A message from Pichon Games to YOU! Thank you all for such a wonderful year, things are gonna get interesting in 2025, so be prepared!

- Pichon


[www.pichongames.com]

Well, maybe it's a bit too late to celebrate but... better late than never!

For the first time ever, The Bunny Graveyard features full voice-acting. Now you can replay the game and listen to all your favorite characters talk to each other. And guess what? Aside from adding voices, I also tuned-up all of the animations to add even more personality to the characters you all know and love.

A new type of collectible has been added! FIGURINES are little statues of every single character that's been featured in the game, you can collect them all by purchasing them with you Bun-Buns. What are Bun-Buns you ask?

Bun-Buns are the game's currency (Don't worry, they're free) you can get them by playing minigames and exploring around the levels to find Bun-Bun bags. You can also earn Bun-Buns by completing achievements! Complete an achievement and access the new in-game achievements menu to claim your prize!

Some new animated cut-scenes have been added! I wanted to add these new scenes to the game to show how much I've improved and give you a look at what you should expect for the sequel! Hope you like them!


We got more languages now! You can now play the entire game in the following languages:

• Brazilian Portuguese
  
• French
  
• Italian
  
• Japanese
  
• Korean
  
• Swedish
  
• Polish

Keep in mind that the dub for the voice-acting is English-only!

• You can now adjust the game's audio volume
  
• New visual changes to the UI
  
• A new secret post-credit scene
  
• Improvements to the listening sections with hints added
  
• In-game achievements menu with prizes
  
• Tons of bug fixes
  
• And whatever else I added but forgot to put here because there's just way too many things in this update!

I can't believe that after the long wait, it's finally here. Thank you all for your patience! I hope you enjoy this new update, while you wait for The Bunny Graveyard II! I wanted to make this update to show my appreciation for your support the past year, without you guys, we would not be here right now, and I mean that! It's been a crazy ride, but REMEMBER, it has only just begun... Also, feel free to report any bugs you find in this update on the forums, I had to change lots of stuff to make it work with the Nintendo Switch port, but thankfully most of the nasty bugs we found were fixed in time.

I want to give a quick shout-out to all the new and wonderful people who helped me make this update happen, because without them this game wouldn't be as awesome as it is right now:

Additional Music: Damir-Ali Yusupov / Alidaster

Voice Actors: Courtney Chu, Jason Norris, Aloysius Franklin, Laura Challender, Jesse Pinnick, Lanna Rose

Additional Character Designs: Matthew Alvarez

Localization: Active Gaming Media, Inc., Daniele ''Bollazza'' Bolis, Vignett, Manon Fauries, Daniel ''Zawdan'' Zawadzki, Łukasz Kontarski ''KiVio'', Lorenzo ''The SaruKage'' Irizarry Arana, Eueeeeeeeek, Felicia Almén ''EmoBeanie'', Erik_Spyro

QA: Szymon Breński ''Brenia'', Mason Cowan, Luciano Sigilli ''Oswald'', Active Gaming Media, Inc.

That's it, have fun playing!

- Kenneth Alvarez "ElPichon"

Check out this limited edition Skye plushie, available now on Makeship! A lot of you were asking for a Skye plush so here she is, but remember! Since this is a Makeship plush, we're gonna need your help! If you can get us to 200 pre-orders, she will be real! Otherwise, she will be consumed by the void and never to be seen in this earth EVER AGAIN...

If you want to keep supporting the development of this game, make sure to get one of these cute lil' plushies! It helps us a lot.


Just look at her! She's so GORGEOUS!


The new The Bunny Graveyard update is coming this December! This will be the version that is currently available on consoles. This update includes the newly added voice-acting, improved animations, new collectibles, new languages and more!

The update itself is pretty much done but for SOME REASON, it started bugging out on PC, so I need to take some time to fix these issues. But once I'm done with that, it'll release for free for everyone who owns the game currently. So stay tuned, cause the update could drop any day now...


I wanted to take this time and update y'all on the sequel! We're still working hard on it and we expect to give you all a first look soon, but for now... I'll stay quiet and just work on it. Once TBG II gets PROPERLY revealed I'm gonna go back to the usual development updates since I know you guys miss those, lol.

