Breathedge
Breathedge 2. Questions to Answers.
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Breathedge 2
Greetings, comrades! So the long-awaited day has come, when... when what? When something happened, you noted it correctly. It has been ten days since the release of Breathedge! Probably. A lot has changed in the meantime, but some things such as our inability to count will remain forever. Today we would like to briefly tell you about our plans: more specifically, about our next project.
First, the important part. Surely, many of you, looking at the title and the trailer above, have had slight suspicions that we are going to make an isometric 2D sandbox game about vegetarian spiders in a post-apocalyptic Mesozoic world, but no. In reality, we have started working on a direct sequel to Breathedge, and we named it Breathedge 2, so that at least one character in the title would trip off the tongue.
At first, we just wanted to add the number "2" to the Steam page title and triple the price, but we were told that's how remasters are done, not sequels. Well, if that's the case, so be it. Because of that, we had to create a new page and add various pictures & videos with descriptions there. Make sure to check it out because the main news about Breathedge 2 will be posted there. And of course, add the game to your wishlist: it's important, it's necessary, it improves posture, and also increases shine of your hair by 25%* (*to achieve the described effect, it is recommended to combine adding to wishlists with various back exercises and a good shampoo).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2412960/Breathedge_2
If you've stepped away to do exercises and drink shampoo, don't worry, we'll wait.
Is everyone ready? Let's continue. So, what is this Breathedge 2, and why specifically this one? After the release of the first part of the game, as well as its DLC, we delved into the long and meticulous process of structuring the pitfalls and mistakes we made before, during, and after the game's development. Your feedback and letters were of great help to us, and we sincerely thank you for that. And what did we discover? Gold! Haha, if only... In reality, one of the key mistakes was not the sudden change in gameplay, sloppy balance or script by a five-year-old (according to some reviews), but the inability to expand and further support the project. We built the game's architecture in a way that we would make it once, and that's it. The released DLC only emphasized the problem, as it didn't complement the game but created some incomprehensible narrative appendage without purpose or meaning. Bummer.
In Breathedge 2, we want to change our approach to work and create a game that we can expand and support together with players. Breathedge 2 will continue the story of the Man, the Chicken, and Babe, expanding the horizons of the world and delving deeper into the details of the universe. To understand what is happening around, it will not be necessary to play the first part at all, so new players don't have to worry about missing out on some important piece of the game or veteran players laughing and pointing fingers at them.
In Breathedge 2, you will have to explore the uncharted sections of the galaxy, survive in open, closed, and some other kind of space, on the surfaces of certain planets, asteroids, stations, and ships. You will even acquire a personal, spacious, and beautiful (according to the biased opinion of our artist) spaceship that will never lose the accumulated resources and will carefully store all the junk you find.
The game will feature a semi-open world with the ability to fly wherever the ship and crew's development allow. Yeah, even back, to some star system where we forgot something. It will no longer be a linear plot where an invisible hand of the scriptwriter forbids us to return. Freedom for the Man!
Since we've mentioned the crew, yes, Breathedge 2 won't be so lonely. In addition to the talkative Spacesuit and the Chicken, we will be accompanied by Babe, and later on, some other non-playable characters who will help us in the challenging task of survival. We'll have to consider the team, as they won't be running after us. They are independent and capable individuals who will find things to occupy themselves with. We will need to monitor their mood, health, and overall condition to avoid problems caused by a semi-dead navigator who, losing consciousness from hunger, might make a mistake with the coordinates and send the ship straight into a black hole.
The main focus will be on survival and development. No running back and forth, no corridors filled with tons of resources, no unique crafting just to open a single door, and other nonsense. Only honest and useful gameplay. Every created and upgraded item will be necessary. Every resource will be important. Every useless collectible item will be useless. That's how strict it will be.
In addition to that, items will no longer break every 10 seconds. They will have rechargeable consumables, the ability to be upgraded, disassembled, and supplemented. Backtracking for every little thing will be a thing of the past. There will be plenty of save slots, new graphics, various types of vehicles, pets, the construction of genuinely useful things rather than disposable bases, new mechanics, new opportunities, and so on and so forth. The new game will start from scratch. Only the essence and soul of the project will remain, with our subtle and unique sense of humor.
Those are the grandiose plans, and now all that remains is to bring them to life and make everything happen. When, you ask? Well...
