Hey Kittens,
The demo of Copycat is finally out in the big wide world! And the demo is coming to Steam Next Fest!

In case you missed it: Copycat is a wholesome, narrative-driven game about rejection, belonging and the true meaning of home. It follows the story of a newly adopted shelter cat who becomes the victim of an elaborate plan when a jealous, stray copycat steals her place in the household.

The demo will take you around 45 minutes to complete. Purrfect for one sitting. Make sure you have a cup of tea close by and something small and fluffy to cuddle.



Here is some other good news. Did you know ‘Copycat’ is listed as the #5 game in the Trending Upcoming for the Steam Next Fest? 😻 It blew us away. Thanks everyone for your kindness and excitement.



Our friends at Kotaku Australia have taken the time to play a demo of Copycat! David Smith has kindly written a thoughtful preview ahead of Steam Next Fest happening Feb 5th. We feel a sense of pride for our little game. Check out some of David's quotes for a deep dive.

🐈 "The Copycat demo is a smart, effective springboard to a game that feels like it has big ideas to communicate. I look forward to playing the full (and likely altogether more traumatic) full game in the future."

💛 "Within this one-hour demo, Copycat demonstrates an understanding of the relationship between cat and owner."

🐾 "Just when she thought she had a home, Dawn finds herself thrown out on the street and embarks on a journey of her own about what home truly means."

Read the full article here: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2024/01/copycat-preview/



Big thanks to our Streamer community. We hope you have enjoyed playing Copycat!
Photo featuring lovely Aliesha Pallant. Check out her Instagram https://www.instagram.com/liessshy/



Big Smiles,
Sam & Kostia

• Updating Renpy to the released version of Renpy 8.2. This will help with potential bugs that Renpy may have had, and also took care of some conflicting properties that may cause problems in the future.
  
• Removed some orphan translations to avoid any potential issues in the future.

Got some scenes done last week to prepare for Night 2. :)

Hello travellers!

Another dev log already? Absolutely! We want to make sure we bring you all along for the journey as we make progress and get things lined up for the home stretch of making The Sacred Acorn.

We have a brief recap of more events we squeezed into the end of last year, a well as yet more new content to share with you all, including some QoL many of you have been asking for. Watch and enjoy!



If you'd like to see some of our earlier dev logs you can find them on our YouTube channel. Make sure you subscribe so you can get updates on The Sacred Acorn and any other cool things we're working on.

Ahoy, mateys!

Today's patch adds 2 new zones: Balbridge's Point and the Cutthroat Strand. I won't spoil them here. They might a bit rushed, I'll look into them more during next week. I just wanted you guys to see them ASAP.


These maps conclude the Madagascar arc of Act IV. The remaining couple of maps will be part of the epilogue.

Other changes:
- New Ultra graphics setting adds PCSS shadows to the game engine. The effect is subtle, and might be expensive, so use it with care.



- Also, options settings are no longer controlled with left and right click, but arrows.

- First Contact perks have been replaced with new Warmup perks.


- Bullet Speed is now an item stat that some guns can have.
- New option to not show charge / windup bar at cursor, but under the hero (same as the reload bar)


- Ship cannons now have their own key binding ( 'C' by default)
- Vengeful Blood now has homing attacks similar to Siren


- Nerfed Flotsam to only give +150 ship life, decreased Flotsam drop rate
- Added accuracy stat variations to Repeater
- New reading material in the Halls of Booze
- Slight expansion for Casemate of Fangs
- Changed hue of player ships (less blue, more gray)
- Some shaders have sharper texture filtering
- New lily pad texture

- Modified bush texture
- Tweaked grass terrain texture
- Tweaked cannon texture
- Decreased opacity of Otherwordly Servant projectiles
- Nerfed Sulphuric Blood perk
- Slight changes to the menu level
- Reduced shrapnel projectile arc on grenades
- Fixed: ship control button was accidentally removed in last patch
- Fixed: Completely broken ship pathfinding
- Fixed: Captain Beelzebad could not attack
- Fixed: Flicker spell was not on spell mark type
- Fixed: Stand Your Ground aura visibility bounding box increased
- Fixed: Ground Slam and Faultline spawned on sea floor while on ship
- Fixed: hero looking direction on ships - target point was on sea floor
- Fixed: Bubble spell description decimals weren't limited
- Fixed: too large shadow bias on vegetation shader

That's all for today! As always, the changes might have introduced other bugs, so make sure to report anything suspicious on the forums, or on Discord. It's a huge help!

