Mudborne News

Hi friends!

A month passed by since our last newsletter, here’s what’s been going on!

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We joined the Frog Con, an online convention for frog lovers that mixes educational panels with creative works, in the middle of the month. Mudborne was one of the froggy games and got played during the convention!

For the occasion, we shared more about the game on our socials, as well as some redesign work-in-progress sneak peeks!



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A fellow beekeeper created a checklist tracker & guide spreadsheet for APICO! It’s truly an amazing resource, and includes the Ocean Update (3.0) new content.



Thank you so much DeluxeGremlin for this!

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Fellow beekeeper Hazel shared this screenshot of her base in our community discord! Between the rainbow hive garden and the Mothense concert for the NPCs, it’s a dream place to bee. If you want to share you’re own cute pics you should come join us!



In other APICO news, the lovely Chelsea, that you may know as myPotatoGames on Twitter, wrote a very wholesome review of our beekeeping sim! It’s always heartwarming to hear such nice feedback
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Last month, our discord bot beebot started sharing a beemoji mashup everyday, and that gave us an idea: what if you could make your own mashup, and beebot could send it to the server?



You can now submit your mashup by filling this form, and it’ll get added to the bot’s daily posts! :D

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That’s it for this month’s recap! Thanks for sticking with us and keeping these hives buzzing, it’s been a quiet month but we have some exciting stuff coming next time!

Take care!
Manon, Ell and Jamie

Hi friends!

September is already gone and oh boy, what a month! APICO’s second major update came out - “What Lies Beeneath” :D

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What Lies Beeneath launched on September 26 on PC! Beekeepers can now explore the ocean, restore coral reefs, clean the seabed, fish… and, of course, discover all the new bees (including underwater ones!!). You can check out the patch notes here to see all the new stuff added.

If you’re a console player, no worries! The update will eventually come to you, and we’ll make sure to let you all know when it happens
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To celebrate the new update, APICO and its amazing soundtracks (I’m not the one who composed it so I can say it) are currently on sale on Steam!

The game is 45% off, and the soundtracks are each 50% off until October 10th ✨

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We experimented a bit with the discord server this month: after a short career in sending cute bee pics, beebot switched to beemojis creation. Some are cuter than others, but it’s a little surprise everyday!

We’ve also been very happy to see the players enjoy the update and sharing tips (and bugs) in the server, feel free to stop by!
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In October, we’ll join Frog Con, a lovely online convention for frog lovers that raises funds for amphibian conservation. In the middle or froggy cams, the artist alley and educational streams, Mudborne will take part to the con as a froggy game, October 13-23

Be sure to check it out, along with the other amazing froggy games we’ll be alongside!

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And that’s a wrap for September! We wish you all a good spooky month!

Take care,
Manon, Ell & Jamie

Hey friends!

August came and went, my first month technically doing gamedev full-time! Both exciting and terrifying :'D

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Unless you’ve been living in a pineapple under the sea, you’ve probably seen that the APICO 3.0 update, aka, What Lies Beeneath has been announced as coming soon! Bee sure to check out the new trailer!

If you’re a content creator or streamer interested in trying out the new content you can also fill in our creator preview form.

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Pleased to say that the lovely Manon (also known as MibyleDraws) will be joining us as our PR & CM!

If you've been enjoying anything posted on socials this last month (like all the new cute tiktoks), then you have Manon to thank for it!

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G.Round is a playtesting platform where you can get your hands on a bunch of different indie games and feedback directly to the developers!

Currently you can playtest both Mudborne and Rift Breach, and give us feedback as well as chat with other players in the G.Round discord!

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Now that we’ve got 4 different games being juggled about, it’s impossible to manage 6 different accounts on each platform (we know, we’ve tried)

We’ve now combined all games into a single TNgineers account on each platform, so be sure to follow to not miss anything! (Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram, Steam)

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So that’s a wrap on August, bee safe and we’ll see you next month!

Love,
Ell & Jamie & Manon

Hey friends!

Another month flies by, it feels like I was only just writing the June recap! Here's whats been going on.

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The lovely people at Wholesome Games have organised a Steam Sale that’s host to all sorts of cosy games, with some sweet discounts on offer!

As part of the sale, APICO will be 40% off until 7th August, with both OSTs 50% off as well.

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For the redditors among you, you might have heard of a little thing called /r/place - a community canvas where everyone can get involved.

Thanks to the help of the community, we were able to get APICO immortalised in a small section with a bunch of other indies you might know!

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We were lucky enough to have APICO selected for the Itch.io Summer Selects Bundle, a special bundle containing APICO and 5 other cool indies!

Thanks to everyone who bought the bundle and supported us, we hope you enjoy all your new sweet games
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For our console friends, 2.2.3 is now live on Xbox / Playstation. This was a small update but contained some important fixes and means the consoles are now in-line with PC!

Unfortunately Nintendo wasn’t as kind with approval and still won’t let the patch through, however you’re not missing out on anything major!

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So that’s a wrap on July, bee safe and we’ll see you next month!

Love,
Ell & Jamie

Hey friends!

We're now halfway through the year, which is a scary thought given all the things I still want to get done in 2023... better get to it!

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So after a very long time, APICO has finally released on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

This is the latest version of the game, and includes all the beeautiful butterfly content! We hope all the new beekeepers enjoy their stay at Port APICO
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Rift Breach got a bunch of new updates, and the demo was re-released for Steam’s Nextfest, which you can still try out!

Unfortunately it didn’t really gather any response or interest, so it’ll be going into cold storage for a bit while we work on the other games.

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Mudborne got nominated for the “Rising Star” award in the 2023 UK Indie Cup!

We didn’t win in the end, but the fact that a little 1 week froggy demo managed to get a nomination is still amazing to see!

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Feed The Beasts is now Snacktorio! We had to change the name for legal reasons and we asked the Factorio team as a joke, but they said yes.

It’s weird having to call it something different after 3 years but here we are - you can find us in all the same places just a different name and logo.

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So that’s a wrap on June, bee safe and we’ll see you next month!

Love,
Ell & Jamie