Take back the planet Thursday, Dec. 3rd as Phoenix Point: Year One Edition comes to Steam with two DLC expansions, brand-new weapons, an all-new prologue with a completely revamped tutorial and so much more! Here's a peek as to what to expect:



For more info, see our previous post about what's coming to Year One Edition, and for the rest of the fans standing by, the game will be available at 10:00 AM PDT on DECEMBER 3RD, 2020.

Dear comrades,

Loresoft is proud to announce that the stable alpha demo is coming on Steam on December 1st.

You will be able to download it by clicking the "Download demo" menu button on the right column of our Store page.

It has been almost two years after we released our first early alpha demo and we are glad that after so much effort we are ready to present you the stable alpha version of Katyusha, including the Chapter 2. Keep in mind that this is the first version of the stable alpha version and that we will keep working on it for a large period of time, until we reach the status of "vertical slice". Once Katyusha is funded, we will be announce it in public and start working on the final version.

In the meantime, starting from December 1st, you should know that we will update our Steam Demo with constant updates and hotfixes. We are also preparing our Forum here in Loresoft.gr so that we can have a better communication, beside the Steam Community Discussions.

So here are our patch notes for the stable alpha v.252:

New features:
- Chapter 2: Battle of Odessa
- Chapter 2 song: Red army is the strongest
- New NPC: Lyudmila Pavlichenko with her first dialogues (more dialogues and quests will follow).
- Katyusha Rocket Launcher: Control the vehicle by solving a puzzle
- The bullets are now limited. You can also kill your enemies with back and forth melee attacks.
- Scaled difficulty, according to user's level
- Katyusha can now grab from ledges.
- The addition of hanged bodies. Click the use button and you have a small percentage of getting a letter.
- The loot on each enemy is random.
- The A.I. and movement of enemies is now more realistic.
- Bombardments by German Messerschmitt Me 262 airplanes which cause instant death and terrain change.
- Dynamic weather conditions (rain and snow) are effective only on Chapter 2. There are currently no effects in battle.
- Day/Night cycle occurs in both levels. There are currently no effects in battle.

Things to keep in mind:
- Chapter 2 is going to have new areas, buildings and missions and the size of it will expand.
- Katyusha needs some adjustments in animations, with and without rifle.
- Chapter 2 art is not final and will change in the future.
- In Chapter 2, the insides of buildings are placeholders.
- Soviet and German letters are going to be increased.

Upcoming features:
- Crafting: The crafting system is under development at the moment.
- Lyudmila's dialogues and quests are under development and we will need several months to complete them.
- User will be able to dismantle items (ex. the car at the beginning of Chapter 2) and use the materials for crafting.
- Gunfights when driving: We are going to include a surprise gunfight while driving.
- When at sunset and night, the enemy's sight range will be reduced.
- New enemies are going to be added in Chapter 2.
- Eagle skills
- And more...

Stay tuned as after the new demo release, the updates are going to be often and we are going to communicate together in a daily basis, so that we can improve our game.

Thank you for your support!

A core belief of the Garden Story team is that a sense of community is central to our well-being, and that positive and impactful actions we take within our communities can help them thrive. We’re proud to announce one action we’re taking is to fundraise for No Kid Hungry throughout the month of December!



No Kid Hungry provides food to kids through free meal programs and food skills education to families. Whether it’s supporting kids through free meals during the summer or providing food education for families: we appreciate No Kid Hungry’s mission, and we think the fruits, veggies, and fungi of the Grove would too!

We also won’t be fundraising alone! We're teaming up with Streamline Media Group, and the No Kid Hungry ambassador streamers to showcase a bevvy of food-focused and family-friendly indie titles throughout the month of December! Every dollar donated is the equivalent of supporting a kid for 10 meals. We'd love it if you could join us, whether it's helping spread the word, hanging out in the stream, or through a financial contribution!



Giving Tuesday (Dec 01st) is the first day of our fundraising festivities, and you can find all of the fun on Twitch!

