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DAWT

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Genre: Action, Arcade

Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux

Languages: English

Players: Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op

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Heading to MIGS!

12 November, 2015 - EgoAnt

It has been a CRAZY month!

I have been working hard on polishing the current version of DAWT. There is still a long way to go, but the controls are tighter, the power-ups are working, and I have a much smoother process for building new levels.

I took part in Extra Life this year and had a chance to showcase DAWT at the 24hr fundraising event. People really seemed to be having fun with the latest build, and as always watching other people play helped me make some changes for the next build.

Now for the really good news

DAWT has been shortlisted in Microsoft's Codename Goa[www.codenamegoa.ca] competition! This means it will be shown at the Montreal International Game Summit[migs15.com] (MIGS) this upcoming weekend. There are potential prizes involved, but I don't want to focus on those. The prizes are secondary.

What's important about this is that it gives me another chance to demo the game in a public space and observe how people play so I can continue to improve the game. I will be getting professional feedback from other game developers and will get to learn a lot.

Wish me luck! Not that I believe in luck. It's just a word that we use to describe events that turn out in one person's favor, even if that person worked really hard and..... Ah, skip it. Wish me FUN. =)

Multiplayer alpha demo available!

20 September, 2015 - EgoAnt

Want to start playing right now? Well head over to our demo download page[dawtgame.com] and... Hmmm. I guess the link is pretty self-explanatory.

When you find a bug - and you WILL find bugs - be sure to go directly to our support forum[dawtgame.com] and let us know so we can fix it. Or you could just make a YouTube video about what an abject failure I am as a developer. I'll eventually see that, and when I'm done weeping silently in the corner I'll get up and fix the bug.

Either way the game will be better for it in the long tun. =)

Description

Release date: Beta: November 7th, 2015

DAWT is a chance for you to experience, first hand, what life was like inside a maze in the 80's. DAWT is a VR action game with elements of Pac Man, Bomberman and other maze games from my youth.

* VR is not required to play.

Gameplay

DAWT will ship with the following modes:
• Multiplayer online deathmatch
• Team online deathmatch
• Multiplayer online co-op

In deathmatch each player starts with 3 lives, and the dots and walls respawn in the maze until there is only one player left. In team deathmatch nothing in the maze respawns, and the team with the most dots at the end wins. In co-op the goal is to survive waves of enemies until the time limit runs out.

Powers

There are currently two powers in the game:
• Dash: speed into another player to send them back to a spawn point
• Bomb: bombs fire in the direction you are currently looking and stick to walls and floors.

Controls

DAWT currently supports mouse and keyboard and gamepads.

Platforms

We will be releasing on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Popular Discussions View All (1)

7 Aug, 2015 @ 9:58am

Questions and Answers... and occasional rambling

EgoAnt

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76 Comments

EgoAnt [author] 14 Jun @ 3:11pm

DELAYS
So, yeah. The plan was to go into early access this month. This, of course, followed my previous plan of having it out in March.

Here's the problem: DAWT won a contest.
Usually that wouldn't slow down the dev of a game, however the main prize was a good chunk of money to help running our multiplayer servers. That money has yet to appear.

So now I am faced with a couple options:
1. I can crowdfund. This won't happen because it adds way more time to the release and could end up failing - leaving me in the same position.
2. I can front server costs myself and hope that the sales of the game are good enough to keep me running.
3. I can keep hounding the company that ran the contest and hope that they make good on their promise.

Right now I have been trying solution #3 for a couple months with no success. I don't think they're trying to mess with me, but there is a bunch of internal red tape.

If I don't hear back two weeks I'm going to launch DAWT on my own dime.

letsmaybeLP92 (GAME ON!) 6 Jun @ 8:47pm

I'm guess there were delays

Pointless Entertainment LLC 21 Jan @ 7:18pm

Bacon Overlord® 13 Jan @ 6:06pm

Thanks for the update.

EgoAnt [author] 13 Jan @ 6:00pm

Hey everyone! Steam version is coming in March, all keys will be sent out then!

Bacon Overlord® 13 Jan @ 7:21am

Wondering when the Steam version will release and the keys shipped.

crippler 7 Jan @ 4:24pm

@ DEV: Congratulations - This game has been Greenlit by the Community! - When will it release on Steam? And when will Groupees send me the key ?

danalyze 17 Sep, 2015 @ 9:40pm

Awesome game!Voted and bought it through Groupees's Build a Greenlight Bundle 30.Best wishes!

Rexor 16 Sep, 2015 @ 8:58am

Player.me Rexor says hi !

EgoAnt [author] 14 Sep, 2015 @ 8:14am

@RockstarCRO I'm still looking into the possibility of local co-op / deathmatch. Online is available now, bots will be coming with the co-op mode since the AI I need to program for the co-op enemies should be relatively easy to adapt to deathmatch / team mode.

There are a bunch of powerups coming. The next demo update will be focusing on adding the structure for them and including a couple. This is one of the things that I think will really make it fun.

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