Today we’re back with a new devlog! In today’s devlog, we will talk about our beloved worker. We plan to make a few changes to the worker. What are the changes? Without further ado, let’s go to today’s devlog!
New Appearance So, we plan to change the look of the workers. We got this idea when we saw the workers who seemed to blend in with the visitors which made them look like other visitors. Therefore, we had an idea to make a worker uniform. So it will be easier to spot them.
New Female Workers Yup, we are also planning to add some female workers to the game. For now, the maximum number of workers you can recruit is 10, and they are all men. So, we are planning to replace 5 male workers with 5 female workers later. We want to deliver a fresh and more diverse impression with the addition of this female worker.
Apart from the two things above, we also made some adjustments to the existing animation such as the tree cutting animation, the water filling animation, and we are also preparing to add a new capability to the worker called cleaning the pond.
We are still working on these changes and also there are several feedbacks from the player regarding worker system and management that we need to discuss internally and try to prototype it. We hope everything goes well and we can show you this soon.
That’s it for today’s devlog. If you guys have any feedback or suggestions about Aquaculture Land, feel free to tell us. You can tell us in discussion section, reviews section, or maybe you can join to our Discord server.
We have very good news today! From August 17, 2020, until August 30, 2020, we’re joining Gamescom 2020!
Really excited, right?
Gamescom is a trade fair for video games held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Gamescom is used by many video game developers to exhibit upcoming games and game-related hardware.
We have a virtual booth there. And we brought Aquaculture Land. We will do live streams like let's play and talk shows during Gamescom. We will play Career Mode, Free Mode, and talking about anything related to the game. And maybe some next update too!
So, if you come to this event, don't forget to visit our booth and say hi :D You can find our virtual booth at the Indonesian pavilion and all you have to do is search for the name of our studio, Maulidan Games.
For more details about Gamescom 2020, you can check the website at https://www.gamescom.global/
But, not only that, the next good news is that as long as we participate in Gamescom 2020, we will give you a special offer of 10% off sale for Aquaculture Land! So, for the next 2 weeks, you can buy Aquaculture Land with a 10% discount, isn't that great?
It’s a good time to buy Aquaculture Land since we just updated the Career Mode to the game. So, that’s why don’t miss this chance to buy Aquaculture Land and feel the experience of being an aquaculture businessman.
Not only Aquaculture Land, but our other games are also joining the special offer! We have a 50% off sale for our other games, you should check it out!
Legion Tale
Take part in the story set in Agia, a continent inflicted with conflicts between two races. Join Alan, a young man from Scarleta who leads a small legion of warriors, to take over the reign of Dark Lord. Find the true reason behind the conquest for Agia in this tactical turn-based game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/604040/Legion_Tale/
Multishop Tycoon Deluxe
Multishop Tycoon Game lets you start and grow your company and become a food business tycoon. This is a simplified business model of food selling shop network. Earn the optimum profit as best as you can. To make it true, try your best to make your stuff sold out every day, take advantage of the opportunity, sharpen your sales and business skill, train all your sellers, also use all promotion media. https://store.steampowered.com/app/568780/Multishop_Tycoon_Deluxe/
Lobster Empire
Lobster Empire is a game in which you build up your own lobster business, developing better fishing techniques and ways to create long-lasting and profitable lobster resources. https://store.steampowered.com/app/665960/Lobster_Empire/
We’ll be waiting for you guys! See you at Gamescom 2020! Cheers!
Hotfix Update Version 0.8.1
Hello guys.
We're really sorry for the problem that you found in the last update. Today we have good news about it. We already fixed it. It took awhile because we also fixed some other bugs.
Thank you so much for your patient. So here are the changes for this new update:
Gameplay
Remove feed fish from pond context menu. Feed fish will always be done by workers automatically.
Bug Fixes
Fix Steam achievement not working on 64-bit version (If you already met the requirement, you need to do the requirement for unlocking the achievement one more time and after that you will get the achievement).
Fix some misplaced tutorial guides.
Fix some tutorial texts are not translated correctly.
Fix bug where fish that were already set to be harvested/trashed can still be selected by using shift + click.
