So, for the past few weeks, our artist team is working to make a new UI design for Aquaculture Land. After doing some research on the UI design of several games, we thought that we need to update our UI.
We also remind you that for this Autumn Sale we give a 10% discount for Aquaculture Land. Not that bad, right? But the discount is only available from November 26, 2019 until December 3, 2019 @ 10am PST. So, you need to grab it fast so you won’t miss this chance!
Simplicity, Clean, Clarity. In making this new design, we want to create a design that gives the impression of simplicity, clean, and clarity. If the UI design was previously dominated by brown, this time the design will be more dominant to white, orange and dark blue. We also made a replacement of several UI to make it look more simple and clean. We also changed some designs to provide clarity about its usefulness.
Old Design
New Design
For now, we are in the process of implementing a new UI design into the game. We hope we can finish it soon so you can try it as soon as possible.
New Design of Main Menu
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New Design of Gameplay UI
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New Design of Menu Worker
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New Design of Breeding
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So, what do you think about this new UI design? Is it better than the previous design? Do you like it?
We want to present a UI design that is really easy to understand, doesn't overfill the screen, neat, and certainly good to see. That's why we need your suggestions and feedback about this new UI design so we can make it even better. So, feel free to tell us your suggestions and feedback about it.
Today we have good news for all of you guys that haven't buy Aquaculture Land yet. For this Autumn Sale , from November 26, 2019 until December 3, 2019 @ 10am PST, we give you 10% off sale for Aquaculture Land!
So, if you still wishlist Aquaculture Land, this time is the right time to buy Aquaculture Land and start to make your own fish farm! Build pond, nurturing fish, fulfill order, and sell your fish yields to the market.
Don't miss it! Go grab it fast and feel the experience of being a freshwater aquaculture businessman!
And don't forget to vote for us in Steam Awards for Labor of Love 2019 category. We will really appreciate it if you can help us by vote for us in this Steam Award (or maybe you have another category for us? ːsteamhappyː)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- We want to remind you that we already updated the game into version 0.7.10 in the experimental branch. This version will give you a custom game in Free mode. With this custom game, you can choose your starting conditions to play in Free Mode. There are several conditions that you can choose such as starting level, starting money, fish, and equipment. If you want to try the 0.7.10 version, you need to try it in experimental branch (you can check here for more details about experimental branch).
We also already opened our Discord server to public. We want to get closer with the community, we want to talk a lot with you guys, that's why we opened our Discord to public. We can talk a lot about anything related to the game in there. You can tell us your feedback or suggestions. If you want to join our Discord server, you can join here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC
We want to say thank you to all of you that keep supporting us. Thank you for all of your feedback, suggestions, and reviews this far, we really appreciate it. But we still can make Aquaculture Land better. So, if you have any suggestions feedback, or maybe if you can give us your reviews about the game, that will really help us with development.
Have a good day. Cheers!
Aquaculture Land is Still in Early Access! (Resolved)
Update: Our problem is already solved. Aquaculture Land is already back to Early Access. Thank you for the Steam team that helps us to solve this problem. And thank you so much for all of you guys who keep supporting us. Time to back to the development!
If you guys just buy Aquaculture Land because of the incident, we're sorry for the inconvenient. And if you have any suggestions, feedback, or even reviews for the game, feel free to tell us.
We got a problem. Right now, if you check on Aquaculture Land, the game already leaves early access or already fully released. But actually the state of the game is still in early access. We still find out why the game is suddenly changed from early access state into full release. We already contacted the steam support and asked if we can roll back the game into Early Access state.
We're really sorry to all of you that already buy Aquaculture Land because you think that the game is already full release. We hope we can fix this soon and bring back Aquaculture Land into Early Access state.
And maybe, If you have experienced this or you know how to fix this problem, please tell us.
Thank you.
Update 0.7.10(EX 1) - Custom Mode
Hello. How are you today?
Today we will discuss a new update that consists of custom mode. Before discussing further, we need to inform you that from today, every time we update the game that related balancing, features, redesign, etc, we will update the game in the experimental branch (you can read how to access experimental branch here).
We're doing this so that this new feature that we still need to test and get feedback won't affect the main build. So, until this feature is certain that there are no bugs or are completely stable, we will use the experimental branch for the updates.
Custom Mode So, Custom mode is an additional feature that we introduce in Free Mode. From the start, Free Mode was designed to make players can do whatever they want. They can try all the features that we have like Aerator, electricity source, fish, and other features available from the beginning of the game. But we feel that with the current situation, players will get bored quickly and some features such as diversity of pond equipment (aerator, electricity source, and filter) will not really be felt by the player.
