BillieBustUp

Happy 8th Birthday Billie Bust Up!

As we reach the end of our journey, we want to thank everyone for getting us this far. This game started small but grew with community support. We even managed to hire an entire orchestra to bring this musical game to the next level thanks to all of you.

This game was built with passion and love and we can’t wait to show you more. This is but a small sneak peak of what’s to come. With a feature movie length of animated cutscenes and 17 lyrical songs…I hope you’re ready!

Find that Goat!!

The end to Elaine's song! I think we have like roughly a movies worth of cutscenes, no joke

Best Friends!

Fantoccio and Billie are now...best friends ✨

I'm not sure how many more non spoiler cutscenes I can show as a lot of our cutscenes prioritise big plot moments, I probably have a few more! I can also show some non spoiler shots of spoiler cutscenes

Aristotle saves you!

Billie and Aristotle meet for the first time! This sequence used to be a lot longer but we moved the dialogue to gameplay so you're not stuck listening to Aristotle ramble about the "good ol' days"

Cat Pirate Chase!

We have reworked the first two chapters to include some new songs and sequences to make the pacing better for the story. Here we meet Eepy, Fancyfur and Spoons.

In the Maya editor they don't look particularly great as they're missing their custom skeletons, but you can see what they'd look like here

This sequence serves to introduce us to Elaine's crew of cat pirates, used as a more est...

Meeting Fantoccio!

A lot of cutscenes are being finished up, whilst most are spoilers we have a few non spoiler ones for you!

Winter Break + New Testing Build

Hi everyone! just in case, DMs are not being answered during the winter break. We're away celebrating New Years eve with some friends abroad, but ill be back and will be able to respond to any enquiries or help you may need soon! Our break ends on the 3rd but I'll try and find some time before this date to help you.

We also have Elaine's song coming up soon for testing! A sneak peak is shown above, really curious to hear peoples feedback. I'm going to try and implement a new system to...

Fantoccio Plushie is Back! for 20 days ONLY

We're bringing back the Fantoccio plushie for 20 days, his gem glows in the dark! Once the 20 days are up he will be gone for good, so nab one now if you'd like one, all funds go straight back into the game

https://www.makeship.com/products/fantoccio-gitd-plushie 

much love!

Katie

Black Screen Bug

We've had reports of the screen staying black when the game is first opened and that it is not reaching the main menu. This is due to the game loading all the assets in, however, this can be very slow on a first boot and with zero feedback from the game I see how this is confusing. If your PC specs are not strong enough, you may never get to see the main menu!

We will look into adding a loading screen for when the game first boots up BUT we're also working on a large patch that will op...

Leaking Content from Patreon

We have had constant reports from users that certain streamers are intentionally leaking content from levels. A reminder that the only content you can legally stream at this time is

• Fantoccios Boss Fight

• Barnabys Chase

• The Test Map

You cannot stream

• Dutchs dance battle

• Aristotles tutorial

If this continues it will lead to us having to remove these levels from the builds and no longer share...

Keys Fixed!

I have responded to all the people missing keys or have duplicates at this time. If you do not have your key please take the follow steps

No Key Received 

• Direct message us on Patreon and I can investigate and send you your assigned key

Duplicate Key 

• Respond to the email informing me that you have received a duplicate key and I will send you a new one
  

  Shutting comments off because I'm wor...

  2024-11-23 17:13:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Bot Fixed, Duplicate Key? Email back!

The bot was fixed and then he proceeded to email the backlog of people waiting on keys with the exact same key! Leading to a lot of people getting duplicate key errors. If this was you, please just respond to that email letting me know and ill email you back with your new key

Keys on Hold

We are getting an unprecedented amount of signs up that the automated system we pay for has put our account on temporary hold. We didn't realise that would do this, which means a lot of people are not getting their keys on sign up. This happened 1 hour ago. We are looking into fixing this, I will let you know when the system is fixed, but I will have to manually assign keys until then

Duplicate Keys

We have an automated system that hands out keys but in the last few days I’ve had repeat reports of people getting duplicate keys. It didn’t make much sense to me as the system has worked perfectly for months now. I’ve now found some new issues we will need to fix. Updating so you know we’re working on it

Issue 1

there is a new system on Patreon that lets you gift subs to people. I’m not sure how to fix this right now but I’ll look into it . For now dm us if yo...

Friend Like You Ending Storyboard

A storyboard by one of our newest storyboard artists! https://x.com/colubird

This cutscene takes place after the "Friend Like You" song

Barnaby's Updated Chase now Live!

Your key will update automatically. If it doesn't update simply close and reopen your steam and it will update for you!

You can stream this update! Just not the Dutch dancing :) enjoy!

Special Halloween Patch Incoming!

We will be patching the game in a few days to have a special Halloween update! Keep an eye out, it should be out in the next 2 days or so :D I'll keep the updates a surprise

Dutch Feedback and Notes

I've written up some thoughts and ideas regarding the feedback for Dutchs demo! Curious to see if you have a preference! Read here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vQD99FfSky4EESel-Vtk6IahJrWVaGErFsuAcunHAn0/edit?usp=sharing 

Dutch Patch - Razzle Dazzle Now Live!

You can now play the DDR mini game, Dutchs Razzle Dazzle Dream Hotel (this is not his boss fight song or gameplay)

This level cannot be streamed at this time, the singing is final but the visuals are still lacking. Animations are not completed along with final VFX/SFX. 

To come:

• Backing singers, models and animation 

• VFX, roses etc. 

• Crowd, that reacts to your performance, both animation and SFX

<...
2024-10-15 18:01:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Friend Like You Introduction

Here is the storyboard for Fantoccio's opening song "Friend Like You"! We're currently prepping this for playtesting on Patreon. It's fun! It focuses more on being silly, fun and more of a gag song, compared to the more challenging intro song given to Barnaby. We hope it will make you giggle!

Press buttons to the beat in a rhythm heaven-esque gameplay sequence. If you fail you'll get uniq...

Pirate Queens Cave Early Release!

We're about to drop this song onto streaming platforms! It has the full orchestra and is extended at 4mins long! Even though it is public, please don't share this link around as we want to make a big premiere for the song for when it goes live on spotify and apple music :D

In other news, things are going good! It's been a busy few weeks catching up after spending the last month travelling, but we will have more to show soon! Thank you all for being patient as we play catch up <3

Flying to Sweden

We have an idea on how to fix the way the demo archive works. We will automate a system that will add your Patreon email to the google drive to access it. I’ll get that fixed when we arrive in Sweden. For now if you request access with the same email I’ll do it manually when I see the request. Just make sure you’re requesting with the same email you signed up to Patreon with, that way I can check you’re allowed access.

Exciting days ahead. We’re about to start shipping ...