Update 1.1 for SENTIENT STEEL is out now on Steam! 🤖💙

After over a year away from the game, l returned to it with fresh eyes to give it a final round of polish.

1.1 includes:
- Huge perf. improvements
- Gameplay adjustments
- Reworked visuals
- Fixed audio

And more!

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before I decided on grinding wires for travelling in and out of the background, I used a sort of simple ‘teleporter’

wire-grinding was the better choice in the end — but I still find this old clip really satisfying!

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SENTIENT STEEL was also supposed to open with a short, 2D animated dev splash — here’s an animatic of it from Sept 2023!

again, another necessary cut, but it’s still a shame I couldn’t get it done on time

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as with any game, I planned more content before making cuts to get to release

here’s a (very, very) early version of the intro for a cut boss: I’m quite sad I had to remove it, as it has a behaviour which splits the skyscraper in the video in half!

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here’s some neat ‘cut content’ from about a year before release:

from early on, I wanted SENTIENT STEEL to open with flying a drone: in the final game, it’s a shoot-‘em-up segment, but back then it was closer to a boomer shooter!

sadly, I can’t find any combat footage :(

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here’s some early combat footage from around Feb 2022, versus some from the final game

the early footage even shows the original design for what ultimately became the “Eye” Machine, which can be seen in the second half!

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ello, I’m etcher, and I love action games

earlier this year I made a co-op one called SENTIENT STEEL, and soon I hope to talk about my next game (it’s coming along nicely!)

I’d love to connect with devs and action game (bayonetta, wonderful 101, god hand, FFXVI, etc.) fans!

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