I know some of you might be worried since now I'm doing more console ports for the first game, but I just want more people to know about TBG! I think it's a great way to introduce TBG to more audiences and I also just love utilizing the console's gimmicks to make the experience more immersive. I'm never leaving PC behind though, after all this is where it all started! They're also not very hard to make, but they can be a liiiil' bit time consuming.

I've also just been very secretive about the sequel because I want to make sure it's done right, 'cause I'm not going to lie... the pressure is much higher than last time. I feel like I've improved so much over the years as an artist, programmer and maybe not so much as a musician but I'm getting there. I truly believe that TBG II is gigantic step up from the last, and I know you guys are gonna love it.

In the meantime, expect some ports, maybe some merch and some fun surprises that we're cooking up behind the scenes!

- Kenneth Alvarez "ElPichon"

The Bunny Graveyard is officially coming to Nintendo Switch in October 31st, so this Halloween! I can't believe I'm even saying these words right now...

This truly is a dream come true for us! I've always envisioned this game for the Switch, but never thought about it too much because I honestly thought it would be impossible. But thanks to your constant support, here we are! This version has the new update (that will be coming to Steam at a later date for free) which includes voice-acting, new animations, new languages, new collectibles and more!

Hope you're ready for this Halloween!

- Kenneth Alvarez "ElPichon"

For those of you who missed the first Boxers plush... we decided to bring him back for Halloween in his iconic spooky attire from The Bunny Graveyard short, "Trick or Treating"! But to make this lil' guy a reality, we need to reach the pre-order goal before the 31st.

Boxula is part of the new Makeship Menace event, which means he also comes with some nice little wings you can add to him (They look super cool on him!).

If you liked The Bunny Graveyard and want to try and help support the sequel's development PLUS get a nice little plushie, you can get one now, or later!

[www.makeship.com]

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On this day, one year ago, The Bunny Graveyard released!

And what an awesome year it's been, thank you to everyone who played the game, talked about it, shared it to your friends or just simply expressed your love for it. Without you, we wouldn't be here! And I really mean that. It's insane that it's been one year and we're still working on this project, and hopefully this means that we can keep working on it for years to come.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you all for playing.

But the journey has only just begun! Check out our newly released roadmap for the game on our website! It will show you all of our plans, ambitions and dreams for the future of The Bunny Graveyard. We wanted to be transparent with you all and tell you what we've been planning, so there's no more confusion regarding our plans for the game.

So please, take a look at the roadmap if you've been dying to know what's next for the game!

[www.pichongames.com]

- Ken "ElPichon"

Hello, everyone.

This is Kenneth, Creator and Developer of The Bunny Graveyard, but you can call me Pichon.

In July, I made the announcement that the next The Bunny Graveyard chapters are no longer planned to be sold as DLC, and instead they will be made as full sequels. After I made this announcement, it was met with a lot of divide, some people understood why I made the decision, other called me a scammer for this.

This will be the last time I talk about this whole thing, but before I begin, I just want to reassure everyone with this post that I'm not here to scam anyone, I'm not here to follow the footsteps of scummy videogame developers who only see you as numbers for their bank accounts, and I'm not here to make "mascot horror slop" as people call it these days (Which is a term I find to be disrespectful to some actual good mascot horror games out there, but that's beside the point because TBG isn't even a mascot horror game...).

I understand where you're coming from, Steam is a large platform that unfortunately has a vast majority of scummy publishers and developers who sacrifice their good reputations for a quick buck, but Pichon Games is not here to follow those footsteps. So, let me speak to you from the heart and explain why I'm doing this. I urge you to please read the full post before commenting.



In around 2015-2016 I found the demo for a little game called Undertale, when I first played the demo, I instantly loved it, and my immediate reaction was to look up more stuff about it on the internet so I can buy the whole game! While looking through everything I remember stumbling upon some sort of article or something, and it said the developer of Undertale, actually made the entire game by themselves.

