Hi all,

It’s time for a sad announcement: Ambient is shutting its doors. It’s been an amazing ride and we’ve produced some amazing products like Monster Meltdown and Death Inc. We’re super proud of what we achieved, but ultimately we didn’t manage to make enough money to keep the wolves from the door. And so we had to make the difficult decision that it is no longer feasible for Ambient to continue operating.

Thank you so much for all your support and encouragement along the way, we’ve got no regrets and have loved every minute of it.

- The Ambient team

A Note On The Death Inc. Alpha

Obviously we cannot deliver on the commitments we made in the various Death Inc. alpha tiers. If you’re one of the alpha backers, don’t worry – we will be issuing full refunds so you will not be in any way out of pocket.

We’ve gone and released an updated version of the Death Inc. alpha! There’s a few notable changes:

- Characters behave much more nicely versus walls and houses

- Significant performance improvements

- Handle low resolutions much more nicely

- Better handling of low quality settings

If you’ve already bought the alpha you’ll be able to update via your download links. If you haven’t, what are you waiting for? Head to http://www.deathincgame.com and grab it now!

Exciting news everyoneThe Death Inc. Alpha is available right now, RIGHT HERE:

http://www.deathincgame.com

If you love Death Inc. you’re going to want to get in on this – from just $10 you get the early Alpha version of the game to play right now and it serves as a pre-order for the full game when it’s released. We’ve changed a bunch of things since the prototype and the game plays and looks even better than before:

BUT THERE’S MORE! The more you pay the more you get – get your name in the game, get custom playing cards, even help us construct an in-game pub or become a Nobleman yourself.

There’s tonnes of great goodies to buy – so please support Death Inc. and independent games developers by purchasing today.

And then why not head over to our forums and get involved?

 

Hi everyone!

Unfortunately, as you may be aware, Death Inc. didn’t make its target on Kickstarter.

But don’t give up hope! We are working very hard to make the game a reality. And today is an exciting day regardless, because by a happy coincidence of timing our new iPad game Monster Meltdown is released!

Check out the ace trailer Mike did:

You can get it on the App Store for your iPad 4, 3, 2 or Mini here: http://www.appstore.com/monstermeltdown

 

Supercoders Joss and Chris and superartist Jon have been hard at work this week! Along with Designer Mike they wanted to provide a brief look into the wonderful world of siege weaponry and special abilities. I’ll let Joss and Mike elucidate:

It’s bonkers and brilliant, as I’m sure you’ll agree. Of course, this is all to support Death Inc’s Kickstarter campaign - click thee to find out more!

And you should too, here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/229423802/death-inc/

 

Megahands Tim Holleyman has drawn some lovely avatars for your twitters, your facebooks, your forums! We’ve got two Grims and two Plague Doctors.

Whose side are you on?

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We skipped last Monday’s update (there was something little, like our Kickstarter launch to contend with), so today you get two weeks of progress instead.

Almost everything is now built (and wired up too). Hopefully this time next week, everything will be painted, sewn and completed – and we’ll give a little tour of the cottage.

Jon.

Oh what a joyous occasion! The Death Inc. Kickstarter campaign is now live and ready for your discerning gaze. Feast your succulent eyeballs on the tantalising bounty of reward options available and go forth and pledge!

And for those truly awesome of heart, show your Death Inc. love using these handsome avatars, which will surely spread envy amongst your friends as surely as the plague.

What business would be complete without a super mega classy wax seal?! And certainly, there’s no business quite like the death business.

We thought this would be the perfect thing for the setting, and so we ordered one to gauge the quality. Seems pretty awesome! What do you all think? Maybe we’ll have to think of a way to offer these…