Hey everyone! We’re back with sneak peek into the features of the next update for Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands! This time: improving your relationship with the crew members!
(Please remember, everything shown here is work in progress and still subject to change!)


Relationships are a new gameplay feature in Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands. You can improve your relationship with the crew members by helping them to settle on the Cursed Islands and decorate their houses with decoration and furniture of their favourite styles!

It’s crucial to find out what kind of gifts everyone likes to unlock new decoration pieces and which decoration style they’d love to have in their houses to successfully improve the relationship with your crew members!

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There are four different relationship milestones you can reach with each of your crew members, from “Thankful” to “Happy”. And every unlocked milestone will also grant you new perks and bonuses that will help you a lot while exploring, farming and gathering!
And as different the needs of your crew members are, as different are the bonuses they grant, too! So, it definitely pays off to improve your relationship with everyone. :)

And maybe… when you took care of every crew member, something special could happen!




Along with the new relationship feature comes a new user interface that shows you details about your relationship with a crew member, the milestones you have reached, their favourite items you already discovered and more!


For example, here you can see the different milestones you can unlock with Fiola plus every bonus they grant. We already unlocked the Milestone “Thankful” and the perk “Energizing Stew”! You can also see what kind of perks await you at the higher milestones and these perks are unique to Fiola. Fritz, Cecille and the other crew members will help you all in their own ways once you improve your relationship with them!

The new UI will also keep track of the favourite items you gifted them, their favourite styles for their home decoration and the decoration styles you unlocked. Best friends know each other and the UI will help you with that!





With the new relationship gameplay we have added a whole new layer to Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands and we hope you’re as excited about it as we are. Improving your friendship with the members of your crew will unlock all-new perks that will help you considerably on your journey, and every little helps! New activities await you with the next update. But this is a story for another time.


Are you excited about the news?
Do you want to share feedback? Just want to say hi?

Then join our Discord channel: discord.gg/rokaplay

Hi everyone!

We have some great news to share and you can help making it even better.



We're proud we can offer Stranded Sails on such a variety of platforms. Many players dived straight into their adventure on the Cursed Islands using their PC, consoles and mobile devices, and each of them enjoyed an individual gameplay experience.
Therefore, we're delighted to be nominated for Best Mobile Game as it proves that we accomplished something very special here.
We'll never be able to fully express our gratitude for all the love and critical feedback we received for Stranded Sails. It strengthens our motivation even more to provide you with an even better experience with the next update!



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Everybody who casts their vote at the German Games Awards takes part in a raffle with amazing prizes. So, it's definitely worth it!

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Thanks a lot in advance for supporting us at the German Games Awards!

Stay safe and game on.

Your team at rokaplay and Lemonbomb

Hello everyone!
I’m back with a short status update on our (remote) work.


I’m happy to share the news that

• work on the decoration elements is close to completion...
  
• … as well as the new NPC animations!
  
• the concept of 8 new [REDACTED] is done
  
• we made progress on the rewards you will get for improving your relationship with crew members.
  
• the NPCs will no longer stay only in their fixed places.

It’s week number two since we changed to remote work in our teams.
And this time, Robert sends a message from his home office:



“Hey all, I hope you’re doing well.
I still have to adapt to Home Office work, especially since I’m used to working in the office together with my colleagues everyday. But I will get used to the new situation!
I currently work at home from my kitchen with a great view of my garden. Two squirrels call my garden their home at the moment and it’s fun to see them running around! I call them Chip and Chap (Chip’n Dale for those of you who get it!).
Working under such new circumstances can be stressful at times but a big cup of tea always calms me down! But I have to go back to work now -- my daughter needs attention!

I hope you enjoy Stranded Sails and the news about the upcoming update!
I send you my best wishes. Stay safe!”

- Robert (roka_robert)

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Cheers!
roka_can

Hey everyone, roka_can here!

