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Apocalypse Cow is a cinematic metroidvania in a rich digital universe with a thousand years of lore. In that world a little girl with the power to rupture time will fight against all odds to reunite with her father. But can she weather the coming darkness?

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The State of Apocalypse Cow

9 Jul, 2024

Where have you been?

I have struggled with this post for over a year now. This update is LONG overdue.

Our game has some of the best fans and followers - seriously, how long have you been following us patiently? Some of you have even birthed tiny new gamers.

Was that your plan all along?

To wait until our fans multiply by procreation? Ha! Sadly no.

The truth is, the game has been on hiatus for a few years now ːsteamsadː. Please, please don't cry. It's not cancelled. But it isn't being worked on, by anyone. Which I guess you realized with the word hiatus... duh.

We have been actively working on an amazing new game, one that we'll announce soon. It shares DNA with Apocalypse Cow - think of it as a spiritual cousin, or that weird uncle. I think you will love it. We took the parts that worked from Apocalypse and made something wonderful.

As for the adventure with Penny and the gang... I simply don't know.

I love the characters we've built and I want to eventually bring them to life. I honestly don't know when that could happen. It could be in 6 months or in 600 years from now. All we ask is that you wait for 600 years. Please, stay alive. Do it for this bright face.

But... why is it on hiatus?

Ah, you're still here... okay. The truth is, Apocalypse Cow had great moments, but also many flaws.

Additionally I was unsure about many things. Do people still play linear platformers? (seriously, do you???). Should the story be mostly epic or mostly comical? Those were foundational questions that caused many reworks.

But if we want to drill to the bottom of it, we were inexperienced. I was inexperienced. We have a high bar for quality and I couldn't push the game up there. Eventually we decided we needed a break from Apocalypse Cow, to clear our minds.

So for now Penny is basking in a digital sunset, waiting for her time to come.

Until then, stay tuned for our upcoming reveal. It will make up for everything, I promise.

-- John K, Game Designer and the one to blame

Apocalypse Cow

Release Date?

There are so many bad "AAA" games released (KCD,DW9) at this time of year It's not even funny. I'm starting to enjoy quality platformers even more. Would be nice to release this game early.

HeyApple

30 Apr, 2021 @ 7:24am

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#10: The New Year brings a Combat Update

20 Mar, 2022

"I woke up in terror from a horrible nightmare. I stepped outside to compose myself and realized… everyone in the village had woken up. Everyone." -- Baon, Village Merchant

Finally an update. It was about time!

He nodded as a flurry of regrets flooded his-

No! Stop typing novels. Just describe the progress in two words!

I see. If I had to narrow it down to two words, they would be "making combat satisfying".

Great math skill! ːsteamfacepalmː Tell me more about the combat.

Combat is an integral part of the game, more so than most metroidvanias. We want to go beyond the sporadic encounters with singular enemies that you destroy as you traverse. Not to say this isn't going to happen, but we have a vision!!! The combat is to be HECTIC, exciting and FUN. Quite the visionary developers, right?

To that end we built a combat prototype, to rapidly test ideas for enemies, abilities, items etc. We've already implemented several things.

A juicing update to make hits more satisfying.
Overwhelming enemies that soft lock areas.
A combat flow that goes beyond the simple hit-dash-hit.

We're not fully there yet, but combat is certainly a LOT more fun than what it was.

See you next time!

John K, Novelist Game Designer

Apocalypse Cow

Apocalypse #9: Merry Hero and a Happy New Year!

5 Jan, 2022

He was pacing up and down a dark room, the only light coming from a computer monitor. On it, a blinking cursor felt like a ticking clock. Judge and jury. He knew he had messed up.

“How did this happen?” he thought. “When did time disappear?”.

Outside they were celebrating the turn of the year but he was restless. He could feel the coming storm... three months without an update. He was the worst.

He inhaled deeply and started typing... let's appease the gods. Let's reveal the new hero.

Finally an update. What happened to the old hero?

He thought of Penny, the very human girl. How out of place she felt in the new, magical universe that was being magically created with code and electricity.

Are you referring to yourself in the third person?

He nodded as his face darkened for dramatic effect... the first attempts at updating her design failed. Miserably.

Yeah these look not good. What happened next?

It was a time of despair and sorrow. Trying to save the animation work was a shackle that had to be cast aside. And cast it aside, they eventually did.

When that happened, everything changed. The face of a new hero shined through. A hero both fragile and strong, a hero destined to fight legends. He got goosebumps.

Everything started moving faster now. Finetuning the details, sculpting the model, these were but droplets in the river of time, rushing towards the inevitable conclusion.

A hero had been born. They cried tears of joy as the screenshots instantly improved by its presence.

And then, they saw him coming alive. An arsenal of movements that's constantly expanding as a torrent of abilities and events get added in the game.

basic idle animation

run animation for a chase sequence

"That's our (still) unnamed hero! I hope you like the design" he shouted to the void and logged off. See you soon (-er than last time).

-- John K, Novel Writer

Apocalypse Cow

Is the game still alive?

Anyone know?

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14 Mar @ 2:20am

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Attn: Monster/John K

Any chance you can give us any kind of update? Just an honest update. -is the project still ongoing? -has the team given up/quit/disband? Like others, I was also looking forward to this game. If I don't hear anything by August 2023, I'll probably remove it from my wishlist. And just hope when it is released, I'll hear about it somehow....

Krow

5 Feb, 2024 @ 6:47am

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Welcome to a Digital Universe

Hey all! We are a very small team but I'll do my best to keep our Hub updated with all the cool stuff we prepare for you! Let me introduce you to the people behind this craziness: Alex is our animator and level designer. Every time you are about to

Monsters

24 Feb, 2018 @ 12:46am

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The future

Hello I think the marketing of this game is very bad. I know that gamedev it's a very hard and long road. However I would like to see more updates, more trailers, discord channel etc. Cheers

SSJ Rick ム

28 Nov, 2018 @ 4:38pm

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