Beerman in Minnesota 2D Con
Minnesota 2D Con is hosting the Boston Madness all weekend!!!
Minnesota 2D Con is hosting the Boston Madness all weekend!!!
Beerman
- Released
- Aug 3, 2016
- Platforms
- Windows
- Last updated
Updates & announcements
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Beerman App Released on Huawei!
Beerman App released on Huawei! I can hear the haters already screaming "No Way!" and that's right, not No Way.... HUAWEI ːsteamhappyː!!! Yes the Asian Google Play has said yes to Boston and yes to madness, so the gang are all off on an Asian tour! Months of work have made Beerma
Original postBeerman App released on Huawei!
I can hear the haters already screaming "No Way!" and that's right, not No Way.... HUAWEI ːsteamhappyː!!!
Yes the Asian Google Play has said yes to Boston and yes to madness, so the gang are all off on an Asian tour!
Months of work have made Beerman available to every phone in Asia and the bubbling beakers and sparking welders are still hard at work in VS1 Studios HQ building more future fun...
This train ain't stoppin!
Huawei App Gallery Page :
Beerman App Page :
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Beerman App Updated on Microsoft App Store!
The Boston Madness sees a second release on the Microsoft App Store! What took you so long? I hear the question... A long time ago in a far off but very clear nightmare I released the first version on the UWP application on the Microsoft Store which was a huge lift for me then. S
Original postThe Boston Madness sees a second release on the Microsoft App Store!
What took you so long? I hear the question...
A long time ago in a far off but very clear nightmare I released the first version on the UWP application on the Microsoft Store which was a huge lift for me then. Shortly there after another huge lift in the form of university put the brakes on everything and plunged me into a coding nightmare of survival.
In the midst of this carnage as I watched countless other students fall around me and get eaten by huge university demands an error in the second level of the first app ( When Beerman got battered by Team Geriatric and fell over the bloody level wouldn't end and Malcolm was left running around the store screaming unintelligibly with a rake ) saw me scramble to get the Android App fixed on Amazon but alas due to the time constraints I couldn't reach out to fix the UWP app on Windows.....why?
Because fixing things for UWP which needs work across multitudes of systems is a beast!
How much so... well lets run this by you, I figured this whole build would be over in 3 weeks....
Week 1 : Weekend attempt at fixing app and starting build..... failure
Week 2 : Weekend attempt at figuring out why over 3 days I couldn't start..... failure
Week 3 : Weekend attempt at ...... get the idea?
In between these weeks :
madness
depression
resignation to failure
possible psychopathy
more screaming and uncontrolled anger
considering admitting defeat and going off to....Week 10 : Several Unity upgrades and several UWP Builds and the first attempt at uploading the finished article to Microsoft Store Complete.....
Beerman_1.1.5.0_x86_x64_arm_bundle_Master.appxupload
= 25.3 GigabytesWeek 11 : Second attempt at uploading the finished article to Microsoft Store Complete.....
Beerman_1.1.7.0_x64_arm_bundle_Master.appxupload
= 17.7 GigabytesWeek 12 : Third attempt at uploading the finished article to Microsoft Store Complete.....
Beerman_1.1.8.0_x64_bundle_Master.appxupload
= 10.1 GigabytesThere are now 53.1 Gigabytes of Boston Madness uploaded and on station on the Windows Microsoft App Store!
its quite cool how they work, you don't erase the one before if it works, instead you add each successful build and the system when someone tries to download makes a copy of the game from the build their Windows Device accepts trying the x64 first then if that isn't acceptable the x64 ARM and finally if their device is older the x86 x64 ARM.....mine wouldn't accept the larger first two and forced me to upload the third 1.1.8.0_x64 before it would accept it!
You then get a much smaller game build downloaded to your device in Beerman's case 1.91 Gigabytes!
Windows like to do things big!
Andoid App = 385 Megabytes
Windows UWP - 1.91 Gigabytes
Wow!
Anyway that's my explanation as clearly as I can explain for anyone who was bewildered as to why one was fixed and not the other at the time.....the short answer is because I can't pull 12 weekends in a row out of my Ah huh hoo lets keep this a family show now lol.
Now about this nomination thingy...my as described above nightmare might qualify Beerman but that's all Tech Dev speak and might not float everyone's boat so the game would have to do what it always does and make folks laugh.....and some cry ːsteamhappyː
So to that end the Beerman Website has had an update where the gang have been let loose one more time across the page to bring a laugh to everyones phone or desktop...
Yes weeks of cutting let me send them tearing over the screen and I even made sure a ninth gunner emerges from the van roof to show they are animating and the wheels are turning as its hard to see on mobile but the desktop proves they have their wheels and no corners where cut!
Beerman Website App Page:
Windows Store:
So for fun, for Boston and for Bob's sake vote Beerman!
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Beerman App Updated to Bundle!
Well its finally been done! After tirelessly working back and forth over months the VS1 Studios staff ( Me ) figured out how to change Beerman from an APK to a Bundle. Not as easy as you might think after a lot of time away from developing due to the real world demanding I work.
Original postWell its finally been done! After tirelessly working back and forth over months the VS1 Studios staff ( Me ) figured out how to change Beerman from an APK to a Bundle.
Not as easy as you might think after a lot of time away from developing due to the real world demanding I work.
Anyway after picking up where I left off I had to figure out how far up the Unity Archive I had to take... could take Beerman to be able to generate a Bundle that websites are beginning to insist on.
After finding the right Archive year of Unity then going through over a dozen of that year then cracking up as each time you increase the Unity year and upgrade the game to that year another tire falls off the car or the exhaust blows up or some damn thing that you then have to go back in and fix Aaaaarrrrgghh!!!
Now why is this being done I hear the haters ask incredulously! Well there is the serious development side of upgrading to 64 bit and that means Beerman is compliant with app providers but also there is something else..... The rules of those there competitions state that your game has to have been built or upgraded within the last year and of course they say "Game" not which version of the game, so Beerman now technically qualifies and can be entered into competitions with this new upgrade!
Also there have been many sprite upgrades including the unfortunate ones that had words written backwards and stuff.....you know the ones.
So when is the Steam Game being updated with the same? Its on the list and really i'm waiting for Unity to put the Unity 4 Archive series on the Unity Hub because the Hub doesn't like you starting a stand alone Unity without its say so and so id have to dismantle all that hugeness to do that.
Luckily the Beerman App was made after the original Beerman Steam Game so the app was made in a later Unity version, Unity 5 which is the current Archive the hub stopped adding at so still waiting on them getting down to Unity 4 for the original Steam game ....wow Unity 4 sooooooooo long ago.
More updates to follow soon, yep haters, still here!
Amazon App Link
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Beerman nominated for "Best Small Budget Game" at Scottish Games Awards 2023
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Original postBeerman nominated for "Best Small Budget Game" at the Scottish Games Award 2023
https://gamesweek.scot/2023/10/16/nominations-announced-for-scottish-games-awards-2023/
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Beerman going home to Boston!
After a hell of a journey from concept to finished product Beerman got accepted into Boston Fig! 6 years ago a shaky unfinished dodgy game called Beerman limped onto the Boston Fig floor definitely not ready. Well all these years later the finished product with accompanying new w
Original postAfter a hell of a journey from concept to finished product Beerman got accepted into Boston Fig!
6 years ago a shaky unfinished dodgy game called Beerman limped onto the Boston Fig floor definitely not ready.
Well all these years later the finished product with accompanying new website finally flies home to its rightful city.
Boston's Greatest Hero goes home!
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BeermanGame.comBoston Fig Website Link :
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Announcing The New Beerman Website!!!
