Hey bear friends,
We launched the Bear game on Playstation 4 and Playstation 5 today and made a short dumb trailer to celebrate:
Thank u, love u
-Rares
Bear & Breakfast
Bear and Breakfast is OUT NOW on PS4 and PS5
Hey bear friends,
We launched the Bear game on Playstation 4 and Playstation 5 today and made a short dumb trailer to celebrate:
Thank u, love u
-Rares
Hotfix Number TWO! Patch 1.8.22
Main Menu Freeze Fixed!
Hello for the third time in such a short while! We finally found what was causing some players to experience an unresponsive main menu. We spent the majority of our day installing an launching the game on almost 20 laptops, PC and everything in between, trying to find the common thread between all of these machines and we found that it wasn't a performance issue. As it turns out, a recent flag in one of our controller updates affected any device that had touch capability, disabling input if touch was enabled (for instance to disable the trackpad on a Dualsense 4).
This is why a pretty large but inconsistent number of you were affected. The recent hotfix should fix this.
1.8.22 Hotfix Patch Notes - Bear and Breakfast
28 NOV 2023
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that disabled input for the game on some touch capable devices.
Thank you to everyone for being patient and to those that chose to help us figure out the issue1
Love u,
-Rares
Hotfix Patch 1.8.21
Steam Deck fixed and temporary workaround for menu freeze issue
Hello, back again with a quick hotfix patch.
1.8.21 Hotfix Patch Notes - Bear and Breakfast
28 NOV 2023
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the game not launching on Steam Deck after patch 1.8.20 due to a filesystem bug
In the meantime we also have a workaround for you to be able to play the game if you're experiencing the menu freeze bug: You can load the last version of the game (1.7.3) while we work on fixing the issue (there are no content differences between the two versions)
To do this:
- In Steam go to Bear and Breakfast in your Library, right click and go to Properties
- In this new menu, go to Betas
- Under Beta Participation pick "previous-version".
- Upon closing this menu, the game should auto update to the previous version and you should be able to play.
We'll keep you updated on the status of the bug fixing.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Love u,
-Rares
Patch 1.8.2 - A message from the Bear Team
Dear Bear Friends,
While this is a regular game update news post, I would also like to tell you about the state of us, the Bear crew (especially for those of you that don't follow us on socials where we've already relayed this message):
For the past few months we have been tinkering away at Bear and Breakfast, working on the plans we outlined last summer. We've been very lucky to have a small but great team of 3 people able to work on this full time. We've recently learned of some serious health issues that will impact our team which we'd like to share with you.
Unfortunately, our art-director Ioana has been diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer. She will focus all of her efforts on treatment and getting better. This also impacts Rares, our game director and Ioana's husband of 12 years. Our lead programmer Andu has been hard at work updating the game, fixing bugs and preparing a port for a new platform. He will keep working on the game as much as he can.
Given this information, the upcoming expansion patch for Bear and Breakfast is delayed. We will do our best to keep you updated on a new release window and the team's status.
In the meantime, things we've been working on before we got this news such as controller updates, bug fixes and the new port will still be launching (very) soon.
One of Andu's efforts has solidified in today's patch, which aims at vastly improving the controller scheme of our game as well as adding official Brazilian Portuguese. This will impact you the most if you're playing on Steam Deck or using a controller. Here's what this patch contains:
1.8.2 Patch Notes - Bear and Breakfast
27 NOV 2023
Features & Fixes
- Added Brazilian Portuguese language support š§š·
- Optimized resources and added more compression to reduce package size
- Slightly improved scenes memory footprint
- Various localization fixes and dialogue/quest typos
Quality of Life Changes
- Reworked Controller Support Entirely
- Added Key Rebinding to controllers
- Added ability to turn off weather effects (in the Options menu)
- Added Stack Splitting binding in Cooking Panel
- Added a Cook keybind in Cooking Panel to allow a faster trigger of the action, as opposed to navigating to the button itself
- Improved Auto Fill Cooking Cards Trinket to progressively add more ingredients to the table each time it is used
For any issues you might encounter, please report them at our support page and weāll do our best to help you out. (armor.ag/bugbear)
As a final note, this is not news we ever imagined we'd be sharing with you, but it's important to us that you know what's going on with the people behind the Bear game. I won't lie, this sucks. Your support has been very important to us and continues to make a big impact as we navigate this extremely difficult period in our lives. We're doing our best to take care of our team and get back to making video games. Thank you for caring about us and our little Bear game.
Thank u, love u
-Rares
Roadmap Update and Merch!
I'm back with a bunch of news about the Bear Gameā¢.
We've been hard at work on things both in and out of the game for the past few months that I wanted to share. So here goes!
HANK PLUSH
Arguably the most important piece of news, icymi is that we have a HANK PLUSH!!
We're working with Makeship which sort of works like a kickstarter for plushies, and there's just over 10 more days to nab a Hank Plush for yourself!
VINYL SOUNDTRACK
We've also launched a couple of physical editions of the game, and alongside them the Official B&B Soundtrack on Vinyl!
The soundtrack is composed by Andrew Landry and the cover art was made in actual plasticine by the amazing cobcris.
