Cycle 28 is 85% off as part of the Steam SHMUP Fest!

The second game we released, and if I'm honest the one I'm most proud of. It's the only game I've ever worked on that almost made a streamer cry because it took them back to their childhood. It was the first game by a Welsh studio to be released on Nintendo Switch which led to be being nominated for a BAFTA. You have just six minutes to beat your high score and the fantastic track our composer wrote for us lets you know exactly how long you have left without needing to look at the clock.

Here is a video review which will give you an idea if the game is for you or not...

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You can now play the demo for our next game Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory by visiting the store page using the link below. Its an open ended factory, automation style puzzle game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2166920/Captain_Contraptions_Chocolate_Factory/

Using a simple set of tools youll need to automate production of a variety of sweet treats like chocolate covered toasted almonds. The game plays sort of like a mix between a programming game like Opus Magnum, a factory game like factorio and a contraption maker game like The Incredible Machine.

Check it out and let us know what you think!

We are super excited that our intense space dogfight simulator is on sale as part of the Going Rogue Festival.

Cycle 28 is a small game we are both super proud of. If you enjoy score attack retro arcade games this one could be for you. There are a bunch of upgrades to unlock and a mystery to solve. If you aren't sure check out this review on Nintendo Life.

"Cycle 28 disguises itself as a solid arcade shooter with minimalist aesthetics but slowly reveals itself to be something far beyond that. It successfully manages to engulf the player in the mystery that led to the player character's current predicament and entices you to seek the truth, find answers to questions you didnt know existed and attempt to break the cycle and who knows, maybe freedom and a happy conclusion? We rarely get to play video games where each Game Over offers the possibility to solve a mystery, so we kept coming back to it again and again - and so will you."

Old wounds never heal. Who is the better Cycle 28 player Dave or Sean? Join us Tuesday evening to find out!

We will be streaming in two places - Sean right here on the steam store page and Dave over on our Twitch channel. You'll be able to see us battle on the leaderboards in real time - and even battle along with us!

Set a reminder by hitting the blue button on the sidebar and follow us on twitch.

Did you hear? Did you see? Pill Bugs next game Making it Home launches today!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098220/Making_it_Home/

Whether you enjoyed the bare-knuckle lo-fi thrills of Cycle 28, or the chilled joy of watching something of yours grow in Intelligent Design, we think Making it Home has something for you.

And it starts with testing your vehicle building skills against the full range of twisty routes, tricky obstacles, and fiendish boss encounters that Sean and I have come up with. In doing so, youll unlock brand new achievements and challenge modes.

Were finally letting everyone loose on the games full branching narrative too. Will you uncover the truth behind whats happening to this ladybug and her animal family? And what relationships will you make or break along the way?

Sean and I cant quite believe weve made it this far. Its been three amazing but challenging years developing this game. We couldnt be prouder of what the whole team has achieved. And we couldnt have done it without the help and support of our amazing community here on Steam.

Thats you, that is. Thank you.

I hope you enjoy Making it Home as much as we have.

Some very respectable scores here for June's leaderboard - it's always good to see folks breaking the 10k mark!

This month Sparks flew, we saw some significant Flex(o), and we finally answered the age old question of what to do with a/some drunken sailor (boi)...

But nobody could top Lord Bern.

April can be the cruelest month... but not for these leaderboard pilots!

And, do we spy one of the Devs sneaking some game time in here and making 4th place? Shouldn't he be working?

Two months in a row Gustav takes the top spot with a respectable 6,816 ... anyone going to challenge his position next month?

In our most recent update to our next game Making it Home we added local co-op. That gave us the chance to be part of the remote play together event Valve has been running the past few days.

If you haven't checked it out yet, Making it Home is a vehicle building game where your vehicle is your base. Design it, drive it, automate it and defend it as you travel from one side of America to the other.

As part of the remote play together event the game is on sale, plus we ran a developer stream which you can currently watch a replay of over on the store page.

