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Happy Holidays & Shotgun King on mobile 🎅♟️📲
Ho ho ho punks!We've been quiet the last two months. Truth is we're all catching a breath after what has been a very full year for PUNKCAKE. We made quite a few games, and hosted two guest games on our subscription. We also started making a video newsletter, we released a physical cassette with tracks from our first 12 games...And now it's finally time to reveal that we've been working with Headbang Club, who did the console port of Shotgun King, to bring Shotgun King onto mobile...
PUNKCAKE NEWSCAKE October ‘25 - Clockwise Knight is coming! We're late, no charge this month.
Hi punks!Eris here! This month's Newscake will be exceptionally in text format only. The usual Newscakes should come back soon!This year has been really intense for us: we released 6 games of our own and 2 guest games, several prototypes, and there are 4 games left to create in order to achieve our "1 game per month" goal for 2025. We also tried lots of new things: the release of a new video format, going to festivals (see Stunfest's pic above!)... And we still have Steam release...
PUNKCAKE NEWSCAKE September '25 - Frontline: War of Echoes released, our first mixtape is out, mini pharma, and more!
Hi punks!Ah september, the first month of fall, the long-awaited end to the summer heat, the rain.This is all very nice, but what about the games? Well, we released Frontline: War of Echoes at the beginning of the month! It was technically supposed to be our August game, but here it is anyway. Our actual September game, Remy's Flippin Dungeon is still in development, but also a new free game got made and released: mini pharma!Frontline is a game of capture-the-flag, where each time you get a...
PUNKCAKE Délicieux Mixtape - a PUNKCAKE x Lost In Cult collaboration
Hi friends!Very quick little post and video today to announce our collaboration with Lost In Cult for...✨ PUNKCAKE Délicieux Mixtape Vol.1 ✨This is a physical cassette with a selection of 22 tracks by @pentadrangle from our first 12 games! It's delightfully retro, beautifully printed, and soundly curated, and we think it'll prove the perfect object for both your ears and your shelves!We couldn't be happier with what Lost In Cult did with this. And of course it's very excitin...
Frontline: War of Echoes is out now! 🌑🚩👩🚀
Hi punks!Our new game Frontline is out now!Capture the flag, but everytime your reach the flag, time gets rewinded and you play a new clone in the opposite team. Can your survive an army of yourself?This one is leaning more on the experimental side. The premise feels pretty confusing when you start playing, but then it becomes very fun very quickly. There are 8 different levels in the game, and reaching objectives in them will get you medals, which can be used to toggle upgrades, which should he...
PUNKCAKE NEWSCAKE August '25 - Öoo, Frontline, Remy's Flippin Dungeon
Hi punks!Our new guest game, Öoo by Nama Takahashi, came out in August, our own new game Frontline is set to release next week, and our other new game Remy's Flippin Dungeon is on its last stretch of development!Öoo is an exploration puzzle-platformer where you play a caterpillar made of bombs! It's extremely clever, and it keeps teaching you things about its mechanics all throughout the game, and even after with some nice post-credits content.It truly is a great video game, with no le...
Öoo is out now! 🐛💣💥
Hi punks!A new guest game enters the PUNKCAKE catalog!!Play as a caterpillar made of bombs in Öoo, and drop the bombs to catapult yourself across puzzle-platformer levels!Öoo is available on Steam for 10$ and on our subscription starting at 4$! Redeem it on our website!Nama Takahashi's previous game ElecHead was a big inspiration for us, so we're super happy to be supporting him and his team with this new guest feature! We hope you'll enjoy the game as much as us!Come chat about it...
NEWSCAKE video for july and a surprise coming tomorrow!
Hi Punks! We're making a quick post today to let you know about the release of the July Newscake video! Since it's a new format, the first batches take a little more time to prepare, but it should arrive at the same time as the text version in the coming months! We also have another important announcement to make: contrary to what we had previously said, we'll release either Rémy's Flippin' Dungeon or Overdubbed this month... Because we have a surprise coming on Friday! It&#...
PUNKCAKE NEWSCAKE July '25 - Late again! Sorry!
Hi punks!Well, July is already coming to an end and we just weren't fast enough to release our new game in time.The July game is just late. It's coming, and there will be another separate game for August, which hopefully we'll manage to release in August, and not in September. But let me tell you what we've been up to!Last month Benjamin was hard at work on Frontline. This month, Benjamin... went on vacations. Yeah, uhm, I actually don't have much more to say about that. Hone...
First ever NEWSCAKE video
Hi punks!Just a quick post today to let you know that we just released our very first Newscake video! It's the same as last week's Newscake, but we've been wanting to do this kind of format for a very long time now and we hope you like it! Let us know if you do!See you soon for a new game!Love you, bye!-PUNKCAKE Délicieux🥞
PUNKCAKE NEWSCAKE June '25: 10S Forever, new free game: Frontline, and more!
