[WIP] The Bug Butcher - Game

Hello fellow devs,

We are two hard working dudes who escaped the heavens of Blizzard to found our own company:
www.awfullynicestudios.com

If you would like to follow our development process you can do so here:
https://www.facebook.com/awfullynicestudios
https://twitter.com/_AwfullyNice_

We are happy (and slightly proud) to introduce you our first game in development:

We are aiming for a release on Steam first (around April hopefully) and on mobile devices after that.
The game is developed with Unity and the 2D Toolkit plugin. All animations are hand drawn in flash
and then imported as sprites in Unity.


Here are some first impressions:

 

looks really good, nice animations! any screens of a small level?

 

Wow, these are really beautiful! Just pushed the "Watch thread" button

 

Here is a first look at some ingame footage that demonstrates all the weapons in the game:

 

looks cool, im curious , whats the number of frames per second u use for the animated sprites? 6?

 

@Mister D Thanks... it depends on the Asset... but most of the animations are done in 12FPS.

 

modern take of pang.

looks tidy.

 

Let it rain gold:

 

Our Game is coming to Early Access this coming monday 20th July 2015.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/350740/

 

The artwork and gameplay in this project look incredible! Just 2 guys? Nice work!

These kind of games almost inspire me to make a 2d game... almost

 

Thanks @Serinx .
If some indie devs could support us through thunderclap that would be amazing:
https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/27363-the-bug-butcher?locale=en

Here is another quick teaser:

 

Great art and the gameplay looks solid. Good job on this! It looks great

 

I can't tell if the little guy in the background is laughing, crying or stuffing his face.

 

Ha ha... so true

 

Hello fellow devs:
We wanted to share with you our Early access release trailer:

The game is currently in Early Access state. If you would like to check it out:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/350740/

 

Wow - I thought I commented on this thread a long time ago. I guess I just trolled and admired the top shelf art.
Great job guys. Really beautiful work.

The one thing I noticed is it seems to be a pretty tight arena where the action takes place. Right?
And the other thing I noticed is the guy pretty much runs around shooting up the entire time.
Please correct any misconceptions I have.

It's a little disappointing when I could really see this as a great 2D sci-fi action successor to the original (best) two metroid games. But maybe you can build upon what this game sets up.

To end on a positive note - I like your use of funny in everything. Even the evil aliens are comical looking. Just great.
Funny=money.

 

I was so happy to hear my favorite artist playing in the trailer (TSFH is AWESOME!)

I would really love to try the game out but alas I dont have steam , so I will have to wait for the IOS/Andriod release (any date for that yet?).

Maybe I just suck at art but to make those graphics would take me years , they just look so cool.

And as @theANMATOR2b said "funny = money", which I would agree with

 

@theANMATOR2b thanks for your suggestion. We hear you.
The main reason why we can only shoot vertical is that we wanted to try and stay somewhat true to the original arcade game "Pang!" where we got our core mechanics from.

@RavenOfCode We need to finish the steam version first which is still about 2 month off. According to it's sales we have to make descisions first which platfrom makes sense next.

Checkout some Let's players getting mad at the game.