Gone Viral — patch notes and updates
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| Akupara Games Celebrates 8 Year with Sales and Livestream | 2024-10-04 | Hey Akuparians! Guess what, it’s our birthday!, Akupara Games is turning 8 years old and to celebrate, we have put Gone Viral on sale for 68% off! Be sure to grab those deals, check out our lovely event page, and check out the sales! Maybe the game you’ve been waiting for is waiting for you here, with a crisp sale to match. https://store.steampowered.com/sale/akuparagames8thanniversarysale Also, to celebrate, we will be hosting a multi-hour stream with tons of activities, announcements, and more! Stream is starting at 11:45 PM PDT! We really hope to see you there - and here’s to another year of publishing your favorite indie games on the mark |
| Gone Viral Trading Cards are Now Live! | 2021-12-30 | Hey, Gladiators! Cool news if not necessarily big news, we've just activated Steam Trading Cards! There are eight (8) total cards for players to collect. If you've already played a bunch of Gone Viral, you should have a handful sitting in your inventory ready to be traded as you see fit! If you'd like to trade cards around with others to try and complete sets for cool rewards, might I recommend heading on down to the trading sub-forum? I'd also recommend just taking a second and enjoying the beautiful 3D art for each of the trading cards. Happy hunting! |
| Launch Day Showcase! | 2021-08-31 | The full version of Gone viral launches TODAY, so we've got some action-packed livestream shenanigans planned to celebrate. Hop into the arena with us, and check out all the other rad stuff happening during The Indie Houses Festival while you're here! |
| Enter the Arena Today! Gone Viral is Available Now! | 2021-08-31 | Hello, mutants! As announced in our Indie Houses keynote today, Gone Viral is out of Early Access and releasing now! So you think you are a big fan of Gone Viral? Think again! The Fanatic and his cabal of minion friends are here to show you what happens when real fans bring the heat! As the game launches out of Early Access, we're adding a new boss and a ton of new, rare enemies to the game. We're also clipping off a few bugs and issues that have been running around Early Access for a bit too long. Buddy will be livestreaming the game in a new episode of Buddy Gets Good if you want to tune in at noon! Here's a list of the full patch notes: Co |
| Early Access Patch 0.5.3 | 2021-02-10 | EARLY ACCESS UPDATE 0.5.3 Hey! As per our discord update, we’re slow but steady over the last few months (and intend to be so for a bit longer as we wrassle with RL stuff). The downside: Slow. The Upside: Steady! So here’s some polish, goodies and work in progress (especially a lot of work on our next level and new creatures to be revealed in a future update) coming to your favorite blood-soaked-streaming-gladiator goodness! Enjoy! -The Skullbotians Content: -- Hooked up a bunch more awesome icons! (thanks @LeoFonseca) -- Added new rooms Bugs & Polish: -- Enabled murderpedia entry for Blood & Anger (good catch @Seebo) -- Fixed the collision p |
| Gone Viral: 2021 Development Update | 2021-01-28 | Greetings, Gladiators! With the new year, we figured it was the right time to share a more generalized update on the State of Gone Viral as we move through Early Access. If you are looking for the headline up front - we’ve been slow right now, and are aiming to bring Gone Viral out of Early Access later this year. Here’s wassup: The end of 2020 turned out to be uniquely challenging (not just for us!) and development slowed down considerably from our usual frenetic pace through December and January. But we’re adapting - working around some personal stuff on the team while adjusting to having launched Early Access into a crowded window (check o |
| Nominate Gone Viral for The Steam Awards! | 2020-11-25 | Rise and shine, game show gladiators! The Steam Autumn festivities are kicking off today! If you know anyone who’s had their eye on Gone Viral but hasn’t grabbed it yet, or have someone you want to gift this crazy action-packed brawler to, the game is currently on sale for 10% off during the Steam Autumn Sale! This is the first time Gone Viral has EVER gone on sale, bringing the game down to a nice $17.99. The sale only runs until December 1, though, so act fast! You can also help support us and the game by nominating Gone Viral in The Steam Awards! The game is eligible for any category, but don’t you think the award for “The Best Game You Su |
| The Hollywood Scares Update! | 2020-11-04 | Hey, Gladiators! Enjoying the latest patch? The Hollywood Scares update has been out for a few days and if you haven't seen the news, read the patch notes, or checked out the game I'm here to give you the goods! The new character Jo the Skullcracker is out, new Mutations are out, a new voiceover is out, new items are out, it's just good news up and down the line. We made a whole video about it narrated by everyone's favorite bad-player-of-Gone-Viral, Buddy. A new update also means a new roadmap! Feel free to speculate wildly! Finally, if you play Gone Viral before the next major update, you'll also pick up the Pumpkinhead cosmetic helmet. If |