DIGITAL SOUNDTRACK
If you're not a vinyl votary, we've also released the soundtrack digitally to almost everywhere you listen to music on, including on Spotify, Bandcamp as well as a Youtube video for all your study needs
ROADMAP UPDATE
Weāre coming up on one year since Bear and Breakfast launched and weāre still working on it! A lot of our time in the past few months has been occupied with addressing a lot of the technical debt we accrued while developing the game. As we all know, every video game is secretly three strands of spaghetti duct taped together. We've been rewriting a lot of the code in order to smooth out some of the performance, but more importantly, to allow us to expand on the game further.
With that in mind, I'm happy to report that weāve got two major beats coming this year:
This Summer / Fall š
š® A Controller and UI/UX Patch will be coming soon to the game.
š Weāll be adding Brazilian Portuguese to our list of supported languages.
š¤ Weāre also working to bring Bear and Breakfast to a new platform.
Later This Year ā
A āBig Content Updateā is in development and slated to come out in 2023!!
Hank goes in search of a certain someone! Jumping on a boat with Will and Annie, they all take a trip to far away lands!
- It expands on the current gameās story and world.
- It will feature New Areas, New Hotels, New Furniture and New Characters.
- It will also further the stories of some existing characters.
- The update will also bring a brand new Management-Focused Game Mode!!
- It will be available for free later this year.
STEAM SUMMER SALE
To round things out, as you may all know, Steam Summer Sale has come and almost gone! Bear and Breakfast is currently at the biggest discount ever of 30% off so this is a good a time as any to dip your toes in!
All of today's news is on this handy dandy web page I painstakingly made because I love u
http://bear.game/news
thanks for being here ā¤ļø
- Rares
Patch 1.7.3 - Japanese support!
We're pushing a small, but important update to Bear and Breakfast today.
Some of the more keen eyed among you might have noticed earlier versions of Japanese being available in the language options.
Today we're officially launching full Japanese localization for the game!
Bear and Breakfast isn't extremely text heavy, but it's not exactly short either, so adding an entire new language is a bit of a journey. Thanks to our friends at Kakehashi Games for helping localize the bear game in Japanese! However, this is not the last language we'll be supporting for the game and we'll announce our plans for future language expansions soon.
We've also been working on a lot of behind-the-scenes fixes and improvements to the game's base code, a few of which are present in this patch. Our goal is to cut down on technical debt accrued during the game's development and improve stability and performance in order to give us a good base for our next plans for the game, which we'll also reveal soon.
1.7.3 Patch Notes - Bear and Breakfast
14 MAR 2023
Features
- Added official Japanese support.
Bugs And Fixes
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes trigger Windows Firewall upon first game launch.
- Took away Gus's scalpel.
- Fixed the mistakenly tagged Minimalist Towel Rack as Bathroom Object instead of Decorative
- Considered removing Gus entirely. Decided against it. For now.
- Expanded collider in Vlad's Cave (Darkgrove) in order to prevent Hank getting stuck behind his furniture.
- Fixed a bug making the player unable to accept guest requests in Winterberry / Pinefall
- Added a number of improvements and optimizations to how the game uses memory.
- Added an experimental tool for attempting to fix specific save files that had bugged progression. The tool will analyze the current quest progress and attempt to unlock all shops and blueprints that might have erroneously self-locked due to a bug. Please note that this is an experimental tool and using it on a save might lead to data corruption or save loss. Use at your own risk and please do not use if your save was not impacted by this bug.
For any other issues you might encounter, please report them at our support page and weāll do our best to help you or pass it on to our development team for fixing (armor.ag/bugbear)
As always we'll be keeping an eye out for any other issues as well as your feedback on our dedicated feedback / suggestion page (feedback.bear.game)
Thank u, love u
Regarding pricing in certain regions
Most platforms, including Steam, provide pricing conversion guidance for developers which helps us convert our base USD price into reasonable amounts for every other region in which our game is available.
Steam has recently updated these recommendations and we will be amending our pricing accordingly. Most regions will see a small or no change at all, but a few will see more noticeable increases.
This is due to two main things:
- Currency exchange rates have shifted quite a bit since Steam last made recommendations, so this update catches us up to current rates. Naturally, currency values change all the time, so Steam plans to update these recommendations annually.
- Many professionals have observed lately that a disproportionate number of sales have been coming from regions where games are priced significantly lower when converted to USD, suggesting some players are using VPNs to "currency-hop" in order to buy games for far less than their local economy should afford them.
We want as many people as possible to be able to play our games, but we also need to be able to make games sustainably. If the current price is above what you feel it's worth to you, we will continue to participate in Steamās sale events.
If you have any questions, weāll be around keeping an eye on comments, or you can chat with us in our Discord. Thank you for your understanding and for all the love and support youāve given us. We couldnāt have made this game without you!
If you'd like to learn more about how Steam handles these things, check out their recent Steamworks announcement.
