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To celebrate one year of launching into Early Access on Steam, I've released a big update for MADHOUSE today! It's official spooky season and you can play this build live on Steam right now!

Someone is working on a mod that adds bots to the MADHOUSE Versus Mode! The human player is in the top left, the rest are bots. This is incredible! Hoping this can be implemented in the actual game, too.

I haven't had a chance to talk about it, but exhibiting my game at the Pittsburgh Game Expo was a lot of fun and definitely encouraging. Some feedback I received: "This is my favorite game at the expo." "This is the best indie game I've seen in years." "W game, honestly." 🥹

I'm at the Pittsburgh Gaming Expo today, tomorrow, and Sunday! Gonna try and get people to sign up for a tournament... Stop by and say hi if you're here!

Please wake up.

Party House physical card game Kickstarter launches next week! 🏠

Thanks to everyone who came out and played, watched, or donated to charity in our second ever Cherry Rush marathon event! We had too many amazing runs to count, I hope we can do this again next year! Maybe I'll play something besides Seaside Drive (we'll see)

Cherry Rush is live now! So begins 3 days of incredible creativity and hard work from the UFO 50 community! 🍒 Let's go! www.twitch.tv/ufo50cherryr...

UFO 50's Cherry Rush is live!

This event is at risk of cancellation if we don't hit enough entrants. We've only got 7 signed up so far, and we need 9 more to run a tournament. Can we pull it off by August 22nd? 😱

We're looking for entrants for our 4th MADHOUSE VS Tournament on August 22nd! You don't need to own the game, you just need a controller and Steam and we'll invite you to the remote play session when your team is up. Cash prizes and giveaways! Reply if interested :)

🎉Excited to announce I've adapted Party House from UFO 50 into a physical card game! 🎉 Teaser trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHNF... Kickstarter prelaunch page (shared w/ a Baba is You game!): www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit... Brought to you by @bitewinggames.bsky.social More details soon! 🥳

It's kind of staggering when I lay out every area I've developed for Act 1 -- the first half of MADHOUSE's Story Mode -- so far. This project was definitely over-scoped for a solo dev, but it's my passion and working on this game probably saved my life.

This is Clyde, one of the playable characters in MADHOUSE VS. I drew this in 5 minutes because I'm not an illustrator but you get the EYE-dea...

300 units sold on 1433 wishlists... a conversion rate that's honestly higher than it should be for a game with almost no marketing budget. MADHOUSE's VS mode has ~5 people playing daily, telling their friends, pulling in more. Small numbers, but it's the kind of slow-build I'm betting on.

MADHOUSE is getting a pretty slick Tournament Mode in the next update, which lets you run a tournament for up to 24 players. Check out this devlog where I go over the features and show you how to use it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRko...

Call me crazy, but I feel like having a smaller, extremely dedicated fanbase of people that love your game is just as validating as having a popular game. My game in its current state has a 4~5 hour story campaign, but these players have gone well beyond that.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zegF... GOLFARIA RAP, GOLFARIA RAP PREMIERING NOW

UFO 50 is 30% off on Steam for Summer Sale! 🍒: store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/...

With MADHOUSE tournaments becoming a regular thing, I decided to implement an in-game Tournament Mode that makes setting up tournaments a bit easier... but that starts with assigning players to teams. Previously the game only supported two teams, now there are 12. Which one would you be on?

Had a blast with yesterday's MADHOUSE Tournament, but then I came back a few hours later and was pleasantly surprised to see a bunch of people in the Discord doing some late night VS. I'm seeing more people playing this game in their free time, and that's an incredible feeling! #indiegame #indiedev

Another MADHOUSE VS TOURNAMENT is starting RIGHT NOW! Come and watch this game as it was truly meant to be played! #indiegame #tournament 🩸🩸🩸

Check out this triple kill I got off a single Sniper Rifle in MADHOUSE last night... Those players didn't even know what hit 'em 😄 #indiegame #pvp

It's still not perfect but it's an improvement... Problem is, it looks better than everything else now! So I have to update those graphics, too 😅

I've been working on trying to redesign the treetops for MADHOUSE all day. I hate it. Making treetops is the single most difficult thing I've ever tried to do with pixel art. I've been at these for hours and this is the best I've got, and they still don't look completely right. Nightmarish!

feeling nostalgic for the 2013 indie scene

Just finished playing through Paul's big update to MADHOUSE, which neatly concludes the first half of Story Mode. Had a lot of fun seeing it to its gruesome end, including all the over-the-top new characters, areas, and plot twists. If you were curious about it, now's a great time to try it! 🎃

My Top 15 TV Shows Ever: Peep Show The Office (UK) Inbetweeners Garth Marenghi's Darkplace The X-Files Twin Peaks The Twilight Zone Unsolved Mysteries Tales from the Darkside The Walking Dead Berserk Neon Genesis Evangelion Vision of Escaflowne Fist of the North Star Ping Pong Club

Latest arrivals. Anybody else like this sort of thing?

Today is my birthday and I'm celebrating by launching the big story update that brings Act 1 to its epic conclusion! I crunched on this until 6 AM last night and sprinted through it today... but it's FINALLY HERE! Please enjoy and share this! store.steampowered.com/app/3727130/... #indiegame

This was an absolute blast. Thank you everyone that participated and showed up to watch. What an amazing tournament that was!

The first ever online MADHOUSE Tournament is streaming live now, hosted by MazTech Gaming on Twitch & YouTube! Come and watch MADHOUSE in its true form -- the multiplayer Versus Mode! www.twitch.tv/maztech_gaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbE...

www.twitch.tv/maztech_gaming and www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbE... is streaming live now with me co-hosting! Come see him play MADHOUSE live and later on, we're going to have a VS Tournament at 3 PM EST!

Artist Takami Chuhei has rendered the entire MADHOUSE roster in these glorious illustrations! I am just floored by the work on display here, and it's so wonderful to see these characters brought to life in a more illustrative style! #art #indiegame #vsgame #horror #chibi

Turns out finding 16 people to play a game for free is a lot harder than you'd think! We've been stuck at 11 and this is going down tomorrow, but we don't have enough players for a proper tournament 😬

Amazing MADHOUSE art by a Japanese artist (@skullchuh on X) 💀🔪

We recently updated UFO 50 on Switch. This latest patch (v1.9.5) addresses some issues related to Japanese language, but also includes general fixes and optimizations. The Steam patch notes from 1.8.44 through 1.9.5 cover these changes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/114...

There's a MADHOUSE VS Tournament livestreaming on Saturday, May 23rd at 3:00 PM EST! There's still a few spots left, so if you want to participate in this tournament, please sign up 🩸 docs.google.com/forms/d/1KBw...

MADHOUSE features a cryptid hunting mini game where you snap photos of rarely encountered cryptids with a polaroid camera... Anybody recognize this one?

Someone told me that they couldn't find MADHOUSE when they search for it on Steam... For those who don't own the game, is it indexing in your Steam searching for "madhouse"? It's the game in pic related.

It's easy to say that indies are bad at marketing their games, but what they don't tell you is how much time, effort, and work goes into marketing, and how rarely that effort actually converts to anything beneficial. You can't expect creative people to acquiesce to bad ROI.

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Hey Crow Country enjoyers, get in here

Know any streamers or YouTubers who love retro horror indie games? I'm looking to get MADHOUSE in front of people who'd genuinely appreciate it before the big May 25th update. Drop their handle below or send them my press kit at madhouse.boo! 🩸