That's all regarding the project and our immediate plans. But what about ourselves? Well, what about us? We're alive – that's a plus. We're relatively healthy, as healthy as aging chickens can be – that's also a plus. We keep an eye on events in the world that hurt our beaks. We keep an eye on events in the gaming industry that hurt our ego. We watch pigeons on the roof through large binoculars, because why would we buy it otherwise? Such is life.
And yes, following the good old tradition, we remind you that we are open to bugs, criticism, and all sorts of other interesting things at
info@breathedge.com
We are also always available for communication and all the same things on our official Discord channel. Join us!
https://discord.gg/uezQcU7
Don't forget to add Breathedge 2 to your wishlists and keep an eye on the game's page. We will definitely share the progress of development more and more actively. So don’t you worry, we'll have enough time to annoy you.
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Greetings comrades!
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Cov… Year!
Comrades!
This year is over. And as you may have noticed, 2022 has arrived. However, if you didn’t have time to notice it, we apologize for the spoiler…
The most important thing, of course, is to wish you all the best and nothing bad.
So this difficult matter calls for the good ol’ grandma wish. That’s why we wish you everything that grandmothers do but multiplied by three. If for some reason, your grandmother hates you, then it's not our fault — we still love you, even if you’re lousy grandchildren. Even Bob.
Hear that, Bob? We adore you!
All right, formalities and wishes aside, it’s time to get down to the main topic of this news. As we’ve already mentioned, 2022 has arrived. Surely, you’ve found all these “twos” quite suspicious — and you’re right to do so. The year 2022 consists of two numbers “two,” preceded by two other numbers, one of which — get ready for it — is also “two!”
An amazing coincidence? We don't think so.
Let's move on. 2022 is not that big a problem until the 22nd day of the 22nd month of 2222 comes — this is where it gets very serious. In addition to the upcoming "Great Number Two", we have spent exactly two years in the pandemic or, to be more precise, 731 days.
731 — have you noticed?
If you subtract the last “1” from the second “3”, it will be 2.
If you subtract the last “1” from the first “7” and then divide it by the remaining “3” – you get 2 again!
Even if you add up all the numbers 7+3+1 it will still be two!
By the way, “B” is the average grade in the diplomas of the developers of Breathedge, and it’s the SECOND letter in the alphabet…!
… Another coincidence, you say?
Many of you have probably already started to get nervous and are looking at your watch, where there is probably a number two. Did we guess right? A-ha!
But that's not all.
This piece of news was rewritten twice and was published on the second attempt on Steam, which belongs to Valve Corporation. As we know from unverified sources, 2 is the favorite number of this great company — definitely not number 3, nope.
See for yourself: Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2 (4 = 2+2!!!), Portal 2, Dota 2, Counter-Strike Online 2, and even the Source 2 engine.
Maybe it's still just a coincidence?
No, no, and no!
Was that not enough?
We say “Ha ha!” to you — two times. Number Two hasn’t even started its disastrous march yet.
Right now, walk up to any mirror — come on, don’t be lazy.
How many nostrils, ears, eyes do you see? Most certainly Number Two pop-ups in your mind — only the chosen ones can say they have just one nostril.
Alright-alright, if that doesn’t impress you, the following thought experiment certainly will:
Now, close your eyes… Breathe in and breathe out two times… Think of Number Two, and count to two.
When you counted to two, what was the last number? Don’t rush to look at the answer below… Have you counted it yet?
YES, EXACTLY — IT’S TWO!
“OMG, OMG, OMG!” you scream. “How did they know?!” you keep screaming.
That’s it!
We could provide no less than 222 examples of Number Two entering our everyday life — from two attempts of our programmer to fix bugs to two of us wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in this piece of News. (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, comrades! — here it is, the 2nd time.)
But all this, of course, is an extremely huge hint at you-know-what…
Yes, yes, yes!
You probably have already guessed: “All this developers’ “Number Two” speech is for a reason. They’ve probably prepared some information about something we’ve been waiting for so long!”
And you’d be right if you have!
That is true! Today, in the year of 2022, after the release of Breathedge, we’d like to officially announce that we are going to recommend you to brush your teeth no less than TWO times a day! Two! Two. Two, two, two.
So it goes. By the way, if you’ve read this piece of news two times, then you’ve probably noticed that some letters in different words make up the word “two.”
