We hope that you had a great Christmas season. Almost the whole team was off during the Christmas Holidays but some less lucky had to continue to work on the project instead of partying. Here's what happened during the 4 last weeks.
We continued to work on the next biome. (mostly on rocks - again)
We had a Christmas party at the studio. Fabrice our level designer won the contest of the ugliest Christmas sweater.
And we ended the Christmas season with our traditional internal Game Jam.
Thank you for reading! Now let's continue to work on that next biome. To the Sunken Caves!
Cheers, -VirginRedemption
Update #7 Chinese Now Available! And more!
Hi Fox Riders,
We just released a big update of Nanotale with a lot of additions and improvements, including Chinese language.
Here is today's patch changelog:
Added Chinese simplified language
Added multiple profiles
Added pause during lore pop-up
Added quests feedback
Added world icons to improve visibility
Fixed encyclopedia
Improved dialog interfaces
Improved lore mini-game
Improved map icons
Improved Enemy spawner zone
Improved music & sounds
Improved XP gauge animation
Polished some visual effects
Thank you very much for your support and love.
Have a nice Christmas season!
Cheers, -VirginRedemption
Weekly Update #45: Interview with our 3D Artist and Animator
Hi Fox Riders,
First of all, thanks to all of you who voted for us on IndieDB. Four more days and we'll know the winners. ːepipartyː
As, we already told you, these last weeks, the team was working on a big update that should be live before the Christmas Holidays.
Polishing the existing content of the early access left us some space to introduce you to a new enemy that you can already defeat in the available content of the game: The Heavy or Deer-like Enemy.
The Heavy is the tallest enemy you'll find in the early access. It can see you easily (no delay to start aggro) and cannot hide in Grass / High grass or Fog.
Here's the 3D Sculpt and final version of the Heavy Enemy made by @LopSkull Don't hesitate to visit his Art Station: https://artstation.com/lopskull
All rigged and animated by @lypon who will be jealous if you don't have a look at his artstation too: https://www.artstation.com/lypon
Lypon (Nathanaël Lesage) and Lopskull (Quentin Ghion) were both interviewed by SideFX for their beautiful work on Nanotale using Houdini software.
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Thank you for reading.
-VirginRedemption
Nanotale made it to Top 100
Hi Fox Riders,
Today, we had the pleasure to read that Nanotale reached the first step of the Indie of the Year contest on IndieDB by being part of Top 100. We are now competing against 99 other fantastic indie games.
Winning that contest would be a really nice boost for our game, so please, help us by voting for Nanotale using this link. No need to sign in.
Thank you very much!
-VirginRedemption
Weekly Update #44: Improving feedback during battles
Hi Fox Riders,
We hope that you had a great weekend.
Last week, we worked on improving the early access based on your feedback.
Below you can see the battle as you know it. Players told us that the zone where enemies are spawning looked confusing as they didn't know if they could approach it.
We thought a bit about it and came up with the idea of monster eggs slowly appearing on the flour, giving you a visual timer of when that zone is dangerous or not.
And here the in-game version of it. What do you think? Better?
Second Biome
Improving the available content is nice, but we also needed to work on the next biome. Here are some screenshots showing you beautiful rocks ːepiwtfː because it all started with rocks.
Thank you very much for reading. Don't hesitate to leave your feedback and questions in comment.
Cheers, -VirginRedemption
Weekly Update #43: Back in production
Hi Fox Riders,
We now have a stable version of the early access which mean that we can go back in production instead of only focusing on fixing the existing content.
Of course there are still a lot of things to improve and add in the Ancestral Forest, so we won't completely stop to work on it but we'll just do it at the same time as we will work on the next biome. So, feel free to continue to report bugs and give us feedback about the early access.
Update on the available content
Some of us are currently working on an update of the Ancestral Forest with visual and content improvements such as the implementation of the quest system, and the encyclopedia. We'll also work on feedback and sound.
Here's a improvement of the enemy spawner zone during battles.
Back in production
Here's a very strange but also very friendly creature that you'll find in the next biome. We don't have a name for it, so don't hesitate to make suggestions.
Steam Awards
As some of you have probably noticed, it's the time of the year when Steam asks you to vote for your favorite games. Nanotale being in early access, I don't expect a lot of votes but I was wondering what category you think could fit to Nanotale and what are the games you voted for? Share you gems with us.
Thank you for reading and for supporting the early access.
