Gotta relieve stress where we can in 2020
2020 has been quite the year, but in spite of all the craziness, we’re still pushing ahead with Beast Pets to bigger and better things. Speaking to that, we’ve been hard at work nailing down what it’ll take to make Beast Pets a complete game and exit early access. We’ll be sharing that roadmap in a future update but we can say that we’ll be making a push to get to 1.0 in the next few months. As for changes in this update, we’ve completely redone the pet personality system so that each pet’s distinct personality comes across in all their behaviors. There’s still a long way to go until the pets are as expressive as we’d like them to be, but the foundation is now in place so that in the near future each pet will feel distinct and special.
Pets
- Complete overhaul of the pet personality system with more changes to come!
- Changed pet core personality traits to CHIEF (Curiosity, Helpfulness, Impulsiveness, Expressiveness, Friendliness).
- Pets now have personality profiles that manifest themselves in a wide variety of behaviors from attention span to respect for your personal space.
- Curiosity (familiarity <-> curious): interest in familiar vs new things; affects attention, awareness, novelty.
- Helpfulness (selfish <-> nurturing): willingness to share or consider others; affects sharing, interacting with toys, social behaviors.
- Impulsiveness (disciplined <-> impulsive): attention and focus, engagement in entertainment/fun; affects attention, interests, randomness.
- Expressiveness (reserved <-> emotional): acting out feelings, emotional sensitivity; affects emotions, vocalizations, dramatic behavior.
- Friendliness (anti-social <-> social): interest in others; affects social distancing, social attention, social interactions.
- We’re still fine tuning personality expressions so expect more behavioral changes in future updates.
- Fixed a bug where pets would ignore each other, not sure how we missed that...
- Improved pet memory.
General
- Preliminary support for Oculus Quest 2 via Oculus Link.
- Improved analytics and event tracking.
- Soul crushing number of bug fixes and performance improvements.