So we planned to lock these features where later players could open them over time. That way the progression process will be felt. But if we do that, then the main purpose of the Free Mode (where players can freely try everything) will be limited. That's why we use custom mode ideas. With this feature, you can choose your starting conditions to play in Free Mode (like Sandbox Mode in general). There are several conditions that you can choose such as starting level, starting money, fish, and equipment.
We have updated these new changes to the experimental branch. If you want to try, you can access it in the experimental build branch (you can read how to access experimental branch here). Please use a different save file if you try the experimental build branch so it won't affect the save file from your main build branch.
Update 0.7.9(4) for Main Build We also update the main build into 0.7.9(4) version. In update 0.7.9 (4) we did some bug fixes that occurred in the previous version. We also do optimization on this version to prevent crashes.
If you find any bugs or you have suggestions and feedback about this new updates or anything about Aquaculture Land, feel free to tell us. Your feedback, suggestions, and reviews are an important thing to make Aquaculture Land better.
And if you don't know yet, now we've opened our Discord server. Come and join us! We can talk about all things related to the game. You can tell us all of your suggestions and feedback.
If you want to join our Discord server, you can join here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC
Devlog 09 - Visual Feedback (Pond Status Notification)
Hello. How’s your day?
Back again with Aquaculture Land devlog. And today, we’re still talking about visual feedback. Because for now (besides checking the core design and balancing the game) we’re focused on visual feedback to make the game more informative and juicier. One of our main goals for Aquaculture Land is it can be played by anyone, even for new players. That’s why we want to make the game informative so you guys will know all things you need to do to stay in the game.
Pond Status Notification Today’s visual feedback is about pond status notification. Every pond you build has several statuses. Dissolved oxygen, living space, acoustic comfort, and others. You need to make sure that the statuses meet the fish needs. If your pond’s statuses get lower than the fish needs, you will be shown a notification icon that tells you there’s something wrong with your pond. But when you already fix the problem, the icon will just suddenly disappear. We try to make visual feedback when the problem in your pool is resolved so you will know whether there is still a problem or not.
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Just like we said before, this is not our final art, this is still our experiment. So if you have any suggestions or feedback about today’s visual feedback, feel free to tell us. Is it good enough for you? Do you understand what’s going on if you find that new icon appears when you play the game? You can tell us all your thoughts about it.
And also, if you haven’t heard yet, we already opened our Discord server (we already post the news here). So, if you want to join our Discord server, you can join here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC
We can talk about anything related to the game there. You can ask anything about the game. So, come and join our Discord server.
That’s it for today’s devlog. We will continue our experiment for visual feedback. We still try to find the best way to show the visual feedback. We hope with this visual feedback you will be more enjoy playing Aquaculture Land.
First of all, we want to say thank you to all of you that keep supporting us this far. All of your feedback and suggestions are very helpful in development of Aquaculture Land. We really appreciate it.
So far, we already implement some of your feedback and suggestions into Aquaculture Land and that makes the game better. We want to get more feedback and suggestions from you guys, that’s why we want to be closer with you. We’re inviting you to join our Discord server. We hope with this move, we become easier to talk to each other.
You can join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC
But don’t worry, we can still talk through steam discussion too. We just want to be closer to all of you guys. We want to make Aquaculture Land better together with you. We can talk about a lot of things there. One of the topics that we want to talk to you is visual feedback. Because we’re focused on experimenting with visual feedback for now (besides we're checking the core design and balancing the game), we will talk a lot about it. We'll often post our experiment about visual feedback. But you can ask about anything too. We’ll be waiting for you to join our Discord server.
For this whole week, our artist team has experimented with making visual feedback for Aquaculture Land. Visual feedback is one of things that is lacking in Aquaculture Land. We realized this after watching some streamer or YouTuber playing the game. They don’t know what is happening with their farm. And we also want to make the game more juicy by adding visual feedback.
Dead Fish animation
The first visual feedback that is made by our team artist was animation when the fish died. Before, when your fish died, an emoticon bubble will come out then your fish gone (basically the emoticon will tell you your fish condition). But we feel like only show emoticon bubble won’t be enough. We still need something that will show you when the fish died. Then we try to make some animation, dead fish animation, that will come out when your fish died.