Cheers, -VirginRedemption
Update #6
Hi Fox Riders,
We just released an update of Nanotale with a lot of fixes and improvements.
Here is today's patch changelog:
Fixed issue linked to going back to the main menu and playing the game again
Fixed language mix in the main menu
Fixed a bunch of invisible colliders on the terrain
Fixed the last known problematic bridges in the Tree of Life area
Fixed rogue dialogues that were impossible to exit
Fixed cinematics going dark with camera zoom out movement
Fixed "NOWORD" and "W" issues (mostly occured in Japanese)
Fixed Tree of Life healing cinematic
Polished small parts of the forest (small assets)
Improved enemy spawn signal for the fix battles
Added missing Japanese and Korean characters (please don't hesitate to test it and report any problem you can find)
Thank you very much for your help guys!
Cheers, -VirginRedemption
Update #5: Mostly fixed colliders and last battle issues
Hey Fox Riders,
Last week, we fixed a lot of remaining bugs. Especially some really blocking ones that forbade you to reach the end of the available content.
Here is today's patch changelog:
Fixed some remaining wall colliders in the forest
Fixed some collider issues while climbing the Tree of Life
Fixed Queen that doesn't give you the teleport
Fixed potential broken outcomes of the Queen battle
Improved map visibility
Added credits to main menu
Added last game scene of the available early access content after climbing the tree. That scene is a work in progress.
BONUS
Here are some bugs that we experienced while testing on our side.
The Mini Rosalind Bug
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The Topless Clover Bug Clover gets topless for a second after deactivated the shield. Note that this one is more a feature than a bug.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE
If you encountered issues with the Queen battle and the update doesn't make any change for you, there is a second fix that will be to replace your old save file with the one below. It will bring you just before the battle. But before taking the save file, please try the update without it first.
Link to the new save file: http://www.fishingcactus.com/files/nanotale/Save.sav
Where to put the new save file: %APPDATA%/../LocalLow/Fishing Cactus/Nanotale
What's coming next
Here's what we will work for the next big update:
Fix non-European languages
Improve enemy spawner
Visual improvements on game play elements
Thank you very much for support and all your feedback and bug reports!
Cheers, -VirginRedemption
News About the Next Update
Hey Fox Riders,
We know that some of you are patiently waiting for an update, so, we wanted to let you know that we are working on a big update that should be ready in the coming days. The things is that it's a really big one and we prefer to test it a lot, and make sure that it doesn't trigger other issues.
Here's what we are currently working on:
Fixed some remaining wall colliders in the forest
Fixed some collider issues while climbing the Tree of Life
Fixed Queen that doesn't give you the teleport
Fixed potential broken outcomes of the Queen battle
Improved map visibility
Added credits to main menu
Added last game scene of the available early access content after climbing the tree. That scene is a work in progress.
Sorry about the waiting!
Cheers, VirginRedemption
Update #4 : Bug fixes and new patch
Hello Fox Riders,
We have been working hard in the last few days to gather all the bugs and feedback reported to us via steam, discord and github.
I'm pleased to announce that the game stability has been greatly improved. To our knowledge, the game content for Early access is now finishable.
Here is today's patch changelog:
Fixed all known blocking bridges in the game.
Fixed a lot of transparent collision bugs happening in the game.
Fixed All known NPC dialogues that were triggering game errors such as the impossibility to close a dialogue or the inability to type after such a dialogue was triggered.
Fixed all known battle issues that were spawning Rosalind outside the game area upon death.
Fixed known untypeable words in dialogues with NPC's.
Fixed typing feedback on some UI elements.
Fixed the path that was allowing users to reach the push/pull power zone without required fragments.
Fixed Queen fight issues not handing you the teleport power.
Improved enemy spawner visibility in dedicated combat zones.
Temptative fix on green jaspers not being typeable in some parts of the game.
Fixed issue linked to skipping mandatory dialogues (with ESCAPE).
Improved map usefulness.
Fixed the behaviour of the Fox upgrade power.
KNOWN SHORTCOMINGS:
Going back to the main menu from the game and then starting the game again breaks the game (bad checkpoint, not possible to type anymore).
Changing the language from the options menu requires a game restart to take the new language into account. It some cases, changing the language is not saved if you do not have any progression in the game.
Polish and Russian might still have unrecognized character issues, we would love those of you who play in those languages to report any issue you encounter, it will help us greatly.
Asian languages are not tested and should be used and played with extreme caution.
