Gauntlet - The Overhaul Update

Felicitations, Gauntleteers!!

I bring to you a post developed sixteen miles deep in a scientific lab in Colorado. If information gets out I am posting this, JackyCorp Labs executives will unleash all their weaponry on me. You may be asking "if the stakes are so high, why announce anything? It's just The Gauntlet; hit game on itch.io!" Well, let me tell you. I bring you... Ultrakill.

Not really. But sorta. Kinda. Ultrakill in spirit, I guess. Famously and evidently, Ultrakill invented game updates and overhauls. Gotta give credit where credit's due. Anyway! Ultrakill has had a revamp, and we are looking to do the same. The Gauntlet has suffered from "developer art" and last-minute additions that just don't feel right. No stage transitions, jittery animations, unclean art, artstyle shifts.. It's time to fix that. 

The Gauntlet has a complete overhaul coming to it, adjusting art, music & sound design (it is way too loud, holy), gameplay (boss telegraphs, balancing attacks, hardmode for bosses which don't have them at the moment) and who knows what else. New animations for UI and bosses, newly designed concepts for bosses, while still retaining the same charm as the original. New character trading cards for each and every NPC in the game to learn more about your (undoubtedly (absolutely (amazingly))) favorite characters.

And finally, a new main character. The "main character" has been the default Scratch Cat for as long as the game has existed, and we have never wanted that. The game has just sort of evolved around it, and we've always wanted to be super creative with character designs and personalities, and the cat just doesn't prove that. We don't want this game to be hardened by the whole "Oh, it's a Scratch game." mentality stigma around it, as the game has grown far beyond that (although, yes, undoubtedly, it is one at its core.) Pretty much, we don't wish for the game to seem template-y at all, filled with a soul and humor and life in a breathing world. We need to finish what we started!! WHO'S WITH ME!!

Oh, the Colorado Scientific Lab people have just handed me a paper saying "Execution Date: 4/12/25" an- oh, another saying "Die Now" and they really don't want me typing anything mo