Today we have a whole lot of exciting news to share with you: we have released a brand new content patch for you including new ships, new bosses, new upgrades, new achievements, and many small fixes all throughout the game. And to sweeten the deal, you can also get Roche Fusion for a reduced price for a limited time, so this is the perfect moment to get started blowing those colourful enemies to bits!

Read on for more information about what's new, and how you can win a chance to design your own in-game upgrade!

It is hardly a secret that we have been working on the first free content patch for Roche Fusion over the past couple of months. A few of the highlights are:

• two new ships;
• two new bosses;
• six new upgrades - of which two are completely player-designed - plus four unique upgrades for the new ships;
• sixteen new achievements;
• new variety in enemy patterns;
• and infinitely many more explosions!

Check out the latest trailer to see the new ships in action, or jump in the game right now to give the new content a try.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsLdwZK06hI

For a full list of changes, check out the changelog here:

http://steamproxy.com/games/334140/announcements/detail/178235339365543711

We would love to hear what you think of all the new things. Make sure to drop us a few lines in our steam community page!

With all the new content, there are many new strategies to pursue in Roche Fusion. We have been play testing a lot the last few weeks and balanced all of the new content as best we can.

However, since we can never try out all the possibilities, we are asking you to help us find problems in the new balance of the game.

To do this, we are having a contest: we are allowing the two people who are on top of the leaderboards (single player; easy difficulty) for the two new ships - Lily and the Crab - and have also shared at least some feedback on either our forums or the Steam Community to design one upgrade that will make it into the game.

You are also free to put your feedback in a Youtube video or blog, and post a link on our forums or Steam Community. Bonus points of you post a screenshot of your game-over screen, or even record the entire game!

The contest will run until Sunday May 24 10:00 UTC. We will then announce the winners. In the meanwhile we will work on improving the balance of the game based on your feedback, and we will release an update soon afterwards. When the balance update is released, we will also reset all the leaderboards, so you can start anew with the battle for the top of the list.

For the full details on the competition, check the thread on our steam community page.

Starting from today you will be able to start collecting trading cards automatically by playing Roche Fusion. Collect all eight cards to combine them into a badge and collect emoticons and backgrounds to spice up your Steam profile.

To celebrate the release of Roche Fusion's first content patch and the trading cards, Roche Fusion will be available for a reduced price all week. All in all there has never been a better time to get started with Roche Fusion and/or introduce all your friends to the game.

Our hard work on our first big free update has come to a close, and we are happy to today announce the update's release date!

For this we have created a small trailer:

https://youtu.be/lsLdwZK06hI


It contains:

- two new playable ships
- two new awesome boss fights
- ten new upgrades
- more variation in enemy behaviour

and a bunch of smaller changes to make the game more awesome!


Over the next few days we will be busy putting on the final touches.
I hope you are as excited as us about this update and the new content!



The next one is scheduled in just a few hours:
http://steamproxy.com/games/334140/events/178234970451542796

Hope to see you there!
We cannot wait to see what you all think of all the new stuff!

Our sweet shoot-em-up deal with our friends from 2AwesomeStudio is over.

But we got a lot of positive feedback and decided to continue to offer copies of Roche Fusion to backers of Dimension Drive (right here on Kickstarter!) for just 8 euros extra!


Make sure to head on over to the Kickstarter and support Dimension Drive during the last week of its campaign!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2awesomestudio/dimension-drive


You can also help them out by voting for Dimension Drive on Steam Greenlight here:
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=422860011

Steam needs more amazing shoot 'em ups,
so let's make this happen!

If you have not seen our news the other day:

We have jumped into bed with 2AwesomeStudios, makers of Dimension Drive, and are offering a super sweet deal where you can get both games for cheap!


Check out the details here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2awesomestudio/dimension-drive/posts/1215430

The best part is: You will get your copy of Roche Fusion right when the Kickstarter succeeds!

Today I've got some crazy news!


For a limited time of only 72 hours, if you back their Kickstarter for the awesome Dimension Drive, you can get a copy of Roche Fusion for just €4 extra!

Head on over and take a look, and make sure to tell all your friends!
This is the perfect opportunity to pick up Roche Fusion if you haven't yet, or to pick it up for a friend.

Dimension Drive - Roche Fusion cross-over on Kickstarter


Since Roche Fusion is already out and about, everyone who gets the deal will get Roche Fusion right after the Kickstarter succeeds!

In addition, we will release our first FREE content update right after the Kickstarter as well!

Among new ships, bosses, upgrades and more we are including an upgrade that we shamelessly stole from Dimension Drive: The... Dimension Drive!

Check out this video for a little teaser of teleporting goodness:

Dimension Drive Upgrade Highlight on YouTube

You can also find more info about the update on our website here: http://rochefusion.com/news/355/officially-announcing-free-content-update


So, head on over to the Dimension Drive Kickstarter page and get yourself some of that sweet deal, before it is too late!


And even if you already have Roche Fusion, you can still help us out a bunch by voting for Dimension Drive on Greenlight!

It has been about three months now since Roche Fusion's release on Steam, and we are humbled by the positive reception; the great reviews, feedback, and all other comments.


We have been busy at work, and in just a few weeks, we will release our first FREE content update, with even more ships, upgrades, enemies, and definitely more explosions!

Until then we will post regular updates here on Steam, on Facebook[facebook.com], on IndieDB and on our own site[rochefusion.com]!

Further, we will create a series of small spoiler videos to show off some of the cool new upgrades we are adding. You can watch the first one right here!


Make sure to also check our YouTube channel and subscribe, to make sure you don't miss future videos.

If you want to get the absolutely most up-to-date information, including inside info not posted anywhere else, make sure to follow our developers on Twitter:
@amulware
@tomrijnbeek

We also have weekly live-streams, where we play-test the game, maybe write a bit of code, answer questions, and just in general have a lot of fun!

In fact, our first live stream will be TODAY!

So make sure to head over to http://twitch.tv/amulware at 14:00 GMT and take a look!

We will be posting a lot more info, including images, videos, and some very special announcements over the coming days and weeks, so watch out for that!

For now, enjoy the pixels!

From a full textual description of the behaviour of an enemy, there are still many steps before the game knows how to execute it. In this series of dev logs, I discuss the model we use for enemy behaviours, and give some small peeks into the high-level implementation of this model.

Part 1 - on the general model
http://rochefusion.com/devlog/348/player-directed-development-live-stream

Part 2 - how the newest mini-boss was modelled
http://rochefusion.com/devlog/350/graph-violence

On today's weekly devlog I go into depth on how we add new weapons to Roche Fusion.

I do so using as example one of the new upgrades coming soon as part of our first free content update.

For the full article, including pretty images, click here:

http://rochefusion.com/devlog/349/stingy-action-on-adding-new-weapons-to-roche-fusion

Enjoy the pixels!