🍺 Brewers Club Monthly 🍺 Brewmaster Developer Update #12

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Welcome to the May issue of the Brewers club with your latest update on Brewmaster🍻

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🍻 What have we been brewing up in development this month? 🍻

** Greetings Brewsters! I'm Lucy and I am an Associate Producer on Brewmaster 🍺 Time has absolutely flown by since our last update and I just want to share an amazing experience our team shared this month.   As you may know, we have the choice to work remotely at Auroch Digital. Once or twice in a project we have the opportunity to get together at the studio in Bristol, and that’s exactly what our team did on Friday the 13th this month! 

After we got over how tall some people are in real life, we began the day taking a look at the console versions of Brewmaster. They look amazing! 

The real fun began in the evening when we headed down to our partner’s local brewery in Bristol, Moor Beer. Moor Beer were kind enough to give us a thorough tour of their facilities and tell us all about brewing on a commercial level. Whilst it isn’t what Brewmaster will be about, it gave us a great picture of how scalable brewing beer is! As it happened though, Moor Beer has a small homebrewing setup for testing new recipes. The art team were positively giddy seeing the real life assets they had modeled in Brewmaster. After that we settled into the tap room for a tasting of a huge variety of beers, from light lagers to chocolatey stouts.  

Back in our home/office we got hard to work refining a bunch of metagame systems, finalising our recipes, and starting work on some really interesting systems that will add to the realism we are aiming for. We have a lot more to come next month that I can’t talk about right now...  

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✨Cap it off✨

** While we have been working hard this month in the background, we gave you a teaser of some of the wall decorations you can have in your brewing space.  

Everyone loves to collect rare bottle caps, so we decided to immortalise some of our favourites for you to see.  What bottle caps would you put up?

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 📼 On repeat 📼

** The past couple of months there has been a lot of digital coverage of Brewmaster and now we have all the links for you to watch back at your pleasure.  🤩

Firstly, there was Simfest, which was a joint Steam & Auroch Digital event where we celebrated simulation games.

Brewmaster was featured in the following Simfest panels and streams.

• **👩‍🍳Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator **- IRL vs Digital homebrewing plus a trip to Moor Beer Brewery 🍺

• 🚚 Panel: Can hobby sims teach you to do a real life Job?🚚

• 🎨Panel: What is a hobby Sim and why do people play them? 🎨

Next we took part in a couple of talks during WASD, the first of many in person events that you will start finding the Auroch team at. 

• 💚 Sustainability - Can the game industry grow without destroying the planet?

• 💭 You've got a great game idea; what next?

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💜MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS💜

](https://www.aurochdigital.com/blog/2022/5/12/games-mental-health-and-wellbeing)** In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Week, we took a deep dive into how games can have a positive impact on our mental health and wellbeing.

Junior Business Development Associate here at Auroch Digital (and neuroscientist), Jess Rutland, is passionate about discussing real-world issues in relation to games – from climate change to mental health. 

In this blog post, Jess talks about how Brewmaster can take us on a journey of relaxation and how gaming can help wellbeing, boost serotonin and improve our overall mental health.