Hey everyone, great news today!

Beta 8 is almost ready to be play-tested and will go live this Friday (February 15th).

There have been a lot of changes to the game's code, which will maximize performance even in the late game for all computers and devices. I am talking constant 60-fps! Time to get some mega-bases going!

This of course means there probably will be new bugs we haven't caught, so please let me know if you see or find anything weird. Lazyeye has implemented a fancy new system that lets you send me bug reports from inside the game itself! I will go on more detail about this on Friday.

Anyway! I wanted to show you a sneak peek of what's coming this weekend. Mainly the new and improved Menu System!





What I love about this new design are all the exciting new things we can do with it. You will notice we have a few new buttons: Extras, Roadmap and Community.

I will also be featuring a fan art from the community every week in the main menu. I have been doing this on my social media channels for a bit, but now the incredible artists of the Forager community will be featured inside the game itself too!





The Extras submenu is my personal favorite! We have added hours of new content to the game, that will be unlocked directly from the main menu by completing Feats during your playthroughs (achievements).
Some of them will be ingame content, some will be outside the game, and some will be stuff like the official Forager Comic Book, that will now be viewable directly from this menu!

More secret extras will be coming in the future, even after release!





The Roadmap submenu will show what content updates are coming to the game after release!

Reminder: ALL content updates will be FREE FOR EVERYONE thanks to the generous support of our hundreds of patrons!





That's pretty much it for now! I know I have been quiet lately as we were getting ready to add the final details to the game.

During my birthday last week, I promised myself this year of my life I am going to be much more active with the community. Forager has turned into such an awesome project thanks to all of you giving me feedback and telling me what works and what doesn't. Thousands of gamers are WAY smarter than just one dev, so we need to keep this going and make the best game that we can together!

I will be posting content updates and devlogs more often, and also I have started an Instagram page to post behind the scenes secrets and goodies.
Feel free to follow me there if you are curious what it looks like to make video games for a living!


I am really looking forward to people trying Beta 8 this Friday! It's gonna be awesome!





Happy Foraging!

Hey everyone!

Today I want to address the current situation with Forager and the constant lack of release date announcements.

As I have said in the past, the reason Forager was delayed back from it's November 2018 release date was that the console versions of the game weren't done yet, and for contractual reasons, I needed to release all of the game's versions at the same time. (PC, PS4 and Nintendo Switch).


We are now in the middle of January and I am honestly still not sure how long this process will take. I have several estimates on when could be the earliest release date, but all of them are just speculation at this point.


Forager is my first ever "real" game, and there are lot of things I am learning how to do on the job. One of them is communicating with this amazing community and trying to keep expectations managed. I made a mistake putting dates and numbers to when I thought the game would be ready, and because of that the team and I are under a lot of stress trying to get this done so everyone has a chance to play the finished game at the same time. This is all my fault.


The console versions are almost done, but I don't want to announce possible release date windows anymore in case I am wrong again. From now on, I will not announce any type of release date window until I am 100% sure we can actually release that day/month. I know for sure Forager is releasing soon, but I am not exactly sure when.



Since the console ports are still under work, I took the last couple of months as an opportunity to improve the game and add more free content. Everyone that played Beta 7 knows of the new features, which are conveniently listed here!


Additionally, I have added some new things, fixed some annoying bugs and hired a very talented programmer that has actually improved the performance of the game GREATLY. I am talking about constant 60 fps, even in the super late game!


Due to the recent reworks in code systems to improve performance, I think it's a good idea to do some massive testing before we officially release. This is why there will be a Beta 8 in the near future. My goal is to get this done by the end of January or the first week of February.


Beta 8 will contain some new features and reworks that I haven't announced yet plus all the things added and fixed that are currently visible on the official development Trello board.


We have now entered the final stretch and this is a very stressful time for us, so I would like to thank you all for your patience and continued support and once again apologize for all the dumb mistakes I have made while trying to finish this amazing passion project of mine.

I would also like to note that thanks to the supporters on Patreon, Forager will get FREE DLC updates for EVERYONE on ALL PLATFORMS! There will be plenty of new content added to the game even after it releases!


Forager WILL be great and I promise I won't let you down!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

We've decided to run an Advent Calendar this holiday season as a way to give out to the community! It will be going for 15 days starting from the 11th through to the 25th!

Each day will be a selected game which has been generously donated by me or one of our community members!

Alongside the games of the day, there will also be a key for the Forager beta for each winner! So that's a FREE game and also access to the beta! Yay!

In the very last week, we will also be giving away Steam keys for the full Forager game!

To participate, you will need to be level 10 or higher on our Discord server. This can be achieved simply by chatting and you also get other rewards as you level up! You have the entire month to take part in this!

This event will be hosted each day in our Discord server, click here to participate!

Hey everyone!

Today I will be talking through some of the features I got to implement for Beta 7 as a result of the recent delay in Forager's release date.

Beta 7 will be released next week, on Thursday 13th of December. If you do not have a closed beta key, please read this!

Here are a few of the things I have added:



This is a new item crafted at the Flower Press that lets you put blocks of land anywhere you want! This is functionally the same as building a Bridge, but it allows for some prettier base building and customization. Additionally, you may even plant and harvest crops in these land tiles!





