6/10/2023 0 Comments Bear and breakfast review![]() ![]() Over a space of two weeks, they met in person, signed contracts, set up email accounts, made plans and discussed the game with this figure, and did everything necessary to set up a new person as an employee of a studio. They wanted someone local to Romania, and eventually found someone they wanted to work with. Once the team got the funding they needed, though, multiple disasters struck.įirst, the group needed to find a programmer. Given the team’s relative greenness, Cinteză says it was difficult initially to find publishing and monetary support – though his previous connections via Those Awesome Guys helped. Gummy Cat is a five-person team (plus a handful of international contractors) largely based in Romania, where the indie game development scene is fairly small. Bearing the Workloadīear and Breakfast is quite the triumph for a debut game, especially given that its development wasn’t quite as cozy as the ultimate result. I’m hard-pressed to say which bit I like more, especially given Bear and Breakfast’s excellent, hilarious writing across both animal dialogue and item descriptions. Though the initial set-up is a touch overwhelming when it comes to tutorial windows, after about 30 minutes I’m bedecking a rehabilitated shack with ramshackle furniture and painted portraits of, obviously, bears, in an effort to attract customers.įairly early on, Bear and Breakfast opens up, allowing those who want to soothingly cycle through guests and build up their properties focus on that, while those who are curious about the greater mysteries surrounding the forest and a past disaster that drove away many of its inhabitants can chase the larger narrative. Protagonist Hank looks like he stepped right out of We Bare Bears (and in fact Cinteză has a Grizz plush behind him when we chat), and he and his friends’ smooth, cute animations look more like a comforting weekend cartoon special than a game. It starts with Hank fixing up a wooden shack with a rickety old bed and some cheap decor (bought in exchange for literal garbage from an entrepreneurial raccoon aptly named “Took”), but escalates as he acquires more properties, fixes up other dilapidated human structures in the woods, and attracts more and more people to the area.Īs far as the pivot to cozy goes, Cinteză and team have nailed the vibe. It follows a bear named Hank and his fellow forest creature friends – all of whom have the vibe and maturity levels of a bunch of goofy college students home on summer break – who are conned by a megacorporation into running effective AirBnBs in the middle of their forest home for humans who want to escape into nature. Thus the Bear and Breakfast I’ve been playing for the last week is a far gentler thing. But funny as this was, when it didn’t complement the management playstyle, they opted to make something a bit more cozy. The initial plan, Cinteză says, was to have the bear eat the guests - making them the “breakfast” of Bear and Breakfast. Cinteză says he learned Unity while working on B&B.īear and Breakfast originated with the pun in the name, and the overall concept was born from Cinteză’s love of management sims like Theme Hospital. ![]() ![]() It’s Cinteză’s first “real game dev project” from start to finish, as well as the first major project for most of the other team members at Gummy Cat studio. Don't let a couple of judgmental animals stop you from staring at the beautiful trees, and being all dramatic, it is what adds to our human charm – Being uniquely wack.Once he had his feet wet in development, though, Cinteză wanted to take it a step further and make his own game, and thus Bear and Breakfast was born. Although as weird as it seems, it surely does help us forget about our problems. Well, now thinking about it, we humans kind of are wack, trying to look like a character out of a dramatic scene. Will finds the whole thing ridiculou describing humans as "wack" However, Will reassures Hank that humans will only stay there as tourists, that he’s seen all this before – Humans go on vacation in the wilderness, and wander off, while staring dramatically at the trees nearby, contemplating life. While Fin and Hank converse about the bed and breakfast they are planning to build for humans, Hank freaks out over the thought of humans living permanently in the area. And try to forget whatever they're running from. "The Humans wander around where Shark-boy tells em.
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