*** Hotfix Alert for Chefs! ***

Hello, Culinary Crew!

We have received reports of some aspiring cooks wanting to start their culinary adventure while using Valve Index VR, but not being able to. We've cooked up a quick hotfix for this and hope to see you back in the kitchen soon!


*** End of Alert ***

This game has been in the works for years now as the basis of my independent game developing journey and seeing so many people try it out means a lot to me.

Now onto the update:

• Reworked the prologue level to make it in line with the rest of the levels, made it longer and more challenging.
  
• Added 1-2 to the game, may be rough around the edges but it will be updated.
  
• Some minor changes

Let me know what you think! I'm always wanting feedback for every aspect of the game so feel free to reach out to me through things like Twitter and Discord, enjoy!

Added new items:
- Savior - Shield - Ultimate: Guardian (Shop Tier 13)
- Solstice - Twinblade (main-hand) - Ultimate: Chakram Throw (Rare Orc drop, battle 60+)
- Equinox - Twinblade (off-hand) - Passive: Mana Blade (Rare Orc drop, battle 60+)

- 'Boots of Speed': Can now have all rarities. Grant 75-100% of max speed and additionally add +1 DEX on level up.
- 'Phoenix Feather' ['Death' mode only]: Can now have all rarities. Additionally grants +15-30% fire damage.
- Changed base speed on 'Bulwark' from 0 to 2
- Increased 'Bloodseeker' damage by 50%

- Fixed a bug where where lifesteal would not always apply for 'Bloodseeker'

This is a small Spring-Sale update that mostly rebalances and improves some existing content, including our DLC Guns & Cakes. We’re currently super busy working on our next game, an action roguelite called Monster Run (where you’re a giant monster cat fighting against armies of humans), but we aren’t done with Artist Life Simulator yet. Have a merry spring and a happy new approaching summer!

• Increased painting value of ideas and some memories
  
• Increased painting time penalty of some crimson conditions (like frustration)
  
• Updated painting value of some generic memories
  
• Changed Temptations to have more interesting effects
  
• Opportunities to buy guns in Cakes & Guns DLC last longer before vanishing
  
• Smaller fixes

Hello again!

While I'm still busy working on 30 things at once, today I'd like to take a moment to highlight one of the new characters I've been working on.




Years of Evolution have passed until Boats developed wheels to let them roam the lands and leave the waters, mirroring the process of man. Who knows when they will develop wings and take to the skies?

A fugitive caught for his aquatic crimes, a Big Shark in a Big Boat, Big Tuna is a character that starts out with somewhat mediocre stats, but comes with a super powerful and flexible special: The Harpoon Gun. Automatically aiming at targets in front of you at the cost of some HP, the Harpoon Gun shoots out a nimble Harpoon, homing onto the target vehicle.



Upon contact, the Harpoon will get stuck on them.
Hold the SPECIAL button down, and you'll not only slow down the vehicle you've pinned, but you'll also rapidly pull yourself towards it!
Release the SPECIAL button, and you'll break the connection - pulling the vehicle you've hit backwards, and you rapidly forward, letting Big Tuna deal massive ramming damage if close to someone, or simply letting you quickly move forwards.



This special can be used in a ton of ways:

• You can tap fire, skipping the pull-phase and immediately going for a damaging ram; Speed, at the cost of not building momentum.
  
• You can hold, then release, letting you build up some devastating speed and momentum to take the lead and deal even more damage on release.
  
• Or you can simply hold it down for a minute and let yourself be pulled forwards when you are too lazy to drive yourself. Enemies are too fast, and you don't have enough HP to boost? Don't sweat it, let them do the work for you.

This character has been a ton of fun to make and playtest. Looking forward to what people will be able to do with it once the game hits the shelves!


