Greetings, loyal devotees of RSS readers and webcomic bookmarks! Just wanted to pop by and keep you abreast of the latest goings-on in the Expanded Badniverse. Mainly, that Rog & Roll currently has a demo on Steam that you can try for free on PC and Mac!

The Rog & Roll preview demo remains live on Steam for PC/Mac 'til June 22nd! If you haven't checked it out, 4 levels of frantic tomato-based havoc await you 🍅✨
▶️Steam link: https://t.co/MXl7nBp5HQ#screenshotsaturday #pixelart #lowpoly #gamedev pic.twitter.com/tRxi6ZUnin

— clay-zulah (@clayzulah) June 19, 2021

Oh, and did I mention that the game has its own website now, replete with features such as a fully illustrated instruction manual, a trailer for the game, and a mailing list that will probably alert you to news faster than me remembering to log in to this WordPress account? BECAUSE IT DOES HAVE ALL OF THOSE THINGS! (Oh and incidentally, my Twitter account remains probably the best way of keeping up with news on all things Badniverse-related – just sayin’.)

If you don’t care about platformer games, then… well, first of all I’m shocked you ever managed to get into my comic, but anyway I should probably address the state of said comic. It has not changed since the last time I posted! I have not abandoned the comic, but I’m not going to return to it before it makes sense to (e.g. not while I’m still in the thick of trying to make and release a commercial video game by myself).

I’m excited to finally release this game in the near future, introduce a whole bunch of people to this world and these characters, and then hand them the keys to the massive treasure vault that is the Badnix archives… plus whatever comes after those archives!

Please stay tuned*, folks!

_{* Probably using one of those other channels I mentioned instead of just refreshing this site every day}

Hello bookmark-checkers and RSS feed watchers! It’s Badnix’s 9th birthday, so I thought I’d swing by and make a quick update post.

If you follow me on Twitter, you probably know I’m as immersed in the Badnix universe as I ever have been:

A new boss fight draws near! Sluri the slime mage has, uh, a bit of a different fighting style for Rog to deal with… 🧙‍♀️#screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev pic.twitter.com/i6sYspOaz3

— clay-zulah (@clayzulah) July 12, 2020

I’m really excited for the upcoming game, and in many ways it feels like the culmination of what I’ve been building with this whole project over the past 9 years. But trying to get the game finished places a lot of demands on me, and between that and just trying to keep my head above water there’s been no time left to allot to the other piece of this massive passion project, i.e. The Comic.

We live in uncertain times, and it’s difficult to make promises about these kinds of things. But I did want to say that I’m not dead, and the comic is not (I hope) dead – it hasn’t left my mind, and I fully intend to come back and finish the story I was telling with these characters and this setting as soon as it makes sense for me to do that.

In the meantime, I hope you’re all staying safe and healthy. Thanks for reading! 🍅

This year’s spooky seasonal update is an homage to the work of horror master Junji Ito! Specifically it’s a nod to a scene from perhaps his most infamously terrifying comic, Junji Ito’s Cat Diary The Enigma of Amigara Fault.

In other spooktacular news, I made a cute little Halloween-themed LCD game earlier this month! Well, it’s technically a browser game, but it’s done in the Game & Watch tradition. Check it out if that sounds like something you’re into! I promise at least one full minute of non-stop excitement.

Looking ahead, I’m still not sure when I’m going to be able to start up proper Badnix updates again – Sluri’s story is looong overdue for continuation, but it’s also the hardest to work on by far, and I still need to figure out when/if I can balance the rigors of that with everything else I’m working on at the moment. I will post here/on the social medias when there’s a new development!