- Fixed an issue where under certain conditions, certain little robots, would certainly crash the game.
Thank you for playing Little Learning Machines! Please look forward to larger future updates 🤖💗⚡
Little Learning Machines
Build #50 Hotfix:
Thank you for playing Little Learning Machines! Please look forward to larger future updates 🤖💗⚡
Build #49 Patch Notes:
- Improved onboarding experience from early player feedback.
- Fixed an issue where the wrong dog variant showed up in a certain cinematic.
- Improved camera control with the Z and X keys.
- Adjusted audio mix for multiple Animo vocalizations.
- Fires in the Azure Abyss no longer persist after the quest resets.
- Pickaxes are now found in the Azure Abyss.
- Smoother dialogue transitions for speaking characters.
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🔴 Attention Demo Users -- We're getting ready to launch! 🔴
If you've been enjoying our Little Learning Machines Demo, we wanted to let you know that we'll be taking it down this Friday, August 4th. We're getting ready to bring you the complete game, and we can't wait for you to experience it!
Thank you so much to everyone who downloaded and tried out the demo!! We appreciate your support ːsteamthumbsupː
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Patch Notes: Little Learning Machines Demo - April 17 2023
The wait is over! We are thrilled to announce that a brand new demo for Little Learning Machines is now available!
Below are the following updates and fixes implemented in this patch:
- Updated Installer for Windows and Mac
- Addresses Mac signing issues
- Addresses issues where the Installer would fail
- Python Trainer has been significantly improved and is now faster
- A speed selector has been added to the Training
- Tutorial has been updated
- Quests 1 and 2 have had crystal placements changed and the associated dialogue has been updated
- “Do it for me” button has been added to the second quest while building terrain for training
- Skip buttons have been added when certain conditions have been met
- Multiple shaders have been refactored and updated
- Additional SFX have been added
- Main Island and Training Cloud music have been updated
Known Issues:
- Installation will fail with certain anti-virus software. Currently, the only known software that will cause issues is RAV Endpoint Protection
- Under some circumstances, reward icons will appear smaller than normal.
If you come across any bugs or like to provide feedback to us please join our Discord! We would love to hear what you think!
Little Learning Machines Demo - Patch Notes - Feb 10 2023
We have pushed a new patch to update the demo for Little Learning Machines!
Below are the following updates and fixes implemented in this patch:
General fixes:
- Dragging Animo Husks have been disabled.
- Obstacle behavior updated. (Fences, rocks, etc)
- If an Animo is holding an item and is picked up, the item will now be placed near where the Animo was picked up. If this is not possible, the item will be destroyed.
- Fixed some cases where the Animo doesn't wake up when the bubble is pressed.
- Fix the issue where Animo animation continuously Use-Fails after hugging another Animo.
- Remove husks from islands if they're already unlocked.
- Added unlock process for items and Animo
- Added Discover Bubble (For unlocking Items)
- Added Reset Animation
- Prevent Character from moving while resetting
- Added Yes/No buttons to resetting confirmation.
Animation issues:
- Issues with the drop, grab, and swap animations have been addressed.
- Fail actions now have particle effects.
- Animo and Dog Animations have been improved
Item issues:
- Birch items (tree, sprout), will now appear in the Item Menu.
- Crystal now has a different animation for destroying vs collecting.
- Discord username prompt removed.
- Dog Island fences fixed
- Large snowballs now appear and behave appropriately
- NPC Obstacles are no longer visible
Reward / Training related issues:
- Issues with movement rewards have been addressed.
- UseFail now only triggers when there is no item in front of or held by the Animo.
- Movefail will not trigger if movement is locked by using an item.
- "Being Close To" reward will now work with different block heights.
- In Training, the play button will be disabled if there are errors (missing rewards etc).
- Animo will play reward particles when they are receiving rewards during training.
- In training, fixed the Play/Pause Button not cycling properly.
- Fix Resetting bug when stopping the sim at a specific time
- Fixed Affinity to other Characters
- Fix Resetting using existing rewards.
- Infinite dog petting has been fixed
- Fixed dog movement in dog bone island
Controls / Camera-related issues:
- Fixed camera snapping to an Animo when it performs an action where the quest is already complete.
- Keyboard controls have been normalized.
- Add controls text to the pause menu.
Cosmetics issues:
- Cosmetics are now unlocked by completing quests
- Fixed the Cosmetics panel not interrupting dialogue during the tutorial.
- Graphical issues when the cosmetic awarded from the second dog quest has been fixed.
- Cosmetics Panel is now enabled in the tutorial
UI issues:
- Intro logo animation has been added.
- Under the settings menu, the Full-screen button has been fixed.
- Various UI issues have been addressed.
- Raycasting over UI will no longer allow interaction under the UI.
- Pause Screen appears overall UI.
- Issues with affinity UI have been addressed.
- Various Animo Panel issues have been resolved.
Quest / Tutorial issues:
- Difficulty for the second tutorial quest regarding sparsely placed crystals has been lowered.
- Additional dialogue entries have been added.
- Fixed rare issues where the tutorial does not end.
- Added Autumn Island quests
- Quest panel hooked up to quest progress.
- Quest events are more thoroughly detected. This may have prevented quest progress.
- Imogen changes state depending on how many characters have been unlocked.
- Quest Bubbles don't show unless you've unlocked the item they're on. (if they're attached to an item)
- Modified Wakeup bubble to activate Animo for the first time.
- Missing Tooltips have been added
Audio:
- Sound instances have been limited (ex. Crystals)
- Sound sliders persist across playthroughs.
- Removed SFX from Sprout Idle animation
- Music has been updated
- Added Ambience volume slider
Misc:
- Animo Vision shader has been optimized
- Limit framerate to 60 for smoother animations
- Graphics performance greatly improved
Train some Little Learning Machines with the Developers!
We are excited to announce that we will be holding one more live stream during Steam Next Fest!!
Join us on Friday at 5:00 PM EST to watch us play through the game and answer your questions!
Don't forget to play the demo!
We hope to see you there!
Learn about Little Learning Machines! Steam Next Fest Live Playthrough
Join us on Monday at 5:00 PM EST to watch us play through the game and answer your questions!
Don't forget to play the demo!
We hope to see you there!
Ontario Steam Sale! Chat about Little Learning Machines - Pre Recorded
This stream is a pre-recorded stream that took place on Friday, September 9th talking about all aspects of our upcoming game, Little Learning Machines!
Live Stream - Chat about Little Learning Machines - All about Machine Learning
We will be doing three live streams on Steam to talk about all aspects of Little Learning Machines - The Game Powered by Reinforcement Learning!
Although Little Learning Machines is not quite out yet, we are super excited to be live streaming an early version of the game to give you all another hint of what is coming your way!
Please join us to ask questions, check out the game, and get excited about Little Learning Machines! We hope to see you there!
!! WISHLIST LITTLE LEARNING MACHINES TODAY !!
If you are interested in checking out the Ontario Steam Sale head over to the event page below!
Live Stream - Chat about Little Learning Machines - All About Art!
We will be doing three live streams on Steam to talk about all aspects of Little Learning Machines - The Game Powered by Reinforcement Learning!
Although Little Learning Machines is not quite out yet, we are super excited to be live streaming an early version of the game to give you all another hint of what is coming your way!
Please join us to ask questions, check out the game, and get excited about Little Learning Machines! We hope to see you there!
!! WISHLIST LITTLE LEARNING MACHINES TODAY !!
If you are interested in checking out the Ontario Steam Sale head over to the event page below!