Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Daily Run Leaderboard Hotfix 1.9.3
Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks a lot for the continued interest in Daily Runs everyone!
Improved Liberation mode and final polish round incoming!
We gathered the team one more time and fine-tuned all the minor aspects we were itching to make better. We also added one major feature for Liberation Mode. It was a pleasure to dive back into Gibbon with our wonderful team. We hope you enjoy this update as much as we enjoyed putting it together!
Escape the new hawk-eagle:
Predator Approaching!
Can you escape the new bird of prey that hunts Lilac? Stay alert: The hawk-eagle now appears during Liberation mode and can kill our gibbons!
Take a break in our gibbon's family tree to celebrate whenever you free 10 animals. This improves the overall rhythm of longer runs in Liberation mode. We also added some new levels, where you can slide through more industrial areas in plantation and carefully traverse an intimidating burning landfill in town.
So much polish to sweeten up this update:
Shinier than ever
Coolest addition: Humans now react to gibbons passing by! The gibbons' bounce animation got an iteration and is now snappier and more visually appealing. We've also added some cool water effects when Pink or Lilac run through shallow water.
Additionally we've made improvements to various minor visual aspects throughout the game, making the game world even more intriguing. Lastly we've boosted the performance and optimised memory usage, making things even smoother for you.
Keep swinging ๐, now better than ever ๐ !
- Broken Rules
Here's a full list of changes for version 1.9.2:
- Five new levels to Liberation and Daily Run mode
- More industrial areas in plantation
- New achievement for escaping the hawk-eagle multiple times
- Many visual improvements and bug fixes
- Humans now react to gibbons passing by
- Improved bounce animation
- Level sections with locked Encyclopaedia entries appear more often
- Happy Bouncing achievement now only needs 3 instead of 5 bounces
- Double backflip from crane now possible
- Family tree celebration whenever freeing 10 animals
- Cages align with sloped roofs
- Cool water effects when running through shallow water
- Squashed various minor bugs and glitches
- The game now starts faster when offline
- Performance and memory improvements
WDC World Oceans Day Charity Sale
We are excited to announce that we are supporting WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation for World Oceans Day!
The WDC World Oceans Day Sale starts today and runs until 15th June, 10am PDT 2023, and you can save a fin-tastic 50% off Gibbon: Beyond the Trees and its soundtrack. We will also donate 50% of our net profits to WDC to support their conservation work.*
Their cause is very dear to our hearts so please support us and spread the word. You can find out more about WDC and their work down below.
WDC, Whale and Dolphin conservation is the leading global charity dedicated to the protection and conservation of whales and dolphins.
Their expert-led teams in the UK, Europe, the Americas, and Australasia work across the whole spectrum of threats, from climate breakdown to accidental entanglements in fishing gear. They bring together, and work hand-in-hand with, businesses, philanthropists, scientists, NGOs, governments and grassroots communities to find solutions to the problems faced by whales and dolphins.
Their aim is to reverse the global decline in whale and dolphin populations by:
- Stopping cruelty from deliberate harms such as whaling and captivity.
- Creating safe seas, free from the threat of pollution, collisions with vessels and accidental entanglement in fishing gear.
- Winning recognition of whales and dolphins as sentient, socially complex beings, and our allies in the fight against climate and nature breakdown.
Whales and dolphins are awe-inspiring. They are intelligent beings, vital for the health of the ocean and planet. They have suffered from terrible harm - deliberate and accidental - and their homes and populations are under threat. But it's not too late.
Together we can still help them recover and flourish and they can help us reconnect with the wild, and repair the damage we have caused.
If you want to read more about WDC, you can do so here: https://whales.org/
You can find many other amazing games in the sale here: https://bit.ly/OceansDaySteamSale23
Thank you for joining us and for supporting WDC!
We very much appreciate your support ๐โโ๏ธ
Keep swinging ๐ and saving ๐ณ & ๐ฌ!
- Broken Rules
*50% of our net developer revenue from this sale will support WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Whale and Dolphin Conservation is a UK registered charity (no. 1014705)
Incoming: Encyclopedia
We have a new major update for Gibbon: Beyond the Trees.
We always wanted to include even more real world information about gibbons, their habitat and how they are endangered.
So with this update we are doing exactly that. We've added an encyclopedia with unlockable entries which will give you more context and background information about the game's protagonists and their environment.
You can collect pickups in Liberation mode to unlock and read them in a nice little in-game gallery.
News on Steam Deck Compatibility:
We have also been working on making Gibbon: Beyond the Trees fully Steam Deck compatible. It is not yet officially verified but you can already play it very nicely on the system with this update.
There is also some additional content and some more improvements coming alongside this update. See all of them in detail down below.
Steam Developer Site:
Broken Rules does now have a developer site here on Steam where you can follow us and get all the updates on our studio and games.
Go and check it out!
