This is first of series of regular devlogs on the development of Fantasy Zoo so you can know how the development is going and what to expect in future.



Mana has been a long planned feature of the game since there is heavy magical element. Plan is to have all magic elements to feature mana in some way. Mana is a simple resource that is passively gained by building mana crystals and its storage is limited by storage crystals.

Magic crystal passively use mana and if mana starts to run out, random crystals start to go off to balance it. System is quite similar to usual electricity systems found in other games, if crystal gets mana its active and if not, its effect is disabled. This can lead to classic Jurasic Park experience where running out of mana can lead to rampaging animals in the zoo.

Mana is also meant to be used with different spells player can cast. All basic tools like delete or undo are classified as spells but these basic spells are cheap to use. More complex spells like mass moving objects are more expensive and are limited by mana storage to limit their excessive use.

There are many ideas for new magic crystal effects, effects can be categorized by their effect area or their hit targets.

• Enclosure crystals, affect the whole enclosure they are in.
  
• Area crystals, affect area around them

Each crystal has also different objects they can have effect on, wall strengthening crystals affect only walls and so on.

There are many planned effects, here are some of them coming in next patch:

• Crystal of bastion, increases strength of walls near it.
  
• Crystal of speed, increases movement speed of everything near it.
  
• Crystal of miasma, enclosure crystal that is required for undead beings.

Leave a comment if you have anyfeedback or ideas on game!

A new update is now available for Primal Carnage: Extinction on Steam!

The November Update brings many game balance adjustments alongside our special thanksgiving event...


We've been continuing to work with our community testers and listening to feedback in general about certain classes and weapons. A big focus this update is the Pyro, reinforcing his role as more of a human tank and making him a more dangerous enemy...


Dinosaurs are now even more vulnerable to damage to when on fire, and damage over time from the molotov, flaregun and incendiary grenades is now consistent. The flamethrower has received a moderate boost to instant hit damage and the chainsaw's damage mitigation now also applies to Bruiser attacks. This means pyro can withstand more punishment and deal it out better, so we have also ramped up the flamesaw's fuel consumption rate.

Pyro's lethality extends to his death as well, with the "Pyro Bomb" explosion now also damaging dinosaurs if he died by falling. However, there are a number of checks in place to counteract this - if a Pyro was dropped by a Ptera, it will NOT hurt dinosaurs. You also need to have received more than 75 fall damage to trigger an explosion, and we have reduced the amount of damage Pyro will do to his teammates when blowing himself up.


We've made pounce a bit more viable as both an attack and a way to get around. Raptors can now aim much higher with their "charged" pounce, jumping to ledges above at more extreme angles. Max pounce distance is increased, and raptors have much less fall damage when landing from a long range pounce.

We've also added impact damage when a raptor hits a human with their pounce, which increases up to +25 bonus damage with a charged up pounce attack. This rewards raptor players who have good aim, and gives a minor consolation prize if they pounced someone with too low stamina to maul them.


More fine tuning has been done to the Tupa, with a lower stamina cost for air dashing into humans and 3x faster stamina recovery speed. Stamina management remains an important part of being an effective Tupa, but is less punishing now. When fighting a Tupa, know that the back of its head is now a weakpoint.


Finally, since stamina is an increasingly important factor in combat, all classes except for Tyrants now gain 35% faster stamina regeneration if they crouch down. These and other changes have been prompted by discussions with our community on Discord, and we'll be continuing to tweak things going forward.

But that's not all!

Scroll further down to the full changelog below to see all the other quality of life fixes, improvements and optimizations in this update...



It's another Turkey Takeover!



This update we're celebrating Thanksgiving by spotlighting our very own six foot turkeys, with a whole bunch of brand new Novaraptor and Oviraptor skins and even a new raptor taunt!



Novaraptor gets the Serus Nova mutation in-store, and we have three new Oviraptor mutations such as the wonderfully weird Bullatus Ovi - spliced up with ornithomimid DNA!



And to not leave everyone else out in the cold there are a handful of spitter, tyrant and bruiser items.



Classic items from previous events are also back today with deep discounts, so get your emu on!





Outside of the latest store rotation, there are several new drops as of this update, including the ALIOQUIN Novaraptor mutation!

As always, you can check out all of the latest new looks on our Special Event Trello!

