Hello.

2019 has been a great year for us. This year, we finally released Aquaculture Land in Steam Early Access. We got a lot of feedback and suggestions about the game from all of you guys. Thank you so much for all of your support so far. We really appreciate it.

So, before 2019 end, we have good news for you. Aquaculture Land is joining 2019 - Steam Winter Sale!

We're joining with 10% off sale for Aquaculture Land from December 19, 2019 @ 9:55am Pacific to January 2, 2020 @ 10:05am Pacific. This is the last sale for this year from Aquaculture Land. So, don't waste it! There is a farm that you need to take care of! Go grab it fast and start to make your own fish farm!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

We will always do our best to make Aquaculture Land better. We really want to give you a great experience when playing Aquaculture Land. We're really opened to all your feedback and suggestions. Because those suggestions and feedback will help us to make Aquaculture Land better.

So, if you want to make Aquaculture Land better, feel free to tell us all your feedback and suggestions about Aquaculture Land.

Have a great day.
Cheers!

Hello.

We are almost at the end of the year. We are really glad that you keep supporting us this far. Thank you so much, we really appreciate it.

Before this 2019 ends, we have an update for you. We bring you achievements for today's update.

Achievements
Achievements have been added to the game. We want to make this achievement become something that rewards you for taking care of your fish and your farm.



Thing to reminder, if you want to collect the achievement, you must start the game from the beginning in version 0.7.10(2). And you need to use default settings when you play the game or you will not be able to achieve it.


Default Setting

So, are you ready to collect it all? Are you ready to start over?
Come with more strategy to get your achievement! Sell your fish as much as you can, fulfill more customer orders, get some profits in a month, and make your visitor spend more money on fishing!

Right now, there are 20 achievements that you can collect. We’re still preparing about other achievements that are relevant to the game. That’s why if you have any suggestions about achievement, feel free to tell us.

We also remind you that we will be joining Steam Winter Sale. We will give you a 10% off sale for Aquaculture Land. Not bad, isn't it?
Don't forget to grab it fast so you can start to collect the achievement!

And if you want to make Aquaculture Land better, feel free to tell us all your suggestions and feedback for Aquaculture Land.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

Have a good day.
Cheers!

Hello guys
How’s your day?

Today we have some updates for Aquaculture Land. For a few past weeks, we updated custom mode into experimental build because we still need to adjust a few things. And today, we decided to move custom mode to the main build along with the visual feedback update.

There isn't much change from the custom mode that we update to the main build. Custom mode is an additional feature for Free Mode. The custom mode feature is created because we want to retain the essence of Free Mode, where players are free to play as they wish, with a progression process, where all features such as fish and equipment are locked so that players can unlock these features one by one and feel the progression.

With this feature, you can choose your starting conditions to play in Free Mode (like Sandbox Mode in general). There are several conditions that you can choose such as starting level, starting money, fish, and equipment.



Visual feedback is one of the things that is lacking in Aquaculture Land. We realized it after watching some players playing Aquaculture Land. We also got some feedback that said they don’t know what is happening with their farm. So, we decided to add this visual feedback to help players understand what is happening with their farm, especially with their fish.

Pond Sign
Every pond you build has several statuses. You need to make sure that the statuses meet the commodities needs. Your commodities will be in bad condition if you don’t meet those needs.

For the current version, everything that happened with the status will be shown with the bubble icon (that represented the status that changed). So, if in the previous version there was only a warning icon that appears after the status going bad, right now every time the pond status increase or decreases, you’ll be shown with a bubble status icon.







We also changed the pond warning icon with the new one, because we thought the old one is not clear enough to tell you what the icon means.

Work Sign
Work sign is a sign that will appear every time your worker will do something. Dig pond, fill water, cut bush, repairing equipment, etc. We changed the worker sign because we want to make this sign clear enough to understand. And we also give a little animation to the sign so it will become juicier.





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We hope today’s update will make you more enjoyable to play Aquaculture Land. Do you feel helped by this visual feedback? Do you find it easier to know the state of your pond with this visual feedback? We will still improve the game as much as we can. That’s why if you have any feedback or suggestions that can make you more enjoyable to play, feel free to tell us.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

Have a good day.
Cheers!

Hi guys.

So, for the past few weeks, our artist team is working to make a new UI design for Aquaculture Land. After doing some research on the UI design of several games, we thought that we need to update our UI.

We also remind you that for this Autumn Sale we give a 10% discount for Aquaculture Land. Not that bad, right?
But the discount is only available from November 26, 2019 until December 3, 2019 @ 10am PST. So, you need to grab it fast so you won’t miss this chance!

