Kwaan
THE JAWS UPDATE #24
Hi there my sweet litlle little dwaals!
We are very excited to bring you this massive update of our tiny world. We didn’t release anything last week to finish this one, we hope you won't be dissapointed !
Let's start !
World update
- Added the Food Truck, a new place where you can buy some yummy food
- Added a Construct to unlock access to the cave. You might find it mysterious, its up to you to discover how to finish it...
- Added the fisherman House, named the Palm House !
- New secret cave (ooh)
- New isle to find (oooooooh)
- Moved the Air Balloon to the right mountain
- New secret dungeon. This is the biggest part of the update! (Some rules will need to be broken!)
- New NPCs (a cook, a pirate, a fish … and even more !)
- Some items now appear randomly around the map.
Content update
- 4 new crits to unlock each with their own specific power to discover
o Mole
o Hamster
o Piranha
o Duck
- New items with specific use (maybe for a recipe?)
- New craft actions on Mamaa's cauldron.
- Exclusive new secret to find !
Fixes
- The ookable zone on gull and fish has been greatly increased
- Penguin won't dig rock anymore as they now can be found somewhere else
- Painting are now saved when server are restarted
- Flower now have 3 different heights (thanks to Fox_thib et Eterlutisse )
- More chests appears each phase
- Better synchronization of other players
There you go !
Have fun :)
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VERSION FRANÇAISE
Salut à tous nos délicieux petits Dwaals...
Nous sommes vraiment fiers de vous annoncer cette importante mis à jour. Nous n’avons rien ajouté la semaine passé pour la finir, nous espérons que vous ne serez pas déçus !
Update Monde
- Ajout du Foodtruck, une nouvelle place ou vous pourrez acheter de la chouette nourriture
- Ajout d'un Construct pour débloquer l’accès aux cavernes. Vous allez le trouver curieux, à vous de découvrir comment le terminer...
- Ajout de la maison du pêcheur, la Palmeraie
- Nouvelle grotte secrète (ooh)
- Nouvelle île à explorer (oooooh)
- Déplacement de la montgolfière sur la montagne de droite
- Un donjon secret. C’est l'update la plus importante ! Mais vous devrez peut être enfreindre certaines règles pour le débloquer !
- Nouveaux PNJs (un cuisinier, un pirate, un poisson … et bien plus)
- Certains items apparaissent maintenant aléatoirement sur la carte
Contenu
- 4 nouveaux Animaux à débloquer, avec des pouvoirs spécifiques à chacun
o La Taupe
o Le Hamster
o Le Piranha
o Le Canard
- Nouveaux objets avec des utilisations spécifiques, peut être pour une recette ? ;)
- Nouvelle action sur le chaudron de Mamaa
Fixes
- La zone d’accrochage des poissons et des oiseaux a été agrandi pour simplifier l'accrochage
- Les pingouins ne déterrent plus de roches, il y a une nouvelle manière d’en avoir maintenant...
- Les peintures des cavernes et de la maison du peintre sont maintenant sauvegardées
- Les fleurs disposent de 3 longueurs de tiges, pour plus d’esthétisme (merci à Fox_thib et Eterlutisse )
- Plus de coffres apparaissent à chaque phase
- Meilleure synchronisation entre les joueurs
Voilà !
Amusez-vous bien :)
THE NEW DANCERS UPDATE #23
Hey little Dwaals!
In this update, we added the possibility to hire dancer to help with the ritual. The price is quite high because we still want player to dance together!
We also added the painter house where you can make bigger drawing and let your imagination go crazy.
For the rest it is mostly small bug fixes that will give a better game experience!
As always, don't forget to restart steam to have the update.
CONTENT
- Added dancer troop where you can hire dancer
- Added Painter house
- Gain XP when you dance in a ritual
- Pixel limit changed from 999 to 9999
FIXES
- Maana Altar now work properly
- Various fix on interface
- Locked pixel of flower stem
- Better handling of one-way platform
- Gull can now go through one-way platform
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VERSION FRANCAISE
Hey petits Dwaals!
Dans cette mise à jour, nous avons ajouté la possibilité d'engager des danseurs pour aider aux rituels. Le prix est élevé parce que nous préférons encore que les joueurs dansent ensemble!
Nous avons aussi ajouté la maison du peintre où vous pouvez faire de plus gros dessin et laisser votre imagination s'exprimer.
Pour le reste, c'est principalement des corrections de bugs afin d'améliorer l'expérience de jeu.