| Early Access Patch 0.5.2 | 2020-10-31 | EARLY ACCESS MAJOR UPDATE 1 - HOLLYWOOD SCARES! You’re the next contestant on...HOLLYWOOD SCARES! Our first Early Access Major Update! Welcome to our first (of many!) Major Update! We’re cranking away with new stuff for you, as well as unlocking a new permanent Cosmetic on your first run this update! So, check it out! Here’s everything we’ve been up to in the month since Early Access started: A new contestant has entered the arena! Meet Jo - the mutant Skullcracker! Jo has extra health and starts with the giant Pulverizer hammer If Jo can successfully attack quickly after being damaged, she gains a half-heart back She unlocks a unique Carnage |
| The Gone Viral Early Access Roadmap! | 2020-10-22 | Let's just cut to the chase, shall we? Here it is in all its glory! The very first (but not the last) of the Gone Viral Early Access Roadmaps. As we're looking to add new content to the game, we wanted to show off what direction we're headed in when it comes to gameplay and features. Like roadmaps from other studios you know and love, this one will give you some hints as to what's coming down the pike. Unlike other roadmaps, though, we intend to update this bad boy a lot. Like, a lot a lot. Every time we release or announce a major update, we'll probably update the roadmap to give you a bit of a heads up on what our current trajectory is. Som |
| Early Access Patch 0.5.1 | 2020-10-09 | EARLY ACCESS UPDATE 0.5.1 Hey, look! It’s an Update! Woot! YAY EARLY ACCESS! For those of you who helped in Beta, you know how we roll - our team is constantly chattin’ on Discord, watching streams, crawling through the analytics and then turning that into frequent updates to make GV cooler. So, here’s an update! We’re aiming to do two kinds of updates on the regular: Normal Updates like this one with a week or two of bug fixes, content, polish, and all that, and… Big Ass Updates where we’ll release Big Stuff - new classes, new levels, new bosses, all that jazz. Keep an eye out! Ooh, a note: Each time we release a Big Ass Update (like Launch |
| Join Early Access Today For Exclusive Rewards! | 2020-10-08 | Lady Killers and Gentlemutants, Gone Viral hit Early Access two weeks ago! Thanks SO MUCH to the hardcore beta veterans and the newest fans flooding from all corners of the internet - we’re blown away by the love and support. We couldn’t do this without you supporting indie development! As a scrappy team of developers, your Early Access involvement is making Gone Viral bigger and crazier - so we wanted to send y’all a special treat! We thought: Hey, wouldn’t it be neat if we gave away cool stuff to the folks actively helping development? And then immediately we had a second thought: Hell yeah, that WOULD be neat! Here’s our plan to do that. P |
| Hotfix 0.5.0.1 | 2020-09-26 | EARLY ACCESS HOTFIX 0.5.0.1 Let me tell you, these first few days of Early Access launch have been CRAZY. Like, no one getting any sleep crazy. But also a never ending stream of excitement and joy crazy - especially when watching our streamers play and hearing feedback from everyone who is supporting the Early Access so far! As part of all this, we have noticed a few things here and there we wanted to sneak some fixes in on, and at least one of our players pointed out that controller shake can be a real issue for people with hand sensitivity or limited control. So that is the solo feature leading this hotfix along with the polish following be |
| Gone Viral’s Early Access Journey Begins Today! | 2020-09-24 | Let’s get started. Gone Viral, the rough and tumble roguelite brawler you know and love, hits Early Access today! If you love the brutality, if you love the carnage, if you love the roaring crowd, then be prepared for the game to enter overdrive and dole out goodies all over the place. If you pick up the game for early access today, you’ll get unique, one-of-a-kind cosmetic rewards every month until the game launches, not to mention all the free updates that we’ve got planned. New characters, new levels, new bosses, new enemies, new mutations, new items, you name it, we’ve got it coming down the pike. https://store.steampowered.com/app/680030 |
| Early Access Patch 0.5.0 | 2020-09-24 | EARLY ACCESS UPDATE 0.5.0 Just a few more little fixes here and there to make sure Gone Viral can put its best foot forward on Early Access release day! We are super excited to have you play and even more excited for you to see all the cool new stuff we are working on already, planning on making, and dreaming about adding over the next few months! Enjoy! Polish: -- Adding in four lines of localized text that decided to mark themselves as "needs review" for no apparent reason after being translated -- Fire Jets adjust their visuals to be more sandy if spawned in an Arena -- Added new Tips/Shoutouts (reminder to poke me if you'd like one added! |