It’s unexplainable, but it’s a fact.
Well, and traditionally we would like to remind you that you can always send your questions, wishes, or requirements to repair your saves to the two contacts listed below. Sometimes we respond via direct messages on social networks, but Discord or mail will convey your idea at times faster, fuller, and better. We don't know how it works, but that's not the point. We would be happy to receive your messages!
Our Discord:
https://discord.gg/uezQcU7
Our Discord:
info@breathedge.com
Our two:
2.
Vote for Breathedge on Steam Awards!
It's getting a little cold outside, just like being in outer space without pants, but that's not important right now.
The important thing is that the Steam Awards are coming up. We've been asking some chickens around, and they told us we should definitely get the Outstanding Game with a Rich Plot award. Why, you ask? We have no idea, it sounds as distant from us as possible, which means we have to take it. If you love our Man, Chicken, and space dumps, then vote for the Party, Breathedge, and Outstanding Game! Or just for the best game. Or vote for the worst game, or don't vote at all...
In fact, the most outstanding ones here are you, our favorite players. And rich, and the stories are you too, and the games, and the quotes…
That’s all there is to it. And yes, thank you for being with us! We'll see you soon. Someplace, somewhere...
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Aaaaaa. Uuuuuuu. Comrades.
You might have already guessed what we wanted to tell you about in this post. And yes, you’re correct. “A” is the first letter of the English alphabet, and “U” is... uh, some other letter. That’s all we wanted to inform you about. See you in six months in the next piece of news!
So, before we start to spew another tall-tale, we wish to let you know that the expansion release date is timed to coincide with the expansion's release date that is...today! Goodness gracious. We even made a video about it, a nice one (probably):
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What do you mean “there isn’t enough news?” What do you mean “we’ll hang you by the part of your body you made this game with”? How can you even threaten to hang someone by their legs? It's highly inappropriate, it's... ah, whatever. So here’s the news.
A lot of time has passed since the release of Breathedge. We could name the exact number of days if we knew how to count, but we’ll just use vague wording instead. The release showed two important things that determined the immediate future of our team:
- People love us. Yes, that's how presumptuously we can say that a lot of wonderful players wonderfully love wonderful us, and we love wonderful them. And it's wonderful!
- People hate us. Yes, that's how presumptuously we can say that a lot of awful players awfully hate awful us, and we awfully hate awful them. And it's awful!
What does it mean? It means that Breathedge was a success, at least part of it. For all this long time after the release, we’ve been discussing, thinking, analyzing, planning, sleeping, eating, and discussing again. So what have we come to? We came to nothing because we haven’t been discussing the game… Haha, just kidding! (Probably) We came to a simple and clear conclusion: we urgently need another project. It’ll make everything better: mechanics, graphics, plot, meaning, mood, digestion, ecology, and you never know what else it will improve. It just has to be created!
Let's forget for a second about new projects, dreams, and unicorns, and return to reality: Breathedge. A completely finished project, from the intro to the credits. The game has one small feature — it was conceived as a short single-player adventure game with elements of survival (or a survival game with elements of adventure, we’ll never know). Of course, this is not a drawback for the game, because why not? But it’s a drawback for its capabilities. Breathedge cannot be qualitatively expanded or radically improved in its current form. All its troubles and sorrows, like backtracking, a stuttering autosave, or the inability to close the crafting window during crafting, can only be fixed by changing the core of the project completely, breaking everyone’s savegames, and destroying their progress. It’s not so easy to implement multiplayer in the game, give a construction set to the suffering, the world cannot be expanded (the game will explode from the number of textures). When we analyze the result, our crooked legs strut toward redesigning everything, but we understand that we won’t be able to make it any worse than it already is anyway... unless we throw some DLC into this Furnace of Horror.
About the DLC, by the way. We have not forgotten that it should be released soon, so we are going to release it as late as we can. As promised, the DLC turned out to be very small, difficult to play, and stupid, like the whole game itself. It may seem surprising, but in the DLC, you will have to survive — yep, that’s right — despite everyone expecting a Barbie florist simulator. However, unlike the main game, where you can survive as long as you want, in the DLC, you will have only thirty minutes to complete a task. Or thirty tasks to complete in one minute... Ah, never mind. This story will be focused on one of the test subjects in a mysterious Leia Interplanetary Research Center. The Leia Center is either a bogeyman story to scare children or a tale of drunken astronauts, but perhaps it really is floating in space and is directly connected with the Breatnedge Global Funeral Agency. A small story about a big world, a little man, a lot of dangers, and yourself, armed with half an hour and your talent for survival. This is kinda what this DLC is about, uhuh.
