- Akupara Games Celebrates 8 Year with Sales and Livestream - 4 October 2024
Hey Akuparians! Guess what, it’s our birthday!, Akupara Games is turning 8 years old and to celebrate, we have put Gone Viral on sale for 68% off! Be sure to grab those deals, check out our lovely event page, and check out the sales! Maybe the game you’ve been waiting for is waiting for you here, with a crisp sale to match. https://store.steampowered.com/sale/akuparagames8thanniversarysale Also, to celebrate, we will be hosting a multi-hour stream with tons of activities, announcements, and more! Stream is starting at 11:45 PM PDT! We really hope to see you there - and here’s to another year of publishing your favorite indie games on the market https://www.twitch.tv/akuparagames - Riv otter
- Gone Viral Trading Cards are Now Live! - 30 December 2021
Hey, Gladiators! Cool news if not necessarily big news, we've just activated Steam Trading Cards! There are eight (8) total cards for players to collect. If you've already played a bunch of Gone Viral, you should have a handful sitting in your inventory ready to be traded as you see fit! If you'd like to trade cards around with others to try and complete sets for cool rewards, might I recommend heading on down to the trading sub-forum? I'd also recommend just taking a second and enjoying the beautiful 3D art for each of the trading cards. Happy hunting!
- Launch Day Showcase! - 31 August 2021
The full version of Gone viral launches TODAY, so we've got some action-packed livestream shenanigans planned to celebrate. Hop into the arena with us, and check out all the other rad stuff happening during The Indie Houses Festival while you're here!
- Enter the Arena Today! Gone Viral is Available Now! - 31 August 2021
Hello, mutants! As announced in our Indie Houses keynote today, Gone Viral is out of Early Access and releasing now! So you think you are a big fan of Gone Viral? Think again! The Fanatic and his cabal of minion friends are here to show you what happens when real fans bring the heat! As the game launches out of Early Access, we're adding a new boss and a ton of new, rare enemies to the game. We're also clipping off a few bugs and issues that have been running around Early Access for a bit too long. Buddy will be livestreaming the game in a new episode of Buddy Gets Good if you want to tune in at noon! Here's a list of the full patch notes: Content: -- Added in the new unlockable Fanatic boss --Dev Note: Unlock the Fanatic by defeating the Juggernaut without taking damage or beating Insanity level three -- Made the large spike spider unlockable as a rare spawn -- Added the new simple bot…
- Early Access Patch 0.5.3 - 10 February 2021
EARLY ACCESS UPDATE 0.5.3 Hey! As per our discord update, we’re slow but steady over the last few months (and intend to be so for a bit longer as we wrassle with RL stuff). The downside: Slow. The Upside: Steady! So here’s some polish, goodies and work in progress (especially a lot of work on our next level and new creatures to be revealed in a future update) coming to your favorite blood-soaked-streaming-gladiator goodness! Enjoy! -The Skullbotians Content: -- Hooked up a bunch more awesome icons! (thanks @LeoFonseca) -- Added new rooms Bugs & Polish: -- Enabled murderpedia entry for Blood & Anger (good catch @Seebo) -- Fixed the collision position for several of the corner columns so that they line up correctly with the wall collision -- The falling object catcher, mouse blocker, and path mesh volume now all scale themselves to the same map sized region -- Fixed an issue where pickupa…
- Gone Viral: 2021 Development Update - 28 January 2021
Greetings, Gladiators! With the new year, we figured it was the right time to share a more generalized update on the State of Gone Viral as we move through Early Access. If you are looking for the headline up front - we’ve been slow right now, and are aiming to bring Gone Viral out of Early Access later this year. Here’s wassup: The end of 2020 turned out to be uniquely challenging (not just for us!) and development slowed down considerably from our usual frenetic pace through December and January. But we’re adapting - working around some personal stuff on the team while adjusting to having launched Early Access into a crowded window (check out our Discord for more skinny). We’ll update more as plans firm up and with more info as we know it! We’re now spending time fixing bugs and addressing suggestions, as well as working on a new level, creatures, and a new boss. It’s definitely a hug…
- Nominate Gone Viral for The Steam Awards! - 25 November 2020
Rise and shine, game show gladiators! The Steam Autumn festivities are kicking off today! If you know anyone who’s had their eye on Gone Viral but hasn’t grabbed it yet, or have someone you want to gift this crazy action-packed brawler to, the game is currently on sale for 10% off during the Steam Autumn Sale! This is the first time Gone Viral has EVER gone on sale, bringing the game down to a nice $17.99. The sale only runs until December 1, though, so act fast! You can also help support us and the game by nominating Gone Viral in The Steam Awards! The game is eligible for any category, but don’t you think the award for “The Best Game You Suck At” is a perfect fit for Gone Viral? We do. We do very much. So do us a solid and give the game a nomination for the Best Game You Suck At category, it helps a lot! That’s all for now, gladiators, but we’ll see you again soon!