Hi punks!This post comes a little later than I would have liked, but I've been really struggling with the heat we're having here in France, so this is the best I could do. I bring quite a few news though!Let's start with our June release, 10S Forever! A game we have not made! This is the first guest game on the Punkcake catalog and we're very happy to say that we think the game is great and worth your time! This has also been a really great experience because we got to support a ...
10S Forever is out now! 🎾💥👾
Hi punks!This is a special day: the first ever guest game on our Patreon subscription is out now!10S Forever is a tennis-em-up bullet-hell, with some 8 stages, boss encounters, 4 difficulty modes, and local co-op!10S Forever is available-On Steam!On Itch!And on our subscription! Redeem it on punkcake.club!Chloe is one of those developers we've been following for ages and who has been an inspiration for just as long. Her games have a very unique and crunchy aesthetic, and her gameplay is alwa...
NEWSCAKE May '25: Released two new games, and our first ever guest game is coming for June!
Hi everyone! It's been a busy month for us: we released both our April game and out May game, and we found a solution for our June game!We released If Letters Had Pants on Itch io sometime in the first half of the month, and the reception has been pretty good! We did two patches since the release, with fixes but also additional content. I'm working on one last patch before moving on to other things. We're all very happy with how this game turned out, and the player reception has also...
Serpentes: Anniversary Edition is out now! 🐍🍒🍍
Hi punks!Our May game is Serpentes: Anniversary Edition!It's an update to a hellishly addictive game made by Benjamin in 2015, a game of Snake, where you eat fruit to extend your length and have to avoid running into walls or yourself, but with a twist: fruits get 5 random properties each time you play that are unlocked by eating them.We're very pleased with this one! The original Serpentes had a small but very positive reception, so it's always been in the back of our heads to give ...
If Letters Had Pants, Would They Wear Them Like This? is out now! 🔠🩳
Hi punks!Our april game If Letters Had Pants, Would They Wear Them Like This? What About Numbers? What If They Had Small Shovels And They Dug Stuff Up To Put In A Museum? is finally out!Find words! Give ur letters pants! Make stronger words! Find objects in the dirt and put them in a museum!Check out the trailer above!We're very happy with how this one turned out! Despite the late release, it's actually the fastest I've made a Punkcake game so far, with about 6 weeks of work. It'...
NEWSCAKE April '25: If Letters Had Pants, Mergeborn, Serpentes, Tic-Tac-Toe
Hi punks!We apologize about the lateness of the April game! It's coming very soon, next week if all goes well, and we'll also have another game for May!Also, our monthly Newscake posts are moving over to an actual newsletter! We'll still be posting here of course, but only a shorter version of the posts. We encourage you to check out the new newsletter and to subscribe to it, as this is finally the start of a proper mailing list for us!Check it out here!Here's the short-form vers...
Patreon-Exclusive: Proof-of-Concept version of our April game, If Letters Had Pants!
Hi punks!I've been very busy making our april game this month! It's getting close to ready and it will come out next week, hopefully before the month is completely out. It is called: If Letters Had Pants, Would They Wear Them Like This?When I started working on this game at the end of March, I set out to make a playable proof-of-concept as quickly as possible, to make sure the game was still interesting outside of my head, and to start getting feedback from the rest of the team. This ver...
NEWSCAKE March '25 - Fire & Brimstone, Alien Ranger, merging game, whacking moles, letter grid
Hi punks!It seems you really liked the super quick post last month, so I'm going to keep this one short and sweet as well!But first, thanks to the new subscribers this month! We're slowly trying to bring more attention to the Patreon again now that we're actually releasing a new game every month, so we really appreciate you!If you're reading this but are not subscribed, feel free to hit the "Join for free" button so that you may get these updates by mail! Who knows, you m...
Fire & Brimstone is out now! 🔥🏛️👹
Hi punks!Fire & Brimstone just came out! It's a traditional roguelike with a randomized skilltree. Play as Jess, a lonely imp come to explore the depths of a temple lost in the guts of a volcano, in search of a powerful artfact that may let them have friends!It's available now for Windows, MacOS and Linux!Patreon subscribers can redeem it on our website, and non-subscribers can get it on Itch io!(or they can get it for cheaper by subscribing to the Patreon now!)This was another super fun...
Tiny Newscake: Fire & Brimstone is coming!
Hi punks!I sadly don't have much time to write this month's NEWSCAKE, February being an exceptionally short month, so I'm just making this really quick post to let you know what's happening:Smol Gods came out last week on Itch!Patreon supporters can claim it on our websiteas usual! The Steam releasewill happen eventually.There's a new Hot Wax demo on Steam. Hot Wax was released on Itch in December, but it's still not out on Steam. We're trying to collect some wishlist...
