Animal Friends Adventure

Folkvang Studios, Inc · Folkvang Studios

Released: May 2, 2019
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Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 11:50 GMT

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12 Jun 2024Developer post
The Future
Huge Price Cut, Discounts coming. Hello all you wonderful gamers. I bet you are all wondering what this completely unrelated picture is all about? It's my current work in progress, that's what it is. I've been working on Immortal realm now for over 6 years now. You see, making vi
25 Mar 2023Developer post
Major optimization update.
Major optimization update. Made a serious lighting and optimization update. In many cases frame rates went up 3-4 times. Fixed a few weird bugs. Fixed the super annoying stair climb jumping bug. Fixed massive frame rate drop when completing levels. This was caused by mixing cinem
02 Mar 2023Developer post
Quick Fix on backend configs.
Fixed a few things with the config files and prices not updating for character purchases.
27 Feb 2023Developer post
Intermediate Patch.
The upgrade to Unity 2022 was not as smooth as I had anticipated. It broke a lot of stuff that "just worked". The more I play the game, the more things I find that bacame broken. The most urgent was how the player reacts to hits and bounceback. The other area that has been long n
25 Feb 2023Developer post
My Apologies (again)
I severely make a mistake when uploading Panda to Steam. It has been over a year since Panda's last Steam update and I had forgotten some process. I also corrected many other issues and rebuilt the app. I was trying to upload the Linux build and accidentally uploaded to the Windo
25 Feb 2023Developer post
My Apologies (again)
I severely make a mistake when uploading Panda to Steam. It has been over a year since Panda's last Steam update and I had forgotten some process. I also corrected many other issues and rebuilt the app. I was trying to upload the Linux build and accidentally uploaded to the Windo
25 Feb 2023Developer post
My Apologies
I severely make a mistake when uploading Panda to Steam. I was trying to upload the Linux build and accidentally uploaded to the Windows depot. This broke the game for Windows users. There were also a few settings in the Steam Store I missed that coincidentally broke the Linux re
23 Feb 2023Developer post
Added linux Support
Real small update. Added linux Support
20 Feb 2023Developer post
Oops I forgot stuff
Deleted a bunch of "Lighting" data and the install size lost 5 gigs of weight. Fixed some missing localization text. So sue me. Actually don't. I only have $6 and a cat named Potato. Add real time lighting to all the scenes. Unity removed this in some version of URP but added it
18 Feb 2023Developer post
Full Localizations added.
Full Localizations added. Updated to Unity 2022 for better lighting, performance and features. Occlusion and lightmap data updated for additional performance. Changed some background programming and more efficient way to store and load config files (unity scriptable objects). Oth
18 Feb 2023Developer post
Major localization Patch.
Major localization Patch. I finally localized this incredibly addictive and fun indie game to several languages. I do hope you can find enjoyment from this game in your own native language. I also did some other adjustments and code tweaks behind the scenes.
26 Feb 2022Developer post
A Major update!
Hello everyone. I am pleased to finally have this update done and ready. I'm a team of 1 and this took considerable time because I also have a day job. See, this is a hobby and a passion of mine. I love gaming, I love learning and I live for programming. This was a complete learn
25 Feb 2022Developer post
Mega Update
What started out as a 4 week project to overhaul the User Interface and User Experience turned into almost a year of completely reworking the game. I went full OCD on this. Let's get on with this then. Your save wont work. Sorry. I overhauled everything in this game. It should be
30 Dec 2020Developer post
Happy Holidays Update
So I was doing a playthrough video series, a year late I know. I noticed some sounds were missing so I went on a quest to find them. A fortunate project backup had the missing sounds and I added them back in. But the project was bugged and I spent 4 days trying to fix an issue. D
17 Jul 2020Developer post
The Great Patch
Hello everyone! It has been an enormous span of time since I updated Animal Friends Adventure. Trust me, there has been a lot going on since release. I love this game a lot, and really want to expand on the story and spirit guardians (pets). There's so much background that hasn't
Hello everyone!
It has been an enormous span of time since I updated Animal Friends Adventure. Trust me, there has been a lot going on since release. I love this game a lot, and really want to expand on the story and spirit guardians (pets). There's so much background that hasn't manifested yet. I'm a solo dev, so time is a bit rare. Anyway let's get to those patch notes shall we?
The Patch notes you want

