The Making of Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre
TL;DR
Our previous game, Toto Temple Deluxe, didn’t sell as expected
We decided to make a new Burrito Bison to get back on our feet financially
We added lots of new features to improve on the 2 previous games
We had to adapt the BB formula to the F2P mobile market
The mobile release has been a success so far
Some numbers
If you’ve been living under a rock (or if you don’t know about us, which would be strange because we’re super famous, really) you might have missed that in November 2016 we released the 3rd game in the Burrito Bison series, Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre, for web, iOS and Android.
If you’re unfamiliar with Burrito Bison, it’s a simple and supposedly addicting game about Mexican launchadores (launching + luchadores) wrestling gummy bears. It’s a classic launching game, like any you’ve probably played in your browser a couple years ago, but on steroids.
The Burrito Bison games are probably our most famous games to date, just above Knightmare Tower. They all went pretty viral back in our Flash days (we’re talking dozens of millions of plays). You might be thinking “if it’s your most popular franchise, why did you wait 4+ years to make another one?” That’s actually a very good question!
Why wait 4 years before cashing in on that success?
Busy Beast
The direct answer to that is probably that a bunch of opportunities led us to work on other things after releasing Burrito Bison Revenge (BBR) in 2012. Here’s a quick list of what we did since.
Burrito Bison Revenge on Kongregate
Knightmare Tower on Kongregate
Flippin Dead on Kongregate
Knightmare Tower on Ouya
Knightmare Tower on iOS
Toto Temple at ToJam
Gentlemen Dispute at Indie Speed Run
Knightmare Tower on Android
FROX at ToJam
Knightmare Tower on Steam
Toto Temple Deluxe on Ouya
Toto Temple Deluxe on PS4, Xbox One, Wii U and Steam
Right Click to Necromance at Indie Speed Run
Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre on Kongregate
Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre on mobile
Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre content update (Time Travel)