- 5 years of Maiden & Spell! - 25 February 2025
Today is Maiden & Spell's 5th anniversary!!! Thank you to everyone who's played, and everyone who still plays!! The Maidens' adventures still continue through you...
- Dreadwyrm Heir Joins the Fight! - 7 March 2024
Hello Maidens! If you're reading this, chances are you're into fighting games that break the mold. If you're looking for your next weird PVP game to force your friends to play with you, I've got your back. Our very own Dreadwyrm Heir is a guest character in a fighting game that just came out, Duelists of Eden! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1664200/Duelists_of_Eden/ Featuring grid and card based battles! You build a deck of spells, and use those to fight others online. It has some great pixel art, and like all good fighting games, rollback netcode. Hope you'll check it out!
- June 2023 Patch Notes - 30 June 2023
Hello Maidens, Unless you've been following my development updates on my upcoming game RABBIT & STEEL (wishlist it now, do it!), it's been a little while! After some consultation with the Discord, it has been decided to pull back some of the changes that Lich and Stormbeast got in last year's update. In addition, some players expressed an interest in playing some older builds, so I have made some of those available as separate branches. Please feel free to play what you'd like! Keep in mind, you'll only see lobbies of players who are on the same branch as you. Without further ado, the patch notes! Novi Holy - Fixed issue where Cooldown Hold would persist between casts Lat Life - Draw layer adjusted downwards - Duration 14s > 12s Butterfly Thrall (Offensive Special) - Movespeedmult changed 1.0x > 0.8x (overwrites other movespeedmults) Novi Life (Defensive Special) - Cooldown increased 8.…
- RABBIT & STEEL - A raiding roguelite - 4 December 2022
Hello maidens! My next game, RABBIT & STEEL, has officially been announced! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2132850/Rabbit_and_Steel/ Wishlist it now! Do it! You can tell all your friends that you got in before it got big. Features online co-op, random loot, awesome bosses, and of course, rabbits! If you enjoyed Maiden & Spell, I garauntee you'll enjoy this one too. Hope to see you rabbits there!
- September 2022 Patch Notes - 12 September 2022
Garnet Flare (Offensive Special) - Move slowdown on use .35x > .4x Sniper Shot (Basic Attack) - Fully charged fire angle increased 4 > 8 degrees Bind (Wide Attack) - Draw layer adjusted downwards Knife Juggle (Offensive Special) - Draw layer adjusted upwards Vanish (Defensive Special) - No longer has a slowdown at the end - Using knives no longer resets movespeedmult during Vanish - Movespeedmult reduced 1.5x > 1.3x - Movespeedmult length is now 1300ms (previously overwritten by the slowdown at the end) Dimi Lightning (Basic Attack) - Fully charged bullet speed 4.5 > 5 - Now categorized as a Spell - Now adds 700ms SpellLock Lat Lightning (Wide Attack) - Sprite adjusted for visibility Doppelganger (Offensive Special) - No longer effected by SpellLock or AttackLock - Cooldown reduced 8 seconds > 7 seconds - Now has 500ms SpellLock (300 when focused) - AttackLock increased 500ms > 700ms (3…
- Updates & updates! - 12 September 2022
Hello Maidens! ...Are you still maidens? A lot can change in... 15 months since the last post, gosh. I've been busy myself with a plethora of different things, so I'll try to bring you up to speed. First off, new patch notes for a new balance patch! ......... Uh, on second thought, the patch notes are pretty long. Maybe I'll separate that out into a different post. ......... A few months ago, a couple of the top Maiden & Spell players approached me about possibly updating the game with a few balance tweaks. Over the course of years of playing, a few lopsided matchups and weird quirks about particular moves had been rubbing them the wrong way. So, we did a pretty long, back and forth, feedback-driven beta. I'd be lying if I said these were carefully considered developer-knows-best changes. The truth is, these people have gotten so good at the game, and know it in-and-out so well, that I…
- Balance In All Things - 1 June 2021
Hello maidens! It's almost halfway through the year now. I hope that news doesn't bring you dread! If you're the kind of person who would click into this announcement, you might be aware that the Maiden & Spell Discord has been doing a bit of a balance thingamajig. That has now ended; thanks everyone for your feedback! I think we've gotten the game to a place where it's pretty okay. There are still a few difficult matchups here and there, but characters got some desperately needed buffs and nerfs. Also, thanks to a very generous member of the Discord (thank you Alec!), the game has been translated into Brazilian Portuguese. First, patch notes! Then some other things. -------------------------------------------------------- Wide Attack -Number of bullets 22 > 20 -Attack lock 425ms > 550ms -Takes an additional 75ms to gain a hitbox -Added a visual effect to indicate direction of bullets B…
- Maiden & Spell is now on the Nintendo Switch!!! - 8 April 2021
Maiden & Spell is now officially out for the Nintendo Switch!! Purchase it via the Nintendo E-shop today! The Switch version has all the things you'd expect in a Switch version... Take it anywhere, snap the controller in half, hand one half to a stranger on a train, and bond over some bullet hell battles. Also has some cool new features, like emotes! I added these so that even people with parental controls enabled can communicate a bit online. They'll also be coming to the PC version soon (a few days tops), along with a host of bug fixes. Hope you pick up the Switch version soon!
