Hello guys!
How are you today?
Hope you guys are doing okay.

Last week, we made a devlog about how and why we decided to change our UI design. Not only that, but we also put a survey about our new UI design.

In the survey we asked last week, we tried to compare the new UI design (thematic pixel art) with the current UI we used on the experimental build. We want to say thank you so much for all of you that spare your time to fulfill the survey and give us feedback. We really appreciate your time and feedback.

We already checked all the data we’ve gathered and come up with the result. So, are you guys ready for the result? *drum roll*
Here’s the result!



The new thematic pixel art UI design will be the UI design we used for Aquaculture Land. We also get some feedback about the new design like the button is not that stand out if compared to the white UI design. We tried to implement the feedback about the new UI design and hopefully will make it better.





We are glad to know that you like the color we used for the new design. Because the main problem we get from the feedback for the white UI design is the color isn’t that match for the theme of the game. The thematic idea we took for the new design also got positive feedback from you guys. Really happy to know that!







The main build of the game has already been updated with the new UI design. If you haven't updated the game, go update the game and try the new thematic pixel art UI!

Things to remember, we also move the current experimental build (ver. 0.7.11(Ex-1)) to the main build. So basically the new update is the experimental build with the new UI design (with some fix in some places so it's ready to move to the main build). We already updated the tutorial section on experimental build some time ago. But we still haven't updated the translation yet (except the English language). So, if you try to change the language into another language (other than English), the tutorial will be still in the English language. We will try to update the other languages as soon as possible.

We also updated the order system. The current order system will have a deadline and minimum quality for the order. You need to pay attention to deadlines and meet minimum quality if you want to complete an order.

There is also bond levels for customers. So in addition to getting money as a reward after fulfilling customer orders and exp points for the farm level, you will also get exp points for raising customer bond levels.

Changes to the order system are our first step to redesign the core games and goals of Aquaculture Land. Later, your goal in playing Aquaculture Land is to build relationships with your customers. By completing the request that they give, your relationship level (we will call it "Customer Bond Level") will increase and as the Customer Bond level increases, you can unlock something new (fish, items, features like breeding and fishing, etc. ). But for now, we haven't added an unlocking system via the customer bond level yet, the unlocking system still depends on the farm level.



To remind again, when we have updates for the game but we still not sure whether the updates are stable enough or not, we will update it to the Experimental Build. Why we do that? Because we want you to try the update first. We want to know if this latest update is good or not according to you. After the updates are stable enough, we will move it to the Main Build. You can check the details about Experimental Build here.

We hope this UI design update will make you more enjoy playing Aquaculture Land. We always open to your feedback and suggestions. So if you have any feedback or suggestions about today’s update or about Aquaculture Land, feel free to tell us.

You can join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC
And you can follow our Twitter here: https://twitter.com/MaulidanGames

Have a good day.
Cheers!

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Hello!
How’s your day?

Back to Aquaculture Land devlog again. Still trying to make a good UI for you guys. After getting some feedback for the current UI we use in the experimental build, we try to redesign the UI (based on the feedback) to make it look better.

Current UI design in Experimental Build



Thank you so much for our fellow @Perfvillain, @Nichiya, @YoYo C, @balvaro21, @Pikarie, @K I N G C K, @ziach1, @Reynolds, @rangsmith, @Darshan Li Nair for giving us an idea what we need to do with the UI.

Most of the feedback we received talked about the color of the UI. The color is too bright and somewhat does not match with the theme that the game used. The dominant color we used for the current UI in the experimental build is white and orange. According to the feedback, we decided to try to use the color palette we use for the UI before, dominant brown.

Changed the color into brown to match the theme of the game



Another reason why we try to use brown for dominant color is that some feedback said that the color from the previous UI is better. And this color also matches the theme used.

Just before we delivered the changed UI to you, our artist team had an idea for making a pixel art UI. And with a thematic design for this time. Because we use pixel art for the game, why don't we try it in the UI too? We still use brown for the dominant color. Board and paper is the theme for the UI. So the pop-up will look like a paper note on board with buttons look like a sticky note.

