- Trading Cards Now Available! - 25 September 2020
Hello Pilots! Steam Trading cards have made their way to Jet Lancer, alongside our new badges, emotes, and backgrounds! Play Jet Lancer to unlock them all! In addition to the Trading Card update, we've got a number of quality of life improvements for Jet Lancer's Arcade Mode. Patch notes below! 1.1.4: Made the Afterburner tutorial more forgiving Slight aim assist for beam weapons to assist gamepad players Fixed drop rarity for Arcade reinforcements Precise aim module is now enabled for the railgun in Arcade Mode Railgun now scales with the Blast Radius upgrade in Arcade Mode Updated text and localization Disabled score popups if they would be equal to 0 Performance Optimizations As always, if you're enjoying Jet Lancer, we'd appreciate it if you left a review! Until next time! -The Jet Lancer Team
- Jet Lancer Arcade Mode is Available now - 21 August 2020
Hello Pilots! We’re pleased to announce the addition of a new way to play Jet Lancer- Arcade Mode! We’ve been working on it for a long time and we finally get to share it with you all today. Taking inspiration from roguelite games and some much requested features from the community, Jet Lancer’s Arcade Mode is our take on an endless, wave-based score-attack mode. https://i.imgur.com/dAJp2zq.gif Unique, stacking upgrades, make each run one-of-a-kind. The longer you survive, the more powerful you become. Three new pilots with unique jets and handling. New progression system to unlock additional pilots and their jets New Primary Weapons! Flamethrower: Immense repeatable damage at very close range. Railgun: Instantaneous precision shots. Coil Gun: Chain lightning between grouped enemies. Multi-boss battles - fight multiple bosses from the story mode at the same time. https://i.imgur.com/xew…
- Stylish anime dogfighter Jet Lancer is out now - 16 May 2020
Jet Lancer ‘s coming in later than planned, but who can stay mad when your flight looks like this? Sitting at the crossroads between Luftrausers , Daemon X Machina and Top Gun, Vladimir Fedyushkin and Nicolai Danielsen’s slick dogfighting anime about turning mountain-sized mecha into scrapheaps with fighter jets hit the skies earlier this week on Steam and Itch.io. (more…)
- Patch Notes 1.0.26 - 15 May 2020
Hello Pilots, We’ve been blown away by the response to Jet Lancer so far. We’re immensely grateful that we’ve put out a game that so many people have connected with and are enjoying. We’ve heard there were a couple issues that needed fixing, specifically in regard to OP 16: Babysitter, and OP 37: Going Up. We addressed both of these missions and a few other bug fixes in v.1.0.26, which is available on Steam now. You can find a complete list of changes below. Balance Changes OP 16: Babysitter. Dramatically increased Ally HP. He’s still a bad pilot, but it should be much easier to keep him alive now. OP:37 Going Up: Lowered score requirement in NG mode to be more easily achieved. Stealth Missions: Reduced laser targeting rate Dumb Bomb Module: Increased damage and reduced cooldown. Guided Rockets Module: Slightly increased base score Rocket Swarm Module: Slightly increased base score Over…
- Jet Lancer is Available Now - 12 May 2020
Jet Lancer is Clear for Takeoff! The wait is over. We're excited to announce that Jet Lancer is available now on PC, Mac, and Nintendo Switch, playable in English, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese! The main story takes about 5 hours to complete, followed by an unlockable New Game + with more aggressive AI, new jet upgrades, and an unlockable alternate ending. You can view our newest trailer here: Thank you so much for your support and encouragement throughout development. The enthusiasm of this community has been what's carried us through to today. If you'd like to support the game further, please consider leaving a Steam review. They are major contributors to Jet Lancer's success. For announcements, tips, and to connect with us and other pilots please join the discussion in the Jet Lancer Discord. See you in the skies, The Jet Lancer team
- Q&A with Jet Lancer Developers - 8 May 2020
Today we're sitting down with the dynamic duo behind Jet Lancer, a partnership better known as For the folks reading this who aren't already familiar with you, who are you, what do you do on Jet Lancer? Vladimir: I'm Vladimir, a self-proclaimed artist and game designer on this project. Although in reality, both of us did a little bit of everything while working on Jet Lancer. Nicolai: And I'm Nicolai, mostly a programmer and a bit of everything else when necessary. I also make sure our mountain of code doesn’t come crumbling down. If you were both ACE Pilots, what would your callsigns be? Vladimir: Utah, probably? That was my old nickname I’ve come up with for some milsim game. Nicolai: Call me Bob, because that’s the nonsensical nickname my dad has always called me by for no apparent reason. Secretly I prefer to stay on the ground for the most part. How did you two start working togeth…
- Community Q&A this Friday! - 4 May 2020
