It seems that the life of the puppets has frozen in place, but at the same time, a large reconstruction is taking place in the mansion. In some places, holes have been patched up and cracks have been patched up, and some things will be completely new to the inhabitants. All this is part of a big technical update.

Thanks to this update, you will soon find new challenges and continuation of the story, but for now it's time to get used to the new rules of the Puppeteer game.

🔑First of all, collection recipes have been changed, but the rewards for them have also changed and become more fair.
🔑Secondly, the objects of association no longer appear from nowhere, they will have to be searched in the rooms or asked from a friend, but the friend will have to give what he found with his work.
🔑Thirdly, the Puppeteer hid almost all things, they can be found in other places, and some items appeared for the first time.

Get used to the new rules and remember that this is only the beginning of a new story...

From September 8th to 10th, we’ll be at IndieDevDay, very close to home, showcasing ANTRO with a very rhythmic demo to both visitors and professionals! We’re delighted to be part of one of the biggest indie games event in Spain, and we hope to meet a lot of people and expand the revolution of the underground even more the next three days.

If you're interested in trying the demo, or if you want to talk to us and learn more about ANTRO, don’t hesitate to find us there or get in touch, we are always ready to share our ideas and our game with the world!

See you there!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1861250/Antro/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1270460/TOSS/

TOSS!🍌 has been with us for close to five years, and it's difficult to put into words just how excited we are to finally share it with all of you.

The sheer love and effort we've poured into making TOSS!🍌 is something we will remember as part of this amazing time, and the tons of feedback and encouragement we have gotten from you - the awesome players - is what has been pushing us.

We are super proud of what we've accomplished, and thrilled to continue our journey on TOSS!🍌 together with you!


Swing and toss yourself freely across spacey jungle-gym playgrounds, as an acrobatic monkey, in this bananas VR platformer.



You've crash landed on a cloud planet and will need to collect parts to repair your ship as you launch yourself around 75+ playground levels in 9 vibrant cloudscape biomes and rank-up to become a TOSS!🍌 master.



This VR game uniquely captures the agility, timing and gamer skill required to play the beloved platformer classics.




🐵 PARKOUR ACTION: Soar and launch yourselves through the air, grab hold of trees, pipes, and walls.

🔥 CHALLENGES: Try to race against the clock, with Time Attack; find as many bananas as possible or master as few grabs as possible in each round.

🍌 SOCIAL COMPETITION: Compete against each other by time and rank, and follow your friends' leaderboard ghosts.

🥋 MASTERY & MODIFIERS: Unlock modifiers like Zero Gravity and Double Toss by becoming a TOSS!🍌 master!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1270460/TOSS/

-- Albin, Simon, Eddie & Toss

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We are excited to bring the game to your hands for the first time during our Open Steam Playtest! Live until September 21st at 10AM PDT / 1 PM EDT, the playtest will be the first opportunity for you to dive into an epic journey of puzzles, exploration, and discovery, and share your feedback. Get a taste of Islands of Insight’s expansive world, game mechanics, and puzzles, with lots still left to discover down the road.

As part of the open playtest, you will be able to:

• Seek out and solve a wide array of puzzles densely spread across the landscape.
  
• Freely explore an open world filled with secrets to discover at your own pace.
  
• Complete puzzle quests to progress the game’s campaign, unlock new areas, and reveal lore.
  
• Contribute to improving the Islands of Insight experience by sharing feedback directly with the development team.

Join our Open Steam Playtest by visiting our Steam page and click the “Request Access” button under the playtest header.

Anyone who is 16+ years old can join our Open Steam Playtest.

For those curious about what they can expect during the Playtest, check out our new Gameplay Reveal Trailer!


A few key points to remember:

• Must be 16+ years old to join our Open Steam Playtest.
  
• For this Open Steam Playtest, you will be able to play an early part of the full game. As this is a pre-beta Playtest, please note that quality, content, progression and economy balance, UI/UX and performance are still being worked on and are not reflective of the final game.
  
• Share your experience! The contents of the Open Steam Playtest are not under NDA, so feel free to stream or make videos! Don't forget to tag us on X and TikTok!
  
• Open Steam Playtest access is available on Steam. Head to the Islands of Insight Steam Page and press “Play the Islands of Insight Playtest now” button under the Playtest header.
  
• Open Steam Playtest is time-limited and will run for two weeks - from September 7 at 10AM PDT/1 PM EDT to September 21 at 10AM PDT/1 PM EDT, 2023.
  
• Playtest Surveys are vital for us to continue polishing the experience. Please take your time to fill out the in-game surveys when they become available. You can also share your feedback on our Steam Community Hub.
  
• Your progression will not carry over to future Playtests or the launch version of the game.

Join Playtest Now!

Seeking future insights? Wishlist now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2071500/Islands_of_Insight/

• Fixed inaccessible levels in some generated maps
  
• Fixed the Shooting Range mission not loading
  
• Fixed the SWAT chapter 3 button background image
  
• Fixed the layout of the initial arsenal of the FBI
  
• Fixed the storey buttons state at the beginning of the mission

Dear Pioneers,

We are thrilled to announce the start date for our first closed alpha!
We will be starting on September 14th, which is just around the corner.