Thematic Pixel Art UI we want to deliver




We decided to deliver this pixel art UI to you instead of the changed color-only UI. But before we implement the pixel art UI into the game build, we really need your feedback about it. We want to deliver a good and best UI for you. That's why we want to know what kind of UI you think are good.

We have a little survey for this new UI design. This survey will take a couple of minutes and will help us to know which type of UI is the best for you.

If you have a moment to spare, please fulfill the survey on this google form: https://forms.gle/Z8EJT5wWgbQyfBRL8

We hope that with this survey, we can find out what kind of UI designs you like so we can deliver it to you through Aquaculture Land.

So, that's it for today's devlog. We will do our best to make you more enjoy playing Aquaculture Land. And UI design is one of our concerns about it. If you have any feedback or suggestion about Aquaculture Land, feel free to tell us.

You can join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC
And you can follow our Twitter here: https://twitter.com/MaulidanGames

Have a good day.
Cheers!

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Hi guys.
How’s your day?

Today we update two things at once, tutorial and order. Why do we update these two things? From some of the feedback, suggestions, and testing we have done, these 2 things are part of the Aquaculture Land that we need to develop so that you can enjoy the game more.

Things to remember, we did this update in the experimental build (if you want to know more about experimental build, you can check here). And also if you try this new update, there is still something we need to fix with the load game system. So to try this latest version, it is recommended to start from the new game (and maybe you also want to try the new tutorial that we updated).

Without further ado, let's check today's update!

We feel that the tutorial is one of important part of Aquaculture Land for you. Because tutorial is an introduction to make you understand how you will play Aquaculture Land. We want to make an interesting tutorial but still easy to understand for you.



We try to change some conditions from the tutorial. We locked some features that are not related to the tutorial and hope you can stay focus when following the tutorial. We also fixed a few sentences to make it easier to understand the purpose of the tutorial.

Hopefully, by making improvements to the tutorial, new players will more easily recognize the system and features in Aquaculture Land.

Changes to the order system are our first step to redesign the core games and goals of Aquaculture Land. Later, your goal in playing Aquaculture Land is to build relationships with your customers. By completing the request that they give, your relationship level (we will call it "Customer Bond Level") will increase and as the Customer Bond level increases, you can unlock something new (fish, items, features like breeding and fishing, etc. ).

For the current version, we add several criteria to the order feature, quality and deadlines. Quality is a minimum requirement for fish that you can send for order and deadlines are a time limit that you can use to fulfill the order. With these two things, you'll be challenge to fulfill order with a good quality and lots of fish within a certain period!

There is also bond levels for customers. So in addition to getting money as a reward after fulfilling customer orders and exp points for the farm level, you will also get exp points for raising customer bond levels. But for now, we haven't added an unlocking system via the customer bond level yet, the unlocking system still depends on the farm level.





We hope this update will make you more enjoy playing Aquaculture Land. Tutorial will be one of our concern from now on. We will try to show you the best view for tutorial so it will be easier for you to understand the game. Experience of making a relationship with your customer while maintain your business is something we want you to feel in Aquaculture Land. We will do our best to be able to deliver that to you.

If you guys have any feedback or suggestions about today's update or even about Aquaculture Land, feel free to tell us. That will really help us. We always want to know what is your thought about Aquaculture Land, what do you feel about it. So, we can make it more enjoy for you when you play the game.

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Join our Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC
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Have a good day.
Cheers!

Hello.

It’s been a long time since we posted the last devlog. These past few months we’re focused on implementing visual feedback and new UI design to the game (and fixing bugs and balancing too). Along with it, we also redesign the order feature. In this new design, we want you to make a relationship with the customer so you will become their trusted aquaculture businessman.

So, without further ado, here's today's devlog for you!

