Ova Magica
Patch: Demo - Version 0.55
Content:
- added a marker for players position to the map
- added red eye color in character creation
- added camera invert x and y axis in pause menu setting
- added animation to the button "Switch to Magical Storage" in the shipment box UI until clicking the button first time.
Bug fixes;
- fixed invisible wall near influencer couple NPC when near mine
- slightly reduced saturation of the turquoise hair color
- fixed some minor spelling an grammar issues
Early Access Coming July 23rd + Brand New Trailer!
We are so excited to finally share the game with everyone. Thank you ALL for your continued support and interest, especially in light of prior delays and development difficulties. The team is incredibly proud of what we've created, and cannot wait for you to all play Ova Magica!
Watch our brand new EA announcement trailer here:
And don't forget:
Our limited DEMO is only available until the end of the Steam Next Fest (17th June)!
We are grateful for all feedback; it helps us to improve Ova Magica as much as possible for the EA launch💚.
We will share more info about the development roadmap leading to the full game (1.0) soon!
EARLY ACCESS CONTENT
Though it is launching in Early Access, Ova Magica already comes jam-packed with tons of content! Here’s a brief overview of what you can expect from the Early Access, as well as some hints for what’s coming in the future!
GENERAL INFO
- 🎮🖱️ Playable with mouse+keyboard or controller. Fully playable on the Steam Deck.
- 🌎 Language: English
(Full 1.0 release will also include: German, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Japanese)
FARMING + LIFE SIM FEATURES
- 💇♀️ Customize your own character with tons of options and unique hair styles!
- 🥕 Grow a wide variety of crops and fruit trees on your farm, and decorate it to your liking!
- 🌻🍂❄️ Play through all 3 seasons (Solis, Ceres, Frigus) with unique weather, crops, events and blobs!
- 🐰🎃🎄 Visit all 12 festivals in Clover Town with unique items, blobs, decorations and mini-games!
- 🧑🤝🧑 Meet 13 befriendable characters and learn their stories and personalities! (Marriage available for full 1.0 release).
- 💛 Raise the Heart Level of each character and unlock Heart Events to obtain unique quests and buildings! Each character has 3-4 (out of 7) available Heart Events in Early Access.
- ⚒️ Gather resources with upgradable tools to craft new furniture, decorations and buildings!
- 🏠 Upgrade and decorate your house and farm, and unlock loads of craftable blueprints!
- 🎣🦋 Catch a variety of fish and bugs that change along with the time and seasons!
- 🏛️ Donate items to the Clover Town Museum to get unique rewards!
- 🚧🎡 Construct buildings to unlock new features like the Boutique, Beauty Salon, Spa, Theater, Ferris Wheel and more!
- 🍳 Unlock tons of food recipes to cook for you and your blobs!
- 📷 Photograph every resident and their blobs for the Clover Town census!
- ...And much more!
BLOB + ADVENTURE FEATURES
- 🥚 Choose your starter blob! Pick one of three unique blobs to join you on your adventure!
- 🌊💣 Use your blobs to help you with everyday tasks like fishing, watering crops, removing barriers and more!
- 🐄 Raise blobs in your own Blob Barn to produce items like milk, wool, and more!
- 🐾 Collect up to 40 (out of 66) unique first-generation blobs, each with unique skills and appearances!
- ❤ ️ Breed your blobs to create even stronger blobs! Choose from thousands of combinations and create the blob that’s perfect for you!
- 🎾 Pet, feed, and play with your blobs to deepen your bond, and watch them grow even stronger!
- 🧭 Join the Adventurers' Club, and uncover the mysteries behind the ancient ruins!
- 🗺️ Journey into the untamed Blob Worlds, teeming with wild blobs. Visit 3 (out of 7) worlds in Early Access, each with a unique theme, new blobs, and hidden treasure!
- ⚔️ Travel with up to 3 blobs in your team and engage in strategic, turn-based battles with real-time action elements!
- 🥊 Challenge anybody in Clover Town to a blob battle, or try your luck against wild blobs!
- 🏆 Participate in the Clover Cup Tournament to compete against Clover Town’s greatest blob trainers, and win the grand prize! (Up to IRON League in Early Access)
- 👩🏫 Visit the Blob League Academy and take classes to learn more about blobs!
- ...And much more!
Ease the wait for the EA launch by checking out our Publisher's other amazing indie titles: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/tophatstudios/
Thank you again everyone and see you soon!
