{"id":58256,"date":"2013-09-11T10:31:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T08:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=58256"},"modified":"2013-09-11T10:34:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T08:34:52","slug":"sas-broforce-and-the-tsunami-of-bromance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/58256-sas-broforce-and-the-tsunami-of-bromance","title":{"rendered":"SA’s Broforce and the “tsunami of bromance”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A game which is making some waves internationally is Broforce, and the South African-developed game recently received the thumbs-up on Steam\u2019s Greenlight program.<\/p>\n

MyGaming caught up with the bro-tastic devs to find out how the 2D sidescrolling shooter is coming along.<\/p>\n

Broforce is described as \u201ca ridiculously violent platform game about being awesome action heroes from the 80s and 90s while slaying satanic terrorists and aliens while unravelling an evil plot to destroy the planet while dealing with being awesome action heroes from the 80s and 90s\u201d, which is alright in our books, and apparently the Steam community agrees; so how exactly did Free Lives react to the news of its success.<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch high fiving, followed by tequila-fuelled celebrations, followed by a return to familiar panic and workaholic indulgence,\u201d said Free Lives\u2019 Shaz Strauss, producer on Broforce.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put Broforce onto Greenlight when both Greenlight and Broforce were very early in development. It took us nearly a year to get Greenlit so while it certainly wasn\u2019t easy, we put in enough work that the campaign went smoothly,\u201d added Strauss.<\/p>\n

Free Lives\u2019 Ruan Rothmann (programmer) and \u00a0Evan Greenwood (creative director) wrote a whole blog piece<\/a> about the Greenlight experience and some of the challenges faced.<\/p>\n

\"Broforce<\/p>\n

Regarding moving forward, MyGaming asked the Cape Town-based devs whether Valve now gets involved with the distribution and promotion process of the game on Steam.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually don\u2019t know much yet – we received a congratulatory e-mail from them and have been directed to fill in some registration\/preliminary paperwork to get the ball rolling,\u201d said Strauss. \u201cSo far it\u2019s still very opaque, but maybe after the paperwork wall has been scaled we will have a better idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Broforce will obviously debut on PC, but the Free Lives team did express an interest in making some platform jumps.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve started communications with Sony, we\u2019d love to launch on Vita and PS,\u201d said Strauss. \u201cBroforce might not quite be suited to mobile platforms (too many explosions), but if we can optimise it enough we might try for there as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

With regards to the feedback from fans and the popularity that the game has picked up, MyGaming asked the team if the direction has changed or if the response from gamers has influenced the development in any way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe response has been a slow, but steadily increasing wave of positivity. At this point we are utterly been floored by the incredible tsunami of bromance for Broforce. Its really been instrumental to the development of the game,\u201d said Strauss.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more support we\u2019ve received, the more we\u2019ve wanted to pour into the game to meet and exceed expectations. It\u2019s been a huge driving force for us. It\u2019s been developing this game in the open and being able to test ideas and mechanics in alpha.\u201d<\/p>\n