Ahead of Steam Next Fest and the Kickstarter campaign both starting October 9, 2023, I have uploaded a 15-minute developer playthrough of the spy thriller interactive novel There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight to YouTube here: https://youtu.be/G7pHf_t5gZs
This developer playthrough contains 2 of the 11 chapters from...
It's doubtful that There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight will be translated/localized into other languages. The game is entirely text-based, so it would be a lot of words to translate, and there is a lot of humor, which increases the difficulty of translating the game to other languages.
As a result, all efforts are...
That's right - there will be a Kickstarter campaign for the spy thriller There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight launching October 9, 2023. Here are all the details so you know exactly what to expect when the Kickstarter launches.Q: What is the Kickstarter for? Just the game or something else?
A: The Kickstarter is t...
Ahead of the Steam Visual Novel Festival running 8/7-8/14, here are some major announcements for the spy thriller interactive novel There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight:
A new free demo is available right now with the following updates: (a) contains 5 out of the 11 chapters from the full game (the previous demo had ...
For now, There’s Always a Madman: Fight or Flight is only slated to release on Steam. I do feel that the game would play well on console, but at this time, all efforts are focused on the Steam version of the game.
This decision may be revisited in the future, however.
If you wish to take on this mission and save the w...
There’s Always a Madman: Fight or Flight is played by making decisions on how you want your character to proceed. To do so, you can play using only the mouse, as you need only hover over the option you wish to select and then click to choose it. You can alternatively make these selections with a video game controller i...
James Bond, Jason Bourne, Jack Reacher, and Jack Ryan all started off in text format with novels. As such, I believe this is the right move for this project - as they say, the book is always better, so I think a more book-like experience works here. Although There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight has similarities to ...
It's simple - I believe there are not enough great spy games out there. Sure, there are plenty of games where you shoot 100 enemies each level and do a few spy things along the way, but I want to make a true spy game - a game where the main character carries a gun and is empowered to kill when necessary but largely uses...
There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight now officially has a free demo you can play. And it plays well on Steam deck with one small tweak.
I've done some initial testing for There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight on the Steam Deck, and I'm happy to report that the game plays well with the "Mouse Only" layout (config...
There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight now has a Kickstarter pre-launch page! And it's the ONLY way to get your name in the game's credits or to have a character in the game named after YOU.Sign up now for free to be notified when the Kickstarter campaign launches later this year: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
I'm very happy to announce my next game - a spy thriller interactive novel titled There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight. It will be coming to Steam in Q1 2024. And a demo will release on Steam later this week on June 15th.You can wishlist the game on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2390500/Theres_Alwa...
I'm happy to announce that Sunny Demeanor Games now has a developer page on Steam, where you can find all games I make and "follow" to receive notifications wherever a new game from Sunny Demeanor Games launches:https://store.steampowered.com/developer/SunnyDemeanorGames
Why set up a developer page now?
I'll be announc...
Starting on May 1st, A Weekend in Puzzleburg will be part of a new game bundle on Steam called the "Document Your Journey" bundle.
What the bundle includes:A Weekend in PuzzleburgWe the Refugees: Ticket to EuropeWhy bundle these games together?
We the Refugees: Ticket to Europe is an interactive fiction game with comic...
In A Weekend in Puzzleburg, there's a built-in hint system for completing every quest in the game (just talk to the hotel concierge Dante, and he can point you in the right direction for any step of any quest), but how can you know if you've FOUND/STARTED every side quest in the game?You'll of course come across every ma...
Tomorrow 2/24 brings the one-week mark since A Weekend in Puzzleburg launched on 2/17 (and with it, the end of the launch discount, so if you haven't already grabbed a copy, go do it here). As such, I figure I should do a recap of launch week. Here we go:1. A Weekend in Puzzleburg, its soundtrack, and a deluxe version ...
A Weekend in Puzzleburg is now only 24 hours from release on Steam (Steam page here), so to celebrate, I'm running a stream of the game's first hour on the store page. This is a developer playthrough with commentary straight from me - the developer. And it includes content NOT in the demo (e.g. getting your hair dyed a...
With A Weekend in Puzzleburg now less than three weeks from release, this is a good time to reflect on how I think the game turned out before the reviews start coming in and influence my perspective. So these are my own thoughts now that the game is complete (save for some playtesting and bug fixing) before putting it o...
With 2023 now upon us, I figure this is as good a time as any to take stock of what I accomplished with Sunny Demeanor Games and A Weekend in Puzzleburg in 2022, as well as to share what I can about what's in store for 2023. Without further adieu, here are the main accomplishments for 2022:
Early May 2022 - Lau...
I am thrilled to announce that A Weekend in Puzzleburg has passed Valve's certification checks and can be considered to have "gone gold" roughly two months ahead of its release on Friday February 17, 2023 (for reference, "going gold" generally means when a game starts being physically printed onto discs, which typically ...
If you've played the demo for A Weekend in Puzzleburg, then you may have noticed that the splash screen when starting up the game says, "A Game by Adam L Bernstein" (indicating it's been made by a man) but you play the game as a woman named Cindy. Might seem a bit strange at first.
When making this game, I realized tha...