- Maiden & Spell is coming to the Nintendo Switch!! - 27 February 2021
I'm awake! Alive! What year is it?! Oh, it's the one year anniversary of Maiden and Spell's launch! Happy birthday Maiden and Spell. I've come to you on this momentous occasion to announce that Maiden & Spell is finally heading to the Nintendo Switch, with the help and publishing of none other than Nippon Ichi Software! Check it out! https://nippon1.jp/consumer/indie_spirits/maiden_and_spell/ When...? Uhhh, soon! Very soon. Look for a news post as to the official date, and to this Twitter or this Twitter for more news! Speaking of more news, Maiden & Spell will also be at a VR event; Indie Maker's Syndicate! Hope to see your avatar there! https://indiemakersyndicate.com/ Stay safe!
- Steam Summer Sale!! - 26 June 2020
Hello everyone! Maiden & Spell is 30% off during the Steam Summer Sale! If you're reading this you probably already have the game... but do all of your friends!? Just think! Social interaction is precious in these dark times. For the low price of just under 10USD, you could make your best buddy feel obligated to play some online matches with you! (Or you know, just recommend the game to them if you think they'd like it.) The Steam Sale comes in the middle of an ongoing Balance Beta we were having in the Discord. I didn't want the majority of the player base playing on a Beta Branch while new players came in from the sale, so for now, I've updated the game to the current place the Beta is at! There are still things that are a work-in-progress (such as the game's Spanish Translation) but for the most part everything is a bit more balanced out! Here are the Patch Notes so far! The Beta isn…
- Version 1.1.0.0: End of Beta + Korean Localization!! - 8 May 2020
Hello everyone! After about 2 and a half weeks, the balance-beta is over! We made a LOT of changes and adjustments. Many of the characters got new movement options, buffed moves, opportunities for counterplay in certain matchups, and more. If you've been playing with friends on the main branch, you might be surprised at the new tools your favorite character has. Be sure to check them out when you get the chance! But first: the game also now has an official Korean translation, thanks to one A1NVERSE! He's been a member of the M&S community from the beginning, and was kind enough to make an official translation for the game. Without further ado, here's all the changes that came out of the Beta! There's so many, you might just have to try the game out yourself to get the full experience. - Added a Korean Translation for the game. - Fixed issue where "ghosts" would be left behind in lobbies…
- Beta Balancing Branch - 20 April 2020
Hello everyone! I hope you've all been staying safe. As it'll likely be a little while before I do more serious content updates, I wanted to try to get the game's balance in a better place for those that are playing online on a regular basis. After reading a lot of feedback on the Discord, I thought that the best move going forward would be to temporarily open a beta branch so we can try a lot of different changes to characters. Since I don't want to split the playerbase between the "proper" game and a rapidly changing beta for too long, my goal is to only have the beta open for a few weeks at most. Hopefully I can make some progress towards having a well balanced game in that time. To access the beta branch: Right click the game in your Steam library Click "Properties" Go to the 'Betas' tab Select 'Beta' from the drop down menu Again, while the beta is running, many of the game's regul…
- 1.0.2.0 Update, and Future Content Plans! - 20 March 2020
Hi everyone! I present to you... a minor bug-fixing update! Well, there are a few new things. Selectable skill levels! Feel free to warn people of what they're about to get into by taking you on. Or to convey how terrible you are. With that out of the way, let's talk future content! My original plan with Maiden & Spell was to gradually introduce new costumes and characters over time. You might have seen a little bit of a preview of this; if you've checked out the Art Gallery or been hanging around the game's Discord. Like this one! Look at how cute it is!! Buuuuuut, as you might have heard, there are going to be quite a few exciting games coming out over the coming months! And if the plan is to bring new attention to the game, maybe small updates over time aren't the way to go. So, change of plans! Instead of making tiny updates every few weeks or so, I'm going to put everything I want…
- The MAIDEN & SPELL Official Soundtrack is available now!! - 17 March 2020
MAIDEN & SPELL's OST is now available for purchase! (Sorry it took so long!) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1252590/Maiden_and_Spell_Soundtrack/ Includes all of Hagane's great tracks from the game in high quality format! Feel free to listen to your favorite song on repeat for as long as you'd like. Hagane has also commissioned a few members of his circle to do special bonus arrangements of the tracks! They'll be included on his special version of the CD that you can find here: https://diverse.direct/%e9%8b%bc%e9%89%84%e9%9f%b3%e6%ba%90/hgst-0001/ Or digitally here: https://steelplus.bandcamp.com/album/maiden-spell-original-soundtrack So if you want some really cool extra tunes, be sure to pick that up!