Fix bug if there are missing harvest or trash work from queue on load game.
Fix duplicated work queue because of clicking harvest all multiple times.
Fix auto harvest will create multiple identical work queue if there is no worker assigned.
Fix some bugs that can happened if any work canceled while the game is paused.
Fix bug canceling auto cut bush can make some bushes are unable to cut automatically anymore.
Fix behavior for selecting fish using shift+click and mouse drag in pond menu.
Fix some bugs that can happened if worker fired while they're working.
UI/UX
Remove item card for breeding in Journal Map in the Career Mode.
Besides the changes above, we also change the information in the popup message info in the main menu (popup that appears when you going to or going back to the main menu). We try to make the information more clear about the changes.
We also still have some known issues that we're still trying to fix.
Known Issues
There is a rare chance that you can't build your pond because it blocked by something invisible.
There is still a chance that the sign of the same work appears in one place.
If you find any of those known issues or other issues, or maybe you have feedback or suggestions about the game, please feel free to tell us.
Thank you. Have a good day.
Urgent Issue Regarding Achievement
Hello guys. How are you today?
First of all we apologize for this inconvenience. There are two urgent things that we need to inform you.
Achievement Problem
Right now, there is a problem with the achievement. We got feedback that said even if you already reached the requirement to unlock the achievement, you will not get the achievement or the achievement will remain locked. After we check the problem, we found that the trigger of the achievement to the Steam is not working.
We're still trying to fix the problem right now. But don't worry, the recording for the requirements you have obtained are still saved. So, after we fix the problem, you just need to trigger the achievement by doing the requirement one more time and you will get the achievement.
We will inform you immediately if we already fix the problem. We will do our best to solve the problem as soon as possible.
State of the Career Mode
The second things we need to tell you is the state of the current Career Mode. There are a few things to note for the current version of Career Mode that have been missed to mention:
The current version of the Career Mode is still not the full version yet. You will only be able to unlock 3 customer (Bernard, Eddy, and Fin) in the current version.
The maximum level of each customers you can reach is level 5
We will still keep updating the Career Mode. We will do it gradually. There are still more story and kind of customer request that we will add to the Career Mode.
We also make a changelog thread about version 0.8.x in the discussion. So, if you want to know what changes are there in version 0.8.x you can check this discussion.
Thank you. Have a good day.
Career Mode Come into The Main Branch! - Update version 0.8.1
Hi guys! How are you today?
A few days ago, we created a thread in the discussion section about a teaser that we move Career Mode to the main branch after the positive feedback and suggestions we got from you in 'beta Career Mode' branch. Thank you very much for your support. We really appreciate it.
And today, we have a new update for Aquaculture Land! We have moved version 0.8.1 to the main branch to replace version 0.7.11!
So for those of you who haven't had the chance to try Career Mode version 0.8.1 in the 'beta Career Mode' branch before, now all you have to do is update your Aquaculture Land and you can immediately try playing Career Mode.
We still have a lot of homework that needs to be done based on your feedback and suggestion. After this update, besides we are working on our own update list, we will also be working on your feedback and suggestion list.
Career Mode
If you have tried Career Mode in the 'beta Career Mode' branch, the Career Mode that we updated to this main branch (version 0.8.1) is more or less the same as the one in the 'beta Career Mode' branch.
In this version 0.8.1 in the main branch, we bring back Free Mode into the game. And in version 0.8.1, there are also some new things (especially the gameplay and features) that might look and feel different from version 0.7.11.
Customer Request
In version 0.7.11, to get money, aside from selling fish to the market, you must complete an order from a customer. The customer will ask you to give them amount of fish according to the order and if you can complete the order according to the requirement and before the deadline runs out, you will get a reward.
Order in version 0.7.11
But in version 0.8.1, it becomes different. Customers are no longer just order number of fish, but they will give you a variety of requests, we called it “Customer Request”. There is a request that needs you to deliver an amount of fish to the customer, there is also a request asking you to sell your fish to the market.
Besides getting money for the rewards, by completing requests from customers, you will also get exp. point for Customer Relationship Level.
