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...
As it seems that Twitter may be on its last legs, I figured I should do a write-up of where else you can follow the progress of A Weekend in Puzzleburg (and future games from Sunny Demeanor Games). Hopefully, this can also serve as a useful guide for keeping up with any other indie games you may be interested in. Here ...
A Weekend in Puzzleburg will cost $18 at launch ($20 normal price with a 10% launch discount to reward early players). I would like to emphasize that with A Weekend in Puzzleburg, you're not buying a video game so much as you're buying an entire vacation. One that you can play over and over again whenever you want, get...
Yes, the fictional town of Puzzleburg is inspired by a wide variety of (mostly coastal) cities and locations across the United States. Here is a sampling:Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Catalina Island (all are island communities, like Puzzleburg)Los Angeles (Venice Beach)San Francisco (Fisherman's Wharf)
Wilmington,...
I expect that a first playthrough of A Weekend in Puzzleburg will take about four hours. The exact amount of time will of course differ for each person based on how many side quests you do, how quickly you read the on-screen text, and many other factors, but the general idea is that this is not some 100+ hour RPG. This...
A Weekend in Puzzleburg will not contain achievements. I've spent quite a bit of time thinking about what achievements I would put in the game if the game was to include achievements and whether giving players extrinsic motivation through achievements even fits the game. I came up with a few different varieties of achi...
I hope everyone had a great Steam Next Fest. I thought I would use this week's blog post as a round-up of news and coverage regarding A Weekend in Puzzleburg coming out of the Steam Next Fest.
First up, two pieces of news from my end:
1. I would like to announce that the demo for A Weekend in Puzzleburg remains availa...
Now that A Weekend in Puzzleburg is pretty far along in development, I took a moment to sit down and do some math on just how many different ways your weekend in Puzzleburg can play out.
And the number I came up with is 181,440. Here's the breakdown:
7 job classes X 3 books to read X 10 hair color choices X 2^5 for m...
Roughly three months ago, I wrote a blog post about how I thought that A Weekend in Puzzleburg would be a great fit for the Steam Deck. This was before I got my hands on a Steam Deck and was pure speculation on my part based on what I knew about my game and what I knew at the time about the Steam Deck. Recently, I was ...
If you've been craving to see more of A Weekend in Puzzleburg in action beyond just what's in the demo, then I have a treat for you. I just uploaded a one-hour long developer playthrough of A Weekend in Puzzleburg to YouTube that takes you from arrival on Friday all the way through the end of the day on Friday. This me...
In the previous post, there was a lot of news to announce for A Weekend in Puzzleburg (release date announcement, new trailer, etc.). Buried toward the bottom was the fact that the game's title track "I Spent a Weekend in Puzzleburg," which can be heard on the title screen of the demo, is now available for pre-order on ...
I've just released a new trailer for A Weekend in Puzzleburg to the company YouTube page titled "The Puzzles of Puzzleburg." After releasing the first trailer titled "Scenes Around Puzzleburg," I received feedback that people were interested in seeing more of the puzzles in the game (the game does take place in a town c...
