To the Rescue!
To The Rescue is here!
We will also be doing charity streams today to help raise more money for The Petfinder Foundation.
Schedule of events:
9am ET: Little Rock Games Twitch - Dev Playthrough and AMA
11am ET: BryanHerren Twitch - Bryan Herren (Director of Marketing for Freedom Games) playthrough TTR
1pm ET: Freedom Games Twitch - Freedom Games Community and Social Media Manager playthrough TTR
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Thank you all for your support throughout the development of the game! We can’t wait to see all the great shelters yall create.
As you get to playing, please remember to leave us a review. It helps us out a lot, especially on launch day, and we love getting to hear everyone’s thoughts and feedback so we can make the game an even better experience for you all. Reviews also help us with the Steam algorithm and will help bring To The Rescue to more people and with more people seeing and hopefully buying the game, we will be able to help more dogs in shelters find the fur-ever home.
You can also join our Discord to hang out with other community members and the devs, show off your pets, and report any bugs you might find.
Surprise! To The Rescue’s new launch day!
To The Rescue is now launching Tuesday, Nov 2nd! We completed the game a bit early and decided to go ahead and release it to you all!
Tuesday’s going to be an exciting day all around so definitely wishlist the game while you’re here so that you know exactly when the game launches on Tuesday!
Schedule of Events:
9am ET: Little Rock Games on Twitch - Dev Playthrough and AMA
11am ET: Bryan Herren on Twitch - Bryan Herren (Director of Marketing for Freedom Games) playthrough TTR
1pm ET: Freedom Games on Twitch - Freedom Games Community/Social Media Manager playthrough TTR
During the livestreams we’ll be running a raffle for To The Rescue keys! Every $5 donation will be 1 entry into the raffle with drawings every $250 that we reach. If you want to help support, you can donate to our Tiltify.
Thank you all for your support and hype! Please share with your friends to help us support real world shelters. If you want to join in on the hype with the rest of the community, or maybe just share a pet pic or two, join our Discord.
To The Rescue Release Date Reveal!
To The Rescue will be launching on PC/Mac on November 4th!
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We are also still working hard on a Switch version and while we had hoped to have it ready for this launch as well, you can now expect that sometime in 2022!
If you haven’t already, make sure to wishlist us here on Steam, so you’ll be notified at launch as 20% of all purchases will be going to The Petfinder Foundation to help real world shelters. If you want to join our community and maybe post a pet pic or 2, join our Discord. You can also follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram!
Demo Version 0.1.26
Hello Everyone!
This patch is a bit small but I wanted to try and address some of the save file issues players were having asap. Enjoy!
Tanner, Olivia, and the rest of the TTR team
Fixes
- Fixed issue with mismatched vaccine whiteboard labels.
- Fixed issue with parsing filenames less than 4 characters.
- Replaced missing skill points icon on two skills in handiwork category.
Demo Version 0.1.25
Hello everyone
We are back with some additional fixes! We hope that everyone is enjoying the demo, especially with these patches. If you're stuck on something or still experiencing severe bugs, feel free to join our discord server and we are glad to try and help you out or try to get to the bottom of the issue!
Tanner, Olivia, and the rest of the TTR team
FIXES
- Improved the issue with dogs leaving kennels on their own.
- Fix for adoptions not properly facilitating adoption actions (Trait, Discount,Emphasize,etc) and not accurately evaluating adoption success.
- Fix for issue preventing saves from being deleted from the New Game panel.
- Fix for dog animator occasionally becoming stuck in the idle-to-consume transition state.
- Replaced incorrect bug report survey link.
- Improved Score Panel functionality.
Demo Version 0.1.24
Hello everyone!
We are excited to bring these fixes to the demo. Hopefully things will run a bit more smoothly with these changes. If you're still having issues, be sure to report them via the in game link or head over to our Discord server if you have questions! Thanks you so much for trying the game and we hope you enjoy this update!
Tanner, Olivia, and the rest of the TTR team
Fixes:
- Potential failsafe for the time stopping issue.
- Fix for the bathing issues with losing the brush and disappearing dogs
- Fix for skill point allocations being shared between saves.
- Fixed issue with improperly fading walls
- Improved focusable behavior
- Fixed animation issue with shepherd puppy
- Disabled Break Rooms due to Helper issues.
- Improved navmap regeneration.
- Minigames should now function and animate properly.
- Fixed issues with Send Away Carrier
- Added basic controls remapping
- Settings should now properly reassign their values between game instances.
- Fix to how adoption success was calculated.
- Adjusted poop frequency and balancing
- Fixed issue with Notifications panel disappearing.
- Milestones should now reset between new save files.
- Reduced the mass of sitting dogs by half.
- Improved the issue with dogs wandering out of their kennels.
- Debug menu should properly trigger events now.
- LeashMode tooltip now shows the CapsLock input when LeashMode is toggled on.
Demo V 0.1.23
If you've been experiencing any bugs in the tutorial or the main story, you will likely want to make a new save file upon updated.
Fixes:
Altered some dog names in some languages.
The proper number of dogs should spawn in story mode
The tutorial should no longer become stuck during the first adoption.
Also, we should let people know that if they are experience the tutorial and story related bugs, they will likely want to make a new save file.
Cheers,
- Tanner, Olivia, and the rest of the TTR Team
Localization Announcement
For a while now, we've been developing TTR with support for localization, but the plans for actually localizing were a bit hazy. However, we're pleased to announce that through our publisher, we have partnered with Gameeleon to localize TTR into 10 languages!
The following languages will be supported at launch:
- English
- French
- Italian
- German
- Spanish
- Japanese
- Korean
- Chinese
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Russian
We're so excited to be able to bring TTR to more people around the world. So, many thanks to everyone that has asked about it, as well as Gameeleon who is making it possible.
NextFest Demo Patch Notes
Fixes
- The daily timer should no longer continue into the negative without triggering the summary sequence.
- Visitors shouldn't get stuck on evaluating the first dog anymore.
- Starting a new game mode should load the proper gamestate (Starting a sandbox game after playing the story should load directly to the stage 3 shelter)
- Music should be back on the start menu.
- Updrades to the leash and player inventory should be preserved on loading a save.
- General stability improvements to mitigate issues that we have been unable to recreate.
Workarounds
- Clear prior save files if you are continuing to have issues.
- Try completely closing and reopening the game before starting a new game if they are having issues.
- Camera stuck in some instances. Added a button in the menu to reset camera which should fix offset camera and black screen issues.
- If the dogs start to do "the wave" and stop eating/drinking go to the shelter construction and click the "checkout" button. Don't ask why, but it works!
- If the player gets stuck, look for the "reset position" button from the pause menu
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Hopefully this will be the last patch we need to release for the demo. We are aware of some remaining issues but we hope that everyone can enjoy the remaining time with the demo in a more stable state!
Cheers,
- Tanner, Olivia, and the rest of the TTR Team
Next Fest Dev Stream!
During the stream, we also ask that you donate to our amazing partner, The Petfinder Foundation. For every $15 donated with screenshots provided, Olivia (dev of To The Rescue) will write your pet's name on her arm cast. You can click here to donate! Verify your donation by DMing a screenshot to Olivia or Tanner on DIscord.