Today we'll tell you about the game we had the pleasure of creating this year. We wanted to break away a bit from Hank's dark vibe and try our hand at something more fun and perhaps a bit goofy, and that's how Tales From The Arcade: Fartmania came to be.
The plan was great at first, but very quickly there was such a... small... tiny... problem. We had absolutely no experience with platformer games. We had to re-test new mechanics and solutions, we often got lost and that's why it took us a little over... a year to produce the whole thing. Yeah. We know, it's a bit long for a simple platformer.
However, we wanted everything to be in it as we had planned. We decided that our project needs that extra time. In the end we are satisfied with the result. While playing Fartmania, you take on the role of Pinky, a little piglet with a farting problem. The whole village makes fun of him, but soon the inhabitants are kidnapped by aliens, and the only person who can save them is Pinky. The player must watch out for spikes, rescue the pigs, collect beans and finally defeat the aliens with his unusual powers.
We published the first version of the game for free on Newgrounds, GameJolt and other such sites. We wanted to see what players felt about it and whether our game is simply fun to play. The results exceeded our wildest expectations, as Fartmania was fired up more than tens of thousands of times, the feedback was also very favorable, so we refined the game, fixed bugs and then it was time for the real launch. We chose Steam and Nintendo Switch as the target media, because we like Nintendo Switch, and we always wanted Fartmania to be available on Nintendo Switch. It was a bit of “fun” to do this, because Nintendo's policies are terribly convoluted, but in the end everything worked out and Fartmania is now available in almost all regions of the world on Switch.
For the launch on Steam, we even held a contest in which the person with the highest demo highscore had the opportunity to become... an in-game character! The fight was fierce, but in the end the player with the nickname WikVenture won, and this is how his character, which you can meet in the game, looks!
A few months after its release, Fartmania sold in... 75 copies on Steam. After 900 wishlists. And 165 copies on Nintendo Switch overall. Whether that's a lot or a few, that's a question you can answer for yourselves, we are quite satisfied with this result and would definitely commit in this madness once again if given the chance.
As I said, Tales From The Arcade: Fartmania is now available on both Steam and Nintendo Switch, if you'd like to check it out for yourself you'll find a link to the game below, show it to your friends and compete with them for highest highscore, and remember: never give up. See ya!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2883610/Tales_From_The_Arcade_Fartmania/