After seeing this, I was shocked, and it actually gave me hope that I could one day make a game by myself. So I began to save money and eventually bought GameMaker Studio 1.4, where I began to make my first ever video game, Pixolar. A cringey RPG game with a massive scope that I was not able to fulfill, eventually making me give up on it and start a new project. The years went by, and I was making more and more games, but every single one failed to be fully released due to the same problem: I wanted my first game to be something memorable and great, but I was alone and could not fully release anything. This was the beginning of what would soon become Pichon Games.


One day in the year 2020, while working on one of the games that never released. I invited my best friend, Jorge Ramirez (Now writer for The Bunny Graveyard), to join me in creating a new project, This project was The Bunny Graveyard.

For more than two years... me and Jorge were creating the full story and lore behind the game. The story was massive, and it was perfect, everything fit together nicely and we didn't had to come up with the story as we made the game, because we already had it! So, it was time to create the game... but there was a problem, even if Jorge was with me on all this, he was only the writer, if I wanted to make one massive game, it had to be with a large team.... and we are only two guys.

Unfortunately, at the time, trying to get a whole game development team in my country, Puerto Rico, is just as dumb as trying to walk on water. Game development was something that was laughed at in my country, and is still sort of is! So I had to face the truth, I had to make this game by myself, and I made the tough decision, to separate the story in chapters. Luckily, the story was already divided into big arcs, so this was an easy move for us, but it was a tough pill to swallow due to the fact that we could not tell the full story in one game.


When we first released TBG, I promised that we would release all of its chapters as DLC. The reason I made this promise was because the fact that the story was not complete was something that actually bothered me... a LOT. I felt like I just released an incomplete game, and that made me sad, but I eventually had to face the reality of the situation, there is no way I could make one big game with the entirety of The Bunny Graveyard's story.

I was very indecisive when it came to how we released The Bunny Graveyard, I was even planning on scrapping the game completely and just dumbing down the entire story to a 5 hour game. But I knew that doing that would make me regret it in the long run, because the story needs to be told in its entirety. So I decided to still go with the chapter release strategy. I kept saying that the rest of the game was releasing as DLC so people knew that more was coming, not realizing that I just released an almost 3 hour long game, and I was making people think that I just released an incomplete product.


So we began development on Chapter 2, and we immediately faced some issues. The game had to be cut short. We wanted to make Chapter 2 bigger than Chapter 1, but that would've been impossible due to the fact that the game was a DLC, not a full game.

We knew deep in our hearts that we wanted The Bunny Graveyard: Chapter 2...

• To improve on every gameplay aspect of the last game.
  
• Have a bigger story.
  
• Have an entirely new cast of characters.
  
• Have a story that stands on its own and doesn't completely rely on the last chapter, letting new players play the game.
  
• Have new mechanics that would change the gameplay.
  
• Have better animation, better quality and better music.
  
• New minigames that will keep challenging us to create new and exciting experiences.
  
• Have full voice acting for all characters.

It checked every single box for a sequel, but we were holding ourselves back due to one thing, it HAD to be a DLC... right? Well, that's when it came to me. We're not making the next chapter anymore, we're making something bigger and better, the sequel to The Bunny Graveyard. I eventually realized, that even if the story is not complete, The Bunny Graveyard was a full game, with a beginning and an end. Is it a short game? Of course. But to me, length never equals quality, and just because a game is short, doesn't mean it's incomplete or just a bad game. Did the story end in a cliffhanger? Yes, because there is so much more to the story, and I want to tell it in its entirety, but it will take me more than one game to do so.

So I made the decision, but I wanted to be honest with the community, and I made a formal announcement on Steam and social media.


The Bunny Graveyard II was announced in July, and like I mentioned, divided the community. Why? Because I broke that first promise. So today, I'm asking not only for your patience, but your trust. I ask you to trust me and all the people who help me make this game a reality to deliver you an experience that you will never forget. I know it's hard to believe when the game is still in development, when I still haven't showed a single thing about the game, but I ask you for your trust. So with this, I want to apologize to the people who played this game and think I'm just another scammer, for not being able to fulfill my promise of releasing the rest of the chapters as DLCs.

So here is my new promise for you all....


My promise is to create not only the sequel to The Bunny Graveyard, but the best game we've ever made. I want this game to defy all of your expectations, I want it to be the best experience you've had, I want it to be worthy of the II in the title.

