A few of you sent in reports that turned out to be much more useful than you probably realised, one comment about an achievement that "never triggers" and one very patient write-up about being told you were a single item short led me straight to two bugs that had been sitting there since long before V1.1.0. Thank you for those. 🌱 "You did it raw, dawg" now actually unlocks. This was properly b…
A quick one, and it is entirely my fault. Yesterday's V1.1.2 fixed the shelves asking for items that don't exist — and in doing so it broke the little segment counter on the end of every shelf label. Thank you to everyone who posted screenshots within hours; the Pet Aisle shot with "2/1" on a finished product showed the whole story in one image. 🌱 The segment counters on shelf labels are back…
This one is for the shelf labels that ask for more items than the game actually contains, and for everyone chasing the last few items of a no-abilities run. Thank you for the screenshots and the side-by-side tests — the Pedibree Minis comparison told me exactly where to look, and I mean that: two segments, before-and-after, with counts. 🌱 Shelves no longer ask for items that don't exist. The "…
This one is aimed squarely at the three things people have been telling me since V1.1.0: items you can't reach, the game falling over on lower-end machines, and the upgrade screen not making sense. Thank you again to everyone who took the time to write these up, the item one in particular was reported with enough detail that I could find it properly. 🌱 Items can no longer get stranded where yo…
Thank you for 3,000 sales Big Bad Pharma has now sold 3,000 copies. That's three thousand people who took a chance on not just a new indie game about a very questionable pharmacy, but on me and I still find it hard to believe. I want to be honest about what those 3,000 but I can’t find words adequate enough to describe that. Almost every fix in the last few patches started as somebody's review,…
This is the one I've been building towards all week. Every confirmed bug from the V1.0.9 known-issues list is fixed here, plus two more I found while going back through the game with a fine comb. Thank you to everyone who reported these — almost every fix below started as somebody's review or comment. 🌱 Your settings now actually load. This was the big one. When you loaded a save, the game rea…
Controller 🌱 Picking up, dropping, swapping and pausing did nothing on a controller. This is the real answer to "controller still isn't working". Movement, looking, jumping, crouching and the abilities were all wired up — but the five actions behind X, Left Trigger, LB/RB and Start were never actually connected to anything. So you could walk around the shop and jump, and that was it: you could…
When Big Bad Pharma launched, some of its art was AI-generated: the capsule art, the logo, the achievement icons and the store page images. You told me that mattered to you, and you were right. As of today none of it is left. Every piece has been redrawn by hand (and mouse). What has been replaced · Achievement icons — all 21, redrawn and swapped in. · The logo — redrawn from scratch, and it is…
Big Bad Pharma launched on the 12th, and in the three days since I've shipped four patches. Almost every single fix came directly from your reports, screenshots and Task Manager numbers in the discussions. This is a one-person project and honestly, you've been my QA team, so I wanted to lay out everything in one place. How to read the markers: 🌱 fixed, and players have confirmed it 🍊 fix is l…
Critical fixes: 🌱 Game crashing before the menu (black screen, then back to desktop). Found it: on first boot the engine was pre-compiling thousands of graphics pipelines all at once, using every CPU core at the same time. The more cores your machine has, the more memory it ate, until Windows killed the game. This is what was maxing out CPUs and pushing RAM usage through the roof in your repor…
Critical fixes: · Items no longer vanish into the floor. V1.0.6's new outside ground plane sat just under the shop floorboards and caught any item that tunnelled through — above the depth where the 30-second rescue sweep looks. The ground now ignores items entirely (players still walk on it), so anything that slips through falls to the rescue line and teleports back to its home spot within 30 s…
NEW: the shop floor has been completely rebuilt. All 12,792 items are re-piled into mixed heaps and drifts instead of neat blocks of one drug, then dropped with real physics and baked where they landed, so they lie on their sides and lean on each other instead of standing bolt upright. Nothing clips into anything else and nothing has been lost, so a 100% clear is still a 100% clear. Fixes: item…
New Catalogue book — press TAB. Every product in the shop, split into three sections and 23 categories, alphabetical within each. Colour-coded tab rail down the edge to jump straight to a category, arrow keys to turn the pages. Fixed · · The audio sliders actually work now. Master, Music and SFX change the sound while it's playing — music, fridge/chiller ambience and footsteps had been ignoring…
I’m not going to pretend I’m not nervous writing this. Excited too, obviously, but mostly just… a lot. This game started as a “what if” back when I was 5 or 6. My dad’s a self-taught electrical engineer and we’ve always been into technology together, so games and tech were just part of how I grew up. Fast forward to 28, working full time as a User Researcher, and I finally decided to actually t…
Quick update: Big Bad Pharma is finished and the build is submitted . It's sitting with Steam for approval right now, so the release is out of our hands for the moment. The second the build clears, the shutters go up. We'll post here the moment it's live. Thank you for the patience, and for wishlisting. It honestly means the world to me as a solo developer. I have put so much love into this gam…
We're thrilled to announce that Big Bad Pharma now features a full suite of 20 achievements to chase, unlock, and brag about to your friends! Whether you're just clocking in for your first shift or standing triumphantly atop your empire of pharmaceuticals, there's an achievement waiting for you. We've packed them with our signature humour, quirky references, and moments that celebrate both the…
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