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/brokenrules
Keep swinging ๐, and reading ๐,
- Broken Rules
Here's a full list of changes for version 1.7.1:
- New achievement Bookworm related to the encyclopedia
- Added a new story moment after the hunt
- Added new levels to Liberation and Daily Run mode
- Can you make it through fires within trees?
- Cross a river over a big logging boat!
- Can you make it through fires within trees?
- Improvements for Steam Deck compatibility:
- Proper touch navigation for menus
- Display the right controller buttons (also for various controllers on desktops)
- Proper touch navigation for menus
- Many minor improvements and bug fixes
Nominate us for the Steam Awards!
This year's Steam Awards are on the horizon. You can help us out by giving Gibbon: Beyond the Trees your vote. We think the most fitting category would be Outstanding Visual Style but feel free to nominate us for whatever category you see fit of course ๐
We very much appreciate your support ๐โโ๏ธ
Keep swinging ๐!
- Broken Rules
PS: If you haven't already give our new Daily Runs ๐ a try which we introduced not that long ago
IndieCade 2022 Nomination
We are very proud to be be part of this year's IndieCade nominees.
IndieCade is hosting an online-only event this time, check out their website for further details: http://www.indiecade.com/festival-2022/
Please also check out all the other wonderful games that are nominated:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/5419830/sale/indiecade2022
So many innovative and exciting games, right?
Thanks to the IndieCade jury for selecting us!
This year's trophies are generative art made by our friend Richard Boeser (of Chalo Chalo and ibb & obb fame) and they look lovely.
Only two days left to get our game and a bunch of others at a discount to celebrate this year's festival.
Keep swinging ๐!
- Broken Rules
Daily Runs incoming!
You helped us a lot during the last few weeks to make this new game mode rock solid. Big shoutout to everyone who has joined our beta for daily runs. Thank you so much!
Now it is time to set it live for all of you:
Introducing Gibbon: Beyond the Trees' third game mode:
Daily Run
Race against each other and enter the leaderboards!
We hope you like it and will have a lot of fun with this new mode.
Who will make it the furthest in the given time, who will be the fastest gibbon of the day?
There's another feature to sweeten up this update:
Steam Cloud Support
We now sync your progress in the game to all the devices you use Steam on. As from today, you can pick up your current progress wherever you play. Should you already have started the game on a different device or use more than one profile โ these will all be kept and synced in the future.
Keep swinging ๐, now as fast as you can ๐!
- Broken Rules
Here's a full list of changes for version 1.6.2:
- Daily Runs are now available when you completed the story
- New procedural level every day! Same for everyone.
- Compete with players from all over the world on the leaderboards!
- 4 new achievements related to the new game mode
- New procedural level every day! Same for everyone.
- Game progress is now syncronized via Steam Cloud
- When playing with a controller, we now show the buttons in game stylized for the most common controllers.
- The default language (used when first starting the game, or creating a new profile) can now be overridden in the game's language preferences.
Invitation for Daily Runs BETA
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees will receive some post-launch attention over the next few months.
The first news we would like to share with you is that a new game mode is coming soon: Daily Runs
It has not been tested out in the wild on Steam yet, so we ask for your help and invite you to our BETA โ race against each other, and to enter the leaderboards.
Who will make it the furthest in the given time, who will be the fastest Gibbon of the day?
You can already play the beta, starting today!
Your help would be highly appreciated. Thank you so much!
How can you join?
Just right-click on our game in your library, go to Properties and there to the BETA tab and select it in the drop-down. The game will quickly update and you are part of our beta Gibbon crew. If you want to go back to the original game just follow the same steps as above and select NONE again.
Please let us know what you think, by leaving some feedback down below. Looking forward to see your comments!
We hope you like will have a lot of fun with the new mode!
Keep swinging ๐
Broken Rules
Game Update and Fixes 1.5.4
We have been working on new features and fixes since we launched our ecological Adventure Gibbon: Beyond the Trees a few weeks ago.
Some new content has been added and performance- and general issues have been fixed. See the full details below.
Update log:
โ Made the crane needed for the Canabalt achievement appear more often and easier to reach
โ Lotโs of performance improvements during gameplay
โ Improved performance drops from world generation
โ Added new logging levels to Liberation
โ Added new backgrounds to Story mode to tell more about the destruction of our gibbonsโ habitat
โ Improved clouds and lighting
โ Fixed background glitches in Liberation mode
โ Use mouse gestures to backflip or drop-down
We hope you like these updates! There is also a new mode we will soon introduce. You can try it already in BETA. Just have a look at the other news beat we will be sharing today.
Keep swinging ๐
Broken Rules
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is OUT NOW!
We just launched our latest game Gibbon: Beyond the Trees.
You can finally get it in your hands. Woop woop!
It comes with a sweet little launch discount and it also has a super nice soundtrack you can get.
We put our all into this little gem over the last 3 years so we hope you will enjoy it!
Start swinging ๐
Broken Rules