But we got distracted from the topic of the new project. Analyzing Breathedge in detail, we clearly understand what we would like to improve, where we could add, and where we should’ve cut. We want more, we want improvements, and we still have the strength and opportunities. In connection with this set of big words, we decided not to wait for the end of our fifteen-year vacation and the introduction of a microtransaction system into Breathedge with cute hats for the Chicken, but to start working on a new big project right now instead.
In this piece of news, we won’t tell what exactly we’ll have to work on, we won’t even hint at it. Otherwise, there will be no reason to roll out another piece of news about anything. And yes, we refute in advance the vile accusations that we ourselves do not know what we will be working on. This is a lie and a provocation! We know everything, this is a super-duper project with a beautiful title, and it's about all sorts of different things, there will be characters, locations, and the main menu. We even have a promo concept:
Oops, we’ve forgotten about an ad break! Something-something Frederico Pignole latest fashion collection, yada yada, and something else...oooh, right! Freebies! That’s the stuff. Everyone’s up for some cost-free fun, right? How about taking a camera into your hands, building a makeshift shovel, finding a backyard to pillage, putting on your grandpa’s gas mask, and doing some fighting? We will, that’s for sure. Up until the 7th of October, you can try doing all that in a free demo of Outbreak Island, a nice game made by our dearest friends. It’s something, isn’t it?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1442530/Outbreak_Island/
So it goes. By the way, if you’re reading our news for the first time, then you are probably at a loss on where you can write rapturous reviews about our literary gift? That's why we have a Discord server and email. And we’d like to remind you that we handle negative reviews, objective criticism, and difficult matters with special care, and for such messages, we have allocated a separate folder in our email and called it "Trash". That's how cool we are. We are waiting for your messages, we are working hard, and we will probably see you soon.
Sincerely yours, us.
Our Discord server:
https://discord.gg/uezQcU7
Our email:
info@breathedge.com
An update, an add-on, and something like that.
Dear comrades! You may have noticed that the release of the game has happened, but if you haven’t, we’re telling you now: it has happened. Recently, we’ve received a lot of different messages, feedback, criticism, praises, questions, etc. We’ve read all that, studied it, made some calculations, and made some ambiguous conclusions. Some didn’t like our decision to make the final part of the game more linear, and some, on the contrary, were unspeakably happy about it. For some, there wasn’t enough craft, and for some, there wasn’t enough construction. Some wanted more shooting, some wanted a game about ponies, and some liked it so much that they tried to give us a crate of beer, but unfortunately, chickens don’t drink beer… Well, there were a lot of interesting opinions.
There were also conspiracy theories about a lack of budget, divine intervention, the scriptwriter’s drinking problem, the expansion of the team, the replacement of the team members with raccoons, etc. So, nothing of the listed things above happened — our cozy chicken coop is still the same, we have plenty of everything, and we continue our work. But questions like “What are we working on now?”, “What have we patched?”, “What to expect from the new add-on?”, “What will happen to Breathedge?”, “Where is the world going?”, and “Why is it going?”, are quite interesting.
The easiest question to answer is where is the world going? It’s going into the future. But why? Because it’s spherical in shape. The flat Earth concept believers would argue with that, of course, but we have solid proof: if the Earth is flat, then how can it move? Huh? Checkmate.
Now a more important question: “What to expect from Breathedge next?” So, there was a time, a long time ago, when we promised a small free add-on. Is it possible? Yes. We can say even more: we are planning two small add-ons.
First of all, we’ve read all your wishes and decided that the project lacks a hardcore survival. Real hardcore survival challenge for the toughest survivalists. And such a challenge will be the first small add-on called “Hold Your Breath”. It will tell the story about the fate of an unknown character from the Breathedge world, inextricably connected with the future of the galaxy. He will face a simple and clear task — to survive a certain amount of time. That’s it. Too bad that it won’t be that easy. You’ll face the struggle for each gasp of oxygen, each can of beer, and each health point — just like in real life. The release of the add-on is planned for the summer of 2021.
