behind 2018’s Fossil Hunters, announced their next game Fire Tonight, a narrative puzzle game “about two people trying to find their way back together in a city on fire”.
The makers behind Halcyon 6 have announced their next game. Massive Damage announced today Star Renegades, another tactical squad based rogue RPG, which you can add to your Steam wishlist here. The game will include an Intelligent Adversary system which will generate enemies and bosses as you play, while also unlocking hundreds of characters.
Fusing a reactive, tactical turn-based battle system that emphasizes interrupts and counters, with a procedurally generated and emergent mission-based campaign and an intelligent Adversary system with enemy officers that evolve and move up in the ranks, every playthrough is unique, challenging, and never the same.
Wishlist on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/651670/Star_Renegades/ From the makers of Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander comes a new squad-based rogue-lite strategy RPG. Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/massive_damage And Facebook: http://facebook.com/massivedamagegames http://starrenegades.com
According to the Steam page, Star Renegades is "coming soon."
The new studio founded by ex-BioWare devs Humanoid Origin is looking to fill multiple roles.
Massive Damage had teased some updates coming to Halcyon 6, and now we know that comes in the form of Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition. You can check out the details and a trailer for the new update below.
Community feedback + our sweat = Lightspeed Edition. Out Aug 10th and free for all H6 players of course! #gamedevhttps://t.co/hSEmUAwVsG
— Halcyon 6™ ✨GAMESCOM (@Halcyon6Game) July 17, 2017
“LIGHTSPEED EDITION Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition brings together the original Halcyon 6 base game along with all of the additional content (Combat & Customization, Diplomatic Diversions, Loot’em Up, and Morale Booster updates) released since launch in Sept 2016 as well as brand new Lightspeed Edition optimizations and features as follows: ”
Get it on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/651660/Halcyon_6_Lightspeed_Edition/ Hailing on all frequencies to strategy RPG fans! The widely praised Halcyon 6 has been reworked, enhanced, and pushed to its limits by Massive Damage Inc. to create Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition; releasing on August 10th! It'll be FREE for all H6 players.
Local Toronto developer Massive Damage Inc releases Halcyon 6 to critical acclaim, and now it looks like they are working on a big update which we'll learn about soon. Check out the below Tweets, and pick up the game on Steam.
We've been quiet lately but we're working hard on a huge update for Halcyon 6 and starting up something new :)#gamedev #pixelart #indiedev pic.twitter.com/YJ5vxICXgO
— Halcyon 6™ (@Halcyon6Game) May 25, 2017
Exciting news is forthcoming.. here's a #screenshotsaturday teaser ;)#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #pixel_dailies #gameart #indiegame pic.twitter.com/IJH3HqPogF
— Halcyon 6™ (@Halcyon6Game) July 8, 2017
Toronto-based indie studio Massive Damage (@Massive_Damage) announced their upcoming tactical squad-based rogue-lite RPG Star Renegades (@starrenegades) is releasing on PC September 8, 2020.
Ubisoft Toronto (@UbisoftToronto) has announced that Vivid Foundry (@VividFoundry) has earned the Grand Prize and Kitten Cup Studio (@KittenCupStudio) has won the Special Prize in the 4th Indie Series, with Massive Damage (@massdmginc) getting an honourable distinction.
It's been a long wild ride for Massive Damage with Halcyon 6. After it killed its Kickstarter, it released on Steam Early Access earlier this year. Today however the game is officially out, and can be picked up on Steam with a 15% discount. You can also check out the trailer below for the game:
Available on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/371200 Explore. Exploit. Exterminate. SURVIVE. Retro sci-fi strategy meets base building, exploration, and a deep tactical JRPG combat system in Halcyon 6. Take control of an idiosyncratic group of officers as they fight for the survival of Earth against an unknown alien threat.
Congrats to the whole team at Massive Damage! According to a blog post on their Steam page, they'll be working on bug squishing, and the Kickstarter Stretch Goals.
It's a busy week for Toronto game developers this week, Massive Damage Inc has announced their space strategy RPG Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander will be hitting Steam Early Access later this month. Halcyon 6 was a successful Kickstarter from last year that recently showed off some of the ground combat. Check out the launch trailer below!
Halcyon 6 on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/371200 It's official! Halcyon 6 will launch on April 21st on STEAM Early Access.
You can download the game right here on April 21st, and follow the developer on Twitter.
Indie developer Massive Damage Inc has released some new footage of their upcoming game Halcyon 6 which features some ground combat. You can check it out below, but make sure to also follow the developer on Twitter and check out their Devblog where they are posting more details on the game.
Halcyon 6 on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/371200 Wishlist us! Early Access release date is April 21st, 2016!
Halcyon 6 was on Kickstarter last year where it crushed its fundraising goal. There is no release date yet for the game.
Montréal-based Lucid Dreams, creators of Legends of Ethernal, is launching a Kickstarter for BIOMORPH which they describe as “a dark Metroidvania that still has plenty of surprises...”
Winnipeg-based C4 Cosplay & Props has announced an upcoming Kickstarter for “Vendors of BioShock Infinite” to recreate the vending machines from the 2013 FPS BioShock Infinite.
Toronto-based Behold Studios has relaunched the Kickstarter campaign for their turn-based RPG Mahou Senshi Cosplay Club, a game “about a cosplayer that gets her powers from the costumes you make.”
Ottawa-based Hot Sauce Bread Studios (@HotSauceBread) have launched a Kickstarter campaign for their debut project Haste, a turn-based, collectable card game featuring “strategic yet action-oriented card combat played in real-time.”
As part of the Summer Gamefest, Quebec-based Sabotage Studio’s Kickstarter hit Sea of Stars gets a new trailer.
Toronto-based designer Devon Wiersma (@Devon_Wiersma) has successfully funded a materials free, rules-lite RPG entitled Runt on Kickstarter.
Québec City-based indie studio Sabotage (@SabotageQc) have officially achieved the most successful Canadian video game Kickstarter campaign ever with Sea Of Stars, hitting $1,335,111.00 CAD pledged of their initial $133,000 CAD goal with less than two days to go.
Windsor developer Chute Apps have released a kickstarter for their roguelike tower defense game - Rogue Star Rescue. The game was released on Steam in Early Access earlier this year, and they are looking to Kickstarter to finish development.
We've already posted about the upcoming App Strategy Workshop, but wanted to dedicate a post to it. The upcoming event will go over creating mobile apps and will be really useful for any students or people interested in making apps:
"Building a great app is difficult, but turning it into a profitable business can be even more of a challenge. Join industry experts, innovative startups, publishers, and developers to explore strategies to turn your app into a profitable business. Audience members will have the opportunity to tweet photos, questions, and feedback throughout the event. One participant's tweet will be randomly selected and the lucky attendee will win a Nexus 9 tablet!"
The event will feature some local Toronto developers including Andy Smith from XMG Studios, Ken Seto from Massive Damage Inc, Al Zebian from Play Puddle, Rob Segal from Get Set Games, and more.
The event is on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 from 5:30pm to 9pm at One Eleven. You can check out all the details, and register for the event here. Make sure to follow the organization on Twitter here, and stay tuned to TorontoGameDevs.com for the latest.
After launching on Steam last year, St Catharines based Rocketship Park will be porting their puzzle story-driven adventure game LOVE to Nintendo Switch “soon”.