Hey engineers! And congratulations to you, as this update marks Early Access Stage 4 as complete! We've been really focused on updating the visuals in the past couple of monts, so this update is something new.

On one hand, we've pushed it hard to make some of the game's mechanics more comprehensive. On the other hand, we've made crafting more complex and challenging for more intense brain stimulation!

• New story comics - the origin story of how our nameless protagonist met their cat (named Cat), under rather rainy circumstances. Hopefully, this story will motivate you to care about cats (in-game, or real-life) even more
  
• New theme for the main menu

• Global crafting rebalancing (see below)
  
• Added a whole new Wiki section explaining complicated in-game mechanics: Loyalty, Mass purchases, Upselling, Machine Learning, Data Quality, Research, Hype, Satisfaction Pyramid, and Legendary cats
  
• Legendary cats request Quality (+) or better items from now on
  
• Legendary cats are now classified as Cats with lvl 3 Loyalty
  
• Cats with Loytalty lvl 5+ now request High Quality (++) items
  
• Cats with Loyalty lvl 3-4 now request Quality (+) items
  
• Improved tutorial
  
• Square Cardboard Space Signal Emitter research project now provides a higher chance of summoning a legendary cat
  
• During Shopaholic Invasion, cats with higher Loyalty levels may arrive, depending on Hype
  
• Shopaholic Invasion duration increases along with your Hype level
  
• New events, aimed to give the players better control over the Factory
  
• Increased cat knowledge points reward for fulfilling Dr Katz's requests
  
• Increased bonus cat knowledge points for serving legendary cats
  
• 3 new perks for cat researchers
  
• New perk for Dr Katz
  
• Random cats can get generated with the 'Genius' perk (fromerly available only to Dr Katz)
  
• Research efficiency calculating mechanics for cat researchers slightly changed (may result in altered research time for hired researchers in existing saved games)
  
• Selling items of quality gives a bigger boost to Loyalty
  
• Upgrading Loom increases its' speed by 5 ticks instead of 2

• Added stats showing tips left by each cat type
  
• Added stats showing sales income from each cat type
  
• Added stats showing total income from each cat type
  
• Approximate research cost now shown under each research project
  
• Added an option to clear cache in the settings, in case your minimap seems to be displayed incorrectly
  
• Map name is now displayed for every saved game (starting from this version)
  
• Choosing to involve incompetent researches into research projects results in 4x experience boost for those researchers
  
• Upper panel now displays the amount of money spent on research and ads
  
• Added an option to disable tutorial and instantly get a starting pack of buildings, if campaign is not launched for the first time
  
• Machine learning models now display a warning if there's no Store/Boutique connected to a cluster
  
• If your system language is not officially supported by the game, you'll get a warning and a suggestion to switch into English, when launching the game for the first time
  
• Added partial translation into the German language by ChatGPT (community translation is still there, too)
  
• Improved tooltips
  
• Improved, more stable Twitch integration
  
• New achievement

• Updated credits
  
• UI/UX fixes
  
• Bug fixes (kudos to CheeseAndChocolate, MarcusZ, squibbons, bloom16night)

Previously, most buildings would require regular quality items for crafting. With this update, more complex items will be required for crafting, as you progress through the resarch tree:

• Crafting T-shaped Splitters requires Quality (+) Iron
  
• Crafting Quad Splitter requires Quality (+) Iron
  
• Crafting Awesome Golden Statue requires Quality (+) Gold
  
• Crafting Eco Dynamite requires Quality (+) Catnip Algae
  
• Crafting Hard Rock Dynamite requires Quality (+) Catnip Juice
  
• Crafting all kinds of Long conditional Manipulators (except for Cat Manipulator) require Quality (+) Iron and Quality (+) Copper
  
• Crafting Long Quality Manipulator requires Quality (+) Concrete instead of Copper
  
• Crafting Two-Item Dock requires Quality (+) Concrete
  
• Crafting Pawssenger Dock now requires Quality (+) Boxes
  
• Crafting Exit Cat Gate now requires Quality (+) Copper
  
• Crafting Inventory Teleport now requires Quality (+) Copper and Concrete
  
• Crafting Teleport now requires Quality (+) Concrete
  
• Crafting Logistics Assembler now requires Quality (+) Iron
  
• Crafting Cable Crafter now requires Quality (+) Iron
  
• Crafting Soil Silo now requires Quality (+) Wood
  
• Crafting Enriched Soil Silo now requires Quality (+) Concrete
  
• Crafting Apple Collector now requires Quality (+) Wood
  
• Crafting Fishing Pier now requires Quality (+) Wood instead of Iron
  
• Crafting Fish Maker now requires Quality (+) Fish
  
• Crafting Algae Harvester now requires Quality (+) Iron and Quality (+) Copper
  
• Crafting Catnip Juice Brewery now requires Quality (+) Wood
  
• Crafting Smoothie Mixer now requires Quality (+) Concrete
  
• Crafting Brew Intensifier now requires Quality (+) Iron
  
• Crafting Awesome Statue now requires Quality (+) Wood, Quality (+) Iron, and Quality (+) Concrete
  