This Friday we'll have an interview with Jet Lancer Developers, a duo known as Code Wakers! As part of that discussion we'd like to open up the floor to questions from the community! If you have questions about Jet Lancer, bullet-hells, fighter jets, 80s anime, game development, or anything else we'd love to know what you're interested in learning more about. Leave your questions as a comment on this post! We will give extreme preferential treatment to any questions about Lem :) If you want to join the community elsewhere you can join our Discord by clicking this banner! And don't forget, we're just over a week until Jet lancer launches! If you haven't had a chance to wishlist the game yet you can do so by clicking this button here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/913060/Jet_Lancer/ See you on Friday! The Jet Lancer Team
- An interview with Jet Lancer's Writer - Cory O'Brien - 24 April 2020
We've teased some information about the story and characters of Jet Lancer, this week we're talking with the force behind those elements. Meet Cory O'Brien, Jet Lancer's writer. For the folks reading this who aren't already familiar with you, who are you, what do you do, what other projects have you worked on? I'm Cory O'Brien! I'm a writer who accidentally ended up in video games, and I'm not mad about it. I used to write a blog where I retold myths like I was drunk on chat, and then I published some books like that, and then I wrote for Monster Prom, and Max Gentlemen: Sexy Business. I also helped design a spooky robot interrogation game called Inhuman Conditions, and I'm currently helping with narrative design for a neon-dystopian social media adventure called HoloVista. You've written on multiple incredible titles at this point- how did you get started with games writing? Like I sai…
- Jet Lancer: Interview with Fat Bard - 15 April 2020
This week we're sitting down with the dynamic duo behind Jet Lancer's music and sound design. Meet Zach Fendelman and Patrick Crecelius, a partnership known as Fat Bard. Photo by Chelsea Dufresne For the folks reading this who aren't already familiar with Fat Bard, who are you, what do you do? P: We’re a music composition and sound design duo for a wide variety of games, from indie hits like Crashlands and Battle Chef Brigade, to IP mobile games like Harry Potter Wizards Unite. We both live in St. Louis, Missouri and have been doing game audio for about 8 years now. Why the name "Fat Bard"? P: We were trying to come up with a name for ourselves and decided to go the “band name” route, where we’re one entity instead of using our actual names. Like a band name we figured as long as it was something short, simple, and memorable that’s all that really mattered. The name “Bard '' was somethi…
- Jet Lancer's Characters - 10 April 2020
We've talked a bit about the story of Jet Lancer- you play as a flight-school burnout trying to make her way in the world, but we wanted to take some time now that we've announced our release date for you to all to learn a little more about the individuals in Jet Lancer. So today we're talking about Jet Lancer's Characters! Ashlyn Leguinn is convinced she's the most deadly thing in the sky, and she might be. After being dishonorably discharged from the academy she pursued any opportunity to get back into the air. She has partnered with Captain Orson Ratskeller, a mercenary working in the Sheltered Sea and has continued to push her limits ever since. She hasn't found a breaking point...yet. Likes: Breaking the sound barrier, being the best, saving the day. Dislikes: Failure, “Safety Precautions” Captain Orson Ratskeller finds himself as the leader of a small, highly effective group of me…
- Jet Lancer Release Date Announcement! - 6 April 2020
Hello everyone! Normally there's some preamble about what we're going to discuss, but we're too excited to share some big news with you, so we're going to cut to the chase: Jet Lancer is launching on May 12th for PC, Mac, and Nintendo Switch! We'll be launching with 6 languages: English French German Japanese Russian Simplified Chinese You can check out our new trailer below, or on our Steam page! https://youtu.be/UU3g-hUNWEc We're immensely happy to share this information with you, and we're so excited you'll be able to play the game soon. To keep up to date with Jet Lancer you can join our Discord, or if you want to be notified when Jet Lancer watches, you can add it to your wishlist here! https://store.steampowered.com/app/913060/Jet_Lancer/ Thank you so much for your support so far. We're excited to fly with you all on May 12th. Until next time, The Jet Lancer team
- Jet Lancer's Accessibility Options - 19 February 2020
Jet Lancer is a game that is meant to evoke a feeling of being on the razor's edge. We want every victory to feel like it was hard won, and every defeat to feel like it was only barely out of reach. It is our goal that all players can feel themselves growing as pilots while they play through Story mode and New Game Plus. Today we're going to talk about the in-game options to tailor your experience. Jet Lancer's Accessibility Options The LandscapeBefore we dive into things let’s have a brief recap of Accessibility in games. The Dawn of Video GamesIn the beginning there were no options. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Then, the first options emerged- difficulty settings, subtitles, inverted controls, and cheat codes. A While AgoMore recently accessibility options across the industry have expanded to include things like colorblind modes, rem…
