- Co OPERATION - Testing done, there are some bugs . . . 😬 - 7 December 2022
We did an initial test of the Co OPERATION demo and got some great feedback for how we can improve the game. We’ve been working away to fix those issues and are now gearing up towards a second demo play test! 🎉 This is the game Shaz (co-creator of BFF or Die) has been making with his new games studio Mind Feast Games. What did we find? The main issues we found were with players connecting and disconnecting to the game - we need to work on a way for players to rejoin a game easily if they drop out for any reason. There were lots of fun bugs 🐛! There were a few patients spawning where they are not supposed to 😅 And at one stage, one player threw medicine to another, who threw a patient to them and the patient then disappeared! 💨 We also realised that nowhere have we included the backstory, so Josh has been working on that and come up with this! Josh’s progression from sketch to finish…
- Co OPERATION - Who wants to play the demo?! - 1 November 2022
The demo of Co OPERATION: MultiTurn will be playable in the next few days!! Eeep! 😲 Join our Discord to be part of the first live playtest of the demo! This is the game Shaz (co-creator of BFF or Die) has been making with his new games studio Mind Feast Games. There’s too much loneliness in the world and we want to bring people together with this game 🫂 It’s multiplayer in a similar way to Jackbox and uses your phone as the controller 📲 to make it more accessible. Only one person needs to have the game installed and they can then stream it to others who’ll get a room code. Think Jackbox BUT crossed with Overcooked and with little sprinkle of turn-based strategy too. Co OPERATION is a game where the fun comes from collaborating and winning together 🤜🏾🤛🏻 Also… ⚒️ Modding! Yes, you can also mod the game! You wanna put cats everywhere? You can! Joe and Rupert have added Lua code that…
- Update on Co OPERATION: MultiTurn - the demo is nearly ready! 🎉 - 4 October 2022
We are now *very nearly* at the point where we can release the first version of this new game I’ve been working on with my new company Mind Feast Games..! ⏳ What’s the story behind the game? Well, running hospitals is expensive. A clever bean in central government decided that tearing up requirements for medical qualifications would help. So… volunteers are now welcome in hospitals! 🤷 You decide to enrol and help your local hospital. You can be one of four characters whose specialist skills are throwing and catching; Jason the American footballer 🏈, Prisha the pizza chef 👩🍳, Ethan the juggler 🤹 or Tamira the javelin athlete 🏃♀️ Josh and Kaitlin, our two artists, have been working hard on these 2D characters and the 3D objects that you’ll have to navigate in the game. This is Prisha the chef 👩🍳 getting a patient to a bed in the fastest way possible! And a water cooler that is…
- New Game Announcement! Co OPERATION: MultiTurn is coming..! - 1 August 2022
A few of you might already know…I have been working on a new game called Co OPERATION: MultiTurn with my new company Mind Feast Games..! And we have exciting news! The Steam page is now public 🥳 We’re making this game to help people feel connected socially and emotionally. Here’s how you can get involved with the early demo or the more polished version which will come later: Wishlist the game on Steam! That way you’ll be the first to know when it's available to purchase and play with your friends and family. Want to get involved before the demo is out? Join our Discord community! You can chat with the team and the other community members and play games together (we have a weekly live games session as well as longer, asynchronous games that run over several days). The experience is all about teamwork, communication and fun. We want our development process to reflect that so we’re being…
- DotSlashFrag. 4 Guys. One Team. All Remote. What Could Go Wrong? - 4 July 2021
They guys from DotSlashFrag will be streaming in 4-player directly to our Steam page. Through the magic of Parsec they will all be playing online..! DotSlashFrag are a group of friends bringing laughter and entertainment to the world through video games. Despite not being on the same couch for our couch co-op caper, I still have faith that they can beat all 30 levels of the story mode. Friendship! Hooooo! (The Infinite Trials mode might be a bit harder...?) You can check out more of DotSlashFrag over on their site where you can get links to their Youtube, Twitch and Discord channels. Enjoy the stream and join in with the chat if you can! Cheers, Shaz (The game designer)
- Will they BFF or... Die? ChromaGlitch Stream in 2-Player Mode - 28 June 2021
ChromaGlitch are married Texas streamers, Pisenti and Shirt. Will they BFF or... Die? They're playing in 2-player mode live on Steam. This is the first time we've had friends and community members stream to our Steam page. Hopefully we'll do more in the future! Should be fun! Let us know if you want to stream a playthrough on our page too. You can see more of Pisenti and Shirt on their Twitch and Youtube channels. Get all their links here.
