KNOSSOS still goes strong in 2025!


The new year 2025 is already over a month old, but there is a lot of stuff going on:
- KNOSSOS is coming to steam! 🤫
- I updated the itch build, so you get the same changes!
- new colors
- a little balancing
- all menus are navigatable with keyboard and gamepad
- The exhibition year starts off with KNOSSOS at the KokoroKon in Schwechat, Austria!
How does it work?
If you bought the game here on itch, nothing changes for you - just download the newest build. If not, the price is the same, so you get the same game BUT BETTER! :)
The next 3 months!
There will be a 4 player Remote Play Together supporting build in the near future; for this version here you can use services like Parsec to play the game online (if no friendly couch is close to you).
As part of the Indie Area, KNOSSOS will be brought to various venues like The Button Festival, HanamiCon, The Comix, Austrian eSports Festival, VulkanLAN and LevelUp again this year, stay tuned for updates here or on Bluesky!
The devil is in the detail
Getting GameMaker to run these days for patching the game is really hard and like a run of hurdles. A thing that always urked me was, how the player colors were not meshing well together, especially on certain displays. I picked a completely new color palette for them. Previously they were based purely on the RGB values that stepped through the 256 color cycle in steps of 32. Now I based them on HSV colors that are also nice to the eyes.
I never had anyone with a certain colorblindness talk to me about issues, but it is quite hard with this game to pick good values, that'll just work.
The biggest visual change though is the size of certain weapons and that the most interesting (previously secret) armors are now regularly selectable in the lobby. It made no sense to hide that somewhere.
The menu is fully in english now as well. Back then I wanted to create the game without any modern language showing up, but this ofc is pretty obtuse if nobody is there to explain it to you. There is no tutorial still, but that's not the hard part to figure out... The hard part was the "how to restart, change map" etc...
As always HAVE FUN with it! This old game somehow still brings a lot of smiles to people. I get invited to bring KNOSSOS and a fton of controllers to parties. I am very humbled - stay safe!
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Knossos
up to 8 player competitive arena game with four engaging gamemodes
Status | Released |
Author | Ancient Pixel |
Genre | Fighting |
Tags | 2D, Co-op, GameMaker, Top-Down |
Languages | English |
Accessibility | High-contrast, Textless |
More posts
- Exhibitions!May 05, 2024
- Playing this game again after some timeSep 04, 2021
- KNOSSOS last minute changes!Jul 06, 2018
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