Well, we just launched an amazingly epic version tonight after a month long sprint and a 20 hour final crunch!  Roger that.

HQ Bay

This is now the heart of the entire game.  The HQ Bay allows players to purchase "straps" (primary weapons), "augs" (player augmentations), "mods" (weapon modifications), "gear" (miscellaneous utilities), "skin" (character skins), and "bling" (hats, glasses, teeth grills, etc.) using our in-game currency called "coin" (for advantageous items) and real money (for non-advantageous items).

The HQ Bay solves an incredible amount of problems as follows: progression, emergence, monetization, production (programming, art, sound, etc.), and a bunch of other stuff that's escaping me... but yeah, it's fricken cool.  Ultimately, we are inspired by the free-to-play model w/ microtransactions that Fortnite and many other games use and want to emulate that.  Much more to come on this front as we add great new items into the HQ Bay.

New Sounds/Music

Our absolutely incredible and extremely talented new sound engineer Juhani has made a AAA quality set of sounds and music now available in-game.  Seriously, the new sounds have completely changed the feel of the game and by themselves drive me to want to play it more.  So cool.

Juhani created all new sound effects for the entire game as well as a custom music track being used in all levels right now.  Juhani plans to add custom tracks for every level as we progress through development.

Company Logo/Splash Screen:

Although the name of our game is called Netblast, our game development studio is called Atomic Lollypop.  Our spectacular artist Abel created the epic logo above for the company.  Myself and the rest of the team are super proud of this creation and look forward to sporting it on all sort of company swag coming out in the near future.

TwitchCon

Thanks to our amazing community manager Michael, we will be attending TwitchCon this year in San Jose, CA.  We've already got a plane flight, hotel, tickets, and cool business cards to hand out.  We are so excited about this opportunity and look forward to possibly seeing some of our growing community there.

We also plan to attend many more events over the next year including SXSW, PAX, OkashiCon, etc. as well as enter Netblast into multiple game award competitions.  This is how video games are made and marketed!