The second add-on is called “Escape”. In it, we will try to delve deeper into the mechanics of crafting, building, and exploring space, introducing you to another important character in the world of Breathedge. We’ll tell you about the details later. The release of the add-on “Escape” is planned for the second half of 2021, but not earlier than the first add-on because it’d become the first add-on and the first add-on would become the second one, and we’d be confused.
All the add-ons will be released in the form of simple updates of the original game and will become its integral part, despite them technically not being connected with the main storyline. You may not play as Man, but complete “Escape”, and vise versa. So it goes.
Another important question: What’s up with the balance? We have analyzed many reviews and personal messages about the balance in the game. We’ve recently raised the starting oxygen level and it has made the game a little better. Now it’s time to test the durability of some items without breaking the saves. By popular demand and after thorough testing, we’ve decided to:
- Increase the durability of the handy scrapper from 35 to 50 points. This became possible thanks to our replacing the usual electrical tape with a more expensive and durable one. You won't notice any difference in the look of the electrical tape, but its chemical composition is unique. It was quite expensive, but now you’ll have to fly to and fro for a new handy scrapper much less often.
- Increase the durability of the repair tool from 15 to 20 points. Sure, it’s not used as often as the handy scrapper, but 5 additional durability points will be good for it.
- Increase the durability of the scanner from 15 to 20 points. Some of you asked to make the durability of the scanner unlimited, but the game then would become too casual to play. Besides, we can’t create any new batteries without breaking the gameplay for everyone. And in general, Man can’t take care good of things, so they break.
- Increase the durability of the drill from 15 to 20 points. Everything is clear here: more durability means more resources per one flight. That’s great.
- Increase the durability of the grabber from 15 to 20 points. As with the drill, it's all for the sake of getting more resources.
- Increase the durability of the magnetic master key from 15 to 30 points. The player has to fly great distances in Chapter 2, so the increase in the durability of any tools, including the magnetic master key, should be celebrated. Probably.
- Increase the analyzer's durability from 35 to 35 points. Yes, that's right. Who needs it in the game anyway? We don’t know either. So after very long calculations, we decided to rebalance the analyzer in this way. Phew! That was hardcore math.
By the way, all these wonderful changes, which only new players will notice, were introduced in the most recent update of the project, which has either already been added or will be added in the coming hours.
In addition to our waltzing around and tweaking the balance, the update will also fix some minor bugs that you shared with us, namely:
- The biggest and most annoying problem which several players faced was the inability to complete the task of installing the filtering system in Chapter 4. How some managed to complete the task before receiving this task is a separate question, but now there should be no such problem. If there still is, then we don’t know anything about this.
- Another major bug was the final phase of the robot boss in Chapter 4. Several players had a situation where he became immortal after a certain order of saves, deaths, and loads. Now the robot shouldn't do that anymore.
- Another fairly common problem was Man getting stuck in the textures. Of course, technically, this has nothing to do with textures. In fact, it’s the collision of Man's body that gets stuck in the collisions of the environment, but this fact is unlikely to make it easier for someone. It’s physically impossible to check every inch of the game, sticking Man into every object of the world at all possible angles. It’s too late to redo the logic of the collision of objects. So what remains is either to put up with it or to try some workaround solution. The most common way out of this situation is to twitch in all directions, like Ace Ventura trying to get out of the rhino, while pressing Space (works 70% of the time). If the twitching didn’t help, the next step might be throwing an object from your inventory. The collision of the object will come into conflict with the collision of Man and the environment, and it might push him out. Or it might not (it works in 50% of hopeless cases). Well, if all else fails, and Man turns blue from lack of oxygen, and your nerves are no longer able to withstand at least a minute of this masterpiece, we’ve introduced a vile cheat: teleporting using the Ctrl + Shift + Alt + U key combination on the keyboard. This command teleports the player to a point on the nearest collision where the player is looking. If you are looking at the farthest object in the world, don’t blame us. By the way, our programmer sent his best regards to the players with gamepads and then locked himself in the toilet laughing wildly. We still can't get him out of there.
