Beesummerize: fan art contest, Steam milestones, exciting things

Hi and hello!
I hope you are enjoying the end of summer! We definitely are, as thanks to you, we have now more than 90 000 players on Steam, which means over 170 000 players in total across all devices. That is huge and we are immensely grateful! 💚

But that is not all! To celebrate it, we are holding our first. Ever.

Fan art contest! 🧑‍🎨

All kinds of art are welcome and there is time until August 28th for you to submit them!

Head over Steam (but of course everybody everywhere is invited) for full info about all the prizes, but they include special stickers, game codes and more.

We can’t wait. Here’s a little bee you are competing against in our hearts, courtesy of our animator Ondřej:

Anyway. All the achievements are now working properly over at Steam. Thanks for everybody for having the patience with us and those having issues on mobile platforms have just a tiny bit of more, please. We are on it.

(if your Czech) Vote for Beecarbonize! 🗳️

As you might now, we are finalists in the E.on Energy Globe Awards, able to snatch a 500 000 CZK prize, which, needless to say, would greatly help us with to keep pushing Beecarbonize forward with new stuff.

If you are Czech citizen, you can vote for us over here. It only takes a couple seconds, but goes great lengths in helping us achieve a popular vote victory! Thanks so much in advance.

Help us translate Beecarbonize! 🇫🇷🇧🇷🇪🇸

From the start we wanted to make Beecarbonize as accessible as possible to people all around the world, so it can keep on spreading the climate message, opening eyes of players to possible solutions to our ecological crisis.

And to be honest, with our small team, tight budget and the fact that Beecarbonize is forever free means that our resources are limited. So we are turning towards you – our great community!

We are looking for volunteers that could help us translate the game into Spanish, French and Brazilian Portugese. Big language families that will broaden the audience significantly. And we can’t do it without you!

It is around 5 pages of text, so not that long.

If you are interested, get in touch on [email protected]. Thanks so much in advance!

Mementoes keeps on going forward 📚

We hosted Jasminko Halilović and Fernanda Flores, our friends from War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, to advance our work-in-progress serious adventure set during different modern conflicts.

👀 Have you seen our TikTok? It contains some early glimpses of the graphic style! Here’s another screenshot, us trying different backgrounds to the basement level. Pitch black version:

Academic alert 🧑‍🏫

We’ll be hosting a workshop on historical videogames at Central and Eastern European Game Studies conference! If this is your area & want to speak, let us know. If you are curious, you’re welcome to come! Topics below and all the details over at https://bit.ly/cgceegs23 See you in Leipzig soon! 🇩🇪

Personal tip 🔍

Last, but not least, a personal tip by one of me, Ondrej. He F*cked the Girl Out of Me is a harrowingly sincere and layered account of ones trauma, in a free game. Queerness meets sex work meets self-hatred in an adventure that is not a pleasant play per se, but deeply moving and important. It was for some time out on Itch.io, but now it is on Steam, too! So show the developer Taylor McCue some love!

That’s it for today! Thanks for the support, we are exicted to show you more from our upcoming projects soon.

Enjoy the summer!

Ondrej
Charles Games