Beers and Boomerangs — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| 🎉🍺 Cheers to 1 Year of Boomerangs & Beers! 🍺🎉 | 2023-11-22 | It's time to get amped for our birthday update! 🗓️ 🦘 Get Ready for Hard Mode: Kangaroo Mayhem! Things are going wild! Hard mode is turning up the kangaroo chaos. Defend your brews from these crazy kangaroos – it's a boomerang showdown like never before! 🌴 Chill Out in Zen Mode: BBQ and Relax! Need a breather? Zen mode is your jam. Take it easy, cook up some grub for your mates, and practice your boomerang skills on laid-back cardboard kangaroos. It's like target practice, Aussie style. 🎥 Peek at the Fun! Check out the sneak peek to see what's in store: And there's more good news! We've slashed the price of the game to just $4.99. Thanks f |
| Santa Hats and Small fixes - 1.0.2 | 2022-12-16 | This week we added a Santa hat to the baby roos that will stay around until the 28th We also did some minor fixes on some dodgy colliders' funny letters/accents. We worked like hell this year, this Christmas we will take it a bit easy. Keep an eye out for us in this winter sale! Who knows what Santa brings! |
| Easy mode + New boomerangs - Update | 2022-12-03 | We are releasing ✨ 1.0.1✨! Features: - Added "easy" mode!! The game was a tad hard, so we made it easier so you can share it with your non-VR-expert friends - Added a 🧑🍳 Spatula and a 🔫 Gun Boomerang as rewards for reaching Wave 20 in the arcade Improvements: - Increased time until drinks start warming up from 5 secs to 8 secs - Updated the game icon - Added extra clue to how to select a boomerang skin -> put them in your pockets! - Make boomerangs not flop when touching each other -> Dual throwing is way better now! - Make "beers lost display" transparent when the player is nearby - Improve menu buttons so you don't have to aim as much - |
| BEERS AND BOOMERANGS IS OUT!!!11! | 2022-11-22 | |
| DEVELOPER STREAM | 2022-10-03 | Hey! We will be streaming 1 of our 2 devs playing the game and talking about development. Try the demo!! |
| Dev struggling and talking | 2022-10-03 | Hey! We will be streaming 1 of our 2 devs playing the game and talking about development. Try the demo!! |
| Beers and Boomerangs Releasing on November 10th! | 2022-10-01 | |
| Steam VR Fest | 2022-07-18 | Join us! |
| Demo Update and Beta Testing | 2022-07-15 | This week we have DEMO NEWS: We added to the demo all the nice stuff in the full game that you can still enjoy only by playing the demo. Stuff like: New Original Music, Main Menu Toys FlipFlip/Thong Boomerangs ------ The T H O N G Improved Voice Acting, Improved Grabbing Mechanics Accessibility Options Bug Fixes Support in Spanish, Portuguese and French FULL GAME NEWS: We are adding new languages We fixed a very old annoying bug where the boomerang would sometimes not come back We are having businessy talks with publishers Improved some animations Changed some difficulty balancing the game BETA TESTING NEWS: We are doing it soon, join our dis |
| May DevLog - Homerun a Kangaroo | 2022-06-03 | We made a vlog about our last month of development! Among other stuff we: 🎮 Rebalanced 2 boss fights 💼 Failed to make a company 😛 But we should nail it soon. "Witty Platypus" is an official studio approved name! 🧐 Did a lot of project management 🅱️ Planed all features and scope until we get a Beta version. We will be on the lookout for beta testers in... Mid of July! Stay tuned 🐛 🕷️ 🦗 Kept on fixing bugs and improving the quality of the game 🏹 Started reworking the campaign mode. Right now the losing conditions were a bit messy, so we will rework a lot of stuff so it's obvious for players what is "winning" and what is "losing" 🍞 Rew |
| April News | 2022-05-06 | We did stuff in April yo. Check them out! Voice acting, Accessability, playtesting, arcade? wow. so much stuff |
