👋🏻 Hi Brewers Club!
Welcome to the July issue of the Brewers club with your latest update on Brewmaster🍻
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First, a note from the devs!
🍻 We're really hoppy to share our latest update! 🍻
Hello Brewers! It’s been an exciting month here at Auroch Digital! We are officially content locked, loaded, and ready as we get closer to launch.
🎮 But before that, you lovely folks had the opportunity to get hands on with the Brewmaster demo throughout Next Fest and beyond, and we hope you enjoyed every moment of it. We received a lot of really valuable feedback from our community, and have been putting our heads down working on improving the game.
📝 Our design team have written up a full tutorial and a whole host of contextual hints/tips to fully introduce future Brewmasters to the intricacies of brewing the perfect beer. We’ve also gone back to the drawing board on a few objects we’ve received some feedback on; namely the sink and the electric brew kettle. Your feedback has really helped us redesign these to be intuitive to players, not just us folks making the game. And has really highlighted to the team that we don’t always know best!
🔢 Some of our code team have been hard at work with our final big feature. We can’t say too much, but you should definitely look forward to it. Meanwhile, other members of our code team have been hard at work overhauling pouring and brew visuals to improve performance across the board. You probably won't notice these, as we’ve worked extra hard to make these changes as seamless as possible.
🖼 The Art team have been adding even more goodies into the game for you all to unlock and customise your brew spaces with. No spoilers! But they look really cool!
💻On the UI/UX side of things, our team have been working to put those final tweaks on the UI to give you the best visual experience possible.
👀 With all that said, we hope you’re all looking forward to Brewmaster when it launches!
🍺 Buy your very own Auroch Digitale! 🍺
On Friday 22nd July, Moor Beer launched our very own IRL beer into the world, under the name of Auroch Digitale. Does that name ring a bell?
You may remember us talking about our partnership with them earlier this year, and we're so excited that we've got a real-life beer you can taste whilst brewing your own in-game version!
But just how did this come about?
🤔 Well, the idea of having an IRL beer come out to celebrate our game, was first a throwaway thought at the very beginning of our project. It seemed like it was one of those "would be cool, probably wouldn't happen" things.
🌾 But, thanks to our Designer, Matt, homebrewing up the very first version of it way back when, and coming up with the incredibly punny name, we actually had something we could pitch to our friends at Moor Beer.
🎨 And then it was down to our wonderful Art Team, where Elysia came up with the initial ideas for the can, and the team (Joe, Chris, and Dan) set to work to make it the best it could be. When they were happy, they passed it over to Moor Beer's designer, Ich Bin Ben, to finish it off.
💗 Thus, at the risk of sounding like The Powerpuff Girls' intro, Auroch Digitale was born! Using its ultra hoppy powers, Auroch Digitale has dedicated its life to giving you a refreshing, real-life taste of one of our in-game recipes in Brewmaster, and what a fantastic collab it is! 😍
😸 Cutest pets in the biz 🐶
We're definitely a little bit (ok, a lottle bit) biased here when we say that Auroch Digital have the cutest pets in the industry. I mean, just look at this wall full of amazing characters. From rabbits, to dogs, and hedgehogs to cats, we mean it when we say we have the cutest companion animals around.
And that's lucky for you too, really. Because it means you'll be able to decorate your brewing space with these gorgeous creatures. You'll be able to find out who they are and a little bit about them when you choose which pictures to put up, so we're excited for you to learn a little bit of Auroch lore!
❓ You asked for help, we answered with our tutorial ❗
We heard you, the demo needed a little bit of explaining to do. So we got straight to work on making a really user-friendly tutorial for you to follow in the game when it's been released.
It's got tips, arrows, and exclamation points for you to really understand what you need to be doing. Not sure what hops are used for? No worries - the tutorial will explain this for you. Can't find where something might be kept, the cupboard or the fridge? Follow that exclamation mark and arrow! Easy.
You'll be able to learn all of the tricks of the trade early on and get to grips with the art of brewing with a wonderfully written guide. If you'd rather just play about and have a go and fail as often as you like, you can skip the tutorial too!
😲 Last chance to play the demo! 😲
I know, at this point it feels like a staple in your Steam library to see the Brewmaster Demo just sitting there, chilling out. But this weekend is your last chance to play the demo. We're closing it at the end of July! Get those beers in this weekend 🍻