Announcing the NEW BEERMAN WEBSITE!!! Yep responding to the fans reviews asking for free content and fun downloads the development team at Beerman HQ.....that's me lol decided to role out what the fans had been asking for by updating the first website. Yep from Greenlight to 2022
Original postAnnouncing the NEW BEERMAN WEBSITE!!!
Yep responding to the fans reviews asking for free content and fun downloads the development team at Beerman HQ.....that's me lol decided to role out what the fans had been asking for by updating the first website.
Yep from Greenlight to 2022!
We've got it all...Free Downloadable Games..., Demos..., Quizes,..., Prizes..., News..., Upcoming Events all the fun you've been asking for and the usual cast and crew on board for another great round of Boston Madness so laugh, scream and thrill seek through the mayhem you've all been waiting for at :
https://beermangame.com/core/web/index.php
https://beermangame.com/core/web/index.php
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Beerman Demo Update
The original Beerman Demo was created from a version of the game that still had some bugs in the first level and the big developer radar beam missed this on its first swing round! This new Beerman Demo has been made from the final version of the game that had all the issues resol
Original postThe original Beerman Demo was created from a version of the game that still had some bugs in the first level and the big developer radar beam missed this on its first swing round!
This new Beerman Demo has been made from the final version of the game that had all the issues resolved in an earlier update and concerns level 1 and all of the odd things that needed ironed out, details below :
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CLICK HERE to meet the gang at the Beerman Website!!!
Level 1 Updates
1. Drunk Missiles
Yes unfortunately Jamaican George's launchings did tend to drift under the helicopter as if they had been drinking.....well no longer, now the missiles launched head directly for Beerman or the helicopters nose.............Jamaican George got his aim back!
2. Beerman Blasted
It was the strange case that even with Beerman's Vietnam experience if he inadvertently smashed into another helicopter there was the possibility of him literally being blasted clear of the game screen in the resulting explosion.....this has now been fixed with it truly impossible for our hero to go AWOL.
3. Magic JaMan
In the previous builds when JaMan was preparing to throw the student to his death from the top of the building if the player was quick enough and opened the chinook ramp and killed the two guards JaMan would also be seen walking onto the aircraft with the Veggie Baddie.....
Now although JaMan is Jamaican and therefore cool enough to be in two places at once this didn't really sit well with reality so I have since revised this and now the chinook door will not open for boarding until JaMan has finished throwing the student to his death.....
Hooray for order!
This of course brings the demo inline with the main game, a little Boston clean up so the madness can continue!
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Beerman Demo Released!!!
The Beerman Demo has been released! Meet the cast, the crew and the downright mad through and through! Yes now you can download a free part of the Boston Pie and chew your way through the madness for yourself! Get it while its hot! CLICK HERE to meet the gang at the Beerman Websi
Original postThe Beerman Demo has been released!
Meet the cast, the crew and the downright mad through and through!
Yes now you can download a free part of the Boston Pie and chew your way through the madness for yourself!
Get it while its hot!
CLICK HERE to meet the gang at the Beerman Website!!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/508950/Beerman/
*** REMEMBER set Graphics Quality settings to Fantastic or controls may not work properly ***
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Beerman Android App Upgraded!!!
Link The Beerman Android App has been updated with the following : 1 - All levels control colliders reworked to ensure much greater accuracy in all control directions. 2 - Level two bugs that got in the way of level end removed. 3 - All explosions on all levels reworked to ensure
Original postThe Beerman Android App has been updated with the following :
1 - All levels control colliders reworked to ensure much greater accuracy in all control directions.
2 - Level two bugs that got in the way of level end removed.
3 - All explosions on all levels reworked to ensure no sprite rendering problems on creation.
4 - Some mobile phones had difficulty when too much was animating at the same time, like when the cat leaps onto Beerman and tries to scratch his face off - so i've added a little gravity to the tussling duo so even if your phone is struggling they will eventually settle nicely on the ground and you'll get your extra life.....
Alternatively if you have a fairly fast phone you can still overpower the gravity and send Beerman hurtling around fighting with the cat taking it to a high height or off to the side before dropping him to the sidewalk cracking his skull and leaving him to drain of blood and die.....i've left all options open to keep everybody happy! ːsteamhappyː
Yes the caped deliverer flies again on mobile, the Boston Madness continues!!!
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The Beerman Interview
A great fan of the game and one of it's biggest supporters launched a steam group called : THE FLAMING NETWORK This fantastic group gave Beerman the chance of an interview to explain the madness of it's origins and where it came from.....what follows is that fun outtake offering
Original postA great fan of the game and one of it's biggest supporters launched a steam group called :
THE FLAMING NETWORK
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/flamingnetwork#This fantastic group gave Beerman the chance of an interview to explain the madness of it's origins and where it came from.....what follows is that fun outtake offering laughs and explanations for the fans which can be downloaded here :
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AthsCUt5GHHInX5h3DzAem44vq2A
Beerman Interview
1.
Interviewer : So how did the idea for Beerman Develop?
VS1Toronto : The first day of university one of the lecturers said words to the effect of “Take the leash off your brain and write down the first thing that appears…”
I wrote down an irritable aging superhero who hurled beercans at people and if you pushed button “A” gave abuse to the nearest person!
2.
Interviewer : Why is he in such an irritated mood all the time?
VS1Toronto : The game is a reflection of my own mental state at the time I’ve discovered, I was a taxi driver, over nine years nightshift in the murder capital of Europe for the last 70 years running, (Glasgow , Scotland ).
Nine years of listening to human beings at their worst gets you down and eventually you turn into quite a nasty piece of work, you don’t notice because it’s such a gradual process but eventually I realised I couldn’t carry all this anger towards human beings around or it would poison my life.
3.
Interviewer : So you made a game about a city under siege from nasty people?
VS1Toronto : Yep I had two choices I reckoned, either pour all the angst and anger that had built up into a computer game…..or….a spree kill! And there are certain legal conotations attached to spree kills that I wanted to avoid.
4.
Interviewer : So why Boston?
VS1Toronto : I needed a good American state that understood alcohol, and so why not the most Irish piece of land outside Ireland…..Boston!
5.
Interviewer : What’s the Mexican connection?
VS1Toronto : Well I needed a country that was into the powdered snack game for the storyline.
6.
Interviewer : Why did Mexico occur to you first?
VS1Toronto : My dad lives in Arizona just over the border so it cropped up in conversation from time to time, that and the real life greatest Mexican export kind of kept it front in my mind…..Salma Hayek.
7.
Interviewer : So did you start making Beerman right after that first day at university?
VS1Toronto : No it was triggered two years later after my last night in the taxi.
8.
Interviewer : What triggered it?
VS1Toronto : The second last night in the taxi I ended up in the country side after dropping a passenger really far out and the whole sky was clouded over a weird sort of silver grey colour and the only part that wasn’t was a small oval shape with the three stars of “Orion’s Belt “looking down at me at three in the morning.
I ended up stopping the car, getting out and just staring at it for about two minutes, I’d never seen anything like that in nearly ten years, I couldn’t stop looking at it.
Anyway the next night, the last night was mind numbingly boring apart from the last passenger who was an amateur games developer, he told me about “Google Play” and how you could get games published on it etc…then he started complaining about how difficult larger games where to make before going really quiet for a while…
Sitting at four in the morning at a red light with the rain pouring down he just suddenly blurted out loudly “TO HELL WITH THOSE THREE STAR GAMES I WOULD NEVER MAKE ONE OF THEM!
And I just saw those three stars of Orion’s Belt glaring down at me through that oval in the sky from the night before in my imagination and thought “Right right ok I hear you…don’t burn out my retinas from the back with this memory” It was so vivid…I started making Beerman the next night.
