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Spurple - Piczel.tv

Spurple - Piczel.tv

Spurple - Piczel.tv

Spurple - Piczel.tv

Preparin assets for halloween event.

A bit late but

Spurple - Piczel.tv

Spurple - Piczel.tv

https://piczel.tv/watch/Spurple

https://piczel.tv/watch/Spurple

https://piczel.tv/watch/Spurple

Team Nimbus is looking for a second part time writer for this project. Pay will be 18.00 an hour, to a maximum of 1500 a month.

We need someone who is experienced with erodev and game writing projects, with those who have a portfolio of RPG or Visual Novel games taking priority. The job will primarily focus on side content rather than main story line content for the time being, such as side quests, npc dialogue, event dialogue, and similar.

Please submit a resume, coverletter, and portfolio to [email protected] at your earliest convenience to be considered for the position.

https://piczel.tv/watch/Spurple

https://piczel.tv/watch/Spurple

https://piczel.tv/watch/Spurple

Feel free to hop in and see the dungeons being made.

Feel free to hop in to watch some trees bein drawn.

-Spurple

https://piczel.tv/watch/Spurple

https://piczel.tv/watch/Spurple

Feel free to hop in to watch last level of savannah being made.

An advantage of these new icons is that we should also be able to apply the palette swapper to them more easily!

We're working on some new interaction systems for the game, this is a first blush pass at the system, to make the UI more unified with the farming system, at least when interacting with monsters. The Name Tag will appear next to your cursor when hovering over a monster.

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

The Code for this Month’s Build Can Be Found Here

Notes: On loading a game you may receive a warning that a number of your monsters had invalid pregnancy data - those monsters' pregnant state has been reset.

Additions

• Added the Silo building to the farm
• Proper gameplay transitions between death, afterlife, and returning to the dungeon
• Player character now has a light aura that appears in the evenings
• More visible indication when the player takes damage in the dungeon levels

Changes

• Light blending is less bright but more vibrant
• Damage reflection should no longer interrupt the instigator’s attack animation

Fixes

• Fixed Yonten’s hangouts being repeatable in the same day
• Fixed Gifting not telling you how much affection gained
• Fixed an error being thrown when using food and drink when hanging out
• Fixed pregnancies failing
• Fixed not being able to collect eggs
• Fixed Graduation causing errors that preventing exiting the loop
• Fixed an issue with palette swapping on UI
• Fixed docks with incorrect states
• Fixed showing an upgrade message, when building in an incorrect slot
• Improved messages to let the player know why they cannot build in that slot.
• Fixed the difficulty slider not working at some resolutions
• Fixed the difficulty slider not having resolution support
• Fixed an issue related to the rocks/plants on one of the fields
• Fixed some cases where combat would lock up, such as using the Genodriver
• A unit that takes damage will wearing Ring of Trust Alpha should no longer have damage recursively applied
• Prevented the player using consumable items between turns through the party equipment menu
• Opening a UI in combat that displays a banner message should no longer malfunction
• Resolved Combat UI layering issues with other UI (Inventory, Party, etc.)
• General tooltips should no longer be hidden underneath other UI
• Dungeon interactable objects should self-illuminate properly
• Potentially fixed a case in which the game crashing would wipe the gallery unlocks

As we approach the end of our development cycle, we are going to be reducing the votes down, not completely discontinuing them, but we're unable to continue expanding our task list with even more sprite sex scenes. There will be occasional votes still, when we, as developers, are unsure on where to continue or how to do so, so the $20.00 tier is not entirely defunct, but we do want to let you guys know what's going on.

The code for this month is "Tinker Bunny"

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

Notes: On loading a game you will receive a warning that all your monsters were unassigned from jobs. This is due to multiple bugs that caused bad states for Jobs.

The Code for This Month Can Be Found Here

Additions

• New dungeon content: Savannah dungeon floor 4 and Tro’s Lab side-area
• Added a boob jiggle to the character selection
• Added a difficulty slider with a range of 50% to 150% of base difficulty.
• Added tutorialization to Lucia, and Giev’s quests
• Added tutorialization to the Mill
• Added Yonten Romance and first Date
• Added a Death Screen, you will no longer be thrown the main menu

Changes

• Monsters byproduct quality is now based on their Base Domesticity the higher it is the higher quality of byproduct
• Added some variation to the amount of money or resources yielded from looting in a dungeon
• Updated and corrected information in the Guide book, and added tooltips to the items section.
• Player can leave the Abandoned Mine at any time - except when they need to open the chest
• Less abrupt combat failure screen
• Reformatted Mill output items message to better indicate the quantity of produce
• Moved the quest that unlocks the rest of the gallery from Giev to Garst

Fixes

• Fixed all instances where items were not being removed from the inventory
• Fixed getting a wait for pending update quest more than once
• Monsters that are over the capacity of the farm no longer age or loss loyalty (This only applies if the bug happened in an older save where you can get more monsters than you had the capacity for)
• Fixed sleeping not changing weather effects
• Fixed snack bars not working
• Fixed traits that give extra breed times not working on same-sex pairing
• Fixed monsters not changing their status correctly from having sex to idle correctly
• Fixed monsters forever having sex
• Fixed the cooking UI telling you that you unlocked the recipe every time
• Fixed building a field not taking resources
• Fixed Caramel Cone having the wrong icon
• Fixed a variety of monster palettes resulting in a shadow instead of the palette
• Fixed an issue with monster Graduation
• Fixed monsters not gaining Experience from training fields
• Fixed docks not showing up in the Job Board
• Fixed crops not saving how long they were alive, so they would never grow
• Restored the code events that destroy the rock wall with a Blasting Charge on Savannah 3
• Fixed certain combat sprites appearing solid white due to a shader issue
• Resolved some issues with entering the afterlife - especially strange interactions with the Abandoned Mine boss fight
• Fixed Yonten’s shopkeeper and romance dialogue locking the game
• Fixed the loyalty bar in the party window not working
• Fixed not being able to shop at Yonten
• Fixed Yonten hub menu options not working
• Fixed items not stacking in the inventory
• Fixed the job board not scrolling monsters
• Fixed the pasture UI not working
• Fixed the tooltips in the pasture UI not closing
• Fixed inconsistent tooltips for monsters names
• Fixed monsters going into a broken pregnancy
• Fixed an error being thrown when the player is breeding with monsters
• Fixed not being able to sleep due to a bug when mating is finished
• Players who saved their progress in alpha version of Tro’s Lab will be restored to the new area
• Some players were erroneously able to construct a Pasture as a farm dock building - these have been removed and will subtract the number of barns built for each one

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

Notes: On loading a game you will receive a warning that all your monsters were unassigned from jobs. This is due to multiple bugs that caused bad states for Jobs.

The Code for This Month Can Be Found Here

Additions

• There is now a pop-up when you heal a party member outside of combat for how much they healed for and what their current health is at.

Enemy Combat Scaling Changes

• Enemies scale based off average party level rather than player level
• Nerfed scaling from party level by 33%
• Stamina Scaling reduced by 25%
• Reduced Denmother’s Intuition from 60 to 50
• Increased the Cat Sidhe Swiftness from 30 to 35

Changes

• Improved the layout of crops on the field.
• Updated monster Cells description with information about what season they are used in.
• Improved the visuals of the seed selection window and included information on seed growth time.
• Party window now shows stats with the buff value separately.

Fixes

• It is no longer possible to take in more monsters than you have space for.
• Corrected bosses not scaling with levels.
• Fixed an issue with the HD seen via the farm being blacked.
• Fixed an issue with the options UI cutting off test in the audio panel
• Fixed Fertilizer not showing what season they belong to.
• Fixed removing a monster from the top slot of the training field not removing the bonus.
• Fixed being able to assign multiple monsters to the same jobs.
• Fixed not being able to fire a monster from a job correctly
• Fixed crops not progressing past Quality 2
• Fixed items refined in the Mill not using the quality of the base item.
• Fixed being damaged by the acid pool when the UI is open.
• Fixed selecting a monster in the inventory would make all other items pure black
• Fixed grass assets showing up on the farm incorrectly.
• Fixed Male Harpy not having abilities

Everything is on track for getting through tro's dungeon by the 25th it looks like, we'll keep you guys in the loop.

Also, if you search this picture carefully, you can find Jessika from Jessika's curse on it!

With the new amount of income we've gotten, we're focusing on expanding our team a little more. We're hiring Impforhire as a part time background concept artist to help push forward the level design as rapidly as possible, Dwarf2500 as our third fulltime programmer, and later in the month Bandana Chad will be joining as a full time third animator for the project, replacing Dr. Think Tang, who has been a treasure and a credit to the team, but was unable to move to a full time position with us.

Please give them all warm welcomes!

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

Notes: On loading a game you will receive a warning that all your monsters were unassigned from jobs. This is due to a change in the way we track monsters assigned to work.

Update: Code Can Be Found Here

Changes

• Dungeons no longer reset if you haven’t completed the first dungeon quest.
• Nerfed enemy scaling by 40%
• Enemies scale more with the current floor than the player level
• Nerf the random random of enemy bonus swiftness from “0 to 5” to “-3 to 3”
• Monsters that are unavailable will have their status mentioned in the tooltip
• Changed first cooking tutorial from Shrubstick Tendies to Baguette, also gave the player the correct recipes & some additional Shrubstick Seeds
• Players who have previously completed or skipped the cooking tutorial will receive some bonus Shrubstick Seeds
• Message and item prompts will now last longer (2 seconds, was 1 second)

Fixes

• Fixed all monsters disappearing when the player has more monsters than barn capacity - however the extra monsters will not be available and may leave the farm due to neglect.
• Fixed all inventories acting like the food bin after using it.
• Fixed not being able to remove items from the food bin.
• Fixed items not being removed from the shop inventory when being bought
• Fixed Jerkian’s collisions on the market day not letting the player in and out of the Union Barrack.
• Fixed an issue where you could buy unlimited amounts of items
• Fixed monsters bought from Jerikian having a blank palette
• Fixed monsters already having a blank palette with a consistent check
• Fixed doors in the dungeons reappearing when they shouldn’t.
• Doubled the wait time to unstop the player from moving from 1/20 of a second to 1/10 of a second
• Fixed the Mill not correctly producing refined items.
• Fixed the Mill not confirming that you received refined items.
• Fixed Jobs eating monsters, the entire monster job system was remade from the ground up to promote stability.
• Fixed an issue when monsters abandoning the farm during the night would cause an endless sleep loop
• Fixed an error caused by talking to Montalvo
• Fixed an issue where monsters would work twice as fast as normal.
• Fixed an issue where monsters would only work on 2/3rd of the field.
• Fixed Eve x Female Holstaur animation showing Evan x Female Holstaur
• Zooming the camera while the player is sleeping should be centred on the bed
• Corrected materials on Farm Mill building and Food Bin

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

You Can Find the Code For This Build Here

Additions

• Added short little monologues tutorial on how to use various farm equipment.
• Kiram X Evan HD scene
• Calendar now has tooltips
• Monsters will now leave you if you let their loyalty get too low, and you will be fined.
• Add the Graduation Day, where monsters your monsters will join Society, if they are loyal enough they will want to stay on the farm.
• Food bin allows the automatic feeding of monsters with produce gained from the farm and provides the stats of the produce added.
• 61 new cookable foods
• Added back in all content past Giev. You should now be able to play up to getting Garst. Once you speak to Giev, the rubble north-west of the abandoned mine should be removed and allow you to progress through floors 4-6, which are partially implemented.
• Added the Silo into the game, where you can automatically feed monsters cooked food, rather than just raw produce

Changes

• Talking to Giev in the Wizard’s Tower will unlock all non-unlockable sex scenes in the gallery - the rest can be unlocked through character interaction in gameplay
• Removed self-heal from Brontide’s Close Quarters attack, which will now apply a taunt insead
• Increased loyalty gain from petting
• Increased loyalty gain from feeding manually
• Reworked how loyalty is gained or lost. Monsters must now be fed daily to prevent loyalty decay.
• Loyal monsters will have higher penalties for ignoring them.
• Updated ability tooltips visuals
• Updated the visuals of the petting hearts
• Updated loading screen tips
• Updated existing recipes and refinements
• Modified "Report to Sieger" quest to "Return to farm" to avoid confusion

Fixes

• Fixed resources not being consumed by the construction window
• Fixed the tooltips of the construction window not giving the correct values
• Female Holstaur standing backward in UI
• Party members not loading palettes correctly
• Big level scroll not appearing on screen
• Enemies were not scaling
• Options window fullscreen button text not updating to reflect the current state
• Clicking on the last line of dialogue moving the player
• Barn tutorial popping up every time you enter the barn
• Calendar icons jittering when hovering over them
• Too long text descriptions on some items.
• Monster equipment icons showing when they are not an equippable item
• Items that show flat amounts showing percentages while at a shop
• Player tab showing on a Buy Only Shop
• Job Board monster name tooltips showing off-screen
• Selecting an option to hangout and going back preventing the player from hanging out with Fio for that day
• Draggables being moved when you hold more than one mouse button at a time
• Fertilizer not being removed from the inventory
• Cheats items appearing in the random item pool when they shouldn’t
• Gifted items not being removed from the inventory
• Monster icons not showing in the inventory
• Cooked items not being removed from the inventory
• Some lines of dialogue being too long
• The player can now repeatedly enter the abandoned mine on Savannah floor 3
• Time of day lighting was sometimes becoming twice as bright as intended
• Ambient lighting was not being applied immediately on transporting through a doorway
• Petting hearts displaying on startup when they shouldn’t
• Some farm plots not displaying when they should.
• Paletted album scenes being black when they shouldn’t
• Party window showing party member tabs when it shouldn't

This went up on twitter on the 24th, and we're bringing it here now!

As part of the steam summer sale and a combination push with other Tiny Hat Published games, we've gone live with the first part of the Setting Roots Update, which also includes new steam trading cards, emojis, and backgrounds.

The Patreon version of the Beta v0.1.1.0 release will be coming tomorrow, as we have the part 2, incomplete version of the release ready to go for patrons but it takes some time to unhook and rehook it all together, and the files are too large to upload directly to Patreon.

The code for this month is "Barrel o Booze"

Judge Heath here,

At this time, we've had to make a pretty stark choices in terms of budgeting of time, even if monetarily we're in a good place. We're going to be altering the $10.00 tier, it will only provide access to older HD splash art, rather than getting a new one each month, starting this month. We are currently investigating an alternative possibility for our $10.00 tier, and will keep you informed. In the mean time, the $10.00 tier description will be changed to reflect the change in our work flow.

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

Code for this build can be found here

Known Issues

• If you back out of selecting an activity with Fio, it will still mark as you did an activity with Fio that day, and prevent you from doing a different activity.
• Gifting Fio gifts will not give you feedback. (Right now all gifts give a bonus to relations this will be changed in a future update.)

Additions

• Fio is now romanceable!
• All monsters have their overworld animation palettes.

Changes

• Updated dialogue containing misleading about farming.
• Giev’s quest no longer requires completion of the market day quest.

Fixed

• Fixed a typo in Yonten’s dialogue
• Fixed Cloverton music playing during the market day event after leaving Giev's tower
• Fixed Construction window having slots tied together.
• Fixed save slots showing the floors as 0 indexed instead of 1 indexed.
• Fixed Job Board being inaccessible
• Fixed Construction window showing the wrong amounts when you don’t have enough material for construction
• Fixed Construction window not updating visuals when building or upgrade a field.
• Fixed sprite sex not receiving lighting as it should.
• Fixed inventory window items not being aligned with the top.

All of the variant species will be getting their own sprite sex scenes with a friendly NPC version of that variant, here's the Mason.

Team Nimbus is stepping up its game - we're hiring!

We are looking for a games programmer to join our team in a full-time capacity until the December 31st 2020, with potential to continue as an ongoing role based on our income at the time.

This is a contracted, full time, position working remotely and offering a rate of US$3500 per month.

