phubans
@phubans.bsky.social
Indie Game Developer, Lover of Cult Films and Vintage Anime https://madhouse.game/
🎉Excited to announce I've adapted Party House from UFO 50 into a physical card game! 🎉 Teaser trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHNF... Kickstarter prelaunch page (shared w/ a Baba is You game!): www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit... Brought to you by @bitewinggames.bsky.social More details soon! 🥳
Party House: The Deckbuilding Game — Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by Bitewing Games
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It's kind of staggering when I lay out every area I've developed for Act 1 -- the first half of MADHOUSE's Story Mode -- so far. This project was definitely over-scoped for a solo dev, but it's my passion and working on this game probably saved my life.
This is Clyde, one of the playable characters in MADHOUSE VS. I drew this in 5 minutes because I'm not an illustrator but you get the EYE-dea...
300 units sold on 1433 wishlists... a conversion rate that's honestly higher than it should be for a game with almost no marketing budget. MADHOUSE's VS mode has ~5 people playing daily, telling their friends, pulling in more. Small numbers, but it's the kind of slow-build I'm betting on.
MADHOUSE is getting a pretty slick Tournament Mode in the next update, which lets you run a tournament for up to 24 players. Check out this devlog where I go over the features and show you how to use it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRko...
MADHOUSE Tournament Mode Overview
YouTube video by phubans
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Call me crazy, but I feel like having a smaller, extremely dedicated fanbase of people that love your game is just as validating as having a popular game. My game in its current state has a 4~5 hour story campaign, but these players have gone well beyond that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zegF... GOLFARIA RAP, GOLFARIA RAP PREMIERING NOW
Golfaria: A Lyrical Walkthrough
YouTube video by glove
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With MADHOUSE tournaments becoming a regular thing, I decided to implement an in-game Tournament Mode that makes setting up tournaments a bit easier... but that starts with assigning players to teams. Previously the game only supported two teams, now there are 12. Which one would you be on?
Had a blast with yesterday's MADHOUSE Tournament, but then I came back a few hours later and was pleasantly surprised to see a bunch of people in the Discord doing some late night VS. I'm seeing more people playing this game in their free time, and that's an incredible feeling! #indiegame #indiedev
Another MADHOUSE VS TOURNAMENT is starting RIGHT NOW! Come and watch this game as it was truly meant to be played! #indiegame #tournament 🩸🩸🩸
Check out this triple kill I got off a single Sniper Rifle in MADHOUSE last night... Those players didn't even know what hit 'em 😄 #indiegame #pvp
There's a MADHOUSE Tournament streaming this Saturday, but we're still 5 players short of reaching 16. You don't need the game to participate, just a gamepad and a Steam account. You can win game codes and Steam gift cards! Please give me your strength! 😌🙏 #indiegame #gamedev #horrorgame #pvp
It's still not perfect but it's an improvement... Problem is, it looks better than everything else now! So I have to update those graphics, too 😅
I've been working on trying to redesign the treetops for MADHOUSE all day. I hate it. Making treetops is the single most difficult thing I've ever tried to do with pixel art. I've been at these for hours and this is the best I've got, and they still don't look completely right. Nightmarish!
Just finished playing through Paul's big update to MADHOUSE, which neatly concludes the first half of Story Mode. Had a lot of fun seeing it to its gruesome end, including all the over-the-top new characters, areas, and plot twists. If you were curious about it, now's a great time to try it! 🎃
phubans@phubans.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday is my birthday and I'm celebrating by launching the big story update that brings Act 1 to its epic conclusion! I crunched on this until 6 AM last night and sprinted through it today... but it's FINALLY HERE! Please enjoy and share this! store.steampowered.com/app/3727130/... #indiegame
My Top 15 TV Shows Ever: Peep Show The Office (UK) Inbetweeners Garth Marenghi's Darkplace The X-Files Twin Peaks The Twilight Zone Unsolved Mysteries Tales from the Darkside The Walking Dead Berserk Neon Genesis Evangelion Vision of Escaflowne Fist of the North Star Ping Pong Club
Chris Lewis Lee - available for work@chrislewislee.com · 3mo agoName your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Always sunny The Storyteller Red dwarf Wire in the Blood Jonathan Creek Band of Brothers Mushishi Black Mirror Peep show Spaced Death Note Luther Inside No.9 Moomins (1990) Regular Show 🤷♂️
Today is my birthday and I'm celebrating by launching the big story update that brings Act 1 to its epic conclusion! I crunched on this until 6 AM last night and sprinted through it today... but it's FINALLY HERE! Please enjoy and share this! store.steampowered.com/app/3727130/... #indiegame
This was an absolute blast. Thank you everyone that participated and showed up to watch. What an amazing tournament that was!
phubans@phubans.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe first ever online MADHOUSE Tournament is streaming live now, hosted by MazTech Gaming on Twitch & YouTube! Come and watch MADHOUSE in its true form -- the multiplayer Versus Mode! www.twitch.tv/maztech_gaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbE...
The first ever online MADHOUSE Tournament is streaming live now, hosted by MazTech Gaming on Twitch & YouTube! Come and watch MADHOUSE in its true form -- the multiplayer Versus Mode! www.twitch.tv/maztech_gaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbE...
www.twitch.tv/maztech_gaming and www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbE... is streaming live now with me co-hosting! Come see him play MADHOUSE live and later on, we're going to have a VS Tournament at 3 PM EST!
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🔴 LIVE: MADHOUSE 16-Man Tournament + Dev Interview! (Free Game Giveaways)
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Artist Takami Chuhei has rendered the entire MADHOUSE roster in these glorious illustrations! I am just floored by the work on display here, and it's so wonderful to see these characters brought to life in a more illustrative style! #art #indiegame #vsgame #horror #chibi
Turns out finding 16 people to play a game for free is a lot harder than you'd think! We've been stuck at 11 and this is going down tomorrow, but we don't have enough players for a proper tournament 😬
phubans@phubans.bsky.social · 3mo agoThere's a MADHOUSE VS Tournament livestreaming on Saturday, May 23rd at 3:00 PM EST! There's still a few spots left, so if you want to participate in this tournament, please sign up 🩸 docs.google.com/forms/d/1KBw...
We recently updated UFO 50 on Switch. This latest patch (v1.9.5) addresses some issues related to Japanese language, but also includes general fixes and optimizations. The Steam patch notes from 1.8.44 through 1.9.5 cover these changes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/114...
Derek Yu@mossmouth.bsky.social · 4mo agoFor UFO 50 players on Nintendo Switch, the latest update (v1.9), which adds Japanese, also includes a number of fixes and optimizations for existing players. The notes for Steam Patch v1.8.35 also cover the majority of these improvements on Switch: store.steampowered.com/news/app/114...
There's a MADHOUSE VS Tournament livestreaming on Saturday, May 23rd at 3:00 PM EST! There's still a few spots left, so if you want to participate in this tournament, please sign up 🩸 docs.google.com/forms/d/1KBw...
MADHOUSE features a cryptid hunting mini game where you snap photos of rarely encountered cryptids with a polaroid camera... Anybody recognize this one?
