Yo Shroomers!

Team Lazerbeam here with another monthly dev log. This one is a doozy, crammed full of the hottest beans we’ve ever spilled, so let’s dive straight in!

Devolver Digital confirmed!
We’ve just made a huge announcement, celebrating a whole bunch of good news! At the top of this list is the reveal that the radical folks at Devolver Digital have joined our quest to bring you the most dazzling deckbuilder ever!

We are so stoked to be bringing this game into the world with Devolver Digital. Having self published every one of the games we’ve released over the last decade, this is an absolutely monumental event for us.

We’re so excited to be working with Devolver, ensuring Shroom and Gloom can reach the widest audience possible. On that front we’re very happy to share that…

Shroom and Gloom is on Steam!

After months of people begging us to open Steam wishlists, we’re delighted to share that our Steam page is finally live!

We’ve marked this occasion by dropping not one, but two Shroom and Gloom videos! First, there’s our Steam reveal trailer:

And then the dev Intro, where Ben Lazerbeam gives you a quick crash course in how Shroom and Gloom plays, and some of the game design pillars that make Shroom and Gloom the beautifully chaotic beast that it is:

If you’d like to show your support, murder that wishlist button and prepare to leave a glowing Steam review after you bless your library with…

The brand new Shroom and Gloom demo!

We’re delighted to share one last mega-milestone; Shroom and Gloom has officially graduated from being a prototype to becoming a demo! The demo is availible both on Steam, and right here on our beloved itch.io!

We launched the first public version of the SnG prototype on itch last September. It was a janky buggy mess, but there was enough of a spark to convince us we were onto something special. We kept rolling out improved versions of the prototype over the following months, with the latest (v0.4.47) dropping in early February of this year. To celebrate bringing the game to Steam, and the prototype becoming a far more polished and stable experience, we’re delighted to make the jump to calling this thing a demo rather than a prototype. There still some very rough edges, a few rogue bugs and some essential features missing, but the core experience is a solid one.



For people who might have played the prototype, we’d certainly recommend returning to Shroom and Gloom to check out how things are playing in the demo. There are HEAPS of rad new additions and improvements. Curious about what they are? We’ve got a list of highlights for you!

Updates from 0.4.47 to 0.4.58

• Brand new soundtrack! We're delighted to have a new score from Jay Lazerbeam, with amazing dynamic implementation by Kelly and Ross Beam.
• Lots of polish and improvements across the board.
• Map totally redone! Still buggy, but looks heaps more awesome!
• Tunnels look even more awesome!
• Enemies look more awesome! Juicy new animations! Better positioning in combat!
• Card animations look more awesome!
• Dying looks more awesome!
• The "butt door" looks more awesome! (but sadly no longer glows)
• Practice Dummy and Soup Pot look more awesome!
• We're finally in the game! You will now get a quick intro and outro from the band (outro currently only if you beat the game).
• Some card behaviors have been reworked for additional awesomeness!
• Cards can no longer draw themselves!
• Card legibility improved!
• Map is a card now!
• Shopping experience much improved!
• Added a button to view your foresight cards!
• Steam wishlist buttons in game!
• Restart Run button!
• Quit to desktop button! Yay!
• Graphics settings reduced and improved!
• Game boots to HD by default and resolution can be bumped up if you like.
• Double card reward bugs resolved.
• Card Toad/ Frog Pick/ Toad pond bugs resolved.

Updates from 0.4.58 to 0.4.16 Demo playable on Mac!
• HEAPS of updates to cards and how you can get them! More than 250 changes in total! In general we have tried to improve which cards get offered when, and have got rid of some cards that were cluttering up the good ones. Rage builds are much more viable now.)
• Card shrooming! Growing your cards now comes with some visual feedback. The more you modify a card, the more shroomy it will become!,
Shroomed card offerings! To ensure enticing late game offerings, you can unearth upgraded cards that deal extra damage, cost less, or have new abilities.
• New camp structure! With the working title the “bookshelf” this is a new structure you can deploy in explore phases to modify your cards in some fun new ways.
• Some new card art!
• Resolved a bug where soup pot would sometimes not offer a third soup.
• Soup pot no longer takes multiple 'uses' from single ingredients.
• Moss Boss fight reworked - dude has more spell weakness, so easier to take down. That said he also summons much more threatening allies, so this fight is also much more fast paced and decisive.
• Gloom worm has a bit less psychic scream.
• Fixed a bug with the team outro breaking the game.
• Further build size reductions.
• Further performance wins.
• Accessibility: New slider to adjust screen shake.
• Accessibility: New slider to adjust camera bob when walking.
• Accessibility: Improved the screen lock mode to reduce motion sickness.
• UI/UX: Juicy new animation on "end turn" for when you run out of energy.
• UI/UX: New card draw and discard animations.
• UI/UX: Camp structure cards are darker.
• UI/UX: Tool tips for Toad/ all froggy cards become Toad cards.
• UI/UX: Spicy Toasty's text is correct to say damage "All".
• Fixed a couple of Null ref bugs.



Whew! That’s a lot of shroom growth! We’re so incredibly stoked to have reached this moment in our quest to bring this game to life. We’re so grateful to the incredibly itch community for cheering us on, and helping us achieve our dream of making the most dazzling deck builder out there.

Hope you’ll have a blast with the new demo, and please do tag along on the rest of our adventures. You can follow us right here on itch, TikTok, Instagram and Youtube, join our monthly mailer, or come hang out with us on our Discord.

Thanks for reading. Stay rad!