Hanks so much,
Gummy Cat
Update Notes for Patch 1.6.11
1.6.11 Patch Notes - Bear and Breakfast
12 JAN 2022 2023
Bugs And Fixes
- Removed a small feature that was accidentally introduced in the 1.6.10 Winter Update, requires additional testing
- Took away Gus's third knife
Thank u, love u
A Fintastic Hotfix
We've identified a small but important issue and we've pushed a Hotfix for it.
Thanks for reporting and helping us snipe it quick!
1.6.10 Hotfix Patch Notes - Bear and Breakfast
23 DEC 2022
Bugs And Fixes
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes allow players to use Ctrl+Click / Triggers to move items from the Inventory to a full Stash, losing the items in the process.
Thank u, love u
The Fintastic Winter Update is LIVE
I'm Rares from the bear team and I'm stoked to announce the newest update to Bear and Breakfast - The Fintastic Winter (Tiny) Update! This is the first of our content updates for the game, and while it's pretty small, it packs a mighty punch!
The Fintastic Winter (Tiny) Update
Recycling
You can now visit the garbage grinder in A24 to recycle any crafted furniture! The recycling feature will destroy any crafted piece of furniture and return around 50% of materials used in crafting, rounded up. You will be able to access the garbage grinder after you've met the three rats in A24.
Winter-Themed Decorations!
We're celebrating the Winter holiday with over 30 new Decorative Items that will be available for a limited time at the new Special Shop. Once you've advanced to the A24 (for new saves), find the source of joy (read: capitalism) in the area to unlock the new shop. The new Decorations will be available to buy for a few months, but all bought items will remain in your inventory / cabins forever!
A cozy new Outfit for Hank!
Also available in the Special Shop you'll find three new pieces of clothing for Hank!
A bunch of QOL changes!
We've added our first batch of Quality-Of-Life changes to the game, including the ability to quick swap items between inventories (CTRL+Click on Mouse&Keyboard or Left/Right Triggers on Controller), the ability to turn off the Trail Mix Trinket, gave the Recipe Box trinket the ability to also automatically add ingredients (not just cards) and more!
And that's not all:
Verified on Deck!
I'm very happy to report that the Fintastic Winter Update (1.6.9) also brings fixes that allow Bear and Breakfast to be Verified on the Steam Deck! We're very excited to be able to have the little bear game verified!
And to top it all off:
Steam Winter Sale!
Bear and Breakfast is now officially 20% off for the entire duration of the Steam Winter sale! (22nd of December 2022 until the 5th of January 2023). If you haven't fulfilled your life's purpose of running a little cabin in the woods as a bear, there's never been a better time than now.
Full notes below:
1.6.9 Patch Notes - Bear and Breakfast
22 DEC 2022
Bugs And Fixes
- Added a bunch of memory usage improvements. The game should make overall better use of system memory.
- Made a number fixes for edge cases when discarding changes on a room edit.
- Made a number fixes for edge cases causing loss of furniture items / museum exhibits.
- Fixed a severe bug caused by canceling furniture placement after previously splitting a stack.
- Fixed āRat Tat To Itā granting multiple recipes for French Onion Soup when the quest would get back to āIn Progressā if placing the soup somewhere else than the main inventory.
- Fixed NPC sounds that would loop indefinitely if starting an NPC dialogue while they are performing an action.
- Fixed Barbaraās Highlake Call cutscene focus point, which would leave her speech bubble outside the visible area on small resolutions.
- Fixed Achievements never getting to steam if they are granted while offline. The achievements are updated when opening the achievement panel.
- Fixed Guests unable to resolve navigation queries if the game gets saved while they are located in an unbuilt campsite.
- Fixed Guests that never left if their room got deleted while they were scheduled to arrive the next day.
- Fixed some edge cases causing objects to appear as unreachable, even though they were reachable.
- Fixed the snap in Camera Transition occurring when repeatedly changing the focused house.
Balance and Gameplay Adjustments
- Added Recycling - Find it in the A24 near the dump.
- Maximum Stack size for Crafting Materials increased (99 -> 999).
- Took away Gus's Scissors.
- The āOrganizeā button in the inventory now also auto-stacks items.
- Left Ctrl + Click now automatically transfers the items between inventories while Looting, Stashing or Recycling (Left/Right Trigger on Controller).
- The "Recipe Box" Cooking trinket now attempts to also fill ingredients automatically (instead of just cards).
- Added support for widescreen and other more square-ish aspect ratios (e.g. 4:3)
- Added option to turn the āTrail Mixā trinket off in order to reduce the movement speed.
- Blocked the ability to completely remove a roomās tiles when editing an existing room.
- Added a new quest to find Terry-Fin in A24, available after you've discovered the A24.
- Added a new quest to unlock the Recycling feature, available at Anton after you've saved Wade.
- Added a new Special Shop in all buildable areas (Timber Crossing, A24, Highlake, Winterberry and Pinefall)
- Added 31 NEW Winter-themed Decorative objects in the new Special Shop (Available for a limited time)
- Added 3 new pieces of clothing for Hank, available at the new Special Shop (for a limited time).
Thank you for sticking with us and Hank as we end 2022 on a high note. We'll be keeping an eye out on your feedback on our dedicated feedback suggestion page here as well as on Discord.
Thank u, love u