Check it out below!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098220/Making_it_Home/

Lots of new faces in February's leader board... super close between 1 and 2 last month! Congratulations Gustav!

It's long past due for another Cycle 28 leaderboard update!

It's been a tough old time lately for many of us and seeing so many people enjoying our game really helps me stay positive - so thanks!

October


November

(cough - I got second - cough)

December


January


A great top score by Lee Boon in January - is that going to be a sign of things to come in 2021?

Good News Everyone! All our games are on sale for Winter

Making it Home - A vehicle building game currently in early access. You're a lady bug building a rube goldberg style machine to take you across America! Think Banjo Kazooie - Nuts and Bolts but in 2D.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098220/Making_it_Home/
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Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox - janky weird life simulation game. You have to design and manage an evolving ecosystem. It was our first commercial game and has mixed reviews on steam - it's not for everyone so check them out before you buy.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/627620/Intelligent_Design_An_Evolutionary_Sandbox/
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Take a look at the links above and add one to your collection today!

Thanks for all the support youve given us and other indie game developers - it means a lot to all of us.

Here's the first of our autumn 2020 leaderboard top 5s:



Some sterling work there from new names and old alike, keeping that golden menace at bay!

Wait a minute. Golden menace? Autumn leaves turning golden? The cycle of the seasons?

...

It's all starting to make sense

...

You know what they say, better late than never!

Apologies for the delay, folks, but it's been a super busy summer for us at Pill Bug. As well as a super strange one, obviously.

But all the while folks have been enjoying Cycle 28 and posting some mighty fine scores. So, without further ado, here's the scores for July:



Whoa. Those are some serious numbers right there.

August was a little more modest on the score front. Maybe people were out enjoying the sunshine?



We're back on top of things here, so expect regularly monthly leaderboard posts to resume.

Im super excited to announce that our vehicle building game Making it Home is now available in Early Access on Steam (currently 15% off!)

Weve been working on it for a while now and are super proud of it. Its something we had the idea for 3 years ago. In Making it Home you are a ladybug building a marvellous contraption to travel from one side of America to the other. As you travel youll unlock new components to build your vehicle and discover ways of making them work together. Youll meet lots of different characters and face different challenges to push your design skills. Then when you just want to chill out and optimise some designs weve added some challenge modes with leaderboards for that.

Its the biggest game weve made and it would be great if you check it out today and join us for the Early Access journey!

June Top 5:



We hope everyone is staying safe and well. Wherever you are in the world, chances are your June has been affected by the pandemic somehow. For some this will include changes to how we engage with games and the hobby of gaming. I know it's changed the way Sean and I play games right now.

So it's just awesome to see two mainstays of the Cycle 28 leaderboards continue to post excellent scores, as well as seeing some new names in the Top 5.

Our next game Making it Home is currently part of the steam festival. For the next week you will be able to play the demo.

Be sure to check it out! Click here and download.

Making it Home is a vehicle building game. Youre a ladybug building a marvellous contraption to travel from one side of America to the other. Bounce around your vehicle, hoisting sails, squeezing bellows, and spinning propellers. How will you make it home?

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May Top 5:



May, for many people, was another month in some form of lockdown. We hope everyone is staying safe and well. It was also a month of huge protest and upheaval as events in the USA reverberated around much of the world.

In times like these, games and other such activities can feel insignificant or a luxury. And we think it's okay to feel that way - we know friends and family who have stopped their hobbies or playing games because now just doesn't feel like the time. But we also know many people take solace and comfort in the escapism and structure games can provide. For so many people, gaming is a core part of their identity and community.

In the last weeks and months, the varied communities that we are lucky to be part of have really pulled together and done some amazing things (check out our social media streams if you'd like to know more).

Stay safe, everyone, and look after each other.

Like last month, April was no doubt a very difficult month for a lot of people. We hope everyone is staying safe and well.

