Brigador Killers

Devlog

• BRIGADOR KILLERS: THE COMBAT BUILD
  July 11, 2025 by BenjaminSJ

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  Today, we bring you v0.2 of Brigador Killers: The Combat Build. There have been a lot of changes since the last update over a year ago. Several of those changes were the development of multiple system... Continue reading

  
• Beauty renders in the inventory screen
  June 30, 2025 by BenjaminSJ

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  We've been looking forward to giving the player something pleasant to look at while they use the inventory system in Brigador Killers. Since a lot of the art assets in this game start off as 3D object... Continue reading

  
• A Quick Look At The Latest Brigador Killers Build
  May 30, 2025 by BenjaminSJ

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  The following article is an accompaniment to this recent video of Brigador Killers to explain in plain text what is happening on screen, as well as add a few other minor details that couldn't be squee... Continue reading

  
• Updating our plans for June
  April 30, 2025 by BenjaminSJ

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  Two months ago we wrote that we planned to have a demo ready for the upcoming Steam Next Fest in June. We are instead aiming for the Steam Next Fest after that, which should be some time in mid-Octobe... Continue reading

  
• Your Reactions To Pilgrim Two Weeks On
  March 28, 2025 by BenjaminSJ

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  Earlier this month we released the next audiobook in the Brigador universe - Brigador Killers: Pilgrim - and since then there's been plenty of chatter. This post will not be spoiling any details of th... Continue reading

  
• Brigador Killers: Pilgrim Is Here
  March 11, 2025 by BenjaminSJ

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  Available on Itch.io right now is the next audiobook in the Brigador universe titled Brigador Killers: Pilgrim . Both Brad Buckmaster and Ryan Cooper return as writer and narrator respectively and thi... Continue reading

  
• Our Plans For The First Half Of 2025
  February 27, 2025 by BenjaminSJ

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  #2025, #brigador killers, #concept art, #gamedev

  By summer of 2025 we expect to have a demo ready in preparation for the next Steam Next Fest. That Next Fest will begin on June 9th, or about three months from the time of this post. As a result a few... Continue reading

  
• Ghost Lights
  January 30, 2025 by BenjaminSJ

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  The video above is about a new debug tool added to Brigador Killers called “Ghost Lights”. The rest of this article repeats the content of the video in text form with some additional details. A br... Continue reading

  
• Meet the Teddy Boy
  December 20, 2024 by BenjaminSJ

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  A short post this month for the end of 2024, this time again from our lead artist who previously wrote about the Lobo , the Mar Nosso SWAT vehicle and the spacer redesign . This post is about a few ne... Continue reading

  
• Crash Test Dummies In Brigador Killers
  November 28, 2024 by BenjaminSJ

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  Restitution - Physics. the return to an original physical condition, especially after elastic deformation. Video games are not bound by what we understand to be the laws of the universe. Objects can b... Continue reading

  
• Introducing: weapon pick up and drop and vehicle bays
  October 31, 2024 by BenjaminSJ

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  The video above shows off a basic implementation of two major mechanics for Brigador Killers. The first is weapon pick up and drop , and the second is the vehicle bay . Caveat as before that what you... Continue reading

  
• The challenges of putting a McMansion in a video game
  September 30, 2024 by BenjaminSJ

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  We asked one of our artists for an explainer on what they’ve been working on. This time it’s Igor again, who previously helped us write this post , and has decided to drill down on his favorite bu... Continue reading

  
• Brigador Killers Will Not Come To Steam In 2024
  August 29, 2024 by BenjaminSJ

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  Locational sound emitters | Vehicles as resources | FAQ We've shot for the moon, and we're almost there . Brigador Killers is an order of magnitude more complex than our first game: BK has cars that c... Continue reading

  
• Dioramas and Color Look Up Tables
  July 26, 2024 by BenjaminSJ

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  The video above is of eighteen different themed dioramas shown in five different lighting conditions, one after another. These five lighting conditions (or “weather” files) are called: green mood... Continue reading

  
• Dystopian By Design
  June 28, 2024 by BenjaminSJ

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  This month’s post comes courtesy of our lead artist who also helped write the previous posts about the Mar Nosso SWAT vehicle and the spacer redesign . Brigador is not a transhumanist or tech utopia... Continue reading