These key responsibilities are required:

• 40 hours of work time per week
• Proficiency of the English language in written & verbal skills
• Must use Discord
• Work autonomously and remotely via internet
• Professionalism and discipline while representing Team Nimbus to the general public
• Maintaining regular lines of communication with an international team of managers, artists and programmers during work hours
• Streaming some of your work hours to the public via Piczel.tv

The most suitable candidate will fulfil most of the following selection criteria:

• High level of proficiency & experience with the Unity3D game engine
• High level of proficiency with C#, familiarity with .NET or MONO libraries
• High level technical understanding of C#-language specific features (including LINQ), writing optimal code for performance & memory management
• High level technical understanding of underlying games technology, such as the graphics rendering pipeline & performance implications of 3d graphics
• Good understanding of maintaining a project with Git version control software or similar (Subversion, Perforce, Mercurial etc.)
• Good proficiency with image editing software, such as Photoshop or GIMP
• Compliance to best programming style standards with regards to notation, readability and maintainability of code

Please submit a formal and professional letter of interest that introduces yourself, describes your professional background and why you'd be interested in applying for this position with Team Nimbus.

Include your resume and a portfolio of work, or work sample in an accessible format.

You can contact us by email at [email protected] or join our public Discord group in order to send a private message to JudgeHeath.

A reminder to all of our Patrons that the passage of various new laws in various states and nations has forced Patreon's hand, and they will be required to institute sales taxes on digital goods sold through Patreon. This means that there might be a slight hike on your pledges depending on where you live and where your payments are made from, so please be careful and double check your bills to see if you need to adjust your pledges!

Now, that said, a good many of you shouldn't be effected, and for everything except the very highest pledges, the hike is going to be a few cents more or less depending. We've gone out of our way to properly tag all of our patronage reward tiers in such a manner as to insure there shouldn't be any mistakes in charges.

The code for any builds released in June (not builds released previous to this post) is " Drill Sergeant"

The second dungeon, and the one that has been the hardest to design in many ways. It started as a single giant tree, with a set of large branches we could line up as procedural dungeon generation pieces. Then Spurple experimented with having each level be focused around multiple trees, finally, each level is only a small piece of a single enormous tree, with the entire dungeon of 9 floors composing about 3 of these monstrously huge trees. The background will be paralaxing trees and clouds in the background.

Full work on these dungeons will begin as soon as we've finished work on the Savannah.

The super sketchy version for usage in making a test level.

This build took a very long time to come out, but there were a lot of systems to reintroduce and work on. The Q&A folks we hired gave it a pass and turned up some stuff that extended our fixes a bit longer than we hoped, but now it's all good to go!

Code for this Build Can be Found Here

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

Additions

• Story quest extended to prepare the player for savannah dungeon floor 4+ in the near future. These future floors haven't been added just yet.
• Reworked dungeon loading mechanism - should no longer cause the game to hang after loading screen
• Farm Expansion and Construction upgrades are now available
• Monster palette swapping added for Cat, Centaur, Holstaur & Wolf (except in combat)
• Breeding monsters now has a chance to inherit the palette from another species.

Changes

• All buildings now have a construction cost
• Enemies now scale 7.5x harder with player level and 2.5 harder with current floor. This is the first in a series of changes we intend to make to enemy scaling code in order to try and find a happy medium between ‘the player is slogged to death’ and ‘the player steam rolls everything’.
• Improved the delay between click move when clicking out of dialogue
• Domesticity Bar on the trait window now changes color depending where it is at.
• Extended the dialogue when entering Katarina Station a bit.
• Changed farm expansion to only use Shards
• Mouse right-click shortcut to remove a monster from the Job Board
• Changed the recipe of Gempas Plemonade

Fixes

• Fixed trait tooltips
• Fixes to various trait descriptions
• Fixed various traits not having descriptions
• Fixed monster name tags missing
• Fixed item stat blocks not displaying correctly on worn and equipable items
• Fixed a grammar error in the intro
• Fixed intro text being cut off
• Fixed a dialogue error in the cooking tutorial
• Fixed text in the Intro spilling out the sides of the box.
• Fixed a bad collider in Kreyton home, where you could get stuck
• Fixed a black line in Yonten X Evan HD
• Fixed scroll wheel in the inventory being too slow
• Fixed dialogue cut off for the scout on floor 3
• Fixed being able to get more than one blasting charge from the Scout
• Fixed Vodan dialogue being cut off
• Fixed dialogue options not clearing properly causing dialogue options to show when they shouldn’t
• Fixed an extra frame existing in the Garst X Evan HD
• Fixed a font UI issue with seeds having too long of a name
• Fixed Lucia’s collision box being rather small
• Fixed a dialogue error when the player enters Giev’s tower
• Fixed un-equipping weapons from the party screen throwing an error

The great Baobab is quiet useful to the union, not as as a source of wood, but instead by taking up and shaping the viable floating-stone islets that it's roots break free from the Savannah Dungeon Island.

Something Hoshi is working on.

Something that Ursa's been hard at work at!

Last Time's Winner was Ev x Cheerleader M.

As Always, you can find the rules and previous winners here!

edit: there were some reported errors in trying to get access to this vote, this should have fixed it.

Its been a hard long grind completing out 60 HD animations and then moving onto this but

Lucid has been hard at work on finishing all the farm sprite sex scene combinations between our 11 monsters and here they are! The Final 212!

With that said there are still npc sprite sex scenes to go but as far as farming goes, we are done!

-Spurple

Next patreon update will be coming on Monday or Tuesday, reimplementing large sections of the Farming Experience, laying the ground work for a new lighting system, and including palette swaps for all the overworld sprites of the first 4 monster species (Cat, Centaur, Wolf, Holstaur). These will not appear during sex sprites or HDs or in combat, but we're working on rolling these out as soon as may be.

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

Fixes

• Fixed monsters having a job, but not being assigned to a job in the job board, causing it to appear as if the monster had been ‘eaten’ by the board.
• Fixed the item description of the Avenger to tell the player what it does.
• Interacting with the staircase in the player’s house was not starting the Fio Introduction story quest under the right circumstances
• An issue with daily autosaves should no longer cause time to stop

The final floor of the dungeon. You'll have to search carefully for clues if you wish to discover the path through the deep cloud banks to where the Poachers have hidden their encampment.

Floor 8 was redesigned during the course of setting up the full dungeon schematic, and thus we do not have a proper sketch of it at the time of posting this.

A lake with broken ship parts and salvage built into it, the players begin the end of act 1 by heading into this place.

This dungeon will primarily focus on the twisting and winding tunnels separating portions of it. Tro's lab is hidden inside of the rocky cliff face of this massive centaur made quarry.

The original design for this floor required tons of backtracking, but now it'll be fairly linear the first time the player goes through it, and then later events utilizing this floor might require more exploration on the parts of the player.

This dungeon floor is very nearly complete in it's design.

We'll be working to add the full savannah over the course of the next few weeks, with just grey box walkable areas similar to Tro's lab for most of them, just to get folks walking through the story, then rapidly increasing the art labor on them over the month while we polish and refine the mechanical aspects. By early summer it should all be ready to go! With this, we hope you guys have a solid idea of our plans for the coming two months!

The code for all builds in this upcoming month is "Tilling Ogre "

Finally getting those working! Maybe not in the next version but one of the ones following that!

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

Changes

• End of day cycle changed from 03:00 to 00:00 each day
  • As a result, saves between those times will incur an immediate day cycle on load

Fixes

• Fixed numerous time-based issues never updating, such as crop growth, monster pregnancy and egg incubation
• Fixed numerous issues with save data, such as repeating the Stonehead riddle
• Fixed Merchants incorrectly restocking their stocks
• Fixed Job Board allowing you to put more than one monster on it
• Fixed inability to buy monsters from merchants that sell them
• Fixed daily quests preventing story quests from activating for Fio Cat Fight intro sequence
• Fixed save UI not showing all other saves when encountering corrupted data
• Better save compatibility for conversion from 0.1.0.0 to current

This is how we intend to implement fast travel into the game eventually, adding, after every major boss (so on the 4th and 7th and 9th floors), a place where you can travel too and from Katarina Station from inside of the dungeon

Cats are a relatively common line of monsters in the Central Kingdom, but new tribes are often found on the exceedingly common Savannah Dungeon Island type. Savannahs are common across the skies due to their aridness and the hardy wind blown seeds that come to them. All of them have some variant of the Cat Species of monster. Cat Essence is one of the monster essences used to produce Joyous Cells. Joyous Cells are used in magitek and medicine that improves mental health, assists in sleeping, and in more specialized cases, helps with the regrowth of lighter tissues such as hair, skin, feathers, and scales.

It's said that Centaurs were the first to invent the process of converting the juice of the Boozant into tasty intoxicants. There is a great deal of debate on this point among scholars, but all agree that Centaurs at the very least invented the process on their own, separate from all other influences.

Last time's winners were Argontel x Primal Sting

As always, the rules and past winners can be found here!

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

Additions

• The Incubator now tells you how much time is left on egg incubation.
• Main Menu & Credits interaction UI improvements

Changes

• Stonehead now only gives you both items if you get all the questions correct, if you get half of them correct you get only the door key, this is repeatable until you get all questions correct.
• Yonten's weapon switch no longer ends his turn.
• Increased font sizes on Player Inventory & Jobs Board for readability

Fixes

• Fixed followers not appearing at Katarina Station
• Fixed some items in the dungeons not conforming to time of day.
• Fixed an issue where jumps in dungeons were tied to frame rate, causing the player to go to places they shouldn’t after the jump.

A small hiccup in the building process didn't properly put out the full list of changes listed previously. This version should contain the full patch list from before. We've changed out the attachments on that post, as well as making new ones here.

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Saves are compatible (with one IMPORTANT exception)

Saves are compatible ONLY if they are coming directly from before 0.1.0.0a un-updated build. Saves transfered over from 0.1.0.0a might have some significant issues.

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

Note: Any monster/companion that is locked on the steam build will be un-finished and have missing animations; these are not bugs in the patreon build, but we let you play with the full roster. As such, they will have default animations. For example, when walking around, they'll look like Jubelle.

Last time's winners were a Sky Pirate Captain with a Marine Captain! Talk about forbidden love!

As always, the rules and past winners can be found here!

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

Note: Any monster/companion that is locked on the steam build will be un-finished and have missing animations; these are not bugs in the patreon build, but we let you play with the full roster. As such, they will have default animations. For example, when walking around, they'll look like Jubelle.

Additions

• Added Scouts around the boss doors to direct the player on what to do.
• Birma is now a shopkeeper who sells varying types of bread.
• Added an option to the options to disable mouse movement.
• Added animations through the dungeons
• Added Partial Controller Support (X to interact, B to sprint , A to left click, left stick to move, Right Stick to move cursor(Controls are written as an Xbox Controller, but all Joypads should work))

Changes

• Skip Introduction restored - this will take the player to the next day before Fio’s introduction scene
• Tutorial quests are streamlined and can be completed back-to-back within the same day
• Quests and events no longer need to happen on specific days as time will continue
• The player is no longer required to sleep at 3am, and can sleep any time to fully recover. Daily quest/farm/monster events will update at 3am.
• Updated fonts to be more consistent throughout the game.
• Nerfed turn rate gain from Swiftness by 70%, math wise instead of 100 Swiftness being 10x stronger than 10 swiftness, it is now 3x stronger
• A trip to Katarina Station only takes 1 hour both ways
• Reduced time to cook from 4 minutes to 2 minutes per ingredient
• Reduced time to breed with monsters from 2 hours to 1 hour
• You no longer take damage from the Stonehead on Savannah 2
• Rebalanced the difficulty of some of the combat encounters.
• Boss door will no longer respawn when a dungeon is reset
• Improved the rendering of the text for dialogue
• Updated the appearance of the tooltips
• Changed food value to be based on the value of the ingredients rather than an arbitrary value
• Player now flashes green while in acid.
• Party followers now show up at Katarina Station
• When the sprint key is assigned to either left or right shift, the other shift works for it.
• Enemy now scale higher with the current floor and player level more than before
• Enemies have a slightly randomized swiftness
• Always run is now saved to options rather than the game save.
• Removed some old dated sprites
• Improved many colliders on the market day event
• Locked scenes in the album have a lock symbol on them now
• Players will receive a quest informing them when there is no further quest content
• Temporarily disabled Album palette changer to prevent visual issues

Fixes

• Fixed small monsters not appearing on the first floor instead of the second floor of the barn like they should.
• Fixed minor grammar and writing issues
• Fixed some events not working in the dungeons
• Fix many layering issues in the dungeons
• Fixed Yonten’s walk cycle being the wrong direction
• Fixed an issue with the Harpy X Evan climax looping
• Fixed some time that should be stackable not being stackable
• Fixed some colliders being too large
• Fixed the player’s outline not appearing
• Fixed layering issues on Kreytron’s farm
• Fixed stat area on the inventory window is some places it shouldn’t
• Fixed follower sprinting when they are not following the player.
• Fixed some misc collisions
• Fixed Female Cyclops X Eve not unlocking
• Fixed positioning on the egg stand for the market day, so the play can still access Yonten’s shop
• Improvements to NPC pathing when not following player
• Cloverton generic NPCs are talkeable after the first day
• Farm Jobs board is useable on all days
• Farming tutorial initialises farming plots so that quest is always completeable
• Male name suffix “ID” changed to lowercase

Sorry this came a little late guys! The scheduling got misplaced

Their basic designs are all done, but now begins the long work of making their animations and implementing them into the game world!

The large Demon, known as the Authority, using one of his abilities.

A special kind of demon you can run into in the volcano dungeon.

So now, the new system is allowing us to work through the entire day, not just having Ev pass out at 3:00am every night. Secondly, we're decoupling the quest system from specific days and moving it to specific events. When the egg you get from Montalvo is ready to hatch, Jubelle will catch up with you the next time you enter the farm and then direct you through the process of hatching it!

Last time's winner was Montalvo x Yuuga!

As always, the rules and previous winners can be found here.

The Code for this month is "Weak Willed"

Winner of the last Ev x F vote was Agatha!

As always, you can find the rules and past winners here!

Hey all, Judge Heath here,

It is with a heavy heart that after over 2 years of working with Diesel, that she has decided to leave the team. I can say without a single doubt that Diesel has been one of the hardest working, and most dedicated members of our team since she first joined. She has been a strong leader for our animation team, and one of the greatest voices of reason in both design and business decisions as we have gone forward, but that she has felt it is time for her to go her own way. With that in mind, she has left a message for you guys:

“Howdy y’all, Diesel speaking. As many of you are aware, I’ve been the lead animator on this project since march of 2017, almost exactly 3 years. Seeing Cloud Meadow finally hit its Early Access release has been fantastic, and the kind words Ive seen from players about the team’s animations have truly meant a lot to me. But unfortunately, I need to throw in the towel and head for greener pastures so to speak.

While this project has brought me a lot of joy over these 3 years, anyone who interacts with me regularly knows that it has also been a major source of stress and anxiety in my life. And while I had wished to stick it out and reach the finish line with the rest of the team, I simply had to admit that it was no longer tenable, as the stress was beginning to effect my health. So with a heavy heart, I am resigning from the position of Lead Animator.

I am leaving behind two extremely talented animators however. Both Lucidlemonlove and Carbonoid are stepping up to the plate to continue where I left off, and my number one priority before I leave has been preparing them as much as I can. I’m confident in their skill and work ethic, and I hope you too will feel confident in them. They’re good eggs.

As for myself, I will be returning to my own patreon and freelance commission work. I’ll be continuing to animate and work with NSFW monster gals and guys, so if that appeals to you (and ngl, something tells me it just might? Thinking emoji) I’d greatly appreciate if y’all gave my campaign a look, and maybe toss a coin to your local pornsmith.

https://www.patreon.com/Dieselbrain

I wish Team Nimbus the best of luck on completing Cloud Meadow, and thank you to all our fans who have supported us, both monetarily and by word of mouth. It’s been real.