Sean and I are both finding a lot of solace in games right now, and we imagine many of our players are too. High scores, levelling up, getting achievements, etc - it all feels like a very welcome distraction.

So, without further ado, here's April's top 5:



Some really impressive scores there, from consistent pilots and new names alike! Well done, folks, and good hunting for May.

March was . . . March was indescribable. I have no pithy, witty way to talk about it.

All I can say is, Sean and I are (and continue to be) proud and grateful that people are playing games we produce. This really hits home in times like these.

Our top 5 for March:



We hope you all stay safe and well.

Dave

Is it me, or did February look a lot like January... ?

No, not out there, right here on the Cycle 28 Leaderboards. This months top 5 features 4 of the same names as January's. So congrats to those consistent scorers, and also to Hornetnest for stepping up to that top 5!



What will March bring? Who knows right now...

But seriously, stay safe everyone.

The first monthly leaderboard of 2020 saw some very strong scores by new names and Cycle 28 mainstays alike.

Congrats to ThereIsNoHope for topping yet another monthly with an impressive 21k score. We'll have to start tracking how many monthlies people top, and have another leaderboard for that... Yay, more leaderboards!

Congrats to everyone in the top 5:

And lo, the angels sang out:

"Let there be a new high score for Cycle 28!"



And there was much rejoicing! This impressive score not only topped the month, but also the overall leaderboards by 3,352 points!

Congratulations to everyone who made it onto one of the most competitive and high scoring top 5 in some time. Look at what you can all achieve with a little holiday time, huh?

We hope everyone had a great festive break!

In the run-up to the festive season, the Cycle 28 leaderboards have been just as fierce as ever. Our top five have posted some impressive scores here.




But could you do better? Well, maybe you've got a few days in December to find out...

Oh, and Merry Christmas everyone, from Sean and Dave!

What could possibly be more terrifying, more stupefying, more mindbendingly disturbing, than Sean in another Top 5 of our Leaderboard.

Gaze upon it at your own risk:




Congrats to Mr Big Stuff for topping this horrifying roll-call, and proving that there is still some good in the universe.

How long will Sean's top-five-terror continue? Not to Christmas, surely ...?

Whoa, apologies folks for the late posting - it's been a full on few weeks here at Pill Bug. Lot's of exciting stuff though (see the previous announcement about BAFTA Cymru).

Even more exciting, would you look at the top 5 for September:



Who's that on top??

Shouldn't he be too busy coding or something?

Can he keep it up? Surely one of you fine pilots will be able to stop him next month?

Tune in next month(ish) to find out...

Summer came and went faster than a pack of scout ships, amiright?

But not all of you wasted the month of August on a beach somewhere, sipping something fruity. Instead, you hit the leaderboards with a vengeance. Great to see three names breaking the 10k mark!



Guess we'll have to see what happens when the best of us have to go back to school/work, huh?

We are super proud to announce that Cycle 28 has been nominated in the BAFTA Cymru Game category!



It's still not really sunk in that we're one of three great games in the running this year. Sean and Dave will be attending the big ceremony (once they've tracked down some new formal wear ...) so expect some pics of two awkward devs in suits on a red carpet!

But mostly we wanted to thank everyone in the Cycle 28 community - without your support, we would never have even finished this game, let alone have it nominated for something. You're all the best!

We just launched the steam page for our next game Making it Home and it would really help if you would add it to your wishlist.



Youre a ladybug building a marvellous contraption to travel from one side of America to the other. Bounce around your vehicle, hoisting sails, squeezing bellows, and spinning propellers. How will you make it home?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098220/Making_it_Home/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jLvcUSwsSo

It would appear summer isn't all about sunshine, beaches, and ice cream (especially if you live somewhere like Wales!)

No, summer is really about putting up respectable scores on leaderboards! Whether it's like these five fine pilots, or on other great leaderboard games, there's always more competition to be had.



Congrats to Lord Bern and Extractum11 from breaking the 10k mark!

