Bravers was nominated as the #1 game of the first competition hosted by "The House of The Dev" http://thehouseofthedev.com/ and "Kefir" studio https://kefirgames.ru/

We are so excited to be selected and highlighted among other amazing projects. For our very small team, this is a huge boost to keep moving forward. It is very important now, when the main mechanics are done, the basic code is written and the most "interesting" part of gamedev is here waiting for us - make content and do QA.

We would like to have another opportunity to say "Thanks" to our community! You are amazing! Thank you for your support and stay tuned. More news are coming in.

We want to say "Thank you" to our Bravers community for the feedback we got about the demo version of Bravers. We have worked hard to prepare an updated demo version for you to play. And today, we are happy to announce it is available on Steam for everyone.

We like creativity, but we also believe having 5 turrets is not the same as having 5 storage blocks.

Even if you have enough resources, you cannot build a ship with 10 turrets and go for revenge. Each block now has its own cost in build points. You receive building points with levels or through skills and perks. So plan accordingly.


We know you have been waiting for it. Now you can save your game at any time and then resume later on.

Do not forget we have some sort of permadeath system in place. Whenever you killed, the save will be deleted, and you have to start from the beginning. It is not a bug. It is a feature.

Another requested feature. Now you can assign your preferred keys to any actions in the game. Want to move forward with "S" and backward with "W" - now you can.

Be careful. Fire Spitters and Pirates are not the biggest problems anymore. There are 2 more enemies around waiting for the Brave captain.

One of them already looks dangerous, but wait for him to start shooting (or better not). Another one is hard to spot, but trust us - you will remember that moment.

We added a new block to the demo for you to try different game strategies. Being simply an armor block, it may change your game style completely. There is no need to tank with your engine anymore.

But even with lots of resources, you cannot build a ship surrounded by armor blocks. Remember that build points story?

We fixed the FPS issue. We changed the Unity version (that was a bumpy ride). We completely changed the rendering pipeline and the way we work with assets. As a result - 300+ FPS (we even had to cap it) and a new look of the scenes. Enjoy.

Now you can equip your crew members with items. Maximum of 2 items allowed per crew member. It will give you some bonuses, to make your life easier. Try using binoculars, for example.

Sometimes your crew members will get perks. Those are mainly random and can be positive and negative. Remember, you can still throw any crew member out of the ship.

We added more information to the in-game help menu. Do not hesitate to look through if you are new to the Bravers world.



[braversgame.com]We would appreciate your feedback, comments, and questions. The easiest way is to join our Discord.

Feel free to leave your feedback in Stream on our community page.

Hello Bravers! 👏

Thank you, everyone, for trying out the Bravers demo! We hear your feedback and will implement most of them.

We also got a few questions from our community, and instead of typing long text posts - we tried to make it in the video. If you did not check our video, please watch it now, like, and subscribe. And we will continue this format with some more specific questions and ideas.

Be safe 😷 and be brave 🤎!

Thank you, everyone, for your feedback during the first week of the demo. As promised - we are open to any feedback, so you asked for some - you got it!

An updated demo version is available now on Steam ːsteamhappyː

We are sorry :weary: if FPS issues made an impact on your game experience with Bravers demo. It is gone now. We worked hard for the last week to identify the problem and work on the solution. We got at least 2 times increase in performance in the worst case scenarios. In most cases, it is 3 to 5 times (Alex said it could be 20 times higher...). Now you are limited to your refresh rate, not the hardware.

We know. It was painful... each time you have to go one by one and assign your lovely crew members to the stations. It is history now.

Now your crewmates should remember their positions and return to them after you leave docs. We love to see how they go the blocks. It is like you go to the office each Monday.

Sure it would not work if you sell blocks or got new crew members, but still. What a huge time saver!

1. Ship direction icon added to the map
   
2. Loot lifetime increased by 50%. Kill first, pick up later.
   
3. Encounter rewards increased still could be a fire though...
   
4. Now you can open and close journal using same hotkeys
   
5. Capacity and Weight wouldn't show at the bottom panel if they appeared on other UI elements

1. Romans fault. He forgot to add enemies to one of the world blocks. At all. They are back and very angry. We would not name the location now; you will find out if you get to that place next time. Watch your back!
   
2. When using the tactical pause, the timer on loot drops does not pause. Now you can have a cup of coffee and then get back to your loot.
   
3. Controlled block is displayed on ship structure screen after destruction.
   
4. Booster can be activated without crew member in controlling block after undock.
   
5. Enemies stuck at the wall.
   
6. We did not show the ending text at the end of the game in the Russian language. Извините.

Be Brave! Keep Playing!