It would be a lie if I told you the first game is perfect, no game is perfect and I sure wish it was longer and better. But I am satisfied with what we made, and I could not be more proud of my first game to ever release. You will have to wait for the sequel, unfortunately, but I promise the wait will be worth it, and that I will stick to this plan until the very end. I promise that I will keep pushing myself to make better games, to improve on what we failed and to keep moving forward, no... matter... what.

In September 22nd, we celebrate the first year anniversary of The Bunny Graveyard and I'm preparing a little surprise for you all. I'm doing my best to get it out as soon as possible, so please look forward to it.

I will also soon release a roadmap of everything we want to make, so we no longer cause any confusion among the community and everyone can stay in the same page.

So with this, I want to end this discussion once and for all, as always, thank you all for putting me into this position, thank you for helping me release my first game and now moving on to the next one and thank you for supporting us.

Now, I have to get back to work, see y'all soon.

- Kenneth Alvarez "ElPichon"

So apparently we've been nominated for the Best Game category at the GameMaker Awards 2024! This is the first time we've been nominated for anything so this is very special for us, and it would mean a lot to us if you could help us out! Voting ends in September 11th.

Either way, if we win or not, it was awesome to be able to be nominated for something like this! Especially an event made by GameMaker, the game engine we use to make our game, it truly is an honor!

Of course, you don't really HAVE to vote for us...

....but please consider it! :)

- Ken "ElPichon"
Creator and Developer of The Bunny Graveyard

Hello, everyone!

So you might've noticed that both the DLC for The Bunny Graveyard: All Chapters and The Bunny Graveyard: Chapter 2 have been removed from Steam, which means it's also gone from your wish-lists... this was not a mistake.

We're making a big decision, one that has been a long time coming, we are completely leaving chapters behind. There are many reasons why we decided to do this, but first of all, let me go back for a bit.


Right after we released The Bunny Graveyard, we announced that the game will be releasing in chapters, this... was not met with the best reception. Not really because the game was releasing in chapters, it was actually because the chapters were going to be sold as DLC.

Now, as a gamer myself, I put myself in that chair, and realized how... demotivating that sounds. Not only does it look like The Bunny Graveyard by itself is an incomplete product, but several questions would be running through my head, how much will they cost? Are they really worth buying? Do I need to buy the base game just to play the next chapters? And honestly, that's just unfair. And we weren't good at communication either, cause honestly even we were still thinking if going this route was worth it. So we doubled down, and kept going, but we hit a wall.


When building the plan for the entirety of Chapter 2, we realized we would have to cut a large amount of content in order to sell it as a DLC, not only that, but there were some technical issues that we thought had been solved but it got worse once we had to consider DLC for consoles. And the more time we poured into this DLC, the more it felt like we were limiting ourselves.

We had already added a disclaimer saying that you didn't have to finish the first chapter in order to play this one, so the DLC was never even dependent of the base game, so why make it DLC?


The Bunny Graveyard: Chapter 2 already ticked all the boxes for a sequel, new gameplay mechanics, new world, new characters, new music and overall new experience. So why not just call it what it is? Why try to mold the game into something that it isn't, when we can just create what we've always wanted to create! It's time to make a TRUE sequel to The Bunny Graveyard, one that will improve on everything where the last one fell short, but also one that will expand on those things that made the first one special... it's time for The Bunny Graveyard II!

We always wanted every chapter to feel like a complete experience, so, again, why limit ourselves to DLC? Why make our players pay for the base game so they can buy the DLC? Seems unfair to me.


Simple, there will be no more DLC for this game, the story will continue in the next sequel. It also means we are restarting development on this project, and making it bigger. We hope you understand our decision, more details about this sequel will be revealed in October. Also there won't be a Steam page for 2 until we're ready to properly show the game, the DLC page for Chapter 2 was rushed and it was done because we felt pressured and wanted to clear the air on all the confusion going on with the game's release.

But for now, keep your eyes on August... cause we're not done with the first game yet!

- Ken "ElPichon"[x.com]
Creator and Developer of The Bunny Graveyard