Wee Boats May 2025 Progress Update

2025-05-25

Wee Boats is coming together!

The start of the year felt like slow going. The slog towards the end of the project. Setting up a sole trader company, trying to get the Steam page up and running and small progress on the game here and there. But now over the last month, the engines feel like they are running again and we are having fun with the boats once more!

A Maze

Holy Moly did we need A Maze right now. It is truly something special where I always come away with a drive to keep going. We submitted Wee Boats for a two hour demo at the Open Screens. Even though it was a small period of time, we got so much great feedback from everyone who tried out the game and we were buzzing. We then set up the game outside in the garden of Silent Green where folks could play in the fresh air.

We saw a lot of things that we can improve about the game. Fantastic! We are working on it now! Feels like the first time we are adding fun improvements to the game in some time.

People were excited about the game. Fantastic! That's been good for the old self belief. This is a silly, small game. I go through cycles of thinking that people are going to really not like it for its smallness but maybe there is a place for this too. Hopefully it translates to the Steam audience!

Steam

About a month ago we got our Steam page up and online as Coming Soon (You can go there now and wishlist :) ). So now we need to play the game of Steam and get them wishlists up! If you want a game to make any bit of a splash on Steam, you need a rake of wishlists. I feel like 1000 wishlists is the minimum you need for Steam to bother giving you a glance and between 7000-10,000 is when you may start popping up in some Discovery Queues or something like that.

We are currently way off those numbers but we are giving it a go to get the word out there!

How are we playing the wishlist game?

Boat Party

This coming week we are bringing the game onboard one of the boats that we are featuring in the game! Litteraturbåten Epos, which is a library boat that travels the west of Norway, is hosting a boat party in Bergen and we can join in! It'll be interesting to see how it goes down in a party setting with a crowd that isn't a gamer crowd. I'm hyped to bring it to the boat anyway!

Ok, right, back to it! Let's feckn go!