-DieselBrain”

DieselBrain will be leaving us on the 31st, and we highly encourage you to go support her in her endeavors through her Patreon.

LucidLemonLove will be taking over as Animation lead for her, and Carbonoid will be moving up to a full time position with us. In addition we are hiring currently talking with various folks about hiring an additional person as a part timer to help fill in the gaps.

Last time's winner was Thrund!

As always, you can find the previous winners, and the rules here!

We often bounce ideas around in the developer chat that never get far, but are something fun that gets added to our stretch goals list. This is one of them. No firm promises to implement, but if it turns out that we got the extra time or it's simple enough to implement, this one might get implemented.

And if not added in our initial release, there's always expansions! Our plan for expansions is to mimic the Paradox model when it comes to them, that is to say, they come bundled with 'FreeLC' in addition to the paid for expansion content. Something like this would likely be added for free to the base game at the same time the expansion was released.

Bit of a mix up in the naming conventions on the file itself. We're tracking the EA builds and the Patreon builds differently, so some wires got crossed, for the moment this one is named the same as the steam EA build but future builds should sort this out!

With any luck, this should also be the last save break, so fingers crossed on that!

Save Break

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Fixes

• Fixed getting Korona having a blank icon
• Fixed dungeon save system not working in lot of cases
• Fixed party followers not appearing in the abandoned mine
• Fixed the day 5 wake up dialogue appearing on day 2
• Fixed the jump pad behind the crystal rock being able to trigger before using the rock
• Fixed lack of notification for many gathering places
• Fixed some colliders on the farm
• Fixed starting monsters having insane stats
• Fixed some dungeon colliders
• Fixed followers not going through tunnels with the player on Savannah 3
• Fixed pushing Brontide around
• Fixed many visual bugs
• Fixed many written bugs

There'll be some adjustments to Cloverton in the future, but we thought we should share this piece that shows where everyone in the town lives.

We're officially up on steam now!

Early Access release and your Patreon Pledge

People who supported Cloud Meadow at any point of time will receive an non-steam version of the game.

What does it mean to you?

For Steam EA Users, it means you will receive more stable builds, updated regularly, without having playtest builds put out. Slower, but more stable updates, for a one time payment. This version will also use steam systems such as Cloud Saves, Achievements, and Trading Cards.

The downside for you is that you'll not be getting as regular builds, nor get to play test all the new features before they're finalized.

For Patrons, it means that you'll get more regular builds, with more content in terms of story and mechanics.

The downside for Patrons is that you won't have achievements or trading cards, and will have to settle for local saves.

Technically, you can pledge as little as 2 USD on CM Patreon before Early Access launches and get the non-steam version of Cloud Meadow.

At the time when Cloud Meadow Goes Gold, all Patrons who are registered as having paid money into the project will receive a free, non steam, version of the completed game.

Last time's vote came up with Agatha x Cheerleader F

As always, you can find the previous winners, and the rules here!

Homing in on that March 3rd Release. All of your feedback has been so helpful guys. Keep it up!

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Additions

• The top bar, and party window now shows if a party member leveled up
• Updated the graphics of Kreyton farm

Fixes

• Fixed z-sorting issues at Savannah 3
• Fixed the cat cave having a sky box
• Combat sprites should no longer appear corrupted
• Wolf's abilities that applied Sunder will no longer be rounded down to 0
• Prevented repeated conversations with Miner that added a quests to investigate the mine each time
• Restored weather fx to Cloverton

The code for the rest of this month is "Grinding Away"

We have dropped linux builds for the time being due to the low number of linux users and the difficulty we have in properly testing linux builds.

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Note: There is currently a bug where combat animations are glitched out and missing, we are actively investigating this issue.

Additions

• Homunculus Cat/Slasher boss has an improved set of abilities and is significantly harder
• Units that are ineligible to be added to the player's party will now have an indication why they are unavailable (previously they were just hidden)

Changes

• Improved the look for the feeding window for monsters
• Wolf Rip & Tear will no longer jump an additional time if the target is dead
• Day time will still pass during combat, but slower and limited to 30 minutes. The player should no longer be yanked back to bed during combat.

Fixes

• Fixed party followers not facing the direction of the jump, while jumping
• Fixed a z-sorting issue on Katarina Station
• Combat UIs should no longer overlap the inventory, hiding the Use button
• Prevented player sleeping in their bed before completing a tutorial day
• Prevented opening menu during sleep cycle
• Corrected issue with tooltips in player's wardrobe skill selection UI
• Fixed invisible/missing/incorrect combat units that would cause combat to halt
• Fio’s Spade Shield should no longer lock combat under certain circumstances
• Ev’s Rake Throw should work on any ally now
• Homunculus Cat/Slasher’s passive below 50% HP should no longer lock the fight
• Homunculus Cat passive should no longer spawn units even while dead
• Resolved issue where player was awarded additional items on exiting combat
• Resolved issue where combat would halt on Jaero's turn due to having no abilities
• Resolved issues with combat Forfeit button
• Better resolution scaling for farming tutorial prompts
• More robust farming tutorial will dialogue sequence
• Fixed Character in some dialogues being flipped the wrong way
• Fixed some colliders in Jaero’s shop
• Fixed Brontide’s collider in cloverton being his head rather than his feet
• Fixed some NPCs in cloverton being mispositioned.
• Fixed Nameplates being offset
• Fixed/Improved the farm intro sequence
• Fixed being able to move during the farm intro sequence
• Fixed bed animation being highlighted and the interaction bubbles showing while sleeping
• Fixed bad z-sorting on the farm
• Fixed bad z-sorting at Katarina Station
• Fixed some z-sorting on Savannah 1
• Fixed some z-sorting on Savannah 2
• Fixed some dialogue overflowing
• Fixed party followers spawning offscreen in the dungeon
• Fixed chests not you how much money you got
• Fixed one of the stones on Dungeon one not working correctly
• Fixed feeding window having weird numbers for the stats if the item
• Fixed the Pylon on Savannah 1, not having it’s interaction disabled after the first use.
• Fixed Brontide dialogue doubling
• Fixed an issue where dungeon followers had their colliders in the wrong place
• Fixed companions stat up increasing by large amounts if equipped with an item or fed.
• Fixed party followers shaking when always run is on, and you press shift
• Fixed artifacting in a variety of character animations
• Fixed Jubelle missing on the tutorial days
• Fixed Jubelle not walking away after the tutorial work was finished
• Fixed all the minor NPCs colliders being insanely small
• Fixed a z-sorting issue with a tree stump
• Fixed an issue where some items in dialogue wouldn’t display
• Fixed the top bar UI being visible during the end of the 3rd day dialogue
• Fixed bugs around Brontide following the player in the Union Outpost
• Fixed monsters not rendering as dungeon followers
• Fixed a jump pad not working correctly on Savannah 1
• Fixed seed window and fertilizer window not scaling well at higher res

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Added

• Made it so the when in a static area zooming in will lock to the player
• Added dialogue for when Jubelle is with you when you are talking to Jaero
• Added your party following you in the dungeon

Changes

• You can no longer sell a monster who is working.
• Edeline now sells stone, wood, and metal
• Rekk now sells a random list of items
• Updated Ev’s jump animation

Fixes

• Fixed dungeons not loading
• Fixed dragging monsters and companions not working in various UIs
• Fixed offset pregnancy timers
• Fixed layering issues on the farm
• Fixed crops starting with 0 health when planted
• Fixed crops coming back as alive or dead
• Fixed a bug where harvest crop could be dead on day 2
• Fixed the cat rock missing on day 5
• Fixed not getting combat rewards for combat
• Fixed jumps misbehaving
• Fixed Crops not saving their health
• Fixed a small level scroll appearing with a big one when it shouldn’t

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Note: Giev’s tower quest and skipping the tutorial week have been disabled due to them not being in EA.

Note 2: We are doing mass bug fixing, so if you want to help us, keep testing and reporting bugs as we prepare for EA launch.

Added

• Munchkin Cat & Zamboni units
• Stability and visual improvements to all tutorials
• Special win condition for Munchkin Cat
• Added additional dialogue to the Minerva dialogue when going to the dungeon. The player gets some healing items out of it.
• Added a bit of dialogue to Bobruysk to tell the player that they are meant to report back to Sieger once the quest is done not Bobruysk
• Added a new Ascend and Descend UI to the dungeons

Changes

• Stalker, Den Mother & Cat units improved animation and new abilities
• Changed how the list of monsters are displayed for if they are able to be bred, combat, work, etc…
• Rebalanced Savannah 1 combat encounters and changed enemy composition
• Rebalanced Savannah 2 combat encounters and changed enemy composition
• Rebalanced Savannah 3 combat encounters and changed enemy composition
• Reduced the amount of combat encounters in Savannah 3 from 7 to 6
• Reduced the amount of enemies per encounter slightly.
• Inventory now properly shows you the item’s details on stats
• Slightly improved all the colliders on the market day
• Game now prompts on the introscript and asks the player if they want to enable or disable certain pairing scenes.
• Re-added the non-base 4 monsters to the shops.
• Since farm expansion is disabled, you can incubate dragons and chimeras via the normal incubator.

Fixes

• Combat Reward UI should now show loot items
• Fixed stonehead questions not telling you if you were right or wrong
• Fixed one of the questions the stonehead asks not appearing
• Fixed the placeholder text for party size.
• Fixed gathering stone, wood, and metal not showing what the player got
• Fixed some layering issues in the dungeons
• Fixed a minor error throw on the intro.
• Fixed food that was obtained from shops and dialogue not having the correct stats.
• Fixed some typos in item descriptions
• Fixed food having way higher stats than intended.
• Fixed many items missing an item description
• Fixed being damaged by the stonehead with GodMode on
• Fixed being damaged by the acid pools with GodMode on
• Fixed an invisible wall on the market day
• Fixed party followers not running if always run is not enabled
• Fixed the waterfall cave not having any colliders
• Fixed collider overlap by moving interactables farther from one another at Savannah 1
• Fixed large resource nodes not turning into depleted versions
• Fixed a metal node in Savannah 3 not working
• Fixed a jump pad not working in Savannah 3
• Fixed flowers in Savannah 3 having collision when they shouldn’t have had it.
• Fixed not being able to blast through the door on Savannah 3

The winner last time was Rook x Ramses!

As always, you can find the rules and previous winners here!

Not a huge number of fixes, but basically things that were reported before the last build but couldn't quite get too. Next hotfix will come monday, and we'll be trying for nightly releases to rapidly itterate from then on until the steam launch.

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Fixes

• Fixed a small bug when talking to the Captain at the port.
• Fixed Jubelle and Captain dialogue trying to run at the same.
• Fixed spelling mistakes in some item descriptions.
• Fixed some scripting errors in various dialogues
• Fixed some dialogue getting cut off but the bounds of the dialogue window
• Fixed some NPC idles having animation glitches
• Fixed nameplate not being where they should on the first dialogue
• Fixed some crops not being stackable in the inventory
• Fixed some visual bugs around Cloverton
• Fixed the hot house having leaves when it shouldn’t
• Fixed monsters with the Virile trait not being able to get pregnant
• Fixed various shops on Market Day not showing their shop.
• Fixed not having a Crystals to unlock Giev’s tower door when skipping Intro

We're aware they're broken because of our new webpage. We're working on fixing that today.

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Note 1:

Act 1 Part 2 story content and dungeons will be added back into the patreon builds after EA.

Note 2:

This build is very buggy, but you should be able to get through the dungeons, they are not polished, but the majority of the functionality is there. Animations and some minor events are missing. We had to rip out the entire old dungeon system and replace it, which means making new tools, new program classes, and a whole bunch of other shenanigans. Than you all for helping us track down and deal with these bugs. We truly could not make this game as good as it is, and will be, without all of you!

Additions

• Added new pre-set dungeons. First 3 levels of the Savannah are implemented
• Jaero gets a full combat rework
• Added support for all resolutions and aspect ratios

Changes

• Updated the intro screen
• Crop plots are upgraded one time, automatically when you complete act 1 part 1.

Removed

• Removed Random Dungeons

Fixes:

• Fixed some abilities that manipulated unit stats during a fight (eg: Centaur)
• Improved animation fx for some abilities that had multiple hits
• Corrected font on some combat-related tooltips
• Fixed multiple level scroll appearing when entering an area.
• Fixed incorrect animations being played for hoeing/digging
• Fixed a bug where dungeons wouldn’t save when leaving them
• Fixed dungeons save system not locking to the save slot.

The winner last time was Captain x Cheerleader F!

As always, you can find the rules and previous winners here!

THis one should function correctly and has a few more fixes thrown into it as well.

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Additions

• Added Brontide combat overhaul
• Added Eve X Female Cyclops
• Two new music tracks for random battles
• Added an update generic crop graphics

Changes

• Updated and corrected many grammar and spelling errors in dialogue
• Game no longer runs in the background

Fixes

• Fixed a bunch of exceptions being thrown throughout the game.
• Fixed some music issues
• Fixed alt-tabbing messing up timings
• Fixed being able to walk around while sleeping if you started the sleep from outside the farm.
• Fixed gamebreaking issue related to music management
• Improved Brontide combat UI
• Brontide should now be able to block multi-hit abilities with consecutive timing

We're aware of the issues, and are currently working on fixing them, Kodex's computer more or less had a melt down, and we've been working with him to save everything for the past day or so. We suspect that the corruption that screwed over the build most likely was brought on by whatever went wrong that caused his entire OS to start to fall apart, and have since backed up everything, transferred it out. He's now gotten his machine back up and running, and hopefully will have a fixed up build tomorrow. We're sorry about the radio silence about this up until now, but we were more concerned with getting Kodex back up and running and hadn't realized just how bad the problem was until earlier today.

Thank you for your patience, we've got this under control now.

We'll be entirely replacing the Beta v0.0.3.17b build, fixed up from this issue. We are deleting the current one up after we make this post.

An idea we're bouncing around to save on time, rather than making a station for each dungeon, have a mobile station.

We've not finalized on this idea, and still might end up doing multiple stations instead, but it would cut out some considerable design time both of NPCs and backgrounds.

The winner last time was the lovely and sassy sorceress Orchid!

As always, you can find the rules and previous vote results here!

We've gotten the early access page going now and you can now wishlist and follow us on steam! You'll need to log in to access the page!

It'll be another month before it's available for purchase, but the more people follow and wishlist it now, the better it'll do, and the money we make will be poured right back into development of the game, hopefully enabling us to hire more folks for the final push as we shoot for release later this year or early next year!

Here's the proper link just in case the above link doesn't work!

The code for all builds this upcoming month is "Haybale Lifts"

Given how hard it is to see some of the scenes with the busy, cluttered background, or even on just pure black, we decided to expand things a bit more to give some contrast!

We're going to start transitioning over the public build to the itch.io, where we'll be hosting our public demo build once we stop updating the public builds entirely! All part of the media ramp-up for the steam build release as we finally get from laying down bones to putting meat on said bones!

All coming together!

Last time's winner was Ev x Gladstone!

As always, you can find the rules and previous winners here!

Keeping you guys up to date on progress, now we just sit and wait to see what happens. We're not done with the steam EA build, but content wise it's enough to submit it for review. The June 1st release date is to give us a ton of wiggle room depending on how long the review process lasts, we expect to launch it in March at the latest, and only that late because of the review process likely taking up so much time.

One of our cross promotion partners, Venus Noir (the talented devs behind Jessika of Jessika's Curse) and fellow developer under the steam publisher Tiny Hat Studios is having a give away contest for their game as it approaches their steam launch for Seeds of Chaos! Go take a look!

As an announcement, this will likely be one of the last builds that we'll be permitting to go public, if not the actual last one.

There are two primary reasons behind this: First is a concern with steam's already known dislike for patreon, and their policies involving selling on multiple platforms and fair price enforcement (however erratic) combined with the scrutiny that they are placing on adult titles on their storefront. The second reason is that we are rapidly approaching a vertical slice that will demonstrate the quality of the game for anyone who is interested in it, as we approach finalization of features and systems.