9.
Interviewer : So are you saying you think Beerman is a three star game?
VS1Toronto : Oh no it was another game called “Croc Runner” that was the three star game I was thinking about…..Beerman was supposed to be just one level, the first level, that let me experiment and learn how to make games and then take that knowledge on to “Croc Runner”.
But then Beerman developed arms and legs and characters and a storyline and just morphed into a whole game in my head all by itself!….It was weird and bonkers and so much fun lol.
10.
Interviewer : And why is Toronto mentioned a lot, is it true the second Beerman game is set there?
VS1Toronto : In real life Toronto has a large Jamaican population so it makes sense since as guess who’s going to be a big part of the second one!
I had a holiday a long time back in Toronto and fell in love with Canada and it’s people.
If aliens arrived tomorrow and demanded I bring them an example of the greatest achievement humans have made so far I’d bring them a Canadian…..or maybe Salma Hayek…..no no…a Canadian..a Canadian lol.
11.
Interviewer : There’s a lot of Jamaican baddies in it, why is that?
VS1Toronto : Well growing up in the Eighties we had Mr Steven Seagal’s action films, some people liked them some didn’t but what noone could deny was they had the coolest baddies ever to grace the television screen…..THE JAMAICANS!….They do bad sooooooo good!
I needed some fun cool hitmen in my game so why not!
12.
Interviewer : What’s the story with Vegan Bob?
VS1Toronto : Well something happened in the taxi which caused the inspiration for Vegan Bob…..I tried to go vegetarian for a few days…..
13.
Interviewer : You did what!
VS1Toronto : Ssshhhhhh shhhhhh….just keep it between us…..I’m not proud of it and it was only once and I’ll never do it again I swear!
14.
Interviewer : What made you try it?
VS1Toronto : Well you hear this garbage coming over the radio, give up real food just eat lettuce and cheese and your life will change, up will come the sun, down will go your credit card and all sorts of other rubbish….
But you hear it so many times it get’s into your head and you eventually think maybe i’m missing out on something so you try it.
15.
Interviewer : What happened?
VS1Toronto : The first two days were ok, you slept better and felt healthy, that must be all the toxins leaving your system…..but on day three my brain started falling apart…..of course it did, you need amino acids and glucose to feed it and you can’t get that from vegetables alone!
16.
Interviewer : What do you mean your brain fell apart?
VS1Toronto : I couldn’t concentrate, a thought would come in do a loop around my head then disappear, my brain no longer had the fuel to hold on to them…..and it was really badly affecting my ability to drive!
Stopping at a set of traffic lights with two passengers arguing in the back I remember looking up at the red light in a tired haze and then this thought suddenly appeared in my head…..
“Is that red light really…..as red as we think it is!”These people behind me were depending on me for their safety! And I couldn’t tell whether a traffic light was red or not!
That did it, after I dropped off the passengers I went straight to the nearest road van fast food seller and bought the most disgusting, grease dripping horrificly unhealthy cheese burger you’ve ever seen and almost immediately my body woke back up!
Yep that’s why the cheese burgers are in the game.
I also had a thought as I was munching down the burger, What would happen if you were forced to go vegetarian?
Well your brain would stop functioning correctly and you would end up acting and talking all bonkers and crazy just like real life vegetarians!
Then I thought what would happen if it was taken a stage further and you were forced to go Vegan? My goodness…..you would go INSANE!
And VEGAN BOB was born!
17.
Interviewer : So is there sort of hidden suggestions that large food companies are trying to poison us?
VS1Toronto : Em……..can’t answer that after what the large food companies tried to do to Oprah Winfrey.
18.
Interviewer : What did they do?
VS1Toronto : They tried to tear her a new one after she suggested their food was full of dangerous health harming additives…..in the event her legal council “Dr Phil” ended up tearing them a new one!
19.
Interviewer : So is GM food dangerous?
VS1Toronto : Depends if you think dying 20 years before you need to and suffering all sorts of allergies and health complaints before that untimely death is dangerous?
20.
Interviewer : Why would GM food be dangerous?
VS1Toronto : Humans have evolved over millions of years to work symbiotically with bacteria to brake down food in their guts with their help.
GM food has almost no bacteria inside to help it survive better outdoors and be resistant to pests and the elements.
With almost no bacteria in the food it means your body has to do all the work digesting it and your DNA takes twice the amount of damage it should translating into the breakdown of your health.
21.
Interviewer : Is there any proof of this?
VS1Toronto : Apart from all the scientists screaming online who are being hushed up, France has just banned modified corn flour…..completely…..I wonder why…..Vive La France!
22.
Interviewer : Why would companies be trying to sell it if they know it’s dangerous?
VS1Toronto : Because by the time they figured out just how dangerous and life ruining it is they had invested Billions and Billions in the research and they want those Billions back…..even if it means poisoning the world in the process!
23.
Interviewer : Beerman had a shaky start how did it ever get through Greenlight?
VS1Toronto : I hatched a plan to see how far up the 2200 odd titles I could get by attaching a Beerman App which linked to the Beerman website which linked to the then Steam Greenlight page. I never actually expected it to get released it was an enormous surprise!
24.
Interviewer : Was there any truth to a certain Argentinian publicity company helping out by advertising Beerman on radio shows and the web.
VS1Toronto : Em…………………no comment lol.
25.
Interviewer : Without claiming it happened, why did people go to these extremes on Greenlight?
VS1Toronto : Greenlight ended up a great trainer for real life, in that at the end it was more corrupt than WALL STREET! In fact it could have taught those guys a thing or two and eventually you realised unless you do what everybody else is doing your never going to get anywhere.
If there’s only one honest race car on the race track then you can be sure it will be that race car that loses!
If everyone else is fighting dirty then you have no choice.
If you don’t fight then you have no reason to complain!
26.
Interviewer : Talking about fighting what happened to cause that bust up between you and the Greenlight trolls?
VS1Toronto : Well I put up with intergalactic levels of abuse, principally because I’m almost twice their age and didn’t think I should really be shouting back at people in their youth, I didn’t think that was fair or would have put myself in a good light so I just stood back and let them get on with it and tried to take what I could constructively from their generations opinions and adjust the game accordingly.
I’m a different generation so things have moved on in the gaming world and I had to take that into account.
That changed however when the usual Troll brigade attacked a Mexican High School.The game was called “Ducks in Space”.
It was a great beginners submission and you saw the comments of the hopeful school team as they politely asked the opinions of the audience in a very cheerful and hopeful manner…..
What followed from the Trolls who inhabited Greenlight was one of the most shocking examples of sustained verbal vitriol I have ever seen and speaks in the most negative terms of their parents, their poor upbringing and their standards of form therein…..
The unceasing abuse lasted days and the poor high school team never answered back once and you could tell they were stunned at the poisonous response from these “bastards” and that they’re
dreams had just been squashed after all they’re hard work.I myself finally started remonstrating with these slime ball Greenlight Trolls and after some heated exchange over their shocking behaviour decided to go to a group called “The Duck Society” and inform them of what was happening.
I posted a message to the affect of “Attention All Ducks, Attention All Ducks some of you fellow hatchlings are under attack from Greenlight trolls come and help them out, all ducks to battle!” and included the Greenlight address link.
Well a few of the ducks did come running through with the attitude “Heah heah noone get’s to push ducks around on here, you yeah you! You pushing a duck? Come ere!…..
It sounds silly now but what wasn’t silly was the abuse the poor Mexicans were taking and the ducks really helped out.
I hope they went on with their game because it did look really good, ducks all flying around in their own personal space ships conquering space!
