#General Thread for Galvanic's 10th anniversary.
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i don't have a question i just wanna say howdy, hope life has been treating you well
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Frick
there ya go
Epic thank you for forwarding
And now
We're beginning QnA I guess
Hello!
Allo
Allo, allo!
Hi!
I would like to ask if there has been any significant news on any future on the WWAG "franchise", for example on Devolvers Side, in the form of book or graphic novel?
hihihii
Howdy Sir
There's no official best way to make a design document, especially one for personal use. Whatever is easiest and most useful for you to organize your thoughts.
Hi!
In general, I recommend the least amount of documentation possible, both because it takes a lot of time and because it quickly goes out of date.
@half forge
Hello. Am here for anniversary, pretty much.
Did you have any plans on how Osiris fight would be?
Summoning skeletons?
Yeah, he had some death spells that weakened the player and summoned squads of skeletons.
Tea react to get your tea here: ๐ต๐ต๐ต
The fight took place in a kind of amphiteatre with pillars he could hide behind
How was it working with Klei on the Don't Starve skins?
Leaf soup
How are you doing? Working lots?
0_0
He was high-culture Senator?
We've been friends with Klei for a decade. I loved working with them and it was super easy.
Our artists sent over mock ups, their artists sent over suggestions, we did their suggestions, and it was done!
Got it, much appreciated
Klei ๐ค Galv
Thanks!
What was your favorite boss made in wwag?
Have you thought about submitting the plushies to makeship? I would very much enjoy a weird frog plush
GADZOOKS
Frogge
Probably Isa.
womnge <33
Engineer
She was the first boss made and went through the most amount of iteration.
isa ๐ฅบ
I hated the first version.
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Isa still loved 
the amount of thought yall put into in her final design really shows 
What was the main inspiration for the art style for wwag?
butch woman!!! ๐ช
shes my favorite to draw i think
Isa and Orion
Don't Starve played a huge role.
But Hellboy is one of Royce's main art inspirations.
The stark shadows are very much borrowed from Mike Mignola.
mike mignola deep inked shadows my beloved
oh right! how is your current job at Pacific drive doing
I MADE IT
It's going really well. I'm mainly on ops and not creative, so I help hire, biz dev, deal with studio emergencies, and pitch our future projects.
I do miss the creative a little bit, but after Galvanic felt like I needed a break.
Is there any personal projects you guys are doing for fun?
Jack's back like a heart attack!
Was there a game that inspired the whole game style/direction with little wizard rocking beeg guns?
Gundalf
Not really a specific game.
This question is about the Necropolis. How many members, including Osiris, were meant to be on the council of liches?
in the concept art there's 4 + Osiris right?
I would quite like to know:
Where to the current proceeds of of Galvanic-game purchases go, now that the Studio is defunct?
Does the legal entity of Galvanic still exist?
I don't remember well, but I think it was 5 including Osiris
Ahh, fair enough!
I feel Liches are one, maximum 2 days employees
It still exists. I use Galvanic to do consulting work.
money still goes to entity but entity doesn't do anything is what we were told
o nice
Oh, huh
Very interesting
about Galv, do you have any plans for it in the future besides consulting work? or gray area rn
Ok, cool. Thanks Patrick
Was there ever any concept of on how the world of Wizard With A Gun looked before the shattered islands we are on? Cities or some such rather than stray broken buildings on islands?
What was the last game you played?
It's a gray area right now. If someone offered me a bag of money to make another Wizard with a Gun, I'd seriously consider it.
Praying for that bag of money then.
Wizard with 2 Guns :] in our hearts
Wwag has me scripting up my own spiritual successor with spell blades instead of guns, hehe.
If I had a bag of money...
is it ok to ask if you have any plans for the company beyond consulting in the coming years :0? if not, my other question is if you had a story about something you'd consider one of Galvanic's most memorable moments
lol I asked that
Finished? Lorelei and the Lazer Eyes. Played? technically the last game I played was the Playstation version of Castlevania Symphony of the Night (I didn't get far).
Hello Patrick! What would you say really motivates or inspires you in life?
hehehe
actually working off that, im curious. if everything magically worked out to where you had the ability to, would you finish wwag 1 or make a sequel?
Oli with the quickdraw
I don't have any plans beyond 2025 right now. I have specific goals at Ironwood and at a small studio I'm consulting with. I'll take a look around on January 1st, 2026, like a groundhog on groundhog's day and see where the world's at.
makes sense :0 things are really shaky right now ;w;;
Silksong being confirmed is going to help atleast
I like to think you meant on release saying you haven't played a game since 1997
I'm old and jaded enough that just paying for housing and food is a strong motivator. I love building worlds and experiences though, and hope to get to a point where I can do that again.