- In addition, we fixed various minor bugs, such as textures, texts, collisions, icons, and other little things that we forgot to list. There are still some quite unique bugs left that are either extremely rare or don’t have an adequate solution at the moment. For example, there is a mysterious disappearance of the stand with hamsters. David Blaine is probably involved. Another common problem, manifesting itself with varying degrees of intensity, is the scattering of things around the station. Some players will see a photo on the table move slightly, while others will see tables flying around the cabin. We know about this bug, but it’s impossible to fix it without breaking everyone's save.
- If there were any critical errors, they were rare and were connected with drivers or hardware, rather than our project. And that’s good.
So it goes. Oh, we almost forgot. As usual, you can write to us and share anything you want, be it your wishes, or a photo of your favorite dust ball behind your TV. We are always available: we read your comments on our news, flip through our discord channel, scroll through our email, ignore well-reasoned criticism, and are happy to read your inadequate ones (or vice versa). And don’t forget, if you encounter a bug in the game please contact us by email or Discord. This helps to improve our project and polish all of its rough edges.
Our Discord:
https://discord.gg/uezQcU7
Our email:
info@breathedge.com
The Release!
Comrades! This long-awaited moment, when we can blame all of you for this, has finally come. Yes, comrades, it’s a straight fact— there would be no Man without you! During the development of the game, you’ve been by our side, you’ve been helping us, criticizing us, giving us advice, and breaking the game. You’ve taken an integral part in the development of Breathedge, and we hope that we’ve met your expectations at least a little (and if we haven’t, then we don’t know anything, never heard of anything, and we’ve got nothing to do with it). Anyway, starting from today, Breathedge is officially a completely finished, full-fledged game. Yes, we’ll add a tiny bit of gameplay as post-release content. Maybe some hotfixes will be needed because instead of v. 1.0 we’ve uploaded 3 GB of the scriptwriter’s private photos, but it’s not that important right now. What’s important is the fact that the release has finally happened. In honor of this, we even recorded the longest trailer in human history (according to our artist, and he usually lies).
https://youtu.be/58XGHeVuT7k
Overall, we could finish our news here, but we’d like to tell you about the project in numbers a little. If you don’t like numbers, you can imagine cute little turtles instead of them. Turtle-based math is more friendly than the usual one.
The first number that is worth mentioning is the date of the beginning of the development: August 9, 2017. On that date, the very first document with the ideas about the future game was created. It consisted mainly of the programmer’s stream of consciousness. Quote:
“A berry gatherer, a quantum burp, hero destabilization, eversion of mackerel, a big mansion, a wild dog, a train of wind, red loafers, hoof health, a chicken’s sorrow, a mother’s leash, Stalin’s glade, a local historian prophet, a voodoo bard, a water fly, pigfall, a peach crutch, mitten sales, an enterprise of courage, products of sorrow, a head valley, drill the shrimp in, sales palm, a crowd of ronins, banning of thyme, creatures have fallen asleep, romance frigate, the miser and the flea»
Phew, so many brilliant ideas. You can take any of them for your projects if you like — we don’t mind.
After a brainstorm session, dull work on the analysis of trends, genres, ways of monetization, and counting the amount of detergent needed for inspiration, slowly but surely we came up with a survival game in space. So, on August 20, 2017, Breathedge had its very first concept, which marked the beginning of the entire visual part of the game, as well as Man’s appearance.
At first, Breathedge was intended to be a serious game in a strict Soviet visual style about a man who gets into a space catastrophe and wants to get to his quarrelsome wife who was flying with him. But then we slept it off, and we got what we got. We’re sorry.
Anyway, let’s get back to numbers. So, what have we done with our team of 5-8-15 people? (We can’t count all those who had something to do with the game.) Let’s take out our colorful plastic toy abacus and see...
- The game’s script is 43,621 words. Most of the words are obscene. But that’s nothing. This is how the scriptwriter sees it.
- We voiced 1,377 lines for different characters in the game. 1,253 lines belong to the Spacesuit. The longest line lasts 76,833122 seconds, which can put even the most patient players into a coma. So be careful.
- In addition to all the characters’ babbling, the game has 497 sound files, from the sound of footsteps to the "Tachanka" song.
- The game contains 2,722 models (Man, the Chicken, debris, food, tools, a planet, etc.). There is a possibility that some of these models are just junk that was not included in the game. But we tried to keep the project clean, so there aren’t many directories like "New folder — New folder 2 — Delete on release — New folder 3” in the project.
