Demo Patch April 2025

This might be the first devlog of the year but this year has been quite eventful already!

In February, we released the Brew Demo, which will be staying up until the release of the game and we will be updating as we go along.

In the demo, we showcased the first day of arriving at the Alchemy Academy, along with a peek at the Mechanology floor and the duel against Professor Akilah. We also had a bunch of friendship events for you to unlock in the Academy Grounds!

Today, we are releasing a minor update to the dem! Here are the patch notes for this update:

Features

• Introduced a new break room to the tower, the Shop!

• Added explanation cards with video to the tutorial.

Balance changes

• Added direct impact damage to the water grenade launcher

• Increased Shield Guy's jump attack damage (5 - 12)

Sound Effects

• Air sniper

  • Added firing sounds to the air sniper when you're not at the sweet spot.

    • Made a new sound for the sniper

      • Removed the clap sound when reaching the sweet spot

      • Added a charge sound

• Updated the Water Grenade gun sounds

• Updated the Shotgun sounds

• Added new chest sounds

• Fixed a bug with the sound location of the shield guy laser, often making it inaudible.

• Updated the Crab locomotion sounds

• Updated double jump sounds

• Updated the sounds of destructables

Bug Fixes and Misc Changes

• Made corks spawn in a more satisfying way

• Shield guy

  • Set a minimum laser distance

  • Fixed bug where Shield Guy Rocket indicators were invisible

  • Replaced Shield Guy Rocket VFX and indicator VFX

• Removed some rough WIP features hidden in the Hub

• Disabled potion upgrade with unintended behavior (fire shotgun)

• Changed collision on enemies to work with water dash

• Fixed the fire dash upgrade

• Possibly fixed an obscure crash happening to about 1% of our players :(

• Changed the visuals of hovered buttons from darkening the button to a background glow, to make it more clear what is hovered or not.

• Fixed a possible infinite loop with a specific badge combination

• Fixed water splash spawning multiple times on the water grenade

• Removed badges from the tutorial

• Updated the basic attack VFX

Did you know that there are friendship events for each character in the demo?

You must become friends with them to unlock them, but event Newt and Aster have extra events!

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Thank you all for playing the demo and following the development of Brew! We cannot wait to show off more of the features we have been working on behind the scenes…