- BLUE_THUNDERGAMING is playing with our developers! - 8 February 2024
BLUE THUNDER GAMING is playing with our developers! See what Ringleaders is all about! Download the demo and hop in a game! Ringleaders combines the best of social deduction with action gameplay. Don't let bad behavior go unpunished! Get your revenge in Ringleaders. Follow Blue Thunder : https://www.tiktok.com/@blue_thundergaming Don't forget to WISHLIST!
- KOALABUNS349 12 HOUR LIVE STREAM! - 8 February 2024
Join KoalaBuns349 in Ringleaders for a 12 HOUR STREAM! Koala is an official Ringleaders creator who has played the game since it's very first alpha test. We are streaming for 12 hours straight so hop in the game and try it out! Bring people you love playing online games with - or bring your worst enemy. In Ringleaders you can get the revenge you deserve. Follow Koalabuns349 on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/koalabuns349 WISHLIST RINGLEADERS NOW!
- LEESHCAPEESH vs RINGLEADERS! - 8 February 2024
LEESHCAPEESH is playing with our developers! Think you can take her on? Download the demo and play with us! Check out her twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/leeshcapeesh Don't forget to wishlist!
- LightRocket2 is SOLO QUEUEING! - 6 February 2024
Play Ringleaders with LightRocket2! Download the demo and hop in!
- iMPORTANT TIPS FOR PLAYING OUR DEMO! - 2 February 2024
Important Tips for Playing the Ringleaders Demo in Next Fest -You need 4 players to start a game. -Once a game starts, no one else can hop into your session. -You will not get matched with players who are not in the same region as you (so even if you’re using a friend’s room code, but your region isn’t the same, you won’t get into their session). You can adjust your region in settings => gameplay -This is our demo, so we expect there to be some bugs. Please send your logs by going to settings => support => report. -Don't forget to claim your FREE HAT! LIST OF KNOWN ISSUES - Dead agents (ghosts) can become jittery on rare occasions due to - latency - Health bar disappears when cloaked - Rarely a player model can be missing in postgame - Lower quality settings affects UI resolution
- PENTA is SOLO QUEUING! Join him now! - 2 February 2024
PENTA is playing Ringleaders for the very first time! Think you can take on PENTA? Hop in the game and you might get matched with him! Invite your friends in and play a round of this brand new social deduction shooter. Don't forget to follow PENTA on twitch! See you in there! https://www.twitch.tv/penta
- WATCH OUR CREATORS STREAM! - 2 February 2024
MysticLuna is one of our official creators! You can join them now with our free demo! Don't forget to Wishlist! Want to become a Ringleaders creator? Apply here https://www.playringleaders.com/ringleaders-creator-program No one is safe on the streets of Carillon. An informant (or maybe two) plays among you, looking to sabotage your every move. Inspired by games like "Among Us" and "Project Winter," in "Ringleaders," your goal is to complete missions such as escorting the hostage, protecting the truck, making deliveries, and more. As a cypher, your objective is to smuggle Luminos, the outlawed tonic and your ticket to freedom.
- Gameplay Tutorial #2: Post Death Gameplay - 1 February 2024
OH NO DID YOU GET ELIMINATED? In Ringleaders, sometimes you're down but you're never OUT! Find the agent shards located around the map and come back as a sentry. This is your opportunity to help your team succeed or get revenge on those who have wronged you. See you on the streets!
- Watch Koalabuns play Ringleaders! - 31 January 2024
Koalabuns is one of our official Ringleaders Creators! You can join him in live games on Feb 8th during Steam Next Fest!
- TESTING NEW BOTS - 26 January 2024
We are in STEAM NEXT FEST 2024! We have several new features we are testing to make sure that when it comes time for you to play you have the best experience possible. This stream is just quality control, checking on the new bots and flagging anything suspicious. Join us on February 5th for our first Demo Launch!
- TESTING NEW BOTS - 26 January 2024
We are in STEAM NEXT FEST 2024! We have several new features we are testing to make sure that when it comes time for you to play you have the best experience possible. This stream is just quality control, checking on the new bots and flagging anything suspicious. Join us on February 5th for our first Demo Launch!
