A sandbox platform fighting game with built-in creation tools. Play & share creations online or with up to 8 players locally. 3D rotation pixel art magic ✨
The official announcement: Smack Studio is coming to Steam Early Access in just 11 days!! (9/20)
This launch includes 8 player battles and our 3D
#pixelart
rotation tools, for use in your own projects
You can wishlist it here- it's free! ♥️
#indiegames
Our animation tools have been in dev for more than 3 years, and we have incredible news:
#smackstudio
now features full 3D rotations for
#pixelart
!
This will make it the first software that can rotate a sprite in 3D- no 3D models needed!
#indiegames
#UnrealEngine
#ドット絵
Here's the first look at online rollback netcode in Smack Studio:
A smooth online play experience with nearly 800 playable characters and only around 2 frames of input delay by default.
Are you a platform fighter streamer or creator? Reply or tag someone you know!
Want your grunts and groans in our game?
Smack Studio is looking for 𝙑𝙊𝙄𝘾𝙀 𝘼𝘾𝙏𝙊𝙍𝙎! 🎤
We're holding auditions for our Base Roster cast on Casting Call Club.
See the replies to learn more!
We've gotten some questions about how the tech works. These are the original 2D sprites that were used. Our engine 3D-tizes them and renders the results in real-time!🙂
Smack Studio is now FULLY voice acted! ❄
Update is out now, as well as 20% off for Steam's Winter Sale!
What's a better Christmas present than buying your friend a game just to beat them up online?
Spinning pupper created in
#SmackStudio
!
We've gotten some questions about whether it's possible to animate smaller-sized sprites using the 3D
#pixelart
rotation tools, so we ran a test. This little guy's only 25 pixels tall!
#indiegames
#indiegamedev
#gamedev
#ドット絵
One day while messing around with the Smack Studio animation stuff and coming up with the idea to rotate a dog in faux 3d, i sprited a second dog in 3d for fun, Orcane from
@RivalsOfAether
!
It's cursed but it amuses me to see the boy spinning like that
Using the custom UI in
#smackstudio
to draw onto our
#pixelart
character. Our 2D sprites can be rotated in 3D!
Once we apply our changes, all animations are redrawn automatically. 50+ animations and more than 1000 keyframes, created instantly! 🙂
#UE4
#indiegames
#ドット絵
Smack Studio allows up to 40fps animations with optional tweening. You can pair down excess frames - or include holds and smears to match your desired framerate and visual style. ✏
Remember that time
@MVG_Mew2King
played himself in Smack Studio?
Got a creator who you think would make a great fighter? Tag them in the replies and we just might make them a character👀
Welcome to Dash City🚦
Duke it out on this new stage, featuring a moving platform and the sights and sounds of a cityscape.
Stick around and maybe grab a slice of pizza 🍕
Today's update allows importing sprites with a single click!
Now you can make a fully playable character from a sprite sheet in a fraction of the time 🕓
#indiegames
#pixelart
First look at our Stage Editor🌟
Add keyframes on a timeline to animate platforms or objects, add custom music, and test your stage right in the editor!
We're 3 weeks post launch and we've already passed 150 custom stages on the Steam workshop!
Thank you to all who have uploaded a stage and shared your creativity ❤️
Why have one dog head, when you could have two dog head arms!?
Cerberus from Otto and the Ancient Worlds and
@ObviousGravity
joins the Steam Workshop from
#IndieLand2023
Is the
@Completionist
a Jirard main?
Well now you can be!
We made a "Jirard" character for
#IndieLand2023
, you can download him now on the Steam Workshop!
Our 3D
#pixelart
rotation works by mapping 2D sprites to a 3D skeleton.
As you drag the bones, a compute shader running in
#UE4
redraws the sprites- creating the illusion of a 3D character! When I pan around to the side view, you can see that it's 2D.🧐
#indiegames
#realtimevfx
Say hello to our new box art.👋
We are so excited for what the future has in store for Smack Studio!
Thank you all for your amazing support and amazing creations so far.💛
1 alpha launch, 24 patches, and 1 major update later, Smack Studio reaches 4 months of Early Access!
Here's a recap of our journey so far, including our trip to
#PAXWest
last year:
#IndieGames
#PixelArt
#FreeToPlay
8 player pandemonium at
#PaxWest
, including some custom chars created by players onsite!
This is a quick snippet, but we'll show more custom chars and gameplay footage from PAX soon. 😃
#indiegames
#SmackStudio
We're excited to welcome another team member working on Smack Studio:
@Archytas79
!
Before joining our team, Archy created some awesome content for the
#RivalsOfAether
steam workshop. You can check it out here:
#gamedev
#indiegames
So we haven't announced a space animal yet for Smack Studio...
Spry joins the battle! Captain Jessica "Spry" Coney is a loose cannon sharpshooter with some new tricks to bolster familiar mechanics.
Character design by
@CHAOKOCartoons
!
#indiegames
#indiegamedev
#pixelart
Cora's up strong is a spinning double slash!
A
#pixelart
animation like this could take many hours to draw frame-by-frame, but we were able to get most of the way there using the automation tools in
#SmackStudio
, and then add some polish!
#UE4
#indiegames
#ドット絵
Playing with a 3D
#pixelart
rig in
#SmackStudio
! The result looks 3D, but it's just a 2D image drawn onto a plane in the scene.
When I switch to depth view, darker pixels are "further away" from the camera- although this depth is imaginary!🙂
#RealTimeVFX
#indiegames
#ドット絵
We're absolutely thrilled to have Brawl-modding veteran
@NezhaScout
collaborate with us for stage creation!
He's the man behind many pretty Brawl/Project M stage mods, and he's now helping us ramp up our stage game in Smack Studio.
Go check out his work if you haven't already!
We've got a new stage! Lost Temple has a large layout with multiple platforms, it's perfect for casual free-for-alls and room enough for 8 players. Available now in our most recent update!
In light of the success of our Kickstarter, we've decided to give anyone who downloaded our Early Access build before February 1st the full game for free.
This means all 7,000 of you who supported us pre-Kickstarter will have the full game for life.
Thank you so much! ♥
Idle stance for Kaien-
Kaien serves as a "shoto" in
#SmackStudio
: a well-rounded archetype that helps to balance the roster and contrast with more eccentric characters! We're planning to give this shoto a little more 🔥 than most
#indiegames
#indiegamedev
#ドット絵
#retrogames
Cora's idle animation, by
@DanieruArt
!
Smooth idles can take a long time to animate, due to subtle changes in rotation that require lots of redrawing.
#smackstudio
can eliminate the grunt work and produce butter🧈 smooth
#pixelart
animations- no redrawing required!
#ドット絵