Smol Gods is out now! ⛩️🃏🐉
Hi punks!Smol Gods just came out! It's a deity-drafting card game!Build a team of tiny gods and maximize their interactions and synergies to outwit your opponent and beat their score.Rhe release trailer above is the first PUNKCAKE trailer made by Julia, the illustrator who has been doing the awesome key arts for our last few games! (including this one right here 👆) Considering the result, she might be doing some more trailers for us in the future!Smol Gods is available now for Windows, Ma...
NEWSCAKE January '25 - Horizons released, Smol Gods coming next month, and more!
Hi punks!We're starting the year off with a bang here, we just released Horizons: The End Of Words, an open-world space-exploration word game! And we have a whole bunch of other projects in the oven, including Smol Gods, which will release next month, Build The Sun, a crocheting game, a remake of Fire & Brimstone, and more!Horizons: The End Of Wordsjust came out two days ago! We've been working on this game for a couple of months in 2024. I mentioned it before but this is definitely one ...
Horizons: The End Of Words is out now! 🌌🚀🌠
Hi punks!Here is our first release of the year! It's a wordgame very loosely based on scrabble, and set on the infinite grid of outer space!Make words to explore the galaxy, find resources, complete challenges, meet aliens, and discover new planets! 🪐Check out the awesome trailerEris made for it!Horizons: The End Of Wordsis available now for Windows, MacOS, and Linux!Patreon subscribers can redeem the game on our websitenow, as well as the OST for 5$+ supporters.For non-subscribers, you c...
NEWSCAKE: Hot Wax and Tummy Bonbons are out! Horizons and Smol Gods on their way!
Hi punks!Hot Wax is finally out! And we also released a surprise free game: Tummy Bonbons: The Sweet Monster! Benjamin put the finishing touches on Horizons: The End of Words and moved on to make a postjam version of Combo Critters, renamed to Smol Gods! And I'm patching away some last few bugs on Shotgun King!Check out the trailer for Hot Wax!Hot Waxfinally came out earlier this month! Place some candles and burn them down while placing more candles!It's been nice to see some people pla...
Hot Wax available now! 🔥
Hi punks!So we decided to make up for this weird slow year by releasing one game a day this week... I'm just kidding, but we really do have another game for you today! This one has kept me busy since april, except for when I was on Shotgun King for a few months. Still, it's been brewing for a long time and I'm very relieved to finally push out some version of it. (addressing why "some version" further down)Hot Wax is an arcade burn-em-up puzzler where you place candles and th...
Tummy Bonbons: The Sweet Monster is out now! 🍭
Hi punks!We got a surprise for you, Eris has been working on Tummy Bonbons: The Sweet Monster since the GBJam back in september. We felt like the prototype she made then had potential and so she made a full game out of it!And since it's her first PUNKCAKE game, we thought it'd be nice for everyone to have it be available for free!Play as Tummy Bonbons, a Halloween monster who's hungry for candy! Luckily there are plenty of kids around and scaring them into dropping all those sweets s...
NEWSCAKE: Hot Wax, Horizons, Thinking about the future (the future being 2025)
Hi punks!Well, still no new release in November. Hot Waxhas been a bit of a hot mess. The game is still coming together and I still think it's a good game, but I lost most of my motivation to be working on it, so I'm just pushing through and taking any opportunity to be doing something else.In the end I spent half of the month working on our game engine Sugar. I was wanting to add support for Steam leaderboards (and I did)but I ended up also working on some other things that will be help...
Horizons beta up now for Patreon subscribers!! 🚀 Hot Wax coming for Halloween! +two other free games made this month! No charge for November
Hi everyone!We just put up an early version of the full Horizons: The End Of Words on Steam and only Patreon subscribers have access to it, through our website punkcake.club!The game is more or less complete but it lacks testing, so we need your help! We're looking for all sorts of feedback, from things that don't feel great or balanced, to bugs and crashes.You can get a beta key for the game on punkcake.clubright now. And please come to our Discordto give us feedback on the game!We'...
NEWSCAKE: Shotgun King update on the 30th, Horizons: The End of Words and Hot Wax coming in October!
[The picture was posted yesterday on our Discord and on Twitter, it's 3 days now!]Hi punks!Another month has come by! We're getting ready to finally release the Shotgun King update on Monday, and we have two other games in the works for October!I spent pretty much all of September doing minor changes and bugfixes on Shotgun King and coordinating the translators for the update.I also did some work on our game engine Sugar, but still it feels pretty crazy to have spent so much time with ou...
NEWSCAKE: New free game for GMTK Jam! New member! No charge for September
Hi punks!This is a super quick one to let you know about what's been happening this August!Benjamin made a new free game for the GMTK Game Jam!Meet Horizons: The End Of Words!(game depicted in the gif above)It's a cosmic word game where you explore space by making words on a grid, as long as you have letters!We're quite happy with it and we can already tell you that we'll be turning this one into a full Punkcake which is likely to be the game for September!Julia has joined us!She...