Customer Request in version 0.8.1
A New Way to Unlock
Another thing that’s different in version 0.8.1 is a way to unlock something. In version 0.7.11, everything about unlocking is related to the farm level. When the farm level reaches a certain level then you can unlock something new.
Progress in version 0.7.11
With the Customer Relationship Level system in version 0.8.1, everything about unlocking things will be related to the level of your Customer Relationship. You have to reach a certain level from a certain customer if you want to unlock something.
In version 0.8.1, there is also a new feature called the Journal Map. This Journal Map is a place if you want to see how's your progress so far. Journal Map is also a place where you can unlock something new, whether it unlocks new features, commodity licenses, or equipment.
Journal Map in version 0.8.1
Free Mode
In version 0.8.1 before (when it was still in ‘beta 'Career Mode' branch), we disabled the Free Mode feature because we want you to focus on trying Career Mode. But with this update, we have reactivated the Free Mode feature so that you who want to play Aquaculture Land with certain conditions or states can try it out.
For Free Mode in version 0.8.1 will be different from version 0.7.0. We're adjusting the Free Mode with the existing features (Career Mode features).
In this Free Mode, you can choose your starting condition such as equipment availability, feature availability, and customer availability. You can choose to start the game in a normal way (all things locked) or unlocked it all.
Move version 0.8.1 into Main Branch
As mentioned above, version 0.8.1 is different from version 0.7.11 both in terms of features or gameplay because of Career Mode.
There is a thing to note if you want to play version 0.8.1 on the main branch: The Career Mode version is using a different save file format, so you need to play a clean start from new game. We hope you can understand this.
We don't completely remove version 0.7.11. We just move it to another branch. So, if you still want to play version 0.7.11, you can follow the steps here (in the second comments).
There are still 5 more types of customer requests and the continuation of the story on Career Mode that we will update into the game. We hope we can show it to you soon.
That’s it for today’s update news, we will end it here so those of you who haven't tried Career Mode, can try it right away. If you have any suggestions or feedback about today’s update, feel free to tell us. We hope you will enjoy playing Aquaculture Land with today’s update.
*notes: - The Career Mode version is using a different save file format, so make sure you make a backup for your current save files if you still want to play version 0.7.11 - The current version of the Career Mode is still not the full version yet. You will only be able to unlock 3 customer in the current version. - The maximum level of each customers that you can reach is level 5
It's Summer Sale Time! 10% Off Sale For Aquaculture Land!
Hello.
We’re back again with good news for all of you. Summer sale is here! And it’s time for giving you guys a 10% off sale for Aquaculture Land! Yes, Aquaculture Land is joining this Summer Sale 2020!
From June 25, 2020, until July 9, 2020 you’ll have a 10% discount for buying Aquaculture Land! Mark the date guys! Make sure you don’t miss it!
It’s a good time to buy Aquaculture Land since we just updated the Career Mode to the game (you can see the details here). But you need to own the Early Access version first if you want to try the Career Mode. So, that’s why don’t miss this chance to buy Aquaculture Land and feel the experience of being an aquaculture businessman.
Not only Aquaculture Land, but our other games are also joining the Summer Sale 2020 too! We have a 50% off sale for our other games, you should check it out!
Legion Tale
Take part in the story set in Agia, a continent inflicted with conflicts between two races. Join Alan, a young man from Scarleta who leads a small legion of warriors, to take over the reign of Dark Lord. Find the true reason behind the conquest for Agia in this tactical turn-based game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/604040/Legion_Tale/
Multishop Tycoon Deluxe
Multishop Tycoon Game lets you start and grow your company and become a food business tycoon. This is a simplified business model of food selling shop network. Earn the optimum profit as best as you can. To make it true, try your best to make your stuff sold out every day, take advantage of the opportunity, sharpen your sales and business skill, train all your sellers, also use all promotion media. https://store.steampowered.com/app/568780/Multishop_Tycoon_Deluxe/
Lobster Empire
Lobster Empire is a game in which you build up your own lobster business, developing better fishing techniques and ways to create long-lasting and profitable lobster resources. https://store.steampowered.com/app/665960/Lobster_Empire/
We’ll be waiting for you guys! Cheers!