- Xbox, PlayStation, Switch & PC: BFF or Die has Landed \o/ - 3 December 2020
Merry End-of-2020! This must be the strangest year in recent human history. Like many people I had some unexpected events happen which made life a bit harder in the short term earlier this year. BUT… I’m very glad to say that my personal year is ending on a high note. That’s for a couple of reasons and one of those is that… our game BFF or Die is now out on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, in addition to the existing PC version :) It’s been a long time coming for sure. I just checked the date of the very 1st developer diary I posted on Youtube when we had a super basic gameplay demo and that was waaay back in 2014. So for us three people that made the game, finally seeing it out on all the main gaming platforms feels like a significant event for us. To all the people that have supported us for a while - thanks for sticking with us :) And to people that don’t yet know us or our game very well…
- BFF or Die Announced for Switch, Xbox and PlayStation! - 16 November 2020
Some big news! Well, it is for us three guys that made BFF or Die anyway. This November it's coming out on Switch, Xbox and PlayStation..! I can't remember how many times people have said to me "this game should be on Switch". Well, now it will be :) Our publishing friends at 2Awesome Studio helped make this happen. They're developers themselves (check out their shoot em'up Dimension Drive - it's a clever twist on the classic genre that gets your brain working harder than you'd expect) and recently they started helping out indies to get their games onto consoles. Glad to say that BFF or Die stood out to them as a fun couch co-op game so they wanted to work with us to bring it out on more platforms. If you tend to play local multiplayer games on console rather than PC, then give it a spin on your system of choice! BFF Or Die Console Launch Dates - PlayStation®4 - Launch: November, 24th -…
- Update 6 - 9 June 2020
How's everyone doing during the (hopefully!) last weeks of the social lock-downs that many countries are experiencing? As a game designer/developer working from home is quite normal for me. Although I will be glad when everyone is more free and we can have friends over again/visit people. We thought it was about time we updated BFF or Die. I keep an eye on any comments people leave about the game across various communication channels so decided to make the adjustments below. Controller Options Alex made a really cool new intro animation more clearly shows you can have: Shared controllers (two people on each pad) Separate controllers (one person on each pad) One person on keyboard Two people on keyboard Any combination of the above I think the flexibility of the controls is really cool. I was quite proud of the team for coming up with how it works after a lot of different ideas and testi…
- Online Co-op Using "Remote Play Together" - 31 October 2019
Steam's new feature, called Remote Play Together, has now rolled out to *all* Steam users! \o/ This means you can invite your friends to play BFF or Die in online co-op mode! Just launch the game, open your friend list (press shift and tab on Widows), choose a friend and click on "Remote Play Together". Steam are still tweaking the feature so it will improve over time. In our testing it's definitely good enough to have a fun co-op game. I played it online with a friend who is a few hundred miles away. There was a little lag but not enough to affect the gameplay too much. So if you have a friend far far away who you really wanna co-op with, now you can! Whoever of your friends has the best internet connection and fastest PC should host the game. Only the host needs to have the game downloaded and installed. Have fun! Shaz (game designer)
- Online Co-op - BFF or Die with Steam's New Feature! - 22 October 2019
You can now play BFF or Die online with your friends directly in Steam! Previously we told you that you can do that using Parsec's free service and now you can do the same using Steam's new "Remote Play Together" service. It's still in Beta so here's how you opt-in: 1. Go to your Steam settings and enable "Steam Beta Update", which will update and download a new version of Steam. 2. Launch BFF or Die, open your friends list (press shift and tab together on Windows), and invite a friend to play with you by selecting "Remote Play Together". Your friend must also have Steam Beta enabled. 3. Your friend then clicks "Play Game" and they will join the game with you. We tested with 2 players in different regions of the UK and it was a good experience, there was some minor lag but not enough to affect the gameplay too much. We used Steam's in-built voice chat too and for the most part it worked…
- Fix For Menu/Resolution Issue - 1 July 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32976931%2F26e4a1984b0bf440673f293c32f78563bab67234.gif Merry Summer! I just uploaded a quick fix to address the following issue some people were having: Changing resolution was not working as expected, and pressing escape was resetting the settings. Here's how it now works: - No options at bootup, the game auto starts in full screen with "80%" graphics quality. - While playing, press escape to change settings. - The settings you selected will now be saved locally. Next time you play those same settings will be loaded. Hope that clears up the issue for those who had it. Let me know if something still doesn't seem right. Cheers, Shaz
- On Sale This Week + Recent Changes - 16 January 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32976931%2F0cf6fc41cd588c0ba769212fb6c65075515cc3d2.png Merry 2019 :) We updated the game a few times recently and are now much happier with it and hope you are too. I mean, we liked the release version of course (which had come after 4+ years of development and countless adjustments a lot of testing) but these recent small tweaks to the difficulty curve and other things have added a lot of fun factor. Sale To celebrate feeling good about the updates, it's on sale at a discount of 25% this week. If you know friends who love a bit of co-op action-puzzlin' then let them know it's super-not-expensive right now. 1% Only about 1% of people leave a Steam review. If you have fun playing BFF or Die and appreciate that we wanted to create a purely co-operative experience then please be one of those people and write that review. The…
