Beat Rush News

Hey everyone!

For quite some time, I was working on most of Ongakken's projects, as on the company itself, alone. It was fun, but it was also exhausting. I was looking for a graphics design expert for some time, and some time ago, I finally found one!

Which is why today, I'd like to welcome Patrick, Ongakken's new partner, and graphics designer.
I did a few gigs with him before and found out that he's very good at what he does, and I want him in my company.


Patrick is working with me on Ongakken's upcoming game, RackJacker:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580410/

Thanks for the Steam Community's support during the development of Beat Rush!

Good evening, players,

There is a new ship available in Beat Rush and a few nice ship-features coming with it.

This new unique ship is able to heal itself, its shield is stronger, and it is much more robust. This ship is a part of the new Beat Rush DLC:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1584890/Beat_Rush__Premium_Ship__Points/

With the DLC, you'll also get a pack of blue points, which you can spend in the Shop right away. Also, if you get the DLC, this ship will automatically be available; no need to gather the blues ;-).

If you wish to get this neat 'little' ship and support an indie developer at the same time, go ahead and grab the DLC! It'd be really appreciated!!

Thank you and have fun,
- the dev

Hi, guys,

A few posts back, I mentioned that I'm cooking up something new, which is why I'm letting Beat Rush go.
Well, the 'new thing' is a new Ongakken game called RackJacker, now available for wishlisting.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580410

This game will attend the summer edition of the Steam Game Festival, which will take place in June 2021. A demo will be available for free to everyone once the festival starts. After the festival, substantial internal testing will begin, and I want the Steam Community to attend. There is a banner on the store page that allows players interested in early testing to sign up (early testing != Early Access; Early testing is my internal process, after which the game will be allowed to enter Early Access).

The game is planned to be released in December 2021. You won't believe this, but this game is technically in development for almost 5 years. I'm still at high school (final year), so I wasn't working on it all the time, and I had pretty long breaks, but the first idea came to me about 5 years ago.

I'll do my best to fix Beat Rush's bugs, which is what I was doing the last few days. But, as I already said earlier, Beat Rush was never meant to be a serious game, so I gotta let go of it.

I started a little series to say goodbye to Beat Rush, check out the first episode here:

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
There is more news coming; I'll be introducing someone new to my company and thus, to you, soon.

Thank you very much for being here, and stay safe,
- Simtoon

Updated the HUD. Looks tidier and in one place instead of all around the screen. There will be more changes to it later on.

Suggested by nekobun.
Check out my reaction to his YouTube review of Beat Rush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-MlKcR-c8g

Further steps taken to prevent Jack's issues from happening to anyone ever again.