That said, there will still probably be hotfixes for this, and we will be creating a demo build following the Early Access version that will be available exclusively through our Patreon.

There will be no other changes to the releases here on Patreon, we will still release patron builds as and when we feel they are ready for release to you, our patrons, and while it's looking like using steam keys for distribution to past patrons is also a grey area, we're working with Tiny Hat Studios on a method of insuring that a complete, final build of the game, separated from the steam infrastructure, will be available to all of our patrons, current, past, and future, who have made Cloud Meadow Possible.

This announcement will be posted to every build we are planning to release to the public until we have a confirmed release date for Steam Early Access

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Fixes

• Fixed some animations not loading correctly
• Fixed some UI window not opening
• Fixed the Market Day not appearing
• Fixed monsters not loading in the barn
• Fixed a bunch of exceptions being thrown throughout the game.

As an announcement, this will likely be one of the last builds that we'll be permitting to go public, if not the actual last one.

There are two primary reasons behind this: First is a concern with steam's already known dislike for patreon, and their policies involving selling on multiple platforms and fair price enforcement (however erratic) combined with the scrutiny that they are placing on adult titles on their storefront. The second reason is that we are rapidly approaching a vertical slice that will demonstrate the quality of the game for anyone who is interested in it, as we approach finalization of features and systems.

That said, there will still probably be hotfixes for this, and we will be creating a demo build following the Early Access version that will be available exclusively through our Patreon.

There will be no other changes to the releases here on Patreon, we will still release patron builds as and when we feel they are ready for release to you, our patrons, and while it's looking like using steam keys for distribution to past patrons is also a grey area, we're working with Tiny Hat Studios on a method of insuring that a complete, final build of the game, separated from the steam infrastructure, will be available to all of our patrons, current, past, and future, who have made Cloud Meadow Possible.

This announcement will be posted to every build we are planning to release to the public until we have a confirmed release date for Steam Early Access.

Save Break

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Additions

• Added Female Wolf to combat
• Added Female Centaur to combat
• Added Male Cat to combat
• Added Male Holstaur to combat
• Added Kreyton combat overhaul

Changes

• Using consumable items in combat will now incur an end of turn
• Improved Fio's combat UI
• Fio's relevant ability cooldowns will reset when rolling a jackpot (1 ability reset) or rigged roll (all abilities reset)

Fixes

• Fixed bugs that prevented progress on the tutorial week story
• Fixed tutorial quests playing again each season
• Fixed some items missing an icon.
• Fixed some items not having a description
• Fixed some typos
• Fixed some animations not playing correctly
• Fixed talking to the captain before talking to Jubelle causing a softlock
• Fixed items in some shops showing a quantity of 1 instead of the correct amount.

Been trying to find ways that help make it clearer when you're properly bracing or countering as Brontide when he's under attack.

The winner of the NPC FxF vote was Greater Fairy x Nomad!

As always, the rules and past winners can be found here!

We're up and active on Steam Works, and have a publishing deal signed with Tiny Hat Studios for their assistance in getting us up on steam and in moderating the various community formats on there. We'll keep you guys up to date as things progress.

Winner of the NPC MxM vote was Tristan x Scholar (Male)

As always, the rules and previous winners can be found here!

Judge Heath here,

So the Steam Early Access version is getting pushed back a bit, not because we're that far behind on our schedule (We are a bit, but we still should have the final Early Access version ready to go for Steam before the end of the month), but because Steam has yet to get back to us about our developer access. Given the length of time that is taking, it is quite likely that they're going to take just as long, if not longer, in reviewing the version of the game we're planning on submitting. After that there's a mandatory 2 week 'coming soon' period as well, so the chances of us getting out during January are slim to none.

We'll be keeping you guys up to date on the situation and let you know when Steam gives us developer access and as we progress along the bureaucracy of getting published to early access!

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Fixes

• Fixed a bug with dialogue not reading if statements correctly
• Fixed construction window having visual issues on some resolutions
• Fixed some z-sorting with the broken down farm
• Fixed one of Ev’s animations not having it pivot set correctly
• Fixed incubator window not closing when adding the egg during the dialogue with Jubelle
• Fixed monster emoticons being super offset.
• Fixed the the lighting at 7am being too dark
• Fixed the calendar showing incorrect information
• Fixed farm expansions not loading sometimes
• Fixed exiting the wizard tower spawning the player too close to the door.
• Fixed not being able to interact with the egg seller
• Fixed not being able to interact with Valpongis
• Adjusted the placement of stands so they block the player less.
• Fixes issues in Vodan’s dialogue
• Fixed issues in Rekk’s dialogue
• Fixed Kreyton, Jaero, and Camellia’s dialogue having a bug with them.
• Fixed Fio not unlocking HDs in the correct spot.
• Fixed Jubelle following the player around at the market day
• Fixed issues when skipping the tutorial week.
• Fixed it raining on the farming day and preventing the player from completing the farming quests.

Last time the vote got screwed up and we didn't collect any actual responses. We apologize for this, and are running this vote a new.

As always, you can find the rules and past winners here!

Judge Heath here,

Ursa Senior has made a wonderful visualization of how our git repository has expanded, changed, and the entire project has morphed and transformed over time. Personally I love how you can literally watch as new systems are added, then parred down and optimized over the lifetime of this project, and I hope this can give you guys an idea of just how the project has evolved over time.

I also love that explosion from Wilson Wobbletop right at the beginning, around July 30th/31st because I was up with him during that insanity helping push out our very first build during an anime convention.

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Additions

• Added Fio X Evan HD scene
• Added a small level scroll towards the bottom of the screen when you arrive at an area.
• Added recruitment dialogue on day 5 for Jaero, Camellia, and Kreyton

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the texture swap shader
• Fixed Evan X Female Centaur not setting itself to use the palette shader
• Fixed a quest trying to complete the wrong quest
• Potentially fixed not being able to expand the farm.

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Additions

• Added the Market Day, comes every weekend, and removed rotating weekly merchants and contests for now
• Reworked the lighting engine
• Added quests telling you that the tutorial day is done and you can rest.
• Added an always run toggle to the options menu. When in this mode Shift will bring you down to walk speed.

Changes

• Updated the player’s sprite model
• Updated animation timing on walk cycles
• Slight visual changes to the dialogue window

Fixes

• Minor dialogue window fixes
• Minor weather fx fixes
• Fixed drakeheart not being stackable
• Fixed a z-sorting issue with the rundown farm.
• Fixed Giev not expanding the farm
• Fixed being able to open the options menu and interact with NPCs during a level scroll.
• Fixed not getting quests after dialogue in some cases.

We've gotten a full pixel lighting system enabled, but not fully fleshed out yet, but the bones are all in place now!

Bear (Crossover Character, Yamatogawa) x Tora was the winner last time!

As always, you can find the rules and past winners here!

The code for all builds released in January will be "Washboard Abs"

Carbo working on cleaning up dongs!

Last time's winner was Tora!

As always the rules and previous winners can be found here!

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Changes

• Fio's jackpot should now reset her cooldowns for that ability
• Improved party followers and their speed and distancing to better match the player.
• Expanded the dialogue with montalvo to explain traits.

Fixes

• Resolved issue where units entering combat with a Dungeon buff would cause an instant defeat
• Some enemy units were missing a sleeping animation, making them difficult to target
• Goldra's Regrouping should appear in the correct position relative to the target
• Camellia's missing abilities were restored
• Fixed quests not adding and removing correctly.
• Fixed some dialogue errors
• Fixed the code not unlocking the album when using it from the album
• Potentially fixed giev not expanding your farm.

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Fixes

• Fixed some spelling and grammar issues in dialogue
• Fixed the foreman following the player around after the dialogue
• Fixed Katarina Station NPCs using the old interaction system.
• Fixed the ripper fight not working
• Fixed the KS captian not returning you to Cloverton
• Fixed quests not adding/completing from UI properly.
• Fixed not being able to close the sex scene in the album via Q or ESC
• Fixed white box in the inventory UI
• Fixed Jubelle not being by the door when she should be.
• Fixed Kreyton animating in the wrong direction
• Fixed issues with cat event dialogue and having it lock the game up.

WARNING: This is likely to be a super buggy build. Please take that into consideration and help track down the bugs.

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Additions

• Added a new cheat to get all of harvest and groceries, found in the options window.
• Added the tutorial week story into the game.

Changes

• Goldra NPC combat reworked: attack abilities will trigger Goldra's speed demon test, gaining successive stacks to build combat bonuses.
• Dragon attacks apply a minor burn debuff instead of a flat damage bonus
• Minor combat bars & buff tooltip improvements
• Improved alignment of some HD scenes in the album
• Loading screen graphical improvements
• Dialogue window graphical improvements
• Better 1080p resolution support (some UI will permanently appear smaller than usual)
• Better support for ultrawide monitors
• Overworld UI frame improvements - new weather indicator & quick save (pull the chain!)
• New generic combat sound fx, in place until full combat sfx integration
• Combat Health Bar & Buff icon animation improvements

Fixes

• Fixed dirt turning into a dead crop
• Fixed typos, grammar, and dialogue flow in various dialogues
• Fixed Dire & Argontel using old sprites
• Fixed some of the objects showing the interact flag
• Fixed not being able to turn off certain types of scenes
• Ev's Genodriver should no longer be accessible before being unlocked via exploit
• Combat floating digits should scale properly to the current resolution
• Leaving combat during fast-forward should restore game speed to normal
• Fixed female cat and Camellia HDs not setting the gender correctly
• Combat unit UI overlapping, visibility & tooltip issues resolved
• Max HP Up buff will now expire only after the buff wears off, instead of immediately when the extra health is lost
• Yonten's Axe/Hammer throw was showing the wrong weapon sprites
• Combat debuffs that can naturally fail (not dodged/resisted) will show a "Fizzle" message instead of "Resist" or no indication

You can walk in the acid, we just don't recommend it!

the new sprites are always made on two separate layers to allow for individualization through the new pallet swapper.

The winner last time was Tab!

As always, find the rules and the previous winners here!

No idea if we're going to use this but it was too hilarious not to share

Not sure if the pubic hair could be considered 'nsfw' so we're going to play it safe.

The code for this month is "Mantis Musician"

Last time's winners were Clodagh x Frituriet

As always, the rules and previous winners can be found here.

If it wasn't obvious before, the stripperiffic Garst will be the beef cake character to go with our generous helping of cheese cake you can get from Camellia.

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Additions

• Added an evil theme that appears in various plays

Changes

• NPCs have the highlight when you can interact with them.

Fixes

• Fixed the game starting at midnight
• Fixed being able to open a UI right before cloverton level scroll and having it up the entire time.
• Fixed some of the NPCs showing the interact flag
• Fixed issues in Pondopulous’s dialogue
• Fixed issues in Kellam’s dialogue
• Fixed issues in Other dialogues

Last Time's winner was Tora x Leo

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Fixes

• Fixed the code not working in some cases.
• Fixed dialogue portraits not rendering when they should.
• Fixed the union marine showing up as UnionSoldie
• Fixed not being able to talk to the merchant in the monarch inn.
• Fixed some issues with quests not triggering/completing correctly

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NOTE: this is not the full tutorial week, but there is a bit of a tease of story with the cat event right now.

Additions

• Added Fio X Eve HD
• Added Cloverton Night music
• Added Farm Night music
• Added sleep jingles
• Added a new interaction bubble for all dialogue
• Added introductions to a variety of minor NPCs on Day 1
• Fully Implemented farming traits.

Fixes

• Fixed some old interactions message still existing
• Fixed some missing sprites from the new Monarch Inn
• Fixed the mark of creativity and the Drakeheart not having an icon.
• Fixed an inconsistency with traits referring to both grade and rank on common traits.
• Fixed a bug where monsters would fertilize more crops than they should.
• Fixed the outline of the player not matching the player in some cases.
• Fixed Camellia’s overworld sprite being invisible.
• Fixed upgrading fields thinking you are also building a building.
• Fixed monsters not returning to the list of monsters if you try to breed only 1 monster.
• Fixed passing out on the farm not placing the player in the right spot.
• Fixed cat event not triggering correctly

Selections will be limited to the same pasture/barn+Ev, combined with filters to let you pick based on species and such, as well as gender.

Little marks that will help you determine what traits came from which ancestors.

We hope this will make reading traits easier for the player. The top most trait slot, the second non-ability slot, will only open with the correct item equipped to both parents.

Last time's winners were Wyrm x Edeline!

As always, rules and past winners can be found here.

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We're pushing out a smaller hotfix to get time spared away to begin work on the tutorial week overhaul.

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Additions

• Added new Monarch Inn Visuals

Changes

• Updated the visuals of a few NPCs
• Replaced placeholder combat animations for Fio & Yonten
• Introduced timing variation on monster's combat idle animations
• Combat overkill/ring out FX improved

Fixes

• Fixed the album changing the player’s gender.
• Fixed some old interactions message still existing
• Fixed Giev’s soundtrack not playing sometimes
• Fixed display of long names for the nameplate over the monster’s head.
• Fixed HD’s not rendering correctly
• Fixed some fluids from the eve x crab scene persisting on other watched scenes
• Fixed Dragon's basic attack hitting all targets instead of one
• Fixed Dragon's passive applying 1500% crit
• Under certain circumstances combat damage/healing numbers wouldn't display correctly
• Camellia's portrait for combat selection restored

The completed Savannah dungeon Floor 1. By the time we launch for the early access release, we'll have 3 of these done, and will continue until we have 15 floors in total for each of the five dungeons. They're made with prefabricated assets that then get placed and custom edited to fit the pattern, which greatly improves out overall time. This first level actually shows off a few of the different bioms you can encounter in the savannah dungeon as well.

We hope this demonstrates the design direction change we're going for. It'll make the levels go unchanged, but events and enemies you encounter inside of them will be randomized on each visit.

Last time's winner was the Mercenary! So he'll be getting a steamy sprite sex scene with Ev in the future!

As always, you can find the rules and previous winners here

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Fixes

• Fixed not being able to open the album after returning to the main menu.
• Fixed Egg Seller not selling eggs
• Fixed a variety of combat assets not being updated
• Potentially fixed an issue with expanding farms

The code for this month is "Camellia Couch Time"

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Additions

• Added Camellia’s new kit to combat

Fixes

• Fixed a variety of combat related bugs.
• Fixed a variety of album & code related bugs.
• Fixed a bug where you could open the cheat panel from the options window
• Fixed an error throw with the cooking window
• Fixed an error throw when upgrading farms
• Fixed an error throw when the inventory automatically restacks items.

Beware the fluff!

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Changes

• You can no longer sell your monsters on day 1. (If you did this on a save and the day 2 cat event is not working then you need to start a new save)

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where you could only unlock the album from the main menu.
• Fixed a character being mispositioned in Cloverton
• Fixed the egg seller not being interested in selling eggs.
• Fixed dialogue missing from Sieger after the mine.
• Fixed bugs revolving around Ev’s gender and animations

There will often be puzzle gates on the floors that you will need to work your way past. While the core animation will remain the same, each gateway will have a different rim.

