First of all, thank you so much to everyone who participated in three closed betas and visitors came all the way to game shows to cheer us up. Also all the kind words you guys sent us via email is what drove us to come to today.
Notes for those who played the demo
Existing play files may conflict with the current build. Be sure to play with 'New Game'!
Introducing the Early Access Version
In this early access version, we include 3 main regions out of 6 regions(Jungle, Moon Forest, Desert) and a few other areas to explore.
Main Region (Main questline areas where you obtain the Sigils)
Jungle
Moon Forest
Desert
Extra areas (Storylines and collectables are in this area)
Jungle Outskirt
Northern Central Forest
Museum
Difference To Demo Build
You can find a lot of contents added to the early access build unlike the demo version.
1. Adventure Journal
Through ‘Adventure Journal’, you can see the progress of your gameplay and also see the collected items such as hats, cooked dishes, bugs, fish and etcetera.
2. Housing
Basement of Hero’s House located in the Village of the Sun is now decoratable to your liking. The additional furniture and decorating pieces can be obtained through completing a quest or making new friends.
3. Vast Environmental Changes
There are some visual additions to vegetation of the world. Some react to Baby Ogu’s interaction. Not only that, there are random encounters like natural birds and packed venders. Explore the Secret Forest and observe the world as it responds to you!
Plans for the Future
There will be weekly development news and every 2~3 months we’ll have major updates, mainly the 3 other main regions of the game.
Please check out the Early Access Roadmap below! This is also on the main page of our steam store page!
The order of the main updates are as follows.
Harbor Town and Southern Central Forest
Snow Town and Southwest Central Forest
Sea Region
Center of the Central Forest (All area name is pending)
Other than these planned areas, we also plan to add more areas to the existing regions. We are open to ideas from you as well. If you enjoy a certain content and it is received well, we’ll focus on enhancing the experience by building more on it. We wish to have a flexible development path.
We’re always open to listen to you. Share your bug reports or ideas for the game through the steam community page and our discord!
If you are interested in content creation or press releases regarding our game launch, please check our ‘presskit’ Down below! 'Ogu and the Secret Forest’ Presskit(Link)
Thank you everyone for waiting. We’ll carry on creating what we love and until the full release, we’re not stopping.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition - Ink
This week has been full of activity for the team here at Microsoft Flight Simulator. On March 21, we launched the latest major release, Sim Update 12. You can read the full release notes on our forums here.
Also on March 21, we released the next plane in our Famous Flyers series, the Antonov An-2. This versatile STOL biplane from 1947 has been a big hit with players so far, and we've really enjoyed reading your feedback and comments. Additionally, Xbox players now have access to the Antonov An-225, previously released on PC three weeks ago.
On March 22, we hosted our latest Developer Livestream on Twitch. Our panel of Jorg, Seb, Martial, and special guests answered many questions from the community, discussed ongoing development, and went into detail about upcoming new content such as World Update XIII and the first of our Expert Series of aircraft, the ATR 42-600 / 72-600 from developer Hans Hartmann.
During the livestream, Jorg announced a recent change to the pricing of some items in the Marketplace. As a way to show our gratitude to players who own the Deluxe or Premium Deluxe editions of Microsoft Flight Simulator, we are now happy to offer a 33% discount off the purchase of all first-party planes from the Marketplace to everyone who owns either of those editions. Thank you for your support!