One of the ducks however went by the name of “Flames” and we got to talking and ended up friends and he was able to suggest things that Beerman was missing that the new generation of gamers expect and this slightly out of touch older generation gamer was then able to improve Beerman in line with these suggestions and I can’t thank him enough!
I suppose you could say Beerman got brought in…..on flames!
27.
Interviewer : So did you generate all the sprites yourself?
VS1Toronto : Yeah it took months to draw them all using a Chinese Stylus a Huion 2048 the Chinese make great stuff, no complicated learning process you just took it out of the box plugged it in and off you went with paint.net.
28.
Interviewer : Why does it take so long?
VS1Toronto : To code a character to walk to the left takes about forty seconds but to draw five characters to complete a whole animation sequence, then colour, shade, animate then code takes about six hours, then if that character flies and goes up, well that’s six hours, then if he goes diagonal well that’s six hours it’s a real nightmare!
29.
Interviewer : What was the worst one?
VS1Toronto : The tank when it rolls down the street toward you in the seventh level video cut scene. The tank is on screen for a maximum of 2 seconds and you never see the front of the tank again…it took six hours to turn those tracks for that 2 second sequence…talk about soul destroying!
30.
Interviewer : Did you really do all the voices of all the characters yourself?
VS1Toronto : Yes and I ended up getting investigated by “Glasgow City Council” for multiple occupancy!
31.
Interviewer : What?
VS1Toronto : I thought everyone around me was at work so I screamed at the computers microphone for weeks from different angles to get the voices sounding right and for everyone one time I got it right there were twenty failed attempts where I got it wrong.
Problem was the neighbours had to listen to all that and eventually they put a complaint in to the council about there beings lots of people living in the house next door screaming and shouting throughout the day!
Turns out there was only one person, me! Doing all these voices for the game but after the council had finished phoning me at the house then sending investigators round at night to see if they could catch lots of people living at the one address they finally accepted there was only one person there.
I never did tell the council or the neighbours what was going on so as far as their concerned there is still a nutcase living there who likes to shout and ball to himself all day!
32.
Interviewer : Ha ha ha ha who was your favourite voice?
VS1Toronto : The Mayor! It was great having to shout like that to get his voice right…..he was the loudest it’s probably him that got me investigated!
33.
Interviewer : So when will we see the second one “Beerman 2 Toronto Nights”?
VS1Toronto : Oh it was my dream that some computer game company would find the first one and want to build the second one in 3D.
34.
Interviewer : Isn’t there a rather large famous computer game company in Scotland that could do that?
VS1Toronto : Yeah there is and they have a habit of taking 2D games and turning them into successful 3D games but I reckon half the amateur game developers in Scotland pound their doors with emails asking for jobs so I don’t think it increases your chances living here.
It’s a bit like Los Angeles, the last place you’ll ever get famous is L.A. because everyone there is trying hard to be better looking than everyone else and be a better actor so there’s no way you’ll stand out and get noticed.
35.
Interviewer : So are you saying there won’t be second one?
VS1Toronto : Oh there definitely will be even if I have to do it myself when I get the time, the characters are screaming in my head all the time and eventually I have to get them out of there by making it, that’s what happened with the first one and I keep hearing Brabus screaming when he wakes up in the back of an ambulance!.
36.
Interviewer : I thought Brabus was dead?
VS1Toronto : No he just got blown out of a tank and fell hundreds of feet bouncing of two buildings and landing face down on fire but he’s not dead…..just angry and singed…dying would be uncool and he’s Jamaican…..Jamaicans can’t do uncool so he’s still there in the second one waking up in the back of an ambulance screaming
for revenge on Beerman!37.
Interviewer : What else happens any hints?
VS1Toronto : Well Vegan Bob is back after his brother who got adopted by a Canadian family gives him a call from Toronto for help.
Even though the family gave him a great upbringing he still ended up turning to crime. Problem is because his Canadian foster parents did such a good job of raising him he’s ended up with a really polite attitude and although a half deranged mega lo-maniac the other Canadian gangsters won’t take him seriously.
What follows is mayhem as Bob tries to sort out his brother’s image unleashing a mammoth crime wave in the process!
“You better take him seriously now!” ( Vegan Bob )
Eventually as it becomes clear who’s behind it Boston P.D. get a call from a frantic Toronto Mayor for help and assistance from anyone who had to deal with the madness before and the whole firework display begins again north of the border!
38.
Interviewer : Is it true you hate feminists?
VS1Toronto : No not at all their great for a laugh…..there should be two of them in every zoo!
39.
Interviewer : Why does it appear you hate feminists?
VS1Toronto : Oh I don’t know probably the whole sale rejection of their immature garbage that everything has to be their way and noone else get’s an opinion…..that’s called slavery!
The only ones they truly hurt are women.
In truth the way life works if your not born with the looks of a film star and you don’t do to well in the first round of dating the opposite sex, there is a second round where people mature life’s priorities change and people look for a stable well measured companion who they can enjoy their life with.
However if you’ve joined a venomous hate filled organisation like feminism you will be filled with all the darkness and bile this organisation brings and you won’t look attractive to the opposite sex in the second round of life.
You won’t look like a well rounded, thoughtful mature prospect but instead will look like an immature hate filled selfish monster…..or in short…a feminist.
40.
Interviewer : Why did the updates and fixes take so long?
VS1Toronto : Oh I was right in the middle of university hanging on by my fingernails at times trying to get through my degree so when that got busy I had to prioritise it first and it meant updates took a while.
41.
Interviewer : What did the university lectures think of your game interests?
VS1Toronto : They thought I was mad! I was a Web Development student not a Games student so games weren’t their thing and so to them I seemed mad…..one of the lecturers used to actually say it aloud in class…..”He’s daft him, he’s daft!” meaning he’s mad.
Mad enough to pull it off I say!
42.
Interviewer : You recently built Beerman into an Android App and a Windows App how did that go?
VS1Toronto : Yeah you can get a link to it on the beermangame.com website in the contacts page
http://beermangame.com/Beerman%20Website/web/index.html
that was a 600 page monster Apress book that taught me how to build a small example game called Tipboard Teaser 2017 and from there I managed to get Beerman converted along the same lines using Unity 5 but it wasn’t easy.
It’s on Amazon because they let you SFTP huge files up to them and unfortunately Google Play have a limit of 100 000MB whereas Beerman tipped the scales at over 350 000MB. I’ll keep working to get it to converted low enough for Google Play though.
I also had to unfortunately slim down the first level due to phones having difficulty handling the animations but apart from that it’s all there and the storyline is identical.
43.
Interviewer : Where does the music come from in the eighth level?
VS1Toronto : Oh I was looking online for weeks to find a royalty free track that would suit the rising of the biggest dastardliest mega machine so far as it climbed forward to bring Boston’s complete destruction and it was unbelievably difficult to find anything that sounded right.
Then with one more mouse click I found it…..
“The Lord of Evil”
44.
Interviewer : Well thanks for taking the time to answer all these questions, what’s the immediate plans for the future?
VS1Toronto : Oh just graduating I have to go and perform some months of modern slavery or as it’s commonly known an Internship so I’ll be quiet for a while but I’ll be back…..The Boston Madness will return!
- Developer post
The Beerman Interview
A great fan of the game and one of it's biggest supporters launched a steam group called : THE FLAMING NETWORK This fantastic group gave Beerman the chance of an interview to explain the madness of it's origins and where it came from.....what follows is that fun outtake offering
Original postA great fan of the game and one of it's biggest supporters launched a steam group called :
THE FLAMING NETWORK
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/flamingnetwork#This fantastic group gave Beerman the chance of an interview to explain the madness of it's origins and where it came from.....what follows is that fun outtake offering laughs and explanations for the fans which can be downloaded here :
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AthsCUt5GHHInX5h3DzAem44vq2A
Beerman Interview
1.