And with plenty of the school holidays left, it will be really interesting to see the August scores.

Things are hotting up this summer (and I'm not just talking about my attic-office)!

As ever, Cycle 28 has been part of the big Steam Summer Sale - so we usually hope to see some new names on the monthly leaderboards...

And June has not disappointed! Great to see some top scores this month.

Nothing like a bit of fresh blood to fire up the competition, eh?

Congrats to the top 5:



Next month, it could be you.

(Unless you're Sean).

This month sees two titans of the Cycle 28 leaderboards back in action! Topping the 'boards this month is Haystack, albeit with a more modest score this month. And squeaking in at number 5...

Who's that?

No?

Really??

Good news everyone!

We have just launched Linux and Mac ports of Cycle 28 here on Steam.

If you are new to Cycle 28 its a fast-paced space shooter with screen-shaking explosions and a mystery at its heart. In the game you play as Lieutenant Olivia Bergen, stuck living the same day over and over, trying to figure out who the enemy are, what they want, and how to get home.

Nintendo Life reviewed the Nintendo Switch version of the game giving it 8/10 saying "..we kept coming back to it again and again - and so will you.

Looking forward to even more competition on the leader boards!

In April 2018 we added the Monthly Leaderboard feature to Cycle 28 - I just can't believe it's been a whole year!

It's been an amazing ride and we have all the players who continue to posts scores and play the game, month after month, to thank for that.

Which means ... Now all monthly leaderboard posts will come with the year in the headline! See, admin can be exciting!

But without further ado/nonsense, here's this month's results:



Congrats to all those posting great scores. And here's to another year of 'em!

It's been a busy few months here at Pill Bug, with lots going on for Cycle 28 and more! Unfortunately that's meant Sean and I haven't posted anything respectable on the leaderboards. But plenty of you have, including a veteran of these posts, ThereIsNoHope, with an impressive 16k score!



We've all got a lot of work to do to catch that kinda score... So get to it with these last days of April and who knows, it could be you topping the 'boards.

It was the month of love and leaderboards.

We didn't have a lot of time for either here at Pill Bug, but looks like some folks did! Some very respectable scores here. Presumably these were managed between crafting Valentine's cards and composing dodgy rhyming poetry...



<3

Hello everyone! Hope this year is going well for you so far, it sure is for me. Check out last months leaderboards...



I finally did it... I topped the monthly leaderboard, and a personal best no less. It was a tense run and those of you who watched our stream would have seen it happen live. Congratulations to Falsemind who came second, it was a close battle from 2nd place down to 5th, things are really heating up.

Speaking of streaming, tomorrow night at 8PM GMT we will be doing our monthly developer shoot out. You can set a reminder for that over on twitch.

Will I set a new personal best?
Will Dave manage to get into the top 5 for Feb?

Join us to find out!

Happy New Year to one and all! Hope you all had a great festive break, full of awesome indie games.

Amidst all the festive fun, there's still been some tough competition on the Cycle 28 leaderboards. As ever, it's great to see new names in the top 5, as well as some monthly leaderboard mainstays.



Somehow, Dave managed to sneak into the top 5 this month - and did so live on the Pill Bug Dev stream. Sean was... ill that night...



Here's wishing everyone a fantastic 2019 from all the Pill Bug team!

It's been a wild ride since launching our first game on itch almost three years ago. Since then we've talked to and met lots of gamers from all around the world. We've launched Cycle 28 on PC and console, and released a free content update for are first game.

For the past month or so Dave and I have been building a Patreon page. We are creating this community for those of you who want to dig deeper into game development and game design. By becoming a patron you'll be getting behind the scenes access to how we make games, becoming involved in our creative process, and getting first access to everything we make - including our games.

For example, we have uploaded a playable version of the two dimensional precursor to are first game - along with a video of Dave and I playing it and talking about that project. Over the next few months we will be posting scans of my note books and other stuff, including some early prototypes of Cycle 28.

