Raiders Rise – Community Update | Sprint 27

Welcome to a new update! This sprint has been focused on polishing key systems such as rewards, tutorials, and enemies, as well as adding new features and content to improve the overall game experience. Here’s everything we’ve been working on.

🧩 Rewards, Battle Pass, and Gacha System

We continue polishing the rewards system:

• Players can now claim rewards directly from the Battle Pass

• Visual feedback and notifications have been improved

  

• We have also expanded the types of rewards:

  • Emotes (including random and rarity-based rewards)

  

  • New cosmetics

  

The full rewards flow is almost finished, with only final polish remaining.

🧠 Tutorial and Player Onboarding

Tutorial development is progressing well:

• Level 1 is fully completed and stable

• Work continues on Levels 2 and 3

  

We are focusing on improving player guidance, iterating based on feedback, and refining clarity and pacing during onboarding.

⚙️ Systems and Platform Features

💳 In-Game Purchases

The Steam in-game purchase system is now fully implemented:

• Ready to support real store items

• Integrated with the backend and game interface

  

🏆 Achievements

The achievements system has been added:

• First set of achievements already implemented and working

• Scalable system ready to support many more in the future

  

🎮 Gameplay and Technical Improvements

We have also worked on general polish and bug fixing in:

• Upgrade system

• Localization

• UI consistency

  

🧠 Characters, Enemies, and Animation

🎨 Skins and Concepts

We continue developing new skins, including:

• New skins for characters like Blizzcrack

  

We keep expanding the variety of available cosmetics.

👾 Enemy Development

This sprint had a strong focus on enemies:

• New enemies added:

  • Summoner enemy

  • Larva enemy

  • Shooter

• Existing enemies updated:

  • Visual and texture improvements

  • Unified art style across all enemies

🌍 Level Design and Environments

🗺 Level Progress

Work continues on Planet 3:

• Collider work

• Level structure improvements

Updates also continue on Planet 2 levels.

🏗 New Levels

Multiple mid and late game levels (levels 5–11) have been developed and iterated, including:

• New layouts

• Gameplay variations

• Unique mechanics (such as special levels)

🌄 Environment Design

New themes and environmental variations have been added:

• Improved visual identity between levels

• New props and layout concepts

We continue refining:

• Level flow

• Environmental visual clarity

🏁 Sprint Wrap-Up

This sprint has been key to consolidating important systems like rewards, tutorial, enemies, and platform features, while continuing to expand content and improve the overall experience.

➡️ Don’t forget to add Raiders Rise to your Steam wishlist ➡️ Join our Discord and take part in upcoming playtests

See you in the next update — and until then, keep raiding! 🚀