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Blade Symphony is a game built on the Source Engine featuring fierce duels in an alternate universe. Play as the cyber-ninja Hokuten Assassins, the fabled Black Rose knights, or as the shinobi and ronin Vagrants. Pre-order Blade Symphony and join the beta today.

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Blade Symphony is now available for pre-order!

Feb 24, 2013 21 comments

We’re proud to announce today that you can pre-order Blade Symphony from our website and start playing today. We’re really proud to show you what the...

Scabbards, temples, and HUD dev

Sep 8, 2012 0 comments

Every week Blade Symphony devs meet on Google Hangout to show and tell what we've been working on. Check it out.

Blade Symphony Developers Show and Tell

Sep 1, 2012 3 comments

This week we've got a video of our weekly meeting in which Blade Symphony developers show off what we've been working on and what we're working on next.

Video Update

Aug 27, 2012 9 comments

Video update for Blade Symphony. Entirely new branch of Source engine, new attack moves for every character, brand new interface, new game mechanics...

We're legal!

Aug 25, 2012 17 comments

It took us forever to get back to you but here we are and we now have the Portal 2 engine.

Lack of updates, and Ryoku costumes update!

May 6, 2012 6 comments

We give a little bit of insight as to the lack of updates (there's a reason for it, and eventually it will lead to good news.)

Dev Journal #5 - Sword and Character Selection

Mar 24, 2012 4 comments

This week's dev journal shows the sword selection and new character selection menu that the player can access. These menus allow the player to choose...

Dev Journal #4 - Parry Mechanic

Mar 17, 2012 2 comments

Our third development journal shows off the Parry mechanic, which is a new alternative to blocking, which acts as a deflection of attacks. Parries are...

Evolving Blade Symphony aesthetics

Mar 12, 2012 5 comments

Check out some recent changes to tracers, a popular Blade Symphony map and the arcade camera for spectators.

Judgement Costumes

Feb 26, 2012 4 comments

This is the second development journal using a "micro vlog" style of video, in which we're keeping it short and sweet for 30-60s per video.

Dev Journal #1 - Charging Effects

Feb 20, 2012 2 comments

We're starting a small video style of development journal videos. Our first entry focuses on changes to charging effects!

Blade Symphony on Kickstarter

Jul 30, 2011 60 comments

Hello; we have a Kickstarter page! This post includes the answer to a few questions you might be asking yourself as a long-time supporter.

Help needed! (Plus! Blade Symphony in the press!)

Jun 25, 2011 8 comments

Puny Human is looking for dedicated help to assist in development of it's upcoming sword fighter, Blade Symphony! We've also got a couple of articles...

Build 7: District and complete rebalance edition!

Apr 16, 2011 12 comments

Contains major gameplay overhauls as well as our long-awaited third map.

Build 6: I love swords!

Apr 2, 2011 61 comments

Build 6 is out, and it contains a whole host of change - chief among them the fact that we've given swords gameplay stats and added an in-game currency...

We're PHANs of Japan

Mar 18, 2011 10 comments

All donations that normally go to help Puny Human create and sustain free games like Blade Symphony and Dystopia, are going to charity until the end of...

Build 5 Released

Mar 7, 2011 35 comments

The new gameplay mode YOU requested! Also, fixes and HUD polishing and persistent XP/titles, but mostly the new gameplay mode, really.

Build 4 is live!

Feb 24, 2011 15 comments

Build 4 of the Blade Symphony beta is live, bringing a host of bugfixes and changes suggest by our community as well as a new map, Monastery!

Limited amount of beta keys for Blade Symphony Build 3!

Feb 18, 2011 50 comments

It's the end of the week and we've released our third major build in two days, things are speeding up for us. If you're interested in playing Blade Symphony...

Blade Symphony Build 2 release and changelog!

Feb 11, 2011 18 comments

Today we've released an update to our PHAN Club exclusive build of Blade Symphony. This includes a brand new map, duel_winter. To download, just open...

Blade Symphony releases privately on February 4th!

Feb 1, 2011 14 comments

This coming Friday, February 4th, we will be releasing Blade Symphony to our loyal P.H.A.N. Club, which include future members and past Dystopia Supporters...

MotY post #8: Winter, the secret Hokuten temple

Dec 9, 2010 14 comments

We take a look at map #2 -- Winter, a secret temple used by the Hokuten for training.

MotY post #7: Battlefield Manoeuvres!

Dec 4, 2010 8 comments

In which we look at the all-important string counters and Shuffle/Dash manoeuvres.

MotY post #6: The Phalanx

Dec 1, 2010 12 comments

In this post we touch on the creation of Phalanx from concept to in-game.

MotY post #5: A tiered attack? Block this!

Nov 29, 2010 11 comments

The 5th Mod of the Year extravaganza news post for Blade Symphony includes information about the depth of the game's blocking and tiered attacks. We go...