If that sounds like something you would be interested in head over and check out the rewards we offer and pick something which works for you.

The immovable object vs the unstoppable force! On this week's Pill Bug developer stream Sean and Dave will go head to head in a battle they will surely write songs about. Each will have half an hour to post a score on the Cycle 28 December leaderboards - who will leave the winner?

Check out all the details here and join us on twitch to find out!

It's been a ghoulishly tough month at the top of the Cycle 28 leaderboards.
We've had some truly terrifying scores posted by names that have haunted the game from the beginning.

The trail of devastation left by the 5 individuals named below has shocked everyone here at Pill Bug. The screams of their victims were heard across the globe. But who are they? Some already know, some will be eager to find out, and some will have to look away or hide behind a pillow.

Here they are... if you're brave enough...




Horrifying, aren't they?


Also, it was Halloween. Hope you all had a great time!

We made the final vote for the GDWC2018 fan favourite! Help us out by clicking the image above and voting for Cycle 28. Thanks for all your continued support.

Wait, what, September results?

...

Where did September go, amiright?

I guess time flies, if you're not stuck in a time loop. Fortunately, more and more players are breaking themselves out of that loop (congrats to those players!)

Perhaps all that work is why the scores for September were a little on the modest side? Here's the top 5:



Still great to see new names each month!

What about the ongoing rivalry between myself and Sean? I'm afraid we took a month off from chasing scores, as we worked on promoting the new update for our first game. Call it a "cooling down period". We'll be back posting mediocre scores in no time.

There has never been a better time to be a Pill Bug Interactive fan.

Today we are launching our Collection Bundle.

So if you already own Cycle 28, you can grab the Cycle 28 soundtrack and Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox for 20% off.

Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox is an abstract god game with fully simulated genetics and evolution. Get creative, playing at your own pace, as you experiment with this simulation of an ecosystem. It is a super chilled out game, something I often need to play to calm down after a Cycle 28 session!

Check out this let's play by Randomise User to see if the game might be your cup of tea...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9956QMKnM

I don't know about you folks, but August had Sean and I asking: will Cycle 28 ever be the same again?

We saw the first player break Olivia out of her time loop and see what the end of the game had to offer. You can see the full story here on the Community Hub .

And if that wasn't enough to make August extra special, I broke 10k for the first time and did it live on stream!



So, without further ado, here's August's top 5:



Some familiar names there at the top, and some new players pushing their scores - all great to see!

And for those worried we might have lost Sean to the Switch, rest assured he's still doing the best he can. Bless him.

The ARG-esque community puzzle involved hunting through ship logs, hidden stories, local libraries, and artisanal coffee videos

We are extremely excited to announce that a member the Cycle 28 community, Sam from Australia, has claimed the first ever Pill Bug Golden Ticket!

Having solved the mystery of Cycle 28, Sam explained step-by-step how they broke Flight Lieutenant Olivia Bergen - the game’s protagonist - out of the time loop, becoming the first person to see the end credits. Sam was very grateful to many members of the Cycle 28 community in helping them reach the solution. As well as a bunch of Pill Bug goodies and prizes, Sam will get every Pill Bug game we ever make!

We’re not going to tell you exactly how the mystery was solved, that’s up to Sam, but we will say all the community’s hard work in finding the codes, cracking the cipher, and keeping each other going made a huge difference. If you aren't part of the discussion already, check out our Discord channel:

https://discord.me/pillbugint

To celebrate Sam’s achievement, we are putting Cycle 28 and Intelligent Design on sale on Steam from August 27th to September 3rd!

This isn’t the end for Cycle 28, of course. Can you figure out how Sam solved the mystery? Will it take you 5 months, 14 days, and 6 hours? And there’s still plenty of competition to be had on the leaderboards. We’ll see you there.

It's been quite the summer so far for Cycle 28!

Sean and I continue to be amazed by the support players show the game, and July's leaderboard scores are testament to just that.

