C. Kane Giveaway!

Celebrating one month of the game's release on Steam, I'm giving away Steam keys (good for PC, Mac or Linux) to anyone who responds to the Facebook post linked below with a corny pun from now until February 26th. One per person! Keys will be sent via Facebook message.
Just play the game, give me some feedback, and enjoy! Post reviews on Steam!

 Click here to enter: https://www.facebook.com/SuperWalrusLand/posts/932314363542230

C. Kane Version 2 Live on Steam!

 
It's here! C. Kane Version 2 is now live on Steam. This is the Windows version: Mac version is up next, followed by Linux. Thanks for your patience, people who bought it in bundles will be getting their codes as soon as possible. Click here to buy now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/385030/

Update 1/26/16 - Mac and Linux versions are now live and bundle codes have been sent!

C. Kane News

C. Kane is available as part of an Indie Games Bundle! This is the first time any of my games have gone up in a commercial bundle, so I'm pretty happy to see it's doing well. It's part of a bundle on Groupees along with a bunch of other games currently listed on Steam Greenlight. Throw a dollar or two at these guys and then be sure to vote!

In other news, I'm working on an updated version of the game now that I will hopefully have done soon, adding a new, optional coliseum and a bunch of new fights.

Bringing C. Kane to Steam

C. Kane's Steam Greenlight page is up! Please check it out and give it the old Thumbs Up so we can spread love, joy, and sharks to a whole new audience.

This week I should finish work on and release Ghost's Towns and then it's time to work on the updated version of Kane. A new optional area and some new NPCs are being added. Now's the perfect time to hype it up for Steam!

Super Walrus Games now on Android

Thanks to some tireless work by James Paige and the OHRRPGCE crew, the game engine I've been using since 1998 can finally run on Android phones and tablets. I've already promoted C. Kane here, but I'm happy to announce that I've also ported Horse Game as a free download and my original RPG Walthros, first released as a demo in 2000 and completed in 2002, as a 99 cent game. Walthros definitely shows its age in both writing and gameplay, but I'm still proud of it and all of its pitfalls and hiccups helped make me who I am today as a game designer. I appreciate any downloads they can get!

Click the links below or just run a search for Super Walrus Games on the Google Play store.

C. Kane - A short form turn-based RPG that streamlines the genre to its basics; fighting monsters, talking to people, playing dress up. Dungeons are minimalist, graphics are monochrome. Random battles are no more, bosses are numerous. A Shark guides the way. An original hip hop soundtrack provides the beats. At last, The Citizen Game of Video Games is here.

Walthros - Everyone's lived the old RPG standard of gathering crystals and fighting mysterious monsters, but have you ever done it... as a fish? Bob Surlaw and a whole host of mutants embark on a quest to save the world.

Horse Game - In this game you must find the horse. Hello! I am your host. I am Surlaw. I watch you as you play the Horse Game and make sure you do not get out of control. Control is the most important part of the plan. Control and obedience.

C. Kane - One week later

It's been a little over a week since I released the PC/Mac/Linux versions of C. Kane and I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out. The game's had two reviews: One satirical review by one of its playtesters, and another review on Slime Salad focusing more on why the gameplay works. All this led to an article appearing on Kotaku, entitled This is Actually the Citizen Kane of Games, that brought in a couple thousand views to the game's page and a couple hundred downloads.

After a little bit of editing for text box positioning and other minor things, the game is now available for Android devices from the Google Play store. It plays pretty well with a virtual d-pad and buttons and the picture fits very nicely on my phone! If you want to support C. Kane and other games like it, please buy the Android version, even if you played the PC one already. It's only 99 cents! And please leave ratings/reviews.

I'm going to work on converting some of my older releases to Android in the near future. Horse Game's up next, after a few edits. I know that one's only ten minutes long, so don't worry, I won't be charging anything for it.

Game Release - C. Kane

My newest game is 100% done, pending any bugs or balance issues the public finds. Windows, Mac, and Linux versions are available for download here: http://superwalrusland.com/wiki/index.php?title=C._Kane

A complete, illustrated manual explaining the game's characters and setting is available here: http://superwalrusland.com/CKaneManual.pdf

8bit and Glock did a really great job with the music and the playtesters did an awesome job catching little things I would have otherwise missed. I'm sure there are still one or two little issues that are going to crop up, so if you run into anything weird, let us know!

C. Kane Beta Test

My newest game is almost complete, so it's time to recruit some outside testers. C. Kane is a short form RPG intended to finally be The Citizen Kane of Gaming. Featuring an original hip hop soundtrack by Mr. 8bit and Glock, minimalist grayscale environments, and goofy monsters, C. Kane is a 2D Japanese-style RPG that simplifies the genre to its core elements; fighting bosses, learning new spells, and engaging in absurdly self-important dialogue.

If you'd like to test, please take notes on everything as you go. Which jokes work, which skills need to be rebalanced, which Moral Choices you made, whether any equipment seems useless or overpowered. If you don't like turn based 2D RPGs, you're probably not going to have fun here.

Send me an e-mail or a private message and I'll send you the download link as soon as it's ready, which should be Friday night (August 30th) if all goes according to plan.