The plan is for each of the Characters to have 8 character specific upgrades to them. The Demo currently only features the first 2 of each of the 4. These upgrades are intended to scale with the game, so the first 2 are on the weaker end, the next 2 can be found in mid-game, and the last 2 are up for grabs towards the end. Think Ultra Mutations from Nuclear Throne except a bit more granular.

Since I do want each of them to be pretty impactful and meaningful, I've been going back and forth on some designs. I'll hopefully be able to make a Post about those, soon! For now, I offer you this very strange looking upgrade, I wonder who it's for, really.



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And that's it.
Again - shorter than usual, but that's the point! I'd like to move away from the "Kinda rare but massive" Devlogs to the "decently frequent but smol" Devlogs. Hopefully this has been an interesting read.

Thank you for reading!

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Gear up for an electrifying online event as the Future Games Show 2024 goes live tomorrow, March 21st, at 1 PM PDT / 4 PM EDT / 8 PM GMT / 9 PM CET! Join us for a special announcement regarding BattleJuice Alchemist during the broadcast.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to catch the latest news straight from the developers. Plus, be sure to tune in for an exclusive reveal that will keep you on the edge of your seat!

And that's not all – dive into the thrilling world of BattleJuice Alchemist by playing the demo version available now. Experience the excitement firsthand and don't forget to add the game to your wishlist!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1384060/BattleJuice_Alchemist/

Get hyped, mark your calendars, and spread the word! Let's countdown to the Future Games Show 2024 together!

Gear up for an electrifying online event as the Future Games Show 2024 goes live tomorrow, March 21st, at 1 PM PDT / 4 PM EDT / 8 PM GMT / 9 PM CET! Join us for a special announcement regarding Sky of Tides during the broadcast.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to catch the latest news straight from the developers. Plus, be sure to tune in for an exclusive reveal that will keep you on the edge of your seat!

And that's not all – dive into the thrilling world of Sky of Tides by playing the demo version available now. Experience the excitement firsthand and don't forget to add the game to your wishlist!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1120330/Sky_of_Tides/

Get hyped, mark your calendars, and spread the word! Let's countdown to the Future Games Show 2024 together!

Gear up for an electrifying online event as the Future Games Show 2024 goes live tomorrow, March 21st, at 1 PM PDT / 4 PM EDT / 8 PM GMT / 9 PM CET! Join us for a special announcement regarding AWAKEN: Astral Blade during the broadcast.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to catch the latest news straight from the developers. Plus, be sure to tune in for an exclusive reveal that will keep you on the edge of your seat!

And that's not all – dive into the thrilling world of AWAKEN: Astral Blade by playing the demo version available now. Experience the excitement firsthand and don't forget to add the game to your wishlist!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1716310/Awaken__Astral_Blade/

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Hello! This is the MiniLife: Tournament team.

Today, we're reaching out to personally deliver you important but sad news. Our project is closing.

Just like you, we've been eagerly awaiting the moment when we'd be able to participate in crazy battles as well as expecting new heroes, maps, and modes, and, of course, feeling your love and support with all our hearts. But the circumstances have changed our plans, and we will have to end the project's support and development.

We've been weighing the pros and cons for a long while, and we've come to this difficult decision. We'd like to continue bringing you joy with good and exciting projects. And even though MiniLife: Tournament definitely meets those criteria, unfortunately, it didn't live up to our expectations.

That is why the project will be closed and deleted from Steam on May 20, 2024.

Whenever you joined us — on the day of the game's announcement or a minute ago — we thank you for it! You've become a part of our small... mini-story. And we hope that you'll have fond memories of the time you've spent in MiniLife.

Yours truly,
The MiniLife: Tournament team ❤️

Meet the Skald, a new playable scion expert in card manipulation and adventuring. With every update we try to add a new playstyle into the game. This time, it's all about drawing and upgrading your deck!

Kare brings with him a whole new progression & Objectives system. As you play, he will record your adventure and unlock rewards when specific goals have been achieved :

• A new page in the Compendium.
  