Bush animation
In Aquaculture Land, bush is something that will grow in your farm over time. If you don’t cut it frequently, bush will fill your farm and make you unable to build pond. We already make a pop-up animation for the bush. But when the bush is being cut and when the bush disappears, there is still no animation. That’s why this time we make visual feedback about it, animation when the bush is being cut and disappear.
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Tree Animation
The next one is animations for tree. Just like bush, trees also make you unable to build pond. The difference is if you cut down tree, it won’t grow again. We also make animations for visual feedback when the tree is being cut and when it fall then disappear.
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We still experiment will all that visual feedback. We still try to find the best way to show the visual feedback for every single thing that can help player to understand their current condition and to make the game juicier.
Because we still experiment with it, if you have any feedback or suggestions about it, feel free to tell us in the comment section below or in the discussion.
Last week, after we launch version 0.7.9 to main build, we got feedback that said the game become harder (in a bad way). Before, we try to balance the economic system by adding new features such as upkeep costs and fish license tax. We also make you pay an amount of money to breed fish and to buy fish licenses so you can unlock new fish. And at the end of the week and month, you will pay expenses from all those features. But once again, just like the feedback said, that makes the game become harder in a bad way.
Coming with this patch, we try to reduce the expenses by removing the fish license tax. So, for expenses, you just need to pay the upkeep cost. We also change the paid time from weekly and monthly to monthly only. One of the reasons why we change to monthly only because we got feedback that said the expenses has come too quickly. Before they can make some money from their fish, they already told to pay some expenses. We try to recheck it and then decided to remove the weekly expenses.
Another issue that we got from the feedback is the crash issue. We also try to fix the crash issue in this patch. The crash issue was caused by a memory leak that happened while playing the game. We already tried to optimize the memory usage and did a few tests to prevent this from happening again. But, if you still encounter the crash issue, just let us know as soon as possible.
We also make a little change to the UI UX design. We rearrange the position of UI to make it more comfortable to look and use. We still try to find the best way to show every single UI in the game.
Balancing will be one of our concerns for now. We also rechecking the system design and still figuring out how’s the best way to deliver the system so every player will enjoy playing, even the new one. Lately, we want to try to add some notifications for every event that happens in the game. Because we think there are still many values and solutions for a problem that we haven't stated clearly. We hope that notifications will help player to know what’s going on and know what to do. We hope all of the changes that come with today’s patch will make you more comfortable and enjoy playing Aquaculture Land.
Last but not least, we want to say thank you so much for all your support. Thank you for playing our game, for giving us your honest reviews about the game, your feedback and suggestions, we really appreciate it. All of those things are really help us to make Aquaculture Land better.
As always, if you have any feedback or suggestions about the game, feel free to tell us in the discussion or in the comment section below. We will always wait for your feedback, suggestions, and reviews because those are important things to us.
Have a nice day. Cheers.
HALLOWEEN SALE!
Hello.
How are you?
First of all, we want to say thank you for all your support so far. All of your reviews, feedback, comment, and suggestion, that really helps us to make our games better. We really appreciate it.
And today, we have good news for all of you. We're joining Halloween Sale!
We have a discount sale for all of our games. But things to remember, this sale is only available from October 28, 2019 PST until November 01, 2019 PST. So, you need to grab it fast or you will miss the chance.
We will always open for your feedback and suggestion, feel free to tell us about that. And we will really appreciate it if you can leave us your reviews in our games. That really helps us. And please, keep supporting us from now on.
Have a nice day.
Cheers!
Halloween Sale is Here! 10% Off Sale!
Hello. How's your day?
First of all, we want to say thank you for keep supporting us this far. We really appreciate it.
The long week deals is already over. But don't worry, today we have good news for all of you. If you haven't buy Aquaculture Land, from October 28, 2019 until November 01, 2019, Aquaculture Land is joining Halloween Sale! We give you a 10% off sale!
So, if you miss the last long week deals for Aquaculture Land, this is a great time to buy Aquaculture Land! Grab it fast and get ready to feel the experience of being a freshwater aquaculture businessman.
Manage all things related to fisheries, produce some high-quality commodities, and fulfill the needs of your market to expand your business.
If you have any suggestions and feedback about Aquaculture Land, feel free to tell us in the comment section below or in the discussion. We really need your suggestion and feedback to make the game better. And we will really appreciate it if you can leave us your reviews about the game too, that will really help us.
We will do our best to make Aquaculture Land more enjoy to play. So please, keep supporting us from now on.
