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Ghostslayers is a wave-based top-down coop shooter where you slay the ghosts with magic and couple thousands of bullets... Or punches, or slashes, or explosions. Use the varied weaponary, spell cards and abilities, combine them together with your allies for more power and get through the city.

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Progress Devlog #5 - New Location, New Systems and Thank you!

Mar 24, 2025

Hello everybody! I know it's been a little while since we last posted any update on our current progress on the game, but we're still hard at work on the project and we've cooked up a couple new systems, as well as an entirely new upcoming location which, I'm gonna show you in this post.

First things first though. Thank you so much for 90 wishlists, we really appreciate every person who takes interest in our game and we are doing our best to create something that we want others to really enjoy, so again thank you for following the development of our game and we can't wait to show more for you.
And we have prepared a little comic just for you!

Now let's start with the new things

Randomly Generated Levels

Initially we planned out our game to have more linear sort of levels, rather than random generation every run, however we quickly realized that, that scenario would become boring quite quickly and for that reason we decided to work on a newly made random generation system

Please note that these are early development footages and we are still working on improving things and these are just to showcase the base function of what we are making.

The maps will have a beginning point, a couple tasks to do around the map while clearing out the rooms and the final boss door that will open after completing the said tasks. Of course there will also be the shop rooms in which you will be able to buy weapons, spells and new items! We want to try to give each location it's own distinct mini-bosses and bosses as well other features like in factory the breakable viles of acid. And as you have noticed we have started work on the new location!

The Dead Wild West

The incredibly hot, sunny landscape of waves of sand, in which only a couple other surviving plants reside around had now also met the sudden waves of undead coming into it. The slayers here will have to beware of the quicksand and the aforementioned hot sun, burning them down.

We are still working on adding more to this and older locations obviously, this is still a work in progress, but we're pretty happy with how it's looking so far!

And now moving onto our last new addition.

The Item System

During each run players alongside spells and weapons will now also be able to obtain different passive items which can help changing the general playstyle and overall handling of each run. Items can range from stat improvements to complete additions to your moveset and help you a lot, for example first item, "Garden Petals" Make you shoot out a hoaming petal every few seconds that would circle towards the nearest enemy.

Or another one which makes you explode on taking damage!

And zapping enemies nearby and saving you from death once and dealing double damage every few seconds. There's plenty more where that came from and we're working on adding more and more.

We will also open a suggestion channel pretty soon in our discord server, so if you would like to suggest what do you think would the game benefit from, feel free to join and make a thread there, we'd be interested in hearing what you would have to say.

You can join us here[discord.gg]

Thanks to everyone who is looking out for the game, we appreciate every single person and we're really excited to make more and more ahead. Thank you, good luck and have fun ^^

We also now have a boosty you can support us on!

https://boosty.to/thatfirey

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Alpha Updates Changelog #4

Dec 26, 2024

Hello everyone, merry christmas and happy incoming new year, let's hope the years ahead could become better for us!
As for our game, we have recently done a few major updates to our game.

First and probably the most noticable one is the addition of:

Lighting System

Thanks to the Crystal Lighting System made by Kazan Games, we were able to implement a much more visually clean and satisfying shading and overall improving the quality of art. Lights react to walls, can merge with other lights and overall look pretty beautiful. We hope you enjoy the look of it as well and feel free to leave comments if you think this could be improved in some ways.

First Level: Factory

Metallic sealed doors, acid pools, running sawblades. This place is totally osha-approved

Now this is a very early alpha test of such level that we made within a week, but it gave us a lot of new ideas of how to exactly develop a nice feeling level, that's why we decided to instead of focusing on making one whole map, now reformating into semi-randomly generated levels, where whole level is separated into different rooms that interconnect between eachother. Right on the gif it shows just a pre-made concept level for it and things are still subject to change on it, but that's a start for us with that!

New weapon functions

We also started on experimenting with giving older weapons better functionality, shotguns are now chargable, as well as us adding a new type of shotgun... well rather a cannon. Or to be exact Railcannon, which is a new strong, but long reload weapon which is able to pierce through low-health enemies, wiping out a bunch of green ghosts or soul-eaters on the way. Also in addition electric shotgun is now able to charge up giant electric balls, that shock anything on it's path!

And other improvements, as well as Jolly Ghosts :3

We also added pretty neat character art to main menu

And made some enemies and stuff jolly for the ocassion (thanks zack)

Overall we're pretty happy with the work we've done this month and looking forward in bringing more stuff in the game, currently we're experimenting with items system, reworking the rooms and other things, we're really excited to show more and more as it comes to reality in our game. Thanks for sticking with us, thanks for readin this and once again. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ^^

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Alpha Updates Changelog #3

Nov 22, 2024

Heya been a hot minute since we posted an update on what's new in our game. We are still hard at work on everything and let us post the exact new stuff we've been working on.

New weapons:
- Fishing Rod - attaches to enemies and throws them into different directions
- Spear - double attack weapon, first attack dash forward spearing everyone in your path, second attack throw your spear into enemies
- Crystal Revolver - Explodes an area of enemies pushing them around
- Electric Shotgun - Bullets cause chain lighting between nearby enemies
New enemy: Skeleton Mage - repeats player's spells
Game enables bullet time on casting spells
New weapon select and ready-up menu
3 New spells: Tetherball, Explosive Bullets, Electric Bullets
Added early shop prototype
Added flinging enemies up into air on them being hit
Optimized navigation systems
Enemies now crumble into parts
New interaction system
You now dodge bullets at high speed
Made friend friendlier
And other reworks that I forgor

Apologies for the lack of changelog for previous months, I ate it. We'd also like to welcome our new team member Zancked into the game. Welcome.

That's all for these few months, thanks for checking out and see ya later!

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