- Apart from the models, textures are also an important part of the game. There are 4,129 of them. You might ask, why are there so few textures, considering that usually, one model requires at least three texture maps, and 4,129 - 2,722 ≠ 3 (sort of)? Well, that's because... Well, yeah, just because. In fact, for the sake of optimization, many models contain the same set of textures, where the most important texture is a field divided into colored squares. Almost every debris in the game world, all buildings, vehicles, ships, and interiors have such textures. At the same time, a very large part of the textures relates to various icons and inventory items. Therefore, in fact, 2,722 models in the game have at best a quarter of the project’s textures.
- Of all the richness of textures, the game has 146 textures localized into 11 languages. We tried to localize various newspapers, screens, packages, calendars, and, in general, any objects containing text. It is difficult and time-consuming, but now you can complete Breathedge in the unfamiliar and beautiful Japanese language, having an unforgettable experience and a complete lack of understanding of what is going on. Isn’t it wonderful? (for our readers from Japan, we advise you to mentally replace part of the previous sentence "... beautiful Japanese" with "... beautiful ________ language”, substituting any unfamiliar language from the list of available ones in the empty field).
- In Breathedge, you can find 107 different effects (particles), from explosions and projectiles to explosions and other projectiles. We have no idea where exactly are these 107 effects, but they are there.
- We are also proud of our set of 380 unique and weird animations. Any complex hand movement is a unique animation, and, usually, two people (an active and a passive animator) worked hard to make it. You can’t find such job positions on any job search sites, but we have them in our studio.
- There are 442 blueprint classes in total. Anyone familiar with Unreal Engine 4 knows that blueprints are simplified rendered pieces of game code. A module, as a building element, consists of several walls, ceilings, floors, and light sources. At the same time, each of the walls is interactive and has its own logic of interaction in the game. All this is collected in one blueprint. Whoop-dee-doo, our long years of work are described in just one ridiculous sentence. Apart from blueprints, there is a lot of C++ code in the game, but it’s impossible to count all the handwritten lines.
- Instead of counting the lines of code, we decided to test the programmer's work in another way. We took a grinder, some pliers, and a magnifying glass, and calculated that the programmer had 1,071,020,491 dead neurons. Stress, comrades, and a lot of work.
- So many numbers. But what about our sales, popularity, money, and shares? Where did we get the money to buy a cruise liner for $79,411,764? Everything is much more complicated here. Nobody, especially our pride, will allow us to tell the exact numbers, but you can find this data in open sources. The range will be as thus: from 100 to 400 thousand players got the game in one way or another. In general, this range is quite close to reality, but it’s already difficult to calculate our earnings even for us. How many copies of the game were distributed to streamers, testers, and the media? How many were sold, in what period, at what price, and at what discounts? How many players requested a refund? How much in taxes did we pay? What were the stores’ fees, technology royalties, bank commissions? How much did we spend on advertising, programs, development, people? Who knows? Let's just multiply 400k players by $25 per copy and get $10 million and be happy rich guys! Woo, let's have a party! (By the way, even this is not enough to buy a liner =( )
Well, that's all. So much useless information. We’ve released the game, calculated all the numbers, so what's next? Well, now we have to complete all our work on porting the game to consoles and the release on them (we will announce the date of this separately), make the promised add-on to Breathedge (it’s free, small, and beautiful, like a ripe wombat), and perhaps, something else, but that’s not for certain. So it goes.
And as usual, you can send all your wishes, doubts, and demands, including more accurate calculations based on our incomprehensible figures, by mail or discord. We always read everything and draw our conclusions.
Our Discord:
https://discord.gg/uezQcU7
Our email:
info@breathedge.com
Game release reminder
Comrades! We gave you the previous piece of news such a long time ago, it’s likely you’ve forgotten about the upcoming release by now. We sure did. And thus, we would like to remind all of you (and notify all those we didn’t know in the first place) that Breathedge will release under version 1.0 on February 25th. The game release includes 3 new story-concluding chapters, 2 new models, 1 new music track, and 50 hours’ worth of title screen fodder text (or maybe not, we’re not sure).