Follow the development of this game on X (formally Twitter) or Facebook!

You'll be able to see:

• The development progress of the game!
  
• Sneak peaks at features to come!
  
• Announcements on Demo updates!
  
• Info on when the game is nearing launch!
  
• Behind-the-scenes look at how the game is made!
  
• The random ramblings of a solo dev!

Follow Unit Down on X HERE!

Follow Unit Down on Facebook HERE!

Really hope you are as excited as I am for the game, and I hope to bring you the best experience possible!

Stay Proper!
- Randy

Fixed issue where pipe would stop user from changing weapons and frozen basically
Fixed issue where weapons would have a delay after firing
Figured out why mouse was acting so weird, fix will be incoming in the next few days.

Just some small fixes including a fix to make the Yu Gothic UI font work correctly.

Thanks to everyone who took time to report problems on the Steam discussion board or on our Discord server!

Happy learning!

Lun

▼勾玉大放出！最高で100%還元？！▼
1、イベント期間：2月1日—2月7日
2、イベント期間中、指定されたポイント数ためると30%分の勾玉を別でプレゼント！チャージすればするほど還元率は高くなり、最高でなんと100%に！
※詳細はホーム画面左側の【勾玉大放出】からご確認ください。
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▼迎春招福！ガチャで豪華景品ゲット！▼
1、イベント期間：2月1日—2月21日
2、イベント期間中、新春限定装飾品の獲得率UP福引き【迎春招福】が期間限定で登場！
10連福引きで新春限定装飾品を必ずゲット！さらに勾玉を大量ゲットの可能性も！最高なんと10000勾玉？！
※詳細はホーム画面左側の【迎春招福】からご確認ください。
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▼キャラ排出率UP福引きが熱く開催！▼
1、イベント期間：2月1日—2月21日
2、イベント期間中、期間限定の排出率UP福引き「猫娘の邂逅」、「熾天使降臨」開催！桜井由里＋シリーズアイテム/織田愛＋シリーズアイテムの排出率アップ！
3、イベント期間中、桜井由里/織田愛を使って対局すると、対局後の好感度が+50%！さらに絆ボーナス解放後、キャラにギフトを贈ると好感度+50%！
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▼レアスキンを引き続き販売！▼
1、スキン販売期間：1月29日—2月21日
2、イベント期間中、駄菓子屋で桜井由里と織田愛のレアスキン「スキン-初詣の猫娘」、「スキン-夜の特別看護」を引き続き販売！
※上記のスキンは該当キャラ（桜井由里/織田愛）獲得後に使用できます。
※上記のスキンは2月21日以後、販売休止となります。
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イベント詳細はゲーム内でご確認ください。

General

• Fixed bug where input buffer would stop functioning if you shield dropped during shield stun.

Online

• Fixed desync caused by players with different damage hud shake settings.
  
• Fixed rollback issue with match timers that could cause them to be tracked improperly and potentially result in desyncs.

Ver.1.4.1/Ver.1.4.1D releases Jan. 29th, 2024.
The version for users playing on Steam Deck™ will be noted as Ver.1.4.1D in the game.

Please check the list of changes below for details on the main improvements and fixes in this patch.
Fixes of previously known issues are marked with an asterisk.


We are investigating the issues below and working to resolve them.
We will provide further details regarding fixes for these issues at a later time.

- An issue where a portion of character textures are displayed at a low resolution

We will continue to provide regular updates on future improvements and fixes
as further details are finalized.