B.U.G. Force

End of 2021 (and ‘Early access’)

Ryarnek — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 15:41:08 +0000

The game was published as ‘Early access’ 5th februar 2021 with 3 levels (bosses). One streamer tried the game the same evening and for us developers it was exciting to follow the progress for a completely new player of the game.

During mars we made som adjustments and added a 4th level (boss) to the game. But… we work with the game only on spare time, so of various reasons our work with the game halted during the summer period.

At the end of year we slowly started up again and precisely as 2020, a lot more was done during the weeks around christmas, now were planning for a release 2022-02-05, exactly one year later.
The release of the game is sort of a try to finalize the game and reach a goal we started run against as complete beginners a couple of years back.
What is interesting is that we still feel the game has something unique that we can give to the players that manage to get over the first tricky steps.

Big thanks to all who tried the game during 2021, we have learned a lot.
Since the aim in the game is the highscore, we have saved a top 3 from 2021 and the ‘Early access’ version of the game:

1	Mc Nugget	3846
2	Lego	1848
3	Nidysh	1099

We’re closer now…

Ryarnek — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:16:36 +0000

Obviously we did not manage to release the game 2020… although we’re on it.

Last weeks we have put some more fokus on the game. At the moment it is in a “beta” stage were we have it available on Steam for a few testers and we have three bosses in place and a end game mode.
We are half through the checklists and hope for a release at the beginning of Februar probably in form of an Early access since we have a vision of introducing more levels.

We stay true to our initial thoughts about the game. The game introduce a new way to play that have not been seen in other games (from what we know). It will be a challenge for new players but a reward for them who master the ship control, the physics and tactic for the game.
The game will be a challenge that will take time to master, but in a way were you for every misstake you do, also immeaditely know how you could have avoided it. And we really hope many will prove them self worthy as pilots.
And as back in time… If you crash, you crash hard!

We have also introduced three different difficulty levels. The highscore is the same although on easier levels, it will not be possible to climb all the way to the top.

Long time, no see!

Ryarnek — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 19:14:21 +0000

Lately we have done several changes:
– Multiplayer have been removed, but not forgotten. We feel that we need to get the single player version working first and so far, it looks promising!
– Restructured the lobby
– We have added power-ups, which makes the game more interesting for the player. Power-ups exists in forms of more bullets, health restoration and smart bombs. Just to mention it. Youth of today do not know what a smart bomb is…
– Progressive difficulty over time, based on player skill. The idea we have is that good players should early encounter more enemies, although in return have the possibility to get more points.
Afterall, the only thing that counts, is the position in the highscore!
– Added sound effects and music
– Improved ship control based on hours of play-testing
– The game is also registered on Steam, although not yet reachable for the public
– …and much, much more.
We are closing in on a release and it will be 2020!! For sure HTC Vive, we’re also hoping to support other platforms as well, but can’t promise anything yet.

B.U.G. Force at Steelgames 2018

Ryarnek — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 13:31:53 +0000

B.U.G. Force has, over two afternoons, been representing ‘The Great journey’ at ‘Steel games’ (steelgames.se), a LAN-party stretching over 48 hours with promising future potential. This was the second year Uddeholm (a multinational producer of high alloyed tool steel) arranged the party in Hagfors and over 100 gamers joined up.
In short, LAN-lovers not there really missed a very well arranged event!

After the SGC, we modified the game a bit and reseted the highscore due to new conditions. It´s now easier to find the ship (restructured the startpad among other things), the enemy AI has improved, making it slightly harder to hit them… which amused the AI-responsible… at least
…and of course a lot of other changes as well…

We also let all (young as well as “young in mind”) play in “god-mode” (no damage from dead objects). We want a difficult game, but those who try the game should have a fair chance to understand and get the grip.

A few persons managed to get one of our limited edition keyholders, congratulations to all of you. Also thanks to all for helping us understand what to do next!

GOLD:

Sagiiii
Degnus
prrrnils4

BRONZE:

UTCAS 4EVER
hugo
FELIX vinnare
Kimmm
Lincoln333

Sweden Game Conference and Sweden Game Festival 2018

Ryarnek — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 16:22:56 +0000

At SGC and SGF in Skövde on Thursday 18 October through Saturday 20 October, gamers could play a special version of B.U.G. Force and win cool, limited edition prices.

The gamers who won was as follows:

Gold:
HAMPUS

Silver:
Alex
Blair
edvin
moham

Brons:
BearHardt
Olle
gustavq
MATTIAS

Congrats to all of you from the B.U.G. Force team!

First embryo of a webpage for B.U.G. Force

Justfroeja — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 09:15:24 +0000

And so it has begun! The journey to release.

We are working on a space shooter game for VR and this is where we will be posting updates on the process towards releasing it.