First of all in behalf of our tiny team we want to say thanks. Never in our wildest dreams 2 weeks ago did we expect that our game still in Early Access would be so well received in such a short time.
It's been a wild ride and all of you motivate us to work even more on the game and bring you the best experience possible.
Some quick highlights that happened in the past 2 weeks (Most we still can't believe are true)
Reached almost 7000 players, playing the game at the same time
Over 20 builds of the game made
Over 2.5 million hours of streams watched of our game
So many streamers playing the game that we couldn't visit them all like we had planned (but we did try to say hello and chat to all we meet in the streams)
Caseoh meet Queso in the game and has been playing us in his streams (and we love every second of it)
Valkyrae joined in our madness and is now the sound of our seagulls
There are truly no words to thank you all for this and we really want to do our best to give you the game you deserve.
Beta testing
Related to this we are happy to announce that we are opening our beta testing branch soon. This branch will allow you to try new features before the public release (and yes this includes multiplayer when it's ready to test) and helps us reinforce the stress testing that our QA team already does. If interested you can apply here - https://forms.gle/gtLcPeAHLfYG7XKF7
Twitch Integration
And for all of those that love being of part of the streams they are watching we have now released the first version of our Twitch integration. More fun features will come but for now if a streamer has Twitch integration active you can join their game via commands
!visit to claim an upcoming visitor to use their displayname,
!hireme to claim an upcoming staff member to use their displayname
Patch notes
And finally our patch notes for 0.2.29
BUG FIXES
Visitors should no longer get injured on the smaller slides
Restocker doesn't unlock too soon in the research tree
Visitors no longer get bored while using slides and diving boards
Fixed an error where Discord rich presence would break if Discord was restarted in the middle of a game
Fixed an issue that could cause the "The Bigger They Are…" achievement not to register
IMPROVEMENTS
Graffiti can't be cleared by player while the vandal is painting it
Staff can't clear it as well in the same conditions
Improvements to trash placement on the map
"The Bigger They Are…" achievement image was updated to reflect the 15 m needed
Improved the sound levels on the seagulls (Raegulls as we call them)
Improved visitors and staff paths around the park to avoid getting stuck
The city has been improved in terms of movement for NPCs
NEW FEATURES
New highlight feature in the main menu to display the latest big new feature added
New Twitch integration
We are already working on not only fixing some issues mentioned by you all, but also adding new features. So stay tuned.
Thanks for all the support, and remember, if you have an idea, feedback, or bug you want to share, feel free to use our Steam community hub or Discord. We are always there to listen and chat with you. https://steamcommunity.com/app/3293260/discussions/
NOTICE - We sometimes might release very small updates to solve 1 or 2 more urgent issues that appeared and not release a patch note for those immediately but add them to bigger update patch notes on following updates