Two weeks after the Crab Madness launch the Crabs are going even more insane.
(probably due to the "hard" difficulty... *cough*)

And so we came up with a great new challenge and a huge reward!




A quick guide on how to:

1. Achieve Level 10 as an ordinary red crab and unlock the King Crab achievement.
   
2. Spawn as the King Crab and start building your own green crab army.
   
3. Feed and Grow yourself and your green crab army.
   
4. Lead your army into glorious battle against the Evil Crab King.
   
5. Defeat him, take his precious scepter and become a Conqueror Crab!

Those who achieve the legendary status of Conqueror Crab will unlock the Crab Madness mode permanently. Those who don’t, unfortunately will have to wait until the next April.

Few tips:

• As a Red crab, the easiest way to grow up is to find a good spot with lots of small herbivorous fish, open a claw and wait for them to swim into it. Then after a few levels you might be able to prey on bigger fish.
  
• As a King Crab your army will attempt to follow you more or less in a straight line. So don't go behind big obstacles as they might get lost.
  
• As a King Crab, don't charge into the Evil King Crab first, let your troops sacrifice themselves for their King. (He is also pretty strong for a crab.)

We have done a few changes to the rendering pipeline. But that required us to change a few settings. By default the Graphics quality settings are now on Fantastic, with Bloom and Ambient occlusion turned on.

- If you are having a very low frame rate after this update, do the following:

1. Open Graphics category in Settings.
   
2. Turn off Ambient occlusion image effect.
   
3. Reduce the Quality to Simple or better.

And don't worry, this game is not getting renamed into "Feed and Grow: Crabs" :) - There is a lot of new stuff coming up soon.

See the river image below.


Yes, that's a very spectacular pike!

Two weeks after the Crab Madness launch the Crabs are going even more insane.
(probably due to the "hard" difficulty... *cough*)

And so we came up with a great new challenge and a huge reward!




A quick guide on how to:

1. Achieve Level 10 as an ordinary red crab and unlock the King Crab achievement.
   
2. Spawn as the King Crab and start building your own green crab army.
   
3. Feed and Grow yourself and your green crab army.
   
4. Lead your army into glorious battle against the Evil Crab King.
   
5. Defeat him, take his precious scepter and become a Conqueror Crab!

Those who achieve the legendary status of Conqueror Crab will unlock the Crab Madness mode permanently. Those who don’t, unfortunately will have to wait until the next April.

Few tips:

• As a Red crab, the easiest way to grow up is to find a good spot with lots of small herbivorous fish, open a claw and wait for them to swim into it. Then after a few levels you might be able to prey on bigger fish.
  
• As a King Crab your army will attempt to follow you more or less in a straight line. So don't go behind big obstacles as they might get lost.
  
• As a King Crab, don't charge into the Evil King Crab first, let your troops sacrifice themselves for their King. (He is also pretty strong for a crab.)

We have done a few changes to the rendering pipeline. But that required us to change a few settings. By default the Graphics quality settings are now on Fantastic, with Bloom and Ambient occlusion turned on.

- If you are having a very low frame rate after this update, do the following:

1. Open Graphics category in Settings.
   
2. Turn off Ambient occlusion image effect.
   
3. Reduce the Quality to Simple or better.

And don't worry, this game is not getting renamed into "Feed and Grow: Crabs" :) - There is a lot of new stuff coming up soon.

See the river image below.


Yes, that's a very spectacular pike!

Are you mad?!!! Screenshot or it didn't happen :) Check out shiny new Feed and Grow: Fish special – Crab Madness! Packed with insane fun and the game's very first and limited achievements.

April Fool's lasts in the game for the whole month. We're excited to publish a surprise crazy special in Feed and Grow: Fish – Crab Madness :) Jump into game to test your mad skills!



Show off your skills as a crab – a special mode now available in game for the Ocean map and Hard difficulty. How far can you make it in the waters of Feed and Grow?