Interviewer : So how did the idea for Beerman Develop?
VS1Toronto : The first day of university one of the lecturers said words to the effect of “Take the leash off your brain and write down the first thing that appears…”
I wrote down an irritable aging superhero who hurled beercans at people and if you pushed button “A” gave abuse to the nearest person!
2.
Interviewer : Why is he in such an irritated mood all the time?
VS1Toronto : The game is a reflection of my own mental state at the time I’ve discovered, I was a taxi driver, over nine years nightshift in the murder capital of Europe for the last 70 years running, (Glasgow , Scotland ).
Nine years of listening to human beings at their worst gets you down and eventually you turn into quite a nasty piece of work, you don’t notice because it’s such a gradual process but eventually I realised I couldn’t carry all this anger towards human beings around or it would poison my life.
3.
Interviewer : So you made a game about a city under siege from nasty people?
VS1Toronto : Yep I had two choices I reckoned, either pour all the angst and anger that had built up into a computer game…..or….a spree kill! And there are certain legal conotations attached to spree kills that I wanted to avoid.
4.
Interviewer : So why Boston?
VS1Toronto : I needed a good American state that understood alcohol, and so why not the most Irish piece of land outside Ireland…..Boston!
5.
Interviewer : What’s the Mexican connection?
VS1Toronto : Well I needed a country that was into the powdered snack game for the storyline.
6.
Interviewer : Why did Mexico occur to you first?
VS1Toronto : My dad lives in Arizona just over the border so it cropped up in conversation from time to time, that and the real life greatest Mexican export kind of kept it front in my mind…..Salma Hayek.
7.
Interviewer : So did you start making Beerman right after that first day at university?
VS1Toronto : No it was triggered two years later after my last night in the taxi.
8.
Interviewer : What triggered it?
VS1Toronto : The second last night in the taxi I ended up in the country side after dropping a passenger really far out and the whole sky was clouded over a weird sort of silver grey colour and the only part that wasn’t was a small oval shape with the three stars of “Orion’s Belt “looking down at me at three in the morning.
I ended up stopping the car, getting out and just staring at it for about two minutes, I’d never seen anything like that in nearly ten years, I couldn’t stop looking at it.
Anyway the next night, the last night was mind numbingly boring apart from the last passenger who was an amateur games developer, he told me about “Google Play” and how you could get games published on it etc…then he started complaining about how difficult larger games where to make before going really quiet for a while…
Sitting at four in the morning at a red light with the rain pouring down he just suddenly blurted out loudly “TO HELL WITH THOSE THREE STAR GAMES I WOULD NEVER MAKE ONE OF THEM!
And I just saw those three stars of Orion’s Belt glaring down at me through that oval in the sky from the night before in my imagination and thought “Right right ok I hear you…don’t burn out my retinas from the back with this memory” It was so vivid…I started making Beerman the next night.
9.
Interviewer : So are you saying you think Beerman is a three star game?
VS1Toronto : Oh no it was another game called “Croc Runner” that was the three star game I was thinking about…..Beerman was supposed to be just one level, the first level, that let me experiment and learn how to make games and then take that knowledge on to “Croc Runner”.
But then Beerman developed arms and legs and characters and a storyline and just morphed into a whole game in my head all by itself!….It was weird and bonkers and so much fun lol.
10.
Interviewer : And why is Toronto mentioned a lot, is it true the second Beerman game is set there?
VS1Toronto : In real life Toronto has a large Jamaican population so it makes sense since as guess who’s going to be a big part of the second one!
I had a holiday a long time back in Toronto and fell in love with Canada and it’s people.
If aliens arrived tomorrow and demanded I bring them an example of the greatest achievement humans have made so far I’d bring them a Canadian…..or maybe Salma Hayek…..no no…a Canadian..a Canadian lol.
11.
Interviewer : There’s a lot of Jamaican baddies in it, why is that?
VS1Toronto : Well growing up in the Eighties we had Mr Steven Seagal’s action films, some people liked them some didn’t but what noone could deny was they had the coolest baddies ever to grace the television screen…..THE JAMAICANS!….They do bad sooooooo good!
I needed some fun cool hitmen in my game so why not!
12.
Interviewer : What’s the story with Vegan Bob?
VS1Toronto : Well something happened in the taxi which caused the inspiration for Vegan Bob…..I tried to go vegetarian for a few days…..
13.
Interviewer : You did what!
VS1Toronto : Ssshhhhhh shhhhhh….just keep it between us…..I’m not proud of it and it was only once and I’ll never do it again I swear!
14.
Interviewer : What made you try it?
VS1Toronto : Well you hear this garbage coming over the radio, give up real food just eat lettuce and cheese and your life will change, up will come the sun, down will go your credit card and all sorts of other rubbish….
But you hear it so many times it get’s into your head and you eventually think maybe i’m missing out on something so you try it.
15.
Interviewer : What happened?
VS1Toronto : The first two days were ok, you slept better and felt healthy, that must be all the toxins leaving your system…..but on day three my brain started falling apart…..of course it did, you need amino acids and glucose to feed it and you can’t get that from vegetables alone!
16.
Interviewer : What do you mean your brain fell apart?
VS1Toronto : I couldn’t concentrate, a thought would come in do a loop around my head then disappear, my brain no longer had the fuel to hold on to them…..and it was really badly affecting my ability to drive!
Stopping at a set of traffic lights with two passengers arguing in the back I remember looking up at the red light in a tired haze and then this thought suddenly appeared in my head…..
“Is that red light really…..as red as we think it is!”These people behind me were depending on me for their safety! And I couldn’t tell whether a traffic light was red or not!
That did it, after I dropped off the passengers I went straight to the nearest road van fast food seller and bought the most disgusting, grease dripping horrificly unhealthy cheese burger you’ve ever seen and almost immediately my body woke back up!
Yep that’s why the cheese burgers are in the game.
I also had a thought as I was munching down the burger, What would happen if you were forced to go vegetarian?
Well your brain would stop functioning correctly and you would end up acting and talking all bonkers and crazy just like real life vegetarians!
Then I thought what would happen if it was taken a stage further and you were forced to go Vegan? My goodness…..you would go INSANE!
And VEGAN BOB was born!
17.
Interviewer : So is there sort of hidden suggestions that large food companies are trying to poison us?
VS1Toronto : Em……..can’t answer that after what the large food companies tried to do to Oprah Winfrey.
18.
Interviewer : What did they do?
VS1Toronto : They tried to tear her a new one after she suggested their food was full of dangerous health harming additives…..in the event her legal council “Dr Phil” ended up tearing them a new one!
19.
Interviewer : So is GM food dangerous?
VS1Toronto : Depends if you think dying 20 years before you need to and suffering all sorts of allergies and health complaints before that untimely death is dangerous?
20.
Interviewer : Why would GM food be dangerous?
VS1Toronto : Humans have evolved over millions of years to work symbiotically with bacteria to brake down food in their guts with their help.
GM food has almost no bacteria inside to help it survive better outdoors and be resistant to pests and the elements.
With almost no bacteria in the food it means your body has to do all the work digesting it and your DNA takes twice the amount of damage it should translating into the breakdown of your health.
21.
Interviewer : Is there any proof of this?
VS1Toronto : Apart from all the scientists screaming online who are being hushed up, France has just banned modified corn flour…..completely…..I wonder why…..Vive La France!
22.