Happy festival everyone!

We got a lot of comments and feedback after our stream on February 3. The day the Steam Festival started. But almost all of them were in English. We're very interested to hear feedback from players who don't speak English.

On February, 6 at 3 PM (15:00) Moscow time (GMT+3) we'll be streaming in Russian.

Around 4:00-4:30 PM we will have a short break and continue streaming in English. Connect on Steam and via our social networks.

Be Brave and play Bravers!

Happy festival!

Our first live stream is scheduled for 3rd February, 7 PM PST.

Join Roman and Alex, who will be playing Bravers, discussing the development and answering your questions.

We will be streaming to Steam as well as our Youtube and Twitch accounts.

Be Brave!

We are excited to announce Bravers Demo version is now available on Steam as part of the Steam Games Festival.

Install and play Bravers to get a preview of the Bravers world and some of the game features.

We would appreciate your feedback, comments, and questions. The easiest way is to join our Discord.

[braversgame.com]Feel free to leave your feedback in Stream as well on our community page.

And here is the short video of our 2 years Journey to Demo.

We are scheduling two Streams to tell you more about the Bravers and to showcase some of the features.

Stay tuned and be Brave!

Hello Bravers!
We are excited to announce Bravers will be part of the Steam Game Festival. We will be providing a free demo that will give you an early look before the release later this year.

The demo will give you a good overview of some of the Bravers features. We prepared a short quest line for you to follow. It will show some of the game locations and will (hopefully) keep you busy. Remember, some locations are not part of the quest line, so keep exploring.

There would be limited numbers of ship blocks available in Bravers demo, including engines, storage, steering, and booster. But every Braver needs a good weapon. We included 6 weapon blocks in demo. And yes, the devastating flamethrower is available for purchase!

We are aiming for a relatively short playtime for the demo version, thus disable the save and load feature. It will be available in the release version. But we do not want you to go through the quest line every time and grind for loot. We want you to have some fun building ships and trying things. This is why you would have an option to get some Bravers coins just next to the starting dock. You can trade those to the ship blocks at the shipyard.

We also made a short video to share some basic info about the game's controls and interface. Make sure to check it out!

https://youtu.be/F993w3m9puU

Right now, we are working with beta testers on our Discord server squashing the bugs, adding some last features. So feel free to join our Discord to have a chat!

[braversgame.com]Stay tuned and be Brave!

As we mentioned before, we have come to the point where we need a demo version of the game. Through this text, we want to share our expectations for the demo version and share with you what we will be working on in the near future.


We have been working on the game for over a year now. We know everything about it and we love every byte of it. And it can be a problem - we have very little feedback and comments from regular players who are not familiar with the world of Bravers.
Do you like the graphics? Do you like controls? Is it necessary to change the speed of the ship or add new weapons? What is the overall feel of the game? We want to hear and listen to others to make our game fun for everyone.

Working on Bravers, we aim for performance. We work with lighting, use low-polygonal models, create our own physics and AI. But sky's the limit. The demo version and performance reports from different players with various hardware will provide us with information so we can further tweak the performance.

We are open to critics and suggestions. The demo version will help more people to discover Bravers. We want as many people as possible to participate in the development of Bravers. We would like to bring together everyone who likes our game and just those who like to develop games on our Discord.


Our task tracker handles a huge number of tasks for the demo version. Today, we would like briefly tell you about some of them to share our plans for the very near future.

At the moment we are still using the standard Unity buttons in many parts of the UI. Our aesthetic perception prevents us from keeping them in the demo version, so we all have a lot of work to do designing the new UI.

The story of Bravers will also unfold through a series of quests. To make the game more interesting to play, random encounters will occur during the game. Some quests and encounters will be available in the demo version.

At this stage, we are good at the basic ship, character, and crew controls. For the demo though, we lack the crew skills management system. We have an idea of what it should look like. Just need to implement it. Easier said than done.

We are also working on an in-game tutorial. We believe the controls are very simple, but the tutorial makes the learning curve easier. The tutorial will show you how to design and control your ship, how to command your brave crew, and survive.

The journey is always better in a good company and with good music. There is a complete silence in the world of Bravers today, rarely interrupted by shell explosions. We promise to fix it in the demo version. We cannot promise that it will be the final soundtrack, as there is a long road ahead of us with audio. Still, we will do our best to show the feel and atmosphere of the Bravers world.

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