I can SMELL da MILK
The game is imminently launching next week Wednesday! I can hardly believe the time has almost arrived to unleash these 2 underpanted bald children onto an unsuspecting public. It's been a rewarding journey of learning to get to this point, and I'm thrilled that it's almost over the finish line and into an audience's mouse-clicking paws.
Bru & Boegie: Episode 1 Steam NextFest Summary
Steam NextFest recently ended, and Bru & Boegie: Episode 1 - Get da MILK! took part in it. The game performed well; it got a bunch of new wishlists and new eyes on the game, and it's somehow broken into the SteamDB charts with its wishlist activity. I discovered a service called RoboStreamer that let me stream a looping broadcast of playthrough videos that myself and 3 others (with their permission) had made, to the game's page for a couple of days during NextFest, which was cool.
Disabling the Episode 1 Demo
I've decided to disable the Episode 1 Demo on the 28th Oct - the day before launch. I may bring it back for special occasions, but for the foreseeable future it'll be disabled, and the Steam version will be the only way to play the full game.
Spanish? Sí!
A fantastic individual who found my game on Reddit kindly offered to do a full Spanish translation of the game, and lo - she did! Now the game (from v1.25, the version that will be available at launch) is translated into both Chinese AND Spanish, hopefully broadening the reach of the game. Very cool! Thank you to Cristina Castany, I'm super grateful that she reached out.💥
In other news
Bru & Boegie: Episode 2 - Get da SUGAR! is coming along well. It's been taking up the lion's share of my time. I've done quite a bit of front-loading / vertical progress, testing and figuring out new systems, and had enough in place recently to start making some good horizontal progress as I move towards building out an entertaining internal and then public demo for the game. My buddy Sheldon Bengtson did a fantastic punch-up pass on the script.
🫡 Friends, this Episode 1 launch is a prescient moment for both myself and Bru & Boegie. Bru & Boegie is a project I started over 20 years ago - we've been through ups and downs, they've appeared in various comic books and animated shorts, and a broadcast company with a mouse as a mascot once briefly had rights to Bru & Boegie for an animated show (that did not work out well). This is the first time I'm launching a project on Steam, and I'm beyond thrilled it's Bru & Boegie's own videogame! 🧘♂️✨Please enjoy this moment with me.✨🧘♂️
To celebrate the lead-up to the launch, I made a long video update about ALL things Bru & Boegie, linked below for your viewing and listening pleasure: View game page