• Crafting Vitamin Maker now requires Quality (+) Copper
  
• Crafting Geothermal Furnace now requires Quality (+) Concrete, and also 2 Drills instead of 2 Furnaces
  
• Crafting Omnimill now requires Quality (+) Concrete and Quality (+) Catnip Juice
  
• Crafting Wohlwill Purifier now requires Batteries and Quality (+) Catnip Juice
  
• Crafting Dredge now requires Quality (+) Concrete
  
• Crafting Cat Food Maker now requires Quality (+) Wood
  
• Crafting Bubble Gum Mixer now requires Quality (+) Copper and Cotton
  
• Crafting Pillow Maker now requires Yarn Balls and Ropes
  
• Crafting Hammock Weaver now requires Quality (+) Rope
  
• Crafting Omniloom now requires Quality (+) Rope, Quality (+) Catnip Juice, Quality (+) Concrete, and High Quality (++) Iron
  
• Crafting Cat House Maker now requires Quality (+) Wood
  
• Crafting Bling Machine now requires Quality (+) Iron, and Gold
  
• Crafting Battery Maker now requires Quality (+) Concrete and Quality (+) Iron
  
• Crafting Tech Overcharger now requires Quality (+) Concrete
  
• Crafting Microchip Maker now requires Quality (+) Concrete, and Manipulators
  
• Crafting Quantum Tech Assembler now requires Quality (+) Concrete, and Quality (+) Lasers
  
• Crafting Schrodinger's Chamber now requires Quality (+) Boxes
  
• Crafting Neural Networks now requires Quality (+) Concrete
  
• Crafting Dynamite now requires Quality (+) Catnip Algae
  
• Crafting Laser Pointer Maker now requires Quality (+) Concrete, Quality (+) Iron and 1 Battery Maker, instead of 2
  
• Crafting Laser Collider now requires Quality (+) Concrete, Quality (+) Laser Pointer, and High Quality (++) Gold
  
• Decreased Cloth amount reauired for crafting Small Cargo Zeppelins
  
• Crafting Cargo Zeppelin now requires Quality (+) Cloth and Quality (+) Ropes
  
• Crafting all promotional/tasting buildings now require Quality (+) items
  
• Crafting Deep Water now requires Quality (+) Fish
  
• Crafting Concrete Flooring now requires Quality (+) Concrete
  
• Crafting Graphic Card Assembler now requires Quality (+) Concrete
  
• Crafting Land Digger now requires Quality (+) Iron

So close to Catopia! Check out our EA roadmap:


Q: "Make mouse grid able to multiselect dimantle or destroy. Would make clearing the map from plants much easier instead of clicking on them individually." -CheeseAndChocolate
A: This feature already exists in the game, make sure to research an upgrade for your Multitool!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory

Don't forget to follow Learning Factory on Steam to get the news about new updates as soon as they're out there



Going to Early Access is but the first step to glory (and eternal cat happiness). Wanna be part of what happens next? Head to this blog post and learn how to help make the game even more awesome!

Learning Factory needs your help! Record a 10 or more minutes of you playing the game, share a video using any way you see fit, write your name into Learning Factory credits and get a promo cat! Make history here

- Fixed some stuff I did wrong.

1. Change the title of "Craft" to "Kill the Ancient God". Suggest that players need these equipments to kill that ancient god.
At the same time, I also describe it directly in the quest.In fact, if you carefully read the plot, you won't miss this clue.

2. If you need to kill a monster first to trigger quest plot, the triggering scene will prompt the player: "You need to kill a spider first.You can search for it on the map by pressing M key." Alternatively, it may say "You need six god equipments".

3. Reduce the drop rate of purple equipments in level 10 treasure box. Although it is only a small game with a life of about 4 hours, too many purple drops can still make the equipment quality meaningless.

4. Considering that the game plot unfolds too slowly at early time, I place a cutscene at the beginning of the game to optimize the game rhythm.
Originally I intended to place it at the beginning of each new saveslot, but new saveslot has already an animation.
And the game's life is relatively short. There is not much difference between placing it at the beginning of the game and placing it at the beginning of a saveslot.
This cutscene cannot be skipped during the first time watching. If you have already watched it, you can skip it by pressing ESC or Space key.

rebuilt project w/ precompiled GodotSteam editor

Ahoy sailors!

