Hey botanists!

We’re excited to share that Botany Manor will be making its grand return to PAX East with an updated demo just ahead of launch! If you’re attending the event, drop by the Whitethorn Games booth — booth 18037, located on the show floor of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center — from March 21st through the 24th to meet with the Whitethorn Games team and check out the latest demo!

If you’re not headed to Boston, don’t worry! Botany Manor will also be part of the PAX East Steam event, so you can check out the demo there!

As always, don't forget to wishlist Botany Manor to keep up to date with any more announcements. You can also give us a follow on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.

Happy Women's Day! Julia will play The Crimson Diamond demo and discuss the historical contexts of the female characters. Protagonist Nancy Maple is inspired by a historic, trail-blazing woman! Kimi Kishiro is partially based on one of Julia's grandmothers, an early Canadian-born Japanese. Learn more during the stream, at 8pm Eastern on The Crimson Diamond store page or by following this link: https://steamcommunity.com/broadcast/watch/76561198078821597


The Crimson Diamond is a cozy mystery adventure game set to launch this year. Wishlist it here!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/

• Giving up while playing Beatrice's drinking game should no longer result in a crash.
  
• Playing Blackjack with Jasmine should no longer result in a crash.
  
• You can now bet valuable items while playing Texas Hold 'em with Jasmine.
  
• You should no longer immediately pass out when starting a new game.
  
• You should no longer pass out randomly while sober.
  
• Jasmine is now significantly more likely to go to the beach when it's sunny.
  
• Jasmine and Beatrice are now significantly more likely to eat you if you drink with them and pass out.
  
• Added more variety to the dialogue when you ask to be let out of a pred's belly.
  
• If you're eaten by a pred you're drinking with, theres now a greater chance that they'll keep drinking once you're in their belly.
  
• Bessie can now be found in the bar on Fridays and Saturdays between 9 PM and 11 PM.
  
• Minor fixes.

1. Music changes every new set
2. Minor bug fixes
3. More diagnostics added to catch crashes
4. Quiz questions now rearranged:
first question - easy
second question - medium
third question - hard
5. DLCs now are downloaded from Steam
6. Club membership DLC has been released

We're currently in the middle of quality assurance testing, which we hope to complete very soon. If you have already purchased the game on Steam, you will be able to switch languages via Steam's "Language Preferences" setting.

It won't be much longer! Hang in there, and thanks for your patience during this final step.

Today, on February 29th (how often does that occur eyh!?) 2024 we marked Pincrediball as fully released on Steam. It's still completely free to play on Windows, Linux, OSX, and even on Steamdeck (with some minor caveats... you need the touch pads to play).

Even though the features are the same as in the Early Access version, we felt that it was good enough to fully release the game to the public. It's a tiny first-project hobby project game, but with 15 minutes (up to perhaps an hour) of enjoyable content we still feel it's worthwhile to set it as "Fully Released". This will share the game a bit broader in the store, for anyone to enjoy.

Here's to hoping this The Incredible Machine meets Pinball Maker crossover brings a smile to a few faces, and to hoping it might inspire game developers to build something of its kind but even cooler.

Thanks for the folks who supported the Early Access phase (mainly when it just came out), and enjoy your game time y'all!

- Fixed some issues with PRISM block

Just a quick update that I've been busy here on various things including this new part. When hit by another part the Gravity Bomb will change the direction of gravity on a contraption. Should make for some interesting contraptions and puzzles.

You'll be able to set both the direction and the amount of gravity.



I may stream myself working on finishing it in the next week or two.

🎯 [Continuum Transmuter recipe] A new recipe has been added: "Random Uber Continuum Event".
🎯 [Balance] The ship resistance mod now provides increased resistance to all elements (previously all but ballistic). This change will only affect ships that are modded post this patch.
🎯 [Balance] The drop-rate of Uber Contained Continuum Events has been increased.
🎯 [Balance] The weight of many kinds of player summons has been reduced. This should make the issue of summons pushing enemies around much less problematic.
🎯 [Performance] Minor performance improvements when using the item highlight filter by moving some calculations to a background thread.
🎯 [Misc] Worm sound effects for movement and attacking have been revised.
🎯 [Misc] You can now disable the file integrity checks made by clients when connecting to a COOP campaign game. To do so, set the value of 'Networking_RequireMatchingHashsum' to 'false' in the config.cfg file. This is safe from a server perspective: if files differ, it will at worst cause weird/unknown behaviour for the client. This addition was made as some older operating systems (e.g., some versions of Windows 7) produce inconsistent MD5 for game data/files. If any magician know why this is the case, please let me know!
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an issue that on very rare occasions could cause the item highlight filter to incorrectly include/exclude items. This could occur if the parameters of the item highlight filter were being changed simultaneous to an item being processed by the item filter.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed errors in the tooltips for the skills "Intense Repairs" and "Warp Plasma Converter".

Release Notes:

• Bug Fix - can now pause during starting note prompt
  
• New Levels Added
  
• Removed rhythm mode
  
• "Plug in Midi" text updated for clarity