MacGuffin's Curse has had a major renovation! Now with more pixels, and new builds for Windows, Mac, and releasing for the first time on Linux!

While the gameplay is the same, people playing on resolutions higher than 1024x768 (the OLD standard) will automatically default to HD assets, and have access to a widescreen display option!

Adding Linux as a new platform, and updating the Windows and Mac builds was achieved by updating a 10 year old Unity project. They said it couldn't be done! Now that MacGuffin's Curse has been resurrected from the dead it will hopefully keep pace with the ever changing Mac OS updates (Linux and Windows will probably be fine forever and ever).

Brawsome's second game, the werewolf comedy puzzle adventure - MacGuffin's Curse, is getting an HD facelift on March 15, 2021.

The update includes a new build of MacGuffin's Curse, supporting the latest Windows and Mac operating systems, as well as releasing on Linux for the first time!

The game also breaks the desktop version out of it's 4:3 resolution to support 16:9 widescreen mode for the first time!



https://store.steampowered.com/app/58230/MacGuffins_Curse/

Warp Frontier is getting Chinese and German translations!



The Simplified and Traditional Chinese translations are launching for the Lunar New Year, and the German translation is coming in April. Hopefully an Aussie point and click adventure will translate well into other languages. I'm trying these first two to test the waters.

I ramble on more about it here.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier/

Last week I caught up with the guys from the In The Deep End podcast. There were some really insightful questions about Warp Frontier and Brawsome origins!

Also, I recorded this at 6:30am to compensate for the time difference, so excuse me if I'm a little groggy.


In The Deep End - A Gaming Podcast

https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier/

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I was interviewed on the @pncpodcast about Warp Frontier!

If you speak Spanish, check it out here



Also, I'll be releasing the Mac and Linux versions of Warp Frontier tomorrow on Steam and GOG!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier/

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If you own the game already you can see it now on a top secret branch using the password 'massivekrill'. More detail here.

Oh and a final note; if you have played Warp Frontier, please consider leaving a review! It makes a huge difference, especially at this early stage in the game's life.

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Greetings from Brawsome!

Warp Frontier is coming to Linux and Mac! I have just now finished testing that they run on those platforms and got the Steam integration hooked up. If you're an owner of Warp Frontier already, or would like to test on those platforms please reach out and I'll get a small group going. If everything goes well I hope to be able to release on those platforms next month!



https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier/

Brawsome's third game - Warp Frontier, has just launched everywhere! It has a 10% discount for the launch week, so now would be a great time to pick up a copy!



https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier/

Warp Frontier also contains an original soundtrack by Thomas Regin, which is available as a seperate purchase.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1765900/Warp_Frontier_Soundtrack/

I had a nice chat with Seoirse Gorka Dunbar from the Adventure Games Podcast last week ahead of Warp Frontier releasing this week.

We managed to cover a surprising amount of ground in 90 minutes, from accents, growing up, my motivations around making games, and through pretty much the entire history of Brawsome up to this point.


https://adventuregamespodcast.com/podcast/2021/9/25/episode-122-interivew-with-andrew-goulding-aka-captain-brawsome

Greetings from Brawsome!

Warp Frontier releases in a week! The craziness of a three year development cycle has stablized at Brawsome HQ just long enough to consider adding one more thing to the Warp Frontier release in the form of a standalone soundtrack!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1765900/Warp_Frontier_Soundtrack/

Thomas Regin did a fantastic job composing the score of Warp Frontier, which has influences from The Expanse, The Dig, and The Terminator. It's an 80's sci-fi inspired sound track that feels unlike anything else.

The soundtrack will drop the same time as Warp Frontier. Throw it up on your wishlist, if that's your thing.

Greetings from Brawsome!

It's finally happening! Three years after Brawsome's return to Australia from the US, it's releasing its next game - Warp Frontier!

Warp Frontier is a fully voiced 2D sci-fi point and click adventure, in HD resolution, coming to screens the 28th of September, 2021, on Steam, GOG and Switch for US$14.99. Initial PC release will be Windows, with MAC and Linux versions to follow.

Warp Frontier is a sci-fi cop drama, set in the year 2215, in orbit around Cetus, humanity's newest extrasolar colony, but at its core is an Australian story, with many parallels with Australia's short history. You play Vincent Cassini, supported by his robot partner, MAC, as they become embroiled in an investigation into a horrendous war crime, in which Vince has a personal stake, from the war that environmentally devastated their planet. Vince is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, dealing with PTSD, alcoholism and survivors guilt, but must keep it together for those that rely on him, his family, the refugees of Cetus and the thousands that went missing during the war.

Warp Frontier contains many choices that result in branching pathways, leading to characters opening up, or closing off, the life or death of key characters, and the lives of thousands of innocent civilians. The final scene has around 16 permutations of resolution, from choices made as early as the first few scenes. Players can expect an initial playtime of 6-8 hours, but will need at least 3 playthroughs to experience all content.

Warp Frontier was inspired by hard sci-fi, such as the novels of Alistair Reynolds, and the writings of Ray Kurzweil, as well as the TV series' The Expanse, and Altered Carbon. It's set in a what-if universe, where a singularity event in 2050 nearly wiped-out humanity, resulting in the outlawing of Artificial General Intelligence, and replicators. The game-changing Warp technology, made possible by the discovery of a rare element, has allowed a handful of new human colonies to establish in the far-reaches of the galaxy. Over time, branches of humanity have grown apart, separated by distance and environmental factors, to call into question what defines humanity, coupled with technology that cheats death, and challenges the concept of a soul.

