Multiplayer Update!
about 5 years ago – Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 11:30:26 PM

Version 1.0.8o is live!

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We have spent the last couple weeks really focusing on the multiplayer bugs and performance and after hours of testing we're glad to say it's looking great!! 

Huge Thank You to our Beta Testers and everyone that has submitted a bug or provided feedback, being such a small team we really appreciate all your support. It's been a ton of fun playing this game with the community and hanging out in Discord. 

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 Patch Notes

• Multiplayer middleware was changed to Photon Bolt. With this change the multiplayer is faster more stable and disconnects are less likely to happen.
• Now if disconnects happen the game tries to reconnect, and if successful you can keep playing with your friends right from where you left off.
• Loading and saving have been optimized. Loading times are now considerably faster.
• Halloween Island is now accessible on multiplayer.
• Several multiplayer issues have been solved
• Coal drops have been increased to 3-8.
• Sprinkler radius have been increased slightly.
• Glider speed has been slightly increased.

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While Dan has been working on the multiplayer, Kristina has been writing quests galore as well as working on some new items. The next update we will be working on adding over 50 quests as well as the Spring Festival! This update will also come this month in time for Easter.

The Spring Festival will have an Easter Egg hunt, tons of new items and more! We'll share more on that soon.

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 If you've caught our streams or have seen us in Discord you might already know that we started working on a HUGE new area. This area will feature 2 towns with quite a few surprises. Did someone say new mounts? ;)

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 Without giving too many spoilers all we can say for now is we're very excited to start adding some epic content to Garden Paws! 

We've been having a ton of fun streaming, if you'd like to catch some spoilers or just hang out with devs Dan and Kristina you can find us on twitch at BittenToastGames.

Join us on:
Discord
Twitter
Twitch 

Horse Playable, Assistant, Cooking, and more items!
about 5 years ago – Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 06:38:20 PM

 1.0.7 is now live!

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There's quite a bit in this update so we're going to try to keep this short and sweet. 

Sooo let's address the multiplayer bugs first. Multiplayer is our main focus for the next large update. Dan (our programmer) will be replacing the multiplayer middleware. This means a complete revamp of the multiplayer code. As we are just a small team of 3 (Daniel, Kristina and Thiago), please bear with us as we get the multiplayer patched up we definitely want this feature to be as smooth as possible.

Horse Playable!

The horse playable character has been added. (Thanks to one of our Kickstarter Designer Backers!) 

There's also a horse mount and stable to match. You can also ride many of the larger farm animals including the sheep, alpacas and cows!

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Assistant

There's an assistant! You can now hire an assistant to run your shop, for a % of the sales that is. The assistant is available from Day 1 and can be found in the main town, Florens.

Cooking

More cooking has been added! You can now use the churn, the oven or the cooking station to make over 20 new recipes!

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Furniture Blueprint Merchant

Furniture Blueprint Merchant has been added, and can be upgraded in town through Frank.

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New item: Crystal Furniture Set 

(Workbench + 10 furniture pieces, this is the first of 3 new furniture sets that will be coming in, thanks to our backers hitting our Kickstarter stretch goals!)

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New item: Crystal Planter (Time to make one fancy farm!)

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New item: Glass Building Pieces (Foundation, Wall, Wall with Door, Ramp)

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More new stuff:

•  Bumblebee Dress (Thanks to one of our Kickstarter Designer Backers!)
•  Silver and Gold Tools. These items will do more damage when harvesting and can be purchased from Beltran.
• You can now nap for multiple hours at a time at the hammock. (Only available in Single Player.)
•  24+ new skins have been added, bringing us over 350 Collectable skins.
•  29 New quests have been added.  

Socials:

If you ever want to chat with us and see what we're up to you can always find us on Discord. This is where the developers are most active and are always sharing spoilers, and chatting with this wonderful community.

Discord: www.gardenpawsgame.com/discord

We have recently taken up streaming on Twitch as well. Here you can find us working on the game, testing new content or just hanging out. Our next stream will be Saturday March 30th at 12PM PST.

