Next Tuesday Marks the 1-Year Anniversary of Beef Cat Ultra!
This has been such a fun game to develop and release, and then subsequently work on again for the console release. Things have been quiet here while other projects took our attention but just in time for the 1 Year Anniversary, a massive sweeping 2.0 patch is dropping for Beef Cat Ultra!
Let me set the stage on what to expect:
No new content! This is important to get out of the way to manage expectations. But every single stage, item, enemy - everything has been revisited. Visual stage improvements, sweeping balancing and difficulty curve adjusting, loads of quality of life changes. If you are a longtime player, you'll appreciate some clean up and polish. The goal here though is to polish the game really nice for new players.
The start of the game has been made much more accessible in how the difficulty is doled out and new modes are introduced. It's not that the game is easier, the starting stages are just designed a little smarter to help communicate objectives without explicit guidance. The kind of stuff that's only possible as a game dev gits gud so to speak and I've learned a lot the past year.
More legible text in areas, a more on-brand title screen, kill counters in stages with achievements tied to kill counts, traps that spawn world appropriate hazards, less spongey enemies, less punishing iFrames, a less dramatic final world difficulty spike. No joke, every single inch of the game has been evaluated with a year's worth of feedback taken into consideration.
This 2.0 Anniversary Patch is a celebration for this project, our first console release, and our largest release to date. Marketing a game is hard and we know we have an audience still to find and making sure the experience is as smooth as possible is what we want.
For those that have been here since the start, thank you. Seriously. We are so excited that anyone played our game to be honest. If you have not left a review, please help us out and drop one. Or share the game with a friend. We want to continue making Beef Cat Ultra the best game it can be.
The 2.0 Anniversary Patch launches next Tuesday. September 23rd.
And for folks wondering what's next in our collection - stay tuned for our next videogame release later this year.
-Kyle