Ugmania: The Last Ug

Ugmania, stylised as Ugmania! or Ugmania: The Last Ug, is a prototype survival video game made with the Unity engine, independently developed by the amateur game developer ErroneousCreationist. It is available on Itch.io, is currently unfinished and regularly receives updates.

This article will go over what Ugmania is, its developers, its history and much more.

## Early Development

Ugmania began as an experiment with procedural terrain using Perlin noise, with a small spaceship used to navigate around by flying. Eventually, it evolved into a survival game, and the basic resources like wood were added, and sadly the cool spaceship was removed. After this, development ceased for a significant amount of time. Until mid to late 2021, ErroneousCreationist began work on Ugmania once more. The current main mechanics (with the spaceship and ores and planets) were added later on, and this is its current state.

## Bug tracker

In 2021, a Google Spreadsheet called Ugmania! Bug tracker was created. It was used to record bugs that have been found in Ugmania. It has existed for a long time, with bug entries from v0.1 of Ugmania. It has greatly helped ErroneousCreationist in fixing bugs inside Ugmania.

Later that year, the bug tracker spreadsheet was expanded to include more tabs for other purposes. These included:

* Info and key (for bug tracker)
* Game content ideas (for suggesting new ideas for the game)
* Item Prices (used to keep track of item prices across the game, in gems)
* Lore (you can see a wiki page about it here)
* Upcoming (pretty outdated and unused)
* Random things for later (also unused)

In 2022, the spreadsheet was renamed "Bugmania!" as it was catchy, easy to remember and was funny due to ErroneousCreationist's lack of ability to spot bugs before releasing a new update of his game.

## The first Ugmania video on YouTube

On May 2, 2022, YouTuber GaryTheLarry posted a video on Ugmania, showcasing a glitch where Ug clips underneath a gem deposit and underneath the world. This is the first video of Ugmania posted on YouTube.

## Ugmania (Original Game Soundtrack)

An Original Game Soundtrack for Ugmania was discussed by the developers ever since early 2022. Over the next few months, Epuos, Embii (Emby), GaryTheLarry, G-man17, and Erroneous(Creationist) composed a total of 16 tracks, which were put into a compilation album called Ugmania (Original Game Soundtrack).

   On November 15th, 2022, shortly after the v0.7.2 Deep Below update, Ugmania (Original Game Soundtrack) was released on YouTube. Within a few days the soundtrack was released to almost all music streaming platforms.

The v0.7.2 update included the newly composed music, along with other sound effects.

## Ugmania's Steam Release

On March 10, 2023, Ugmania was released on Steam as an Early Access game, in v0.8. The Steam version of the game is the only available storefront where players can play Ugmania past v0.7.2.

Along with the Steam release, ErroneousCreationist created a new trailer for Ugmania's Steam release. The Steam version of the game has Stats, Steam Achievements, and Remote Play Together. It is still a single-player game, however two people can control the same character at the same time with Remote Play Together.