Devlog 14 - Fulfill Your Customer Needs Through Customer Request
Hello!
Back again with Aquaculture Land devlog. For your information, last week we just updated Career Mode to Aquaculture Land. It is still a short version of Career Mode, but there are new kinds of things you can try like a new way to take requests from your customers, new type of request, and more. You can see the details here.
And today we will discuss the main features of the redesign that we do on the Career Mode, the customer request system. As we mentioned before, in this new design, all things will be more customer-centric. Your goal in playing Aquaculture Land is to build relationships with your customers. You will have a customer relationship level that shows how close you are to the customer. And to raise this level of customer relationship, you have to complete requests from customers.
Main Request and Repeatable Request
In this new design, requests from customers will be divided into 2, "Main Request" and "Repeatable Request". Main Request is a request related to the story of the game and you can only do it once, whereas Repeatable Request is a request that you can take repeatedly to raise your customer relationship level with existing customers.
There are 2 types of Main Request, Unique Request and Customer Request. And for Repeatable Requests only the Customer Request.
Unique Request
Unique Request is a request in the form of a scenario that you will only encounter for the purposes of the story. It's a little bit different from Customer Request type which directly involved with the customer, unique request more towards a thing that you need to do besides fulfilling the request from customers.
Unique Request: Reach Relationship Level 2 on Bernard.
Customer Request
Customer Request is a type of request related to the main features that are involving customers such as customer orders, market, and visitors (fishing). Actually there are 7 types of Customer Requests we design for the game. But, we only implemented 2 of them in the short version of Career Mode. And that 2 types of Customer Requests are Urgent Order and Market Demand.
Customer Request: Urgent Order Request
Urgent Order Request is a type of customer request in which customer will request an amount of fish to you. If you have played Aquaculture Land before, you will be familiar with this type of request. You just need to pay attention to the weight required and the minimum average quality of the fish.
Customer Request: Market Demand Request
Market Demand Request is one of the new types of customer requests. This request is a customer request which is related to the market. Before, we already implemented a feature called market demand where if you are selling one kind of fish to the market too often, their market demand will decrease, and that will affect their market price (the lower the market demand is, the lower the market price becomes).
Market Demand Request needs you to decrease the demand of the fish to a certain point, according to the target demand of the request.
Later, the types of Customer Requests will be spread among existing customers. There will be some customers who have requests that are related to customer orders and some that are related to the market and visitors.
Every time you’ve completed the request, you will get a customer relationship exp. and some money for rewards. You can raise the customer relationship level for each customer this way. And when customer relationship level reaches a certain point, you can unlock some features or items. A little sneak peeks, you will get something special if you can reach level 10 (max level) of your customer relationship level.
There are 5 types of Customer Requests that we still working on. Another request related to order, another quest related to market demand, and other 3 types of customer requests related to the visitor. But, let's talk about it another time, okay?
So, this will be the end of today’s devlog. We hope this new main feature will make you more enjoy and feel more challenged when playing Aquaculture Land. And as we mentioned before, we already implemented these new features on Career Mode. So, if you want to know how are these new features, make sure you try the Career Mode.
And as always, if you have any suggestions or feedback about these new features or maybe about the game, feel free to tell us. That will really help us to make Aquaculture Land better so you can more enjoy to play it.
It's Here Now! Try The Career Mode of Aquaculture Land!
Hello. How’s your day guys?
First of all, we want to say thank you so much for all of your support so far, we really appreciate it. Thank you so much for buy and play our game, for giving us your feedback and suggestions, for helping us make Aquaculture Land become better and better.
Today, we have good news for all of you! After these few weeks, we're focused on new game mode for Aquaculture Land, finally we can show it to you guys. Yup, today you can try the Career Mode of Aquaculture Land!
The thing to note, the version that we show you today is the short version of Career Mode. It's just like a demo version for the Career Mode. We make it short because it is also a proof of concept for the new design. We want to know whether the new design that we have implemented for this Career Mode is good enough for you or not.