Twitch: www.twitch.tv/bittentoastgames

As always thank you to this wonderful community for supporting us!

Kickstarter Exclusives, Dialogue, New Shop, Wings and more!
about 5 years ago – Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 02:27:24 PM

Multiplayer Update

This past update we have been heavily focusing on optimization and we're glad to say we've made some improvements. Not only that but we've been working on some bugs. With just a small team of 3, Multiplayer is definitely a big task, but our programmer Daniel has been hard at work on it, and we appreciate your patience and this incredible community as we get it perfect.

While Dan is working on the multiplayer side of things, Kristina has been working on new content and Thiago has been getting the soundtrack together which was just sent out. We hope you love it as much as we do.

Next month we'll continue focusing on Multiplayer as we will be completely move the servers to a new host. Don't worry we'll have an update before we dive into that fill with items like the Crystal Furniture set. 

More Quests and Items

Along with the optimization and bug fixes you'll find in this update we have included quite a few new items and over 20 new quests.

We have added almost new 30 Fairy Wings that come in various colours! Clovis is the one to look out for if you'd like these colourful new wings. We have added more clothing items including the Deer Dress, Ladybug Dress, Black Suit Jacket, Professor Jacket and more.

Kickstarter Exclusive Items

The Kickstarter Steampunk items are also fully implemented in this update. Including the two gliders and two clothing pieces. We will be sending the Kickstarter wallpapers in the next update. If you're one of our Kickstarter Backers that have these items  in your tier, you can find your DLC codes in your email. 

Dialogue!

Due to popular demand we have added dialogue for the townsfolk of Florens sooner than we initially planned. We hope you enjoy this feature.

A New Garden Shop!

There is a new shop in Florens, the Garden Shop! Once you progress through Sierra's quests you'll be able to aid a new member joining Florens. When this new shop is open you'll be able to purchase decorative rocks, hedges, ferns, benches potted plants and more!

Enjoying those wood shipments?

If you're enjoying those wood shipments, you'll love to hear there is a new quest line that will lead you to daily stone shipments from John Stone!

Twitch and Social Media

Not only do we have Twitch Integration in Garden Paws, we are also on Twitch! If you're interested in catching us live, working on Garden Paws or just hanging out click here to get to our Twitch and drop us a follow.

Daniel, Kristina and Thiago can always be found on Discord, Twitter and Facebook as well! 

 Also a huge shout out to Hash, and other members of the community that have been adding to our wiki (click here)! Definitely check it out, it's looking great!

Minor patchnotes: 

• The "do not build" collision has been reduced at the chicken coop area, you may now build inside the pen or on top of the coop.
   
• A couple tyops have been fixed in the quests and mail.
   
•  Oh noes! A few of the skins that were missing noses have found their noses.
   
• The waterfalls no longer splash as much.
   
• Fixed the colliders on multiple items including the bridge near Sammy.
   
• The skin named "12,000" has been renamed to "Cosmos Cat", silly Splash.
   
• Some ferns that have been found floating have since been grounded.
   
• The limited time valentines day mail event has been removed. The items can still be obtained in the game through the shopkeepers.
   
• Some items in the crafting menus have been rearranged.

Only 40 Hours left for Summer in Mara! 

We love giving shout outs to other incredible games on Kickstarter, and especially when their indie developers as well! There is only 40 hours left to back Summer in Mara.

Summer in Mara is an adventure at your own pace. Take care of your island and customize it as you want. Explore an open ocean full of places to travel and people to meet and trade with.

Happy Valentines Day! New Playable Character!
about 5 years ago – Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 12:45:25 AM

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Today we released a small update to wish you all a happy valentines day! We are working on a bigger update heavily focused on multiplayer bugs and optimization that will be coming by the end of the month.

In today's update we introduced 2 heart-themed items. If you play within the next day you will receive a them as a little gift on your mailbox, but those items will be permanently available for purchase on Clovis' store from now on.

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This update also introduces our latest playable character, the Dog! This character was requested by one of our Character Designers, Marley Pebble.

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In this update the Wanderer set up a couple of new collections to be filled up for reward and an error that was popping up with the use of the Crystal Bed was fixed.

