Developer posts and news about this game.
Hey everyone! Thanks to Felix, we're pushing another update for Lyca that improves things significantly under the hood: - Performance overhaul: The terrain system has been reworked into a tile-based system that drastically improves performance, especially on lower-end PCs - Contr
Hi everyone! It's been a while since the last update, and I'm really excited to share that Lyca has surpassed over 30,000 players in its lifetime! It's been amazing to see how far this tiny game has come, and to celebrate, we're doing a few things: - A new update (v 1.2.0) is liv
Hey everyone! It's been a while, I wanted to make a check-in post to celebrate the success of the game and show my appreciation to you all for it! Lyca released exactly 4 months ago on April 7, and I made the game alone in about 4 months (mostly part-time). I never expected the g
Hey everyone! Thank you for your patience, I'm excited to say that a major update for the game is live now! This update includes: 1. A substantial optimization patch: I was pretty much at my wits end trying to make fixes for weeks with no results, when I turned to Felix Borchert
Hey everyone, It's been 1 month since Lyca released on Steam! In this last month, the game has surpassed all my expectations and I'm really humbled by the response. Thank you everyone for playing the game and for giving me really valuable feedback. I'm really grateful that someth
Hey everyone! Thanks again for your patience with the patches. I've just pushed the second performance patch, which should improve the performance further. This update contains: 1. Performance improvements: - Grass shader has been optimized further - Grass shader has been modifie
Hi everyone, Thanks for your patience with the patches, and for all the feedback so far. I'm still working hard to figure out the performance issues and will be improving them over the coming days. For now, I've just pushed an update that does the following: - The player (and bir
Hey everyone! Thanks a lot for trying out Lyca, I hope you're having a relaxing time with the game! I'm aware that a number of people are encountering performance-related issues while playing the game, and I'm working hard to trying to fix them ASAP. To that end, it would be real
Hi everyone, I'm really thrilled (and nervous) to share that I have just released Lyca, and it's now available to buy and play! It’s a solo project that I’ve poured all my passion into, and what I believe is my best game so far! I've also bundled with games like Nodebuster, Digse
Hey everyone! Excited to announce that Lyca will release in 1 week on April 7! The game will be priced at US $4.99 or equivalent, although it will vary slightly depending on your region and currency. There will also be a 20% launch discount, so make sure to grab it at launch! The
Hi everyone! This will be the last demo update. The next update will be related to the release date and price of the full game! In this update: - There's a performance overhaul, mainly related to flower and flower drops. The performance should now be significantly improved. - The
Hi everyone, In the last update with save functionality, it wasn't possible to change the language without resetting the game. It was also defaulting to English whenever the game was launched. This has been fixed in this update: The game will start on the language select screen e
Hey everyone, The demo now has save functionality! The game will autosave at different points in the demo (with every upgrade, every run, every change in settings, etc.). In case you want to restart from the beginning with default settings, I've set a hotkey (INSERT) that you can
Hey everyone! I've just pushed a small update that addresses the following: - Low-FPS mode now triggers at 55 fps instead of 40 - Quick bug fixes related to performance and Low-FPS There will be another update soon that addresses a bug related to the Progress Bar when there are F
Hi everyone, I've made a ton of performance-related tweaks to improve the FPS for the demo! Hopefully, this would solve slowdowns for most people, please reach out let me know how the performance is now. I've also detached the progress bar from the fps of the game, so even if the
Hey everyone, Shaun here, the dev of Lyca! If you've been following the game, you probably know that the demo is out now! Please try it out and provide any feedback for the full release! I've also pushed a quick patch that addresses the following: - The tutorial is updated to mak