Interviewer : Why would companies be trying to sell it if they know it’s dangerous?
VS1Toronto : Because by the time they figured out just how dangerous and life ruining it is they had invested Billions and Billions in the research and they want those Billions back…..even if it means poisoning the world in the process!
23.
Interviewer : Beerman had a shaky start how did it ever get through Greenlight?
VS1Toronto : I hatched a plan to see how far up the 2200 odd titles I could get by attaching a Beerman App which linked to the Beerman website which linked to the then Steam Greenlight page. I never actually expected it to get released it was an enormous surprise!
24.
Interviewer : Was there any truth to a certain Argentinian publicity company helping out by advertising Beerman on radio shows and the web.
VS1Toronto : Em…………………no comment lol.
25.
Interviewer : Without claiming it happened, why did people go to these extremes on Greenlight?
VS1Toronto : Greenlight ended up a great trainer for real life, in that at the end it was more corrupt than WALL STREET! In fact it could have taught those guys a thing or two and eventually you realised unless you do what everybody else is doing your never going to get anywhere.
If there’s only one honest race car on the race track then you can be sure it will be that race car that loses!
If everyone else is fighting dirty then you have no choice.
If you don’t fight then you have no reason to complain!
26.
Interviewer : Talking about fighting what happened to cause that bust up between you and the Greenlight trolls?
VS1Toronto : Well I put up with intergalactic levels of abuse, principally because I’m almost twice their age and didn’t think I should really be shouting back at people in their youth, I didn’t think that was fair or would have put myself in a good light so I just stood back and let them get on with it and tried to take what I could constructively from their generations opinions and adjust the game accordingly.
I’m a different generation so things have moved on in the gaming world and I had to take that into account.
That changed however when the usual Troll brigade attacked a Mexican High School.The game was called “Ducks in Space”.
It was a great beginners submission and you saw the comments of the hopeful school team as they politely asked the opinions of the audience in a very cheerful and hopeful manner…..
What followed from the Trolls who inhabited Greenlight was one of the most shocking examples of sustained verbal vitriol I have ever seen and speaks in the most negative terms of their parents, their poor upbringing and their standards of form therein…..
The unceasing abuse lasted days and the poor high school team never answered back once and you could tell they were stunned at the poisonous response from these “bastards” and that they’re
dreams had just been squashed after all they’re hard work.I myself finally started remonstrating with these slime ball Greenlight Trolls and after some heated exchange over their shocking behaviour decided to go to a group called “The Duck Society” and inform them of what was happening.
I posted a message to the affect of “Attention All Ducks, Attention All Ducks some of you fellow hatchlings are under attack from Greenlight trolls come and help them out, all ducks to battle!” and included the Greenlight address link.
Well a few of the ducks did come running through with the attitude “Heah heah noone get’s to push ducks around on here, you yeah you! You pushing a duck? Come ere!…..
It sounds silly now but what wasn’t silly was the abuse the poor Mexicans were taking and the ducks really helped out.
I hope they went on with their game because it did look really good, ducks all flying around in their own personal space ships conquering space!
One of the ducks however went by the name of “Flames” and we got to talking and ended up friends and he was able to suggest things that Beerman was missing that the new generation of gamers expect and this slightly out of touch older generation gamer was then able to improve Beerman in line with these suggestions and I can’t thank him enough!
I suppose you could say Beerman got brought in…..on flames!
27.
Interviewer : So did you generate all the sprites yourself?
VS1Toronto : Yeah it took months to draw them all using a Chinese Stylus a Huion 2048 the Chinese make great stuff, no complicated learning process you just took it out of the box plugged it in and off you went with paint.net.
28.
Interviewer : Why does it take so long?
VS1Toronto : To code a character to walk to the left takes about forty seconds but to draw five characters to complete a whole animation sequence, then colour, shade, animate then code takes about six hours, then if that character flies and goes up, well that’s six hours, then if he goes diagonal well that’s six hours it’s a real nightmare!
29.
Interviewer : What was the worst one?
VS1Toronto : The tank when it rolls down the street toward you in the seventh level video cut scene. The tank is on screen for a maximum of 2 seconds and you never see the front of the tank again…it took six hours to turn those tracks for that 2 second sequence…talk about soul destroying!
30.
Interviewer : Did you really do all the voices of all the characters yourself?
VS1Toronto : Yes and I ended up getting investigated by “Glasgow City Council” for multiple occupancy!
31.
Interviewer : What?
VS1Toronto : I thought everyone around me was at work so I screamed at the computers microphone for weeks from different angles to get the voices sounding right and for everyone one time I got it right there were twenty failed attempts where I got it wrong.
Problem was the neighbours had to listen to all that and eventually they put a complaint in to the council about there beings lots of people living in the house next door screaming and shouting throughout the day!
Turns out there was only one person, me! Doing all these voices for the game but after the council had finished phoning me at the house then sending investigators round at night to see if they could catch lots of people living at the one address they finally accepted there was only one person there.
I never did tell the council or the neighbours what was going on so as far as their concerned there is still a nutcase living there who likes to shout and ball to himself all day!
32.
Interviewer : Ha ha ha ha who was your favourite voice?
VS1Toronto : The Mayor! It was great having to shout like that to get his voice right…..he was the loudest it’s probably him that got me investigated!
33.
Interviewer : So when will we see the second one “Beerman 2 Toronto Nights”?
VS1Toronto : Oh it was my dream that some computer game company would find the first one and want to build the second one in 3D.
34.
Interviewer : Isn’t there a rather large famous computer game company in Scotland that could do that?
VS1Toronto : Yeah there is and they have a habit of taking 2D games and turning them into successful 3D games but I reckon half the amateur game developers in Scotland pound their doors with emails asking for jobs so I don’t think it increases your chances living here.
It’s a bit like Los Angeles, the last place you’ll ever get famous is L.A. because everyone there is trying hard to be better looking than everyone else and be a better actor so there’s no way you’ll stand out and get noticed.
35.
Interviewer : So are you saying there won’t be second one?
VS1Toronto : Oh there definitely will be even if I have to do it myself when I get the time, the characters are screaming in my head all the time and eventually I have to get them out of there by making it, that’s what happened with the first one and I keep hearing Brabus screaming when he wakes up in the back of an ambulance!.
36.
Interviewer : I thought Brabus was dead?
VS1Toronto : No he just got blown out of a tank and fell hundreds of feet bouncing of two buildings and landing face down on fire but he’s not dead…..just angry and singed…dying would be uncool and he’s Jamaican…..Jamaicans can’t do uncool so he’s still there in the second one waking up in the back of an ambulance screaming
for revenge on Beerman!37.
Interviewer : What else happens any hints?
VS1Toronto : Well Vegan Bob is back after his brother who got adopted by a Canadian family gives him a call from Toronto for help.
Even though the family gave him a great upbringing he still ended up turning to crime. Problem is because his Canadian foster parents did such a good job of raising him he’s ended up with a really polite attitude and although a half deranged mega lo-maniac the other Canadian gangsters won’t take him seriously.
What follows is mayhem as Bob tries to sort out his brother’s image unleashing a mammoth crime wave in the process!
“You better take him seriously now!” ( Vegan Bob )
Eventually as it becomes clear who’s behind it Boston P.D. get a call from a frantic Toronto Mayor for help and assistance from anyone who had to deal with the madness before and the whole firework display begins again north of the border!
38.
Interviewer : Is it true you hate feminists?
VS1Toronto : No not at all their great for a laugh…..there should be two of them in every zoo!
39.
Interviewer : Why does it appear you hate feminists?