- The Hollywood Scares Update! - 4 November 2020
Hey, Gladiators! Enjoying the latest patch? The Hollywood Scares update has been out for a few days and if you haven't seen the news, read the patch notes, or checked out the game I'm here to give you the goods! The new character Jo the Skullcracker is out, new Mutations are out, a new voiceover is out, new items are out, it's just good news up and down the line. We made a whole video about it narrated by everyone's favorite bad-player-of-Gone-Viral, Buddy. A new update also means a new roadmap! Feel free to speculate wildly! Finally, if you play Gone Viral before the next major update, you'll also pick up the Pumpkinhead cosmetic helmet. If you think just because Halloween is over it's time for turkeys and christmas trees, think again because we're putting pumpkins on the heads of everyone that loads up the game! As a fan of pumpkin spiced everything, pumpkin spiced cosmetics are reall…
- Early Access Patch 0.5.2 - 31 October 2020
EARLY ACCESS MAJOR UPDATE 1 - HOLLYWOOD SCARES! You’re the next contestant on...HOLLYWOOD SCARES! Our first Early Access Major Update! Welcome to our first (of many!) Major Update! We’re cranking away with new stuff for you, as well as unlocking a new permanent Cosmetic on your first run this update! So, check it out! Here’s everything we’ve been up to in the month since Early Access started: A new contestant has entered the arena! Meet Jo - the mutant Skullcracker! Jo has extra health and starts with the giant Pulverizer hammer If Jo can successfully attack quickly after being damaged, she gains a half-heart back She unlocks a unique Carnage Item that will damage her to gain extra power After becoming famous enough, she gains Thick Skin - taking only half damage from attacks, making her highly resilient on tougher Insanity levels She’s currently locked up for the protection of the aren…
- The Gone Viral Early Access Roadmap! - 22 October 2020
Let's just cut to the chase, shall we? Here it is in all its glory! The very first (but not the last) of the Gone Viral Early Access Roadmaps. As we're looking to add new content to the game, we wanted to show off what direction we're headed in when it comes to gameplay and features. Like roadmaps from other studios you know and love, this one will give you some hints as to what's coming down the pike. Unlike other roadmaps, though, we intend to update this bad boy a lot. Like, a lot a lot. Every time we release or announce a major update, we'll probably update the roadmap to give you a bit of a heads up on what our current trajectory is. Some caveats! There's going to be a lot more to these updates than just the headlining feature. Each new update will have a ton of new content to chew on, but here we want to highlight what the biggest, baddest change will be for you to look forward to…
- Early Access Patch 0.5.1 - 9 October 2020
EARLY ACCESS UPDATE 0.5.1 Hey, look! It’s an Update! Woot! YAY EARLY ACCESS! For those of you who helped in Beta, you know how we roll - our team is constantly chattin’ on Discord, watching streams, crawling through the analytics and then turning that into frequent updates to make GV cooler. So, here’s an update! We’re aiming to do two kinds of updates on the regular: Normal Updates like this one with a week or two of bug fixes, content, polish, and all that, and… Big Ass Updates where we’ll release Big Stuff - new classes, new levels, new bosses, all that jazz. Keep an eye out! Ooh, a note: Each time we release a Big Ass Update (like Launch was!) we’ll reward folks for playing. Everyone playing now, enjoy your permanent exclusive sexy Founder Crown! Once we do our next Big Update, no new folks can get the crown but folks who play in THAT update (like you again!) get another cool new ex…
- Join Early Access Today For Exclusive Rewards! - 8 October 2020
