- Paw Pirates is Released! - 17 January 2025
IT. IS. TIME! Paw Pirates is officially RELEASED! After a long year of development, some part-time, some full-time, and through many trials and tribulations, we made it to the finish line. Paw Pirates is now available on steam for free. When I started working on this game, my goal was to release a proper game, and I am immensely proud of myself and the team as we have accomplished that goal. Thank you to those who have been along for the ride, reading our updates and supporting us along the way. And thank you to all of our friends and family who have supported us during development, playtesting and encouraging us. We hope you enjoy the game with friends. That is why we went through with this. Thank you -Murray
- Paw Pirates Release Delay - 4 January 2025
Hi all! I just wanted to create a quick post to let you know that due to delays in the steam review process resulting from a late submission on our end, the game's release will be delayed by a few days. Sorry about this, but stay patient! we're really excited for you all to have the opportunity to play. -Murray
- Paw Pirates Release Approaches - 27 December 2024
Hello Paw Pirates nation! We are beyond excited to finally release the game, and the release date is in less than a week! This past year of development has been such an incredible journey, and we can't wait for you to finally get a chance to play the full release! We've been hard at work adding the finishing touches to the game! Remember to play the game on January 3rd, 2025 when it releases! There are few BIG surprises waiting for you in the full game... Thank you for your support!!! -Murray
- Paw Pirates Demo Released! - 30 August 2024
Demo Release Hello all! I'm really excited to announce that the Paw Pirates Demo has officially released! You can find and play the demo at this link I really hope that you enjoy playing the demo with your friends, locally or remotely via steam remote play. We'll be updating the demo over the next month, and we'd love your feedback! If you have any notes about the demo (bugs, issues, annoyances, compliments), then please leave them on this google form. Have fun with the demo! -Murray
- Paw Pirates Devlog - 08/28/2024 - 29 August 2024
Hello! Did you miss us? It's been a while since our last update, but that doesn't mean we've been slacking off! We've got some very exciting updates to share with you today: 1v1 Mode We've been thinking about how to make the game as accessible as possible, and we didn't like the restriction of needing 4 players to play. That's why we've decided to add a 2-player mode to the game! We've adjusted some of the levels to be slightly different in 2-player mode, here's a sneak peak: Demo Release You won't have to wait long now to try the game! The demo for Paw Pirates will be dropping this coming Friday, August 30th at 6:30 EST!!! This Demo will include levels 1-3 in 2v2 and 1v1 mode! We're so excited to share this game with you all, and we're hoping the demo will give you a good idea of what to expect when the game releases in full. Until then, stay tuned! We'll have more to share about what'…
- Paw Pirates Devlog - 06/24/2024 - 24 June 2024
We're back! The team took a short hiatus to rest and recharge, and now we're coming back at you with some updates from the past few weeks! Beautifying Our Levels One of the things we put a lot of time into recently was making our levels look prettier! We've had one of the artists for the team sculpt a set of docks that really make our levels pop. We don't want to give everything away, but here's the before/after for level 1: Before: After: We're also adding some more decorations for the levels, here's a sneak peak (seals!): Performance Improvements In the last dev log, we showed off a little bit of how we're doing the ripples effect in the water. The method we we're using turned out to be a little slow, so we updated it to improve performance! We don't want you to have a beast of a computer to play this game, so we're putting special attention on the performance. Hopefully this will hel…
- Paw Pirates Devlog - 06/04/2024 - 4 June 2024
Welcome back to the devlog! We've got more to share about our visual updates this week: Water Updates We spent a lot of time this week updating the water shader for the game! The previous water shader we used had poor-quality ripples at shallow areas of the water. We fixed this using some creative math tricks, and here's the result: In addition to this, we've made some coloration updates, added surface reflections, and improved the underwater decorations to give each of our scenes a better look! Here is the before/after for level 1: Before: After: Lighting Improvements We also added shadows to our game, and better support for additional light sources. We're still figuring out how to make it look cohesive with the game, but here's a little demo: If you're interested in the boring technical details of any of the above, check out my twitter for some behind the scenes content: https://x.com…
- Paw Pirates Devlog - 05/28/2024 - 28 May 2024
