Bonkers Bum

The Indie Game You Didn't Ask For

Welcome to the absurd underbelly of Bonkers Bum. A quest-driven 2D adventure through shifting dimensions, packed with juicy visuals, absurd humor, obscure references, and, of course, rats.

You play as a homeless man who stumbles upon a strange artifact. It opens a portal between two worlds: one - rotten, damp, and painfully real. The other - neon-bright, eerily familiar, and just as broken.

But why are you here?

Explore, adapt, survive, and discover the truth.

Roadmap

Idea

We don't have a brain, but have an idea. Many sketches, many experiments.

The main question: what is this game about, and what makes it interesting.

Prototyping

Build a poor but working playable, find an art style, test different mechanics.

Work on plot and characters.

Vertical Slice

Polish a small part of the game almost to finish. Testing final mechanics, adjusting the pace and story flow.

If it looks good and feels fun - go on!

Preparing for Demo

Build a working demo that shows main aspects of the game: the mechanics, art style and the opening of the story.

The goal is to engage the player without spoilers.

Demo Launch

Release the demo on Steam and start collecting feedback. Start building a community - we won't be able to release it without your help!

Kickstarter Launch

Prep artbooks and other goodies, bring the community together and raise some money for the road ahead

Alpha

Build a rough but fully working version of the game across all locations.

Test the final gameplay and check the amount of the intended content.

Deep Production

Hard work on sound, music and marketing.

Polish the visuals, clean up the assets and the code, go deeper into the story, work on balance and mechanics

Beta

Try really hard not to add anything new.

Fix bugs, polish what's already there and send it out for testing.

Steam Release

Hold our fingers and press the "Launch" button. 🤞

Post-Launch

Listen to community feedback, fix bugs, push patches and get the game ready for other platforms.

Other Platforms

Not by Steam alone. Prep builds for Playstation Store, Xbox, Google Play and wherever else makes sense.

Features

Hop between dimensions. One’s dangerous, the other’s worse.
Survive smart. Tactical stealth, weird puzzles, and street logic.
Achievements. Over 10 of them. Collectibles. Multiple endings.
Nostalgia. A love letter to the comics and games we grew up on.

There’s no princess, no glory. Our protagonist isn’t your average hero. He’s dirty, burnt-out, and deeply philosophical in the way only someone who screams at pigeons can be.

Visuals & Style

This isn’t template-generated fluff, it’s slow, stubborn, hand-crafted work.
From the first pencil sketch to the final cluttered alley, everything is drawn by hand. Even the rat is animated frame by frame, just to capture its scruffiness and uneven twitch.
We chose this way that to break away from the glossy, hollow patterns of modern casual trash. Instead of bland tap-to-win simulators, we offer vivid, dirty, unpolished scenes.

"This game isn’t afraid to look weird."

Kickstarter Incoming

Expect a demo version, pitch video and screenshots that kind of hurt to look at (in a good way). And also gameplay that — somehow — might actually be damn good.