We hope you've been enjoying Garden Paws! Have a great Valentines day, and again Thank you for all your support!

Huge Update for January!
about 5 years ago – Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 04:59:44 PM

 A Huge Update for January!

First off Thank You from the Devs of this little project; Dan, Kristina, and Thiago for all your wonderful support as we make Garden Paws. Every supportive tweet, review, message is incredible and we thank you dearly as we put our hearts into Garden Paws. 

Being a small team of two developers and a composer is definitely a ton of work but we're really proud of how far Garden Paws has come in the last few months and are excited for 2019! To start it off we have a huge content update!

What's in this update:

• Full In-Game Controller Support
• Sprinklers
• Discount Bin
• Museum and Collections
• The Inn-terior for the Inn and Museum

New Items:

• Compost Bin and a fertilizer recipe change
• Furnace
• Large Stone and Wood Storage Sheds
• 8 "decorative" chests
• Marble Display Cases, Anvil, New Wings, Pumpkin Planter, 13 new crops
• And lots, lots more. (Read more below..)

Controller Support

Implementing the full controller support has been a huge priority for us and we're glad to say it's fully implemented in-game. The main menu is the only area it's not 100% in yet, and Dan will be working on this over the next couple days.

Sprinklers

We heard the community and have added sprinklers. They come in 3 tiers, Copper, Silver and Gold. The blueprint is not available at the start of the game but will be unlocked as you play, if you'd like some spoilers we suggest you join our wonderful community over on discord by following this link: https://discord.gg/QXseXfR

Discount Bin

We've heard you might want to get rid of all those insects and other items quickly and at a discount. With that, we've added the Discount Bin! Any items you place in the discount bin will sell for half price at the end of the day, this item is upgradeable with Frank.

Museum and Collections

The first stages of the Museum has been added, with 15 collections to fulfill and more to come later. Once you complete a collection you'll be rewarded with new items and possibly even some information on how to tame a furry friend.

The Inn

Sadie's rustic inn has been built, with your help of course. The Inn brings along some new quests and soon a new shop where you'll be able to purchase your favourite beverages and Sadie's famous grilled fish!

Compost Bin

The fertilizer can now be crafted in the Compost Bin, and with a new recipe. It now takes5 poop and only 1 wheat to make 5 fertilizer overnight. Fertilizer takes 0 stamina to use, and has a 25% chance to yield a seed when harvesting.

New Items

Beltran isn't the only Blacksmith in town anymore! Build yourself a Furnace and Anvil to start smelting ores and sand from anywhere. There are also quite a few new quests that will teach you how to make one of the manynew storage chests. 

This last month we've added even more new items including; Black and Gold Wings, Rainbow Fairy Wings, Pumpkin and Stone Planters, Glass and more. We've also added a lot of new skins including the "Glow" skin set that is available for every current character in 6 colour variations.

Other Notes:

Minorimprovementstowards the optimization, the February update will be heavily focussed on optimizing the game as well as improving multiplayer.

We've seen a relatively frequent problem arise with connection issues that has usually been resolved by disabling firewalls or switching who hosts the lobby. If you have any problems with multiplayer please contact Dan or Kristina, (the two devs), and we'll be happy to help.

You can contact us through Discord: https://discord.gg/QXseXfR
 or email ([email protected])

The map has been updated with the new islands, a sound has been added when you take a screenshot with F8, and many more small fixes are in this update.

The Next Update

We will be doing a small patch in a couple days, after that we'll be doing a heavy optimization update. This update will be focused around improving multiplayer and overall performance. As much as we'd like to do another huge content update, we feel this is more important at this stage.

As our only programmer, Dan will be mainly focussing on optimization for February. Kristina, (the other dev), will be working on the Creative Mode and a new shop that will sell all your Landscaping needs. Thiago, (our composer), will be, and has been working on the seasonal music as well as compiling the soundtrack for it's release.

We hope you've been enjoying Garden Paws, and again Thank you for all your support! Every positive tweet, review, and comment means the world to us!