The celebration will begin at 3 PM PDT when we play the adorable demo for Toasty, a charming game that’s currently in development, and then putting our match-3 fighting skills to the test with some Battle Chef Brigade!

At 5:30 PM PDT, we’ll join the wonderful ladies of GPTV on their channel as they play the Garden Story demo! You’ll definitely want to tune in: in addition to playing the demo, there will be some fun giveaways. (Stickers, anyone?)




For the following three Wednesdays (Dec 2,9, and 16), we’ll be bringing back the weekly Rose City Games' livestreams and showcasing even more indies as we continue our fundraising efforts.

In keeping with the theme, we’ll be playing indie game demos and released titles that all have to do with food and community ~ be sure to follow us on Twitch to get the notifications when we’re live, and see what games we have in store! (Psssst! There will also be giveaways of the released games that we're playing! You don't wanna miss it!)

If you’re wanting -- and able -- to support our fundraising, feel free to use this link to donate and help us meet our channel goal of $300!



We'll be back with lots of fun updates on what’s been going on in the Grove! As always, please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any questions about Garden Story: we’ll do our best to answer them!

Cheers,

🌱Jenny + the Garden Story Team

First of all let me start by saying that weeks 91, 92, 93, 94, 95 were all wasted - overall, in total, the toll of moving to a new home, a new lifestyle, was close to 3 months to game's development

I moved to a place away from the city, a home that enforces a healthy lifestyle by design, away from all the distractions

Even though I moved this week, I'm slowly adjusting to it, and things are getting more productive by the day - I hope I'll be able to keep it up

It's so easy to lose momentum, yet, regaining it takes a lot of time, in the coming weeks, I'll probably stick to small changes and improvements until my brain gets re-wired

As for the Week 96:

- Implemented Fire Resistance (placeholder, only avoids the status)
- Implemented Freeze Resistance (placeholder, only avoids the status)
- Snowball (upcoming, graphics are ready)
- New "lucrativeness" multiplier and cgoo's boosted in XP
- Determined the new holiday season items and the achievement (Thanks to everyone on Discord)
- A slow start to the Holiday Season today!

Most of the new additions should be live next week

While we're working on bigger and more complex things, we've decided to share a quick update about Black Skylands. The game's previous protagonist is no more — there is a new gal in town!

Those of you, who've played Black Skylands: Origins are familiar with its protagonist, Walter — who, initially, was supposed to be the main character in the final game too. He was a pretty standard hero, raised as a commoner and living a peaceful life until the events of Black Skylands: Origins. So why did we decide to replace him?

Well, the reason is quite simple — he felt a bit too standard. For us, it felt like he sometimes looked less memorable than other characters.

Meet Eva — our new protagonist!

"The world of justice is the place of happiness"

Just like Walter, she was born and raised on the Fathership and does her best to help the community. She dreams about leaving her mark in history and doing everything possible for the world to become juster.

As we don't want to give away too much, we'll have to stop here. We have much more updates planned for the future — so stay tuned and follow us on social media!

Discord server
Twitter
Facebook

Army of the NIght!

The Steam Awards are here and we would love your help!

We'd love you to nominate us for the "Labor of Love" award. Labor of Love is the category for games that launched in a previous year and continue to update the game and add new content. If you think we are worthy of any of the awards please consider voting for us. Votes are open until December 1st at 10am PST (24 hours from this post)

Once again thank you all for your continued support as we continue to update Bloodstained!

Hey Shopkeepers,

Our final major update of the year is coming tomorrow! Get the details today with our release notes down below.

From distant lands come the dragons of legend! Armed with a wealth of knowledge, they are willing to share these exotic crafting methods to those that would befriend them.

Sondra is the master of fusion. Though he does not craft any items by himself, he is able to fuse identical items together to obtain crafts of a higher quality!

Sondra is available for hire to all players of level 27 and up.