"There has been โจ Yes News โจ "
Make a sequel.
interesting ๐ค
hell yeah
I'd like to polish up WWAG 1 some more though
in that dream world you've presented.
Maybe something like
Monk with gun
Monk with a gun sounds like you'd be just yeeting bullets.
Was there ever any other crossovers planned for WWaG, aside from the ones you already did? E.g, Don't Starve Together, Cult of The Lamb, etc.
Ranger with brass knuckles
Could you actually still do that, if there was the time to do so?
What I wouldn't do for a game with that art direction mixed with Spiral Knights, it truly was one hell of a game.
i will keep dreaming and blasting my Tumblr audience with wwag fanart
remind me to post more wiz art
As you should
I really miss that game
look at my wizard propaganda, Internet
A few secret ones.
the secrect
What's your avorite charcuterie board food?
HFJCJDKDK
asking the hard hitting questions
It would be really hard -- the biggest problem is testing. Every change made has the possiblity of breaking the game for everyone.
"Test in prod"
Ah, got it. Thanks
you could have public tests next time, if there is a next ofc
Prosciutto.
Yum
Same, but it had so many faults. I think that the setting itself but with the balancing/artstyle of Wizard with a gun would be amazing.
spiral knights mentioned, time to cry again
sobs
Have there been any games coming out this year that you weren't involved in but impressed you in some way?
Listen, it is going to happen when you end up with two cool games with shorties armed and crafting stuff
Like all of you, I'm waiting on Silksong.
everybody have a mandatory Hilda meme
At least wizard with a gun had an ending of sorts, SK didn't
He's got us pegged
Silksong enjoyers
Speaking of which:
Switch 2 thoughts?
We can't ask him to judge companies
Too scary pr
Pretending like Hilda doesnt already have brain damage
I'm very happy that you guys managed to get the ending out, it's a very solid for being rushed in that fashion, and didn't actually break the game, unlike some other games have had before
What if Nintendo sues
wah
Even if the ending still stung with the hint there would be more adventure ahead. For sure still my 10/10 game I finished this year.
I doubt opinions are sueable.
Un hirable maybe tho
Less about suing and more about being 'marked' and affecting job options.
well he's not going to work at Nintendo anyways
I still haven't beaten Tears of the Kingdom yet.
Me either man me either
Opinion on the concept of "sky pirates"?
If you spend your entire life under the proverbial sword then you'll never get anywhere.
I play most games on my Steam Deck currently, and I'm desperate for a Steam Deck 2
aight new art prompt has been given. Patrick in tears of the kingdom
time to draw Patrick getting his shit wrecked by a guardian (silly)
Ole is on the loose yet again.
Do the specs already need improving that much?
nah it can run well, just nice to have a better one
Any words of wisdom you can share from your time working on WWAG for game devs making their own game?
Okay, so as I don't have anything else but question about one thing really off-topic
Have you ever tried DREDGE?
I accidentally broke on of the bumpers by dropping it and fixed it myself (which was a fun enterprise) so I wouldn't have to wait for the whole RTM process. However, the bumper isn't 100% perfect.
I've always wondered, do the riders drink? And if they do, what alcohol?
waiting on steam deck tech to improve a smidge before getting one but im def gonna invest in a steam deck over a switch2
Patrick getting his shit wrecked by a guardian (scary)
Loved it and beat it.
:D
dredge liker! nice
Isa, mechana oil (ref)
Heavily. Whatever they can distill on the Shatter.
And then...
Who's you favourite creature in dredge?
missed question here!
poe turnip vodka ๐ญ no thanks
Angler!
Don't make games, make friends.
this is true for art as well
Even Osiris? Didn't even know skeletons needed alchohol 
i'll never have the glory of tasting old josh's famous moonshine /j
well still make art but ya know
Never develop games ever, got it ๐ /jk
If you know enough people who like you
You will get work
Looking at me with my art skills of a 4 year old and my self-taught friend that can almost manage to make a box move dreaming of game making.
got it, think I get what you mean
I should give this a real answer. Make a game you think needs to exist.
There's lots and lots of games out there now. It's hard to stand out. Don't just make a game that copies another and slightly iterates.
