Developer posts and news about this game.
Well would you look at that! Beetle Uprising is now on sale for 30% off during the Halloween Sale (through to November 8th as we will also be running an anniversary sale for our birthday on November 5th!) What could be spookier than self-immolating and exploding beetles? We hones
We're pleased to reveal we're part of the World Nature Conservation Day Sale event here on Steam and to celebrate we're currently offering 30% off Beetle Uprising until the end of the event! If you want to know a little more about what Beetle Uprising is all about, then one of th
We are pleased to announce we have just released a new mode for Beetle Uprising - Easy Mode! In Easy Mode you will find the following key features: Reduction in happiness penalties. Breeding is biased toward the stronger parental allele. Beetles with blue star genetics are now hi
We're finally here! Beetle Uprising has now left early access and is available as a full game on Steam. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported this project through its development; the game is now feature complete and the Abandoned Lot is 100% ready to be conquered! Ther
Beetle Uprising has a release date! Breed more beetles, juice the bad ones! Take over the Abandoned Lot and avenge the matriarch on 5th November 2020 , when we'll be leaving early access. As well as the full set of levels, the full release introduces Mystery Mode, with random rew
TIme for another quick behind-the-scenes look at Beetle Uprising! This is a screenshot of the nest. It shows a small navigable area near the exit. Over time, as you level up, the nest gets bigger - this is done by removing the rocks around the border (some are highlighted here).
Continuing our short look at some of the behind-the-scenes goings on with Beetle Uprising, this time we're talking about the navmesh. Below is a screenshot of the Unity navmesh editor. It shows one of our earlier levels with the navmesh highlighted. We use terrain steepness to li
We thought we'd share some behind-the-scenes stuff from the development of Beetle Uprising, as we approach the full release! Here's a screenshot of David's egg editor. He built a custom Unity Inspector to label genes and give himself drop downs to tweak the genes given out with a
As most of you who supported our little beetle breeding experiment will know, progress has been slow for a while. We’ve been itching to finish the game off for a long time and so the original development team has pledged to work together remotely to push it out of Early Access. T
We have a new update for everyone, today. Here are the new things we've been working on: We finished "That's Not Sugar". This one is no Picnic! Stop the greedy ants, so you can feed your colony. We finished "We See Dead Beetles". What would you expect to find in a creepy forest?
We have a new build for you to try on the Beta branch. We'll roll it into the Release branch after we hear whether there are issues. Here are the new things we've been working on: Finished "That's Not Sugar". This one is no Picnic! Finished "We See Dead Beetles". What would you e
Here is a big update we've been working on for awhile. We hope you enjoy it. You can now have multiple games saved at once. This can be handy if you want to go try out something extreme, but don't want to risk your original collection. We added Sandbox Mode, which allows you unli
Here is a big update we've been working on for awhile. We hope you enjoy it. You can now have multiple games saved at once. This can be handy if you want to go try out something extreme, but don't want to risk your original collection. We added Sandbox Mode, which allows you unli
We decided to push out a fix to the Task-Reset Cheat ahead of schedule today. After you patch, any "stuck" tasks that you had previously mowed down to zero will now work again. The bug only kicked in if you had run the cheat on a completely mowed task. You will need to re-run the
We decided to push out a fix to the Task-Reset Cheat ahead of schedule today. After you patch, any "stuck" tasks that you had previously mowed down to zero will now work again. The bug only kicked in if you had run the cheat on a completely mowed task. You will need to re-run the
Big update today. Its been awhile since the last update since we had to fix a few bugs in the beta builds that prevented us from promoting them. Here's what's new: There are 3 cheats added to the options menu: new Goop, reset task counts, and reset beetle needs. You won't need th
Big update today. Its been awhile since the last update since we had to fix a few bugs in the beta builds that prevented us from promoting them. Here's what's new: There are 3 cheats added to the options menu: new Goop, reset task counts, and reset beetle needs. You won't need th
New Update: We added two new areas, Achievements, Gene Splicing, and Decorations. And lots of other new things to try out. We have created 19 Steam Achievements. Of which, 17 are available and visible. Steam Cloud saves are now working. So you can pick up your game on another mac
New Update: We added two new areas, Achievements, Gene Splicing, and Decorations. And lots of other new things to try out. We have created 19 Steam Achievements. Of which, 17 are available and visible. Steam Cloud saves are now working. So you can pick up your game on another mac
We have promoted the most recent build to Beta. We added two new areas, Achievements, Gene Splicing, and Decorations. It also has lots of other new things to try out. We have created 19 Steam Achievements. Of which, 17 are available. We'll make these visible when the build hits g