'Steampunk' Creator Challenge - Vote for your favourites!
Equip those goggles, climb aboard the airship and come pick your favourites from our latest Creator Challenge!
Vote here: https://bit.ly/hokkochallenge20
And choose the next challenge theme here: https://bit.ly/hokkotheme21
Developer Update - January 2022 Dev Vlog
Hi folks!
We hope you're enjoying the Narrative Update so far. Have you got a favourite villager from the four new arrivals?
If you're curious to see 'behind the scenes' of the latest update, check out the latest dev vlog from Robert at Wonderscope Games!
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Hokko Life - Narrative Update Out Now!
Meet Yara, Juno, Roderick & Paula!
Check out our new trailer...
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That's right, there are FOUR new villagers to befriend! π€
The four new villagers are arriving in Hokko today as part of the Narrative Update!
This new update also includes:
- A new intro to the game π₯° - The ability to create furniture from pre-existing designs π¨
Full patch notes below - Enjoy! π
New
Completely reworked introduction to the game, initial progression and narrative.
Ability to create furniture from pre-existing designs
Four additional characters: Yara, Juno, Roderick and Paula
Changes
Added spring joints to villagers ears to make them springy
Community: Player created lights can now be turned on/off
Saving makes a backup which it will automatically restore from if the save process doesn't complete successfully
Replaced sprinting ring UI with sweat effect
Worked into villager heads, eyes, expressions
Enabled "look around" on villager eyes to add more life
Community: Added toggles for avatar freckles and cheek highlight
You can now move flowers placed indoors
Community: Balancing tweaks on Fishing Tournaments
Game now cleans up unused custom content files, reducing the size of large saves
Community: Added all community theme suggestions to the game for future creator challenges
Added thumbnails for hair styles in appearance screen
Community: Sleeping before 4am and choosing "next day" will sleep until 8am instead.
Objects loaded from saves now done in batches, speeding up loading times on heavy levels (like the Meadow)
Blueprints tweaks: Removed the small storage blueprint, tweaked size requirements on blueprints, small object will now always be placed on top of things, large object always placed under.
Blueprints now are unlocked through initial progression gameplay and so are removed from Carpenter Store
Fixes
Fixed popping lighting in Moss' shop
Villagers no longer rotate and become pushable while sitting on chairs in the Inn
Fixed bug where villagers would keep emoting & talking after you interrupt them during a conversation
Community: Improved placement of fishing chests
Community: Improved placement of weeds
Added "clean up" for weeds and chests that have ended up in a bad location
Community: Fixed issue causing detailed custom creations to be displayed incorrectly
Fixed camera popping
Community: Fix for undo queue issues on Painting Tool
Fixed awkward starting layout in Lazy villagers homes
Community: Better handling of interactables and furniture, in other words: you can now talk to people on bridges.
Fixed bug where a new save slot wouldn't be created if a directory with the new save slot's number already exists
Fixed bug where highlight marker would stay visible when boarding the train
Community: Improved placement of villagers in homes
Fix for floating visitors in Inn
Community: Workshop now goes transparent when player is behind it
Fix for being able to place things on stairs and bridges
Community: Fix for storage showing it has items when it's empty, preventing selling and use in design tool
Deleting a save slot when others exist will set the new active slot to the first slot, instead of an empty "new game" slot
Community: Fixed an issue where fish would ignore bait
Fixes for items getting lost in storage
Fix for issue causing some savedata to not get saved properly
We'd love to hear what you think of this new update and who your favourite new villager is!
Introducing the wonderful winning designs from the latest Creator Challenge! πΌ
Don't forget to grab these colourful creations from the Community Store!
The next theme is 'Steampunk' and you have until March 3rd! We can't wait to see what you create β€οΈ
'Spring' Creator Challenge - Vote for your favourites!
It's time to spring into action and pick your favourites from our latest Creator Challenge! πΌ
Vote here: bit.ly/hokkochallenge19
And choose the next challenge theme here: bit.ly/hokkotheme20
Community Event: Creative Fair 2022
The Creative Fair has arrived to give you the opportunity to push the boundaries of your creativity and showcase your creations in three themed activities to choose from that The Community Kittens team have prepared:
Cultural Exploration:
Design a room, clothing or object(s) of culture that is focused on your destination of choice
Lights, Camera, Action!
Recreate a scene, character costume or prop(s) from your favourite movie/show
Kaleidoscope:
Design a room, clothing or object(s) that bursts with colour. The brighter the better!
Rules: 1. Make sure all submissions are appropriate - no NSFW/Gore/Mature content will be accepted 2. Make sure all submissions are related to the category you are submitting to 3. By sharing the creation in your submission, you are confirming that you're the creator of it. (Your entry will be removed if we find out it's been made by someone else.) 4. Only one entry per person per category (Which means you can enter all the categories once)
How do I submit for the event? Use the form below to send in a screenshot of your creation. We'll be using screenshots to judge entries, you don't need to upload them to the Creator Catalogue.
How do I take a screenshot? - Use the ingame photo mode by pressing T (if KBM) or left on the D-Pad (For controller) then press the space bar (KBM) or A (controller) to take the picture. (Note: you can find your saved photos in your "My Documents folder" under "Hokko Life") - A screenshot tool such as Imgur, prntsc, windows snipping, etc. - You can use the steam screenshot feature by pushing F12 in-game and saving the image
Submit your entries here: https://bit.ly/hokkocreativefair2022
The Creative Fair event goes live on the 17th February and closes on the 7th March. Winners will receive a Β£20 Virtual Steam gift card, along with a unique discord role. There will be THREE winners, ONE from each activity.
Introducing the Creative Fair Event 2022
The Creative Fair has arrived to give you the opportunity to push the boundaries of your creativity and showcase your creations in three themed activities to choose from that 'The Community Kittens' team have prepared:
Cultural Exploration:
Design a room, clothing or object(s) of culture that is focused on your destination of choice.
Lights, Camera, Action!
Recreate a scene, character costume or prop(s) from your favourite movie/show.
Kaleidoscope:
Design a room, clothing or object(s) that bursts with colour. The brighter the better!
Winners of this event will receive a Virtual Steam gift card of Β£20, along with a unique discord role.
The Creative Fair event goes live on the 17th February and closes on the 7th March.
