Hello everyone,
Our quest to replace the oldest versions of our fish is going well. This week the old version of the Tiger Barb has been replaced with new male and female versions. We wont be releasing a new build with these fish in it just yet. There are still some tweaks yet to be made to the fish behaviour code and a few other things before we upload a new build. However we are aiming to release a new build next Friday on the 26th of June.
Female:
Male:
The next fish we are going to replace in the upcoming week is the Sunburst Platy and the Guppy. This actually amounts to 4 new fish. The colourings and body shapes can differ quite a lot between the genders. This should mean that once we have replaced all the current fish in the game there will automatically be more visual variety in player's aquariums even though there are the same number of species. After the current species have all been updated we will focus on adding entirely new species to the game.
Be sure to check out the fish list on the forums. Lots of people have been making suggestions for fish they want to see in the game and I have been doing my best to quickly research each suggestion and then add it to the list if I am fairly sure that we can actually put it into the game. Someone suggested adding a "Peacock Eel" and other similar animals but it has not been added to the list yet because eels and snakes require a lot more research before we can say with confidence that we can actually put them in the game and make them good. Certainly we can make them look good but the animation requirements for these types of animals are very tricky indeed. But do keep suggestion such animals.
Making progress with the fish art feels really good. If you can believe it we are just over three months away from the anniversary of the early access release of fishery. There have been an enormous amount of changes made to the game since that release but most of that is code related and not much of it is art related. We added some new art content here and there but overall it looks more or less the same than it did last September. So in preparation for the anniversary of the game's release we will be focusing mostly on the art aspect of the game for a while. I personally am mostly focused on fish, I will also spend some time work on plants as well. I have a colleague working on backgrounds and decorations.
There is much excitement and much work to do so we better get back to it hehe. As usual we bid you all a great weekend.
The Fishery Team