- Jet Lancer Launch Update - 10 December 2019
Hello Pilots, As we approach the end of the year we wanted to share an important decision we've made. To make sure that Jet Lancer is the best it can be we are moving our launch to 2020. We’re as excited to share it as you are to play it and we are confident that Jet Lancer will be worth the wait. Thank you for all your support so far and your patience while we bring Jet Lancer in for a proper landing. We have some big news for you in the new year and we can't wait to share it. Over and out, The Jet Lancer Team
- DISPATCH_03: Behind the Scenes of New Game+ - 18 September 2019
It’s time we told you the truth— Jet Lancer doesn’t end at the credits. Like many games out there today, Jet Lancer will feature a New Game+ mode which allows players to play through the game again facing new challenges along the way. However, New Game+ for Jet Lancer is far from being the same game but harder, it’s an integral part of the overall experience and we wanted to talk with you about how we’re thinking about its implementation. Welcome to DISPATCH_03: Behind the Scenes of New Game+ Scope Scope creep is an easy trap to fall into, doubly so when it’s regarding features and elements that we’re passionate about. As a core team of two, we have to consider what we can realistically undertake since each new element compounds on our development time. So we asked ourselves a couple questions: How do we create awesome new gameplay experiences using the tools we have already made? How c…
- Jet Lancer locks on for a summer launch - 30 May 2019
After booming, zooming and barrel-rolling through a preview build of Jet Lancer , I’m confident that developers Vladimir Fedyushkin and Nicolai Danielsen (no studio name) are soon to deliver exactly what I wanted from Luftrausers . Obviously inspired by Vlambeer’s twitchy score-attack dogfighter, Jet Lancer wraps its formula in a structured story-heavy campaign set in a very anime post-apocalyptic world. It also has some very large robot bosses to fight and an intensely satisfying dodge roll button. It’s out this summer. Below, a new trailer and some thoughts. (more…)
- DISPATCH_02: A History of Guns - 27 March 2019
Jet Lancer has been in development for a long time. We're feeling nostalgic, so this week I want to show you some of the game's history, some older weapon systems, and a brief look at what we have now. My name is Vladimir, I'm the lead designer of Jet Lancer, and this is DISPATCH_02 A History of Guns A.K.A. How I Almost F****** Up Our Weapons System _________________________________________________________________________ https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34136609%2F515115f13179390212fcba6837ca856e6a399bcb.gif We started developing the “Planes game” in 2011 and back then it was quite different. It was much more of a simulation; you would take on the role of a Close Air Support pilot, fighting in combat where you felt more like a cog in the machine, trying to influence a battle by taking out key targets and helping your ground troops. Your arsenal consisted…
- DISPATCH_01: TEST PILOTS WANTED - 22 January 2019
Hello everyone! It's been just over a month since we formally announced Jet Lancer and we're very excited to start sharing some development progress with you, starting right now. Lately we’ve been busy getting everything prepared for a super secret milestone everyone has been asking for since the game first appeared. So, here it is! We're excited to announce our first Beta Playtest A.K.A. Test Pilot Program! You can be the first one to test-fly the game and help us to improve it. To receive sign-up instructions for the beta test and hear our important announcements before anyone else, subscribe to our newsletter on our official website. This playtest will feature the first few missions and bosses you'll meet in the campaign, including this bad boy. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34136609%2F471aa21b0f3ac310520b251e8ff238e5f54e96be.gif If you haven't wish…
- Jet Lancer looks like Luftrausers: Super Turbo Edition - 20 December 2018
Not going to beat around the bush – Jet Lancer , an upcoming aerial arcade shooter by Vladimir Fedyushkin and Nicolai Danielsen – looks a whole lot like Vlambeer’s Luftrausers , only more . Big powerful future jetfighters, swirling dogfights, massive robot bosses and if the teaser trailer below is any indication, a thumping soundtrack. This is all fine, and Luftrausers was great and I want more of that, but faster, louder and better. I’ve had half an eye on the development of this one for a while, but only now does it have an official title and trailer, which you really should watch below. (more…)