Are you mad enough to reach high levels as a crab? If so, you'll be rewarded. The Crab Madness special comes with achievements too. Do not hesitate, as the special will be on only during April 2016 and with it both the achievements will be unavailable.

Are you mad?!!! Screenshot or it didn't happen :) Check out shiny new Feed and Grow: Fish special – Crab Madness! Packed with insane fun and the game's very first and limited achievements.

April Fool's lasts in the game for the whole month. We're excited to publish a surprise crazy special in Feed and Grow: Fish – Crab Madness :) Jump into game to test your mad skills!



Show off your skills as a crab – a special mode now available in game for the Ocean map and Hard difficulty. How far can you make it in the waters of Feed and Grow?



Are you mad enough to reach high levels as a crab? If so, you'll be rewarded. The Crab Madness special comes with achievements too. Do not hesitate, as the special will be on only during April 2016 and with it both the achievements will be unavailable.

You came up with the names, we picked the ones we love the most. Now it's your turn again!

Join the quick poll to decide on the new name for the mighty red beast in Feed and Grow: Fish



Vote here now and stay tuned via Facebook for more news on Ex-Dragonfish's new identity.

If you can't choose, head into the game and "talk" to Mr. Dragonfish-for-now. He sure has ideas of his own :)

The poll will be open for 7 days, till Sunday, 03/04/2016. But hey, the next weekend comes with new madness for Feed and Grow: Fish.

Ever wondered how foolish them crabs can be?

You came up with the names, we picked the ones we love the most. Now it's your turn again!

Join the quick poll to decide on the new name for the mighty red beast in Feed and Grow: Fish



Vote here now and stay tuned via Facebook for more news on Ex-Dragonfish's new identity.

If you can't choose, head into the game and "talk" to Mr. Dragonfish-for-now. He sure has ideas of his own :)

The poll will be open for 7 days, till Sunday, 03/04/2016. But hey, the next weekend comes with new madness for Feed and Grow: Fish.

Ever wondered how foolish them crabs can be?

How did the naming fun end? And what's the story about beta testing? Plus is there anything else coming Steam way? Well, let's dive into the answers!

We asked all of you to have a sip of the creative juice and come up with ideas on Mr. Dragonfish Nameless's name. You came up with so many cool ideas that both us, the devs and Mr. Dragonfish loved. So which one is it gonna be?

Yet again, more work for you all :) We're picking (and not fighting over it, we „promise“ :D) the ones that we loved the most. The tough fight as there can be only one winner, will be decided on our Facebook, so check it out. We'll finish „fighting“ the top chart soon :)



Yes, we have so many game features to release and we'd love some more hands-on feedback before we throw the updates into the waters of Steam community. Therefore we want to ask you guys, if you'd be up for beta testing events?

If so, stay tuned, will be releasing the whole concept soon. All you need is love... the game and some time to play the game and look into the features tested :) we appreciate feedback from all players, casuals and pros, whatever the sticker is :) Each testing will get more players in and there are other fun ideas coming for the beta testers.

Aye, captain. New map is under development and shipshaping nicely (we can't wait to hear what the fresh beta tester think about it). On top of cool new environment to feed and grow, there are going to be new features added too. And rewards :)

So check out F&G: Fish on Facebook for Mr. Dragonfish christening party and we'll keep you posted on beta fun soon.

Cheers,

Nika | Feed and Grow: Fish Dev Team

How did the naming fun end? And what's the story about beta testing? Plus is there anything else coming Steam way? Well, let's dive into the answers!

We asked all of you to have a sip of the creative juice and come up with ideas on Mr. Dragonfish Nameless's name. You came up with so many cool ideas that both us, the devs and Mr. Dragonfish loved. So which one is it gonna be?

Yet again, more work for you all :) We're picking (and not fighting over it, we „promise“ :D) the ones that we loved the most. The tough fight as there can be only one winner, will be decided on our Facebook, so check it out. We'll finish „fighting“ the top chart soon :)



Yes, we have so many game features to release and we'd love some more hands-on feedback before we throw the updates into the waters of Steam community. Therefore we want to ask you guys, if you'd be up for beta testing events?

