Author: Jakke Elonen

A Contest of Fruitbats: Week Two

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We’re happy to see people participating and trying to guess what our next game is going to be.

It must’ve been hard with just that one measly hint to go by, eh?

Well, this week we figured we’d give a few hints at once. But you won’t find them here.

We’ll be posting new hints on our social media today (hint: check http://fruitbatfactory.com). Hopefully they’ll make the task a little easier for the brave contestants!

FBF Present logo

Remember, you can make a new guess each week to improve your chances to win the fabulous reward of a free copy of the game in question, so check the contest page and let your imagination fly wild!

Check the contest page for hints, rules and to enter the race.

Thanks also to everyone who took advantage of our discount week to obtain a copy of War of the Human Tanks as well!

Human Tanks Fight On

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You’re walking down Steam Greenlight, clicking “YES” on War of the Human Tanks as you pass, and then, suddenly… WHAM-O! FREE STEAM KEYS FOR EVERYONE!

That’s right, once War of the Human Tanks gets on Steam, everyone who’s purchased the game from any of our distributors will receive a free Steam Key for it as well!

WotHT Greenlight Promo 3

Human Tanks, Charge!
Your target: Steam!

How can you support us?
-Purchase a copy of War of the Human Tanks from the distributor of your choice. Your choices are: Indievania, Desura, GamersGate and Green Man Gaming.
-Vote for War of the Human Tanks on Steam Greenlight.
-Tell your friends, family and everyone you hold at gunpoint.
-Once War of the Human Tanks is on Steam, you will receive a key at no additional cost.

In other news, Chapter 3 of the “Let’s Play” Guide for War of the Human Tanks has gone live. Share the miserable struggle at Chapter 3: ‘The Aoba Troop Did Their Best’!

Human Tanks, Charge!

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The day has come. The troops stand prepared. Are you ready?

War of the Human Tanks is now officially out.

The first pre-orderers have probably begun playing the game already, and we’re hoping they’ll have a jolly good time of it.

Release

To celebrate the launch of our first title, we’re having a 10% launch week discount campaign. Go grab yours at the nearest (hah!) digital retailer!

In additional news, Green Man Gaming came through today, and you can now find War of the Human Tanks listed there as well, in addition to Desura, GamersGate and Indievania!

The reviews are still coming in. Clark A. at Digitally Downloaded gave War of the Human Tanks 3.5/5:

“It’s absolutely a worthy title in its own right. The character banter is thoroughly entertaining, augmented by solid combat.”

But don’t just take his word for it when you can check out the free demo featuring first 5 full episodes of the game.

The Fuse is Lit

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As anyone who’s followed our blog would well know, it’s the eve of the ba- I mean, release of Fruitbat Factory’s first release, War of the Human Tanks.

Tomorrow we’ll be fixing up release-related details with the distributors and hoping nothing goes too catastrophically wrong. If it does, you’ll be the first ones to know. Especially if you were the first one to order the game and run into whatever catastrophe awaits.

On that note, here’s another countdown illustration courtesy of Angie (@9aia).

Heshiko

Everyone’s favorite Human Tank, Heshiko, is all set and ready for action.
Lock and roll!

In other news, as part of our ongoing Steam Greenlight efforts, we are looking into providing everyone who previously purchased the game a Steam key as well when War of the Human Tanks makes it into Steam. It’s definitely something we want to do, but we need to check the practical execution with each of our distributors so as to not make false promises. So far Desura has confirmed we’ll be able to do this. We’ll keep you posted with future developments.

Every vote on Steam Greenlight counts (towards something. I think)!

“Fun, Fast, Intense Action”

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Just three days away from release. It’s starting to almost feel real.

Angie (@9aia) surprised us with another smiting illustration of Liselotte from War of the Human Tanks.

Liselotte is clearly worrying about all the things that could and probably will go wrong.
Stay strong, Liselotte!

We also received a new review by Matthew Kim at Twinfinite, from whence this post’s tagline comes.

“If you’re a military buff with a thing for anime then you’ll definitely be interested in War of the Human Tanks.”

Liselotte recommends reading the full review here.

Human Tanks Home in

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It’s an exciting week for us with the release date for War of the Human Tanks finally just ahead: September 14th, this Friday.

To celebrate the approaching occasion, here’s an absolutely gorgeous art piece by Angie (@9aia) of Heshiko and Choko from War of the Human Tanks. It made us really happy! You can view this and a bonus Liselotte illustration on our forums’ Fan Art section.

The “Let’s Play” guide at http://fruitbatfactory.com/humantanks/guides.html has been updated with Episode 2, check it out, especially if you’ve already played the demo or are struggling with it.

Demo Squad Go!

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The surviving Shock Tanks report that a demo version of War of the Human Tanks has appeared in several locations. Scout Tanks confirm the sightings at GamersGate and Desura as of this moment. Stay tuned for more updates on the situation!


Desura Digital Distribution
In other news, the Guides section for War of the Human Tanks has gone live with the first part of the guide. Rumors say that other sections will be added soon.


Meanwhile, the war goes on. Human Tanks are fighting a brave battle on Steam Greenlight. It’s great to see the community response there. Enlist now to join the war effort!


All new Human Tanks are welcome to join our forums to discuss the ongoing war.

War Report #2

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So last week we said we have great news. Indeed, as I am happy to say that translation & editing for War of the Human Tanks is now FINISHED! That’s definite cause for celebration (and a few beers). Big kudos to Yoshifumi who finished translating the last scenarios in record time. The whole staff has had a blast playing them and most of us are now at 100% completion rate.

I don’t think we’ve specifically mentioned it anywhere, but the game has 2 main routes and 4 different endings, and completing a route unlocks new challenges for you. There are a total of 29 different battles (edit: 31 now) to unlock and fight through as you play the different routes. So there’s quite a bit more to the game than just playing through it once. It took us some 20 to 30 hours to reach completion, depending on the person. It was interesting to see how each of us approached the gameplay with their own philosophy.

So where does that leave us? We already announced earlier that we’ll be releasing the game this fall. We’re well on schedule for that. There are some things still left to do, however:

*Finish replacing the battle maps.
*Fine tune the system files.
*Playtest, playtest, playtest.

So this is mainly what we’ll be doing over the next few weeks, after sobering up from the celebration.

Look forward to the game this fall!

Opening of the Human Tanks

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So many things are happening at once, and we have great announcements to make. This week we wanted to release the opening video of the War of the Human Tanks alongside one of these news that made us very happy. But small delays in this and that dragged things on and caused us to skip this week’s intended update on our blog. That wouldn’t do, so we decided to at least share with you the new opening video, in all its translated glory. Here we go:

Special thanks to Herkz for his help on the video.

This is the first version of the opening for War of the Human Tanks. Since the game is structured into episodes like a TV series, each of the story’s chapters has an opening and ending. There are many different endings as well as alternate versions of the opening which progressively reveal certain characters as you meet them in the story. In this initial opening you can see the major characters from the opposing side appear as silhouettes.