- Character Balance Patch + Training Mode Update! - 10 March 2020
Hello Maidens and others! Ever since the game launched I've gotten a lot of feedback, replays and discussion of the character balance right now. In addition, I've gotten the chance to fight a lot of different people online! I had predicted that there would be at least one unwinnable match-up or broken move at launch... yeah, there were a few. So the patch to fix some of those imbalances is coming tomorrow. The game's testers and I have been working hard on this, and hope that it makes the game a little more playable. Here are the preliminary balance patch notes! Times are in milliseconds, distances are in pixels at 1080p resolution, speeds are in pixels per frame at 60fps, and angles are in degrees, unless otherwise stated. Lat Dark - Bullet spawn radius 75px > 140px - Combo length 250ms > 1000ms (the time until you do the first part of the spiral rather than the second) - Movement spee…
- MAIDEN & SPELLBINDERS: the First Official MAIDEN & SPELL Online Tournament!! - 4 March 2020
I hope everyone's been enjoying the game so far! Personally, it's been a very, very exciting week of bug fixing. Hopefully I've got most of the kinks out of the game. Just in time for.... The first official tournament, run by the community's own Azure Valkyria! For more info, please join the Discord. We're organizing the tournament there. https://discord.gg/mns Hope to see you there!
- NOW AVAILABLE - 25 February 2020
Maiden & Spell is now available for purchase!! The price is 13 USD, but it's on sale for 11 right now. I made it under 15 so that you could buy your friends copies, so do that! ːsteamhappyː Steam lobbies are also up, ready and running right now! So let's get those matches going! Have fun in the game, and hope to see you in a lobby soon.
- Art Countdown! - 22 February 2020
SOON!!
- NETPLAY BETA IS LIVE! (and netplay F.A.Q) - 8 February 2020
THE NETPLAY BETA IS LIVE LIKE RIGHT NOW! Update the demo, and you should be able to play! Of course, everyone opened ports like I said to do in yesterday's post, right? Right? Cause if you don't open ports you won't be able to play!! https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791463792385/announcements/detail/1719748588198732982 NETPLAY TROUBLESHOOTING FAQ: Q: I am trying to connect to a lobby, but it won't connect. What's wrong? A: The person you are trying to connect to likely hasn't opened their ports. If they are a friend of yours, tell them to consult the this post on how to do so: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=459573674 Q: I'm challenging someone to a match, but then it says "no response from opponent" and kicks us back to the lobby. A: Again, someone hasn't opened their ports. Open your ports! UDP and TCP both! Q: I have found a bug. Where do I report it? A: Th…
- We're having a netplay beta! Starting TOMORROW! - 7 February 2020
I promised you all a netplay beta! And we didn't get it in January, but we're getting it now! Current plan is to run the beta from 12PM Saturday, February 8th to 12PM Tuesday, February 11th. The beta will have two characters playable online: the Royal Arcanist and the Lich of Flowers. But real quick, SOME IMPORTANT INFO: Maiden & Spell does not yet have the Steam Multiplayer API implemented. I wanted to try to get it finished for the beta, but it wasn't done in time, so it'll have to wait for the full release. What does that mean for you, beta participant? It means you have to forward a port on your router! Here's a little guide on how to do that: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=459573674 If you don't forward a port, people will not be able to join any lobbies you create! So take note! Anyway, that's all! Look out for a demo update tomorrow, and see you in a lobby…
