PandaBee Studios

The day is TODAY! The frog finally leaped onto Steam! 🐸 🥳 Our hardcore precision game tilt frog is officially out on Steam! THE FACTS: 👅 Play as a squishy frog (& Friends) and escape the Well 👅 Master difficult challenges using only your flexible Tongue 👅 Great to play, evenly epic to watch 👅 15 increasingly difficult Levels of Fun, Hope, Falling and Pain! Inspired by the genre defining games and equipped with lovely aesthetics, tilt frog is not just our first commercial Indie Release - but also a project that we're very proud of. It plays fantastic, looks great and DEFINITELY sparks emotions! MANY, MUCH and EVERY Thanks to our lovely team Gustav Mehner, Aaron Zabel, Nathan Taylor, Anna Waegner and Bennet Meier 🖤 A heartfelt thank you to all of you Ricarda Gürgens, Julia Mai Linh Tran, Cong Phuong Nguyen, Michaela Pöhlmann, Smilla Pelz and Max Raudies 🤍 Last but not least, thanks to Games & XR Mitteldeutschland e.V. and R42 | Games Hub & Accelerator as well as the city of Leipzig who have always supported us in any way they can. 🧡 Thanks to everyone and we're looking forward to our next & ongoing adventure: ENDZEIT! Cheers!

Today is a Great Day: Kick-off for Our Upcoming Roguelite City Builder ENDZEIT! 🌋🌊 We are thrilled to announce that we've received financial support in the form of a €100,000 recoupable loan from Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) to develop a vertical slice for our project ENDZEIT. About ENDZEIT: ENDZEIT is a Strategy Survival Roguelite Game where players settle on dying planets to gather resources to support their home world. Today, not only did we enjoy a lovely brunch, but we also kicked off the first step in our development process: Game Jams! 🧩️ To test our hypotheses, we’re using the dynamic Game Jam format. Over one week of focused work, we create a small, duct-tape-and-love version of the game. This process provides invaluable insights into whether our initial idea is fun and feasible. In this case, we will do a second game jam after the first one, to use the learnings of the first one in our favour. Our goal is to really understand the core of the fun/experience that we're trying to achieve to drastically improve the vertical slice production phase outcome. For this reason, we will be publishing the results of the second game jam on Itch.io and gather player feedback! Game Jams are fantastic, and here's what I love about them: 🧩️ Quick iterative workflow - just throw together assets you have and see if your idea of the game works. Is the mechanic really fun? Will the game work without a massive scope? 🧩️ Get early Feedback - just publishing your work on itch.io is a great way to see if your concept is interesting to players. Do people click on and play our project? How many people give feedback? To people, save your project for later? 🧩️ Technical Benchmark - Can you actually create your vision? If you fail to create your core concept in a game jam, you might have trouble bringing it together in production, too! 🧩️ Fun! Gamejams are just fun and a great way to get creative. A great time lies ahead of us! We’ll be attending Devcom and Gamescom in Cologne from Sunday to Friday. If you’d like to learn more about the project or stay updated on our progress, reach out. 😊 See you in Cologne, Cheers! PS: I'm a bit blurry but very happy for sure! 😁

When dying planets are your final refuge, ENDZEIT begins. 🌎 We are more than happy to announce that Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) supports the vertical slice production of our upcoming title "ENDZEIT" with the incredible sum of €100.000! Thanks to the financial support and the remarkable concepts of my lovely co-founder Gustav Mehner we will be able to produce the vertical slice of our upcoming City-building survival Roguelike "ENDZEIT" by Q1 2025. This is a big chance for us, and we're incredibly thankful for it! Besides the huge opportunity for us, this funding round marks a significant milestone for the region of Middle-Germany as a whole. With 3 game projects and 2 XR projects receiving a total of €335.000, this is fantastic news for our local games industry, especially since financial support is less accessible here compared to other German states. Given this reality, we are particularly grateful that Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) has chosen to invest in the local games industry in such a meaningful way. Many game companies in Middle-Germany are striving for opportunities and stability, and the support from MDM is a crucial step towards helping these aspiring companies achieve their goals. We are hopeful that this positive trend will continue, providing much-needed encouragement and resources to the innovative developers in our region. We want to thank Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) for the chance as well as our local games association Games & XR Mitteldeutschland e.V. and our friends over at R42 | Games Hub & Accelerator who keep supporting us. Also, I'd like to congratulate our fellows who also got their projects funded, which are being produced by Bippinbits (Karawan), Inclusive Gaming (Zoo-Chaos), Mitmalfilm (Mitmalfilm 2) and Reynard Films. More on the decisions by GamesMarkt: https://lnkd.in/ekEjVm4v Also, we're happy to explore partnerships early - so if ENDZEIT sounds exciting to you, let's talk. 😉 Cheers!

