Crooked is a tense, dark-comedy game about cheating at cards — and the whole experience hinges on feel. How suspicious is too suspicious? How punishing should an opponent be before it stops being fun? When should a cheat actually get you caught? Those are questions we can guess at internally, but we'd much rather tune them alongside the people playing.
Thanks to the contributions you made during Early Access, we've fixed many parts of the game. There are surely still some bugs lurking somewhere, but we're officially live now.
We placed two characters on a map together for the first time — a big step toward multiplayer testing. Plenty of work remains on shared scoring, animations and visual effects, but it's a big step for us.
Co-op development has begun, with a release planned for December. This is our main focus for now, so other planned features are paused. We're also optimizing the code and may push updates to increase performance.
Version 0.0.3.0 is out — our second post-alpha update. It adds floating combat text and restores score modification based on player profile level, along with code improvements aimed at better performance.
We finished second in a local game development contest for PC games, hosted by Monster Notebook.
Version 0.0.2.0 alpha is here: bug fixes, map polishing, optimization, and the completion of Gideon's skill set with the second Vortex rune added.
We reached the finals of a local contest, with a presentation scheduled for September 5th in front of industry professionals in Turkey.
Mage Rage's pre-alpha version launched on Steam as Early Access.