Here we’re releasing regular developer blogs allowing to follow along with the making of Broken Roads.
We’ve loved watching the streams, engaging with you all and hearing about your positive experience with Broken Roads. But we know that, overall, we’ve fallen short of player expectations in some key areas and in many ways we’ve not delivered the quality game we had hoped to ship, so we’re changing that. Our work on Broken Roads is far from over.
Read MoreWe’ve just published the Barter Crew origin story trailer, showing off one of the four different origin stories you can choose when creating your character in Broken Roads. Enjoy!
Read MoreWhile Broken Roads is still coming, we’ve made the decision to delay the release to allow for additional polish time and QA.
Read MoreWe’ve just published the first of four trailers, each showing off one of the different origin stories you can choose when creating your character in Broken Roads.
Read MoreFollow the environment design process as Sara Laubscher, Lead Environment Artist on Broken Roads, walks us through the creation of the interior for the Ardath Hotel.
Read MoreWe’re excited to announce that Broken Roads is coming to PC, Xbox One & Series X/S on 14 November, 2023!
Read MoreIt’s the end of August and that means gamescom again! We sent a small crew to Cologne to show off Broken Roads to European press as part of the Australian contingent in IGEA’s booth.
Read MoreOur July update includes a new OST video, the game being featured on the cover of PC Gamer’s US edition, the introduction video for the Broken Roads demo on Steam, a look at level up UI improvements and a few other items we’ve got in the works to show off next month.
Read MoreWhat a month June has been for Broken Roads! The demo is live, we had some incredible YouTube coverage, the demo received many patches and improvements, and of course… We got the cover of PC Gamer!
Read MoreWe’re very excited to announce that you can now download the Broken Roads demo on Steam! In this demo, you’ll play as the Hired Gun, one of the four origin stories available in the full game.
Read MoreToday we're announcing that Broken Roads will offer pacifist playthroughs for certain character builds, meaning the game can be completed without combat or killing anyone - if you make the appropriate choices along the way, that is.
Read MoreWow, where did that month go?! April has come around, and it’s time for the next Broken Roads monthly update. This time we’ve got level design progress over the years, the first of our OST drops, a look at some narrative design, updates from our programmers, and more.
Read MoreWe’re wrapping up a very eventful year for the studio as we gear down for the Christmas break. 2022 saw us secure a partnership with Versus Evil, grow our team, exhibit at gamescom and of course up the quality of the art in Broken Roads to levels we never imagined when we started off as a 2D, tile-based game back in 2019. For this blog we chatted to each of our artists, our level designer and our producer to get a feel for some of their highlights from the back half of the year.
Read MoreIn this update we’re giving a rundown of the attributes in Broken Roads, the three categories of skills the attributes play into, as well as a brief look at some of the skills derived from them.
Read MoreWell, this year's Melbourne International Games Week, GCAP and PAX are over. Most of the Australian Drop Bear Bytes team were in attendance, with Narrative Director Leanne Taylor-Giles hosting two panels with Marigold Bartlett, the Art Director at Ghost Pattern (who just released Wayward Strand), Wren Brier (Creative Director of Unpacking), and Simon Boxer (Creative Director at Twice Different, who made Ring of Pain and are working on The Dungeon Experience), one at GCAP and one during PAX.
Read MoreDrop Bear Bytes were invited to showcase Broken Roads this year as part of the Melbourne International Games Week ‘22 Steam Event.
Read MoreWe are incredibly happy to announce that Drop Bear Bytes have entered into a partnership with Versus Evil, acclaimed indie publisher of such titles as Pillars of Eternity 1 & 2, Hand of Merlin and Eville.
Read MoreWe’re very happy to announce that the team from Drop Bear Bytes will be at gamescom this year, showing off Broken Roads in both the business area and the entertainment area!
Read MoreThis week we are showing off some of the work by our Mid-Level Concept Artist, Cassandra Lee. Cassy recorded herself creating this portrait of Tilly, one of the young girls living in a hidden community somewhere in Broken Roads. The recording has been sped up into the timelapse which you can see below.
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