Happy Halloween Shroomers!

Team Lazerbeam checking in with our monthly dev log, sharing the latest news from the dark caves where we're cooking up your favourite fungal punk double deckbuilder, Shroom and Gloom!

October was another massive month for the Gloom Patrol. Here are some highlights;

Overwhelmingly Positive!

This month we blasted past 500 reviews on our demo, unlocking the legendary "overwhelmingly positive" status.

With 525 reviews in the bag, Shroom and Gloom currently has a 97% positive rating!

Massive thanks to every person that took the time to leave us a review. Different reviews went from bringing us many good laughs, to leaving us feeling deeply encouraged to keep working on this wonderful game.

If you haven't reviewed the demo yet, this is your sign to fix that! Let's get that score up to 98% positive!
Announcing The Facility!

A highlight of our October was participating in the excellent Galaxies Showcase. It was an honour to have Shroom and Gloom hand picked for this showcase, alongside an absolutely stellar selection of games.

We took this opportunity to unveil something very exciting, announcing a brand new series of levels that will be part of the full Shroom and Gloom! Collectively dubbed "The Facility" these new levels tease at a drastically different setting for Shroom and Gloom. With a retro futuristic asthetic, sci fi setting and (of course) loads more mushrooms, this new aspect of the game greatly expands on the Shroom and Gloom world and it's cryptic lore.

Curious how The Facility is looking? Check out the teaser we premiered at Galaxies Showcase!

Dev Diary 1!

As a companion piece to the Facility teaser we put together another special video for curious members of The Gloom Patrol.

Dev Diaries is a brand new series of dev logs where we bring viewers deeper into our world of mushrooms and madness. The plan is to share details of how we're making Shroom and Gloom, or casting some extra light on the game's mysterious setting.

If you follow us on TikTok or Instagram you'll know that we share a lot of video content, but our posts tend to be aggressively short and cryptic. With the launch of dev diaries, we're incredibly stoked to have a platform to dig into some more detail with the making of this dream game.

For the debut entry of the dev diaries, we do a deep dive into The Facility, showing extended cuts of the environments that appear in the teaser, and highlighting how things tie together. Would you like to know more? Check the dev diary out below!

Okay bye!

We better get back to drawing mushrooms and hideously mutated experiments!

Thanks for joining us for another dev log. Till next month, stay rad everybody!

Byyyeeee!

Yo Shroomers!

It’s your favourite game band, Team Lazerbeam, checking in with our September dev log.

It’s been a busy month for us. We’ve landed some big development win, reached a bunch of new players, and hit a massive wishlist milestone.

Meta-jam:

This month 6 Beams headed off into the mountains for a 3 day Shroom jam! Our quest was to lay the foundations for our new meta-progression system. This has been the last unsolved aspect of Shroom and Gloom’s game design, and we’re happy to share that we’ve cracked it!

The jam was a wonderful experience. Getting to hang out in a cozy little farm house, jamming on the game all day and all night and cooking each other mushroom-based meals was a total treat.

We’re so stoked with the progress we’ve made on the new metaprogression system. There is a massive amount of playtesting to do now. If you’d like to get in on that action, join us on Discord [discord.gg]and sign up to become a Beta Shroomer!

9 million views in 30 days!

In an absolutely mind blowing turn of events our internal marketing efforts have been blowing up in ways that go beyond our wildest dreams.

In the last 30 days, between our TikTok[www.tiktok.com] and our Instagram[www.instagram.com], our posts racked up more than 9 million views! For a tiny team, creating our own videos with no external PR support, or any marketing budget to push views, it's been absolutely wild for us seeing our posts getting so much organic reach.

This success has been greatly amplified by our amazing, curious and supportive community. If you're one of the people that's been sharing our posts, asking questions or posting words of encouragement, thank you so much! It's all meant so much to us! This explosion of exposure put the game on the radars of thousands of awesome new people, leading directly to our last big update for September…

100K wishlists!

As a last bit of awesome news, we're delighted to share that this month Shroom and Gloom blasted past 100 000 wishlists! It's so encouraging knowing so many people are getting behind our quest to make the most awesome looking roguelike deckbuilder out there!

Byyyeeee!

That's it for our September dev log! Thanks for joining us for another update from Lazerbeam HQ! Stay rad everybody!