Besides this arch-important reminder, we’d also like to specify the release time by your place of residence:
That’s it, folks. And of course, don’t forget that you can report this low-effort piece of news with the release date and the image it contains straight to our email address or our discord server. We’re monitoring incoming queries all day long with our fatigued, red eyes (and that, for once, isn’t a joke).
See you, space comrade!
Our Discord server: https://discord.gg/uezQcU7
Our email: info@breathedge.com
February 25, The Release. v. 1.0
Comrades! After reading the headline of the news, you’ve probably thought it will be about the upcoming release of the game. But... no. It won’t be about that. There’s nothing much to talk about the release. The PC release will be on February 25th. The end. Can you even call it news? Where’s the pile of meaningless text, where are the silly jokes, and pictures of Man floating against the background of low-poly rocks? That’s what we think, too. Therefore, this piece of news will be dedicated to the rare Atlantic fish "Pisces Terebro", also called the Drill Fish. Its nose has a universal drill that can function as a jackhammer and twenty-five drills for various types of surfaces. Its built-in flashlight, ergonomic grip, and its removable and rechargeable battery make this fish a unique underwater repair tool. And its slimy scales and nasty temper will keep you busy, for sure. Drill Fish – available in all Atlantic stores! Get one now and never read any news from our team.
All right, it's time to stop all this subtle hidden advertising in the news and get back to the main topic. On February 25, 2021, Breathedge will exit Early Access and will receive an update to version 1.0.
https://youtu.be/Q3TvkZ9vemA
Yep, that’s right! Breathedge won’t be an endless Early Access project anymore. It will receive a completed game status, end credits, and a finished story. We all dreamed of endless development, promises, promises to promise promises, and so on... But, unfortunately, when our programmer started hitting the scriptwriter with the keyboard again, he accidentally finished developing the game. Well, it happens.
For all those who didn’t have the opportunity to buy Breathedge, play 10 minutes, and get a refund, we would like to briefly tell you that this game is about space, a suffocating Man, an immortal chicken, coffins, collecting all kinds of junk, and a world conspiracy. Of course, it has many other useful things for humanity, such as indecent inscriptions on the hulls of ships, strange humor, linear locations, and bad game design decisions, but we’ve deliberately omitted these details so as not to spoil your first and last 10 minutes in the game.
For those who bought the game, but didn’t have time to get a refund, because their spouse/mother/grandmother called them to eat some soup, we would like to remind you that the future release update will add three new, final chapters to the game. We tried to make them as dynamic and rich in terms of the storyline as possible, but things turned out as usual. In the new chapters, you will be able to fly in a spaceship, shoot into the void of space from large turrets, break something, blow up something and, if you're lucky, fix something. As a gift, in addition to the infinity of empty space, as usual, there will be a handful of collectible junk, a couple of new tools, a couple of new resources, and some joke about games.
By the way, this piece of news is translated into all the languages that will be in the game on its release. We are obliged to remind you that the project will have full text and voice English and Russian localizations, and full text localizations (textures, texts, captions, UI) in the following languages: German, French, Polish, Spanish (LATAM), Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean. And yeah, someone has covered our office walls in graffiti with the Brazilian flags because in our previous piece of news we showed only a Portuguese flag. Good thing we don’t have an office at all, but we’ll add the Brazillian flag anyway.
For those who are waiting for the game on consoles, we have some good news and bad news. The good news is that we have finished porting the game to consoles. The bad news is that we have finished porting the game to consoles. Oh, wait, something’s not right… Anyway, we’ve completely finished porting the game to consoles, but we’ll inform those of you who are interested about the release date later. It’s quite possible that the release dates on consoles will differ from the PC one due to long checkups, but we’ll still let you know what the dates are.
And the last thing: those who follow the project saw the information that Breathedge will have a small story expansion — absolutely free and, we could say, given to you by force. So, we’ve started working on it, and you can try to guess what it will be about and what it’ll have (and while you’re at it, we’ll steal your ideas).
So it goes. Anyway, if trying to be real serious, the release of the game is a big and important thing for us, and we’re glad that together with you we’ve walked this long way from the first small location to some other small location, and we even didn’t die. It was awesome, but we’ll try and make it even more awesome.
And as always, you can send all your wishes, your hurt feelings and disappointments, together with bug reports and questions, to our Discord and email. We try to read them all, and we even have some success in it.
Our Discord:
https://discord.gg/uezQcU7
Our email:
info@breathedge.com