Patch: Demo - Version 0.54
Patch: Demo - Version 0.54
Bug fixes:
- Fixed that crab blob of female waiter was getting unlocked in resident overview when photographing Nara,the deer blob, in the restaurant
- Fixed missing dialog for troublemaker kids trio in Clover Valley
- Fixed that in the blob abilities course the plant fields were watered automatic on a rainy day which caused the turtle Sprinkler step to be completed without actually doing it
Battle Balancing + Tweaks:
- cannot attack anymore own blobs in battle
- the exp after using a skill is now not always 10% but determined based on the enemy blob count and power level difference compared to own team
- improved enemy KI to not use non-stacking buffs or status effects several times
- status effects Silent, Sleep and Distract can now only be applied once per battle on a blob
- updated status effect Silent bubble to now displays how many rounds are left until it loses effect
- reduced miss chance when affected by the Blind status effect from 60% to now 40%
Hotfix: Demo - Version 0.532
Bugfixes:
-Fixed the game freezing when placing the "colored egg" decoration via workbench and leaving farm or house.
Content:
- An additional message is now shown when out of energy and trying to use tools
- Reduced bug net energy costs from 10 to 5
Hotfix: Demo - Version 0.531
Bugfixes:
- fixed game freezing when moving a blob which is breeding from barn into the team
- fixed calendar week days spelling error in menu
Patch: Demo - Version 0.53
Content Changes:
- coin bubble is now displayed over the shipment box when new money can be collected
- short fishing info is shown before first fishing
- wild blob count in fishing battles is now matched towards own team size (to avoid being overwhelmed in early gameplay)
- wild blobs in mine do not respawn on same day after leaving and re-entering mine. They respawn on next day.
Hotfix: Demo - Version 0.52 (previous: 0.51)
-Fixed Kiwi blob item exploit
Hotfix: Demo - Version 0.51
Bug Fixes
-Major: removed second house update which was unintentional available for the demo in Charoi's build store. Getting it broke the game on next in-game day.
-Minor: Fixed some typos in quest texts
-Minor: Fixed that Kay couldn't be targeted in photo mode
-Minor: Fixed invisible wall near mine near Troublemaker Kids NPCs
Content Changes:
-Changed battle rewards for NPC Johnny
Demo release - Out now! + Additional Upcoming News
The below is a message from Claudia, the developer of the game:
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For the Cozy & Family Friendly Games Celebration 2024 on Steam, we've launched our very first public demo💚! The demo will be available until the end of the Steam Next Fest (10th-17th June) for everyone to play.
To all content creators🌟:
You can help us immensely with getting some extra boosted visibility in the Steam Next Fest if you share Ova Magica during or shortly before it launches (10th-17th June). There are a lot of games this year from other big publishers and studios. As small indie dev, it can be hard to get attention, so regardless how small or big your audience is: Please share Ova Magica🙏.
If you are interested in more news about other cozy games, sign up for the Cozy Games newsletter from Rokaplay, who also put in all the hard work needed to run the Steam event💚🎮.
Next, we have also some more exciting news below⬇️!
GUERILLA COLLECTIVE
We're happy to announce that we will make a HUGE announcement on Guerrilla Collective showcase! This will be part of our publisher, Top Hat Studios, included showcase. Make sure to tune in on June 6th @ 10AM PST!
(Don't worry! After the showcase we will also post the news in an update here, just in case you miss or can't watch the show.)
Announcing Participating in Upcoming Next Fest + Dev Update
Mirroring some major news from the developer here.
First, we'll share the biggest news:
Ova Magica will be available in the Steam Next Fest June 17th with a public demo for all to play🎉.
Around this time we will also post the Q2 update 2024 with news about the release date🥳.
Now, onto some updates from the developer on the game:
Dev update:
As already communicated in the last update of 2023, i currently can't share much new things with you because we need the "new stuff" for marketing. It's sometimes hard to hold back because i have actually A LOT new amazing things but needed to restrict myself here a lot.
As always you can reach out in Discord if you have questions💚!
Improved breeding symbols
Instead of an egg you can now see the progress (in days) towards the new egg.
And maybe some of you already noticed: the new egg is purple. Now "base blob" eggs are green and all brood eggs are purple.
Character creator
Polished the character creator more and added more options. I separated the "glasses" from the "accessoires" (flower icon) category so you can have even more freedom and options. Also added various new outfits + stuff.
Here are some characters i created
Census Preview
Photograph every resident +their blobs of Clover Town to unlock their entries and gets ome infos about them.
Time of Day display
Finally implemented in the upper right corner a bar to display what day time it is (day, evening, night). This was on my Todo list for years but now i did it haha. All these small details really pile up at the end♥