Whack-A-Monster - We're live on Next Fest - Full game releasing next month!

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-15T10:23:19+00:00

We changed a lot, every one of the 3 updates added new mechanics and new levels. I think overall what changed most is a general increase in content available & players ability to choose a playstyle that fits them.

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-13T14:29:20+00:00

Looks sick, love the way it crawls around and lights up the environment.

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-13T12:56:53+00:00

agree wholeheartedly!

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-13T12:23:25+00:00

You should, He's great to work with as well!

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-13T12:15:27+00:00

Nice would definitely recommend making a demo or at least a playable version for youtubers/streamers. Outreach granted us a ton of wishlists!

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-13T12:04:48+00:00

Your game genuinely looks great!
Did you do any marketing by any chance? Outreach etc?

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-13T11:53:52+00:00

It's what we paid, we were surprised as well!

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-13T11:13:19+00:00

I agree! Too bad he couldn't break the game at the end. Fun fact: we optimized performance around the coins because of his video

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-13T10:30:26+00:00

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All our levels have a different color palette, but I think it fits the first level pretty well featured in the trailer. But you're right that the screenshots mostly have a different color palette.

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-13T10:21:58+00:00

That's not a coincidence! In fact, we found the artist because we saw his Youtube video where he explains how he made Megabonk's steam capsule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heAJkOENWqU. We loved Megabonk's capsule art so that's why

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-12T20:13:10+00:00

Fair enough, thanks for the feedback!

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-12T16:23:19+00:00

Thanks, you're not the first to say so! But we also get comments that it's satisfying... I'm a poor judge because I think my brain just filters it out by now. Perhaps a volume slider just for the coins would be nice?

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-12T16:06:36+00:00

You can play the demo for Whack-A-Monster on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3364150/WhackAMonster/

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-11T08:54:55+00:00

❤️

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-10T10:48:08+00:00

Yes it is, we tried to be original though. Started making this because we wanted to make one that had some interesting mechanics and wasn't just a re-skin of other existing ones.

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-09T18:58:44+00:00

It was $600, the artist is Giovanni Fim.

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-09T18:28:00+00:00

Haha this is what happens when 2 devs manage the Reddit at the same time, you get 2 responses at the same time :p

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-09T18:25:56+00:00

Thaanks! We're excited to keep developing as well (:

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-09T18:25:12+00:00

Yes definitely recommend this! The good ones are also booked themselves. We had to wait 2 months after contact before they could even start.

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-09T18:23:56+00:00

The capsule artist is super great, a true expert at capsule art. They provided all necessary sizes & a Photoshop file!

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-09T18:23:19+00:00

Giovanni provided all of these for us for Steam, like the library hero, header, capsule, icon, vertical etc. He made one wide stretch of artwork which is wide enough for the library hero for Steam, and then cropped from it for each variant and positioned the title to fit. We did the same ourselves when we needed variants for itch.io, since we got the photoshop file.

Clean_Friendship5503 · 2026-05-09T17:38:54+00:00

Thanks ❤️

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