shutterbuds

Adventure· Creature Collector· Exploration· Funny

Released May 2025

Explore a National Park with up to 3 of your photojournalist friends. Take jobs from top magazine brands, then hit the trail in search of interesting landmarks and goofy creatures to photograph. Use your pay to buy useful items and cosmetics. You’ll be sure to make the front page in a flash!

38% positive · 180 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

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Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Steam Free

Evaluation

Shutterbuds is a free-to-play cooperative multiplayer game developed by students at Champlain College as part of a one-year Game Studio Capstone program. The store description explicitly states it "was developed over 1 academic year as a part of Champlain College's Game Studio Capstone program," which makes clear this was a defined, time-bounded academic project rather than a commercially supported title with ongoing development plans. The game launched on May 2, 2025. There are no DLC listings, no post-launch developer communications, no roadmaps, and no announced future content of any kind. Given its nature as a completed student capstone project, this game shipped as a finished product with no indication of further development.

Evidence

Store description explicitly states the game was developed over one academic year as a Champlain College Game Studio Capstone project, indicating a completed, time-bounded scope with no ongoing development mandate.

description · May 2, 2025 source development ending

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No DLC, roadmap, season pass, or future content of any kind is referenced in the store metadata or description.

store metadata · May 2, 2025 source content shipped

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Details

Developer

Drunkey Monkey Games

Publisher

Champlain College

Achievements

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Platform

Windows

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Not rated

Players

Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op

Creature Collector Exploration Adventure Funny Casual Sandbox Walking Simulator Open World Nature Cute Character Customization First-Person Colorful Comedy 3D

About this game

Explore a National Park with up to 3 of your photojournalist friends. Take jobs from top magazine brands, and then hit the trail in search of interesting landmarks and goofy creatures to photograph. Use your pay to buy useful items and cosmetics. You’ll be sure to make the front page in a flash!

ДИСКЛЕЙМЕР: Проверьте минимальные системные требования, чтобы узнать, сможет ли ваш компьютер запустить shutterbuds!

[shutterbuds was developed over 1 academic year as a part of Champlain College's Game Studio Capstone program]

COOPERATIVE MULTIPLAYER

Explore a National Park with up to 3 of your friends! Work together to complete jobs for top magazine brands or just smack your comrades upside the head with a hammer (sickle not included).

CUSTOMIZE YOUR CHARACTER

shutterbuds contains a bunch of funny and interesting cosmetic options for you to unlock and personalize your character with! Some of them may cost your your hard-earned words, but if you complete enough jobs you're sure to make plenty of money.

YOU HAVE A CAMERA AND CAN TAKE PICTURES

Armed with your trusty Rejec brand digital camera, you can take photos of anything you see. You can caption these pictures, display them in game, or save them to your PC.

SILLY LITTLE GUYS

The park is filled with a variety of unique creatures, all with their own behaviors and personalities!

MAKE THE FRONT PAGE IN A FLASH

As you complete more jobs, the magazines you work for will be filled out with your photos. As you improve, new magazine issues are unlocked with more challenging missions. Some say that a picture is worth 1,000 words, but as a rookie, yours are gonna be worth less until you build your rep.