Developing Bismuth Bee Games Website

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

Health Crisis Hiatus

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.

Maskotism + Trailer - GGJ / BMGJ 2026

Joshua Graham partners with Roe Rocket to collaborate on developing Maskotism for Global and Bigmode Game Jam's 2026 respective themes: "Mask" and "Slick"

Bismuth Bee Media Website Goes Dark

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.

Not A Drill - Bigmode Game Jam 2025

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

Bubble Bee Battle - Global Game Jam 2025

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

Orbituary Celebrates Asteroid AND Meteor Day!

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

Unstarted Dating Sim Game - Global Game Jam 2024

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.

Gone Bigmode - Bigmode Game Jam 2023

The struggles of compiling Gone Bigmode for Bigmode Jam 2023.

Orbituary Back at Pocket/PC Gamer Connects 2023

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

Orbituary Trailer 2 Released

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

Orbituary v0.06

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

Rootball - Global Game Jam 2023

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

Orbituary v0.05

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

Orbituary at Pocket/PC Gamer Connects 2022

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

Monster Manor Madness - Global Game Jam 2022

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

Orbituary - Finish Your Game Jam 2021

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

Bismuth Bee Media Site Launched!

Using Google Sites to launch our Bismuth Bee Media website!

Chesterfield + Trailer - Global Game Jam 2021

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

Shiprekt + Trailer - Global Game Jam 2020

How we made "Shiprekt" for Global Game Jam's "Repair" theme!

Growing as a Developer

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

Bismuth Bee YouTube Account Finally Created!

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

C(om)at Me - Epic Mega Jam 2019

How we made C(om)at me for Epic Mega Jam's "Down to Earth" theme!

Bee Bomber - UE4 Jam 2019

How we made Bee Bomber for UE4 Jam's "Make it Count" theme.

NinjaNinJosh FURY Ending Remade in UE4

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

New Version for Pocket/PC Gamer Connects!

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

Showcasing Bombuszled and NNJF at PacSci

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

NinjaNinJosh FURY First Package

With fresh knowledge of how to package games, we released our first build of NinjaNinJosh FURY's playable trailer!

Bombuszled Build

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

Bombuszled - Global Game Jam 2019

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

Developing NinjaNinJosh FURY

After years of learning, experimentation, learning UE4, and designing the maps, it was time to finally start developing the game itself.

NinjaNinJosh FURY Experimentation

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

Planning NNJF Script - February 2014

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

Jump to 3D in UDK3 - August 2012

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

Inspired to develop games

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

Some Stupid Crap to Bismuth Bees

An overview of how Bismuth Bee Games came to be.