- Gameplay Tutorial #1: Informants - 23 January 2024
How informants work When the game begins players have objectives to complete as a team. However, some players might be presented with the opportunity to turn informant for NERVOS - the evil mega corp that controls the city. The informants will be tasked with eliminating specific players for the chance of claiming a bounty. Informant Loop -find a kill contract -accept the job -eliminate your target -turn the bounty into NERVOS headquarters and claim your reward
- Dev Diary #9: Narrative Design - 23 January 2024
The story behind Ringleaders Our narrative designer walks us through the process of creating the world of Carillon. She was given the setting, style and main objective and used those elements to compose a narrative that best served the game. That's how we ended up with a robot saving, prohibition themed, social deduction shooter! Join the Ringleaders on Discord to chat with us and playtest! https://discord.com/invite/YrrwBqgCSF
- Dev Diary #8: Boss Bombs! - 8 January 2024
Boss Bombs! One of our game developers walks us through testing and developing a new attack set for one of our bosses. We are playtesting! Join our discord to chat with the developers, test the game and become a part of our core community! Join our Discord
- Dev Diary #7: Silhouette Study - 23 December 2023
- Dev Diary #6: Modular Building in Blender - 13 December 2023
Modular Building in Blender As a small indie development team we have to be precious with our time. To maximize our output, we built a library of modular buildings that allow us to kit bash these levels fairly quickly. Most of the layout is done here in blender where we're able to fine tune each building. Using techniques like trim sheets and vertex color keep the game performant while giving us options and variation. As we move forward, our goal here is to build as many levels as possible so players always have that sort of maze to solve. We new early on that we wanted to go with this retro-future look, and we really like the way these art-deco themes mix with this futuristic slightly cyberpunk style.
- Dev Diary #5: Building our Tutorial Scene - 8 December 2023
Buillding A Tutorial We are about to release an in-game tutorial so that our playtesters can get a good sense of the game before embarking on a mission in Carillon. Our game artist used blender for modeling and making all of the assets and then assembled this map in unity. Everything was laid out and then structured in miro so that we have a clear sense of the route and the activation points along the way. Ringleaders is in alpha testing! Join us to try the game with your friends! https://www.playringleaders.com/playtest
- Dev Diary #4: Creating Stylized Explosion VFX in Unity! - 27 November 2023
Our VFX specialist wrote this blog on stylized explosions! You can read the full article and view the images he is referencing here: Dev's take on stylized VFX in Unity Creating Stylized Explosion VFX in Unity! Ryan Bradford Welcome! Stylized games have seen a massive surge to the forefront of the gaming industry, and it just so happens that I am working on one! Ringleaders In this post I will explain the way that I approach an effect like this, how you might apply some artistic principles to your own, and some general tips at the end for the unity particle system. Here's a look at the explosion I'll be referencing throughout this post: The Boom What is the most important part of the explosion? The BOOM! So, first things first, it is important to understand how you want your boom to appear. Looking at a conventional explosion we can break it up into a couple of sections: The explosion i…
- Stream with the Development Team! - 17 November 2023
Building in Public Our head of game development is playing the game with the rest of our team! Join us as they talk bugs, updates, performance fixes and game loop. Ringleaders is an exhilarating, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the coveted unit called the Ringleaders, players must navigate treacherous missions to free the Cyphers from human control. As challenges rise, trust falters. A traitor hides among you. Identify them, before it's too late. Join our community and playtest the game with us! https://www.playringleaders.com/playtest
- Dev Diary #3: How We Began - 16 November 2023
Testing a new game in Tabletop Simulator Before we started building Ringleaders we wanted to ensure the core game was solid, fun, and playable. In order to test this with a large group we created a “paper” prototype using Tabletop Simulator—a digital board game with preliminary gameplay mechanics to test out concepts before building them into a full 3D space. This abstraction allowed us to define a ruleset, verify its entertainment value, and iterate in a rapid, low-stakes way before building out the game in Unity, playtesting it with players ranging from 20-50 years old. The game was well received overall and that's when we moved into stage two: building the base of the game in Unity. We are accepting playtesters! Want to be a part of our community and offer us your feedback? Join us for playtests! https://www.playringleaders.com/playtest