Comme toujours, n'oubliez pas de relancer Steam pour obtenir la mise à jour.
CONTENU
- Ajout de la troupe de dance pour engager des danseurs
- Ajout de la maison du peintre
- Gagnez de l'XP lorsque vous participer à un rituel
- La limite de pixel change de 999 à 9999
FIXES
- Les Altar de Maana fonctionnent maintenant correctement
- Différentes corrections sur l'interface
- Bloquer les pixels sur la tige de la fleur
- Meilleure interaction avec les plateformes unidirectionnelles
- Les oiseaux peuvent maintenant passer au travers des plateformes unidirectionnelles
A NICE SPRING UPDATE #22
To all of you Lovely Tiny Dwaals out there,
Thank you so much for the hard work of keeping our world alive !
The new rituals are much more efficient and fun to play as you have all noticed of course :) The two servers are thriving !
Here a nice update to thank you for your presence and care :) Mainly a lot of Fixes based on your feedback and a couple of nice surprises :)
DON'T FORGET TO RESTART STEAM TO UPDATE THE GAME :)
CONTENT
- Another new, amazing Mountains to climb ! Go West !
- You can now build the Well and get water out of it ! (with empty bottle)
- You can obtain Wind from the Windmill !
- Baby Ghost Souls (so sad)
- New All Green Smoothie Recipe
- New Cotton Candy action (good luck finding it :p)
- Added FX for healing and poisoning
FIXES
- The Board does not reset any more at every Faaz !
- Better balancing of the butterflies - rare ones should be easier to get !!
- Better movement of Fish and Gulls !!!
- Camera Triggers Fixes
- Fixes of some Smoothies recipe (You need Water now !)
- Fix of the length of the rope - you cannot hook it outside the screen anymore
- Fix of the Dwaal Idle Animation
- Fix of the Mountain Colliders and Summon Zones
- Fix of Crits Loots
- New Building UI
- Penguins can now loot Stones and no longer water.
Woof, it's a lot !
Talk to you soon !
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VERSION FRANCAISE
A tous nos adorables petits Dwaals,
Merci beaucoup pour votre excellent travail pour tenter de maintenir notre monde en vie <3
Les nouveaux rituels sont bien plus efficaces et amusants à jouer (comme vous l'avez toutes et tous remarqué bien sûr :))
Les deux serveurs (restants) prospèrent - pensez à vous aider les un(e)s les autres :)
Voici une belle mise a jour pour vous remercier de votre soutien et de votre attention. Principalement des corrections de bugs basées sur vos retours, ainsi que quelques petites surprises!
* N'OUBLIEZ PAS DE REDEMARRER STEAM POUR METTRE LE JEU A JOUR *
CONTENU
- Une nouvelle montagne à escalader ! Allez vers l'ouest ;)
- Vous pouvez désormais construire le puit et en retirer de l'eau (avec des bouteilles vides)
- Vous pouvez obtenir du vent depuis l'éolienne (avec des bouteilles vides)
- Les fantomes des bébés animaux ont été ajoutés (tellement triste ;( )
- Nouvelle recette de smoothie : "Le Tout Vert"
- Nouvelle action pour faire de la barbe a papa (bonne chance pour la trouver celle-la ;) )
- Ajouts des effets de soins et d'empoisonnements sur les animaux
FIXES
- Le tableau ne s'efface plus a chaque FAAZ
- Meilleur ajustement de la rareté des papillons, les rares devraient être plus faciles a trouver
- Meilleur mouvement des poissons et des mouettes
- Corrections sur les limiteurs de camera
- Correction sur les recettes de smoothies (vous aurez besoin d'eau)
- Correction sur la longueur de la liane, on ne peut plus s'accrocher en dehors de l'écran
- Correction de l'animation "inoccupé" des Dwaals
- Correction des collisions sur la montagne et des zones d'invocations
- Correction sur l'action de ramassage d'objets des animaux
- Nouvelle interface de construction
- Les pingouins trouvent a present des roches, mais plus d'eau
Ouf, c'est beaucoup !
A bientot !
FIX-IT-ALL UPDATE #21
We know our last ritual update is a bit too complex. We have trouble balancing the ratio of players, the rarity of the crits and the amount asked by the tree. this gave us a good kick in the bottom, because we really don't want KWAAN to be a hardcore game. All we want is to provide a safe place to enjoy a leisurely pace and care about things. Right now, our challenges are too hard and we are sorry. As you know, this is a public test and we are going to run into some dead ends sometimes.