Simplicity, Clean, Clarity.
In making this new design, we want to create a design that gives the impression of simplicity, clean, and clarity. If the UI design was previously dominated by brown, this time the design will be more dominant to white, orange and dark blue. We also made a replacement of several UI to make it look more simple and clean. We also changed some designs to provide clarity about its usefulness.

Old Design


New Design


For now, we are in the process of implementing a new UI design into the game. We hope we can finish it soon so you can try it as soon as possible.

New Design of Main Menu

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New Design of Gameplay UI

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New Design of Menu Worker

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New Design of Breeding

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So, what do you think about this new UI design? Is it better than the previous design? Do you like it?

We want to present a UI design that is really easy to understand, doesn't overfill the screen, neat, and certainly good to see. That's why we need your suggestions and feedback about this new UI design so we can make it even better. So, feel free to tell us your suggestions and feedback about it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

Have a good day.
Cheers!

Hello.
How are you?

Today we have good news for all of you guys that haven't buy Aquaculture Land yet. For this Autumn Sale , from November 26, 2019 until December 3, 2019 @ 10am PST, we give you 10% off sale for Aquaculture Land!

So, if you still wishlist Aquaculture Land, this time is the right time to buy Aquaculture Land and start to make your own fish farm! Build pond, nurturing fish, fulfill order, and sell your fish yields to the market.

Don't miss it! Go grab it fast and feel the experience of being a freshwater aquaculture businessman!

And don't forget to vote for us in Steam Awards for Labor of Love 2019 category. We will really appreciate it if you can help us by vote for us in this Steam Award (or maybe you have another category for us? ːsteamhappyː)

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We want to remind you that we already updated the game into version 0.7.10 in the experimental branch. This version will give you a custom game in Free mode. With this custom game, you can choose your starting conditions to play in Free Mode. There are several conditions that you can choose such as starting level, starting money, fish, and equipment. If you want to try the 0.7.10 version, you need to try it in experimental branch (you can check here for more details about experimental branch).

We also already opened our Discord server to public. We want to get closer with the community, we want to talk a lot with you guys, that's why we opened our Discord to public. We can talk a lot about anything related to the game in there. You can tell us your feedback or suggestions. If you want to join our Discord server, you can join here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

We want to say thank you to all of you that keep supporting us. Thank you for all of your feedback, suggestions, and reviews this far, we really appreciate it. But we still can make Aquaculture Land better. So, if you have any suggestions feedback, or maybe if you can give us your reviews about the game, that will really help us with development.

Have a good day.
Cheers!

Update:
Our problem is already solved. Aquaculture Land is already back to Early Access. Thank you for the Steam team that helps us to solve this problem. And thank you so much for all of you guys who keep supporting us. Time to back to the development!

If you guys just buy Aquaculture Land because of the incident, we're sorry for the inconvenient. And if you have any suggestions, feedback, or even reviews for the game, feel free to tell us.

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Hello.

We got a problem. Right now, if you check on Aquaculture Land, the game already leaves early access or already fully released. But actually the state of the game is still in early access. We still find out why the game is suddenly changed from early access state into full release. We already contacted the steam support and asked if we can roll back the game into Early Access state.

We're really sorry to all of you that already buy Aquaculture Land because you think that the game is already full release. We hope we can fix this soon and bring back Aquaculture Land into Early Access state.

And maybe, If you have experienced this or you know how to fix this problem, please tell us.

Thank you.

Hello.
How are you today?

Today we will discuss a new update that consists of custom mode. Before discussing further, we need to inform you that from today, every time we update the game that related balancing, features, redesign, etc, we will update the game in the experimental branch (you can read how to access experimental branch here).

We're doing this so that this new feature that we still need to test and get feedback won't affect the main build. So, until this feature is certain that there are no bugs or are completely stable, we will use the experimental branch for the updates.

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Custom Mode
So, Custom mode is an additional feature that we introduce in Free Mode. From the start, Free Mode was designed to make players can do whatever they want. They can try all the features that we have like Aerator, electricity source, fish, and other features available from the beginning of the game. But we feel that with the current situation, players will get bored quickly and some features such as diversity of pond equipment (aerator, electricity source, and filter) will not really be felt by the player.

So we planned to lock these features where later players could open them over time. That way the progression process will be felt. But if we do that, then the main purpose of the Free Mode (where players can freely try everything) will be limited. That's why we use custom mode ideas. With this feature, you can choose your starting conditions to play in Free Mode (like Sandbox Mode in general). There are several conditions that you can choose such as starting level, starting money, fish, and equipment.



We have updated these new changes to the experimental branch. If you want to try, you can access it in the experimental build branch (you can read how to access experimental branch here).
Please use a different save file if you try the experimental build branch so it won't affect the save file from your main build branch.

