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End of the Bean Year

Hiya Crewmates!

We hope you've been enjoying the Indie Cosmicube! If you haven't picked it up yet be sure to do so and come up with an outfit that screams I REALLY LOVE INDIE GAMES!!1!!1!!

Our winter holiday is coming up and plans are forming to spend time roasting marshmallows in The Fungle. Before we go, let's look back on some highlights of 2023:

[h3]Collabs[/h3]
We had a bunch of collabs with our friends at Bungie, Pusheen, and Paramount. And of course our friends Behemoth, Untitled Goose Game, A Hat in Time, Celeste, Undertale, and Crypt of the Necrodancer as part of the Indie Cosmicube.


Are you being a task master in your favorite collab outfit? We can't spill the beans about next year but we're not ending our collaborations here so keep your visors peeled. 👀

[h3]Beans grow up so fast[/h3]
It wasn't all fancy new outfits this year (I do love a good fashion game though). Among Us grew in many new ways - like turning 5 years old and celebrating with a birthday stream!


We also said farewell to the main menu which has been the gateway to many betrayals and clip-able moments for all of you. To replace it, we said hello to our brand new menu along with improvements to Quick Chat, reporting features, and continually squishing bugs.



[h3]Fungus Among Us[/h3]
This year wouldn't have been complete without the addition of our latest map - The Fungle! You've been ziplining, fishing, pumping iron, roasting marshmallows (and Crewmates) on the fifth Among Us map. What's been your favorite part of The Fungle?



[h3]Among Us VR[/h3]
Woah, woah! Don’t forget about us beans in the VR world!


Among Us VR has had a great year of highlights: the addition of Polus Point, sweet sweet LoFi jams, improvements to matchmaking and moderation, Fidget Features, and ALL 🎉 OF 🎉 THE 🎉 HATS. 🎉

But we aren’t stopping there. We’ve got numerous surprises in our backpacks getting ready to share next year… which you can get a sneak peek of in our 2024 Roadmap!

Big thank you to our players for making this year a great one of growth, learnings, and adorable bean death! Err… teamwork. Yeah, teamwork! 👀

Stay suspicious, beans!



[h3]Nap Time[/h3]
It's been a really fun year of tasks, bug squishing, collabing, and map releasing, but now it's time for all of us at the studio to take a little winter holiday so we'll be ready for more shenanigans in 2024!


Thanks for being the best Crewmates around for 2023 and we'll see you next year.

Off to find some cocoa,

Dors


P.S. If you login to the game starting on December 26th, you'll get this super snazzy and exclusive 2023 New Year's Eve cosmetic! Consider it a treat for reading all my dev logs.

Puzzle your way out of an Among Us escape room in free Escape Simulator crossover DLC, out now


Escape Simulator has added a free virtual escape room based on Among Us, letting you puzzle your way out of the backstabby party game’s spaceship The Mini Skeld in a bit of crossover DLC.


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Нарушитель спокойствия на The Game Awards 2022 сообщил о пожизненном запрете на посещение церемонии

На The Game Awards 2022 произошла нелепая ситуация, когда на сцену следом за сотрудниками FromSoftware поднялся неизвестный на тот момент 15-летний подросток, притворившийся одним из разработчиков ELDEN RING и выступивший со странной речью о Билле Клинтоне, что стало мемом. Произошедший казус заставил организаторов церемонии усилить меры безопасности и церемония The Game Awards 2023 произошла без подобных инцидентов.

Two indie megahits combine in Vampire Survivors’ Among Us DLC, out later this month


What happens when the biggest indie game of 2020 meets the biggest indie game of 2022? We’ll find out soon enough, as Among Us is headed to Vampire Survivors in a piece of DLC titled Emergency Meeting.


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Vampire Survivors next bit of DLC is a highly-suspicious collab with Among Us


No matter which indie game you look at, Among Us seems to be everywhere, as the violent beans are now making their way to Vampire Survivors.


It's no secret that Vampire Survivors was one of 2022's best games, and the last year has just seen improvement after improvement, like the new free story mode. Yesterday, during Day of the Devs' Game Awards stream, developer poncle announced its next bit of DLC, and it's a bit of a doozy: aptly titled Emergency Meeting, this next bit of paid content for the unique bullet hell game features the tiny, funny cast of Among Us. You'll have nine "totally trustworthy new characters" to choose from, which are basically just different coloured Among Us beans, and there'll be 15 new weapons too. You can check out the amazingly animated reveal trailer below!


Each Among Us character has unique abilities, like Ghost Lino who can float through walls, and can't receive damage, though apparently can't deal damage either, and Guardian Pina, who boosts the defence of all nearby allies. Weapons wise, there's the Report! weapon which blasts enemies away with "supermassive sound waves," and you can "drop duplicitous foes to their doom with Just Vent."

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