Make something that you think the world shouldn't live without.
god, real
I heard there is a market for a roguelike card-games! Noone has done that before
good example is zombie games, I'm not saying they're not fun, just that there's a lot
Wizard with a gun was so unique
Cries ๐ญ
all of them were unique
def gonna be playing wwag this weekend
Oh right! Patrick, which day exactly is the 10 year anniversary, I've heard today, but also the 7th
trying to get ppl for gurgamoth too >>
Nothing inherently wrong with taking an already done concept, if you think you got an idea.
Turning on the soundtrack at work rn
It's the 7th.
expect something from me in the art channel on the 7th 
I would like to play it, but
- I don't have controller
- I don't have friends who would play it with me
Patrick what words of encouragement would you give to a league of legends addict
Was it ever a thought that any of the riders may have had a love story somewhere in their lore if it was far along?
I personally believe that the people of the Necropolis brew alcohol using highly poisonous ingredients, as they cannot die, so all it does for them is increase the flavor, but if a living creature were to drink it, it'd be like drinking poison
I think the question I had got drowned so. Was there? Or am I treading on do not ask territory?
oh like relationships with another person?
Yes
Just quit.
LMFAO
love urself dont play league
Wizard with a gun helped but it just came back
real winners quit
you can do this bro, uninstall it if you have to
play wwag and corekeeper
I keep buying games
And then I still end up playing free league of legends
Yeah, there was a specific one I wanted to explore.
I'd rather lick a rusty knife than play league of Legends
Find another game that scratches that same itch league of legends does
Idk how to explain it lol
God or Rider 
if it's Rider then I think I know.. ouhh
Play tf2
I think
risk of rain 2
True!!!
also magus and flora?
patrick DID mention magus and flora in other cut content iirc :0
ye
o wait riders ๐ค
Oh that wasn't supposed to be secret. Yeah, Magus elevated Flora to being a god because they were lovers.
Oops
Let the cat out
thought you were hinting at Isa and Kolanna v_v rip
Ripperoni.
Was there anything else you wanted to make besides Wizard with a Gun?
Yeah, lots of games.
WwaG 2 WwaG 3 WwaG 4 Ww- (silly)
My life is too short to make all the games I wanted to create.
I want a wizard with a gun displate
Gonna have to make one myself
there's a lot of high quality images to choose from dw :}
make art \o/ never stop
we can scoop some up for you later
Infinite ideas and time for only so much is it's own curse.
but also rest
How did Darnby ever get stuck in his square in the Imperium in the first place?
There's two other worlds I've been chewing on for a long while, multiple years for one of them.
Mood
I spent five years thinking about the world of Wizard with a Gun before we really started on it
Gotta let the soup simmer.
That is well simmered soup.
How did hilda get her eyepatch
Reminder of this banger
Patrick, I remember a long time ago you teased the idea of a lore journal for WwaG, I understand if it isn't going to be made but I would like confirmation for either it existing or not :0 I don't want to pressure for you to make it, just interested in if* the idea will happen
Get this game idea guys
Old-school spelunker diving bell type guys
Searching underwater for lost civilization as the sea continues to rise and humanity has moved into towering scaffolding cities
You're in debt and working off to feep your family
Content Warning x Lethal company (silly)
Her brother Isaac shot out her eye in a confrontation.
Wizard rivalry is a step beyond petty.
How did she not die lmao
she got gud
I believe Isaac is locked in basement for doing that
Oh, I don't remember this context. Bring up the message.
Isaac prison for 1 william years (ref)
I'll try to find
She~~ has~~ had two eyes.
smth abt a 50k word manuscript 
More likely to fall off the Shatter.
Oh yeah, that was my novelization of Hilda coming to the Shatter.
help me find
oh
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I do think of it occasionally, but I haven't touched it in years.
How much of the world of WwaG made it into the game in the end? It is only a fraction we see by look of it.
I'd still be interested
A fraction.
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i volunteer if you ever want a beta reader o/
Seems about right. Thank you for entertaining the question anyway.
that's a miracle Talia didn't fall yet then lmao
i mean she can sense someone else's aura but i doubt that helps with sensing aura of the infinite abyss
seeing people being nice here reminds me of how gentle and friendly this community was and still is ;___;.... thank you my home server for being awesome
shes just that talented
the walking cane in her hand:
i love how she smacks you with that rifle
ah, yes, i forgot that she can stand on thin air
Her riflewalking cane
LOL
I like how her rifle butt is shaped like a boot.
talias 16ft vertical leap
thank you so much for sharing this with us
I believe she has mage hunters near her saying "ABYSS IN FRONT OF YA BOSS"
This is the way.