• crouching as human or dino now regenerates stamina faster
  (by 35% - excludes tyrants)
  
  
• tripled stamina regeneration rate for Tupa
  
• reduced Tupa charge impact stamina cost slightly
  
• fixed tupa hit sound still playing when damage is 0
  
• converted one of Tupa's strongpoint bones into a weakpoint at the base of the skull
  
  
• changed burn DoT for molotov / flaregun / incendiary grenades to all use the same shared values
  (20 damage per tick over 4 seconds)
  
  
• increased flamethrower instant hit damage per particle from 4.5 to 4.7
  
• flamethrower now deals 10% more damage to large targets than it did previously
  
• flamethrower now has much faster fuel consumption
  
• less damage falloff for flameslammer's shotgun attachment
  
  
• pyro now takes reduced impact damage from Bruiser charges when revving chainsaw
  
• bruiser secondary attacks also deal less damage if they hit a chainsawing pyro
  
  
• pyro now has a minimum damage threshold from falling before he is allowed to explode
  
• reduced damage to humans from pyro bomb explosion if pyro was not dropped by ptera
  
• "pyro bomb" explosion from self fall damage now also damages dinosaurs
  (pyro bomb explosion will not damage dinosaurs if he was dropped by ptera)
  
  
• Survival mode: fixed missing double damage upgrade for flameslammer's incendiary grenades
  
  
• humans now take impact damage when hit by a pouncing raptor
  
• charged pounces deal more impact damage than a quick pounce
  
• reduced fall damage for raptors when landing from a long range pounce
  
• pounce now shows the standard charge-up circle in addition to its targeting indicator
  
• tweaked raptor pounce flight values to be more energetic
  (allows pouncing to higher ledges and at extreme angles)
  
  
• Cerato charge now has its own damage type and kill icon
  
• added a buff icon when Pachy enters brace mode
  
• increased ragdoll velocity from charge impacts
  
• enabled ThrowRagdoll on more damage types
  
  
• prevented tyrant heavy hit reactions when an attack is in progress
  
• fixed tyrants not being able to reliably interrupt hit reactions with attacks
  
• humans eaten by tyrants no longer scream after they've already been swallowed whole
  
  
• fixed heavy melee 3rd person animations not playing
  
• fix issues with dual wielded weapon inspect animations
  
  
• removed skeleton skins from default inventory
  
• disabled the halloween test map and menu map
  
• fixed seaspray ptera referencing wrong icon package
  
• updated masks for inventory icons to use less memory
  
• large scale game package optimizations for loading efficiency
  
  
• added support for virtual keyboard text entry when playing on Steam Deck

Did someone say Black Friday? If you've yet to jump into the carnage, or have friends you'd like to hunt or be hunted by, get up to 60% OFF the following items:

• Primal Carnage: Extinction
  
• Primal Carnage: Extinction 4-Pack
  
• Primal Carnage Official Soundtrack

Sale ends November 28th!



Check back regularly for more deep discounts on classic items in the run up to Christmas!

We will be back with the annual Winter Carnage event in December, bringing more quality of life updates and the annual festive goodie bag! Hope to see you then!

Thanks for playing,


For all things Primal Carnage, get involved on the Official Discord...

亲爱的《R2Beat：音速觉醒》玩家：

由于排位赛系统异常，导致游戏体验不佳，运营团队决定暂时关闭排位赛进行紧急处理。
玩家11月22日开服后的排位赛数据将会保留。
我们将尽快进行修复更新，修复完毕后将重新开放，并以单独公告形式告知大家，请您耐心等待。
感谢您的理解与支持！


《R2Beat：音速觉醒》运营团队
2023年11月22日

Hi walkers!

We would be very grateful if you would nominate us for this year’s Steam Awards in the Outstanding Story-Rich Game category! 🏆

Cast your vote above!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1432100/The_Bookwalker_Thief_of_Tales/

• Added metadata editor
  • Currently only the "Unknown" category is available
    
  • Currently only a small amount of tags are available
    
  • We welcome your recommendations for further tags (these tags will be in future used to organize content on the Steam Workshop)
• Author of a package is now stored within the package (both name, and SteamID)
  
• Preview image of a package is now stored within the package
  
• Improved FFT implementation (not perfect)
  
• Added watermark for playtest builds
  
• Added overwrite confirmation prompt when using 'Save As' and rework of dialogs
  
• Fixed crash when selecting audio devices
  
• Fixed issue causing incorrect window to be focus on package load
  
• Fixed issue causing the overwrite of existing packages in certain circumstances
  
• Clean-up of internal mismatched types
  
• Clean-up of how audio texture pointers are passed around internally
  
• Clean-up of filesystem related activities
  
• Continued work on the playlist sequencer
  
• Many internal changes and improvements to internal utilities

Known Issues:

• Sequencer remains in-operable as a "proof of concept"
  
• Audio FFT and Waveform textures are not perfect and will likely change
  
• GL_NEAREST texture scaling is applied to the 'root' render target, causing a pixelated effect when in editor mode and resized previews. This will likely become a setting in future.

We've fixed up the following:

Snow Globes in the main menu cabin fall when released
Fixed ghost respawning avatar visuals in multiplayer
Updated controller help and tips for Oculus controllers
Added translations for controller help images

We've also added a new "Platform Block" in creative mode to build roofs and floors.

Greetings! Welcome to Your Private Restaurant!

