Thanks so much for everyone who has purchased our cozy foraging game! We're a small indie studio and this is our first game so your support is helping us a LOT so we're super grateful 🙏🙏🙏🙏
The last 2 weeks we've been fixing bugs, listening to your suggestions and started implementing a few of them! But of course this is just the start so we wanted to share with you what's next so that you have a better idea of how we're structuring this Early Access.
First things first: Your feedback helps us improve the game!
If you want to help us, please fill out this form. There aren't any required questions so you can only fill in those you have answers for. https://forms.gle/Vq32iCQME6QRXBpi6 This will help us make better choices and improve the game longterm! :) Of course we will keep checking all the channels but this form is a much easier way to compare player sentiment with.
So what's next?
Highland Cow Mount Berta
We started working on a highland cow MOUNT, called Berta, of which we have posted a tiktok video here: https://www.tiktok.com/@yaldigames/video/7531023732555402518?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7504658062340769302. (Just FYI we generally post updates on TikTok 3 times per week, so follow us there or join our Discord to see the videos in our social channel.)
Summer Season
Out and About is all about foraging and nature, so of course our major updates will revolve around seasons! We are now starting work on the summer season, which will contain new plants and mushrooms, new recipes, a new chapter of the story, 3 more friendship levels for each NPC, and even one new NPC (Kiano).
But because our programmer is on holiday almost all of October, we expect to ship this update early November. Until then, we will work on smaller updates (see below).
Smaller Updates
Since our programmer is on holiday for a long time, we want to do more art focussed updates while he is gone, such as new plants, recipes, outfits and quests. We're looking for your opinions on what you would like best! Please use the form above to tell us.
Autumn Season
After we shipped the summer season update in Nov we will start working on the autumn season, which will include a lot of shrubs with berries and trees with nuts, plus a wider variety of mushrooms (and of course new recipes, a new story chapter, quests etc!).
This is as far as we can reveal for now, since any further plans are all based on the feedback you give us in the next months. I hope you realise that we're here to listen to you and your ideas and that we value them very much!
If we can, we would love to develop this game way beyond the 1.0 launch. We'd love to add DLCs of different regions of the world (think: Japan, Brazil, China, Africa!) and new things to learn, such as bird identification, or insects, or fishing. We'd love to make this the nature game of your (and our) dreams. So I hope we can grow, get more players and then have all those resources we need to make that happen. And your trust and purchase is the first step so thanks for supporting us and leaving a positive review ❤️❤️❤️
Have a great day!! ❤️