In some devlog before, we once talked that we were doing redesign to the core game of Aquaculture Land. That design is what we implemented into this Career Mode. In this new gameplay design, all things will be more customer-centric. We do it because we want to make the goal of this game is you need to make a good relationship with the customers in your town.
So, what's in this short version of Career Mode? Without further ado, let's check it out!
Story About You and Your Customer
In this Career Mode, you will be presented with stories about your journey in building an aquaculture business and how you build relationships with your customers. You need to make your relationship with your customers closer if you want to grow your business.
New Way To Unlock Things
In the previous version, you need to increase your farm level to unlock something. But, in this new version, you need to increase your customer relationship level if you want to unlock something new. And also, to unlock something, whether it unlocks commodity licenses or equipment, you will do it through a new feature called Journal Map. In the Journal Map, you can also see your progress so far.
A Customer Request You Need To Fulfill
Customers are no longer just order number of fish you need to fulfill, but they will give you a variety of requests. There is a request that needs you to deliver amount of fish to the customer, there is also a request asking you to sell your fish to the market.
For this short version, there will be 2 types of customer requests you will meet, urgent order request and target market demand request. Do you want to know what it is like? Go try the Career Mode now!
Access The Career Mode
We're really excited to show you this new mode of Aquaculture Land. We really want to know what you guys think about it. We hope with this new mode, Career Mode, you will feel new experience when playing Aquaculture Land. And of course, we hope you will feel more enjoyable when playing it.
Try this Career Mode version, with this few steps:
Right-click on Aquaculture Land in your Steam client and click properties.
Click Betas tab.
In “Select the beta” dropdown menu, choose beta career mode.
Click close and you’re ready to play the short version of Career Mode.
For now, you need to buy the Early Access version of Aquaculture Land if you want to try the short version of Career Mode. We're doing this because this is one of our ways to say thank you to our supporters that buy the Early Access version. So, if you haven't buy Aquaculture Land yet, you need to buy it first.
Looks like the news is already long enough, we will end it here so you can try the Career Mode right away. And as usual, if you guys have any feedback or suggestions about this Career Mode version (or maybe about the game as well), feel free to tell us in the discussion section. Or you can join our Discord channel, you can click the link below.
- Currently, available language for the Career Mode is English & French. Chinese is still in progress. We will update it regularly later when everything has been translated. - The Career Mode version is using a different save file format, so make sure you make a backup for your current save files. - The Career Mode version is a little bit unstable. If you find any bug or something wrong with the game, please tell us (you can tell us through the discussion section or join our Discord Channel).
Development Recap of Aquaculture Land - Ver. 0.7.11(3)
Hello. How are you today?
First of all, we really want to say thank you very much to all of you that buy our game, play our game, give us your feedback or suggestion about the game, give us your reviews, and for all of your support so far. We really appreciate it.
It has been almost a year since Aquaculture Land has been released to Steam Early Access. And during that time, Aquaculture Land continues to grow. Thanks to all your feedback and suggestions, we can make Aquaculture Land better.
At this time, Aquaculture Land has reached version 0.7.11 (3). Lots of changes have occurred when compared to the initial version. Especially in terms of appearance and of course the existing features.
So without further ado, this is the current version of Aquaculture Land!
Thematic Pixel Art UI
The thematic pixel art UI is a new UI design we tried for Aquaculture Land. We decided to make this kind of design when we want to change the UI design at that time. We got feedback and suggestions about the design of the UI that a little not match with the theme of the game. At first, we just wanted to change the color but then our artist team had an idea to try pixel art design for the UI. We are going to change the design of the UI, so why not try something new? We also make a survey about the design and we’re very glad to know that you guys like this thematic pixel art design
Customer Bond Level
Changes to the order system are our first step to redesign the core games and goals of Aquaculture Land. Later, your goal in playing Aquaculture Land is to build relationships with your customers. By completing the request that they give, your relationship level (we will call it "Customer Bond Level") will increase and as the Customer Bond Level increases, you can unlock something new (fish, items, features like breeding and fishing, etc. ).
