Dear pack,

The December update has just left the bug testing phase and is now officially released! A huuuuuuge thanks to everyone who helped with the testing! You are awesome <3

What is new?
- Rivers have been added to some of the islands
- New field types for beach, sea and river fields
- New food system (animals eat 1 food per day, actions are free to perform)
- Family tree that shows family relations for living tribe members
- New island (Killer Island) has been added. Surviving there is VERY hard!
- New grass biome genes (Spiky Body, Digging Paws)
- New water biome genes (Gills, Webbed Paws, Fishing Tail, ...)
- Horns and Snouts are now on separate gene slots
- Adam and Eve are now partly randomized
- Lots of big + small fixes and improvements such as more mouseover infos

In case you want to keep playing with your 0.1.5 save states but the game updated:
http://niche-game.com/updates/

Please share your feedback and suggestions about this update here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/440650/discussions/1/152391995424054677/





Up next: Jungle biome update in February :D

Cheers,
Team Niche

Dear pack,

The December update has just left the bug testing phase and is now officially released! A huuuuuuge thanks to everyone who helped with the testing! You are awesome <3

What is new?
- Rivers have been added to some of the islands
- New field types for beach, sea and river fields
- New food system (animals eat 1 food per day, actions are free to perform)
- Family tree that shows family relations for living tribe members
- New island (Killer Island) has been added. Surviving there is VERY hard!
- New grass biome genes (Spiky Body, Digging Paws)
- New water biome genes (Gills, Webbed Paws, Fishing Tail, ...)
- Horns and Snouts are now on separate gene slots
- Adam and Eve are now partly randomized
- Lots of big + small fixes and improvements such as more mouseover infos

In case you want to keep playing with your 0.1.5 save states but the game updated:
http://niche-game.com/updates/

Please share your feedback and suggestions about this update here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/440650/discussions/1/152391995424054677/





Up next: Jungle biome update in February :D

Cheers,
Team Niche

Dear pack,

The October update has finally arrived :)
There might still be some bugs around, that's why we decided to release the update on a separate Steam branch for now. You can find all the infos here:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/440650/discussions/1/305510202675840196/

What is new?

- There are now three islands instead of just one. Your tribe can migrate between them.

- Adjusted difficulty level. We decided to implement a "difficulty" (mostly influences spawn rates) as well as a "complexity" (decides which objects can be on the island) level. The first island has low complexity and low difficulty, the island to the right has high complexity and medium difficulty, the island to the top has high complexity and high difficulty.

- New field types for the grass biome

- New genes (eye colors, fur color, immunity genes)

- Option to "mark" an animal by changing its action points color. Select and animal and click on the green action points in the ui.

- Bug fixes

Cheers,
Team Niche





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How to actually get the update:
> right click on Niche in your library
> click on properties
> select the beta tab
> enter “supermutation” and click check code
> select the dropdown and choose preview
> the game will update, please wait (restart Steam if the game is not updating)
> play :D

> please give us feedback and report bugs

Dear pack,

The October update has finally arrived :)
There might still be some bugs around, that's why we decided to release the update on a separate Steam branch for now. You can find all the infos here:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/440650/discussions/1/305510202675840196/

What is new?

- There are now three islands instead of just one. Your tribe can migrate between them.

- Adjusted difficulty level. We decided to implement a "difficulty" (mostly influences spawn rates) as well as a "complexity" (decides which objects can be on the island) level. The first island has low complexity and low difficulty, the island to the right has high complexity and medium difficulty, the island to the top has high complexity and high difficulty.

- New field types for the grass biome

- New genes (eye colors, fur color, immunity genes)

- Option to "mark" an animal by changing its action points color. Select and animal and click on the green action points in the ui.

- Bug fixes

Cheers,
Team Niche





--------------------------------------------------
How to actually get the update:
> right click on Niche in your library
> click on properties
> select the beta tab
> enter “supermutation” and click check code
> select the dropdown and choose preview
> the game will update, please wait (restart Steam if the game is not updating)
> play :D

> please give us feedback and report bugs

Dear pack,

Thank you all so much for the bug reports and your feedback!
This is just a very small update to fix some issues that you found.

- Fix for save file issue (If your save states said "152 days" all the time this should resolve the issue. Please let us know if it worked!)

- Fixed the "berry count" when unlocking the Berry Paw gene

- Increased size of the animals hitbox to make selection easier

More updates are in the works :)

Cheers,
Team Niche

Dear pack,

Thank you all so much for the bug reports and your feedback!
This is just a very small update to fix some issues that you found.

- Fix for save file issue (If your save states said "152 days" all the time this should resolve the issue. Please let us know if it worked!)

- Fixed the "berry count" when unlocking the Berry Paw gene

- Increased size of the animals hitbox to make selection easier

More updates are in the works :)

Cheers,
Team Niche

Dear pack



The day has come! Niche is now finally released on Steam Early Access :)

Hopefully our pack will find new members and become stronger!

We will soon inform you about our next steps and updates.
Things you can start looking forward to include:
- Water biomes (rivers, lakes) with new water genes

- Jungle biome
- Family tree

- Hybrids

- Prehistoric genes

We can’t wait to start working on all these things together with you :)

Dear pack



The day has come! Niche is now finally released on Steam Early Access :)

Hopefully our pack will find new members and become stronger!

We will soon inform you about our next steps and updates.
Things you can start looking forward to include:
- Water biomes (rivers, lakes) with new water genes

- Jungle biome
- Family tree

- Hybrids

- Prehistoric genes

We can’t wait to start working on all these things together with you :)

New update incoming!
(Currently for the backer builds only)

- Venom and Poison ability added

- New gene unlocking challenges added

- Improved map generation

Many small usability and bug fixes

Known issues:
The water reflexion is inverted for Mac users

We are looking forward to your feedback :)

New update incoming!
(Currently for the backer builds only)

- Venom and Poison ability added

- New gene unlocking challenges added

- Improved map generation

Many small usability and bug fixes

Known issues:
The water reflexion is inverted for Mac users

We are looking forward to your feedback :)