Given the team’s relative greenness, Cinteză says it was difficult initially to find publishing and monetary support – though his previous connections via Those Awesome Guys helped. Gummy Cat is a five-person team (plus a handful of international contractors) largely based in Romania, where the indie game development scene is fairly small. Bearing the Workloadīear and Breakfast is quite the triumph for a debut game, especially given that its development wasn’t quite as cozy as the ultimate result. I’m hard-pressed to say which bit I like more, especially given Bear and Breakfast’s excellent, hilarious writing across both animal dialogue and item descriptions. Though the initial set-up is a touch overwhelming when it comes to tutorial windows, after about 30 minutes I’m bedecking a rehabilitated shack with ramshackle furniture and painted portraits of, obviously, bears, in an effort to attract customers.įairly early on, Bear and Breakfast opens up, allowing those who want to soothingly cycle through guests and build up their properties focus on that, while those who are curious about the greater mysteries surrounding the forest and a past disaster that drove away many of its inhabitants can chase the larger narrative. Protagonist Hank looks like he stepped right out of We Bare Bears (and in fact Cinteză has a Grizz plush behind him when we chat), and he and his friends’ smooth, cute animations look more like a comforting weekend cartoon special than a game. It starts with Hank fixing up a wooden shack with a rickety old bed and some cheap decor (bought in exchange for literal garbage from an entrepreneurial raccoon aptly named “Took”), but escalates as he acquires more properties, fixes up other dilapidated human structures in the woods, and attracts more and more people to the area.Īs far as the pivot to cozy goes, Cinteză and team have nailed the vibe. It follows a bear named Hank and his fellow forest creature friends – all of whom have the vibe and maturity levels of a bunch of goofy college students home on summer break – who are conned by a megacorporation into running effective AirBnBs in the middle of their forest home for humans who want to escape into nature. Thus the Bear and Breakfast I’ve been playing for the last week is a far gentler thing. But funny as this was, when it didn’t complement the management playstyle, they opted to make something a bit more cozy. The initial plan, Cinteză says, was to have the bear eat the guests - making them the “breakfast” of Bear and Breakfast. Cinteză says he learned Unity while working on B&B.īear and Breakfast originated with the pun in the name, and the overall concept was born from Cinteză’s love of management sims like Theme Hospital. It’s Cinteză’s first “real game dev project” from start to finish, as well as the first major project for most of the other team members at Gummy Cat studio. Once he had his feet wet in development, though, Cinteză wanted to take it a step further and make his own game, and thus Bear and Breakfast was born.
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