You may now assign Droids to most buildings by pressing right click when selection them:



This will solve the problem of having too many droids as they will just stay there "powering" the building (which grants it an increased bonus in efficiency!)

Once you need the Droid again for mining or enemy slaying, just come back to pick him up and continue your adventure!



Another new item! This one is a Gear piece found in the Skull Maze. It works like any other Rod in the sense that it has a charge but a very powerful effect. In this case, it summons skeletons!



Why would you want to summon skeletons? The big ones now drop a new item called the Great Skull:



It will be used for a very important crafting recipe. With the Necro Rod + Holy Relic + Magic Scepter, you can get some pretty crazy Great Skull farming!



These are new consumable items that replace Heart Containers and Energy Vessels found in treasure chests. Once you get a Spirit Orb, you can intermediately consume it from your inventory to gain a permanent bonus:

• +1 permanent Max HP
  
• +36 permanent Max Energy
  
• +1 permanent Damage
  
• +1 instant and permanent Level Up

Spirit Orbs can be found in big treasure chests, small skull chests and they can also be crafted in a new structure on the Magic skill branch:



Crafting Spirit Orbs requires a LOT of Great Skulls, so go find that Necro Rod if you want to speed things up!

And finally...



Yup, we finally did it! Upgrades for the Shovel item!



Each one of those provides new fun effects besides increasing the dig area:

• Water Shovel: 2x2 dig area, digging irrigates the dirt
  
• Nomad's Shovel: 3x3 dig area, digging always yields sand
  
• Royal Shovel: 4x4 dig area, digging always yields ores
  
• Robotic Shovel: 5x5 dig area, digging always yields rare items

Besides all of these additions, I am still working every day to try to include more things for Beta 7 and the final release in general. You may always check what I am working on in the official Forager Trello!

We had 116 entries!! This was such a fun idea that I think we will definitely have to repeat the contest for Christmas...





But anyway, here are the 9 winners! (in no particular order)

• Labatate#8954
  
• Kagamiix#5282
  
• Biscuit#0983
  
• stmadujahe#1693
  
• SteveCompany#0132
  
• oorin#1712
  
• ChiyuSoul#6188
  
• Squashpsi#2492
  
• MorphAll#2919

Additionally, we liked these artworks SO MUCH that we had to give them an honorable mention!

• Alexassassin#5576
  
• MuA#2149
  
• 🐺Lama🎃#9718
  
• Mox_G#6736
  
• Callhood_YT#8567
  
• !__ArikLoveFAFA__!#1689
  
• The BlackSalamander#6899
  
• FelisiaWolf#6375
  
• Exelons#9805
  
• IChrisserI#5810
  
• BLAKA-chan#1887

I know we said only 9 winners, but dammit look how awesome these are!

Winners should ask for their keys by sending me a DM on Discord.


Thanks to everyone that participated! And thanks again to Steini225#4400 for sponsoring this contest!


Hope to see you again for the next one!


If you haven't yet, make sure to join our discord server here! We do contests and giveaways all the time! ːsteamhappyː

Hey everyone!

Our fellow community member Steini225 and I have decided to start a Halloween Art Contest on our Discord server!





If you don't have a beta key yet, this will be your final chance to get it before the game releases in November!


To participate, draw a fun and spooky piece of fan art and upload it to our brand new #spooky-contest channel! That's it!


On November 1st, the contest will end and the moderators, Steini and I will choose our 9 favorite fan arts!


Winners will receive a FREE closed beta key!



Good luck and have fun!

Hey everyone!

Thank you so much to all of you who have tried the Forager closed beta and provided their feedback and bug reports!

We are currently giving away 10 keys for the closed beta on our Discord server!

The giveaway is sponsored by our generous patron Steini225 and will last for an entire week starting now!





You may additionally pledge to development on Patreon and get it right away!

Thanks to the generous support of our Patreon supporters, these are the things that have been achieved so far:

• The community has designed new skins and hats for the game!
  
• More free key giveaways have been happening, almost every week!
  
• Forager got new music and art!
  
• Forager will get FREE DLC after release!
  
• The secret demo of Impossible Dungeons will be released to the public next year!
  
• Forager will have multiplayer support starting next year!

People have completely obliterated all the Patreon page goals in less than a month! WOW!

It's finally time to unveil the latest Forager build. There is so much new content that needs testing and feedback - I need YOUR help now more than ever!

The closed beta version of Forager has a LOT of the new content, but due to high demand, I can't make it available to everyone. Only people that actively support development will get access to this build. Think of it as a reward for all the amazing support the community has provided for the development of this game!

There are two ways to get your closed beta key...


Read all the details here!

​50 people have won a FREE key for Forager on Steam!



Thanks to everyone who participated! We had a total of 123,379 real entries! ːsteamhappyː

Check the list of winners here: https://gleam. io/Gv9uB/forager-free-key-giveaway​ (delete the space between Gleam and .io, it's the same link as the giveaway)


Winners will be contacted by me personally this week, and I will provide them with the keys.

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We will indeed have at least one more giveaway like this (but maybe shorter...) before the game releases on Steam! Be sure to subscribe to the HopFrog newsletter​ so you are ready when it happens!

We are giving away a few free keys for the Forager closed beta!

Come help us test and improve the game: https://steamcommunity.com/app/751780/discussions/0/1693795812294624241/