Progressive and upbeat game studio in sunny AZ! Dev of Steven Universe: The Light Trilogy, Teeny Titans, & working on the new Castle Doombad! Let's be pals!
✨RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT!✨ Return to CASTLE DOOMBAD this OCTOBER 28th for a truly villainous Halloween! 🎃 Includes the full original game PLUS new content!
#CastleDoombad
Pre-order links in comments below 👇
Hey,
#StevenUniverse
#UnleashTheLight
players! It's been awhile... but it's that time again! There's a NEW character coming in the next big content update, version 4.0! Check back soon for the reveal! 👀⭐️
#StevenUniverse
#UnleashTheLight
is coming to consoles and Steam NEXT WEEK on 2/19! Soon you can play the third entry in our Steven Universe RPG trilogy on Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PS4, and Steam (PC & Mac)!
#NeatoBurrito
!
Happy 10 year anniversary Steven Universe!! SU means SO much to us. Not just the show, which is so special and important, but also all the wonderful people we've worked and connected w/and the friends and memories we've made as a result. Forever grateful for the experience⭐️❤️🥳
Here's some concept art for Peri from the
#UnleashTheLight
v2.0 update! She's easily one of our fave chars we've ever included in any of our games, brought to life with such fun and lively sketches & poses by
@JBoothArt
!
#Peridot
#StevenUniverse
Today's the day!
#StevenUniverse
#UnleashTheLight
will be available to download for Switch, PS4, Xbox, and Steam between 12-3pm EST. We'll post again when it's up!
A fun evolution of our 3
#StevenUniverse
The Light games has been the type of art assets used for each.
#AttackTheLight
used only 2D assets.
#SaveTheLight
had 2D character sprites but 3D modeled environments. Finally,
#UnleashTheLight
features both 3D enviros AND 3D char models!
#StevenUniverse
#UnleashTheLight
v2.0 free CONTENT UPDATE is here... and so is PERIDOT!! A new chapter to explore, new baddies, new loot, and a mysterious new threat... Our SU RPG keeps growing! Play it NOW with
@AppleArcade
on iOS, Mac, or Apple TV:
New
#StevenUniverse
#UnleashTheLight
free content update v1.1.0 available now! Smoky Quartz, new abilities, new quests, and more! Read the release notes here:
Announcing our next game:
#CastleDoombad
!
We're resurrecting our diabolical dungeon-keeping strategy defense game as an expanded remake w/all new art, content, & features -coming to PC & Mac this year!
🏰Wishlist NOW:
💀More info:
Now that
#StevenUniverse
#UnleashTheLight
is available on consoles & Steam, we're planning to share a few more
#BehindTheScenes
looks at character concepts and the design process! Here's the brilliant strategist with a major chip on her shoulder,
#Demantoid
! (Thread>>)
Now that
#StevenUniverse
#UnleashTheLight
is available on consoles & Steam, we're planning to share a few more
#BehindTheScenes
looks at character concepts and the design process! Here's everyone's favorite ruler (at least she thinks so):
#Pyrope
! ✨💖 (Thread>>)
We received the greenlight for
#StevenUniverse
#UnleashTheLight
four years ago and I can't believe how long it's been already! Here's the first game mockups we made in 2018 right at the start of pre-production ⭐️ (Art by
@JBoothArt
and
@MarshalUhls
)
Light The Future || Title Theme (Demo)
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I recreated the title music from the light games to reflect my ideas for a 4th light game 😳😳😳 because im obsessed...
#lightthefutureSU
#StevenUniverse
.
.
.
Full Music linked below!
An early camera & animation test of the first 3D character model we made -- Pearl! Despite using 3D models, it was important to us for the chars to still closely resemble the stylized 2D looks we were so used to over the years (though with some updates and polish in each game!)
Each character's 3D rig included controls to help manipulate various elements and maintain more 2D-esque silhouettes and poses. Pearl's lovely nose, for example, gets rotated on her face to ensure it never directly points at the camera.
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for more!
The console versions of the
#StevenUniverse
#UnleashTheLight
v4.0 free content update will be available next Thursday afternoon -- 8/18! We're so sorry for the longer than anticipated delay, but hope you all enjoy! ⭐️🎸✨
Nothing planned for this day in particular, but the new
#StevenUniverse
#UnleashTheLight
content update is still coming soon(ish). Sorry for the delay, but it'll be worth the wait! Will share deets as soon as we can ✨
Something fun: here's the first-ever piece of art created for
#SaveTheLight
! This was a mockup made for our first pitch, before we had the final game design figured out, knew what playable chars we could include, or had updated the char designs to drop the stroked outline!
To those asking about other platforms: please know we hear you, but we’re limited in what we’re able to discuss. Steven Universe: Unleash the Light is currently exclusive to Apple Arcade, but we’re always working with CN on other options. And the future is bright!