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Additions

• Added a tending animation
• Added a petting animation
• Added tooltips to the farm buttons so you can tell what they do.
• You can now cook in bulk when using a recipe
• Added rotating Stock to Jaero it changes every season
• Added rotating Stock to Yonten it changes every week
• Added level scroll to Katarina Station
• Added hotkeys to monster interactions
• Added missing lamia pregnant sleeping animation

Changes

• Album buttons in game now opens the album
• Updated the quality star icons to a new ones.
• Echo stone is now consumed on use. Giev will send you a new one if you reach garst after using your first one.
• Changed how the starting crops are randomized
• The water button now disappears if the crop is already watered
• Temp buffs now last for the day.
• Removed the weather protector from the game as it is useless
• You can no longer fill a hole with dirt as there is no reason to do so
• Merchants who come and go like Jerkan and Egg Seller have their stock randomized each time they come.
• Optimized all the fence colliders and reduced their size (There will be another pass on them in a future version to make them even smaller)
• Optimized farm field colliders
• Made the interactions and nameplate more centered on the monster.
• Adjusted fade out time on Sieger’s walk away
• Max zoom on the farm increased from 2x to 2.5x
• You can now use zoom at Katarina Station
• Removed manumission/manumit related words as it was not representative of the farmer monster relationship. Now it’s called Graduation and Release.
• Removed some unnecessary narration from some dialogue
• Updated Camellia’s idle animation
• Updated Poponddopulous’s idle animation
• Updated the visuals of the scroll bar in the history window

Fixes

• Fixed Beck missing his sprite
• Fixed a missing dialogue when speaking to Beck
• Fixed spelling in Beck’s dialogue
• Fixed a missing word
• Fixed some cases of the old interaction system being in place.
• Fixed a bunch of NPCs not having idle animations.
• Fixed visual issues with the inventory UI
• Fixed being able to sleep through the cat event.
• Fixed some of the old player messages showing up when they shouldn’t
• Fixed crops regrowing themselves instantly
• Fixed dead crops coming back
• Fixed crops instantly dying
• Fixed being able to see the interaction bubble while sleeping
• Fixed having to walk off a crop spot to get the new buttons
• Fixed being able to repeat farm animations while one is animating
• Fixed temp buffs not giving any stats
• Fixed temp buffs never ending
• Fixed being able to build a building in the wrong spot
• Fixed being able break building by trying to upgrade them as if they were a field
• Fixed an error being thrown when you didn’t have a trainer in the training field
• Fixed loading the game inside the hot house not moving the camera
• Fixed egg incubation timing and progress bars not updating correctly
• Fixed an issue with incorrect monster states
• Fixed monster interact buttons being above the monster
• Fixed the cooking window not defaulting food to the first available and only checking to see if you have a 1* quality for that recipe.
• Fixed a harvesting related issue where crops were not harvesting correctly
• Fixed the farm buttons not updating correctly when selecting a seed or fertilizer
• Fixed a bug where sometimes saves would save into a folder not belonging to their save group.
• Fixed ancestry having some save/load issues.
• Fixed a save/load issue with merchants that could cause us to do a save break
• Fixed an error being thrown by the dialogue window
• Fixed part of the quest text not being visible
• Fixed In some abilities of a female character it would show a random }
• Fixed the history window scrolling super slow.
• Fixed Sieger Idle pivot not matching his walk
• Fixed Sieger and the union guards taking longer than intended to fade out.
• Fixed a font error on the inventory window
• Fixed some distortion in some HDs
• Fixed album related bugs

The finalized pregnancy sprites for the game. They should be going into the game in the next build.

The designs that Spurple uses when making ground clutter.

Last time's winner was Genome! The lovely double headed wolf gal!

As always, rules and past winners can be found here.

Hopefully will have all the Ev x Monster Variant Sprites for dungeon sex scenes done before long.

Yes

The new tiles are far more blank slates than previous ones were, this enables us to use them better as building blocks when manually placed. They also look much better.

We're working on a system to make traits easier to read and be understood, with a larger screen.

We'll also be altering trait panels so that they look appropriate for species and bloodline traits, and so that their grade can be more easily discerned.

In the coming weeks as we approach the Early Access on Steam release, we'll be updating a whole bunch of the UI.

We've been over this number before now actually, but only in the sense of people who jumped in and out. For the first time we've managed to get over that number for our public listing!

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Fixes

• Fixed eggs taking too long to incubate. (Made the incubation process hourly instead of minutely)
• Fixed the interaction bubble not working in some places.
• Fixed a bunch of interactions not being fully moved over to the new system.
• Fixed training grounds not sizing itself correctly on the job board.
• Fixed crops not updating their sprites over the night.
• Fixed 1 monster being able water all fields no matter their stats.
• Fixed 1 monster being able fertilize all fields no matter their stats.
• Fixed monsters not removing dead crops.
• Fixed the player message in various locations being a thin barely visible line.

So I hate to say this, but the randomized dungeon plans we had wanted have finally beaten us. We can't figure out how to make them fun, we can't make them function in an intuitive way. So we're instead going to focus on our strength of really good art design, and make a set of levels that are iconic. Each level will be set in stone, but the events encountered in it will not be. We hope that by doing this it'll make the dungeons over all more fun and enjoyable.

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Additions

• Added a small animated pop-up to let the player know they can interact with the object, in most cases this is in place of a player message.

Changes

• Sped up the fading of the player message
• The dialogue cursor’s pointer is a little bit more noticeable.
• Left-aligned the dialogue text

Fixes

• Fixed some grammar errors
• Fixed a 10% alpha banner showing after the fade
• Fixed a small pop in the banner while fading
• Fixed not being able to select the first seed/fertilizer in the list.
• Fixed the album filters not working
• Fixed some graphical artifacting with the egg emote over monsters.
• Fixed crab’s palettes not working in the album
• Fixed crab’s palette not loading in-game
• Fixed the crab cum animation staying when changing the scene.
• Fixed nameplates with cut-names
• Fixed Sieger and Jubelle animating 10x faster than they should.

Brontide's 'ultimate attack' is getting a revision. This is by no means the final version, but we wanted to experiment with how the 'x-rays' might look overall. The final version will have a custom image rather than a set of stock photos.

Last time's winners were Tab x Witch!

Take a look at this page to see the rules, past winners, and the new options!

Back before they even had names, we went through quite a lot of design changes for the main character. This was one of Evan's prototype forms, back when we were still using a palette style similar to Breeding Season before going for a slightly less saturated color scheme. A lot of things changed from the early days, as anybody who has been with us since day 1 will know!

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Story

• Added a dialogue with Beck the mycoid in the blue liner

Additions

• Added 6 loading screen tips

Changes

• Changed the visuals of the player message

Removed

• Removed a bunch of useless player messages

Fixes

• Sieger and Jubelle now have idle animations
• Fixed the job board cards being the wrong color
• Fixed wells over filling the watering can
• Fixed Nameplate having cut-off names
• Fixed “Union Soldier” not having a space in the nameplate
• Fixed a grammar error
• Fixed nameplate being too low for large monsters
• Fixed lamia missing sprite while pregnant
• Fixed floating pixels in Montalvo’s idle
• Fixed a bug with the hot house
• Fixed a rare story bug
• Fixed a bug related to crop growth
• Potentially fixed the extra long hatching speed

Sometimes weird things happen as we try to get the game's pallet swapper to function.

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Additions

• Added Training Fields (Where you can train your monsters), these use the same slots as pastures and Farming Fields.

Changes

• Changed how crops grow, they have a growth time ranging from 1 day to 17 days.
• Changes how crop up in quality, they now have an upgrade and degrade health and some crops need a lot of attention to keep healthy, some crops need to be treated for a day or two after harvesting to obtain quality.
• Crops can now decay, turn dead after x amount of days. X ranges from 1 day to 9 days.
• All crops had how much their stats they give change based on the difficulty to grow. (This affects all cooked food)
• Made slight adjustments to the farm UI
• Changed egg incubation time from 2 days to 4 days

Fixes

• Fixed Camera not rendering well on resolutions narrower than 16:9
• Fixed eggs incubating 2 times as fast as they should be
• Fixed a bug where monsters wouldn’t incubate during the sleep cycle
• Fixed putting the correct season of fertilizer not giving double the effect
• Incest Prevention System was previously not functioning correctly, preventing pairings between monsters who were not closely related. The new system should only prevent pairings between monsters who share 1/16th or greater similarity in ancestry.
• Fixed laying issues on the farm
• Fixed some graphically issues with the farm
• Fixed dock’s outline having missing pixels
• Fixed a visual issue with the buttons on the farm UI
• Fixed the sky in the player’s window from popping in/out visually
• Fixed job board doubling jobs
• Fixed incubation time being longer than intended

Sample of how the tutorial pages will end up looking.

The last winner was Sieger x Emanuel!

We've updated the voting options list, a ton of new characters are present now!

Take a look at this page to see the rules, past winners, and the new options!

Two versions of this one, one for you guys, and one for the public splash.

We've spent a couple of months working on this with White Charisma! It's now our new patreon intro video!

The cute lewd-racing-kart mechanic will be making an appearance in Cloud Meadow! Go take a look at Shady Lewd Kart (Which you might already have done if you've been looking at our links on our front page), and see all kinds of characters from all kinds of games, including the ever lovely Camellia who will be turning up as a racer!

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Additions

• Added Eve X Kiram
• Added some deco to the player’s home

Changes

• Reworked sleeping so it does all the job math and there is no loading screen
• Updated the cat event collision graphic
• Updated the farm cat event combat scene
• Player breeding with a monster takes 2 hours instead of 4

Fixes

• Fixed being able to open the chests in the mine more than once
• Fixed tab’s idle animation not animating during story
• Fixed being able to unlock Giev’s tower before getting told to
• Fixed incorrect symbols being placed on dock slots in the construction UI

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Changes

• Adjusted some static cameras on the farm

Fixes

• Fixed a bug with sex scenes on the farm
• Fixed an animation bug with crab x eve palettes
• Fixed inventory window not working
• Fixed pasture’s duping monsters
• Fixed job board not rendering some jobs correctly
• Fixed there being no dialogue in history
• Fixed infinite watering can
• Fixed some layering issues on the farm
• Fixed infertile monsters getting locked
• Fixed crops not getting watered from the rain
• Fixed harvesting not working

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To Install the Linux Build you must download Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.001 and Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.002 to the same location on your computer and then unzip the first archive.

Palette Swaps

• Evan X Crab
• Eve X Crab

Additions

• Added Farming Job (Auto-Water/Harvest/Tend/Fertilization)
• Added item drakeheart
• Added new storage tabs
• When the monster tab is selected in the inventory you can now search for the following

Species EX “s: Cat”

Level EX “lvl > 5” or “lvl < 5” or “lvl = 5”

Gender EX “g:male” or “g:female” or “g:other” (Chimera & Crab are other)

Trait EX “t:TraitName”

Fixes

• Fixed not being able to assign monsters to work dock jobs.
• Fixed swapping palettes during climax makes the animation bug out
• Fixed a layering issue in the party window
• Fixed some missing pixels with the dragon

Known Issue

• monsters do not work while you are asleep
• There is a small visual bug in Eve X Crab loop, will be fixed in the next version

While we don't have alternative crafting beyond cooking YET, these guys will initially supply you with the crystals necessary to expand your farm if you don't earn them from events.

The code for all releases this month will be "Trash Panda"

Tab giving a 'tip' to the ogre courier!

DesertFox's Umbra and Yonten's dad Lobsang!

Finally got enough of our backlog done to start roughing these.

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

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To Install the Linux Build you must download Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.001 and Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.002 to the same location on your computer and then unzip the first archive.

Additions

• Added a floor counter in the dungeon
• Added a wait for the next update quest so you know when you have reached the end of the current story content.

Fixes

• Fixed cut off dialogue options
• Fixed missing character dialogue sprites during some dialogue
• Fixed dialogue arrows showing when they shouldn’t
• Fixed wrong layering with crop fertilizer
• Fixed crops not being watered during the rain
• Fixed Job Board failing to load
• Fixed a layering issue with the party window
• Fixed some dialogue in Katrina Station
• Fixed Shards Currency not showing 0 when you had 0
• Fixed after combat UI not showing Experience rewards
• Potentially fixed pasture monster duplication

It's been a while since our last update, but we hope the new pasture UI will make up for it.

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Save Break

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

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To Install the Linux Build you must download Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.001 and Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.002 to the same location on your computer and then unzip the first archive.

Additions

• Added the pasture UI that lets you control where your monsters are.

Changes

• When a new monster is added they will go to the first barn/pasture with a free spot rather than a random one.
• Increased base energy from 75 to 200
• Increased energy per Stamina from 3 to 5
• Sprinting is now unlimited
• Energy no longer regens
• The energy bar no longers shrinks as the day goes on.

Fixes

• Fixed docks not showing the building constructed on them.
• Fixed monsters still being able to be dragged even if they had a job already.
• Fixed scroll zooming when your mouse is over UI.
• Fixed Fade in/out not working
• Fixed a bug where monsters would move to another barn
• Fixed not being able to expand the farm
• Fixed blurry text in the trait window
• Fixed layering in the party window
• Fixed some character darkening bugs

Last week Umbra (A Villainess from the webcomic: Desert Fox ) x Lobsang (Yonten's Dad). Can't wait for you guys to find out how THAT pairing comes about!

As always, the rules for sprite sex voting can be found here!

We're still trying to figure this one out, do we want the dungeon floors themselves to be static? Do we want to mix them up? Do we want to introduce different sets?

It's still something we're figuring out and want to work on, but this is what came out of one of the discussions on how to approach the dungeon redesign.

To be clear, the only loss would be randomly placed tiles. Events would still be randomly distributed each trip you took, and we also might shuffle up the order of the floors, while there would still be 30

A possibility of us moving to a more lain out design will be the ability to tailor dungeon tiles specifically to the needs of the narrative, giving each floor of a dungeon it's own unique feel using unique assets.

Please make sure to zoom in on this image, or use "View Image" after right clicking it, to see the details on the different Savannah Biom Concepts

The High Climb ice dungeon will be built on the idea of you steadily climbing to the top of it, when you reach one edge of the dungeon, the exit and 'entrance' will be designed to make it look like you just walked to another side of the massive pillar of ice.

The new potential of speed, we hope, will allow us to build prefabricated dungeons, with each floor of the dungeon telling it's own story.

Lore: Highclimb is actually not part of the Central Kingdom, but instead ruled by various clans of Yeti, a humanoid species of Monsters who successfully built their own civilization, and cooperate with the Union, but do not allow themselves to be ruled over by humanity as most other 'tame' monster tribes do. Highclimb is the tallest of the great barrier ice islands, a massive range to the north and east of the central kingdom that prevents safe passage in that direction. It is a favored spot for ice mining operations, as water is one of the more difficult resources to come by easily in a potable form for many islands.

Thunder Mountain is so named because rather than one tiny island, it is actually a massive shard of obsidian. Inside of it is a roiling sea of magma and magical energies drawn driectly from the void below. The surface of it is far too volatile and unsafe to support any life or anything but the most tenacious of Union outposts, but the interior, despite being a roiling hellscape of magically infused molten rock and metal, has a variety of monsters within it.

The mountain, and others like it, are believed to be the source of new sky islands, throwing heavy, molten, magically infused dust, ash, and rocks into the sky, where they hang, coalescing into new sky islands.

We're going to be reducing the height of the ruins dungeon tiles and imply their height with background bits and a cloud layer. Instead of a central pillar, navigation should be assisted by the four 'cardinal pillars' at the corners of each map.

Lore: The Titan's Causeway is an ancient ruin that predates all know civilization. It seems to have existed explicitly to condense, and channel water through it's many aqueducts and structures, as well as to condense atmospheric magic into a usable state. The Union deploys archeologists primarily to here, as well as ley crystal mining operations.

So recently we've come to the conclusion that how we approached dungeons was simply not working, and trying to force it to work was just not going to ever function properly. We had to step back and seriously consider to what degree we needed to redesign things.

That lead us to an experiment. Spurple would see, at max speed and quality, just how much time it would take if he was to go after every single tile and redesign them from scratch.

Stage one of the experiment was the simplest tile, and the time reduction based on original performance was ridiculous to the point we're now having to redesign our time table, and reducing the time to completion for once, even if we simply redid every tile entirely.

We'll release more details on this as time goes on, we still want to do an experimental tile for the other 2 dungeons currently designed, and perhaps one for the Thunder Mountain volcanic dungeon, and one for the High Climb ice dungeon (both of which have literally 0 work done on them so far beyond a few scant concept sketches), before we make a final decision on this matter. But if this speed of work (from scratch to completion) is sustainable, then we'll probably going with less randomized, and more cinematic dungeon designs.