As you surely know, the current situation with the Corona pandemic is very serious and it’s up to everyone to take precautions to #flattenthecurve and stop the virus from spreading too fast. That’s why we at rokaplay and Lemonbomb decided to work remotely.
We are happy to say that we are able to work nearly uninterruptedly this way so work on the next update for Stranded Sails continues and we try our best to keep you updated about on our progress!

It’s quite a time right now (in Germany). Things developed fast and so the decision to work from home came about pretty fast too. Working from home as a social media and community manager is something I’m already used to. But right now, being able to work from home - or anywhere else - is not ‘just a benefit’ of our jobs but something that allows us to let the show go on!
And until I can return to my rokaplay office, my private desk will be my office:


But don’t think I work alone while we are separated: we are doing daily video calls and stay in touch through every means that are available to us: Skype, Discord, social media channels, smoke signs, morse code - you name it.
And I want to invite all of you to join our discussion on our Discord channel: discord.gg/rokaplay
This is the reality we are living in right now. In any case, we are trying to do our work and live our everyday lives as good as possible under the current circumstances. Maybe this is a good chance to share more from us while we stay at home and keep the distance. :)

And now to some another news:

Are you looking for a place to stay for some time to come? Try a vacation on the Cursed Islands! Stranded Sails is on sale now and you can get it with a 33% discount.
Now is the best time to be ship-wrecked on a mysterious archipelago and to go on an adventure trip!

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You already unveiled the mystery of the Cursed Island and played Stranded Sails?
Please leave us a review on the store page. That helps us a lot!

Recently many of you asked when the exploration update will hit the console versions of Stranded Sails. We are happy to share the news that it’s only a matter of days right now!
The update has already been submitted. It has to be green lit for each and every console. We will spread the news as soon as the update is live.
So please bear with us for this final stretch of waiting!

Maybe a new time-lapse will kill a little bit of time. Enjoy!



Until then, stay safe and game on!

roka_can

Hi everyone!
We are back with a sneak peek on our work-in-progress for the next update.

First of all, we are making great progress with the development of the decoration system!
Both the placement, pick-up and movement of the decoration is well advanced in development as well as the new decoration menu. We have no new images at this moment but it shapes up to be a great new feature for Stranded Sails and we hope you're looking forward to it.

More info coming soon. :)

As you may know from the news of last week, we are working on an update for the relationship management with your crew. New animations breathe more life into every crewmemeber and you will be able to improve your friendship with every crewmember.
We can't go into detail here how you will be able to improve your friendship with a character but we can already show you a sneak peek from the art department:

[Picture shown above shows work-in-progress and is subject to change!]

Your relationship status will be represented in the UI with different picutres of the npc character. You're already familiar with Fiola! Here you see her getting happier the more the relationship with her improves.
It's important to go along well as a stranded crew and improving the bond to your crew is going to be... rewarding! ;)

And now enjoy a short timelapse of our artist Linda drawing Fiola (WIP)!
You can find the full timelapse in our Discord channe: discord.gg/rokaplay


Are you excited to see more?
Do you have any questions?
Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!

Cheers

Your team at rokaplay and Lemonbomb

Hi everyone!

First of all, thank you all for your enthusiasm for the next update. It's great to see you’re looking forward to more new content for Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands. And rest assured that we are currently working hard to make it happen! :)

And because of that, we’d like to give you a new sneak peek at the new stuff and keep you on top of things. Last time we announced the addition of crew housing and decorations. Thanks to this new feature, you will be able to enter the houses of your crewmember and decorate the interior with furniture and decorative items. Below you can see what furniture may look like in the game and more.
But please note that everything shown here is still in development and not representative of the final product Alright? Alright!

First of all, we are working on the decoration system and decoration placement, trying to make it as easy as possible for you to place your deco. You can even rotate decorations and place certain items on top of other decorations!


We know you can't decorate houses when there’s no furniture! That's why we are working on a set of new furniture in different styles that you may use to design rooms to your heart’s content. Take this set, for example, we’re currently designing:


What you see here is a piece of furniture, concept art on the left, 3D asset on the right. Which crewmember do you think would like this sort of thing the most? :D
We want to give you as many decoration options as possible and this is just a small part of it. Keep your eyes for more pics of new deco and furniture elements!


