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Official home of Mischief & Mayhem Studios. Currently developing an update to Doomed Stars

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Our 2nd boss encounter we added this week to Doomed Stars fires streams of reflector missiles that push players away if they get hit. Avoiding the hail of fire lets the player get in close to hit weak point vents.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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This week in Doomed Stars we added a new boss encounter. It fires pulses of projectiles in all directions & is protected by a ring of replenishing PD emplacements.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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For our last boss strat this week, the mega bomb on the Nanite Swarm actually has just enough AOE to bypass type 3 station armor is carefully fired to detonate just at the edge of being reflected.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Continuing or boss defeating strats from yesterday, the Dimensional Horror has the easiest time dealing with Type 2 stations. Just stay between its lasers while taking out the shielders then Eldritch Beam the station.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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This week we are going over some strats for taking on bosses. For type 1 stations the stellar drake can position itself just right to heal from the stream of plasma while still being able to hit the vent.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The Nanite Swarm is special in our new Doomed Stars Oncoming Apocalypse mode. While it still has the 3x max health, nonexistent cooldowns, & inability to heal, its missiles also no longer drain health.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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We added a new mode to Doomed Stars, Oncoming Apocalypse. Players have triple maximum health and vastly reduced cooldowns, but are unable to heal.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Cyber Monday Sale! 20% off Mischief & Mayhem Studio games 28th through 1st!
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Happy Thanks Giving to those who are celebrating!
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This week's bonus objective pass saw some new rewards added to Doomed stars including one to give sight range boosts in the overworld and one to add armor for the next encounter.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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This week in Doomed Stars we added a highlight to objective ships. Beyond being gold on the minimap, objectives ships now have a gold outline!
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November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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The Imperium of the Binary Stars relies on some Alcubierre Drive adjacent technology for their FTL travel. Slower than other species's Inertia Inversion drives. Probably why they haven't met any aliens.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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The imperium of the binary stars is matriarchal bipedal leonine race. They have spread across several stars in their region of space but not encountered any alien species.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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In Doomed Stars, the Automated Dreadnought is an ancient weapon from a war when the universe was younger. The Imperium merely found it and accidentally reactivated it while trying to study it.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Unlike the other Great Ones the Nanite Swarm is a creation solely of the Imperium. Trying to create a grey goo weapon, they succeeded, but it broke containment.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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This week in Doomed Stars, how each monster was freed. The Dimensional Horror was unleashed when the Imperium were trying to harness Ith as a power source and breached dimensions attracting its attention.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Continuing our polish passes of Doomed Star's update, we expanded the overworld controls list and made them actually update to match customized controls.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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We did another pass on controller testing this week in doomed star & good thing to. Our aim assist needed a rewrite as the original code resulted in Swarm missiles flying into the void sometimes.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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A bit ago we mentioned creating a virtual keyboard for the controller. However, we neglected to test to confirm the keyboard worked with the controller. Had to fix that this week…
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November 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Doomed Stars player preferences are stored in a file. It should always be created before it is read from. A now fixed bug circumvented that & lead to a crash. Important to test builds like fresh installs.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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This week in Doomed Stars we focused on fixing some bugs. One that had been lingering for awhile was the menu resume button not registering input from the controller. Turned out to be a fairly easy toggle to fix.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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We are currently working on an update that adds new playable monsters to #DoomedStars an #arcade #roguelike where you play a stellar titan crushing the star empire that freed it; consigning their systems to nothing but… DOOMED STARS!
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November 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Thanks for hosting! This week in Doomed Stars (players play as an interstellar monstrosity crushing the star empire that freed it), biggest dev challenge for the Stellar Drake. Getting that neck rotation working was 1st on the list & hardest.
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Consume the civilization of the fools who unleashed you upon the universe. Become the Empire Ender and play as an interstellar monstrosity crushing the star empire that freed it!
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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This week in our Doomed Stars development challenges, the hardest part of the Stellar Drake to get working was the neck. It doesn’t even look half bad now its done.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM