I am excited to announce that I will be making Beardy McStrongarm free to download and keep on steam!
It has now been over 5 years since I started the development of Beardy McStrongarm and over 4 years since the game launched. It was my first game to launch on steam and I learned a lot while developing it. I feel like I have grown significantly as a game developer and I don't feel like the game is worthy enough to keep behind a paywall so I made the decision to transfer it to free-to-play.
I wanted to make this announcement to warn anyone who is interested in the game to not buy the game and just wait for it to transition to free-to-play.
-Blekoh
With the recent release of Game Maker Studio 2.3, Linux build support was finally fixed. The new patch for Beardy McStrongarm updates the Linux version of the game.
These updates include:
Performance Improvements
Bug Fixes
Updated menu screen for Fullscreen/Window switching
Beardy McStrongarm is an Indie developed 2D Platformer with unique mechanics and challenging game-play. Take on the role of Beardy, a bearded strongman with questionably endless strength in his one arm, joined by his buddy, Jorgy, a purple cat, to travel across the distant lands on an excellent adventure to finally meet Jorgy's internet love interest.
Features:
Play as Beardy accompanied by Jorgy in a 2D pixel art platformer
Unique grappling mechanics for climbing and using item pickups
There are cats in the game (Based on a true story)
The game is challenging and rewarding for a skilled player
Everything in the game is made entirely by one person
Spend your time fishing if you want, or not
Contains an original soundtrack
Some of the cats are warrior cats (In case you were wondering)
Don't get too frustrated, take breaks as needed
Are you Strong enough?
Are you Beard enough?
MINIMAL SETUP
OS: UbuntuMemory: 2 GB RAMGraphics: 128MBStorage: 200 MB available space