2019-12-12 17:48 UTC · Community Announcements · batterystaplegames
Hello! Jamestown+ is finally out on Steam. You can get it here! Before we dig into what's new in the remaster: if you own Jamestown, Jamestown+ is only $5 this week. We hear your concerns about having to rebuy being lame - so for owners of the original game, we've priced the full Jamestown+ as though it's a DLC (by discounting the base price by 73%). Thanks for your patience - we'd've loved to have this out earlier, too! Here's what's new in Jamestown+: Two all-new, handcrafted levels set on Phobos & Deimos, the moons of Mars. New ships: Master The Armada, three new configurable conveyances th
2019-10-07 16:58 UTC · Community Announcements · batterystaplegames
Hello! Today's Jamestown patch (when was the last time you saw those words together?) fixes a few old issues with the current Windows version of Jamestown as we get ready for the release of the game's enhanced edition. If any other major issues still exist, please let us know! Posts on the Steam Community or messages in our Discord are the best way to get in touch. The game will also be on sale this week (50% off) for the first time in four years! Thanks for playing! PS - A similar fix for the Mac build of the game will be coming shortly - it's not ready quite yet. -- ICYMI - Jamestown+ (enhan
2019-08-01 20:03 UTC · Community Announcements · batterystaplegames
Hi there! If you're reading this, you're one of the hundreds of thousands of players who've enjoyed Jamestown's original release on Steam over the years. (2011 was a long time ago - especially in video game years.) You might also be one of the thousands who saw Jamestown+ come out on PS4 in 2015, and asked, "hey, can we have Jamestown+ stuff?" Yes. Yes, you can. We'll be re-releasing Jamestown this fall (2019) as Jamestown+: a standalone, all-inclusive package, complete with all of the game's new ships, new levels, and eight years of engine improvements and art refinements. We've got something
2017-04-13 19:06 UTC · PC Gamer
By the late ‘90s, with Street Fighter 2’s impact on arcades receding in the West, the beautiful rows of wooden cabinets and the glow of their CRTs suffered a commercial deforestation. With their dwindling ranks went the heyday for genres built around a quick play and immediate gratification. Genres like the shoot-em-up, which predates all the rest with links back to 1962’s pioneering Spacewar! In its prime, the shoot-em-up genre swelled with a distinctly Japanese form of game design, screens covered by hellish bullet patterns and anime girls—plus notable domestic
2011-12-13 18:40 UTC · Kotaku
We've seen our share of Humble Indie Bundles over the past year or two—independent developers who gather under the "Humble" brand and release a bunch of their games priced at whatever people want to pay. The latest one, Humble Bundle #4, might be the best one yet—for any price you want, you can get Super Meat Boy, Bit. Trip Runner, Jamestown, Shank and Nightsky. Pay more than the average price (currently tracking at $4.61 on the Humble Bundle site), you get Cave Story + and Gratuitous Space Battles as well. There's no shortage of gaming to be done this December, but these are all g
2011-12-13 11:44 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)
Details of the next Humble Indie Bundle have once more leaked, because Steam’s Content Description Record Viewer Thingamie is so ludicrously easy for people to spy. And it looks like it’s going to be a bit of a corker, as spotted by DIY Gamer. In the pay-what-you-want collection it seems there will be Super Meat Boy, BIT.TRIP.RUNNER, Jamestown, Nightsky and Shank. That’s the first wave, and then there’s even better to get added in. (more…)
2011-11-14 23:09 UTC · Product Update · Valve
* Fixed a crash that could occur when plugging in certain controllers while the game was running. (e.g. XBOX 360 controllers) * Fixed unexpected cursor behavior when alt-tabbing out of Jamestown. * Jamestown window icon now appears correctly when the game is running in windowed mode * Fixed a bug where certain weapon sounds would play at high volume when returning from the continue screen * Trains in New Madrid (and challenge levels) award the correct number of points again * Selecting ‘START OVER’ from the pause menu or game over screens will now restart you at the correct level in
2011-11-11 22:11 UTC · Product Update · Valve
Updates to Jamestown have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: - Fixed a bug where the game was crashing at the beginning of levels for players with certain audio configurations - Fixed a bug where some users weren’t hearing any music at all - Fixed a bug where trying to play the game caused some users to hear dark whispers from beyond space and time never meant for mortal ears - Fixed a crash bug that cropped up sometimes when defeating the Lady of the Lake - Treason and Ghost DLC ships can now properly t
2011-09-01 18:00 UTC · Kotaku
They grew corn and tobacco in colonial Jamestown on Mars back in the 1600s. Sir Walter Raleigh took up arms, via a spaceship, to fight the Spanish-Martian alliance. I don't think any of this is true, but this was history as described to me by Tim Ambrogi, one of the developers of the four-player shoot-em-up called Jamestown that chronicles these events. If you want to check the authenticity of the game, to see if it matches with history as you know it, check out the $10 game, which is out now on Steam. It actually came out during E3 in June, which is how I missed our own item about it finally
2011-08-21 17:02 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 50% off Jamestown! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
2011-06-27 16:44 UTC · Product Update · Valve
* Triggers on 360 controllers can now be bound as buttons; * Triggers are no longer 'sticky' for certain controllers; * Implemented gauntlet extends; * Implemented provisional support for some OpenGL 1.5 video cards; * Fixed a crash on machines with alternative "My Documents" directory paths; * Fix crash when paging through leaderboards; * Fixed a rare crash bug in Dark Sector; * Fixed a bug where directional keyboard bindings were not persisting between rounds;
2011-06-20 09:45 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Quintin Smith)
I was cheering excitedly about beautiful indie shmup Jamestown last week, and the title’s tagline of “Mars is waiting! Bring your friends!” must be the finest piece of video game marketing of the last ten years. But a philosopher once said that a video speaks a thousand words, so here’s games commenter Total Biscuit talking you through the game in an even more agitable manner than usual. I’m serious- if you watch up to him reaching the first boss you will hear the actual sound of a man having a nervous breakdown. (more…)
2011-06-13 23:54 UTC · Product Update · Valve
* Fixed a common crash when killing turrets while going to Game Over screen; * Fixed Centurion Card achievement; * Mouse no longer moves very slowly for mice with high polling rates; * Difficulty curve smoothed out slightly; * High score entries now record missing metadata about play sessions; * Updated credits; * Fixed rare bug where players died on respawn in Croatoa;
2011-06-10 23:40 UTC · Product Update · Valve
Changes: * Lives/credits now behave consistently during gauntlet runs ;* F9 no longer crashes game when attempting to record using FRAPS ;* Lightning Bug crash fixed on Dark Sector ;* Leaderboards now correctly save/display selected ships ;* Final boss music replaced with fully-mastered version ;* Fullscreen-related crashes should be fixed ;* Bomber vulcan damage increased by 1.5 ;* Attempted fix for analog/hat input conflict on certain controllers ;* Challenge level and gauntlet achievements should now award correctly (apologies to our first first 1CC gauntlet players!) ;* The next time a cha
2011-06-09 12:01 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Quintin Smith)
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