Update 0.7.9(4) for Main Build
We also update the main build into 0.7.9(4) version. In update 0.7.9 (4) we did some bug fixes that occurred in the previous version. We also do optimization on this version to prevent crashes.

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If you find any bugs or you have suggestions and feedback about this new updates or anything about Aquaculture Land, feel free to tell us. Your feedback, suggestions, and reviews are an important thing to make Aquaculture Land better.

And if you don't know yet, now we've opened our Discord server. Come and join us! We can talk about all things related to the game. You can tell us all of your suggestions and feedback.

If you want to join our Discord server, you can join here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

Have a great day.
Cheers!

Hello.
How’s your day?

Back again with Aquaculture Land devlog. And today, we’re still talking about visual feedback. Because for now (besides checking the core design and balancing the game) we’re focused on visual feedback to make the game more informative and juicier. One of our main goals for Aquaculture Land is it can be played by anyone, even for new players. That’s why we want to make the game informative so you guys will know all things you need to do to stay in the game.

Pond Status Notification
Today’s visual feedback is about pond status notification. Every pond you build has several statuses. Dissolved oxygen, living space, acoustic comfort, and others. You need to make sure that the statuses meet the fish needs. If your pond’s statuses get lower than the fish needs, you will be shown a notification icon that tells you there’s something wrong with your pond. But when you already fix the problem, the icon will just suddenly disappear. We try to make visual feedback when the problem in your pool is resolved so you will know whether there is still a problem or not.

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Visual feedback to let you know that your pool is clean from fish waste.


Visual feedback to let you know that the parasite in your pond is dead.
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Just like we said before, this is not our final art, this is still our experiment. So if you have any suggestions or feedback about today’s visual feedback, feel free to tell us. Is it good enough for you? Do you understand what’s going on if you find that new icon appears when you play the game? You can tell us all your thoughts about it.

And also, if you haven’t heard yet, we already opened our Discord server (we already post the news here). So, if you want to join our Discord server, you can join here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC

We can talk about anything related to the game there. You can ask anything about the game. So, come and join our Discord server.

That’s it for today’s devlog. We will continue our experiment for visual feedback. We still try to find the best way to show the visual feedback. We hope with this visual feedback you will be more enjoy playing Aquaculture Land.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

Have a great day.
Cheers!

Hello.
How are you?

First of all, we want to say thank you to all of you that keep supporting us this far. All of your feedback and suggestions are very helpful in development of Aquaculture Land. We really appreciate it.

So far, we already implement some of your feedback and suggestions into Aquaculture Land and that makes the game better. We want to get more feedback and suggestions from you guys, that’s why we want to be closer with you. We’re inviting you to join our Discord server. We hope with this move, we become easier to talk to each other.

You can join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC

But don’t worry, we can still talk through steam discussion too. We just want to be closer to all of you guys. We want to make Aquaculture Land better together with you. We can talk about a lot of things there. One of the topics that we want to talk to you is visual feedback. Because we’re focused on experimenting with visual feedback for now (besides we're checking the core design and balancing the game), we will talk a lot about it. We'll often post our experiment about visual feedback. But you can ask about anything too. We’ll be waiting for you to join our Discord server.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

See you there. Have a great day.
Cheers!

Hello.
How are you?

For this whole week, our artist team has experimented with making visual feedback for Aquaculture Land. Visual feedback is one of things that is lacking in Aquaculture Land. We realized this after watching some streamer or YouTuber playing the game. They don’t know what is happening with their farm. And we also want to make the game more juicy by adding visual feedback.

The first visual feedback that is made by our team artist was animation when the fish died. Before, when your fish died, an emoticon bubble will come out then your fish gone (basically the emoticon will tell you your fish condition). But we feel like only show emoticon bubble won’t be enough. We still need something that will show you when the fish died. Then we try to make some animation, dead fish animation, that will come out when your fish died.



In Aquaculture Land, bush is something that will grow in your farm over time. If you don’t cut it frequently, bush will fill your farm and make you unable to build pond. We already make a pop-up animation for the bush. But when the bush is being cut and when the bush disappears, there is still no animation. That’s why this time we make visual feedback about it, animation when the bush is being cut and disappear.

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The next one is animations for tree. Just like bush, trees also make you unable to build pond. The difference is if you cut down tree, it won’t grow again. We also make animations for visual feedback when the tree is being cut and when it fall then disappear.

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We still experiment will all that visual feedback. We still try to find the best way to show the visual feedback for every single thing that can help player to understand their current condition and to make the game juicier.

Because we still experiment with it, if you have any feedback or suggestions about it, feel free to tell us in the comment section below or in the discussion.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

Have a nice weekend.
Cheers!