VS1Toronto : Oh I don’t know probably the whole sale rejection of their immature garbage that everything has to be their way and noone else get’s an opinion…..that’s called slavery!
The only ones they truly hurt are women.
In truth the way life works if your not born with the looks of a film star and you don’t do to well in the first round of dating the opposite sex, there is a second round where people mature life’s priorities change and people look for a stable well measured companion who they can enjoy their life with.
However if you’ve joined a venomous hate filled organisation like feminism you will be filled with all the darkness and bile this organisation brings and you won’t look attractive to the opposite sex in the second round of life.
You won’t look like a well rounded, thoughtful mature prospect but instead will look like an immature hate filled selfish monster…..or in short…a feminist.
40.
Interviewer : Why did the updates and fixes take so long?
VS1Toronto : Oh I was right in the middle of university hanging on by my fingernails at times trying to get through my degree so when that got busy I had to prioritise it first and it meant updates took a while.
41.
Interviewer : What did the university lectures think of your game interests?
VS1Toronto : They thought I was mad! I was a Web Development student not a Games student so games weren’t their thing and so to them I seemed mad…..one of the lecturers used to actually say it aloud in class…..”He’s daft him, he’s daft!” meaning he’s mad.
Mad enough to pull it off I say!
42.
Interviewer : You recently built Beerman into an Android App and a Windows App how did that go?
VS1Toronto : Yeah you can get a link to it on the beermangame.com website in the contacts page
http://beermangame.com/Beerman%20Website/web/index.html
that was a 600 page monster Apress book that taught me how to build a small example game called Tipboard Teaser 2017 and from there I managed to get Beerman converted along the same lines using Unity 5 but it wasn’t easy.
It’s on Amazon because they let you SFTP huge files up to them and unfortunately Google Play have a limit of 100 000MB whereas Beerman tipped the scales at over 350 000MB. I’ll keep working to get it to converted low enough for Google Play though.
I also had to unfortunately slim down the first level due to phones having difficulty handling the animations but apart from that it’s all there and the storyline is identical.
43.
Interviewer : Where does the music come from in the eighth level?
VS1Toronto : Oh I was looking online for weeks to find a royalty free track that would suit the rising of the biggest dastardliest mega machine so far as it climbed forward to bring Boston’s complete destruction and it was unbelievably difficult to find anything that sounded right.
Then with one more mouse click I found it…..
“The Lord of Evil”
44.
Interviewer : Well thanks for taking the time to answer all these questions, what’s the immediate plans for the future?
VS1Toronto : Oh just graduating I have to go and perform some months of modern slavery or as it’s commonly known an Internship so I’ll be quiet for a while but I’ll be back…..The Boston Madness will return!
- Developer post
Beerman Playable App Launched on Android and Windows
Yes it's finally happened the Boston Mayhem has been reconfigured to run on a mobile phone both in Android hosted by Amazon App Store and Windows hosted by Windows App Store. The process to convert it from the PC supported Unity Steam version to the Android / Windows UWP version
Original postYes it's finally happened the Boston Mayhem has been reconfigured to run on a mobile phone both in Android hosted by Amazon App Store and Windows hosted by Windows App Store.
The process to convert it from the PC supported Unity Steam version to the Android / Windows UWP version was incredibly difficult, how hard I hear you ask? I'll have nightmares about converting every Polyon Collider thoughout the game to Box Colliders till the end of time!!!
Initially I was not going to announce it because I didn't want to annoy the good people at Steam who took a chance on this game, and was just going to quietly work on it in the background.
However it turns out in order to make it run on an app I had to scale down the first level a bit, things like the glass coming out of windows now just disappears on the way down rather than hitting the ground and being removed by the coroners van, quirky little touches like that had to be removed or slimmed down.
Fortunately the rest of the game levels are almost identical and the video cut scenes which are completely identical so the whole point of the game - The Storyline - remains the same.
That then means Steam still hold the fastest PC supported version with all the trimmings for the hardcore gamers out there and now that the Beerman Website has had it's contacts page reconfigured to include the app addresses a new customer base is potentially on route to them.
Anyone who finds the game on Amazon App Store or on the Windows App Store will inevitably find the attached Beerman Website and since all the game buttons in the website are and will remain targeted at the Steam Website a whole bunch of folks who might not have frequented Steam will now be directed here.
So there are three winners from this process then :
1. Steam win by getting unofficial advertising on their rivals websites through the Beerman Website directing a new bunch of folks to them.
2. The fans win by getting news of one more step on this mad Boston journey.
3. And I win by getting to laugh at all the old Greenlight haters who said this game was never going to go anywhere one more time.....
Isn't Life Great!!! ːsteamhappyː
Beerman Amazon App Store :
https://www.amazon.co.uk/VS1-Studios-Beerman/dp/B075KDY2Q4/ref=sr_1_1?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1505585448&sr=1-1&keywords=Beerman
Beerman Windows App Store :
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/p/beerman/9mx5g3mcvj3k
System Requirements :
App Tested on Nokia 930
Control - Integrated Touch
Architecture - x64, ARM
Processor - Snapdragon
Toggle Screen Controls On / Off - "T" key if phone has keyboard
- Developer post
Beerman Playable App Launched on Android and Windows
Yes it's finally happened the Boston Mayhem has been reconfigured to run on a mobile phone both in Android hosted by Amazon App Store and Windows hosted by Windows App Store. The process to convert it from the PC supported Unity Steam version to the Android / Windows UWP version
Original postYes it's finally happened the Boston Mayhem has been reconfigured to run on a mobile phone both in Android hosted by Amazon App Store and Windows hosted by Windows App Store.
The process to convert it from the PC supported Unity Steam version to the Android / Windows UWP version was incredibly difficult, how hard I hear you ask? I'll have nightmares about converting every Polyon Collider thoughout the game to Box Colliders till the end of time!!!
Initially I was not going to announce it because I didn't want to annoy the good people at Steam who took a chance on this game, and was just going to quietly work on it in the background.
However it turns out in order to make it run on an app I had to scale down the first level a bit, things like the glass coming out of windows now just disappears on the way down rather than hitting the ground and being removed by the coroners van, quirky little touches like that had to be removed or slimmed down.
Fortunately the rest of the game levels are almost identical and the video cut scenes which are completely identical so the whole point of the game - The Storyline - remains the same.
That then means Steam still hold the fastest PC supported version with all the trimmings for the hardcore gamers out there and now that the Beerman Website has had it's contacts page reconfigured to include the app addresses a new customer base is potentially on route to them.
Anyone who finds the game on Amazon App Store or on the Windows App Store will inevitably find the attached Beerman Website and since all the game buttons in the website are and will remain targeted at the Steam Website a whole bunch of folks who might not have frequented Steam will now be directed here.
So there are three winners from this process then :
1. Steam win by getting unofficial advertising on their rivals websites through the Beerman Website directing a new bunch of folks to them.
2. The fans win by getting news of one more step on this mad Boston journey.
3. And I win by getting to laugh at all the old Greenlight haters who said this game was never going to go anywhere one more time.....
Isn't Life Great!!! ːsteamhappyː
Beerman Amazon App Store :
https://www.amazon.co.uk/VS1-Studios-Beerman/dp/B075KDY2Q4/ref=sr_1_1?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1505585448&sr=1-1&keywords=Beerman
Beerman Windows App Store :
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/p/beerman/9mx5g3mcvj3k
System Requirements :
App Tested on Nokia 930
Control - Integrated Touch
Architecture - x64, ARM
Processor - Snapdragon
Toggle Screen Controls On / Off - "T" key if phone has keyboard
- Developer post
Beerman Latest Update
This update concerns level 1 and all of the odd things that needed ironed out, I would have got to it sooner but some evil lecturers insisted I do their coursework first.....details below : Level 1 Updates 1. Drunk Missiles Yes unfortunately Jamaican George's launchings did tend
Original postThis update concerns level 1 and all of the odd things that needed ironed out, I would have got to it sooner but some evil lecturers insisted I do their coursework first.....details below :
Level 1 Updates
1. Drunk Missiles
Yes unfortunately Jamaican George's launchings did tend to drift under the helicopter as if they had been drinking.....well no longer, now the missiles launched head directly for Beerman or the helicopters nose.............Jamaican George got his aim back!
