Serious Sam Double D Out Now

Serious Sam Double D is out now for $7.99!
Steam page
GetGames page
Direct2Drive page
Impulse-Gamestop page

Launch video courtesy of CEO of the publisher Devolver Digital, Fork Parker.



Go forth and GET TO STACKING!

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In other news, here are the support display resolutions for those curious:

• 1680x1050 
• 1600x900 
• 1440x900
• 1366x768
• 1360x768
• 1280x1024
• 1280x960
• 1280x800
• 1280x768
• 1280x720
• 1152x864
• 1024x768
• 1024x576

 If you need to run the game with a resolution not shown (such as 1400x1050), you can run it with this debug command.
In Steam, right-click the game and select Properties->Set Launch Options. In the command line, set "debugResX 1400 debugResY 1050"
Obviously substitute the proper debugResX or Width that you need and the proper debugResY or Height needed.
You can actually set just about any resolution your graphics card can handle. But bear in the mind the levels were built only up to 1920x180 as the absolute max. If you go into 2560x1600 things may get unpleasant if you start seeing "outside" the game world.

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Otherwise, the game looks completely smoking at the higher 1600 resolutions, I hope your card and monitor can handle those! Seems like on average most PC gamers have that covered, based on the Steam computer spec survey. But do people boastfully lie on those? I doubt it. Or at least I hope not.

Serious Sam Double D coming August 30th!

Serious Sam Double D is releasing August 30th on Steam, Get Games, Impulse and other services for $7.99!

We've been working for a while now to get the game ready for Steam and are insanely pumped to have it approved. From what we can tell Steam controls most of the digital distribution game market, so having it available there is very exciting for us.
We've polished a lot of aspects of the game along the way to get it approved including seamless quicksaving, better controller remapping, and better cinematics transitions. I've also jacked up the supported max resolution of the game to 1680x1050.

1600x900 view of the Caterfighter in Pompeii

Chimputees everywhere!

Here's resident gun-nut Huff to explain the glorious Gun Stacker


The page on Steam is not up yet, but should be later this week.
Here's the Serious Sam Double D Get Games page. 
And the Impulse page should be up soon as well. Should be up on IndieCity and Desura too.

Serious Stack of Numbers

Serious Sam Double D's exact release date will be announced very soon! Bugs are almost worked out. All kinds of secrets have been stuffed in and double-checked. Challenge levels are getting tweaked a little more. Things are really close! That means we know all kinds of cool stuff about the game now. So let's see...

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Serious Gameplay and Replay

Gameplay

First off, let's see some of the insane action in motion for Serious Sam Double D!

That was the first official gameplay trailer for the game. There will be some more trailers highlighting various aspects such as the GunStacker system.

Replayability

With a few weeks before release, Serious Sam Double D has undergone a drastic but excellent change that heavily increases the replayability of the game.

Previously the game followed a simple structure: You battled your way from the start to the end, finding powerups and cool secrets. But if you happen to miss anything, the only real way to get it was to start from the beginning again and hope to remember where it was.

Level Select screen letting you replay any level again, with all your gear.

Not anymore!
Now Sam has a Persistent Inventory system which means any gun, connector, secret, or challenge you happen to find, he gets to keep in any level. Plus, you can replay any previous level you've been!
Yes, you can take all the guns you've been collecting all along the way and head back to easier, previous levels any time you want and search for more hidden guns, secrets, or challenges tucked about.

So while initially you may have only had access to 3 guns in the first level, you can battle half way through the game, then replay the first level, now with something more like 12 guns and tons of connectors! Then you can find more weapons, then head *back* to level 7 or 8 (or wherever you were) with yet-more guns to better even the odds.

Starting level 1 from scratch with the Machine Pistol.

Returning to level 1 with a 5 gun stack, ready to fine more loot!

Plus we have good news that the Secrets menu is working great. You can look any time you want at secrets you've unlocked and revisit the funnier ones, or just use it to know how many are still to be found. And because the inventory is persistent, you can simply play from whatever secret you visit and any more powerups you find will be added to your inventory for access in later levels or your current one.

The black arrow is pointing to the little treasure box icon that shows up when you're near a secret.

And one extra helper is the Treasure icon. It definitely doesn't make it too easy, but it does fade in slowly if you're getting warm when finding a secret.

General Maxilla

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 Serious Sam Double D features a new antagonist, four-star General Maxilla. Little does Sam know, but the General is tasked with stopping Sam while Mental is on holiday. In between levels players are treated to a 'behind the scenes' look at Mental's operations, and how the General works (sometimes unsuccessfully) to wrangle the motley crew and ready them for battle.

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Here's animation video showing the General's talking animations. This shows the General in Mommy's Best Games animation editor, letting you see the animation skeleton and how the joint-connected-sprites form the animations.

All this means, hey--we're finishing up the in-game movies! And that means Double D is getting very close to finished for PC!