BeaverTale

📍 Hermosillo, Mexico (MX)

🏷️ Video Games

Beavertale

This videogame consists of a classic platformer where you will play as a Beaver and your main objective is going from point A to point B. Nevertheless, your physical capacities as a Beaver, like your jump or speed are reduced, which obliges you to use your construction skills in means to overcome the obstacles in your path.

Throughout your adventure you will find diverse hazards like hostile machines, dangerous lands and shortage of resources. All these challenges should be overcome with meticulous planning, the precise control of your movements and the correct management of your resources.

About Us

BeaverTale is our first complete videogame project. We started this project as way to create something that uses animals' natural skills as a game mechanic. Particularly, we focus our interest and love for beavers, because of their great skills and silliness (also cuteness)!

Who are we?

We are a Gustavo Gutierrez and Denisse Antunez, a couple of indie game developers, with a love of animals, videogames and silly things. We reside in Mexico and this is our first project together. Furthermore, we have the help of 2 talented musicians that are helping us with the music and sound effects.

If you want too see more of the project you can visit our website, this is the same website in which you will appear if you contribute this project.

How has the development been?

We started the project more or less 1 year ago and, because of school, it has been a little complicated. But, we are in the final step and we just need a little help to complete it!

Gameplay

This videogame combines classic platform levels with construction puzzles and resources management.

Platforms

The foundation of this title is rooted in the classic challenges of other platform videogames such as Super Mario and Donkey Kong. It focuses on coordinating your movements and having a precise execution, using not only the environment elements but also your constructions.

Constructions

Your main skill and primary mechanic is construction. As a beaver, you compensate your lack of physical abilities by building different structures using your Book of Construction. At the beginning of your adventure, you will start with only one type of construct. But while you advance in the game, you will obtain more blueprints!

Resources

Naturally, all these constructions come at a cost. Throughout the levels, you can chop down trees with your powerful teeth to obtain wood to construct. In more advanced levels, you will find hostile machines that, when destroyed, will give you metal, another resource to build.

Remember, in this life, it's not only important to build but also to manage your resources.

Levels

Your native forest has been invaded by machines. Your mission is to travel across every single level on the map, finding the big resource extracting machines and destroying them to save your forest!

Narrative

This tale takes place in the Secret Forest, a peaceful land full of life and beautiful landscapes. It was home to many living creatures until, without any prior warning, an evil corporation called Green Corp began to seize the forest. Immersed in their own lies, they claimed to be an ecological company, whereas in reality they exploited and extracted every natural resource they could, destroying the forest in the process along with its inhabitants.

Despite everything, there is still hope. Gus, a small beaver who lost his home during Green Corp’s land takeover, refuses to surrender to sadness. Instead, he decides to fight back. Armed with courage, he ventures into the forest to recover what once belonged to him.

However, nothing will be easy. As a consequence of Green Corp’s damage, the forest (once a peaceful place) has become a hostile land, filled with dangerous areas and inhabited by threatening machines.

Fortunately, at the beginning of his adventure, Gus falls into a pit where he discovers the forgotten knowledge of his ancestors: the constructor beavers. There, he acquires the skills to build structures and cut down trees. With these new abilities, Gus will journey through the forest to reclaim not only what was taken from him, but what belongs to everyone.

Game Status

The game is in its final stage. This campaign is mainly to get funding to afford the price of releasing the game and other licenses. Also, we can use this money to focus ourselves in the project and accelerate this final sprint.

Currently, we have completed about 7 normal levels + a boss fight with 2 phases, the use of 2 types of materials (wood and metal) and 4 types of constructions. This is the only content that we are planning to release, but if we receive too much support, we could add extra content to the game

If you like the idea of the game, we invite you to collaborate to make our videogame come true. Also, you could see our Instagram or TikTok where you can find our game process throughout all the past year!

You can now play our demo at Itch.io

Goals

We have worked on this project for a year, and we are finishing it very soon! Your contribution could help us culminate this project and advance things faster, being able to publish our game on Steam!

Help us and be a part of this world created with such love for beavers, great creatures who protect environments with their sharp teeth.❤️