NEWSCAKE: Hot Wax and Tummy Bonbons are out! Horizons and Smol Gods on their way!

Hi punks!

Hot Wax is finally out! And we also released a surprise free game: Tummy Bonbons: The Sweet Monster! Benjamin put the finishing touches on Horizons: The End of Words and moved on to make a postjam version of Combo Critters, renamed to Smol Gods! And I'm patching away some last few bugs on Shotgun King!

Check out the trailer for Hot Wax!

Hot Wax finally came out earlier this month! Place some candles and burn them down while placing more candles!

It's been nice to see some people play it. It's not getting too many sales on Itch but maybe there's hope for the Steam release. In case you missed it, the Itch release is missing three gamemodes which will come when the Steam version happens. That would be either in late January or in February. The reason we're doing this is that I got really tired of this game at the end, and had to push through to get that far. I still don't see myself working on it again just now, I think I need to work on other things first to take my mind off of it.

That being said I personally am still very happy with the game in its current state, and I'm hearing lovely things from people who tried it out!

Check out the trailer for Tummy Bonbons!

Tummy Bonbons: The Sweet Monster was our surprise release this month. Find candy and scare children into giving you more candy, so you can grow and get scarier to get even more candy from more children!

Eris has been working on it since October and we're quite happy with the result. It's also her first Punkcake release, and we thought it'd be nice to release it for free, as a sort of training ground for her, and as a gift to you!

This month Benjamin put the finishing touches on Horizons: The End of Words. It's a wordgame set in the infinity of outer space!

This one is fully done at this point, we just need to allocate some time to actually releasing it. We should be doing that in January!

Sometimes there's no stopping Benjamin. His Ludum Dare entry from last October, Combo Critters, became Smol Gods and got reworked into another nearly-finished Punkcake game (it's just missing its final OST) that we just haven't had the time to release yet.

It's a collect-em-all card game with little creatures that synergise together to produce, hopefully, a higher amount of points than that of your opponent.

It's a tight little game and it's much closer to what we think as the ideal scope for a Punkcake game. We're very happy with it and can't wait to bring it to you. That being said, releasing games is a lot of work, and after the drudge of releasing Hot Wax I'd personally like to be doing other things! So we'll be keeping this one warm for February!

I'm back on Shotgun King to fix a few bugs that got reported since October. I'd like to achieve a stable version so that the console team can finally port the 1.5 update to consoles. I'm also taking the time to replace the old save system (archaic, terrible) with a new save system (fresh! terrific!) that I cooked up last month for future Punkcake games in general. It should be more stable, and much easier to use, for future updates but also for modders of the game!

And that's it for this month! We're really looking forward to releasing more games in 2025, and we hope you'll appreciate the ride!

As always thank you very much for your continued support through it all. 2024 has been pretty rough for us creatively, but we truly appreciate receiving your love whatever we do. You rock!!

On behalf of the whole team, we wish you a wonderful 2025!

-PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