• Over 50 Milestones
  
• A Progress board for Achievements and Kinships.
  
• A customized challenge called Mastery for every building card in the game.
  
• Every mastery increases the odds of drafting the associated card upgraded by 1%.

• Outpost : Draw 1, Gain 5 Might, gain a Temporary Outpost building (Ephemeral, Draw 1, Gain 5 Might).
  
• Trader's Guild : Gain 5 supplies for each Card in your deck.
  
• Warehouse : Gain 40 supplies for each additional Card drawn this turn.
  
• Seer's Guild : Gain 20 supplies for each Action card in your deck.
  
• Ritual hut : Gain an Action card draft, gain a Curse card.

A mysterious figure has appeared in Nidavellir!

This new encounter will allow you to obtain a new type of action cards with the Swift keyword. These are all strong additions to a deck that will give you a lot of flexibility to be more creative in deckbuilding.


A new Nidavellir map has been added. This is where you'll meet the new characters!



We fixed an issue that made the unlockable Artifacts from the Greenhouse not appear in choices. This mean these 10 artifacts are also being added in this update!

• Shattered Shackles now gives 2 cards instead of 1 when not playing a card during a turn.
  
• Observatory cost now keep increasing past 100 Eitr. We’ve seen your crazy builds!
  
• Caravan events that can give Acorns and Blueprints can now happen only once per map.
  
• Seedlings with area of effect objectives will now have an increased radius when modified by a trial.
  
• Rune Carver requirements changed to improve flexibility.
  

• PController support update :
  
  • Controller support has been greatly expanded! For this update, we mainly focused on controllers that include touchpads, notably Steam Deck, DualSense and DualShock 4 gamepads.
    
  • The camera controls have been finetuned for a much snappier experience when navigating with analog sticks.
    
  • Common game actions have been mapped to the gamepad, including navigating through your hand, cycling between map objectives, cycling through notifications.
    
  • Most in-game popup windows should now react to standard gamepad navigation, without requiring explicit mouse input.
• Added AZERTY Keyboard layout support
  
  
• Camera controls are now smoother and snappier.

• Notifications now come with a bit of extra flair!
  
• Kare moved in and made the Compendium a little more cozy.
  
• Improved ground “wiggles” quality that give a better hand-drawn look.
  
• Main menu buttons got a small upgrade.
  
  
• Increased diversity of props in environment
  
• Stairs should now be a lot more visible to help indicate when a path is available.
  
• Changes in the rendering of clouds should make them cleaner.
  
• Updated some icons in the end game screen
  
• Fixed Construct card having the wrong art in draft screen.
  
• Smite now feels much better (with sounds too!)

• Fixed a few Kinships that were unobtainable.
  
• Fixed a possible soft lock in Travel Screen when an event would be cancelled by using the escape key.
  
• Fixed a possible soft lock that happened when skipping some events.
  
• It’s now possible to click through a storm to activate an exploration tile.
  
• Fixed Spade of Vigor counting all population earned instead of just the current one.
  
• Fixed error in Lif’s Passives calculations which ended up giving twice as much income as it should!

• Fixed Holt Conversations Repeating when restarting the game.
  
• Fixed Draft sometimes giving you the same building twice.
  
• Fixed Instances where notifications of completed events would stay on screen.
  
• Map negative effects are now properly removed at the end of a map even if they have time remaining.
  
• Fixed notifications icons sometimes missing in the Holt when returning from a loop.

• Fixed descriptions of artifacts in compendium sometimes not being accurate.
  
• Fixed headers in settings that were not localized.

It's by far our biggest update so far. Since we added a lot of content, let us know how you feel about the balance on the Steam Forums or on Discord. The next update (Update 3) will focus on adding more content rather than new systems. We're working hard on Update 4 in parallel where we'll tackle another big system : The Holt!

We'll keep you up to date on future updates later, it's time to Reach the top of Yggdrasil with Kare now!