Once we bring the char models into the game, we partially flatten and rotate them to always face the camera. Our goal with UTL was to 'fuse' the first two games together, and that required some trickery to get these stylized 3D models to work nicely with an ATL-like perspective.
REALLY excited about the secret thing we're working on... (and it's taking all my willpower to refrain from using emojis that hint about what it is...) Hoping to announce it in the near future!
Despite all the fun we had experimenting w/new pipeline approaches, our artists still enjoyed practicing their traditional skills during pre-pro👍❤️
Work began on the 1st game in 2013, & it's been a truly special privilege to grow & evolve our humble take on SU over the years!
By popular demand from our lovely Discord community: previously unshared Hessonite concepts! This was pretty close to the end of the design process on her. We had SO much fun every step of the way on the collab w/Crewnivese & bringing her to life. Forever love her!
#SaveTheLight
Always fun to look back on! The SU Crew was so talented, hardworking, passionate, and gracious… and they also truly loved games! My wish is for every creative to experience a collaboration as fulfilling as these projects were.
We are still working on new stuff for
#UnleashTheLight
⭐️However it will likely be awhile before we can discuss or announce anything. Thank you, as always, for the interest and support! ✨
Dr. Lord Evilstein has a special announcement for you...
The
#CastleDoombad
Remake is NO MORE! From its ashes has risen two nefarious new games: CASTLE DOOMBAD 2: MUAHAHA! and CASTLE DOOMBAD CLASSIC! Break bad in both villainous Tower Defense puzzlers! Wishlist in comments 🏰😈
There's SO MANY
#StevenUniverse
characters we just ADORE (well, all of them, really) What a joy to work w/so many incredible chars over the years on these games... And I gotta say -- we're pretty darn proud of how many we eventually managed to make playable in
#UnleashTheLight
!)
Blast from the past! What an exciting time this was when we first revealed Hessonite to the world. We'll always be grateful for all the love the fans have shown her & the games over the years, and ofc for the amazing opportunity to work on it all with people we admire so much🧡
Our favorite
#GuitarDad
joins the adventure with new abilities, new unlockable costumes and upgrades, and all-new VO by Tom
@Scharpling
! Check back later this week when we reveal more details about Greg AND the other new content coming in
#UnleashTheLight
v4.0! ✨
Oh, and one more thing: rumor has it that
#UnleashTheLight
v4.0 includes our biggest unlockable surprise ever hidden in any of
#TheLightTrilogy
games... Thank you to ALL our fans and players for your love and support over the years, and as always:
#ThanksForPlaying
! ⭐️💙
Here's an early/unused
#UnleashTheLight
boss concept! It would've featured similar mechanics to the Indigo Scorpion Boss from
#AttackTheLight
(the first boss character we ever designed for our SU RPG games) while also emphasizing UTL's new lane/position-switching features
We were quite fond of Peridot's builder moveset from STL, but still wanted to challenge ourselves to design a brand new moveset in UTL. Enter: ..Robonoids! At one point Peri could access 'noid upgrade trees mid-battle and transform them into different types (healer, SP gen, etc)
Here's an early pitch sheet featuring new mechanics we were experimenting with for the threequel (you might notice a surprise cameo in the top left... sadly that feature didn't make the cut!)
@TheCartoonBase
Everything about the experience was magic for our small team. Obviously we adored the show itself and its importance and impact from a progressive standpoint was something we were proud to be involved with, but also working with the lovely and SUPER talented people behind it was
Love it, nice work!! That original sketch is from the CRAZY talented
@JoetheJohnston
who generously provided us with some incredible fusion concepts & poses in the game/distance style (that you can actually check out here!: )
Another classic that made us laugh: during
#SaveTheLight
, Greg was prone to getting stuck in his jump animation and would happily cruise around stages through the air like this:
Yes, we're finished w/our
#StevenUniverse
RPGs &
#UnleashTheLight
,
#SaveTheLight
, etc, unless Cartoon Network asks us to come back (hint: we'd love to)
Regardless, we're endlessly grateful for the opportunity to make these. We love 'em, love SU, the crew, & the community! ⭐️
The new character is part of a free content update (for all current platforms) that we'll be talking about more very soon! Please note that although the character reveal will be tomorrow, the release date for this update is TBA. Can't wait to share more!
We're excited for you to try
#UnleashTheLight
's
#BlackHole
Stage Generator mode! Generate an endless amount of rearranged stages w/random encounters, loot, & more! Unlock unique new rewards, AND try your hand at 3 difficulty levels! (With altered rulesets at higher difficulties!)
Congratulations to the entire
#StevenUniverseFuture
crew on their
#Emmys
nomination for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program for the “Fragments” episode.
At the start of making
#StevenUniverse
#SaveTheLight
we knew we wanted to evolve the visual style but w/out losing the "distance model" direction we loved from
#AttackTheLight
(and that we felt became so signature to our game series), so we tried dropping the char stroke outlines