Exciting news! We released the first Steam demo of our #game tilt frog! 🎉🐸 https://lnkd.in/eJ9uxj8E After publishing the very first Demo on itch.io and updating it regularly, we've decided that it's time to put the polished version on steam! Besides new features, fixed bugs and quality of life additions, we also made sure that the Demo: 🎮 Runs on Steam Deck (it's awesome!) 🎮 Supports dynamic ultra wide adjustment 🎮 Fully supports controllers and is just as fun to play with it! Besides the release by the end of 2024 our next destination is CAGGTUS Leipzig! 👀🎉 Come by the Games Ground Berlin indie area and meet us in person! 😊 Thanks to Games & XR Mitteldeutschland e.V. and R42 for having us! ❤️ Have a great time everyone and remember: Get that Frog to the Top! Cheers!

A big German Streamer played our Demo in front of 3600 viewers! ✨🥳️ We've watched the entire Stream and it was FANTASTIC. First of all: Wishlists help us a lot, so please consider Wishlisting tilt frog over here ⬇️😉 https://lnkd.in/eJ9uxj8E What happened? Last week, I noticed a Tweet by PhunkRoyal on Twitter ("X"), where he planned to play the recently released #indiegame hit "A Difficult Game About Climbing" on his Saturday discovery stream. I replied to it thinking, that tilt frog might also just be right, considering that it's also a rage game - and he liked it! The Stream went AWESOME. Here's what happened: 🎮 Phunk was talented from the start. The controls seemed very intuitive for him which helped him understand the pacing quickly. 🎮 The chat was excited what would happen and interacted with us a lot! 🎮 After reaching a certain height, Phunk started to struggle which opened a new layer of entertainment. The game got more and more tense towards the end. 🎮 The chat was very active and the Axolotls "tuuut" sound became a reoccuring reaction meme on stream! 🎮 Phunk finished our 3-Level Demo in just over 3 hours, and it was a super epic moment for everyone involved. Outcome and Learnings? 🐸 Truly happy developers. It was an incredible experience and Phunk is a blessed entertainer! We're extremely thankful for everything. 🐸 About 150 new Wishlists on Steam! 🐸 A proof of concept for what we imagined the game to feel like on stream!!! We couldn't have wished for a better outcome here. 🐸 Many new Views and Browser Plays on itch.io :) 🐸 Awesome feedback and live-testing which we already implemented. If you ever feel like making a video or streaming tilt frog - happily, reach out to us. We'd absolutely love to be part and watch it! 😁 The Steam Page is live for 2 Months, Demo for 2 weeks, and it's been super exciting already. We're excited to see, where the journey leads and if you're interested in talking about tilt frog (release 2024) we're always open to chat! 😉 Happily on #gdc2024 too. All the best and enjoy the funny Clip. 😁 Cheers!

What an exciting day! 🥳️ Our game has its first public playable! ✨ Check it out on Itch.io: https://lnkd.in/eCb_Gi87 We decided to release a first playable #demo of tilt frog, our hardcore precision #game (also known as Rage Game) on itch.io. The game is about a cute frog, going all the way to the top, using only his tongue! It's physics based and a lot of fun… unless your falling! I believe it's perfect for a proper challenge full of emotions. 😁 Going forward we will add 12+ new Levels, some small features that twist the gameplay a little and most importantly: Twitch integrations. We want to give Streamers the possibility to not only share their thoughts and emotions on the game, but also let their chat decide their fate. We're excited to go forward and to hear feedback on the game! Feel free to share your thoughts down below or send me a private message. 😊 Have a good one, everyone! Cheers!