Defender’s Quest II - Now Available!
Hello everyone! I’m as shocked as anyone else to say this, but Defender’s Quest II is now available on Steam! It has been a long journey with a development schedule in the Duke Nukem Forever timescale (though still shorter!), but we’re finally here!
This is obviously not how we planned things, and we regret that our backers had to wait half a generation to see the results of our work. But, we were committed to finishing the project despite all of the challenges, and we can now say we’ve accomplished that.
Development speed picked up over the past 18 months or so when we secured support and funding from our fantastic publisher, Armor Games. Just after that, Patrick McCarthy joined the team and really drove the game forward. While intending to focus on level design, he ended up doing a ton of programming, and when Lars had to step away from the project Patrick took over and almost completely shouldered the development. I can’t express how much we appreciate the Herculean effort he has put in over this time, going far above and beyond what he had signed up for.
The game has also changed a lot over the past decade. It’s a sequel in the Final Fantasy sense of the word - many of the mechanics and feel of the game are consistent, but the art, characters, world, and plot are quite different. We’ve made some core changes that we believe improve the gameplay and create interesting decisions. And Patrick’s puzzle-designer background means that the Advanced versions of some of the maps can get _quite_ tricky!
In any case, we are so grateful to everyone who has given us support in myriad ways over the years, and we’re excited to finally be able to share this game with you. We hope you all enjoy it!
Sincerely,
Anthony
P.S. - If you had problems with getting an early demo version of the game (literally almost 2 years old!) when you first bought it, we apologize for the confusion and it is fixed now. We had everything set up except for one little flag on the backend. It’s always something! 😅
P.P.S. - If you purchased the game from our website, you should have a Steam key available in your Humble Library (we used a Humble Bundle widget to manage sales, so it is stored in their library). We will do our best to stay on top of support requests and are trying to figure out how to send out a reminder email to everyone.
This is obviously not how we planned things, and we regret that our backers had to wait half a generation to see the results of our work. But, we were committed to finishing the project despite all of the challenges, and we can now say we’ve accomplished that.
Development speed picked up over the past 18 months or so when we secured support and funding from our fantastic publisher, Armor Games. Just after that, Patrick McCarthy joined the team and really drove the game forward. While intending to focus on level design, he ended up doing a ton of programming, and when Lars had to step away from the project Patrick took over and almost completely shouldered the development. I can’t express how much we appreciate the Herculean effort he has put in over this time, going far above and beyond what he had signed up for.
The game has also changed a lot over the past decade. It’s a sequel in the Final Fantasy sense of the word - many of the mechanics and feel of the game are consistent, but the art, characters, world, and plot are quite different. We’ve made some core changes that we believe improve the gameplay and create interesting decisions. And Patrick’s puzzle-designer background means that the Advanced versions of some of the maps can get _quite_ tricky!
In any case, we are so grateful to everyone who has given us support in myriad ways over the years, and we’re excited to finally be able to share this game with you. We hope you all enjoy it!
Sincerely,
Anthony
P.S. - If you had problems with getting an early demo version of the game (literally almost 2 years old!) when you first bought it, we apologize for the confusion and it is fixed now. We had everything set up except for one little flag on the backend. It’s always something! 😅
P.P.S. - If you purchased the game from our website, you should have a Steam key available in your Humble Library (we used a Humble Bundle widget to manage sales, so it is stored in their library). We will do our best to stay on top of support requests and are trying to figure out how to send out a reminder email to everyone.