Halfbus

After compromising The Sensitive Squid selling network Gunther and Kenny need to find new way to distribute the product. In a meanwhile they need to deal with a growing danger coming from several fronts. If there only was a way to distract gangs or make to them busy with something else... Here is a chapter 4. It is tough. So, good luck and have fun!

Ok, here is a level 3 -- Hui Xiao story. It’s a bit buggy, a little too hard and contains tons of inappropriate lexicon. Give us know if you can beat it on discord or steam forum!

Oh well, hi there everyone, I'm glad to tell you that we're not dead yet. It's been almost year since the previous update, oh wow. During this year we've done numerous changes to a game, and the largest amount of work was devoted to the game scenario, including the editor, translations, videos, and lots of scripting. So now we have a complete story, which would be released in portions toward the full game release. We'll start with two absolutely new levels and will wait for your feedback. After some period of bug fixes, expect new levels to come (I hope this time it won't take another year). We plan to make a full game release, so just ignore those "game is dead" comments because it is not.   Instead, please come to our discord channel[discordapp.com] and share your thoughts on new levels, mechanics and found issues. Don't skip those trippy videos between levels. Hope you'll make something special in your Basement.

It’s been a while since the last update (yeah we know, seven months in a row it’s not “a while” it’s more like “eternity”). There are a lots of questions and lots of comments like “the game is dead”. There is no excuse to not giving you any information on current status of development. So, to fix that somehow and give you a clue about Basement we want to invite you to our Discord channel[discord.gg] were we can answer your questions in real-time. We can’t promise to answer to all of the questions and give response immediately, but we will try. Also, please notice that we are in UTC+3 time zone, which means minus 7 hours difference to NY and minus 10 hours to LA. And finally, if you won’t touch Discord just know, currently we are working on a whole new campaign mode, which includes 12 levels of hardcore drug-dealing business. We’re going to release it immediately after finishing localization (and yes, we hired a really cool American guy to do that, so you may stop worrying about English texts quality. At least for in-game text ;)

Now all of these are real products from your storages. So if you are going to fight some bad guy, you can produce several packs of Brown and give them to your fighters (click on “Item” in character context menu of specific character, then select Brown and click “Use”) to get “Rage” buff which increases damage for a while. Or if you want to increase production speed try give your worker a pack of Purple. As always, this update contains lots of bugfixes and small improvements. p.s. As for your posts on Suggestions, Bug Reports and General Discussions. We are carefully reading each post. Unfortunately in this Universe, it is not physically possible to implement every idea or even answer each question. But you should know, that we aware of you suggestions.

Next iteration of fixes and improvements is here. This update contains more than hundred of fixes, ui enhancements and game balance changes. The most noticeable change is how you pay salaries to your staff. Now it's no longer possible to overdue payments for more than a few days, otherwise your best workers will leave the facility. At the moment we’re working on story mode. Which will contains up to 15 brand new levels. Each with it’s own unique feature. We’re planning to introduce these new levels closer to the full game release. For the next few weeks we will continue polishing game and creating new content. After a few “patch, polishing and new content” updates we are planning to start working on integrating Steam services (achievements, cloud saves, workshop, tradings cards etc.) And, then hopefully we'll finish all story mode levels and deliver them to you. Stay tuned! -- Halfbus team

Regional prices that Steam set by default based on “base price” for CIS and Russia regions are very different. We, are living in Belarus (part of CIS) thinking that this default rule isn’t very fair to CIS where average income for person is the same or even lower in comparison to Russia. So, in addition to changing of the base price, price for CIS and Russia will be equalized.

These are meant to make the storyline more diverse. Random encounters are small stories and accidental orders that are implicated in the main storyline. Some of them will be beneficial in time of need, other will become a problem to be solved. There’re not so many encounters at the moment, you’ll see them all during two or three games at best, but if you like this feature we’ll add new ones with each update. If you don’t like them (or if you played them all) you can turn the random encounters off at the sandbox settings screen. -- Halfbus team

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Now you can choose a start building with different funds and characteristics, other buildings that will be at the level, and the number of enemies. New decor stuff (rooms, weather effects) We've added tons of new decorations for buildings and rooms, backgrounds, weather effects, and dogs. And hundreds of minor changes and fixes you'll be able to see if you just start the game. The new update we've worked on for so long is already available on Steam! p.s. press ‘E’ in menu to unlock in-game level editor

So, we need a few more weeks to put everything in order. Then we will be ready to deliver an update. Thanks to everyone who still support us!

* Fix error on third research step * Fix stamina level showing in move/attack windows * Attempted to fix "long long description" issue in level selection menu

There was an issue with mouse input on touchscreen laptops, so it’s fixed now.

Hello, Now we’re ready to release two previous updates in public. If you’ve participated in early gamepad testing and used “Inception” branch, just select “NONE - Opt out of all beta programs” in BETAS tab in Basement Properties window to switch back to main. So, today you all will get an update with gamepad support and some bugfixes. We also did some changes to tutorial level to make it more easy to understand. Hire window now allows you to select from all available “types” of employees. As always, please, leave your comments on game forums. There is also a special thread for gamepad related issues. P.s. there might be an issue with screen resolution on start on Macs. Just select whatever you want in game options

Decreased сamera move speed with gamepad

PAX WEST 2016 is coming up! We’re taking over part of the Indie Mega Booth! Come visit us to meet some amazing Basement community members, playtest, hangout with us devs. And, of course, there will be some super exclusive Basement SWAG!

- Wait for game to update (or install if it’s not) - Plug in your gamepad - Start the game - Have fun - Post feedback on our special Gamepad Feedback forums This is it. Cheers!