We prepared a full course meal for you! Click on the each for to obtain FS2 coins
and awesome prizes!

Note: Make sure to hit the "receive" button to acquire the coins after completing
the mission! Just by logging in and playing several matches, you will automatically
be part of the event!



Accumulated number of matches played & Login time Event has a corresponding
coin rewards!

Event Period:
2023/11/22 00:00 ~ 12/19 23:59 (PST)

Guess the last Digit Mission



Guess your opponent's last score digit by clicking a specific number on
the selection provided. For non-VIP players, you can only choose 1 number
and 3 for VIP members. Don't forget to hit "Save".

Coin rewards for prediction: 10 Coins for successful prediction and 1 Coin
for failed prediction.

Maximum coins that a player can acquire per day is 100.

Predictions will remain the same throughout the event unless you
decided to change it.

You can exchange coins for various consumables! Just visit the Event Shop.



Ferris Wheel Event is back! Login and Play to get stamps to claim
the reward for the day!



Unlock Event:



For every team/individual match you finish or every hour you stay logged in,
you will earn Box Keys.

10 Keys for every match.
20 Keys for every half an hour logged in.

- Box Keys can be used to Open or Upgrade the Box
- Each Box has a corresponding rewards and you can get one of the
items listed randomly.

** Once you have chosen specific box, the box level will reset to the
lowest Box Grade.

** You won't be able to claim any rewards after the event period so
make sure to spend Box Keys on time!

Wait, there's more! If you have collected a huge amount of FS2 Coins,
you may also use it to redeem S+ Rewards!



Don't forget to check your Mission Progress to make sure that you have
received all FS2 Coins for the day!



Outfit Preview:

Easter Day Rabbit (M/F)



Rabbit Zodiac Head Gear (M/F)



Rabbit Back Accessory (Pink) (M/F)




~ Freestyle 2 Team

Thanks to some awesome demo tester feedback, I was able to put together another small but hopefully meaningful update. Especially playing with controllers or on the Steam Deck should feel much better now! If you have additional feedback or suggestions, join the Discord and let me know!

Controller improvements:

• Big improvement to thumbstick aiming for controllers.
  
• Reduced speed of “precise aim” (L2/R2) rotation on controllers (cause now you need it less often).
  
• B (“cancel”) button on controllers now hides tooltips.

UI improvements:

• Added "default shot power" indicator to power circle.
  
• Added “+1 item pick” popup when collecting a key.
  
• Slightly reduced size of item cards for large displays.

Plus lots of fixes and balancing tweaks all around. Most notably, when you buy multiple random items in the same level their cost now increases.

Event Mechanics:

Login to earn one (1) Bingo Coin.
Get three (3) Bingo Coins byy playing a match (Regular or BZ match).
Complete the lines and missions to win special items!



Event Period:
2023/11/22 00:00 ~ 12/05 23:59 (PST)

Obtain Yaho Tickets by completing the Bingo Missions, and
exchange various items!



Outfit selection boxes are also available from Yaho Ticket exchange.
Check out the previews below!

Football Outfit Selection Box




Dobermann Outfit Selection Box




Trumpet Outfit Selection Box





~ Freestyle 2 Team

Hey everybody!

Each of us has some fears hidden deep inside. We all try to lock them out and to prevent anyone from using them against us. However, sometimes a single thought is enough to set off an endless spiral of anxiety. The antagonist of our game titled “Hank: Drowning On Dry Land”, is well aware of this. I’m Kuba from MyNextGames and today I’ll talk a bit about Hank’s nemesis, the Unraveler.


A perfectionist, a mastermind, the composer of chaos - yup, all these terms perfectly describe the Unraveler. He’s able to consider even the most unpredictable scenarios just to not let anyone ruin his performance. The Unraveler wants to see the world descending into total chaos by his single push, creating a frightening domino effect.


By the virtue of overrunning Metro City Asylum, he’s willing to negotiate before he starts killing the hostages but on one condition. He will only speak to one person - Hank, his captor. He loathes Hank who thus far has been the only one who managed to put a stop to a plan that's already been set in motion. Ever since that moment, he is obsessed with figuring out how Hank managed to pull such a stunt.


With the power of illusion and trickery the Unraveler tries to get inside his opponents’ heads and subjugate them to his will. He’s using their fears as a weapon against them and proudly watches the show. Will Hank be able to tame the villain, or will it be the Unraveler who emerges victorious from this clash?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2277670/Hank_Straightjacket

If you want to meet the Unraveler and have a chance to talk to him, I suggest you try our short game “Hank: Straightjacket”. You will see his sociopathic nature combined with the arrogance and artistic flair that make this character so unique. You can check this narrative experience on Steam.

We have so much more to show you, but that’s all for today. Be sure to follow us for future news about the universe of Hank. Cya Around
Kuba