LOL
Patrick
What's your go to lunch fast food chain
Mandalorian spotted
Wait, really?
I just said accident canon?
Even funnier if they're Elites, not regular ones
now it's canon
Vanon
Very canon
Talia's strenght is to hit the target across the continent, her weakness is a sudden change in elevation.
me irl
Chipotle. My standard order: Burrito, no rice, veggies, black beans, hot, mild, sour cream, cheese, guac.
oh fuck yeah
yummi
Hmmm
We don't have those where I am
those mage hunters are real ones, instead of taking advantage of their boss they help her see when she needs it
its like burrito subway
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I mean she teleported into thin air more than once during my fight with her so i think it's canon that even the abyss can't stop her from standing on it
Patrick, opinion about soulsborne games?
I'm not good at them.
I own almost all of them.
Too cool for gravity
dw, it's still nice to try them
Lies of p dlc hype
also here's a random question that popped in my head
what is the lore reason for Kolanna having thorn bushes in their arena?
their!*
hey guys
Those were a controversial addition.
I believe they serves as Kolbara roots
better late than never am i right
I'm glad you made them destroyable ๐ญ
genuinely
They were added for mechanical reasons, not lore.
Oh
they're there because Kolanna wanted them there
Yeah, let's say the lore is that Kolanna isn't a good landscaper.
theyre there bc daily fiber intake is important
Room needed more green
no no no, Kolanna uses them as boxer rings, they push into them and spring back out at like 80 mph
Oh. I might have missed it somewhere. But was it anywhere why Kolana's people are in furs while the I assume opposing side looks like they belong in 1800s France?

Aside from smgs, blundersbusses, carbines, miniguns, etc. What other gun types would you guys added had wwag not discontinued?
Hard to explain.
oh why mage hunters and barbarians look the ways they do?
maybe the tea archive can help
yeye
Like there are barbarians. Then the "other" barbarians if that makes sense.
Like one is living in snow and other on the way to a fancy ball.
i can't find much of what to say honestly. you did a damn fine job with all of it though
keep in mind that barbarian, fellen, aldern, those are all fan made terms and in lore they're likely not even called different races
Patrick can confirm that tho
The barbarian king was a survivor from before the Shatter, and the pre-shatter world was in an era of Victorian style imperialism. Including their manufacturing technologies.
Wwag cookbook when?
WWAG COOKBOOK FROM MARNABY
But
There's no soup
Ah. That explains it. Thanks.
WWAG COOKBOOK WHEN?!
Probably never because Marnaby won't share the soup recipe
there is
We had plans for rocket launchers, grenade launchers, and flamethrowers.
r
rocket launchers. excuse me..?
Speaking of which
Did you have any more 'narbys planned?
Wait wouldn't the cookbook be more of a soupbook?
I'm just here to watch lol, but I'm making a joke question, what would a fishing minigame in wwag look like if all the fish didn't fall to their death
Aww. I would've loved a grenade launcher.
still sobbing over not getting flame throwers in, man...
TF2 Soldier, Demoman and Pyro in wwag confirmed
I think there was concept art of all of them I shared after we closed.
could you just ask now how to make the soup
I will learn modding, make a flamethrower, just for you
Option to fish for hours without catching anything
imagine adding a fishing minigame but it's like a giant anglerfish rodeo
Probably hidden away in one of the previous QNA threads
also wwag cookbook could be peak and aslo genuinely the worst thing ever cause you'd have recipes like soup, healing potion, and angler tongue with cactus
WwaG fishing mini game was truly the biggest demand we ever had.
If needed, I can look for it
Go for it
GOD
here's the perfect meal:
- Roasted Angler Tongue
where's the cactus...
if there's demoman there also would be demoknight but melee weapons would be blasphemy /silly
Was my goal to address that if we got to make the Into the Abyss update.
Yeah there was an art of them in Death and Bone thread
Would the grenades have a bounce to them like in tf2 or would it arc like mortars?
MY PREDICTION WAS CORRECT, FISH ARE DOWN THERE????
not in my WIP
Yarp.
PLEASE I NEED FUCKED UP DRAGON FISH IN THE ABYSS
Understandable.
It was faster than I expected lol
wizard with a... with a s-(I AM SHOT AND KILLED
We can still dream I suppose.
We need to get this game funded & back up & running STAT!!!
mage hunters have daggers
oh she's a beauty
yeah, what ole said
The thought of electric flamethrower and a poison nuking grenade launcher sends shivers down my spine which i don't have
Love those weapon designs
Sadly game development is expensive business. All the people that need hiring and coding and testing and what have yous.