| Early Access Patch 0.5.0 Release Candidate 1 | 2020-09-23 | EARLY ACCESS UPDATE 0.5.0.rc.1 Good lord, it’s here! The official update for Early Access! Which we already know we’ll probably tweak once or twice. Now, you may say - Skullbots, is all this gonna go to your head? Being new and trending, actually going to Early Access? Well, probably! But our 3-person small-but-mighty team (with assists from a bunch of buddies of course) is gonna keep on cranking out regular mini updates and occasional Big Honkin’ Updates because that’s how we roll. Heck, Early Access hopefully lets us become a bigger small-but-mighty team. In fact, we’re already working on a new class for Update #1….woot! Time to start crank |
| PAX/EGX Twitch Stream + AMA + Demo | 2020-09-15 | Welcome Mutants, this is Gone Viral! Your hosts today are Jeremy Gaffney and his team of mutants, all former AAA developers behind games like WildStar and City of Heroes! Watch Gone Viral Live & Ask Me Anything Join us (Jeremy Gaffney and the Skullbot team) fight for our lives in this prison arena of our own design. With unique and deeply integrated Twitch functionality, take your seat amongst the bloodthirsty crowd and sit up close to a streamer like never done before! Love what I’m doing? Drop me a gift to show your love. Want to spite me? Vote for the deadliest Fan Event and watch me suffer. Catch us on Skullbot Games’ Twitch to participat |
| PAX/EGX Discord + AMA + Demo | 2020-09-12 | Hey everyone! We're excited to continue to show you some awesome footage from our upcoming game - Gone Viral. We have a demo available here for you to enjoy and download! We encourage anyone who is interested to come swing by our Discord and not only join the community but to post your BEST runs or moments in our chat - we'd love to see them. Just let us know you're from PAX and we'll take care of you and set you up with permissions. About The Game When a civilization dies, so too do its scruples. You’ve been captured by a society that glorifies one thing and one thing only – violence. Oh, and followers, too – can’t forget about them. String |
| Closed Beta Patch 0.2.26 | 2020-09-11 | CLOSED BETA UPDATE 0.2.26 Another week, another update! Well it’s not just any other week - we’re getting ready for the end of Closed Beta (boo) on the 23rd - and the start of Early Access (yay!) on September 24th! Exciting times! This week - an overhaul of Polls, fixing lots of subtle issues when transitioning levels or coming back from saves, tweaking Insanity Modes, and lots of polish as we clean the windows and spray potpourri around the joint before Early Access! Thanks for the streams/suggestions and feedback over these weeks - we’ve got a giant amount of stuff in the hopper for new content, classes, mutations, levels, and more coming d |
| Gone Viral Enters Steam Early Access on September 24th! | 2020-08-29 | Everyone’s favorite post-apocalyptic game show will be coming to Steam Early Access for $19.99 on September 24th! Whether you’ve never heard of this gory game show before or you’ve been grinding mutants to a bloody pulp in this roguelite brawler, new and returning fans of Gone Viral have quite a lot to look forward to in the game’s Early Access! If you’d like to try out its over-the-top mayhem and get a taste for its boundless replayability, we have demos you can play today on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/680030 Gone Viral explores a mutant post-apocalypse society that so glorifies violence and social media that the ultimate hybri |
| Hotfix 0.2.25.2 | 2020-08-28 | CLOSED BETA HOTFIX 0.2.25.2 There are a few minor goodies in here - but MOSTLY this should: -- Address some FPS issues that can occur from our audience getting a bit too rowdy for some graphics cards -- Fix an issue where Steam Saves could occasionally decide “aw no, you can’t have the new sexy graphics and rooms, we’re overwriting that with old prison stuff because we hate fun” Also fixed some polish goodness - especially from watching recent streams big and small, thanks for that! Enjoy! Content: -- Hooked up new security tileset wall panels -- Hooked up new security decor -- Fixed some issues with existing decor positioning -- Added some a |
| Gone Viral Gamescom Streamer Schedule! | 2020-08-27 | Hey, gladiators! Well, the time has come! Gamescom is upon us and you better believe Gone Viral is out and about with the best of them! We have some very sneaky, very cool content coming up this weekend, but before any of that stuff, let's talk streamers! We have some of the best, funniest, fastest and slowest players out there giving Gone Viral a shot this weekend, not to mention past episodes of Buddy Gets Good and some of our very own animatedbreak's streams up on the store page. If you want to tune in, here are the times! Friday, August 28th: Buddy Gets Good! at 2PM Eastern, 11AM Pacific, 6PM GMT! AcceptableLsses at 4PM Eastern, 1PM Pacif |