There will be 11 customers (in total) for the new order feature. Each customer will give you a different order based on their job and personality. Yes, customers will have their own job and personality. What kind of fish they will order and other criteria like deadline, quality, and weight will be based on their job and personality. There will be customers from supermarkets, restaurants, food vloggers, and many others.



But if you want to get orders from different customers, you need to unlock them first. You need to reach a certain farm level (player level before, now we called it “Farm Level”) along with fame level and loyalty level to unlock them.



Customers will have loyalty level. To make a good relationship with them, you need to make sure that their orders are fulfilled properly. You will get a loyalty exp point every time you fulfill their orders properly. With this loyalty exp point, you can increase your loyalty level. The higher loyalty level you reach, the greater the reward you get from the order.

The new order will have few more criteria than the old one to complete it. Deadline, quality, fame point, and loyalty point will be added to order. If in the current version, the focus is only on weight of the fish, in the new design you need to pay attention to the deadline and quality of the fish too. Because if you can’t deliver the order within the deadline, your order will be failed and deleted. And if your fish quality is lower than your customer needs, you can’t deliver it.



Beside that, order will not only give you money and farm level exp and loyalty point, but also a fame point. You need to collect fame points to level up your fame level. You will see this fame level as a bar that contains fame points. This fame level will affect your order and visitor. The higher the fame level, the faster orders and visitors come. So, if you want to get order quicker, you need to make sure you’re maintaining the fame level in a good state. There will be certain conditions that can make your fame points decrease. And the worst thing if you get your fame points very low, you will find it difficult to get orders.

We have prepared everything we need for this new design of order feature. We are currently balancing all things relating to it. We hope that everything will run smoothly so that we can show this update to you soon.

If you have any suggestions or feecback about today's devlog, feel free to tell us. Your feedback and suggestion will really help us with the development and help us to make the game better.

And if you want to join our Discord channel and talk about this game, you can join here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC
You can also follow our Twitter here: https://twitter.com/MaulidanGames

Until next time, have a good day.
Cheers!

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Hello.
How are you today?

We have good news at this Lunar New Year for you! For those of you who still don't have Aquaculture Land or still make Aquaculture Land part of your wishlist, now is the right time to buy Aquaculture Land!

We're joining the Steam Lunar New Year Sale, which will be held from Jan 23, 2020 @ 10.00am Pacific to Jan 27, 2020 @ 10.00am Pasific. At this first Steam Sale of this year, we gave you 10% off sale for Aquaculture Land! Go grab it fast before it's too late!

A little sneak peeks, we will do an update for Aquaculture Land in the near future. This update will relate to customer orders and also the new UI for Aquaculture Land. So what are you waiting for? It's time for you to make your own fish ponds and feel the experience of being an aquaculture businessman!

We also inform you that we are currently campaigning on Woovit. There are several free keys that we share through this campaign. So, if you are a content creator who is interested in playing and making videos about Aquaculture Land, let's join our Woovit campaign at https://woovit.info/aquacultureland

You can also follow our Twitter here: https://twitter.com/MaulidanGames
Or if you want to join our Discord channel and talk about this game, you can join here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC

Let’s make our fish farming bigger!
Cheers!

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Hello.
Happy super late new year guys!!!



First of all, we really want to say thank you so much to all of you guys that keep supporting us this far. 2019 is an amazing year for us! We finally release our first early access game, Aquaculture Land. Collaborating with the community, with all of you, to make Aquaculture Land better is an amazing thing we did in 2019. We’re really glad to have all of you with us.

In 2020, we also have new players playing Aquaculture Land. Thank you so much to all of you that buy and play Aquaculture Land. We really appreciate it and welcome to the journey. We hope in this 2020, we can talk with you more often. We hope we can make Aquaculture Land become a better game that makes you enjoy when playing it. That’s why today we’re doing bug fixes that happened in previous version.