I'm excited to announce that Fishyphus is now available for Windows, Linux, and Steam Deck. Fishyphus is a horror fishing game originally developed for Games for Blind Gamers 2. In it you sail an impressionistic sea, catching fish to summon and battle a sea monster. This release finally brings it to Steam with a few small improvements.

Enjoy!

If you enjoyed Fishyphus, then you may be interested in my main project: Periphery Synthetic EP. In this chill metroidvania experience, you pilot an upgradable exosuit and explore a musical solar system. The inspiration for Fishyphus came from wanting to add a fishing minigame to its water world, which has waves to surf and caves to explore beneath its mysterious surface.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2121790/Periphery_Synthetic/

🎃Mark your calendars for October 12! The haunting trailer for BOSS FIGHTERS' Halloween festivities will be unveiled.

Dare to take a sneak peek?👻

Join the eeriest predictions discussion in our Discord: https://discord.com/channels/905168197592952832/973755255345020968!

Hello my frogs
In celebration of 1 year of sokofrog development and more than 1000 units sold
I want to celebrate with this big update
adding
- 50 new stages with new mechanics
- 3 new skins for your little frogs
- Full control support

Bug Fix:
- Menu crash bug fixed
- fixed some collision bugs in the beach scene

Thank you so much for all your support and I hope everyone has fun 🐸

In a game so wrapped up in mystery, Shatter exploration is an integral part of Wizard With a Gun. Each time you leave the Tower into a procedurally generated world, you will be able to collect items used for crafting, meet and talk with NPCs that can aid you in your journey, and scan to your heart’s content. 🧙





Crafting is a large part of Wizard With a Gun. You’ll need to collect items from around the Shatter in order to craft clothing, furniture, potions, and even the spells you’ll use to take down enemies! When you leave the safety of the Tower, leave no stone unturned. Leave no turnip ungathered. One of the strategies the team used most in playtesting were farming runs, where once you go out of that portal, pockets empty and guns a-blazing, the primary goal was collecting crafting materials. This way, you can stock up on everything you need to make yourself the best and most powerful little wizard you can be!


If you happen to find yourself low on health while wandering the Shatter, find Grandma Bogfen! She is a master potion crafter and will be more than happy to offer you one of her creations. If it’s weaponry you seek, find our good friend Young Joshua, the Gunsmithy! He will make you guns that you can use in your journeys. These aren’t the only two friends you can make, so ensure you explore all biomes for more friendly faces!


In order to learn more about the creatures, objects, and enemies you encounter, you should scan them with the First Edition. It will tell you all you need to know (and sometimes even give you recipes for furniture, powders, and upgrades to clothing.) Always worth it to scan!

Firstly, we are very proud to announce that we will be part of this October's Next Fest and we hope to see you live in one of our two live broadcasts which we will announce a bit later!

In preparation for the fest, we updated the Demo to include the first boss, Varon the Necromant, so you can now test your skills and optimize your build to defeat him. We also added a small preview into the Astral plane and unlocked a new passive tree branch.

• Added the first boss in the demo build. You can fight him after clearing the second map.
  
• Added a sneak peak into the Astral plane with a little surprise.
  
• Unlocked the Pyromancer branch in the skill tree.
  
• Visual improvements and graphical updates
  
• Difficulty rebalance across the board
  
• Weapons now are based on item level and complete rarity rework
  
• Fixes in Video Options menu
  
• Performance improvements

Thank you for playing the demo and we are really excited to see you at Next Fest along with hundreds of other great games!

If you haven't already, please add Darkblade Ascent to your wishlist.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2406370/Darkblade_Ascent/

This may come as a surprise but we’ve released an optimization patch for Project Cappuccino! Originally, we developed this as our first project with little experience, but have gained considerable knowledge since its release and used an opportunity we had to make some fixes to the game. Unfortunately, some things like adding more save slots would require major reworks since we didn’t know better at the time and we risk breaking saves. (So that stuff will need to wait for an eventual remaster!)

However, there’s been massive optimization fixes done and the game is smoother to play now. If you run into any bugs, please don’t hesitate to let us know and we’ll do our best to solve them.

Here’s what’s changed.

• Optimized load times between large scenes such as the Cafe Lobby. Players should see around 20-30% faster loading between scenes.
  
• Optimized Compression of Some Sprites: This should also contribute to loading times and the game’s file size.
  
• Cleaned up unnecessary code
  
• Added new SFX to secret Sophie route
  
• Grammar Fixes
  
• Embedded Discord Link in Game: Come join us for news on all things Tentakero.

Thank you for playing and be sure to wishlist Project Cappuccino 2!
-Vanis & Doku

Follow on Twitter
Join Discord!