Animal Shelter News

[h3]Halloween season has started and we've decided to add some spooky additions to our game for this occasion and Halloween content is now available as an update and you can download it absolutely for free! 👻[/h3]

[h3]The update adds the following Halloween-themed content to the game:[/h3]
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🎃 New Halloween clothes in the store for our pupils
🎃 Spooky Halloween look in the shelter
🎃 Devil gargoyles guarding our shelter
🎃 Decor of the shelter
🎃 Special music in the menu

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The update includes new content specially created for Halloween, including the base game and the Puppies & Kittens DLC.

[h3]Make sure to write and send us on Discord what spooky decoration you like the most! 😍[/h3]



[h3]Wait wait wait, that's not all! 😎
Halloween also brings a new Patch 1.1.15! [/h3]

• Added more sounds to cat actions and behaviors so they use more of their full vocal potential (like "sad sounds", "cry" sounds, more purring and more)
  
• Optimized general graphics settings, what results in better game performance on most computers
  
• Added graphics presets (found in general graphics settings, they now allow to quickly set different graphical settings to make it easier to achieve best performance/look balance)
  
• Added Ultra setting for those with hi-end computers
  
• Added Very Low setting for those with low-end and older computers
  
• AND MORE

Full list of changelog in the link below 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1239320/view/3385044600564583105

Have fun!
Animal Shelter Team

Halloween also brings a new Patch 1.1.15! 👇

• Added more sounds to cat actions and behaviors so they use more of their full vocal potential (like "sad sounds", "cry" sounds, more purring and more)
  
• Optimized general graphics settings, what results in better game performance on most computers
  
• Added graphics presets (found in general graphics settings, they now allow to quickly set different graphical settings to make it easier to achieve best performance/look balance)
  
• Added Ultra setting for those with hi-end computers
  
• Added Very Low setting for those with low-end and older computers
  
• Modified reflection probes resolutions for better performance
  
• Added Ambient Occlusion setting
  
• Added an option in game settings that allows the shadows to be completely turned off
  
• Changed the minimum value of the shadows' draw distance
  
• Animals will no longer be taken away while animal is being held
  
• All sliders in the settings menu now have numerical values displayed
  
• Adjusted frequency of cleaning control in the shelter (which also fixes achievements connected to cleanliness)
  
• Fixed issue where not all graphics settings were applied correctly when saving settings
  
• Fixed issue with ball lagging behind the dogs (adult and puppies) while game is paused

[h2]Halloween is coming and together with our friends from Gas Station Simulator we have created a "Trick or Treat Bundle"! 🎃[/h2]

[h3]If you haven't played Gas Station Simulator yet, you can buy it in our Trick or Treat Bundle, the discount can increase to 33%! 👇[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/28678/Trick_or_Treat_Bundle/



There are only a few teams with which whom we have closer relationships and often when their games are discounted and we are running a discount on ours, we make a bundle and we let you know about this. It's just a way for smaller developers to support each other and let our communities know about it.

So here we are, presenting you a sweet deal on getting Animal Shelter and Gas Station Simulator, at the lowest price ever!

Have fun!
Animal Shelter Team.

Hello everyone!
We have a bunch of fixes and a free DLC with more animal portraits for everyone!



Patch 1.1.114:
- NEW animal thumbnails!
- DLC and event icons added to the shop and build mode to indicate DLC and event items, buildings, decorations and furniture so the new things can be found much easier
- Added a gentle force that pushes the ball towards the player when it comes out of the dog's mouth - this looks more realistic and ensures the ball is not blocked by the dog's body
- Fixed band-aids placement offset
- Corrected randomizing illness when an animal appears for the first time
- Added missing puppy sounds: barking, whining and other
- Added missing tooltip for putting camera on a tripod
- Added a tooltip to indicate why furnished buildings toggle can't be turned off during the tutorial section of the game
- Corrected size of band-aids on animals
- Reverted computer monitor texture's compression change (to make it sharp again)
- Fixed issues that sometimes occurred when changing a 'location' (mostly entering or exiting a building)
- Fixed initialization of DLCs (they could sometimes fail to initialize properly)
- Fixed wrong type selection error in decorations
- Fixed incorrect translations of animal types in emails with bonus funds sent after adoption
- Fixed cropped DLC icons in first row of items in the computer shop
- Fixed brick fence rotation (the fance is now aligned vertically)
- Fixed animal collisions during healing for kitties and puppies
- More debug logging improvements

Thanks everyone and have fun!

- Fixed completing healing mission (there was a high probability of being offered a dog with no limb injury which prevented from completing the mission)
- Fixes for applying band aid: if there is an error with a wound an alternative approach is used to let the band aid be applied
- Corrected look of loaded shaved fur around wound
- Fixes for water hose to decrease the likelihood that it disappears under the ground
- Fixed adoption error that sometimes caused a weird error of duplicating adoption vans
- Fixed error where sometimes cats could be placed on the ground and jump into the carrier on their own, which was not an intended behavior
- Fixed errors in photo table and added additional checks in order to help prevent errors in animal decorations
- Increased the amount of shampoo in a bottle
- Fixed razor tooltips
- Fixed water and food bowls tooltips
- Added more debug logging information (mostly in regards to animals), removed unneeded ones
- Added some missing translations