Kraken Academy!! News

LudoNarraCon is taking place April 23 - 26, and Kraken Academy is exhibiting!

You can tune into the gameplay stream right here on the Steam page, at 10am PT Friday April 23 / 7pm CET Friday April 23

About the stream:
The Happy Broccoli developers playthrough Kraken Academy, whilst talking about their time developing the game

To learn more about LudoNarraCon, visit the LudoNarraCon website

Hello and welcome to the March edition of the Academy Newsletter! This is what we’ve been working on this month!

Development
Annika has been writing the dates! This means you will be able to take Broccoli Girl to the newly opened water park, go with Simona to the movies and take Vladimir out to a market fair.
(This is how Broccoli Girl looks like in a swimsuit :D)


We also finished writing the side quests and we really love how they’ve come together, can’t wait to show them to the world!!
There will be an unusual family reunion, an uprising of the machines and you’ll have to help write a love letter, just to name a few.


Joni has implemented the final scenes of the game, including the final boss battles and has been pottering about the Drama club, fixing up things here and there.
Sneak peek of the Drama Club area:




Character Intros

This month we’ve introduced Ana and the Player’s Mom!

Ana is a clumsy art student who makes sculptures. She loves her grandma very much and writes her letters every week. She’s voiced by Lizzie Freeman!



The player’s mom is a single mother. Although she does her best, you can tell that your sister is the favourite child. She takes care of your belongings while you're away in boarding school, which results in her selling half of your N69 games and comics. Voiced by Nola Klop!



Merch

After being stuck in customs for over 3 weeks, the Broccoli Girl pins have finally arrived!!! There will be a chance to win one closer to release, join our Discord if you want to know more :D




We started sending merch to all collaborators in the game: voice over actors, artists, etc. Our printer stopped working so we had to label every envelope by hand D: was a lot of fun though!




Casting call

We just announced our latest casting call!!
This time our open roles range from lovely grandma to vampire drama teacher :D

You can apply here until the 7th of April.



Events

We’re part of IWOCon which is now live until the 2nd of April, and it’s been so much fun so far!!

Oh and we were also nominated for the Valencia Indie Awards :)

So much going on at the moment!! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Discord for the latest news! :D

• Wishlist Kraken Academy!! on Steam
• Sign up for the Fellow Traveller mailing list

Hello!!! Welcome to the first Academy Newsletter, where each month we bring you the latest news and updates on your new school, Kraken Academy! 2021 has been a super exciting year so far!! Last month we announced that we’ve partnered up with the awesome people at Fellow Traveller to publish Kraken Academy!!

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To celebrate, we answered a few questions on Discord, you can watch the Q&A on YouTube if you missed it:

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Development

Earlier this month we finished the Sports & Drama quests and started on the boss fights. Annika has mainly been focused on the animations (sooo many animations! :D) and Joni has been hooking up the different phases and polishing! We want to make sure the bossfight is epic and has a satisfied ending. Here's some of the battle stages we can show you without revealing too much!





We’ve also started on localisation, with German, French and Simplified Chinese (for now), and did some brainstorming for the side quests.


Store page

Check our updated & shiny store page!


Casting

After receiving over 900 applications on our latest casting call, we’ve found 7 new voices for some of our characters:

Amanda Parker as Patitsa
Jessica Spencer as Marin
Shiena as Yuki
Sean Chiplock as Jean
Joshua Cookingham as the Cafeteria Lord
Brendan Blaber as both the Janitor and Ivan
and Brian David Gilbert as the player character and Mr Whistler!!




Merch

More cool news!!! We’ve ordered a bunch of awesome merch, check it out!

• Kawaii stickers by @pixelcr0wn
  
  
  
• Redbubble shop: prints, stickers and pins already available
  
  
• Broccoli girl plushies! Keep an eye out for a chance to win one later on :)
  
  
  
• More stuff coming soon!
  

Join us on Discord, Twitter and Instagram for more updates!

• Wishlist Kraken Academy on Steam
• Sign up for the Fellow Traveller mailing list

It's time to go back to school! We're excited to announce we have partnered with Fellow Traveller as the publisher of Kraken Academy! 🎉

Fellow Traveller is an indie games label, focusing on narrative games. You may know them from some of their games, including Paradise Killer, Orwell, In Other Waters and Neo Cab.

To celebrate the announcement we'll be streaming the demo of Kraken Academy, right here on Steam, at 10am PT / 7pm CET Jan 13! Come hang out and get a taste of what Kraken Academy is all about.

We'll also be hosting a Discord Q&A in our Discord, at 1am PT / 10am CET Jan 13, so you can find out more about us and the game. Join the Discord here!

Check out the schedule below!



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Welcome to Kraken Academy, a technicolor fever dream that for legal reasons can only be described as "technically a school."

Make friends, free spirits and make sure that the world doesn’t end!

Join forces with a magical kraken to manipulate a time loop and save the world.

Get ready for band practice with your new best friend, Broccoli Girl, and play the Kraken Academy demo on Steam, available for a limited time until January 17!

Wishlist Kraken Academy on Steam!

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Follow us to keep up to date with Kraken Academy:

• Happy Broccoli Twitter
• Happy Broccoli Instagram
  
• Kraken Academy Discord
  
• Fellow Traveller Twitter
• Fellow Traveller Discord

We've made some neat updates to our game over Autumn.

We just couldn't wait to release them so we've transferred over some of the awesomeness to the steam demo!

Our fantastic sound designer, Damion, began work so some of his amazing sound effects are now in -Hinges on doors have been oiled and now sound extra smooth, along with a bunch of new, crunchy sfx!

We're slowly overhauling the user interface for the game from it's current dark theme, to a much more colourful and stripped down look - it's only in progress, but it brings a lot of life to the game already. We'd love to know what you think!

We're participating in IndieX, Portugal's biggest indie game showcase and we'll be streaming the game at midday CEST on Friday 13th as part of the event. Come say hi here: http://ow.ly/s0Mc50CiAni

Have a great weekend

Annika & Joni