Lady Killers and Gentlemutants, Gone Viral hit Early Access two weeks ago! Thanks SO MUCH to the hardcore beta veterans and the newest fans flooding from all corners of the internet - we’re blown away by the love and support. We couldn’t do this without you supporting indie development! As a scrappy team of developers, your Early Access involvement is making Gone Viral bigger and crazier - so we wanted to send y’all a special treat! We thought: Hey, wouldn’t it be neat if we gave away cool stuff to the folks actively helping development? And then immediately we had a second thought: Hell yeah, that WOULD be neat! Here’s our plan to do that. Plan for World Domination Part 1: When you pick up the game in Early Access: boom, you get the Killer Shades cosmetic item that you can plop onto Decimus or Abacus (or other characters in development...ooh, teaser!) These glowing stylish shades are a…
- Hotfix 0.5.0.1 - 26 September 2020
EARLY ACCESS HOTFIX 0.5.0.1 Let me tell you, these first few days of Early Access launch have been CRAZY. Like, no one getting any sleep crazy. But also a never ending stream of excitement and joy crazy - especially when watching our streamers play and hearing feedback from everyone who is supporting the Early Access so far! As part of all this, we have noticed a few things here and there we wanted to sneak some fixes in on, and at least one of our players pointed out that controller shake can be a real issue for people with hand sensitivity or limited control. So that is the solo feature leading this hotfix along with the polish following behind. Enjoy! Features: -- Controller shake is now an option you can disable (thanks @morokko) Polish: -- Fixed tire stacks using the wrong art on the Champ's floor (thanks @Swordmouse) -- Updated cursor to be more visible -- Gameshow kit version of…
- Gone Viral’s Early Access Journey Begins Today! - 24 September 2020
Let’s get started. Gone Viral, the rough and tumble roguelite brawler you know and love, hits Early Access today! If you love the brutality, if you love the carnage, if you love the roaring crowd, then be prepared for the game to enter overdrive and dole out goodies all over the place. If you pick up the game for early access today, you’ll get unique, one-of-a-kind cosmetic rewards every month until the game launches, not to mention all the free updates that we’ve got planned. New characters, new levels, new bosses, new enemies, new mutations, new items, you name it, we’ve got it coming down the pike. https://store.steampowered.com/app/680030/Gone_Viral/ Gone Viral explores a mutant post-apocalypse society that so glorifies violence and social media that the ultimate hybrid of the two has become the cornerstone of their entertainment – the most brutal game show ever devised. Gone Viral…
- Early Access Patch 0.5.0 - 24 September 2020
EARLY ACCESS UPDATE 0.5.0 Just a few more little fixes here and there to make sure Gone Viral can put its best foot forward on Early Access release day! We are super excited to have you play and even more excited for you to see all the cool new stuff we are working on already, planning on making, and dreaming about adding over the next few months! Enjoy! Polish: -- Adding in four lines of localized text that decided to mark themselves as "needs review" for no apparent reason after being translated -- Fire Jets adjust their visuals to be more sandy if spawned in an Arena -- Added new Tips/Shoutouts (reminder to poke me if you'd like one added!) -- Tweaked Tips for https://twitch.tv/FextraLife and @TurraBull! -- Tips tweaks -- Switched some "beta" references to say "test" -- Removed a ghostly decal that was appearing on the fence posts in the gameshow tileset -- The cosmetic panel on the…
- Early Access Patch 0.5.0 Release Candidate 1 - 23 September 2020
EARLY ACCESS UPDATE 0.5.0.rc.1 Good lord, it’s here! The official update for Early Access! Which we already know we’ll probably tweak once or twice. Now, you may say - Skullbots, is all this gonna go to your head? Being new and trending, actually going to Early Access? Well, probably! But our 3-person small-but-mighty team (with assists from a bunch of buddies of course) is gonna keep on cranking out regular mini updates and occasional Big Honkin’ Updates because that’s how we roll. Heck, Early Access hopefully lets us become a bigger small-but-mighty team. In fact, we’re already working on a new class for Update #1….woot! Time to start cranking out yet more CONTENT! In upcoming weeks we’ll talk about our roadmap for new classes, new levels, new content, and more coming out over Early Access. But it’s the final bit of Beta! So here’s a bit more polish and even a new feature as we enter…
