Bun Bun Studios Blog

Official Blog for Dark October Game in development by Bun Bun Studios

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Happy Halloween 2025!

Bun Bun Studios wishes you a Happy Halloween 2025!

Much excitement has been happening behind the scenes as we continue our active development on Dark October. Unfortunately, it is not yet ready for presentation. Perhaps you are as curious as we are, so we can assure you that the moment it is presentable, you will be the first to see it.

Stay tuned for the latest updates! Thank you for your support and don't forget to have fun this Halloween!

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Happy Halloween 2024!

Happy Halloween from the developers of Dark October!

As you may have guessed, we have high standards for our work. For now, we believe there is more work to do before we present what we have so far. Rest assured, Dark October is under active development and we do not settle for less.

As always, thank you for your support! Stay tuned for the latest updates.

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The above image is rendered from blender.

Even after a year of work, there is still more to be done for our custom game engine. However, with every challenge comes excitement for what Dark October could, and will become.

Thank you for your support and Happy Halloween from Bun Bun Studios!

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Here are some 4K in-game screenshots rendered from our custom game engine for Dark October that uses Vulkan natively.

At the moment, the screenshots have no support for casting shadows, tessellation and texture sampling. In the future, we’ll have support for them and more.

Dark October is a single player third person action role-playing PC game in 3D with a touch of mystery. Initially, we plan to develop Dark October on Unity 3D game engine. However, we find Unity is too limited in presenting the experience we want for Dark October. So, we have decided to take a leap of faith in making our own game engine. Currently, we have license to publish on Playstation 5. In the future, we plan to obtain permission to publish Dark October on other platforms.

Happy Halloween from the developers of Dark October!

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The new domain name category could leave your business or organisation open to fraudulent cyber activity, such as business email compromise.

As recommended by the Australian Cyber Security Centre, we have made bunbun.au our official website. All links from bunbun.com.au will be redirected to our new domain name: bunbun.au.

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Happy Halloween 2021

This October, we were planning to surprise everyone with a teaser on Dark October. However, due to unprecedented technical problems, we will have to surprise you all at a later date.

Enjoy your Halloween!

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Here's What We've Been Up To!

To be honest, we've been secretly experimenting on building our own game engine for some time...

Now, we've decided to no longer use any part of Unity game engine. Our game engine would be built in standard C/C++, minimalistic in design and uses Vulkan natively. New algorithms in shaders and mechanics will be written for running on GPU.

Imagine better graphics, smoother gameplay! Not to worry, our graphical assets will be unaffected by the migration to our custom game engine as they are created in blender.

We're excited to work in this new direction and once we got some screenshots, you'll be the first to see them.

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Who would have known that a rock can look back at you with its faceless face... Don't see it? Try looking deeply at one of these rocks...

Happy Halloween 2020!

Previously, we have demonstrated a bit of our gameplay. Now, we're working on improving the graphics of Dark October. Note that the above image is rendered offline, but we're working on preserving this look and feel when you play through the world of Dark October in real-time.

Stay in touch with us on social media for the latest updates!

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Websites now up and running!

Our websites are now back online! We've also fixed our slow crowdfunding database, it's now super fast! Check it out at bunbun.com.au

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Apologies for the inconvenience!

Yes, we are aware that our websites bunbun.com.au and darkoctobergame.com are down from 31 May. We're taking a different approach to fix them while still working on Dark October.

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Happy Halloween from the developers of Dark October!

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Become a Legend in Dark October!

Contribute to the developers of Dark October and get your name immortalised in the world of Dark October, including in the in-game credits! We are also giving away extra content exclusive to contributors over A$15.

Dark October is crowdfunding now because of some of you who asked for a Kickstarter link on our Facebook page and followed us on Kickstarter. Thanks for your support!

We hoped to obtain other forms of funding, but we failed to get funding for Dark October locally through Film Victoria in the May 2018 round. According to Film Victoria, who claimed to have experienced judges, failed to stay up-to-date with the Sony Playstation's Partner process, the price of the Playstation dev kit, as well as other publishers. Not only did they made many false claims and ambitions about our game project – Dark October, they based their judgement on them.

This poor judgement of theirs actually costed us $550 (inc. GST) in application fee, in which supposed to warrant us a clear feedback that they do so very unwillingly. In it, they demanded us to provide them with a more functional demo that practically gave away every unique aspect of our game without any form of protection such as a NDA or other similar agreements, so they can make better judgements. Full details of this can be found here.

So, do you like what we did with Dark October? If you do, help us get funded, and we will put more work into Dark October, and you will also hear from us more on social media.

We have to apologise for being more quiet about Dark October in the past year, the main reason is the attacks on our network by hackers made it really hard to keep posting, they kept deleting our images/videos and we ended up having lost some hardware, claiming warranties and a lot of time without computers or internet. Recently, we managed to find ways around the network attacks and safeguard our hardware.

The 3D textured environment of Dark October is nearly finished and ready for our generated NPCs with random appearances to populate (as if they were made individually as assets), as well as generated monsters with random appearances, and a storyline to top it off.

We'll post updates as soon as we're ready. Stay tuned!

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Our websites are now hosted on Google Cloud!

We’re planning to roll out Dark October Merchandise Store with crowdfunding. After careful consideration, we find that the union of docker, kubernetes and Google Cloud technologies is perfect for this.

Thanks to the community behind these technologies!

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Bun Bun Studios website has a fresh new look and more to come!

Currently, Dark October is under slow development, but it's still our dream to complete it. So, we're going to roll out our Dark October Merchandise Store, where 100% of profits goes directly to the development of Dark October. Please support us!

While working on Dark October game, we've encountered problems common to Unity 3D game engine developers. So, we'll be releasing tools to help future Unity game developers in their development in Unity Asset Store and our upcoming code store. And yes, we've become confidently proficient in web technologies to bring back our online store!

Unity packages that we've developed in the past will be also updated and become available in Unity Asset Store and our code store.

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Happy Halloween from the developers of Dark October! Bun Bun Studios is actively developing the game and appreciates your continual support!

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Now working on a gameplay trailer for Dark October...

When does it come out? Follow us to find out!