Hello again farmers!
What's been happening since the previous major update?
With 0.1.3.1b as our last update for the year, we've slipped in a fully revised dialogue system - though you may only notice some UI changes or different behaviors - as well as a better, more expansive Jobs Board system on the farm.
Some of our staff are winding down for few days off to stay energized for the next year of pushing Cloud Meadow towards completion.
So, what was actually accomplished in 2022?
Summarizing a year's worth of effort and patch notes comprehensively is no simple task!
However, I would like to draw attention to some of the features I feel we're most proud of:
- Savannah dungeon floor 8, our single largest & most complex area yet
- Concluding the first story act of Cloud Meadow's multi-act story arc
- Greatly expanded the spring Royal Matchmaker Event
- UI overhauls & improvements across the board, including; combat, loot rewards, farm jobs management, monster traits & family, farm buildings, cooking & more
- Way better resolution scaling, UI readability & reduced memory usage for players on older systems
- Combat mechanics overhaul; significant changes to combat stats, scaling, status effects, fundamental mechanics and a full difficulty balance adjustment
- Introduced Plankton to the farming ecosystem
- Total number of sex scenes up to 332 (40 HD scenes + sprite scenes) with more to come...
What else are you working on? How about...
Here's a reminder for what the next major content update will entail, while more expansive detail can be found in my previous monthly update posts
- Adding a new recurring monthly event that takes place in a tiny new side-area called the Faire Grounds
- At this fairground event, and a traveling troupe of Brownies arrive for you to meet & 'greet', learn their lore & browse their merchandise
- You'll be able to recruit Kaleida as a major party NPC at this event
- This will include an overhaul to Kaleida's combat, too
More work behind-the-scenes:
- New HD sex scenes are moving steadily towards completion - Eve/Evan x Minerva & Eve/Evan x Kellam
- Revamped quest system, which will enable us to use produce way more quest content & town interactions easily - currently something that's quite lacking)
- This quest refactoring is currently the last planned system to be rewritten - once this feature is stable, we will be able to fully focus on content-driven updates for the remainder of development
- The Forest dungeon is progressing through the design & planning phase, with early concepts completed
- Other calendar events that take place in the new Faire Grounds are being concepted for future updates further along
- Tutorial and farm mechanic introduction sequences are planned for rewrite - formalized as a series of farm-based & town-based questlines that can be pursued as the player's choice
If you have any questions we are always readily available in the following places:
- Introduce yourself in our very own Discord [ https://discord.gg/6ASAxDF ]
- Drop in on our Livestream where Artists, animators & programmers work daily on Piczel [ https://piczel.tv/watch/Spurple ]