Just look at those numbers!



ThereIsNoHope continues their dominance from last month. Both they and Haystack broke the 20k mark in impressive style. And a shout out to streamer Stealelves for the respectable 3rd place finish - go check out their stream for Cycle 28 action, amongst other games.

August is well underway, but there's plenty of time to push those scores.

Good hunting, Lieutenant!

It's hot, hot, hot here in the UK as summer really kicks in! I don't know about anyone else, but my trigger finger is pretty sweaty in these temperatures... At least, that's my excuse for not winning this month's leaderboard. What's yours?

There's one person who doesn't need to answer that, of course, and that's this month's winner: ThereIsNoHope!



With that kind of scoring for June, I guess there really was No Hope for the rest of us.

Congratulations, ThereIsNoHope! Get in touch either on our Discord or email us at: dave@pillbug.zone to claim your June Leaderboard Prize!

For anyone interested in how Sean and I fared in June, I'll just leave this here:

This month our dev-shoot out is a little different. We were lucky enough to participate in the Acade Vaults' Indie Game Showcase earlier this week. I was given the challenge to set a score live on periscope.

Did I live up to that challenge I hear you cry? Click this link to find out!

We just uploaded a patch to fix issues found in the text of the game. We are aware some of these changes may affect earlier efforts by players, and can only apologise for that. The fixes are as follows:

Cycle 27. Bergen. The signal's faint, but I'd know that voice anywhere: my boy. [&!|#P29_L2_W7&!|#]
I'm not going crazy.

Cycle 27. Bergen. The signal's faint, but I'd know that voice anywhere: my boy. [&!|#P29_L3_W7&!|#]
I'm not going crazy.

The screen in the kitchen showed the final volunteer waver

The screen in the kitchen showed the final volunteer waiver

‘Single-Seat HB?

‘Single-Seat HB?’

I just uploaded a patch which is pulling in some small improvements from the switch port we are currently working on.

• Changed compression of music files to improve quality
  
• Updated to Unity 2017.4.3
  
• Loading screen percentage now rounds
  
• Redacted
  

Doesn't time just fly when you're... stuck in an endless loop?

May is officially behind us, and with it our first full month of the Monthly Leaderboard system. The feedback we've been getting from players suggests its huge hit!

So, for those of you who don't know, here's how the top 5 shook down:



Competition got pretty fierce there at the end. Congratulations to Haystack for not only topping the Monthly Leaderboard, but the Global Leaderboard as well! Not to mention being the first player to break the 20k points mark!

But sometimes bragging rights and leaderboard domination isn't enough.

Sometimes you need prizes.

So we've sent some Pill Bug Swag™ to Haystack for his impressive win. And we'll be doing the same for June's winner!

Who's it going to be? Could it be you? Could it be Sean?




Apparently, anything is possible...

I don't know their names. At least, I don't know what they call themselves. I know what I call them. Most of the time that name is surrounded an expletive or two. They're nothing fancy, mind. I don't have time in a cycle for anything fancy.

Why? What do you call them?

[b] Enemy Fighters

Carrier


Gunship


Interceptor


Shieldship


[b] Enemy Bosses

Big Train


Dreadnought


Laser Arm


Laser Trench

Cycle 28 will be on sale this coming week and to celebrate we are going to do a developer live stream tomorrow night on YouTube.

You'll be able to watch it using the link below, add it to your diary and come along to say hello!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2hp-9JvtfU

We're super-happy-smiley today at Pill Bug, because Cycle 28 won fan favourite in last week's Games Development World Championship!

A huge thank you to everyone who voted on the GDWC site!

There's plenty of competition left, and we'll keep you posted as it progresses. But if you want to keep right up to date with all Pill Bug's news why not signup to our mailing list over at pillbug.zone?

We were up against some fantastic games from around the world, so we are really excited to represent Wales/UK in such a global competition. As one UK game dev commented, we were the only submission that week to provide a gif - and we all know how persuasive a good gif can be! Perhaps this was the difference maker?

