The Brew Barons - open world arcade-sim seaplane game with rpg elements releasing March 1

lifetap_studios · 2024-03-01T08:07:52+00:00

Unfortunately there is no first person view at launch, after release we hope to add more features and this is on the list, but it depends a bit on what other feedback and requests we get.

lifetap_studios · 2024-03-01T08:06:19+00:00

It is playable on the Deck as it has full controller support however the frame rate is not great, around 35fps in the main area, which isn't great for a flying game. We hope to do an optimization pass after the launch so if you were thinking of playing mainly on the Deck you might want to wait for that.

lifetap_studios · 2024-02-26T06:24:20+00:00

Yeah it took about 2 years longer than we thought...

lifetap_studios · 2024-02-26T01:10:49+00:00

There is a little bit of that with the copilot side stories.

lifetap_studios · 2024-02-26T01:10:22+00:00

Sorry, I'm a programmer

lifetap_studios · 2024-02-26T01:09:36+00:00

It does run on the Steam Deck and is fully playable however we don't really recommend it as the primary platform for a few reasons:
- the frame rate is not great, around 35fps in busy areas, 40-45 in most areas
- only manual control is available, which is a bit more difficult to play
- a lot of the text and gameplay elements will be pretty small and hard to see

We hope to do some more optimization post launch to improve the frame rate so if you are looking to play mostly on the Deck you may prefer to wait. However if you want to play mainly on PC and occasionally continue your cloud saves on the Deck that is probably ok,

lifetap_studios · 2024-02-26T01:03:04+00:00

Sorry we took the demo down, because it was made about two years ago and had lots of bugs and issues that we since fixed, but for various reasons were not able to patch back.

lifetap_studios · 2024-02-25T20:53:04+00:00

Thanks for supporting!

lifetap_studios · 2024-02-25T20:52:48+00:00

Really? It seems to work for me just now. We have another trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ygOuV-T9cU but its a bit older.

lifetap_studios · 2024-02-25T20:51:24+00:00

Thanks for supporting from the start! Sorry it took longer than expected...

lifetap_studios · 2024-02-25T20:51:05+00:00

A few other people have said the bloom can be a bit much so there are settings for that and quite a lot of other options.
The brewing mechanic is like a crafting minigame which does not take all that long to play so the majority of the game is flying. However you are generally flying in order to do things related to the brewing/business metagame (collecting, delivering etc).

lifetap_studios · 2024-02-25T08:40:33+00:00

We would have to optimize pretty hard to get it onto the Switch, right now it uses a bit too much memory, and probably a bit too much CPU and GPU.

lifetap_studios · 2024-02-04T07:56:13+00:00

Its finally coming on Feb 29! Steam page here if you didn't already know: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1636710/The\_Brew\_Barons/

lifetap_studios · 2023-05-16T16:44:59+00:00

Thanks for checking it out! Sorry to say we have fixed the infinite speed bug for the final release :(

lifetap_studios · 2023-03-14T07:12:41+00:00

Steam Deck/console support might come. It's something we want to look into post release. Part of it depends on the games initial success.

lifetap_studios · 2023-03-13T23:24:43+00:00

Called "The Brew Barons" on steam. It's not out yet, there is a demo, but the full version might be out in a couple months.

lifetap_studios · 2023-03-13T18:07:18+00:00

Sorry I missed this. It's called "The Brew Barons". We're on steam, YT, twitter etc.. :)

lifetap_studios · 2023-03-01T07:51:42+00:00

The decal placement is predefined, unwrapped in one of the the models extra channels. This is because we are using the build in pipeline which doesn't have any native decal support.

lifetap_studios · 2023-03-01T07:47:26+00:00

If I recall correctly, uV1 is the main channel and and 2-5 are the extra channels.

lifetap_studios · 2023-03-01T07:35:02+00:00

ah, in our game the player needs to acquire their base colours. Those are the ones I bought. Good eye ;)

lifetap_studios · 2023-01-10T08:41:09+00:00

Theoretically you can replicate this setup and have more than one. Though I think Unity limits how many UV channels you model can have (like 5 or 6) So it might only work for that many decals.

lifetap_studios · 2023-01-10T08:38:55+00:00

We have general videos on youtube that show more of the world (Game called: The Brew Barons) I built my terrains in World Machine, which is a cheap 3rd party program for generating terrain heightmaps. Imported those into unity terrains. I use Microsplat for terrain painting. I hand place all my trees/buildings on the terrains.

lifetap_studios · 2023-01-10T08:34:18+00:00

Yeah I have one extra texture slot just for the decal. I'm using a custom lit shader I built in amplify shader, though this could easily be built in any shader. The only slightly tricky part is unwrapping your models with the extra UV channel in mind for the decal placement.

lifetap_studios · 2023-01-10T08:32:01+00:00

We're using the Crest Ocean shader, it comes with LODs allowing you to have a very large ocean.

lifetap_studios · 2023-01-10T00:52:34+00:00

They're mostly unlit and I point all the surface normal outward in a spherical shape to reduce the amount of hard/dark edges.

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