Hey all! Here's our update for this week: We've spent this week working on visual updates! We're trying to spice up the look of the game to make it more appealing and clear for players. Here's what we did: Color Correction This week we dived into the wild world of Colors in an effort to make the game more appealing to look at and easier to play. Here's the before/after of these changes on our character select screen. Before: After: Here's the result on the first level: Before: After: We're really happy with our efforts, and we're hoping it will make the game more enjoyable for you all :) Decorations We also spent a good chunk of this week working on some extra decorations for the backgrounds of each scene. While most of this isn't yet ready to share, here's a sneak peak of the new clouds and wind particles we've added to the level select screen: We've also reworked the fire particles to…
- Paw Pirates Devlog - 05/21/2024 - 21 May 2024
Welcome back! Hello all! Welecome back to the Paw Pirates weekly devlog! Here's what we've been up to: Meet the Team Are you curious about who's behind this game? Good news! We're creating a series of posts on socials to give you a better idea of who's developing paw pirates. We will be posting these once a week on our instagram, tiktok, and youtube shorts, so make sure to follow us on all those platforms! Here's the first one, showing off our game's team lead: Murray Smith (aka the guy writing this right now!) Thank you to one of our wonderful artists, Vanessa, for illustrating this (https://www.instagram.com/nessckie/) Online Multiplayer We're pleased to announce that the online multiplayer prototype is complete! We ran our first playtest today (May 21) with the team and it went pretty well! Still some bugs to sort out, but we're really excited to show this feature to your all when we…
- Paw Pirates Devlog - 05/14/2024 - 14 May 2024
This week we're excited to be dropping a brand-spanking-new Gameplay Trailer!!! Check it out! We wanted to show off some of the new UI assets for the game, including indicators for the bombs, and player number hovers! The trailer also features our fancy end game screen, which was inspired by the victory screen in Super Smash Brothers: Ultimate. Aside from this, we're almost ready to share more with you about the online multiplayer features we've been working on. We think you'll have fun with them, and hopefully invite your friends to play. That's all from us this week, but keep an eye on our instagram and twitter for more posts this week: https://www.instagram.com/pawpiratesgame/ https://twitter.com/PawPiratesGame -Murray
- Paw Pirates Devlog - 05/06/2024 - 7 May 2024
This week we're diving into the technical stuff to give you a look into how we're implementing online multiplayer in the game! Lobbies For invites and lobbies, we're piggybacking off of steam's built-in lobby system, which integrates directly with the steam friends list and game invites! This has been a great tool for us, as it helps us avoid making our own bespoke lobby and invite code (which is something we always try to do). Netcode For our netcode, we're taking advantage of Unity's "netcode for gameobjects" toolset, which gives us the foundation on which to build our netcode. For those who aren't familiar, netcode is a broad term used to describe code that synchonizes the game across the internet between multiple players. Since each game has different rules, each game needs custom netcode. We ran into a lot of snags, as this was our first time implementing netcode like this, but it'…
- Paw Pirates Devlog - 04/29/2024 - 29 April 2024
Hey all! This week we've been hard at work bringing online multiplayer to the game, and going over visual updates we've got planned. Here's what's in the works: Online Multiplayer The first big change we have planned is adding online multiplayer. We've been able to take advantage of Steam's lobby system to create player lobbies for peer-to-peer networking! Here's an demo of the invite flow: We're still working on this, but we're excited to share more when it's ready! Visual Updates We've gone over our existing assets and made a list of what we'd like to update. Our fantastic concept artist, Iulia, has put together a quick sketch of what it might look like once we've got these updates in. Enjoy! We won't share everything we have planned yet, but let's just say we're burning with anticipation ;) (okay fine we're making fire levels). New Level Designs We're also looking at desiging some ne…
- Paw Pirates Introduction and Roadmap - 23 April 2024
Today we wanted to share with you everything about Paw Pirates; Who we are, what we're making, and when you can play. What is Paw Pirates? Paw Pirates is a 2v2 party game! Grab bombs and blow up the enemy team's pirate ship, last team standing wins. How much money will this game cost? Paw Pirates will be completely free. No features will be gated behind a paywall, and we have no plans to make money off the game at this time. This game is passion project for us, and we want to make sure nobody has barriers for access if they'd like to play. Our decision to make this game completely free comes from our hope that you all will enjoy the game with others! Is Paw Pirates for me? Paw Pirates might be for you if you enjoy fast-paced party games, such as Mario Kart, Overcooked, or Smash Brothers. You also might enjoy Paw Pirates if you like to get competitive with your friends (maybe sometimes t…