I have not abandoned this game at all.
I updated stuff, like lots, and it's pretty cool.
Updated Unity version to 2019.4 branch and cried for a few months. There was this bug with Visual Studio 2019 that all PC games would crash right after the splash screen. The guy who made Rewired helped me and I am eternally grateful.
Mesh merge was used to optimize stuff. Unity uses lots of drawcalls and the less the better. Mesh merge reduced this by 80% making super amazing frame rates on weak hardware. Not that your rig is weak or anything.
I cleaned up a lot of the source code, optimized the heck out of it. removed the chain function calls. You can't see this in game, but heck it made managing code so much easier. You get some extra FPS, I get less sleepless nights. Win win.
I reworked a TON of levels, like all of them. I took out a lot of stupid stuff. Added in lots of cool stuff. What am I talking about?
Reworked the sliding mechanism to be, well, less dumb. It was annoying me a lot too.
Reworked levels where you'd slide and bounce mindlessly. Now you actually have to play the game in these areas. More jump puzzles. Nothing too difficult.
New story line!
Lots of bug fixes, optimizations and future plans. The last part sort of relies on you.
Our new community manager (my BFF) will be assisting where I cannot.
The Patch notes you really didn't want
So that new story line thing. It's still in my head, but little hints here and there are coming out.
Still some minor performance issues here and there. I'm working it out.
I said "here and there" 3 times in a row.
I have a day job, so time developing this love of a game is limited and takes more time than I'd like.
New worlds, abilities, items and character controller are planned. Above point is why it's not in game yet.
I'm working on a 3rd game and need to balance on a tight rope to improve this game.
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22 Nov 2019Developer post
Long needed update out.
Hello everyone. I am so sorry it's been a long time since the last update. Been working with an actual publisher for console and have neglected the PC side too long. Fixed the Save file. I misplaced a variable and it never loaded your saved game file. This is a huge blunder. Sorr
Hello everyone. I am so sorry it's been a long time since the last update. Been working with an actual publisher for console and have neglected the PC side too long.

Fixed the Save file. I misplaced a variable and it never loaded your saved game file. This is a huge blunder. Sorry it took so long to get this one.
Lots of levels were redesigned to be less annoying.
The Sliding mechanism works a whole lot better now. Instead of guessing how long the slide takes I just put a trigger where it should end.
I took out almost all of the sliding and bouncing over water. Now there's some challenging jump puzzles instead.
Interface is more uniform. Fonts should all be the same now.
Lots of other things have been added and fixed. I just cannot remember them all.
Anyway, please drop us some happy ratings. More fixes are on the way now that we're wrapping up with the publisher.
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26 Sep 2019Developer post
New Update out!
Hello fellow and valued Gamers! I've been extraordinarily busy really polishing up this game. It's something I just love doing. I didn't get everything I wanted done yet, but am far enough in to provide a really good and meaningful update while the sale is going on. There will be
Hello fellow and valued Gamers!
I've been extraordinarily busy really polishing up this game. It's something I just love doing. I didn't get everything I wanted done yet, but am far enough in to provide a really good and meaningful update while the sale is going on. There will be another update following soon after this one.
I did a serious pass over every level in the game, played each one at least 10 times over to adjust, fix and rework things that just were not fun. I'm still cleaning up, feel free to report bugs. I may have missed something.
List of major fixes

