Sorry to keep you waiting!

Hello everyone! It’s been… a while since the last BIP Newsletter post. 💀💀💀 My bad. My previous workload with college, BIP, and health issues made this newsletter impossible to write on a consistent basis. However, now having graduated and under a lot less pressure since a couple of BIP projects have either been released or shelved, I have been given some time to be able to do this.

In fact, this newsletter was actually planned to come out a couple weeks sooner… but my appendix exploded. Not fun. I am doing a lot better now though so expect more updates in the future.

Game & Studio Updates

Today is our One year anniversary!

Today marks the one year anniversary since our studio became (widely) public! It has been an exciting and supportive ride so far, we’ve released 2 games, shelved another, hosted a successful Game Jam, and have nearly 10k members in our Discord Community! (there are so many of you now omg…)

We don’t have any intention of stopping soon, and there’s a lot of new and exciting things in the works, so from everyone at Bad Ideas Productions, we hope to see you all in our future!

Bad Ideas Productions Anniversary Sale (Nov 13 - 20)

I know what you’re thinking, that date is NOT our anniversary, but it was either gonna start today and miss out on the Salesman anniversary, or the anniversary week of the Salesman, so it makes more sense for that title and also gives us more time to promote it.

So on November 13th for a whole week, The Salesman and Test Release, Do Not Buy will be 30% off on Steam! Maybe by then you can earn those impossibly hard achievements in The Salesman as well….

Mushroom Kid’s Big Grass Sword Update

Mushroom Kid’s Big Grass Sword will be releasing in Q1 2027! We have one major area left and then all we will need to do is polish the game up and look for any issues and bugs. Mushroom Kid’s Big Grass Sword has come a long way.

The area we completed recently was the Ant Hills. Which is based entirely off of ant platforms that move the player like conveyor belts.

Check that out here:

Stay tuned for more information about an official release date asap!

Wishlist our NEW game, Count My Coins, Coin Counter!

Count My Coins, Coin Counter! is a title we made for the GMTK 2026 Jam in the style of Papers Please! where you work as a clerk converting and creating change for characters from several different cultures! We’re very proud of this game and enjoyed making it so much, we plan on turning it into a full release! So stay tuned for more news on this, likely AFTER we’ve finally wrapped up development on Mushroom Kid.

Please be sure to wishlist it here:

We’re Publishing the Winner of The Bad Ideas Game Jam! Go Wishlist it!

Scrambled Ships, created by CutieMonica, won the Bad Ideas Productions game jam and now we’re working with her to publish a full release on Steam and Itch! We already have a Steam page up so please make sure to wishlist the game, it helps more than you think it does!

Scrambled Ships is a Yacht dice roguelike game inspired by Balatro where you play the game with a mysterious figure where you have to buy new dice and power-ups to meet increasingly higher and higher goals while learning more about the relationship between the mysterious figure and yourself.

Wishlist the game here:

Right now we don’t have any official plans on when the game will be out but… in the meantime go check out their other game Dragon Decimator which should be releasing soon. We aren’t involved in the publishing of that game we just wanted to shout it out since her success is our success:

Check out, TEST RELEASE DO NOT BUY !!!

Since Jonny has now made a video on the game, the April fools joke has officially overstayed its welcome and I will now talk about our “second” released game TEST RELEASE DO NOT BUY !!!.

TEST RELEASE DO NOT BUY !!! is a game that doesn’t exist… well that is.. It doesn’t exist until you start playing the game. Then our devs scramble with Jonny’s demands in order to create a strange burger filled incremental game.

The game basically started out as a funny joke between friends and snowballed into the small experimental project you see now.

Check it out here:

The Salesman Update Soon…

I know I know…

The Salesman achievements were pushed to the GitHub repo back in April by James but I have been so busy with other stuff and sick that they are still not in the game. I will find time to do it I SWEAR. Blaghh…

It will be my early birthday present to our queer ally child.

In case you missed it, LIMP KNIGHT Update

In all seriousness, we’re sorry to say that Limp Knight has not been in active development for a few months now and we’ve shelved the project. That’s not to say we’ll never come back to it, but for the foreseeable future we plan to work on projects we know what to do with and are excited to get out to you sooner than later! If Limp Knight gets unshelved, we’ll be sure to bring it back with a bang.

More information can be found in Jonny’s video about shelving Limp Knight here:

Bad Ideas Productions Direct Coming SOON™

Right now, the studio is in a bit of a quiet state of affairs. We’ve learned a lot from our previous releases and projects and we are focusing on some projects in the background. Since we want to make sure that everything is ready to go for a full release.

However, we feel like we are now organized enough to have an official Direct coming hopefully before the end of the month. Be sure to keep an eye out as it will showcase one final game we have yet to reveal…

What’s going on with the Bad Ideas Game Jam Collection?

Current Timeline of Events

We know it’s been a very long time coming, but with Mushroom Kid’s full release coming soon and all the other studio work we’re doing, progress likely won’t start on the collection until the end of the year. Whenever we host our next game jam, it’s very likely that the collection will be downsized massively or cut entirely but we’ll only know when that time comes.

We’ve published the steam page, so be sure to wishlist it, it WILL make a difference.

Jonny RaZeR Live Channel Posting Again!

2 years ago, Jonny stopped posting on his Live channel. Now it’s back with a bunch of new fun longform videos. If you like Jonny’s content and want to see more of him goofing off in other games, then be sure to check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/@JonnyRaZeRLive/