- cross-posted to:
- gamedev
- cross-posted to:
- gamedev
Getting your game noticed is a tricky business when you have to punch through the noise of the more than 10,000 new Steam games releasing each year. Young Horses, the developer of Bugsnax and Octodad, have found itself in an even trickier spot: Thanks to Google, people are expecting a Bugsnax sequel that doesn’t exist.
“We are not working on a Bugsnax sequel right now and I need AI bs to stop telling kids we are based on a wiki ideas fanfic,” Young Horses co-founder and president Philip Tibitoski tweeted earlier today. It turns out, through the wonders of algorithmic search result curation, Google’s featured snippets have been informing people that Bugsnax 2 will be releasing in October 2024, despite the fact that neither Young Horses or any other developer are making it.
Why not tho? It was your biggest hit and your fans have been foaming at the mouth for a sequel.
But also: They got AI to replicate Doom recently. Perhaps that’s what the AI is referring to. They’re gonna AI up their own Bugsnax sequel and release it next month without the original Dev’s involvement, permission, or knowledge.
That AI most definitely did not replicate Doom. It was a mess.
notice how short all the clips you saw were? That’s because it becomes incoherent after a short while.
I’m devastated that they’re not working on a sequel at all, it was such a fun and refreshing game.