Major playability pass World 1 through 7.
Personal light in overly dark areas like "Creepy caverns" now works as intended. It lights objects and casts frightening shadows.
I botched the "Steam AppID" and it was building for the wrong game. I took steps to prevent it from defaulting to original number.
Honestly, I am tired of the "skipping over water like a stone" portions of the game and am making these areas more engaging, and dangerous. This will take some more time.
Removed excess creatures. With the new combat system, they became seriously problematic.
Tuned damage of all the player characters. Ape and Bear obviously do the most damage.
Thrown weapons also do various damage amounts. Again, Bear and Ape.. They can break the metal bricks...
Double jump has been mostly fixed. Sometimes you can still pull 3 or 4 jumps. That is not how things should work.
Fixing Double jump also made midair weapon attacks tricky. They're cuddly animals not Ninjas, so there's that :-p
Water damage types is tuned. Green is highly toxic and kills no matter how much life. The more clear water is only 1 damage. Lava, well we all know what lava should do.
Water looks a lot better now.
Fixed falling through world in many areas.
Added crushing to the falling blocks.
Added a nasty spike trap.
Fixed animations and weapons on several monsters. (I left gravity on the treent club and it fell out of his hands, oops)
Disabled timed levels. It was a silly feature that just didn't get implemented as well as I'd like.
All the boss fights are relatively fixed now. (they're all beatable)
The desert has falling blocks now. More to come.

Known Issues

SPIDERS! I hate these things. Unity is so strange with colliders. I did a frame by frame view and the shovel does hit them. But sometimes they ignore the shovel and continue being creepy. I may have to switch weapon damage to raycast. But I like the fun of whacking boxes and barrels. I could do an add force, but physics is way more fun. So many choices.
Boss battles are annoying. Except that one dude, he's scary and fun.
The shovel, it's a silly weapon. I'm adding more.
The shovel again, it sometimes wanders from your hand. It's a mildly annoying bug.
Sometimes creatures that resurrect won't.
Sometimes Creatures will register two hits despite that they were hit once.
Some creatures will die while their "damage flash" is going on. They shouldn't.
Player controller needs a complete rewrite.
In some weird instances Panda and characters will "Float" after resurrection. It also happens after hitting some monsters. I have theories, like maybe an alien mothership is trying to kidnap them.
I took out some blocks in the Desert level and forgot to fix the hanging vines and foliage.
Me.
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18 Sep 2019Developer post
Stability and Feature update
Fixed a crash error with the Post processing filter. Turned off two pesky features, and got a nice frame rate boost as a bonus. Initial Game loading significantly increased. Everything was moved out of Unity's "Resources" folder, which globbed everything into a 5 gig file. Pets:
11 Sep 2019Developer post
Patch notes: Stability and Quality of life
Just some fixes added for improvements. Fixed the pet store interface. It was neglected for too long. Game no longer crashes when playing as Lenny the Lemur. Optimized load time, especially for console. (was loading 1.5 gigs of audio data into memory) Reduced memory demands by no
Just some fixes added for improvements.

Fixed the pet store interface. It was neglected for too long.
Game no longer crashes when playing as Lenny the Lemur.
Optimized load time, especially for console. (was loading 1.5 gigs of audio data into memory)
Reduced memory demands by not preloading so many audio files at once.
Level end menu now has option to go straight to next level, or back to character select. This keeps the fun going.
Clicking the gift box should no longer bring you back to the home screen.
Updated some more graphical items to give UI a better look.
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05 Sep 2019Developer post
Some important fixes
Fixed a major issue with a full screen white glare blocking the view. This was cause with our Post Processor conflicting with a shader. The Shader was replaced with one that won't argue as much. Fixed the last boss' fireball. It'll no longer set the character on fire causing chil

Animal Friends Adventure

Updates & announcements

The Future

Flashback moment

Then I ran out of money.

Still not satisfied

Current Day

The Call to Action

Buy this game

Major optimization update.

Quick Fix on backend configs.

Intermediate Patch.

My Apologies (again)

My Apologies (again)

My Apologies

Added linux Support

Oops I forgot stuff

Full Localizations added.

Major localization Patch.

A Major update!

Mega Update

Graphical Overhaul

Game World

AI

Other Stuff

Happy Holidays Update

The Great Patch

The Patch notes you want

The Patch notes you really didn't want

Long needed update out.

New Update out!

Hello fellow and valued Gamers!

List of major fixes

Known Issues

Stability and Feature update

Patch notes: Stability and Quality of life

Some important fixes