- Update 4: Camera Viewpoint - 30 December 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32976931%2F2a7473c024bd54d004ee57dc8e054fa7d09de86a.png It's midnight here in the UK, so obvioulsy it's... the perfect time to upload a new build to Steam! Main View The main gameplay viewpoint has been adjusted. People playing on a small screen or while sitting far back from a TV should find everything easier to see now, especially on the busier/harder levels. Someone had emailed us to let us know that they found it hard to see what was going on at the top of the screen on their setup and we we glad to receive that feedback so we could adjust things and (hopefully) fix the issue they and others may have had. So thanks to that Steam gamer who emailed us! More Infinity, More Music If you missed the news, the previous update added more infinity and more music. You can read the details here. Online Co-op with Parsec For those…
- Update Three: More Infinity, More Music - 20 December 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32976931%2F48a5ed07956f42bd3c62f79cd16f094d02eefb09.png Merry December, The latest update just went live on Steam! More Infinity After you complete story mode, the “Infinite Trials” will unlock. This is a rogue-like-ish mode that really tests out your co-op skills. Every level is randomised with a mix of procedural and preset content. You only get one chance each time you try - If you die you go back to the home scene. See how many trials you can complete in a row without dying..! Spoiler: it’s *hard*. In this update we added a lot of new configurations to infinite mode so it should keep you challenged for quite a while... Music We’ve doubled the length of the main gameplay music and added more variety to the atmosphere. Hope you enjoy it :) Sounds We’ve added a range of new sound effects to make the Time-Tech even more en…
- The Second Update: Boosted Challenge! - 16 November 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32976931%2F19df2ba3ba7debd0f64f23c955418a28a9719fb1.png The second update to BFF or Die is now live on Steam. We’ve been listening to people’s feedback and watching all the playthroughs on Youtube and Twitch. (Here’s a fun fact - the video that Logitech G made is now the most viewed video of a single game on their channel with over half a million views so far!) From what we can tell, people on Steam really do love a challenge. In this update we’ve changed various aspects of the story game in 1, 2, 3 and 4 player modes so that the excitement kicks in sooner and the challenge gets ramped up. We always encourage people to play BFF or Die in co-op mode as this is what the game was built for. If you didn’t already hear, you can now play as if it were an online multiplayer by using Parsec. Read our previous community post to fin…
- Online Multiplayer Using Parsec! - 29 October 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32976931%2Ff87def0f24801db2b12906f9c6f8dbb37bdae38a.jpg For a time we had plans to make BFF or Die work as an online multiplayer game. After further discussion and some early tests we came to the conclusion that it would add an unachievable workload to our small team of three, who at that time were totally self funded and working on the game in our spare time only. People still do ask us if BFF or Die will ever be playable as an online multiplayer. We’re very glad to say that… it is *now* thanks to some magic software called Parsec! After someone on the community page (thank you to a prolific Steam reviewer called Darkness!) told us about Parsec we were intrigued and started testing it out. Here’s how it works: you decide which game a friend can access, run it and then stream your screen to them. You also give your friend…
- The First Update! - 20 September 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32976931%2F5568574b2533860de0a5ca501c5b89dcbe96d756.png The first update for BFF or Die in now live on Steam. These are mostly small details that have been adjusted and you can see the details below. We've been listening to feedback and watching the Twitch streams and Youtube videos that are being made to see which aspects should be adjusted. Launch Settings You can now select the launch settings you want (graphics quality and screen resolution) and they won’t be overridden by the settings from the last time you played. Options Menu Console Pressing “Enter” on keyboard will now confirm selections. Fix: “Home” button stays visible when it should. Space Base The holo-walls in the Space Base have been extended. A few visitors to the Space Base were a bit scared when it seemed they could occasionally see the black void of spac…
- Merry International "BFF or Die" Day :D - 13 September 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32976931%2F26e4a1984b0bf440673f293c32f78563bab67234.gif So I heard about this funky new co-op puzzle game. Apparently it’s out... *right now!* What is it called again? B… BF… oh yeah… BFF or Die! \o/ You can enjoy it in either single player mode or in a group of 2-4 people. Whichever one you choose will change the kind of experience you have. So maybe try completing the story game in both single player *and* in local co-op mode :) If you make it that far you can really test your BFF skills in The Infinite Trials. For us it’s a really exciting time to see our passion project out there in the wider world. Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the last 4+ years while we made this game :) We hope you enjoy playing BFF or Die and have many funny, cozy, exciting and rewarding moments with the game and with whoever you…
- BFF or Die: Progress Update, 9th Sep - 9 September 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32976931%2F56f9894e591c4097b2ced3b98c52ae8826599346.jpg Hey, Shaz here, the game designer on BFF or Die. Just writing a quick post to say that, at the moment, everything is on track for release on Thursday 13th September..! :) We’ve been sending out test builds to people with different configurations of Windows, Mac and Linux and all is going well, the game is running smoothly and we think all the main issues have been fixed so the game can be enjoyed as intended. We’re both excited and nervous and hope you’ll appreciate this thing we’ve been crafting for over four years now. Whether you play in single player mode or local co-op with a few friends, you can be assured we have spent *a lot* of time and effort making sure you’ll have a really engaging and enjoyable experience You never know how things will go when you work on…
