Timeline

An overview of how Bismuth Bee Games came to be.

How Mirror’s Edge served as inspiration to learn game development and start making games.

Wanting to move to 3D, we discover the wonders of Unreal Development Kit 3.

Joshua Graham begins the planning and pre-production of NinjaNinJosh FURY and starts 3D modeling courses.

The horrible, nightmarish, and unethical experiments we subjected Abomination to while practicing developing in UE4.

Working hard to finish the home village for NinjaNinJosh FURY’s playable trailer in time for it to be a birthday gift!

After years of experimentation, learning UE4, designing the maps, modeling props, populating the environments, and programming mechanics, NinjaNinJosh FURY development comes to a halt.

How discovering the Seattle Indies led to our first Global Game Jam, and how their site at PacSci inspired Bombuszled!

The struggles of overcoming lighting builds and distractions to finally get Bombuszled available on Itch!

Just a few weeks after Global Game Jam, we got to showcase Bombuszled and NinjaNinJosh FURY at PacSci!

Shortly after showcasing at PacSci, Seattle Indies invited us to showcase our updated games at Pocket/PC Gamer Connects!

We recreated the ending from the NinjaNinJosh FURY YouTube series in Unreal Engine 4!

How we made Bee Bomber for UE4 Jam’s “Make it Count” theme.

How we made C(om)at me for Epic Mega Jam’s “Down to Earth” theme!

Branching from SSCPS to become Bismuth Bee Media, we create our YouTube channel and upload 3 game trailers!

2019 led to so many connections that helped improve Bismuth Bee Media’s quality and productivity!

How we made “Shiprekt” for Global Game Jam’s “Repair” theme!

How we challenged ourselves to make our first VR game, Chesterfield for Global Game Jam’s “Lost” theme!

Using Google Sites to launch our Bismuth Bee Media website!

C(om)at Me gets several updates and retitled as Orbituary during Finish Your Game Jam 2021!

How we challenged ourselves by jumping into Unreal Engine 5 for the first time to make Monster Manor Madness for GGJ 2022!

After a a couple years being remote, Pocket/PC Gamer Connects comes back and invites us to exhibit Orbituary!

More updates get made based on playtester feedback given at Pocket Gamer Connects 2022!

How resting allowed us to create Rootball — our most successful jam game so far during Global Game Jam 2023!

Orbituary gets tons of exciting new updates with several bug fixes, improvements, and even procedural generation!

Second Orbituary trailer featuring all the visual and gameplay improvements in v0.06!

With advanced notice this year, we made several new improvements on Orbituary for Pocket/PC Gamer Connects 2023!

Participating in the first Bigmode Game Jam allowed us to give Abomination new and terrifying abilities in Gone Bigmode!

How severe burnout led to none of us having the energy to do more than ideate a dating sim idea for Global Game Jam 2024.

Asteroid Day and Meteor Day Watch Day landed on the same day, so our ruthless space cat had to celebrate!

Bismuth Bee builds Bubble Bee Battle for Blobal Bame Bam 2025!

The sad tale of time zones and upload failure during Bigmode Game Jam 2025.

In an effort to rebrand as Bismuth Bee Games, Bismuth Bee Media’s website gets shut down while the new site gets built from scratch.

Joshua Graham partners with Roe Rocket to collaborate on developing Maskotism for Global Game Jam's 2026 theme: "Mask”

The story of Joshua Graham's sudden onset chronic health issues, his battle to get doctors to help, and how it has affected development delays.

A long overdue, custom designed website for Bismuth Bee Games is finally here!