With this bug fixes, we changed version 0.7.10(3) into version 0.7.10(5) (in main build branch) and version 0.7.10(EX5) into version 0.7.10(EX6) (in experimental build). We already fixed bug that makes character (workers and visitors) sprite disappear when the character is out of screen and then you paused the game. Bug that makes you cannot continue the tutorial because the shovel button is locked when you want to build a pond and then you cancel it with right-click. We fixed that in version 0.7.10(5) along with other minor bugs. In version 0.7.10(EX6), we fixed bugs that make the new UI not appearing or running as it should. For the details, you can check the changelog below.



We also remind you that Aquaculture Land will be joining Steam Lunar Sale. We will give you 10% off! So, if you still put Aquaculture Land in your wishlist, it’s time for you to get Aquaculture Land and start making your own fish farm!

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

Once again, thank you so much. Thank you so much for telling us your suggestions, feedback, and review about the game. That really helps us with the game development. We hope you will keep supporting us from now on. Let's make this year even greater than before!

Have a good day.
Cheers!


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Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug that makes the character sprite disappear when they out of the screen and you pause the game.
- Fixed bug where work sign for worker disappear after you load the game.
- Fixed bug that makes shovel icon locked when you use right-click to cancel build and make it unable to continue tutorial.
- Fixed bug worker progres bar disappear if you move your camera until the worker out of screen.
- Fixed bug worker emoticons stop when game is paused.
- Fixed bug that makes order taken list stuck.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug there is an arrow to the left page even though it is on the first page.
- Fixed bug shovel button locked if load game from old version that doesn't have tutorial.
- Fixed bug that makes an area below order taken list cannot be interacted.

UI Change
- Added new design for UI feedback.
- Added new icon for gameplay UI button.
- Rearrange UI position.

Hello.

We finally finished implementing the new UI design for the game. But we still need to make sure that the new UI is good enough for you. That's why today we update it to Experimental Build so you can try it.

Besides that, we also update the main build to 0.7.10(3) version. With this update, you can move the camera using MMB and we make an adjustment with the flow of repairing and refilling pond equipment.

New UI
We updated a new UI design for the game to Experimental Build. The reason why we make this new design is we want to gives the impression of simplicity, clean, and clarity from the UI. We want to make you feel a better playing experience with this new UI.

We already got some feedback and suggestions for the new design before, when we post the screenshot on twitter and our Discord channel. We already noted all the suggestions and feedback and we still working on in. So, why we updated the new UI in Experimental Build? Because we want you to try and feel the experience when playing the game with this new design. If you already try Aquaculture Land before, maybe you will get unused with the new design because we did quite a lot of changes for the position of the UI. But we hope this new design will give you better playing experience.

Old design


New design


Details Pond New Design

Old design


New design


Breeding new design

Old design


New design


Order new design



Update 0.7.10(3)
In this 0.7.10(3) version, there are 2 main updates that we add to the main build. The first thing is moving camera. We try to make it easier to move the camera. That's why in this version we make you can move the camera using MMB.



The second one is about the flow of repairing and refilling pond equipment. In the previous version, worker will repair or refill pond equipment when it has been completely broken or out of fuel. Sometimes, that will bring problems to certain fish. Because when the pond equipment is completely broken or out of fuel, it will stop working and make the pond status drops immediately.

We try to make an adjustment in this update. We make worker will start to repair or refill when the durability bar or fuel bar is on 20% left. So before the pond equipment completely stops working, the worker will start to repair or refill it.



We hope with this update, especially the new UI, you will get a better playing experience. We always open with all of your feedback and suggestions. Do you want to make the game better? Do you think there is something wrong with the game? Feel free to tell us all of your thought about the game, your feedback, your suggestions, and even your reviews. We will really appreciate it.

Thank you so much for all of your support for this year. We hope you will still support us from now on. We will do our best for the game so you can enjoy it more.

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If you want to join our Discord channel and talk anything about the game, you can join here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC

And don't forget to follow our Twitter on: https://twitter.com/MaulidanGames

Have a good day.
Cheers!

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!

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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!