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

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Additions

• More windowed mode options

Changes

• Fixed HD sex scene UI not closing properly
• Fixed HD sex scenes image distortion
• Fixed mouse input not functioning as expected when controlling the player
• Fixed black main menu when returning from a level
• Windowed modes will try to enforce 16:9 ratio in order to avoid some UI scaling
• Fixed being able to build more than one special building
• Fixed not being able to click on the player’s portraits to change gender
• Potentially fixed a bug where the echo stone question wouldn’t disappear

Faulty Apprentice is an interactive, light ecchi visual novel with a castle to explore, beautiful women to befriend, and an upcoming battle to prepare for! Gameplay features minigames and stat growth by allocating your time each day with a range of activities, such as Training, Completing Jobs, Exploring Stars Reach Castle or building Relationships.

There are 10 datable characters as well as 15 others to interact with, and they're all affected by your decisions. Will you inspire others for good or tempt them into evil? The choices you make will not only affect your fate but the fate of those around.

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

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Additions

• Added crab sleeping animation
• Added pregnant sleeping animations

Changes:

• Main Menu, Character Creation, and Loading Screens should no longer have visual errors on the UI at various resolutions
• Hid combat target selection hotkeys, except for when Shift is held
• Added letterboxing to screen modes wider than 16:9. Some game scenes are still being adapted to fit this ratio.

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

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To Install the Linux Build you must download Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.001 and Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.002 to the same location on your computer and then unzip the first archive.

Additions

• Added crab sleeping animation
• Added pregnant sleeping animations

Changes:

• Main Menu and Loading screens should no longer have visual errors on the UI at various resolutions
• Hid combat target selection hotkeys, except for when Shift is held
• Added letterboxing to screen modes wider than 16:9. Some game scenes are still being adapted to fit this ratio.

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

https://www.patreon.com/posts/29527126

To Install the Linux Build you must download Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.001 and Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.002 to the same location on your computer and then unzip the first archive.

Changes

• Changed the visuals of the seed and fertilizer selection
• The UI is now hidden during an HD scene on the farm
• You no longer have to interact with a well to fill your watering can, you just walk by close to it.
• Added nameplates over the heads of monsters instead of just floating text

Fixes

• Fixed not being able to press tab to open the inventory in while on the farm
• Fixed Brontide idle not playing when facing SW
• Fixed Cooking UI food not showing at native scale
• Fixed Goldra being toothless
• Fixed light rays not fading out into the night
• Fixed a small visual issue with the breeding sign
• Fixed some text artifacting in the inventory window
• Fixed some ui showing when the inventory window was.
• Potentially fixed always getting placed back at the start of the dungeon

We got a shout out in the Daily Dot! Give it a read.

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build follow the instructions in the link below

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To Install the Linux Build you must download Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.001 and Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.002 to the same location on your computer and then unzip the first archive.

Additions

• The sky on the farm now changes with the time of day
• You can now construct additional docks

Fixes

• Fixed being off positions with the mushroom jump pads in the forest dungeon
• Fixed a zoom related issue on the farm
• Fixed contests not saving/loading
• Fixed a potential error throw with refinement
• Fixed a bug where items eaten by the player and companions wouldn’t temporally buff their swiftness if that was present in the food.

This is a step by step set of instructions that will be linked in all future builds posts. If you follow these instructions exactly then you should be able to install the game.

The winners from last time were Ev x Giev!

As always, rules and previous winners can be found here!

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build you must download Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Win.exe, Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Win.7z.001, and Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Win.7z.002 to the same location on your computer and then run the exe.

To Install the Linux Build you must download Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.001 and Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.002 to the same location on your computer and then unzip the first archive.

Additions

• added camera zooming function while on the Farm using mouse wheel and +/- keys

Changes

• changed combat darkening effect to focus on only relevant units
• Realign all the crops

Fixes

• Fixed an error caused by Fio's UI that was interrupting her abilities

The Code for all Builds in September (Anything released after this post) Is "Mop Diva"

Saves are compatible

To Install the Windows Build you must download Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Win.exe, Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Win.7z.001, and Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Win.7z.002 to the same location on your computer and then run the exe.

To Install the Linux Build you must download Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.001 and Cloud_Meadow_Beta_VersionNumber_Lin.zip.002 to the same location on your computer and then unzip the first archive.

Changes

• Changed Tea’s recipe to include tea-bag mix
• Adjusted the heights of all dialogue characters
• Changed the visuals of fertilizer

Fixes

• Fixed Yonten combat not working
• Fixed not being able to talk to shopkeepers

Plankton Pens are built in dock slots around your Farm, of which there are 1 or so for every island segment. You can find Plankton as loot and capturables in dungeons, and then place them in a Pen, then provide them with food in order for them to create pantry items such as Chocolate or Eggs. The amount produced depends on the quality of the feed you give them, and how quickly they convert feed into pantry items depends on the quality of the workers you assign to the pen.

Wild Lamias are, of all the monster variants, the ones who are the most 'sane', if that is the word that can be used, when they are oversaturated with magic. Rather than turning truly feral, they instead become imperialistic and sadistic, utilizing their light manipulation abilities to enslave victims and treat them like gods. These Lamia are capable of some level of communication with others, but have proven time and again that they refuse to cooperate with others. It is believed by many scholars of the Kingdom that they subconciously use their ability to manipulate the medium through which light travels to also manipulate the invisible flow of atmospheric ley-lines, thus reducing their own magical saturation enough to hold onto some semblance of sanity and rational thought, even though they remain primarily driven by instinct, sociopathy, and megalomania.

Wild Lamia rarely cooperate except when forced or hypnotized into subservience to a greater wild Lamia, where as among the sane Lamia Tribes, both in the Titan's Causeway and in their own shielded villages on the fringes of the kingdom as this new species is introduced by the Frontiersmen's Guild, they display a cool, if rapier intellect and are more and more taking up jobs as researchers and scholars, both in the Ruins they prefer to inhabit, and on civilized town-islands of the Kingdom, using their light manipulation talents to reveal things that were hidden to the naked eye. Tame Lamia of the Kingdom also taking up the role of mental-physickers in many communities, using their ability to manipulate minds with patterned and colored lights to help cure mental ailments.

Lamia Essence, stored in Vice Cells, is utilized in both light manipulation Magitechnology and in drugs used for both recreational and medicinal purposes, especially sedatives.

Saves are compatible

Additions

• Added the winter terrain to the farm.

Changes

• Full combat rework for Yonten - all new animations, UI and abilities
• Combat Attack buff is now a %-bonus of a flat damage bonus
• Changed the how crop health is processed so will now die when they should.
• Updated the dialogue UI based on patron feedback
• Reworking watering system rather than an integer amount of water that ticks down over the day(more or less based on the weather), it is now a boolean so a crop is either watered for the day or it is not.

Fixes

• Fixed crops appearing watered when planted
• Fixed grownut having the wrong sprite
• Fixed some spots construction on the construction UI being inaccurate with the farm’s locations
• Fixed an error in the breeding window
• Fixed flimflan not planting correctly
• Fixed farms not upgrading correctly
• Fixed a bug with the winter bundles
• Fixed exiting the hot house putting you in the wrong place
• Fixed a visual error with text in the inventory
• Fixed a layering issue with the party window
• Fixed construction UI’s special slots not showing their sprites
• Fixed not being able to cycle food quality in the cooking table
• Fixed an option when talking to Giev and Garst not working.
• Fixed a bug when generating bloodline traits
• Fixed a small bug in the scripting for the dialogue in the first scene
• Fixed a bug where a new save would it’s save into an existing file.
• Fixed the vertical/horizontal alignment of some crops
• Fio's combat animation should no longer have blank frames
• Fio's combat UI should no longer keep spinning ability reels when skipping her turn before reels have slammed
• Shield buff type(used by Lamia & Yonten) will now correctly block damage, and the damage numbers will have their own colour
• Potentially fixed an issue where the player would spawn out of bounds of the dungeon.

Remember to download all pieces to the same location before you run the program in order to install it.

Saves are compatible

Changes

• Updated the Mill’s artwork
• Slightly increased the changes of a combat encounter in the dungeon

Fixes

• Fixed construction UI not updating after acquiring a farm size upgrade
• Fixed a bug with the mill where the manual button was not step-up right
• Fixed some bugs that could cause a time stop
• Fixed alignment with special buildings
• Fixed Hot House leads being the wrong sprite
• Fixed some clipping issues with nature artwork on the fam.
• Fixed a variety of bugs with the construction UI
• Fixed fields not upgrading properly (Known issue: the first 3 fields might spawn a crop when upgrading, this has been fixed when a new game is created.)
• Fixed using seed bundles more than once
• Fixed being able to click monster radial buttons behind UI
• Fixed a few dungeon generation errors
• Fixed forest dungeon failing to generate
• Fixed a bug with monster vanishing(Note: until the pasture part of the farm refactor every time a monster is born or you build/remove pastures, your monster might move all over the place.)
• Fixed Eve X Chimera’s Climax
• Potentially fixed camera going off-center in the dungeon

As you upgrade your abilities and progress through the game, you'll be able to store as many as 6 primordial essence cells for Ev's genodriver.

Saves are compatible

The windows build was split into 3 due to file size and patreon upload size limit. You will have to download all 3 and run the exe to extract the game files to play.

Additions

• Added Eve X Kaleida

Changes

• Increased energy regen by 20%
• Increased energy needed to breed and milk a monster from 1 to 3
• Milking and breeding now takes 5 minutes
• Make the new dialogue ui a bit smaller

Fixes

• Fixed the dialogue nameplate being just a white box
• Fixed player character not highlighting when talking
• Fixed a warning that inflated log files
• Fixed Centaur X Holstaur not working
• Fixed there being an invisible crop plot in every field
• Fixed an issue where energy regen was not consistent enough
• Fixed bugs around watered sprites

Just like with training, monsters who are actually tending to your fields will get a little animation.

Other monsters will be in your pastures, or wandering around your farm, doing various jobs.

To cut down on time, actions that can be taken on by any monster will be getting some standardized animations. Here we see how it'll look when monsters are training in the training yard.

Even monsters will be getting in on the jumping action.

Work continues on the trailer. We really can't wait until you guys can see the final piece. It'll be going right up on our front page.

Another example of NPC movement work being done.

As work on the HDs ramps down we're able to make more frames for the various npc characters so that they can follow you around the dungeon and town.

Saves are compatible

Additions

• Added the new dialogue UI

Changes

• You can now use the numpad numbers for farming hotkeys
• Slightly reworked how neo-incubation works, when selecting the egg it starts the incubation instead of having to press the button twice.

Fixes

• Fixed the centaur breaking combat
• Fixed walking into a door not stopping the player
• Fixed some z-sorting on the farm
• Fixed trait window tooltip being too small
• Fixed a visual bug with contests
• Fixed the player getting locked if they skipped introductions
• Fixed food made via experiments and recipes not stacking with each other
• Fixed cycling quality in the cooking window wouldn’t cycle through all qualities
• Fixed cooking window thinking some qualities don’t exist
• Fixed an error making the job board unusable
• Fixed numerous bugs with the incubator
• Fixed an error that let you hatch non-existent monsters

Last week's winner was Genome!

As always you can find past winners and the rules for voting here!

This build gets the ball really rolling on the Farm refractor, but there's still a lot left to do:

• Constructible Docks: These will fill the same role as your main dock, and just expand the rate at which you export things and sell them automatically
• Plankton Pens UI and Job: Using a Dock build slot, you'll be able to pick up Planktons from the wild, and then place them in the Pens, thus allowing you to get regular harvests of different pantry ingredients.
• Field Jobs / Field UI: The Revamped field system, where everything except planting will be handled by the monsters.
• Silo / Silo UI: Allowing you to set pastures to automatically be fed specific raw foods.
• Pasture UI / Cpoking Job / upgrading pastures with Cooking Pit: Allowing you to not only better organize your monsters, but also set it so they'll use ingredients from the Silo Storage to make a designated meal once per day for every monster in the pasture.
• Storage UI Revamp: Allowing you to designate things stored for certain purposes (Selling, pure storage, refinement, silo)
• Training Yards / Training Yards Jobs: Allowing you to automatically train up monsters and grant them levels without having to bring them to fight in the dungeon.
• Autumn + Winter Art: Granting unique appearances to these two seasons.

All of these will be coming in future builds and hotfixes

Save Break

Additions

• Added the Job Board where you can assign jobs to your monster to work on the farm. (Currently the jobs available are Mill, Dock, Weather Balloon. More to come soon)
• Added a code "DeleteAllData" you can input in the album which will delete all of the data from your AppData of the game(Including the album, saves, and settings).

Changes

• Crops can no longer be tended more than once (They never needed it in the first place)
• Excluded Boss units from combat training
• Reworked healing calculation, which should be significantly less than previous
• Big Pirate AI improved slightly

Fixes

• Fixed some visual bugs with the main menu
• Fixed a bug preventing you from deleting multiple save slots.
• Fixed ambience playing in main menu
• Fixed raining ambience in Tro’s Lab
• Fixed the button in the album not working
• Demon's Tinderbox & Sparkcloud abilities should no longer cause the unit to hang
• Resolved missing animation frames for various combat units
• Resolved combat abilities finishing early when applying a buff mid-animation
• Fio combat sprite quality corrected
• Combat unit bars & buff icons should properly align
• Some tooltip text & layering fixes

Progress on the Kaledia HD scene

Long overdue, but these pregnancy idles should soon be added to the game

A QoL update and a new mechanic to the game, letting you control monster job placement on the job board. All of the potential different locations for your monsters to be placed to work, based on level and size of the area, have been added in as display pieces.

We've recently come across a fun little monstergirl focused interactive fiction game called Ophi's Quest! In it you help the neophyte overlord Ophi collect followers and minions in order to conquer a world of floating islands much like the world of cloud meadow! Monstergirls, sky islands, breeding play. What's not to love?

Apparently in the future the game will have a pretty indepth character system and something akin to neopets only with monstergirls which represent the followers you manage on behalf of Ophi, sending them to locations to collect resources and power her lust magic run empire. It's pretty new, and updates only once or twice a month, but we think you'll enjoy it.

We've exchanged banners with them, and you can find their patreon to give them support here!

All of the Genodriver abilities are based on the ancestral essence of monsters from the ancient past, these three are the Coatl, the Lizardman, and the Manticore. All monsters are supposedly descended from the dragons if you go back far enough, but the strongest evidence for this is the fossils of saurian monsters occasionally found in the most ancient and isolated of islands.

The winners from last time were Minerva x Greater Fairy!

As always, rules and previous winners can be found here!

A sample of how the tutorial in the codex for the game will look.

Saves are compatible

Changes

• Updated the the art of the arrow on the farm.

Fixes

• Fixed crop collisions being super wonky
• Fixed Jubelle disappearing in some dialogues
• Fixed a visual glitch in Jaero’s shop
• Fixed progressing dialogue would move the player
• Fixed some z-sorting issues on the farm
• Fixed rain ambience being played in Katarina Station
• Fixed z-sorting and some collisions in Katarina Station
• Fixed rain ambience being played on the main menu
• Fixed planting a crop not showing the watered sprite when it is raining
• Fixed the Giev’s door closing range being to big.
• Fixed numbers showing up before the first words of the dialogue begin
• Fixed quest text being too small in some cases
• Potentially fixed Giev Talk quest not disappearing

This got scheduled for the date time.

Saves are compatible

Additions

• You can now hold shift on the minus button in the essence market to sell all

Changes

• combat hitstop animation improvements
• replaced unit targeting prompt in combat to better indicate AOE targets
• keyboard target selection for combat
• Dungeon is now reset upon completing the mine & tro’s lab quests

Fixes

• Evan Should Be Functioning In Combat Now. If he isn't, then try playing as Eve.
• Fixed crops collisions boxes being too small
• Fixed being able to change what special building was built in a spot
• Fixed being able in a rare case to go back to tro’s lab & the mine
• Fixed some farm plots breaking at certain levels
• Fixed a bug when opening the misc bundle

The Low Res Version will appear on the next

While working on fixing the Evan combat bug (If you play Eve nothing goes wrong we've found), we also gave combat UI a readability facelift.