If so, stay tuned, will be releasing the whole concept soon. All you need is love... the game and some time to play the game and look into the features tested :) we appreciate feedback from all players, casuals and pros, whatever the sticker is :) Each testing will get more players in and there are other fun ideas coming for the beta testers.

Aye, captain. New map is under development and shipshaping nicely (we can't wait to hear what the fresh beta tester think about it). On top of cool new environment to feed and grow, there are going to be new features added too. And rewards :)

So check out F&G: Fish on Facebook for Mr. Dragonfish christening party and we'll keep you posted on beta fun soon.

Cheers,

Nika | Feed and Grow: Fish Dev Team

Post your ideas into the comment section below.

Cost: 35
Health: 61
Damage: 11
Bite speed: 0.7/s
Swim speed: 2.1m/s
Weight: 11kg

Passive ability: Devour


Bugfixes and Optimalizations
- Fixed a bug where if you attempted to connect to a server it would refuse your connetion, saying that your game version is too behind.
- Fixed "Direct IP" dialogue typing.
- Fixed a bug where you would skip a level when leveling up.
- Optimalized fish LOD (level of detail) distance calculations and added a slider to the graphical settings. At default it is set to 50% so you might want to pull it up a bit.

Controls
- All fish now accelerate two times faster than before.
( this has been changed back in last patch 0.4.4, but we forgot to list it in the patch notes )

Balance changes
Just a few balance changes mirroring our behind the scenes progress.
- Browurag - Swim speed has been increased to 2.5m/s from 2.0m/s.
- Tiger shark - Damage has been reduced by 20% but Bite speed has been increased by 30%.
- Blue octopus - Swim speed has been reduced to 1.5m/s.
- Bibos - Base damage has been increased by 20%.
- Klej - Both damage and health have been reduced by 10%.
- Catfish - base health has been reduced by 33%, damage has been reduced by 50%.
- Passive ability Devour - the max. size of fish you can swallow whole has been reduced to +50% instead of +125% but the recharging now takes only 10 seconds instead of 20.

Graphical settings
- Added Level of detail slider, by using this one you can customize LOD draw distance a bit. If you have a stronger machine feel free to pull this up.


If you would like to watch a timelapse creation of the new fish look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix-_fhAFPIM

Post your ideas into the comment section below.

Cost: 35
Health: 61
Damage: 11
Bite speed: 0.7/s
Swim speed: 2.1m/s
Weight: 11kg

Passive ability: Devour


Bugfixes and Optimalizations
- Fixed a bug where if you attempted to connect to a server it would refuse your connetion, saying that your game version is too behind.
- Fixed "Direct IP" dialogue typing.
- Fixed a bug where you would skip a level when leveling up.
- Optimalized fish LOD (level of detail) distance calculations and added a slider to the graphical settings. At default it is set to 50% so you might want to pull it up a bit.

Controls
- All fish now accelerate two times faster than before.
( this has been changed back in last patch 0.4.4, but we forgot to list it in the patch notes )

Balance changes
Just a few balance changes mirroring our behind the scenes progress.
- Browurag - Swim speed has been increased to 2.5m/s from 2.0m/s.
- Tiger shark - Damage has been reduced by 20% but Bite speed has been increased by 30%.
- Blue octopus - Swim speed has been reduced to 1.5m/s.
- Bibos - Base damage has been increased by 20%.
- Klej - Both damage and health have been reduced by 10%.
- Catfish - base health has been reduced by 33%, damage has been reduced by 50%.
- Passive ability Devour - the max. size of fish you can swallow whole has been reduced to +50% instead of +125% but the recharging now takes only 10 seconds instead of 20.

Graphical settings
- Added Level of detail slider, by using this one you can customize LOD draw distance a bit. If you have a stronger machine feel free to pull this up.


If you would like to watch a timelapse creation of the new fish look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix-_fhAFPIM