Greetings HUMUNGO Games fans! Mungo here to tell you the latest developments. These are mostly focused around my main game project, Evil Badguy Fantasy RPG. I’m still open for play-through sessions so if you haven’t had a go yet and would like to find out what the fuss is all about, do get in touch. I also make or buy dinner for anyone who plays the game with me.

Enemies Are Now Talkative Twats

Ever wondered what a skeleton would come up with if he was doing a bad Seinfeld impression? WELL WONDER NO MORE. Evil Badguy Fantasy RPG now features:

• Amateur stand-up comedy skeletons
• Socialist forest nymphs
• Camp wasps
• Depressed Zombies
• Drag-queen snow witches of ambiguous gender
• Wedding veils that communicate entirely in haiku
• Conspiracy-theorist snakes
• Jilted-lover aliens
• Christian eyeball monsters
• Much more

And if you pay careful attention to their declarations, you may just find a clue or two about how to defeat them.

You’ll get to find out what the deal is when you buy my game

Player Characters Now Appear in Battle!

See how Elderberry advances to attack the biker jerk?

Your whole party now appear on screen. This makes the battles much clearer as it is easy to see who is attacking and who is being attacked. Attack anticipations also show who is about to strike – see the translucent ring around Elderberry’s feet on the left.

The Peripatetic Republic of Pullum (Under Construction)

A new chapter is being added. Journey to a faraway land to save Queen-Elect Emelda from the evil Abbot of Songs.

Will you answer the call?

The giant teleporting sun-beam always strikes when you least expect it

Find out when you buy my game

I’m going to create a whole new rocky land floating in a star-lit void, alive with cursed chickens and monstrous demonic monsters. Adventure awaits.

Meanwhile in a Different Part of Space…

Some of you may remember I recently made the first two chapters of an interactive science fantasy story. The Thick of It meets Mad Max meets near-light-speed-travel meets Adele. This is We Happy Crew.

My introduction is literally Shakespeare

Happy news my happy crew! I’ve made a number of corrections and edits, as well as introducing some more consequences following from player choices. If you haven’t checked it out, give We Happy Crew a read.

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Hi all! I hope you have had a lovely weekend. It was funny weather wasn’t it? So bright and sunny and then pouring down. It was down in London at least. So, how is Evil Badguy Fantasy RPG going?

I’m reaching the final stages of what I can do directly on this project myself, and the last changes throughout the coming months are mostly coming in the form of music from my brilliant composer Odinn Hilmarsson, art from my new and talented artist Lucy, and UI improvements from my UI person (possibly a programming wizz called Tom, this is very much TBC).

I now have sketches of actual potential imagery in the game. Yay!

Most of this weekend has been spent doing tweaks, and preparing the ground for the next pieces to come in from my team. I had the good fortune to run a testing session on Friday in Google Deep Mind’s King’s Cross office with professional game tester Sarah York, which gave me some sweet ideas for interface improvements. I’ve been hearing quite a bit of “you should take these to game events” style comments lately, so you may be able to find me at some games fairs at some point! But the main priority is getting this game as good as it can be. This is where you can get involved – yes YOU!

I love testers, and testing sessions are super useful, so if you want to experience this game yourself for free please email me at mungotattonbrown at gmail dot com. I’ll cook food for you or buy you dinner too.

I also made the imagery for this low-res crystal ball this weekend. You can steal it. You twat.

If you want to check out one of my games right now, why not play Marketforce!, my satirical office-work RPG for PC, or Jaguar, a browser-based political thriller you can play on any platform.

Hi all! I’ll keep this short.

Yes I know shorts are plural. It’s called me being a tit.

Testing

In the latest testing session, Mr Qaisar Siddiqui, wordsmith and equality activist, said the following:

“I wish it was longer. I had no idea how long I had been playing for. I thought it had been 20 minutes or half an hour, and I was an hour and a half in. When I got to the end it left me wanting more!”

If you want to get involved and have some fun testing what is now a highly polished game, please get in touch. My email address is mungotattonbrown at gmail dot com.

Screenshot.

Music

Music is advancing at a faster rate than it was before Christmas, and I’ve added some sweet new atmospheric tracks this past couple of weeks.

Art

Yes, I am trialling an artist, so prepare yourself for some fantastic imagery. Potentially.

Specific features I have implemented lately:

Colour-coded health bars

Enemy health bars indicate their type (i.e. earth, dark, air etc). This makes it easier to pinpoint enemy strengths and weaknesses.

More interesting and reactive final boss battle

I’m not going to spoil this for you, but Fishsticks and his protective wizards have a larger arsenal of spells and will require a bit more thought to take down.

More varied battle backdrops

The battle backdrops now match the levels more accurately, and change depending on where in each area they take place.

If you want to check out a HUMUNGO Games title right now, why not check out Marketforce!?

“How’s the game-making?” I hear you ask.

It’s enjoyable, thanks. Progressing. How are you?

“Yeah, I’m well. Just saw Fantastic Beasts, which I would give three stars.”

Cool. Yeah, I hear you can read Rowling’s writing as a justification for authoritarianism.

“I don’t know about that…”

*awkward pause*

“…Evil Badguy Fantasy RPG is your main project, right?”

Yep. Here’s a little precis:

Evil Badguy Fantasy RPG is currently in a complete but improvable state.

Story & characters are totally done.

Not game image.

Mechanics are almost entirely up to spec, but will be improved slightly.

Actual game image.

A very small amount of the game’s art will be improved upon.

Not game image. Or is it? No.

The game is close to being fully balanced.

Not game image.

The music needs a lot of work.

This and all the below are not game images.

I’m still doing regular (about monthly) one-on-one tests to inform further edits and direction.

Nope.

Very little marketing has been done.

Not. In. Game. Image.

I have not started working towards publishing/sale.

Cute cat. Not in-game image.

That’s about it! Keep watching this space – I’ll let you know groovy game specifics soon.

Also there will be new articles and fiction too!

Three star films are the hardest to talk about because there’s the least to say.

“Not necessarily. Some elements are really good and some are really bad. The music was great, but nothing was at stake for the first fifty minutes or so.”

Was it better than Arrival?

“No.”