2. Beerman Blasted
It was the strange case that even with Beerman's Vietnam experience if he inadvertently smashed into another helicopter there was the possibility of him literally being blasted clear of the game screen in the resulting explosion.....this has now been fixed with it truly impossible for our hero to go AWOL.
3. Magic JaMan
In the previous builds when JaMan was preparing to throw the student to his death from the top of the building if the player was quick enough and opened the chinook ramp and killed the two guards JaMan would also be seen walking onto the aircraft with the Veggie Baddie.....
Now although JaMan is Jamaican and therefore cool enough to be in two places at once this didn't really sit well with reality so I have since revised this and now the chinook door will not open for boarding until JaMan has finished throwing the student to his death.....
Hooray for order! ːsteamhappyː
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Beerman Latest Update
This update concerns level 1 and all of the odd things that needed ironed out, I would have got to it sooner but some evil lecturers insisted I do their coursework first.....details below : Level 1 Updates 1. Drunk Missiles Yes unfortunately Jamaican George's launchings did tend
Original postThis update concerns level 1 and all of the odd things that needed ironed out, I would have got to it sooner but some evil lecturers insisted I do their coursework first.....details below :
Level 1 Updates
1. Drunk Missiles
Yes unfortunately Jamaican George's launchings did tend to drift under the helicopter as if they had been drinking.....well no longer, now the missiles launched head directly for Beerman or the helicopters nose.............Jamaican George got his aim back!
2. Beerman Blasted
It was the strange case that even with Beerman's Vietnam experience if he inadvertently smashed into another helicopter there was the possibility of him literally being blasted clear of the game screen in the resulting explosion.....this has now been fixed with it truly impossible for our hero to go AWOL.
3. Magic JaMan
In the previous builds when JaMan was preparing to throw the student to his death from the top of the building if the player was quick enough and opened the chinook ramp and killed the two guards JaMan would also be seen walking onto the aircraft with the Veggie Baddie.....
Now although JaMan is Jamaican and therefore cool enough to be in two places at once this didn't really sit well with reality so I have since revised this and now the chinook door will not open for boarding until JaMan has finished throwing the student to his death.....
Hooray for order! ːsteamhappyː
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Controller Support Added!!!
Beerman now has in game controller support! There is still a need to use the mouse to operate Unity's configuration launcher and to use the Beerman game menu but all levels now have controller support once they are started, details below : For Xbox controller : Left, Right, Up, D
Original postBeerman now has in game controller support!
There is still a need to use the mouse to operate Unity's configuration launcher and to use the Beerman game menu but all levels now have controller support once they are started, details below :
For Xbox controller :
Left, Right, Up, Down controlled by Left Stick
Left, Right, Up, Down also controlled by Dpad
Fire button controlled by Y button
For Play Station controller :
Left, Right, Up, Down controlled by Left Stick
Left, Right, Up, Down also controlled by Dpad
Fire button controlled by A button
Fire buttons may vary based on individual internal controller architecture.
ALL CONTROLS ARE ADJUSTABLE FROM Unity configuration launcher
details below :Left click the "input" tab on the Unity configuration launcher.
Then "double left click" on a control you wish to change.
Then either pull the control stick or push the button you wish to change.
Yes now the huge shadow that was following Beerman has finally lifted and.......n..no not the Blimp guys...the, the controller support...yeah that.......
lol, hope you all enjoy it, have fun! ːsteamhappyː
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Controller Support Added!!!
Beerman now has in game controller support! There is still a need to use the mouse to operate Unity's configuration launcher and to use the Beerman game menu but all levels now have controller support once they are started, details below : For Xbox controller : Left, Right, Up, D
Original postBeerman now has in game controller support!
There is still a need to use the mouse to operate Unity's configuration launcher and to use the Beerman game menu but all levels now have controller support once they are started, details below :
For Xbox controller :
Left, Right, Up, Down controlled by Left Stick
Left, Right, Up, Down also controlled by Dpad
Fire button controlled by Y button
For Play Station controller :
Left, Right, Up, Down controlled by Left Stick
Left, Right, Up, Down also controlled by Dpad
Fire button controlled by A button
Fire buttons may vary based on individual internal controller architecture.
ALL CONTROLS ARE ADJUSTABLE FROM Unity configuration launcher
details below :Left click the "input" tab on the Unity configuration launcher.
Then "double left click" on a control you wish to change.
Then either pull the control stick or push the button you wish to change.
Yes now the huge shadow that was following Beerman has finally lifted and.......n..no not the Blimp guys...the, the controller support...yeah that.......
lol, hope you all enjoy it, have fun! ːsteamhappyː
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Announcing The Beerman Screensaver!!!
Yes the madness continues with an aerial duel on your monitor! To download follow these steps : 1 Use the link below which will take you to the file stored on OneDrive 2 Right click the "Beerman Screensaver" file and choose "Download" and when the bar appears at the bottom of the
Original postYes the madness continues with an aerial duel on your monitor!
To download follow these steps :
1 Use the link below which will take you to the file stored on OneDrive
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AthsCUt5GHHImBH9_SYBm2q0cFS8
2 Right click the "Beerman Screensaver" file and choose "Download" and when the bar appears at the bottom of the screen click the arrow next to the save button to drop down a menu and choose "save as" and save it to your desktop or wherever you'ld like to store it.
3 If you receive a security warning simply click the "x" at the far right of the bar to get rid of it.
4 Double click the downloaded "Beerman Screensaver 1" file and you will be presented with a screen saver menu box, left click the large green rectangular box that says "Set Screen Saver" and it will automatically save the screen saver to your computers list of screen savers and you can preview it and set your times for it to show etc, the escape key exits preview.....get ready to duck!
The animations have been added to the Artwork tab if anyone needs a cool background.
Now even when your not at your desk the Boston Mayhem can rage!!! ːsteamhappyː
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Announcing The Beerman Screensaver!!!
Yes the madness continues with an aerial duel on your monitor! To download follow these steps : 1 Use the link below which will take you to the file stored on OneDrive 2 Right click the "Beerman Screensaver" file and choose "Download" and when the bar appears at the bottom of the
Original postYes the madness continues with an aerial duel on your monitor!
To download follow these steps :
1 Use the link below which will take you to the file stored on OneDrive
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AthsCUt5GHHImBH9_SYBm2q0cFS8
2 Right click the "Beerman Screensaver" file and choose "Download" and when the bar appears at the bottom of the screen click the arrow next to the save button to drop down a menu and choose "save as" and save it to your desktop or wherever you'ld like to store it.
3 If you receive a security warning simply click the "x" at the far right of the bar to get rid of it.
4 Double click the downloaded "Beerman Screensaver 1" file and you will be presented with a screen saver menu box, left click the large green rectangular box that says "Set Screen Saver" and it will automatically save the screen saver to your computers list of screen savers and you can preview it and set your times for it to show etc, the escape key exits preview.....get ready to duck!
The animations have been added to the Artwork tab if anyone needs a cool background.
Now even when your not at your desk the Boston Mayhem can rage!!! ːsteamhappyː