This guy is a ways out, but he was the perfect boss to show off for the trailer we're working on, so we fast tracked his design a bit in order to get a nice scene for the trailer.

Last time's winner was Kitt x Merchant Company Commander!

As always you can find the rules and former winners here!

A terrible beast lies chained in the depths of the Forest.

Yes, there will be a debuff involved named something along the lines of "Snusnu" for larger monsters if you engage in combat too soon after banging them!

Saves are compatible

Fixes

• Fixed genodriver cooldown
• Fixed party window ability buttons
• Fixed a small visual error in the player’s house
• Fixed Male Centaur X Female Demon being wrong in the album
• Fixed misplaced clutter on a savannah tile.
• Fixed a white dot in the mine entrance
• Fixed Skulfruit not planting and disappearing
• Fixed Flimflan freezing the game
• Fixed Yonten’s door glow being offset
• Fixed a bug where the first save you make has incorrect position data.
• Fixed some monsters in the barn being too close together

"Scribble Harder" is the code for all builds released in August 2019.

Could you please contact us via Discord? If your emoji was one of those in the final list, please get into contact with Judge Heath on Discord, we're having trouble reaching some of you through the methods you provided in the contest itself so that we can give out your prizes.

Saves are compatible

Fixes

• Fixed a floating pixel in the savannah tiles
• Fixed being able to walk off a savannah tiles
• Fixed jump pads being floating off the edge of some savannah tiles
• Fixed snowgrain icon
• Fixed saves not deleting correctly
• Fixed deleting saves not refreshing the save window
• Fixed saves not saving correctly
• Fixed saves not realizing what their index was

Save Break (Due to a bug at game startup)

Fixes

• Fixed not being able to delete save files
• Fixed Evan walking backwards
• Fixed Evan Combat not loading
• Fixed Incubator having an egg bug and being un-useable

Save Break

Additions

• Full combat rework for Evan/Eve - all new animations, UI and abilities
• From the wardrobe in your home, you may now select up to 3 base abilities from 9 various offensive, defensive or supportive options
• 3 hidden ‘Genodriver’ transformation abilities unlocked through story progression

Changes

• Counter combat buff will no longer stun and has a 50% chance to counterattack
• Intercept combat buff will now have the caster take the damage instead, reduced by 50%
• Counter and Intercept buffs now start with charges instead of turn duration. When successfully countering or intercepting, a charge is removed. The buff expires at 0 charges.
• Combat ‘hitstop’ screen shake effect reduced

Fixes

• Fixed Yonten not having snowgrain in his shop
• Fixed the story after lizard fight not working
• Leech combat debuff should no longer cause an enemy to take their turn repeatedly without end
• Counter and Interception combat buffs should animate better
• Certain combat abilities that fired a projectile should no longer cause an error leading to undefined behaviour

A very late game ability that Ev will be able to grab. The Coatl is the healing line of the genodriver abilities, and will, once fully skilled up, even be able to revive downed party members while healing everyone on the team for a boatload of HP.

Saves are compatible

Additions

• Added a confirmation message when you save the game.
• Save game panel now shows current floor if in the dungeon

Changes

• Rice is now called snowgrain
• The seed and fertilizer windows now show their icon as well as their name

Fixes

• Fixed guards being missing from the cat event
• Fixed all the graphics from the cat event missing
• Fixed a written error with the field upgrades
• Fixed the construction UI thinking that a farm upgrade was a unique building.
• Fixed z-sorting on jump pads for the savannah dungeon
• Fixed colliders in the barracks and training grounds
• Fixed a bug where crops would stop growing if you upgraded the field
• Fixed Fertilizer and seed windows popping up if you have an active window up
• Fixed being able to leave the mine if you haven’t opened the chest
• Fixed game skipping a day if you go to bed at midnight
• Fixed some NPC sprite sex not being unlockable
• Fixed a bug with a dragon trait
• Fixed the scrolling for the seed and fertilizer windows being a little wonky
• Fixed selecting save slot not working correctly
• Fixed details not updating when you select a sub-save slot
• Fixed the delete save game button be off-center
• Fixed savegame window scrollbar being very slow
• Fixed various minor errors

Note: For the Linux Build, make sure both files are downloaded to the same file.

Every dungeon is planned to have 2 bosses, a homunculi boss (Which you have no encountered yet) and a dungeon boss that is related to the story of the dungeon itself. These bosses are intended to be our optional 'harder than the actual story boss' bossesm where as the Homunculi are meant to be semi-optional loot-pinatas with some metaplot attached.

Tips (A crossover character from Gats' Pizza Thot setting) x Farmhound won the MxF NPC vote!

So now it's time for the MxM NPC Vote!

As always, previous winners and rules can be found here

Save Break

New Save System

A save is created when you start a new game, and you can save the game as you go, every day the game will autosave. when you select a save you will see all the sub-saves for that save file, so if you need to go back a save or two you can now.

Fixes

• Fixed album not scrolling with the mouse wheel
• Fixed a variety of bugs during the album
• Fixed jubelle not changing to face you when talking to you.
• Fixed a grammar error when finding stuff in the dungeon
• Fixed construction UI not having a sprite for level 8
• Fixed some tight collisions on the farm
• Fixed the collisions for the crops being a little offset
• Fixed not being able to upgrade the farm fields
• Fixed a dialogue error where Ev thought he had no shards
• Fixed there being no audio preview for the master volume slider

We're currently working with a professional from the Visual Novels side of Erodev in the creation of a Trailer for Cloud Meadow, to help show off the game and make it easier for people to share something that'll show off all the aspects of the game! This will also be showing off one of the major optional bosses we're planning on including in the game. We've been in discussions for a few months planning this, but even this storyboard isn't absolutely final.

We've entered into a partnership with Tiny Hat Studios, and in the far future you might see more on that, but for the moment, this is expressed through a pairing up of Spooky Starlets and Cloud Meadow!

Redd Ryder will be making an appearance as a rare and special contestant in the breeding contest, entering herself and dazzling the judges with her moves!

You can read more about Camellia's appearance within Spooky Starlets here!

We're working on more obvious indicators for interactible portions of the game, and this is part of that rework.

Fixes

• Fixes some issues with the farm being automatically enabled, which should fix other issues with the monster spawning and plots not spawning properly.

Testing something new for the Linux Build, multiple zips to store them.

If you are downloading the linux build, both files must be downloaded to the same location BEFORE you unzip the archive. This will also apply to any future windows builds if it becomes necessary to utilize this method.

Saves are not compatible*

Additions

• Added Male Harpy X Evan
• Added 16 sprite sex animations
• Added farm field leveling and adjacency bonuses.

Fixes

• Fixed a dupe bug with pastures
• Fixed some visual issues with the farm
• Fixed a typo in the construction UI
• Fixed a typo in the wizard dialogue
• Fixed a typo in the album
• Fixed incubator not taking an egg from your inventory when placing it
• Fixed female dragon x female holstaur not working

*due to a change on how fields work there had to be a save break to fix the many issues caused by the changes.

Kodex is busily working to get the new field system, including upgrades, into the game so that you'll be able to properly farm things and have more than 10-20 monsters at one time, as pastures will be being enabled at the same time.

The gameplay loop is a pretty big deal and something that we've been working steadily to refine. We have to go back and forth a lot in our development of the project, swapping from farming, to fighting, and back again.

Each system is meant to be self supporting in it's way, with the player using their farm plots and sex with their monsters to provide supplies for harvesting, which in turn can be used upon monsters, or in crafting items, to assist with combat, then you loot dungeons as you fight your way through them, gaining additional resources for usage on your farm, and start the cycle over once more.

In an ideal world, you should be going through a figure 8 loop, starting and focusing on whichever loop you happen to prefer, but ideally we'll be able to make the game function in such a way that you can entirely focus on one loop, or the other, at your own preference, though such systems have yet to be fully implemented.

You can find the voting options here!

The poll will close this Saturday at Noon CST.

Our $20.00 Patrons can find the poll to vote here!

A purveyor of rare and valuable goods from the distant south east.

So you might be wondering why we are publishing here again, rather than to Itch.io?

The answer is fairly simple, in that itch.io would give you guys, anyone, a free, permanent, key to the game including all updates as far as we can tell and we're not particularly interested in giving such a thing out for a while yet. There'll probably be an itch.io early access release at the same time we do the steam early access release (which would give you a permanent key in return for a one time payment close to what we intend to sell the game for, but would be updated very slowly and only when we have stable builds, where as the regularly updated version of the game, with hotfixes, major feature additions, etc, would be here as we tighten things up).

Once the full game is released, we already plan, and have spoken with steam about, getting every single former backer a steam key regardless of how much money they have contributed to the project over it's lifespan, so you won't have to worry about spending yet more money to get the final product in an easy to use form when it was only through your support that we were able to make the game at all!

We're currently working on a different distribution functionality due to the fact that even the windows builds are rapidly approaching the upload limit patreon places upon posts, and that will be our primary focus along with bug fixing and implementing the remaining portions of act 1 this and the upcoming month.

Saves are compatible

Changes

• Updated Female Centaur X Evan palette swaps

Fixes

• Fixed the wrong state being shown with farm actions
• Fixed pasture all having the same barn ID, which would dup monsters
• Fixed weird placement of dungeon door
• Fixed not being able to fully upgrade the farm
• Fixed fence shadows doubling up
• Fixed some special buildings not placing on the farm
• Fixed special buildings being in the wrong spot
• Fixed a variety of bugs related to the hot house
• Fixed Chimera not giving byproduct when milking
• Fixed various sprite animations tiles having the wrong sprite
• Fixed some animations not working
• Fixed some positioning getting the player stuck
• Fixed various new scenes not unlocking

The Market Day always hapens on the last day of the first week of the month, involves the various random spawn merchants all appearing together, along with several other merchants.

Key:

1- seeds and produce, it has the generic Green Thumber running it, along with Jaero and Kreyton helping around it.

2- cooked food and processed food, has the Breadmaker generic running it , with Thrund helping out cooking and stirring the pot on the stall and Birma helping bake.

3- dungeon materials and crafting equipment has Miner generic running it, and Edeline, the jewelling merchant as assistant.

4- monsters, has Jerikan and maybe Jubelle and Sieger as well

5-trash repository, Rek unique vendor with Kaleida and Kiram helping him out if they're cruited

6- eggs with two unique egg vendors we already have.

7- items and equipment helped by Yonten and Brontide.

The order of events each month is as follows:

• First Week: Market Day
• Second Week: Battle Contest
• Third Week: Seasonal Event
• Fourth Week: Cooking Contest
• Fifth Week: Breeding Contest

The Brownie Caravan will also arrive at the beginning of one week randomly each month and then stay for three days.

Lucid Lemon is steadily grinding through all of these!

We'll be moving the code released to the first of the month rather than the last of the month to cut down on confusion.

The Codes for all builds released in the month of July are "Drunken Loser"

This will be the last build we are posting directly to the patreon. They've simply started to get too large for Patreon's upload limit, and thus, we're going to be setting up an Itch.io page, and itch.io integration, along with information on how to go about linking your patreon and itch.io accounts in order to download builds.

If we can't set up a public release date through itch.io manually, we'll start uploading those to a public google drive when a month has passed.

Beta (66% 3_15) v0.0.3.3

Saves are compatible

Additions

• Added new construction UI
• Added an animation to tell when a crop is rotten
• Added 10 sprite sex animations
• Added new crop sprites
• Added pastures

Fixes

• Fixed various sprite sex animations not working correctly
• Fixed Giev’s door stealing your shard
• Fixed wells thinking they need to be built
• Fixed some red pixels in the sky on the farm
• Fixed filmflan bugging out when planting it

Removed

• Water Tower and Mr. Bucket

Beta (66% 3_15) v0.0.3.2

Saves are compatible

Additions

• Added Eve X Male Cat
• Added Evan X Female Cyclops

Changes

• Changed dungeons to have no direct connections (Only jump points)
  

One of Kreyton's new attacks!

Been a looooong time since we had the ability to update these, as focused as we were on HDs. Now we're finally able to begin knocking these out of the park. LucidLemonLove is focused on them for the moment with both Carbonoid and Diesel pitching in here and there as well as on their main tasks.

After a long team discussion, and the 6 months of screwing around with the attempts to merge the islands into linked segments, we've decided to cut our losses, and revert back to the much more stable system of jump points linking island segments. It's not a great day when we have to admit to this, but hopefully, sometime in the future, possibly with a free update after the main launch, we'll be able to try again for this feature.

In much happier news, we have two new HDs that got finished up recently that'll be available to look in the gallery or in your barn!

We had to drop the linux build due to it being too large to upload, and the fact we're already all but done with the Beta v0.0.3.3 build. We'll be attempting to reduce the size of that linux zip for that build.

Saves are compatible

Additions

• Added Eve X Male Cat
• Added Evan X Female Cyclops

Changes

• Changed dungeons to have no direct connections (Only jump points)

Saves are compatible

Additions

• The shed now changes its sprite based on how many items you got in storage
• Added a sparkle when crops are ready to harvest

Changes

• Adjusted Sieger’s fade out time
• Adjusted some of the quest text to make it more clear on what needs doing
• Updated the visuals of the energy bar

Fixes

• Fixed Wolf’s war scent not working
• Fixed the circle in cloverton
• Fixed not being able to see eggs in the incubator
• Fixed stamina in combat trait not getting added correctly
• Fixed some codes not working in-game via the options

We decided to add a little effect to help you figure out when something was ready to be harvested.

Find the Voting Options here!

This is pretty much the last of the companion votes!

Our $20.00 Patrons can find the poll to vote here! Vote will close on Sunday at 8:30 PM, Central Standard Time.

When milking monsters, all of them produce byproducts that can be turned into equipment with the planned crafting system, or if we're unable to implement that, will be tradable for such items instead.

A more polished preview of our upcoming new boss, Boethilde Langrisser and her ethereal dullahan form.

One of the things we're working on along with everything else systems wise is expanding the 'cooking' system to allow for other craftable items. Here are some of the items that you'll be able to make or purchase.

A set of special codes have been implemented, and given to the winners of the fan art contest! 5 very potent monsters are locked behind these codes.

The Farm Refactor is the latest thing on Kodex's plate, while Ursa finished of the Companion ability sets. Writers are busy finishing off the rest of Arc 1

Saves are compatible

Additions

• Added chimera trait: Distributed Compound
• Added chimera trait: Leaching Compound
• Added chimera bloodline trait: Fast Adaptor
• Added chimera bloodline trait: Alchemical Genes
• Added dragon bloodline trait: Dragon’s Blood
• Added dragon bloodline trait: Layline Drain
• Added demon bloodline trait: magic harvester
• Added harpy bloodline trait: Skyborn
• Added common trait: Magic Saturation
• Added common trait: Abundant Body
• Added common trait: Adaptable
• Added common trait: Maladaptive
• Added common trait: Blessed Blood
• Added common trait: Cursed Blood
• Added common trait: Breeder’s Dream
• Added common trait: Tender*
• Added common trait: Bountiful Yields*
• Added common trait: Essential Oils*
• Added common trait: Life Maker*
• Added common trait: Nature Miracle*

Changes

• Improved the lizardman AI
• Changed combat MISS & EVADE floating text to be more noticable
• Updated some farm visuals

Fixes

• Fixed some combat related bugs
• Fixed the savannah pillar not showing up because of wrong layering.
• Fixed some traits marked as the wrong rarity
• Fixed trait grades not saving correctly

Note: Farming traits can be gained however they are not fully in the game until farming jobs are added back in.

The code for all builds past this point until the next code release is "RA RA RA!"

Last Time's winner was Ev x Kitt

As always, you can find previous winners and rules here

Boy do we have one for you! There's a neat kickstar There's a new Kickstarter we think Cloud Meadow Patrons will love! Morningdew Farms: A Gay Farming Interactive Visual Novel. Check out their Kickstarter in the link above!