  
• The Sun Never Sets On Volta
  May 31, 2024 by BenjaminSJ

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  “Why’re they pink?” Gus asked, pointing to his chest as he struggled with the donning procedure of a Carmine in his size. “Carmine. It’s the colour as well as the suit,” Amon corrected him... Continue reading

  
• How the carmine suit is unlocked
  April 24, 2024 by BenjaminSJ

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  There are a few things to interact with in the Secret Alpha build of Brigador Killers that generate a small amount of reactivity for the player. For this month we’ll look at the two main ones: the b... Continue reading

  
• Post-Alpha FAQ
  February 29, 2024 by BenjaminSJ

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  Before anything else, everyone at Stellar Jockeys would like to thank you for your reception earlier this month. Considering what we were up against, and how deliberately narrow we made the announceme... Continue reading

  
• BRIGADOR KILLERS: SECRET ALPHA 1
  February 07, 2024 by BenjaminSJ

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  PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAVEAT When our first game was released - back when it was called Matador - it initially came out in a closed alpha in April 2014 on Steam. This was back when Steam Greenligh... Continue reading

  
• A Year In Review
  December 15, 2023 by BenjaminSJ

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  The past twelve months have been very busy for Stellar Jockeys on multiple fronts, so we’re going to briefly run down most of the stuff we made just for Brigador Killers alone. Before we do that…... Continue reading

  
• What Planning On Paper Looks Like
  November 30, 2023 by BenjaminSJ

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  "It is important to use your hands, this is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator." The above quote is attributed to Paul Rand who was a famous graphic designer responsible for nume... Continue reading

  
• How gibs are generated in Brigador Killers
  October 31, 2023 by BenjaminSJ

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  For this month we’re going to explain how the Brigador Killers engine handles the emission of gib sprites from entities during gameplay. In other words, this. We’ve established in previous news po... Continue reading

  
• LET'S LEARN ABOUT STORYLETS
  September 29, 2023 by BenjaminSJ

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  #brigador killers, #gamedev, #storylets, #narrative design

  We’ve mentioned that one of the criticisms the original Brigador frequently received is along the lines of “Cool mechs, but what else is there to do ?” If you haven’t been following our develo... Continue reading

  
• Designing a SWAT Vehicle From The Wheels Up
  August 31, 2023 by BenjaminSJ

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  Courtesy of our lead artist, August's post is a look into the design of an armored vehicle belonging to NOSPOL, which is one of the enemy factions you'll be facing off against in Brigador Killers. Wit... Continue reading

  
• REIMAGINING THE SPACERS
  July 31, 2023 by BenjaminSJ

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  A while ago we revealed that one of the big visual differences between Brigador Killers and the previous game is the increased output resolution of sprites. This increase in fidelity means you the pla... Continue reading

  
• MAP CONNECTIONS IN BRIGADOR KILLERS
  June 30, 2023 by BenjaminSJ

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  For June 2023 we are (very briefly) showing off one of the major new features for Brigador Killers, which we're calling map connections . ❓WHAT ARE MAP CONNECTIONS? Map connections are a means for t... Continue reading

  
• A LOOK AT SOME OF THE NEW LEVEL-MAKING FEATURES FOR BRIGADOR KILLERS
  May 31, 2023 by BenjaminSJ

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  For May’s update on Brigador Killers we’ve decided to talk about something many of Brigador’s modders will be familiar with: the debug panel. For those not familiar, if you press F1 at any time... Continue reading

  
• WHAT’S IN A GIF?
  April 28, 2023 by BenjaminSJ

  This month’s post looks like a GIF explainer but it’s secretly a ruse to explain how systems can overlap in Brigador Killers. Here’s the GIF in question, taken from a recent debug build: We’ve... Continue reading

  
• BRIGADOR KILLERS Is A Bloody Mess
  March 31, 2023 by BenjaminSJ

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  One of the major advances that we made the past month was changing how the aiming works in the game’s engine for Brigador Killers along with some new animations. We’ve recorded some footage of the... Continue reading

  
• BRIGADOR KILLERS is coming to Itch first
  February 28, 2023 by BenjaminSJ

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  Welcome to the inaugural Itch.io post for BRIGADOR KILLERS. We'll now be posting devlogs here at the end of each month to keep you informed on the status of our next game as it progresses (you may hav... Continue reading