That is why we are doing a NEW UPDATE TODAY with several cool stuff :
* Fixing the rituals - much more easier and fun !
* The Zone Tool has been redesigned !!!
* LOTS of UI fixes
- Number of dwaals currently in game
- faaz now display next to the faaz clock in the top left corner
* All the smoothies recipes ! Try them all and see their use on the crits !
* A board to write stuff for the others to read ! ORGANIZE DWAALS !
* A meditate emote - soon we will implement Zazen to make more XP !
* Also, some keyboard shortcuts
Key 1 - For Dwaal Menu
Key 2 - For World menu
* A Mountain to explore
Have fun ! Give us feedback !
Much Love
Fixing the Rituals
We know our last ritual update is a bit too complex. We have trouble balancing the ratio of players, the rarity of the crits and the amount asked by the tree. this gave us a good kick in the bottom, because we really don't want KWAAN to be a hardcore game. All we want is to provide a safe place to enjoy a leisurely pace and care about things. Right now, our challenges are too hard and we are sorry. As you know, this is a public test and we are going to run into some dead ends sometimes.
That is why we will do another update tomorrow with several cool stuff :
* Fixing the rituals
* All the smoothies recipes
* A board to write stuff for the others to read
* A meditate emote
* And more !
Please be patient, this is a long, hard road :p
Much Love
Kozmik Eclipse Update #20
We have a cool update for you today !
Here are the things you'll find :
* A new ritual system, based on the Age of the Kwaan. We're still balancing it but we're in a good place and we would love to have your feedback !
* A Kozmik Aaltar to generate more Maana if you dance in front of it - the more dancers, the faster you'll get Maana ! Wait until nightime to replenish the Aaltar. We'll probably add another one later.
* A HOW TO PLAY in the options menu !
* The Tiki Bar ! Create Smoothies ! Right now you can only create bad smoothies, but be sure we're working on all our cocktails recipes !
* Some UI stuff.
* Fixes as requested by players.
We were planning to have some new mountains areas to explore, but we're saving that for next week :)
More soon !
Much Love
WHAT IS A TAAZ ?
As you may have noticed, every day, we're changing the story of the game (you can check it up by clicking the Sun icon). A story unit is called a TAAZ - like a meta-faaz :p
A Taaz is a bundle of different sets.
- Dialogs for each NPC on each different Faaz
- Individual Quests
- Special effects on the village
- A puzzle, tuned to the theme of the Taaz
- A pre-requisite size of the tree
- A special toy
Obviously right now, the puzzles are not implemented because I am still busy writing them - and our focus is more on the ecosystem and the collective play than the actual adventure. As you may have noticed, the world of Kwaan is complex, more complex than you can imagine, and we haven't yet started to have fun with it as we intend to.
So far, we have 4 Taaz. I am writing 11 more, and we will add the puzzle as we go. Each puzzle will uncover an aspect of the world, and explain lots of things and open new possibilities. Puzzles will be tricky, very tricky. Think old school lucasarts tricky (ZaK Mc Kracken level tricky).
We are considering creating more Taaz based on *your* input, so that we can add your experience of the game environnement to the overall concept of the game. After all, a myth finds its legitimacy in it is users. The idea would be to have at least 5 user-created Taaz, assisted by me of course to help find the right poetic vibe.
So, please, feel free to suggest Taaz concepts and ideas here. We shall discuss them and decide when we have a solid base :)
Enjoy the game and thanks for your support <3
Minor update BUILD #19
A minor update is now live.
You may need to restart Steam to force your client to update.
Some of the build changes :
- Maana maximum is now 200
- A menu to quit the game !
- Code optimizations
- Some secrets :)
More to come soon !
See you ingame.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS?
Thank you for your presence and feedback, we're already in a very good place thanks to your devotion. :)
We're adding some really important stuff, so let me brief you about them so that you know what's coming soon:
Tomorrow
- We will do a small update: with dialogue fixes, awards and rituals, and... implement the very secretive GODDESS MODE. (Good luck finding it!)
Next Week
A slightly bigger update:
- Implementation of an Option Menu, with: Sound, Quit and Help Card (with all the controls!)
- A small mountain to explore!
- A Maana Altar which Dwaals can dance around and generate Maana!
We hope to implement this on time! If not, please be patient; we're working very hard to make this game the best thing ever.
Have fun my little Dwaals!