So in addition to getting money as a reward after fulfilling customer orders and exp points for the farm level, you will also get exp points for raising customer bond levels. But for now, we haven't added an unlocking system via the customer bond level yet, the unlocking system still depends on the farm level.
Worker for Helping You Manage Your Farm
Worker will do the farm job for you. By default, worker will automatically do their job such as maintaining equipment, feeding fish, etc. But you can choose whether to make them stay self-initiative or player-directed in doing something.
You can also recruit more workers to make it easier for you to manage your garden. In total there are 10 workers that you can recruit with different points on each status.
Deadline and Quality for Customer Orders
For the current version, we add several criteria to the order feature, quality and deadlines. Quality is a minimum requirement for fish that you can send for order and deadlines are a time limit that you can use to fulfill the order. With these two things, you'll be challenged to fulfill orders with a good quality and lots of fish within a certain period!
Breeding System
Breeding is a feature to make your fish have a better status. With the breeding feature, you can increase your fish seeds basic statuses such as growth, quality, and weight. Breeding is one of your solutions when you get a difficult order that needs a good quality or amount of fish within a certain period.
One thing to remember, only new fish seeds status that will change after the breeding process. If you have same species of fish on your pond with your chosen fish for breeding, that fish status won’t be affected.
Build Fishing Pond and Get Money From Your Visitor
Fishing pond is a feature that we make because we got feedback that said it takes a long time to receive some money from selling fish. And when you wait for your fish to be big enough for you to sell, you have no income. This fishing pond will be your steady stream of income. So, while you wait for your money from selling fish, you will still get some income from visitors that fish on your fishing pond.
Market Demand
Market demand is a feature we create to make the game more balanced. Before, if you want to get much money, it’s quite simple to do. You just need to raise fish with the highest selling price then sell it to the market. But we don't want you to only focus on one fish. We want to make it more balanced so that each fish has the same chance for you to raise.
With the market demand feature, the more often a fish is sold to the market, the lower its selling price becomes. So, if you only focus on selling 1 type of fish to the market, the less money you get from selling that fish. We hope with this adjustment, the fish that will be used by you will be more varied.
We already made a thread about the Early Access State of Aquaculture Land in the discussion. At that thread, we will always update the current state of Aquaculture Land. We also include a list of planned features that we will later implement in the game as well as features that we have implemented in the current version. You can check the thread here.
Right now we still work on new features for our next update. Just a little sneak peek, our new update will be a demo version of Campaign Mode. We’re so excited! We can't wait to show it to you! We hope everything goes well so we can show it to you soon.
This will be the end of this development recap. If you still put Aquaculture Land in your wishlist, make sure you buy and try Aquaculture Land now before our next update.
If you guys have any feedback or suggestions about Aquaculture Land, feel free to tell us. That will really help us. We always want to know what you think about Aquaculture Land, what do you feel about it. So, we can make it more enjoyable for you when you play the game.
Hello guys. How are you today? Hope you guys are doing well.
Today's devlog will talk about the town map. Town map is one of the important things from the new design for the core game that we are currently working on. A little insight, later on, your goal in playing Aquaculture Land is to build relationships with your customers. By completing the request that they give, your relationship level (we will call it "Customer Bond Level") will increase and as the Customer Bond level increases, you can unlock something new (fish, items, features like breeding and fishing, etc. ).
Town map will be a place where you can meet your customers. You can also see what requests are available for each customer. You can choose what requests you want to take through this town map. There will be 2 types of customer requests, main requests and repeatable requests.
Later, when you want to take customer requests, you just need to click on the customer icon and then choose the request. We use the building icon as a representation of the customer because each customer will come from various backgrounds. Chef, middleman, pharmacist, fish collector, and others.
Right now, we have started working on the new core game design. Our target for the next update is the campaign mode demo as well as trials for this new design. We hope we can show this new design as soon as possible. And we also hope that this new design can make you feel more challenged and more enjoy playing Aquaculture Land.
That’s it for today’s devlog. What do you think about the town map? Do you have any suggestions or feedback about it? Feel free to tell us about it. We always open to your feedback or suggestions. It's from your suggestions and feedback that we can make Aquaculture Land even better.
