KickStarter The Brew Barons -Seaplane fight against ultimate evil of alcohol monopolies - released

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

ABOUT THIS GAME​

A tranquil world becomes ever more corrupt by the day, spoiled by a strong-armed pirate organization that forcefully impose their brewing monopoly over the lands. Armed with your own brewery and seaplane, it's up to you to explore, forage, craft, sell and deliver your handcrafted brews with aid from fellow pilots who've joined your cause to overthrow the corrupt pirate organization and restore peace.

• Assemble your plane from a variety of parts, each with their own traits.
• Chose your pilot and copilot of whom have strengths and weaknesses.
• Explore the world in search of ingredients to bring back to your brewery.

• Pick and choose which foraged ingredients to blend.
• Distill and/or Ferment, each producing a different outcome.
• Design and name your bottle to your liking.
• Design your very own bar to sell your brews and bring fame to your establishment!
• With fame comes special delivery orders from other bars to stock your brew

Demo gameplay:

 

[Alienman]

Looks like an '80s anime. Very dreamy in a way. Could be fun.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Looks like an '80s anime. Very dreamy in a way. Could be fun.

They have obviously taken some pointers from Porco Rossp.

 

[Modron]

Played the demo when it was introduced over a year ago during one of those next fests. Liked the artstyle but didn't care for the bar managing/building/brewing aspects of it.

 

[deuxhero]

Looks like an '80s anime. Very dreamy in a way. Could be fun.

I actually see a bit of this in it.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1636710/view/3877099642470169389

Backer Beta Patch (0.897)
Our first Backer Beta patch is here!

Beta Patch:
Patch (0.897)

Added 6 pilot missions with over 200 new voiced lines.
Added 3 new minigames.
1 new unlockable trait for each pilot.
Distance between islands slightly reduced.
All brews of level 4 & 5 quality have a unique thumbnail visual.
New UI screen particles placed throughout several areas of the game.
The "compact frame" fuselage converted into a bi-plane.
Fixed a few tutorial sections that had missing voice lines.
A handful of portraits slightly polished.
Bombing ring is more visible.
Fixed several unwanted underwater salvaging sound effects.
Fixed missing voice lines for submarine boss.
Made water bombs a bit less likely to fill your screen with particles.
Steam cloud saves enabled
Multiple input devices supported


To access the missions there is a small gameplay requirement, hopefully it will be clear what that is, if not then let us know, we might need to signpost it a bit better.
For those interested in using HOTAS and pedals, multiple inputs are now supported, we don't actually have any pedals so it was tested using HOTAS + joypad, so if anyone does have pedals please let us know if it works for you.
All bugs and feedback are welcome, preferably on Discord or through the bug reporter.

LINKS
Twitter
Discord
YouTube

 

[Hagashager]

This has to be one of the most fetishistic games I've ever seen. You KNOW some hipster micro-brewer with a man bun and a thing for Steampunk thought this up and commissioned his programmer friends with free beer to make it.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

This has to be one of the most fetishistic games I've ever seen. You KNOW some hipster micro-brewer with a man bun and a thing for Steampunk thought this up and commissioned his programmer friends with free beer to make it.

Lifetap studios claims to be 2 ex-Relic devs.
They're also doing some post-apocalyptic road trip game.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1636710/view/4146197332012952977

Brew Barons now available!
Some say the Adventure Flight genre is a fading market, too much of a risk...
Perhaps there's some truth to that. So all the more thanks to the supporters along the way and to those joining us going forward! It's been over 4 years of hard work by a two man dev team and one music composer, but the game is finally here!

Feedback is welcomed! We've tried to supply a variety of play styles throughout the game. We're interested in expanding upon features that work well or improve those that don't. Feel free to chat with us on our Discord, Steam forum or leave a Steam Review. We read them all.

So what happens next? We're interested in further optimizing the game for you Steam Deck users. Depending on the success, maybe build more content for the game (ie: more parts, more customization, advanced AI enemies, to name a few). We're also interested in localizing the game to a few languages and possibly a console release should the game do well enough. Fingers crossed!

Thanks again! Now let's take to the skies!

edit.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1636710/view/5923994639394988949

Bugfix and recipe/contract balancing
- Fix compact fuselage hydro boost bonus not working
- Fix Irena void visuals sometimes not disappearing correctly
- Prevent docking when Irena void effect is active
- Fix plane stuck detector getting stuck and not resetting the plane
- Fix torpedo could be targeted by copter or auto turrets
- Fix controller navigation issues in the hangar, unable to create new light plane or sell plane
- Fix tumble frame VFX stuck on plane if it crashed
- Fix for unpausing landmark dialogue
- Fix for lower screen UI visuals cut off for widescreen users
- Fix floating bottles in bar
- Camera fixes and softlock prevention in final battle
- Fix bad looking propeller blur
- Pilot traits not working when starting a non-tutorial game
- Fix Pelican and Pipe not offering you a contract on day 1 if you quit the conversation and restarted it
- Fix bar sales panel incorrectly reported fame from sales (modifiers were excluded)
- Contract frequency for bars increased across the board, particularly for The Thirsty Sailor and The Pelican and Pipe

Balance:
- Dijana bad ingredient trait chance reduced from 10% to 5%
- Fame from bar sales reduced by 50%
- Compact frame boost modifier reduced to +1% per cargo unit
- Easy mode repair cost reduced by 75%
- Easy mode fuel cost reduced by 50%
- Recipe and contract generation limits what it will award according to fame level in Easy and Normal mode. It works with these ranges:
0 - 10000 only recipes and contracts using group 0 ingredients are awarded (no upgrades needed)
10000-20000 only recipes and contracts with group 0 or group 1 ingredients are awarded (upgrade level 1 required)
20000-30000 group 2 (upgrade level 2)
> 30000 no restrictions.
Hard mode continues to use the existing RNG system without group restrictions.

- Contract quality requirements increase as fame increases for Normal and Hard mode. For normal mode > 50k fame contracts will start to require 1*, > 75k it will be 2*. Hard mode is 30k-50k 1*, 50k-75k 2*, 75-100k 3*.

We hope that these balance changes will make the early game a bit less starved for income as there will be more contracts and the contracts will not require any upgrade purchases. We know that recipe discovery is is still a major issue and we are working to add more ways to acquire recipes as well as a bit of an overhaul of brewing in general, but that is a bit of a larger job.

 

[3 others]

Is this the Crimson Skies successor we've been waiting for?

 

[Kwota]

Nope.

For one it's an open world game and combat isn't the focus of this game at least at the beginning.
Your primary weapon is a watergun and you fly around gathering resources to make alcohol for either missions or for your own bar/brewery.
Also game uses AI for voices which generated some funny butthurt on steam forums.

6,5/10 for me as of right now since I like the Miyazaki inspired presentation.