| Hotfix 0.2.25.1 | 2020-08-25 | CLOSED BETA UPDATE 0.2.25.1 It has been a ton of fun watching people stream and experience the big art changes that came with 0.2.25 and we have been getting a bunch of feedback from our testers which is super awesome! All of this activity has inspired us to throw up a quick hotfix just to smooth out the experience a bit more. Thanks, and... Enjoy! Polish: -- Pre-work towards making knockdowns/etc. last less time as the game speeds up -- Fixed issue where Bullet Box guardian could spawn even if you picked up the chest superfast - nice find @lueders_rebel and owlma85! -- Preparing three more languages for localization -- Updating existing loca |
| Closed Beta Patch 0.2.25 | 2020-08-22 | CLOSED BETA UPDATE 0.2.25 HOLY SNIKEYS VISUAL GORGEOUSNESS!!! What’d we do in the last week or two? Lots of polish and tweaks, combat feel improvements, new goodies, and oh… UPDATED THE VISUALS OF MOST OF THE DAMN GAME! One of our ongoing goals when improving the game is to increase the feel of the world and vibe of the crazy game show you’re on - and even though the Pit of Carnage you’re fighting your way through IS in an abandoned prison, we wanted to really get across the game-show-of-death vibe more frequently. So… lots more spotlights, cameras, death traps, sexy Who Wants To Be A Killionaire style lighting, and a snazzier vibe! But don’t |
| Gone Viral featured with the Yogscast Tiny Teams Event! | 2020-08-09 | Hey, Gladiators! While it’s busy, busy, busy for the Skullbot team plugging away at the next big update (truly something special, keep an eye out,) we wanted to take a second for the Yogscast Tiny Teams event running from August 9th all the way to August 15th! We'll be running streams on the store page around the clock just in case you're interested in Gone Viral but haven't taken the opportunity to pick it up yet, including all the VoDs from the fan favorite Buddy Gets Good series from our Youtube page. (Buddy recently got somewhat, kind of, sort of good by beating the easiest incarnation of Da Champ before failing almost a dozen times on Ab |
| Hotfix 0.2.24.1 | 2020-08-08 | CLOSED BETA UPDATE 0.2.24.1 Now THIS is the truest definition of a hotfix! Two issues. Both big deals. Nothing else. Enjoy! Polish: -- Fixed some edge cases involving first-time visibility or interactions not being properly recorded/reported -- Probable fix for crash caused by Multiplication event + rockets + deflection in odd cases. Thanks for the find and logs @Ceapa_Verde! |
| Closed Beta Patch 0.2.24 | 2020-08-06 | CLOSED BETA UPDATE 0.2.24 It’s another batch of polish and goodness, in your favorite frequently-updated Roguelite! For your viewing pleasure, we’ve got a bunch of polish from watching recent streams over the last week, as well as a MUCH more engaging end of run/achievement/unlocks screen (we never really liked the old ones that interrupted you while playing.) And you can now Master items (and actually see the progress clearly in your Murderpedia) by winning games with them! And...a giant section of patch notes with under-the-hood setup for Big Stuff coming in the not-too-distant future. W00t, we’re excited! Enjoy! Features: -- Mastery! If yo |
| Closed Beta Patch 0.2.23 | 2020-07-24 | CLOSED BETA UPDATE 0.2.23 A quick update for the half a week since our last update! Inside: we continue to use your feedback (thanks!) for polishing the UI and game, have revamped various areas of the UI for clarity and prettiness, and have added the Mastery feature to highlight more of a sense of progression. Oooh, side note - all those patch notes (we use the tag on notes for stuff we update that isn’t generally visible while playing - so as not to make our standard updates/notes bloated/unreadable) allude to the fact we’re laying the groundwork for a bigger update to come with some pretty cool visual snazziness overall. We’re looking forwa |
| Hotfix 0.2.22.1 | 2020-07-17 | CLOSED BETA UPDATE 0.2.22.1 You didn’t want to play Abacus did you? Oh… you did? Well then welcome to a hotfix! We didn’t just want to leave you with that, so friendly little rocket signs will now zip down to let you know if there’s Events about to spring on ya in the next room. Plus a small but dedicated pile of other fixes and pieces of polish! Enjoy! Content: -- Floating rocket signs warn of upcoming Fan Events before you enter a room Polish: -- Abacus no longer faints in the sheer excitement of seeing the Citadel of Pain for the first time (thanks @Seebo) -- Fixed Run Summary positioning in 4:3 resolutions for those of you playing on Mac |
| Closed Beta Patch 0.2.22 | 2020-07-15 | CLOSED BETA UPDATE 0.2.22 It seems like we just patched a week or two ago - but MOAR new stuff! A new dynamic crowd to cheer ya on, new UIs to welcome you into the Citadel of Pain, new languages available, more Stylish moves encouraging you to blow up stuff or show off for the cameras - what more could ya want? Well you could probably want us to polish the crap out of the game as we see y’all playing, so there’s a healthy batch of that too! Enjoy! Features: -- The crowd goes wild! Crowd silhouettes cheer for ya, adding some motion and visual polish to the edges of rooms. Playable in progress - but TBH pretty neat already -- New stylish moves |