The low resolution version will be posted with the next build but wanted to get it out to our $10.00 patrons this month since there's unlikely to be a build out today (We're busy finalizing some of the details in the trait system and getting out the contest rewards)

Given that Ev must always be in the party, we decided that the player should always be able to pick the abilities for Ev. In an upcoming version, this will be fully implemented.

Saves are compatible

Changes

• There is now a fade-in/fade-out when entering/exiting buildings
• Characters now slide in from the sides

Fixes

• Fixed the wrong song being played during the mine combat
• Fixed a variety of visuals errors in the UI
• Fixed goldra facing away from the player in a dialogue
• Fixed various exceptions
• Fixed an invalid loot table
• Fixed log 1 freezing the game
• Reworked overlapping damage numbers
• Resolved issue with Wolf Alpha Strike Ability which was terminating ally's attack routine
• Adjusted Sunder debuff damage calculation throwing an error
• Paused game time-of-day clock when battle is over.
• Potentially fixed asset bundles failing to load

Last time's winner was Ev x Jessika, of Jessika's Curse.

As always, you can find previous winners and rules here

For when he uses his interception buff giving ability!

We've officially wrapped up the Arc 1, Part 2, story line, and have begun work on Part 3, and have advanced the version number accordingly.

Saves are compatible (Dropped all versions before v0.0.2.5e)

Additions

• Added the rest of the farm visuals
• Reworked Lizardman Boss to be fully functional on the new Combat Manager system

Story

• Added the after tro’s lab story for the rest of part 2

Changes

• You can now recover seeds when digging up a seeds (Does not work after a day as pasted)

Fixes

• Resolved ally selection producing the incorrect target
• Adjusted hit damage numbers to reduce overlapping
• Prevented Ev Shovel Dig stun from stacking
• Fixed typo in Chimera Ley Cascade description
• Adjusted Map Generator to only test for dungeon event colliders matching the correct tag
• Fixed the starting money code button not working

Camellia's Absorb ability's animation changes based on who she is targeting!

The animation for the Female Centaur when she swaps to Drunkard's Rage from Scholar's Intuition.

This state of the code we talk about things that we have worked on and the progress on the various refactors.

Over the past couple of weeks Kodex has been working bug fixing and the farm refactor. Doing the farm refactor in smaller chunks than the combat refactor so we can push bug fixes during it and get the game more stable. Looking at the public bug reports we are getting really close to being stable. As for the farm refactor right now the visuals are being put into the game and that is almost done. The main thing for the farm refactor is the updated features.

The goals with the farm refactor is better visuals, better progression, and better automation of farming. You can already see the new visuals in act, they’re almost complete as of v0.0.2.5e. The better progression comes in that your farm starts out pretty weak in comparison to before and you’ll be able to upgrade farm plots to have crops in them. The better automation comes in to play with the new monster job system; one of which jobs will let you auto every part of the farming process except planting seeds, with this Mr. Bucket will be removed from the game.

The full combat system refactor has been rolled out and is under close watch for any issues. The goal is to keep combat as stable as possible, through responding to bugs & issues as fast as possible. The rewrite has enabled the new combat content to be developed significantly faster than before. Right now the Protagonist units are getting an expanded set of abilities, about 9 in total, that will be uncovered by the player as they progress and selectable from within their home. Additionally there’s a known error in the Tro’s Lab boss fight, which is in development, and should be completed soon.

Saves are compatible

Changes

• Options menu enabled during combat
• Temporally removed construction of normal buildings

Fixes

• Fixed the new shader not working
• Fixed a dungeon event not giving the player a message when used
• Fixed a dialogue error with the captain
• Fixed building slots disappearing after removing the building
• Fixed there being a jump rock on the manta transport in the dungeon
• Fixed Holstaur Milk Run "Mad Milk" variant 100-fold damage error
• Fixed a bug when mating crab/chirema with a male monster/player not creating an egg
• Fixed monster’s born thinking that they were related to everyone
• Fixed some album tiles having the wrong name for their scene
• Fixed a Holstaur scene appearing when you filter by cat
• Fixed when leaving the barn it puts the player inside a fence
• Fixed the seed selection window not scrolling
• Fixed the hollow sprite not being perfectly synced with the player’s
• Fixed one of the tiles having the potential to block your path with clutter
• Fixed some collisions on the forest tileset
• Fixed the texture swapper displaying the scene black and white
• Fixed a variety of barn related bugs
• Fixed some of the old farm code causing problems with the new code
• Fixed some HD related bugs
• Potentially fixed seed and eggs not being removed from inventory

Camellia's third ability can target friends OR foes!

You're all familiar with the minigame already implemented into Kiram's Take Aim ability, and that mechanic will now be applied to all of his abilities, with the effectiveness of his shots depending on how well you aim. The Fuse will burn down at the same rate as the sliding of the aiming target symbol across your screen, and immediately glow and shake when you fire.

Camellia, being the sultry seductress that she is, uses HEAT in her abilities. The first two of her abilities generate levels of heat, priming her audience for the big finish, where as her second two abilities spend heat, and the more heat that you've built up with her, the more potent the abilities are!

Kreyton's new mechanic, rather than being based around whether or not she's stronger than her foes and by how much, will be based around how HANGRY she is. When she's low on food, she's more hangry, and will deal and take more damage, but when she's satiated, she'll be tougher, but slower. Having her use her lunch time ability, or eating food items from the inventory, will improve her satiation, while using abilities will decrease it.

Garst's mechanic is based around him dying over and over again, even sacrificing himself to deal massive amounts of damage to his foes. He can't simply die again and again without consequences however! He has to recharge his ectoplasmic energies otherwise he really will just be knocked out of the fight! His UI indicates when it is safe to allow him to die, or to suicide him.

You should all be familiar with Fio's mechanic, but she'll be getting some spiffy new vega style animations for when she hits jack pot or rigged roll!

We've described her abilities before, but as a reminder, Goldra will have a minigame where you have to hit specific parts on a bar as a marker runs along it, and avoid tapping during other potions. If you managed to hit one of 'hits' then she'll maintain her speed, if you hit all of them, then her speed will increase. As she gets faster and faster, she'll gain more and more buffs, including multi-attack, swiftness increases, and evasion bonuses. The faster she goes, the more powerful the buffs will get. Every 3 buffs, she'll go up a grade on her meter, letting you know that the strength of the buffs have increases.

When Kaleida's turn pops, she's able to assign buffs or debuffs to each of her abilities! When the ability is uses, the card disappears, and next turn she can draw a new card to replace it. These buffs and debuffs can be assigned to any of the abilities, meaning you have to be careful with her powers. Some of the buffs she can give are quite potent, things such as Invulnerability. All of her buffs and status effects last for a single turn.

Spurple actually made up an entire arcana specifically for Kalieda! Each one corresponding to a specific buff or debuff.

Saves are compatible

Additions

• Added fence visuals to the farm
• Added grass visuals to the farm
• Added an outline shader to see the player behind other objects, such as buildings

Fixes

• Fixed UI & Ambience volume not saving correctly
• Fixed Hothouse UI having incorrect z-sorting of the name selection
• Fixed Tend hotkey not working
• Fixed Q not closing the new seed window
• Fixed the double UI bug with the options
• Potentially fixed the infinite battle loop

Last time's winner was Jubelle x Tab, both of them have a bunch of votes, but they just trounced the competition this time.

Vote will close next monday when the next one goes up.

Rules and Previous Winners Can Be Found Here.

Currently working on properly implementing the Arc 1, Part 2 boss, when you forget to disable the special critical-kill effects, it leads to hilarity.

Saves are compatible

Additions

• Added the new farm UI
• Added new seed selection ui

Changes

• Healing buffs will now apply at start of turn, negative buffs at end of turn
• Simplified the mine location for the story, there is no side dungeon anymore
• The game will now pause when unfocused/in background
• Farming hotkeys are auto assigned

Removed

• Removed the old seedbox inplace of the new system

Saves are compatible

Changes

• Changed various item descriptions to make them clearer
• Changed some items to make them monster only

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where audio levels were not saving/loading
• Fixed an error being thrown with mouse movement
• Fixed possible break in story for winning the cat fight
• Fixed the black fade in the main menu for sex scenes, not covering the entire screen
• Fixed sprite sex not loading
• Fixed <playername> sometimes showing up instead of the player’s name
• Fixed some events on the forest tiles spawning outside the tile.
• Fixed the outline for fertilizer on crops not being there
• Fixed Brontide’s odd movement when following the player
• Fixed Evan’s sprite not being in the party window

Previous winners were Vitos (Crossover Character) x Simon for the MxM NPC vote.

You can find the rules and previous winners here

Voting will close this upcoming saturday.

Saves are compatible

Changes

• Updated the logo on the main menu
• Can now use either ESC or Q to close UIs

Fixes

• Fixed abilities not showing details in the party window
• Fixed protag not showing up during battle.
• Fixed not being able to unlock Kaleida HD scene
• Fixed Kaleida scene not working
• Fixed in-precision when using mouse movement with crop plots

Saves are compatible

Additions

• Added Evan X Kaleida
• New Main Menu graphics

Fixes

• Fixed a combat BG not loading
• Fixed not being able to select enemies at certain resolutions
• Fixed a visual issue with pop-up text of post milking text
• Fixed no music playing
• Fixed some volume sliders starting at 0 audio level
• Fixed some dialogue getting cut off
• Fixed not being able to farm
• Fixed colliders on the farm
• Fixed z-sorting with the eggs
• Fixed the player’s name tag not matching their location
• Fixed a camera pop-in/out in Cloverton
• Fixed story not progressing past day 2

Saves are compatible

Fixes

• Fixed the album code not working

Over half year of work on specifically this, with Ursa Senior, with Kodex's assistance and guidance on older systems, to bring about the combat refactor and rip out all the old, clunky systems and bring this about. We've not updated our progress meters, not until the next build, once we get an idea of how stable these changes are.

Ursa is moving on to installing the processes for the NPC companions, and we are looking into advancing the story line once again, to get us through the end of arc 1 if nothing else, with writing finished for the story's primary arcs written out, if not implemented, by the end of Summer!

Saves are compatible

• Added the combat refactor. Note: this may not be bug free but it is the new and improved code base that we will working with
• Combat Refactor systems resulted in the following major & ancillary changes:
  • Improved
    • Reworked all enemy, ally and monster abilities to perform their intended function (some may still cause issues. They will be fixed ASAP as errors are reported)
    • This includes some abilities that were never fully implemented before including: Harpy, Centaur, Chimera, Brontide & Goldra
    • Ability target selection will correctly prompt you for which targets are valid
    • Damage & healing calculation reworked
    • Healing value will now be reflected in the ability tooltip by it's range minimum heal (a HP value) to maximum heal (a % of the target's HP)
    • Unit damaged & screen shake effect is more controlled
    • Combat unit shadow blending & unit shadow will be turned off during abilities while we work on an artistic solution
    • Better performance & memory usage in battle scenes
  • Fixes
    • Healing, crits, misses and resists will now appear as floating text similar to hit damage numbers
    • Units in combat no longer have their base stats doubled (Physique, Defence, etc.)
    • Boss units will no longer scale based on dungeon floor number
    • More rigid rules and timing for battle Win/loss condition
    • Dead units should no longer have their turn under any circumstances
  • Added
    • Single-attack abilities that randomly selected a fixed number of enemies (but not all enemies) will now be targetable. Damage will splash to units nearest to the target selected
    • "Ring out" effect for when an enemy is over-killed
• Added the first pass of the Farm Refactor. This is very much incomplete and we will be doing updates incrementally so we can push bug fixes without long waiting periods
  • Improved
    • Updated farm visuals for both the island itself and the fields
  • Added
    • Roads

One of our new hires, Atnas, is working on speeding up our dungeon tile pipeline, starting with experimenting with Blender, Graphics Gale, and Photoshop to see if we can speed things up using 3d to 2d conversion software.

With soundwork done by Lewd K!

With sound work done by Lewd K.

With sound work done by Lewd K!

Some of you will have already seen these but we got finished with an art trade with Ryo Agawa (Nsfw Link) and wanted to share it here as well! You guys should definitely go have a look at his stuff, we'll be adding Tora and Polar Bear from his Anthro Gym character set!

Our Animators and Spurple do a lot of back and forth to get the faces just right in each keyframe.

Save Break dude to changes to how time functions, as well as previous changes and how they interact with saves, dungeon states, and similar, given that we are unsure how much of that was from save transfers from bug reporters. Given these issues, we're establishing a save break.

Changes

• Time no longer progresses when in a story area
• Reduced the money gained from chests by about 50%
• Changed the spawn rate of chests, resource, crops nodes
• Changed the default UI volume to 100%
• Minor polish to part 1 of act 1

Fixes

• Fixed 28 being listed twice in the character creator
• Fixed no equip sfx upon equipping an item
• Fixed many issues related to the hot house
• Fixed item’s losing their quality
• Fixed monster’s losing their knowledge of their ancestors
• Fixed some text rendering in the trait window
• Fixed when returning to katarina station it removes your party
• Fixed child of the wind giving the wrong stat

Some saves/output logs showed different errors than the last bug fix, when errors change that means progress, this versions fixes the errors that Kodex found.

Saves are compatible

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the dungeon was not generating the correct doors

Quick fix Kodex got out when he had a sudden flash of inspiration on what was going wrong with the dungeon code for the purposes of moving between floors.

Saves are compatible

Fixes

• Fixed a dungeon load bug that broke dungeon levels. There is not a guarantee that this would work on older saves, but it should always work on a fresh one.

Recent discussions have lead us to realizing the economy is not functioning as intended, and with that in mind, we've made some tweaks to both how monster sales work, egg sales work, and the breeding system.

Now, the breeding system should be much more straight forward, with upgrades to traits happening far more regularly, and domesticity making it far less of a randomizing factor, and more of a stabilizing one. We've also added ways for players to fine tune the domesticity of their monsters through different kinds of breeding. Traits will always upgrade if the parents have the same trait at the same grade, but if they have the same trait at different grades, then it will randomly pick a value between those grades. Traits upgraded by either being set up by a Song Tube in a Gramophone, or by both parents having the same trait at the same grade, will not be able to be randomly upgraded due to domesticity, but traits that are guaranteed to be passed on (by both parents having the same trait at different grades) will still be able to be randomly upgraded.

In terms of monster sales, we've changed the system to give more weight to player control, with monsters gaining much higher values as they are trained and fed. In addition, there will be a request board added in future versions that will give much higher rewards and ignore domesticity entirely if the requirements are met, leading to much higher values, especially in monsters with lots of gold traits to begin with.

Saves are compatible

Additions

• Added Evan X Male Harpy Loop

Changes

• When breeding the same species with each other domesticity they lose 20
• Starting monsters now have 30 Domesticity
• Breeding a monster with a human now gives 20 instead of 40 domesticity
• Breeding monsters with the same trait, with the same value, will always result in a grade up.
• Increased the starting money to 200
• Changed all the underlying breeding code for traits so it should be more sensible and obvious in effect.
• Yonten no longer buys eggs, so you now have to wait for the egg buyer
• Redid the valuation of monsters*
• Reduced the price of eggs to 30
• Removed the time it takes for a monster to become full value

Fixes

• Fixed trait grade not displaying

*The new math is 100 + (Total Stats) + (50 * Level) + [(Trait Calculation) * Dom * 0.01]
So if you have a monster with 50 Dom it would cost half of full value for traits

The trait calculation is:
Negative Trait: (3 ^ Grade) x -1
Common Trait: 2 ^ Grade
Uncommon Trait: 3 ^ Grade
Rare Trait: 4 ^ Grade

Work continues on the development of the new assets for the winter season, after all trees can't stay lush and green with all that snow around.

A brand new look into our new farm refactor field management UI featuring a more streamlined interface and better, easier stats. Importantly, this system is developed specifically to allow monsters to maintain it, the only part of the process that Ev will have to be involved in is planting.

This specific example is the maximum size a field might have, with 72 planting locations after being fully upgraded and having 4 plots adjacent to one another all converted into fields.

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