Development of Warp Frontier has been a manic series of highs and lows, but determination and a healthy dose of naive optimism have brought the idea from a dog-eared notepad to big and small screens (considering big to be a TV. A big TV). Though Brawsome's previous titles are all crafted as very personal projects, Warp Frontier hits particularly close to home, being my first quintessentially Australian offering, drawing on my experiences growing up in multicultural Australia as a child of immigrant parents, as well as my first outing in voice acting (MAC), and also my boys first voice acting experience (Sam, Ferdinand).

The entire game was developed remotely, mostly during the pandemic. None of the team members were able to meet in person during development. Brawsome again teamed up with Matt Martin (MacGuffin's Curse, Jolly Rover) on art, to work in Matt's preferred photo-realistic style. Thomas Regin (Unavowed) provided an 80's sci-fi inspired score, and newcomer Michelle Doherty handled the skeletal 2D animation. Brawsome was also fortunate enough to work with veteran Aussie voice actors Kevin Powe (Vince), Aimee Smith (Trish, Julie, Ship) and Angela Tran (Dahlia, Jet, Sok), as well as veteran and new actors from New Zealand, the US, UK and Serbia.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier/

I've been posting a few videos of Warp Frontier's development over the last 3 years. Some videos as far back as 2019!

You can check them out in this YouTube List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlxqKStZS1M&list=PLhQHVdFVeI5sKKNZg6XRu9IWG7J7PRMXF

We were using Blender for greyboxing of scenes, which beats the hand-drawn scanned images I've used on previous games. The animation went through a few iterations as well.

I've saved all the videos of my first play through the entire game from about mid-2020, but I'm not sure if there's a good way to share them without lots of spoilers. So, I've just tried to pick out a few that don't give away too much!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier/

I did an interview with Robert Willing yesterday on all things Brawsome, which can be viewed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZX7ZMCKaQ

Check Robert's other videos for interviews with Dave Gilbert, Francisco Gonzalez and more!

Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Aimee Smith!

Aimee plays Juliet Cassini. Fierce leader in the war resistance, but whose whereabouts have been a mystery for the last 10 years. Vince never gave up looking for her.

Juliet is a mystery character we hear bits and pieces of throughout the game. I'm purposefully keeping her look vague here to avoid spoilers!

https://youtu.be/rOVRVuxho3E

This is the final voice actor spotlight for Warp Frontier. Does it feel like there have been a lot? There have been a lot! You can revisit all 24 of them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn6Ye896qAc&list=PLhQHVdFVeI5seW65ghXaXADS7dMbzqJPm

I probably underestimated the effort required to get all of these done and post about them, like I do with most things, but I'm happy with the result, and I hope people found them interesting.

As this marks the end of the voice actor spotlights, the next adventure is getting some testers into the game, which I'll start collating next week, but hit me up if you're interested and can dedicate some tim to the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier/

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Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Lazar Djuki!

Lazar Djuki plays Denko Novak. Veteran of the Cetan war, serving as the General Kuznetsov's personal security.

Lazar has great energy, and had to tone it down a little for Denko. Lazar seems like the kind of actor that I would have been able to cast on Jolly Rover. Maybe there are more roles for him in future! Lazar took on 4 roles in Warp Frontier, but I'm only showcasing two of them here. In the game this voice is processed through a helmet radio, so this is probably the only 'clean' version you'll hear.

https://youtu.be/KJgVAXCsbQE

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Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Angela Tran!

Angela plays Sok. A street kid from the Rust, their home planet's orbital slum. Sok puts on a tough front, but will lose his cool in the face of a real threat.

This is Angela's third and final spotlight, though she voiced a computer as well, there wasn't enough lines to warrant another. Behind Vince and MAC, Angela had the third-most lines in the game, which makes her a pretty major part of Warp Frontier. I hope this isn't the the project I get to work with here on!

https://youtu.be/-x1nokiox5w

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Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is James Goulding!

James, my youngest son, plays Ferdinand. Vince and Trish's youngest boy, Ferdinand has spent his entire life in orbit, and relies on his brother Sam for support and guidance.

James was 6 at the time of recording, and was surprisingly natural and took direction very well. He was great at projecting, as 6 year olds seem to be constantly projecting. The only issue I had was getting him to face the microphone. He would say his lines then look at me right at the last word. To solve this I put a lego person behind the mic and had him say all his lines to it, which worked perfectly.

https://youtu.be/wfVThDzeELQ

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Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Xun Vinh Huynh!

Xuan Vinh Huynh plays Hebo. A street kid from the Rust, their home planet's orbital slum. Hebo's a tough risk taker, as long as his parents don't find out about his actions.

Xuan's line delivery was one of the few instances where I didn't have to ask for any retakes. We were both surprised! It also helps that Xuan knows a thing or two about audio and I didn't have to mess with his audio files at all, bar a slight tweak to levels. If you want a hassle free voice actor Xuan's your guy.

https://youtu.be/3CF7x4bQh14

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Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Ivona Kustudi!

Ivona Kustudic plays Nina Mishkin. Commander of a Locan security team, Nina follows her orders to a point, but knows war contains shades of grey.

This is Ivona's second role in Warp Frontier, playing a veteran soldier. Ivona had to push her voice a little harder on this role to achieve a husky quality. I had a little trouble cleaning and levelling some of these lines, but once I was put onto Izotope RX I was able to get a result I could drop into the game.

https://youtu.be/UsPSymaLGYE

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Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Edwyn Tiong!

Edwyn plays various nefarious computers. Edwyn didn't fit any of the existing roles, but I was glad to find a part, even though small, for his unique voice and delivery.

There are a lot of voice actors I'd like to work with again, which is especially true for the cast of Jolly Rover, but sometimes the roles aren't there for them. After this game, if I get lucky enough to make another, I'll likely have voices of various actors I'd like to work with in the forefront of my mind when I get to putting pen to paper.

https://youtu.be/3vziUdnnntA

https://store.steampowered.com/app/226280/Warp_Frontier/

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