| Week 63 Update - Cooking arcade, icons and accessibility. | 2022-04-09 | Hey! Highlights of the week: * Kinda finished the cooking arcade (95%) * Made some new icons for the requests * Play tested and balanced the arcade * Fixed tons of bugs -Made the table and beer box height adjustable for people with different heights and movement restrictions (accessibility is cool kids) Have a nice weekend! |
| Dev Week 62 | 2022-04-04 | Highlights of the week: Inês is now working full-time on the game!! This means that we finally have one smart person in the team👍 🖌️ You can sign your spot on the leaderboard with a drawing now - I think I have never seen a leaderboard like that before. So we are kinda happy about it 🙂 🥏 Added a Frisbie Boomerang 🧑🍳 Kept the work on the cooking arcade (25% done) 🗣️ wrote the lines for Voice actors DID A VLOG ABOUT IT! Have a nice week |
| Week ... 60? Update - BTW do you read this? | 2022-03-19 | This week there was work... so much work: - Finished (-ish) the hand shader - Added a colour picker to the main menu - Added nice animations to the leaderboards - Improved Cooking arcade mechanics - Added a bloody cork hat for the lulz, but ended up taking like 3 full days of work :stuck_out_tongue: (and it's not even perfect, god damn it) You can see a video on our Reddit or Discord |
| Women's Day Stream! | 2022-03-07 | We be streaming! Join us! |
| Long time no talk! Dev Update | 2022-03-07 | Hey! We didn't write anything on Steam for a while. Lots of stuff has been developed in the meantime, here is a list: We did a ton of levels for the campaign 3 of those levels are boss fights Added Melee weapons (still figuring out where to have them in the game) Added an endless arcade mode Added a holy cloud that gives you a vegemite sandwich power up lots of other stuufff! Join us on Discord or something, I dunno We are also joining Women's Day Steam Event today (7th March). That's cool. Either ways, there are features to implement and bugs to fix. See you around! |
| Added LIV (XR!) integration and improved food grabbing | 2021-12-10 | There is a lot of minor adjustments, but the big stuff is: You can stream in XR! Your hands will no longer get stuck in the plate with the burger There's a new watch that allows you to restart and quit levels |
| Added Voices to friends and quality of life improvement | 2021-11-12 | Players were having a hard time understanding why our friends refused their beers and burgers. Now the friends will complain about why are they not taking any of it! Also did some bug fixes and improvements in quality of life :) Level 2 is more balanced and a bit easier Boomerangs were not making any sound when returning after hitting an enemy Skin selector no longer require your hand to hover over the aura Other minor stuff Thanks Inês and Douglas 'Technal' Bicker for the Voice Acting! |
| Demo adjustments! | 2021-09-30 | The Skin selector was a bit hidden, so we made it pop Level 1 is a bit more challenging for people who are good at taking care of roos fast (but not harder for people that struggle with it -> programming!) When you mess up the cooking we now make a sound and tell you who did you mess it up! You have a watch to know how much time is left so you don't have to find the bird! Manual height and waist adjustment More quality of life features will come for the full game! worry not Cheers! Diogo and Inês |
| Free Demo for Steam NextFest until the 8th of Ausgust | 2021-09-23 | A demo of the game is now available! Mess around with boomerangs and god forbid if you let a kangaroo ruin your BBQ! Have fun! (feeling cute, may leave it until the end of the weekend) |
| Patching the Demo! | 2021-09-16 | Some super friendly beta testers are playing the game and we are trying to fix it. I thought this was a cool time to experiment with minor patch notes :) |
| B&B Dev being terrible at his own game | 2021-09-03 | The main developer of Beers and Boomerangs will play the demo, make development commentaries and have a QA about the game |
| Dev being terrible at his own game | 2021-09-03 | The main developer of Beers and Boomerangs will play the demo, make development commentaries and have a QA about the game |