-# wish there would be something similar to horrors from dredge...
game should be called wizard with an art program man its so beautiful
Imagine having a freaking poisonthrower, making poison have some actual and proper direct damage along with the DoT
Wizard with a weekly club meeting.
I was wondering, did you have any developed ideas on civilizations/biomes/ islands outside of the mainland we see in game? Is the imperium a force overarching in the like, World Politics or are they mostly relevant to the mainland? Are there people akin to riders outside the mainland, with similar objectives?
Yeah, that was the design idea, but we never got to the prototyping stage -- the flamethrower would effectively through out tiny low damage "bullets" that were great at applying stacks of modifiers
Question:
DId the publisher deal with Devolver change the direction WWAG was developed in any meaningful way?
YEEEAAAAHHHH
My next goal with expanding the story was to work on the mainland and the factions fighting there.
Oh wow, I would have loved that for sure. A new angle for the DoT weapons
God i wish there could be any work done just from pure enthusiasm.
If I were ever to write the script for a Wizard with a Gun show, I'd probably start the show on the mainland.
Galvanic new project is just little fishing games
Forced upon Patrick by us
Patrick, are there any things about Hilda's family you'd like to share?
how was working with devolver also are they chill
wait so is the imperium from the mainland or
One can hope. But sadly it is a lot of work and money does not grow on trees.
I loved working with Devolver.
Chris Pratt as the Cryptomancer XD
I still stop by and say hi whenever I can.
NO LEAVE HER ALONE 
WE DONT NEED THE CRISP RAT
He's gotta be in the show
Just Patrick walking into the Devolver office, saying Hi into a random room and leaving
thats awesome
It's just canon
Imperium was split in half by the shatter, but the capitol city was destroyed. The other half of the imperium survived on the mainland.
Crisp Rat
You know, I take this
Maybe will use it somewhere
He sits down and puts his feet on the table
What did the rats do to deserve this?
lmfao
Says what up fuckers
ok Mark Hamill as Orion /jk
so like, by the events of wwag, how many "islands" are there?
a question I'd like to see answered ^
Hundreds / thousands
ooo
Man could you imagine if some how the Wizard somehow fell into the Fallout universe...I think the Wizard & Ghoul would have an insane epic battle.
Maybe WWAG was the one piece all along
I could see a reality where we could've had an entire game exploring those.
You know the relevant stuff already.

Happy to answer questions about her family though.
what's the relationship between her and Isa actually ๐ค I don't remember much
we know that they met, but not if they like eachother
i gotta return to work but thank you for hosting this ๐๐ฅบ the anticipation of tea time was something i missed a lot
Hilda's (late) husband is Isa's uncle by blood.
i only remember the fact that Hilda is Isa's aunt or something like that
no no no
I'm casting Charlie as a background character
how they get along
Later Livv.
the non relevant stuff
any small things in her family that aren't necesarily relevant
1pm, we lost him already v_v rip (silly)
did you have any one of them in particular developed in terms of factions and stuff?
I've got to wrap up and get onto my next meeting.
Patrick dematerializing spontaniously.
No one said necromancy doesn't work here >:)
I can answer a few last questions real quick.
My OC Duthril the Chain bearer is canon right Patrick ?
This
Thank you for doing this, lets do this again some time okay? Say maybe...this Summer? ๐
I am satisfied enough. Hope to see another one of these maybe some time.
Tea time
Thank you for chatting with us!
Seasonal Tea Time 
Thank you for the cool games and all the interaction with us.
Oh I was late!
My pleasure!
Maybe, I even need to clean dust from my hat
And become tea wizard again?
and also!! if you've got time to answer if not it's okay! how many towers are there approximately! how far are they from each other by voidskipper, days? years?
Time for us who can to go play some WWAG now ๐
Thank you for all the games you and others have made, you've made my life significantly better by the people I have met and enjoyed time with, thank you for being a very big part of my life, years before to now
What is time in the Tower?
Boom
Mind blown
I'll find some other time to host one of these, especially if I can bring you something fun I'm working on.
Bye everyone!
thank you sir 
SILLY ME
Bye.
SEE YA PATRICK THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
See ya, Sir
enjoy your soup sir!
Bye Patrick ^^
Have a good day

thank you so much
We'll sign NDAs
Goodbye Patrick!
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Now
I rest
See you next anniversary!
soup react this to soup Patrick

Bye :3

Patrick teatime soup






21 wizgun salute?




I missed it ๐