If you have not already signed up for our newsletter and would like to participate in the closed alpha, please sign up NOW.

Participants will be randomly selected from our newsletter subscribers. Each participant in the first group will receive a Steam Key via email on September 14th. In this mail we will also inform you about our guidelines and a few explanations on how to play the game. For example, there will be no streaming or taking pictures allowed, as we are trying to work together with you to make a good game, and the closed alpha will show a lot of work in progress material that is intended for this stage of the game's development, but not for the upcoming Early Access launch.
Depending on how the closed alpha goes, we may invite additional groups in the coming days.

The Closed Alpha is coming soon and we look forward to seeing you playing our game!

It’s finally happening! Void Crew is now available to purchase on Early Access. Head to the store page now and purchase for a special Early Bird discount!

For those that don’t know about Void Crew, it’s a new First Person Co-op Space Action Adventure with Tactile Mechanics and Epic Space Battles. If you like sci-fi and creating some chaos with your friends, this might be your next adventure!

Watch our Early Access Launch Trailer to get a taste of what you can experience:


We want to thank all our alpha/closed beta testers and anyone that has helped in any shape or form during the development process, from the bottom of our hearts. We are very excited and happy to finally be able to show Void Crew to the whole world.

Early Access is just the beginning! We want to keep improving the game with the collaboration of our community; listening to our players and what they want to experience in Void Crew is our main priority.

Below you can find our roadmap with some updates we have already planned, but nothing is set in stone; we want you to help us shape Void Crew. We need your help!



If you like what you see, we encourage you to join our Discord server. Our full dev team is present there, and it’s the main hub to keep up to date with news. It’s also the main platform we will use for developer updates, bug reports, feedback, and community events. What are you waiting for? Join us now!

We would have liked to push this update sooner but faced a few unexpected roadblocks that slowed us down. We've solved everything we wanted, enabling us to finally push it out. It is available on Android, and now on Steam!

• The Pointonium Era (Era 2)
  This update includes the release of Era 2, which resets the leaderboards, and allows us to add replay-breaking changes, namely Pointonium (the little green things)! Each different shard gives different amounts of score, like so:
  
  1. Small Pointonium - 64 score
     
     
  2. Medium Pointonium - 128 score
     
     
  3. Large Pointonium - 256 score
     
• Ooh, shiny!
  To reward top leaderboard players, they now have special badge designs for their ranks. The Top 3 place players get medal-like badges, while the Top 100 get a unique badge from the others.
  
  
  
• New level selection UI
  This update changes the way you see Official and Community levels, simplifying the steps required, while also letting you sort Community levels too! Difficulty ratings have been added as well, making it easier to find levels you'd like to play.
  
  
• Official level merge
  Official levels were always treated differently, but now, along with the UI change, Official levels get to have the same features as Community levels, like comments and stats!
  
  
• Steam-exclusive features
  This better integrates with the Steam SDK allowing for handy quality of life features. Here they are:
  
  1. Steam Rich Presence
     Want your friends to see what you're doing? Well, this is perfect for you. Now with Steam Rich Presence, you get to enable the status
     
     which looks like this
     
     
  2. Pause on in-game overlay
     Now the game pauses when opening the in-game overlay. You are also able to open links from the game to the in-game overlay!
• Optional floating messages
  With a single quick setting change, you can hide the optional floating messages if you feel like they are obstructing your view! The setting can be found in UI Settings.
  
  
• Account settings refresh
  To simplify the account page, the settings were moved to a separate screen, accessible via the button at the top right.
  

Along with these main things, Hungarian was also added to the languages available in-game, and a licenses screen where you can view the open source libraries PPL uses. The update also includes possible bug fixes and general stability improvements.

We hope you can enjoy playing this new version of the game, and give us more feedback!

The Baby in Yellow is on sale in support of the 'Games for the Weans' campaign which is raising funds to buy adapted gaming equipment, consoles and video games for the boys and girls at the Glasgow Children's Hospital.

Did you know 'wean' is Scottish slang for a young child? Seems like a perfect fit for a game about a baby!

Our game will be 10% off on Steam until the 13th of September with 15% of each copy of the game sold going directly to the charity.

If you are looking to pick up a short, fun horror game in time for Halloween then now is the time to do it so you can save yourself a little money but also help out some children by giving them the gift of gaming!

You can also donate directly at the link below!
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/games-for-the-weans

Hello, Alchemists!

We have a special surprise for you today - we've released the first five songs to the Moonstone Island OST!


Music by Omar Saab. Find him on socials @ https://twitter.com/osaabmusic?lang=en - https://www.instagram.com/meetmeanstreaks/

The soundtrack is the perfect accompaniment to cooking, drawing, writing, or anything you're doing!

We'll be releasing the full soundtrack next week on Wednesday, Sept 13 on YouTube - stay tuned right here for when it goes live!

~ Kate, Community Manager, and Walking OST