- PAX/EGX Twitch Stream + AMA + Demo - 15 September 2020
Welcome Mutants, this is Gone Viral! Your hosts today are Jeremy Gaffney and his team of mutants, all former AAA developers behind games like WildStar and City of Heroes! Watch Gone Viral Live & Ask Me Anything Join us (Jeremy Gaffney and the Skullbot team) fight for our lives in this prison arena of our own design. With unique and deeply integrated Twitch functionality, take your seat amongst the bloodthirsty crowd and sit up close to a streamer like never done before! Love what I’m doing? Drop me a gift to show your love. Want to spite me? Vote for the deadliest Fan Event and watch me suffer. Catch us on Skullbot Games’ Twitch to participate in the mayhem and chaos. The Skullbot team will be standing by to answer any questions you have. We have a demo available here for you to enjoy and download! We encourage anyone who is interested to come swing by our Discord and not only join the…
- PAX/EGX Discord + AMA + Demo - 12 September 2020
Hey everyone! We're excited to continue to show you some awesome footage from our upcoming game - Gone Viral. We have a demo available here for you to enjoy and download! We encourage anyone who is interested to come swing by our Discord and not only join the community but to post your BEST runs or moments in our chat - we'd love to see them. Just let us know you're from PAX and we'll take care of you and set you up with permissions. About The Game When a civilization dies, so too do its scruples. You’ve been captured by a society that glorifies one thing and one thing only – violence. Oh, and followers, too – can’t forget about them. String together sickening combos to sate your Fans’ thirst for blood and gain rewards. Upgrade your MURDERING skills to achieve even greater spectacle and efficiency as you tear your way through room after room, leaving a trail of blood and tears (but most…
- Closed Beta Patch 0.2.26 - 11 September 2020
CLOSED BETA UPDATE 0.2.26 Another week, another update! Well it’s not just any other week - we’re getting ready for the end of Closed Beta (boo) on the 23rd - and the start of Early Access (yay!) on September 24th! Exciting times! This week - an overhaul of Polls, fixing lots of subtle issues when transitioning levels or coming back from saves, tweaking Insanity Modes, and lots of polish as we clean the windows and spray potpourri around the joint before Early Access! Thanks for the streams/suggestions and feedback over these weeks - we’ve got a giant amount of stuff in the hopper for new content, classes, mutations, levels, and more coming down the pike in EA - but makin’ sure the core is solid has been a primary goal of Beta and we couldn’t have done that without ya. Enjoy! Content: -- The "Gain 6 heart containers" achievement is now "Gain 7 heart containers" since you have a bonus he…
- Gone Viral Enters Steam Early Access on September 24th! - 29 August 2020
Everyone’s favorite post-apocalyptic game show will be coming to Steam Early Access for $19.99 on September 24th! Whether you’ve never heard of this gory game show before or you’ve been grinding mutants to a bloody pulp in this roguelite brawler, new and returning fans of Gone Viral have quite a lot to look forward to in the game’s Early Access! If you’d like to try out its over-the-top mayhem and get a taste for its boundless replayability, we have demos you can play today on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/680030 Gone Viral explores a mutant post-apocalypse society that so glorifies violence and social media that the ultimate hybrid of the two has become the cornerstone of their entertainment – the most brutal game show ever devised. Gone Viral puts the player in the shoes of a “contestant” on that gameshow who has been captured and is forced to fight for their life – and for…