I just pushed out a patch with some general performance improvements. It started out that I wasn't happy with the load time between runs, and turned into a week of tweaking!

• Load time into a game is reduced, meaning it's even harder to stop playing!
  
• Drones which don't encounter the player after 30 seconds are removed
  
• General performance improvements to the drone AI
  
• General performance improvements to particle system
  

Cycle 28 is one of this week's nominees for the GDWC2018 fan favourite.

Please support us by heading over to the GDWC home page and voting. Scroll down past the enroll button to vote, you don't need an account as far as I'm aware.

The Game Development World Championship is an annual competition for indie game developers, game development students and anyone interested in game development to join in.

These kind of awards really help us with visibility so we appreciate your support.

This week Sean and I were lucky enough to be invited onto the Tanked Up Cast. We talked craft beer, game development, and Cycle 28.

We went pretty deep into the development process, with some great discussion of decisions that went into Cycle 28. What went well, what didn't go so well, and what we learned along the way.

We also learned that we can never call ourselves beer connoisseurs! Perhaps the biggest takeaway was that we need to listen to Tanked Up more - as do the rest of you!

Check out Tanked Up episode 115, available wherever you get your podcasts!

Just hours after adding monthly leaderboards to Cycle 28 Sean and Dave sit down to claim April's prize*

*there is no physical or monetary prize for winning April... just respect

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

These patch notes are going to be short and sweet...

We have just added monthly leaderboards to the game. Restart Steam to force the update. Looking forward to seeing even more competition over high scores, who is consistant enough to stay on the top each month, and who just got lucky?

Yesterday marked one month from the release of Cycle 28. In so many ways we've been blown away by the response from players, reviewers, and the growing Cycle 28 community.

But one of the most exciting things for us as devs has been watching the monumental effort put into the puzzle of Cycle 28 by a number of players. It's been fantastic to watch the collective efforts, info sharing, theories, etc, in our discord channel and here on Steam.

So much work done, but still so much to do it would seem. We still haven't had a solution to the mystery of Cycle 28, so we haven't been able to award the Pill Bug Golden Ticket.

It's only been a month, so we haven't given up hope - and neither has the community...

Good hunting, Lieutenant!

Dave and I will be at the Arcade Vault's Player Nation event this Saturday in Cardiff. If you are local it would be great to say hi. We will be giving away some Pill Bug Interactive goodies, some for free and others which you'll have to work for by getting high scores on Cycle 28.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btx0Oez4WCM

We have been blown away by the positive response to Cycle 28 and want to thank everyone who has supported us along the way. To celebrate we are excited to release a review round-up trailer which includes quotes from reviewers and steam curators who have given their opinions on Cycle 28.

It's been a hectic week here at Pill Bug HQ. There have been ups and downs. We first want to thank our amazing community for being there for us throughout everything. It has been exciting watch things heat up on the leaderboard, rivalries have already formed on twitch and on the discord.

We have seen an amazing number of YouTubers and steamers play the game, so many that we decided to make an highlight reel to say thank-you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWaXRVgZ8Pc

Apologies to those who we couldn't fit in this short video. Everyone has been fantastic! Please, please, go support the great channels featured in that video. One video that wasn't included in that highlight reel was Brave Sir Oingo who made the amazing video review below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FPXrf2Le_w

For the final video of the week, after spending most of the week sat on the couch watching other people play Cycle 28, Dave and I decided we needed to play it ourselves and show you guys how it's done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6svYV-qetbg

We have also been lucky enough to have had some amazing written reviews. A highlight is this one by the Welsh Gaming Network.

Thanks for sticking with us, we appreciate the support. If you pick up the game make sure to let us know what you think!

Watching other people playing Cycle 28 just made us want to sit down and play Cycle 28! See who comes out on top in dev shoot-out #9....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6svYV-qetbg