We set our eyes on PAX South months ago as a milestone to show off our first playable to the public, after having spent a rather long time dealing with the ups and downs of assembling a team and getting all the behind the scenes details sorted. It was a rather oddly timed deadline as PAX South is historically in early January, which lead to quite a few of us working over the holidays to get everything done. Was it stressful? Yes. Was it worth it? Yes. So how did things go?

A typical issue with making isometric games more eyecatching is figuring out ways to break up the monotony of a top down title. For Shot One we designed a lot of colorful, over the top characters so we wanted to figure out a way to showcase them. That's where the idea of the 3d outro system was born! Inspired by fighting game titles with their crazy over the top outros like Street Fighter, Tekken and even hints of Overwatch, we set out to try and create our own system to give the match finishes a colorful, satisfying end.

This week we're celebrating our first milestone for our game, which is reaching 1,000 followers for the Shot One project. We'd originally set our hopeful projections for 400 followers by the end of March, but one of our posts went viral and it brought in a wave of new eyes who all seem excited about what we're up to.

We're back with our first hand painted skin in a while, a follow up to the SSG08 Dragonfire, one of the most popular CSGO skins we've ever worked on! We spent a long time trying to figure out how to make a successor without simply slapping the old design on a new gone, so we took our time on this one to figure out a new dragon design and appropriate gun to apply it to.

The Neon Rider Light series, same retro flavor for a quarter of the price! After having created multiple painted versions of the Neon Rider series, we've decided to create a 'light' version of the Neon Rider that would have the same spirit of the original without the Covert/Classified level hand painted designs on them.

We're ultimately going to be playing around with the idea of a single player component to the game. But in order to build this universe outside of the game, we're experimenting with a few options. One being character dialogue inbetween matches.