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...
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 ...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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...
One of the big pieces of feedback I've received on the demo is a desire to actually be able to take your own selfie at the point in the game when Cindy (the main character) takes a selfie of the "welcome to Puzzleburg" sign. As such, I've released a new version of the demo that allows you to do just that. Here are the n...
I'm pleased to announce that A Weekend in Puzzleburg will be including in the Steam Next Fest October 3 - October 10. Here is info about the festival and A Weekend in Puzzleburg's participation. In addition, the game's title track will go on sale on iTunes and Amazon on October 3 to coincide with the start of the Steam...
It brings me great joy to announce that the demo for A Weekend in Puzzleburg has been released on Steam here (full URL below), so now anybody and everybody can play the beginning of the game for free.In the demo, you have free reign of the town of Puzzleburg with no time limits. The main quest typically takes people abo...
