Hey Employees!

As launch is just around the corner, we wanted to say hello a bit more and give you some insights into how Last Man Sitting has evolved and come to be. Our team at DoubleMoose is small, but mighty and although we aren’t with CoffeeStain anymore (shoutout to our amazing friends over there!), we also previously worked on titles such as Goat Simulator (which might explain our brains to you all honestly).

We thought the idea of swooshing around on office chairs and blasting stuff to pieces with guns was brilliant and when we spoke to KevKev, the original creator of Last Man Sitting, we knew there was something special here. It took a lot of work to get it to feel right though. An early issue we found was that the faster you moved, the more difficult it was to shoot accurately with your gun. It took a lot of iteration to get it to feel just right.

the original version of Last Man Sitting, created by KevKev!

Another thing that was a big challenge was doing both PvP and PvE. In PvP, our goal was for it to be fun and fair. While it's very difficult to perfectly balance PvP, we went for a different approach where the players that lose a round get powerups, which naturally balances the session and makes both winning and losing fun. This was the design decision that tied PvP together and once we implemented it, we started having a lot of fun playing the game in the office and got that feeling that we’d gotten something really right.

Once that gamefeeling felt right, we developed the PvE swarm mode in parallel with the PvP. We noticed that the power-ups could be shared pretty seamlessly between the two modes. What worked in PvP also worked well in PvE, and in the PvE swarm mode you could stack your power ups more. This resulted in more crazy and overpowered combinations, which resulted in more mayhem, which is what Last Man Sitting is all about!

Most of all, we'd say that the design has been rooted in a ton of playtesting on our end. Everyone on the team is regularly playing the game both in PvE and PvP, and we plan our work based on our own playtesting, and lately, the community feedback we get has been really helping us shape and balance things too.

We really love what we’ve built in Last Man Sitting and we can’t wait to share more with you when the game launches on March 31st! (But you can wishlist now if you want to be the best employee ever!)

Yours chairingly,
Team LMS

HOLD ONTO YOUR CHAIRS EMPLOYEES - it’s really happening!

Get ready to hack, slash & grind your way through waves of sentient office appliances in both PvE Swarm OR challenge your colleagues in our quick-fire PvP Arena Mode on March 31st - that’s the end of this month!

We officially announced the release of our upcoming bullethell action shooter during THE MIX + Kinda Funny Spring Game Showcase and couldn’t be more excited to share it all with you by the time you get your next paycheck.
Speaking of which - the game will be available for $9.99 - €9.99 - £8.50 - with a launch discount of 10%! Wishlist the game RIGHT NOW if you haven’t already so you’ll be notified as soon as we’ve launched.

https://testx-steam.c5game.com/steamstore/app/774291/Last_Man_Sitting/

From rosy cheeked, grovelling interns to grizzled veterans clinging onto their cups of BEAN-Z, Last Man Sitting should provide you with that work life balance you’ve been waiting for, and by that I mean it’ll keep you up for just one more round when you really, really (probably) shouldn’t.

KEY FEATURES

What can you expect on your first day in the office?

• FAST-PACED ACTION. Have you got skills to pay the bills? (Or at least get you to your next paycheck?) Put them to the test in singleplayer or multiplayer co-op in this quick and chaotic, aim-based bullet hell shooter where survival depends on besting a murderous office environment.
  
• SIT HAPPENS. With 12 available options, you might struggle to find your favourite Office Chair or Weapon - from the slicing and dicing Katana to shredding Minigun, customise your loadout to suit your playstyle before each session and climb your way to the top.
  
• DECEPTIVELY DEEP. Get your thinking cap on and choose your Power Ups wisely. With each draft, you get to stack progressively more powerful options and combos, from the annoying Hackerman pop-ups to the destructive Slam Dunk ability.
  
• OFFICE ANARCHY. Unleash ‌corporate chaos in two distinct game modes. Fight side by side with up to 4 colleagues against a wave of sentient office appliances in the PvE co-op mode, or battle it out “royale-style” in a PvP arena mode where losers get more powerful each round!

Oh and just in case you’ve been living under a rock, we’d like to remind you our demo is currently live so you can check it all out RIGHT NOW ahead of launch. The demo will be staying up until launch before saying goodbye, so get those practice rounds in before it's too late!

Thank you again to all of our dedicated employees (that’s you!) for all your incredible feedback, chat and enthusiasm for Last Man Sitting. It’s been a long journey and we’re so truly thrilled that it’s nearly time to share what we’ve built with you.

Yours chairingly,
Team Last Man Sitting.