Mundra knows next to nothing about fusion, but she is STRONG. Only she can craft the powerful Moonstones needed for all fusions, so you definitely want her on your side.

Alongside the Moonstones Blueprint Line, she also crafts a few unique and powerful items from various other item lines.

Her unique power imbues the player with the power of the Full Moon, permanently granting them access to the powerful Full Moon fusions.
The various items crafted by Mundra bear a unique spirit, not found anywhere else in the game. Mundra’s Spirit grants enhanced attack and defense, but only against bosses. She really hates bosses.

Once Sondra is hired, players can combine several item copies of the same quality together into the same item of a higher quality. This process takes time and moonstones, but does not require any resources.

Some powerful fusion only becomes available when the dragon siblings are empowered by the moon. During a Full Moon (in real life), these special fusions can be performed by everyone.

Whereas regular fusion only involves transforming items into higher quality versions, Full Moon Fusions involve more unique recipes, such as turning Research Scrolls into Ascension Shards, chests into components, and much more.

Mundra extends the power of the Full Moon to players who hire her, meaning they can craft these special recipes at all times.

Moonstones function very similarly to Runestones. They can only be crafted by Mundra and are used for all fusions. Like Runestones, they can also be found in various places, such as chests, quests, grab bags, the market and more.

• Surcharging no longer rounds the resulting value.
  
• Increased quantity of Runestone rewards from chests.
  
• Slightly increased the power of the Dance of Blades skill
  
• Reduced the amount of items displayed on racks needed to reach maximum customer flow.
  
• Increased the drop rate of chests in all dungeons. Other drop categories are not affected.
  
• Heroes can no longer learn two different Mastery type skills (including Shield Mastery). Heroes that already know several such skills will remain unchanged, but further skill rerolls will obey this rule.
  
• “Gold” Mastery skills (Warlord, Marksman, Adept) can no longer exist together on the same Hero, but can be learned alongside a Bronze mastery skill (see above).

• Clarified resource ascension milestones upgrades.
  
• Added a few new achievements related to fusion.

• Fixed the “Any Armor” caprice only counting Body Armor crafts.
  
• Fixed an instance where furniture could overlap each other after completing an upgrade.
  
• Fixed Piggy Bank notification not triggering after meeting required gold threshold.
  
• Fixed an issue where Guitar pack and Sombrero pack contained mismatched customizations (Guitar in Sombrero pack and Sombrero in Guitar pack).
  
• Fixed an issue allowing players to bypass Friendship Level requirement for rushing guildmate's furniture upgrade.
  
• Fixed an instance where users could soft-lock during the Basement tutorial if furniture was placed next to the counter.
  
• Fixed an issue allowing players to buy gear for their heroes at higher tier than intended for their level.
  
• Fixed an issue where another guild request could be made before time restriction had elapsed.
  
• Fixed Academy pants and Academy skirts having their names switched around.
  
• Fixed a rare occurrence where two instances of the same Caprices could exist at the same time during King's Caprice.
  
• Fixed issue where Racks stored in Basement displayed incorrect Energy values.
  
• Fixed an issue where help could be requested twice for Basement expansion upgrade.
  
• Fixed an issue where Rack navigation would cease to work after filling Rack from Market.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Dresser of Autumn didn’t have the correct size.

Your pets want to have fun too! The Pet Promenade rewards you for interacting with your pets by doing things such as winning pet games, feeding them snacks, and more! Reaching the end of the progress bar yields a random pet jewel and a chance at the Ravenwood Hamster pet.

This event begins on Tuesday, December 1st.

Check out the official Events Calendar for updates.

Late Saturday, we pushed update 1.0.08. New features and updates include:

• Added Concept Art Scavenger Hunt feature which allows you to unlock concept art after finding objects in the background.
  
• More flowchart decisions added
  
• Save file bug fixed

In the coming week we'll be working to better improve these features!

New update coming soon :) But without new level😢. Wait next update if you want only new level😉