And, last but not least, we have another small teaser for you:



The crew will get new animations! This will make them even more expressive and they can react to certain things in more different ways. What are we going to use the new animations for? Why is Fritz flexing his muscles? Well, that’s something we’ll be talking about in another newsflash!
Until then, how do you like what you've seen here?
Share your thoughts in the comments! :)

Or join our Discord server: discord.gg/rokapublish

And, as always, if you haven’t done so already, leave us a review on our store page.
Have a nice day everyone!

Your rokaplay and Lemonbomb team!

Hey everyone!


We all have played many games with great housing gameplay elements starting from The Sims, to Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley. Every game offered a different experience and many players have different expectations what a game has to offer if they allow house building and interior design! And this is why we want to know more about your experience with housing in games!

• What motivates you to build and decorate homes in games?
  
• Do you have prime examples of other games on how housing works best?
  
• Or do you have an anecdote story of yourself what you like or dislike about housing in games?

We'd love to read about your opinions. Share us your thoughts and whishes in the comments and have a discussion!

Why are we asking? Well...

[Image shown above is early work in progress and has placeholder graphics. Everything shown is still subject to change]

We're excited to annonce that housing for the crew will come to Stranded Sails in the next update. You will not only be able to enter the houses of your crew member but also be able to decorate the interior! :)

We can't share more right now but we will go into detail about housing and decoration once we are ready to show more, so stay tuned!

However it's your chance to give us some input and share your personal experience with housing in other games with us. :)

Cheers,

your team from rokaplay and LemonBomb

Hey everyone !
This is your friendly reminder that we are making good progress with the next update for Stranded Sails!
We took your feedback into consideration and thought long about new improvements. So, again, thank you all for your constant feedback. ːsteamhappyː
One thing we are going to tackle in the next update are more side-activities on the Cursed Islands. We want to give you more meaning in the exploration of the world besides the main quest and your regular every day work and new side-activities will add more rewarding variety to the gameplay of Stranded Sails!

But I will go more into details about this soon. What I can show you already is the new rewards you can obtain in the next update:



NEW OUTFITS for your player character! Soon you can go to your next exploration trip in style!



We are also working to add more detail to the world and improving the enviroment bit by bit. Some sweet new details are underwarter vegetation as you can see here!


This is just a sneak peek and I hope you are excited to read more about the next update. So stay tuned for more information in the future.

How do you like it? Any more suggestions? Share your thoughts in the comments!

Now is the best moment to embark on your adventure on the Cursed Islands

You can get Stranded Sails during the Lunar Year Sale with a 33% discount! and enjoy the game with the newest improvements added with the recent exploration update that added





We are constantly working on new updates and improvements for Stranded Sails, so stay excited for more details soon! :)

Don't hesitate and jump on board. Adventure awaits!

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Hello Sailors !

It’s been a while since we posted our weekly news about everything Stranded Sails related.
Some reached out to us in the meantime and asked if we are still working on Stranded Sails and if there are more updates to come.

And the answer is yes! ːsteamhappyː
We are already back to work after the holiday season and are planning future content updates to improve the gameplay of Stranded Sails.
We can’t talk about details right now but we promise to pick up the speed again and show you what we are working on once we are ready to talk about it. Stay tuned!

Do you have any ideas on your mind how we could improve Stranded Sails? Features you want to see? Feel free to share your ideas with us.
Feel free to share your ideas in the comments or join our Discord channel chat with us directly:
https://discordapp.com/invite/rokaplay

Also: We are currently working on porting the recent exploration update to Switch / PS4 / XBox One / Apple Arcade. We share details about the release of the update with you ASAP!

Expect to hear more from us again! The weekly news are back and we will also be more active on our social media channels again, so keep an eye on that too!
We want to share our work in progress with you, tease new features and give you an insight into the further development of Stranded Sails.

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