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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 3d

Only about a day left of the sale!

Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 9d

Trombone Champ is 🚨65% OFF🚨 on Steam for the Steam Autumn Sale (now through Oct 6th)!!!
store.steampowered.com/app/1059990/...

Trombone Champ is 65% off during the Steam Autumn Sale

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 7d

The Nintendo Switch version of the game was also updated today! It gets the same new songs, plus the rumble has been completely revamped. The new rumbles feel great!

An image describing the changes in the new version of Trombone Champ for Nintendo Switch. It mentions improved rumble and three new songs: "Danse Macabre," "The Skeleton Rag," and "Hungarian Dance No. 5"

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 7d

We're really proud of this original remix of "The Skeleton Rag!" We started this a while ago, and planned to launch it for Halloween 2024, but we ran out of time that year, so we're happy to finally release it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M_J...

The Skeleton Rag (Remix)

YouTube video by Holy Wow Studios

www.youtube.com

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 7d

Trombone Champ has been updated to add two Halloween tracks - DANSE MACABRE and THE SKELETON RAG - plus some other cool stuff! Let spooky season commence!

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 9d

Trombone Champ is 🚨65% OFF🚨 on Steam for the Steam Autumn Sale (now through Oct 6th)!!!
store.steampowered.com/app/1059990/...

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 20d

We plan to ruin it soon, enjoy while you can

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 21d

We use a computer

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 21d

Never heard of the guy

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 21d

Here's a rough sketch of how we've spent our time since release. Somehow the game still keeps us busy every day!

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 21d

Trombone Champ is three years old! Wow! Where did the time go? Huge thanks to everyone who's supported the game since its release - this was meant to be a small, funny hobby project, and it's thanks to your support that it grew into something much bigger 🙏

The text "3 years" over a collage of characters from Trombone Champ

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 22d

omg we forgot it was today!! Thank you! Still working on it every day (and actually quite busy with it right now!)

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 26d

My theory was that it started off centering the adventure stuff, but then during user testing everyone asked for standard Mario Kart racing (because users are bad and cannot be trusted)

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Sep 7

Resident Evil Village has a segment like this and it’s the scariest part of the franchise

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Sep 7

Wait you’re using joy-cons on pc?… do you have them emulating a mouse somehow?

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not in that one, although we've done a bit of research. Unity really doesn't it easy to access the gyro for any controller whatsoever besides a DualShock. And the game is basically unplayable on a controller without gyro. It's very annoying!

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Sep 3

2 spooky bangers and one non-spooky banger coming to Trombone Champ soon... 👀

An old illustration of a skeleton playing a horn annoyingly

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Sep 1

Good lord

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Aug 26

Needs *at least* one more bell

Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Aug 26

they're absolutely cooking at wessex tubas dot com

extremely weird euphonium with two bells

some weird trombone thing with a 90 degree angle and lots of valves

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Aug 26

New Lovecraftian brass instruments dropped
www.wessex-tubas.com/products/bbb...

BBb Cimbasso - CB92P

A unique piston valve BBb cimbasso based on traditional Italian design as made for playing Verdi opera. It would also be suitable for band and can even be used for marching.The multi-angle connection ...

www.wessex-tubas.com

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Aug 25

As a reminder, this should be later today... we'll definitely be watching the stream!

Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Aug 20

If you're curious to see what high-level competitive Trombone Champ looks like, check out the Toottally
Community Championship stream next Monday! Watching these folks play the game is unbelievable. They are perhaps the greatest athletes alive today.

An ad for the Toottally Community Championship on Monday August 25th, showing the Losers Grand Finals matchup and the Grand Finals matchup.

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Aug 22

simpsons season 5 my beloved

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Aug 22

Trombone-Based Metroidvania
Sales this month: 1
Lifetimes sales: 1

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Aug 22

It would simply be lazy of us if trombone champ 2 wasn't a Metroidvania, a rhythm music game, *and* a cozy farming sim

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · Aug 22

Learning lots of valuable lessons from Silksong:
- We can spend 6-7 years on a Trombone Champ 2
- There's no chance interest in trombone game will wane at all
- Consider pivoting Trombone Champ into a Metroidvania series

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