Animal Shelter News

[h2] We have prepared a very big update for Animal Shelter! 🥳[/h2]

If you missed the news about the upcoming Puppies & Kittens DLC, be sure to check out the Steam page, and together with BIG UPDATE, we are launching the biggest discount on Animal Shelter 12%, for only 14 days!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1982080/Animal_Shelter__Puppies__Kittens_DLC/

We would like to thank everyone who purchased our game for your amazing commitment both before and after the premiere. On Steam Community Hub and our Discord server, you have created an amazing place that has provided us with a lot of valuable information. Right NOW you can download the first major updates. 😎

[h2]FULL LIST OF CHANGES:[/h2]

• Even more BIG fixes to the save/load and location systems! (mostly how items are placed, detected and thus saved/loaded)
  
• Many chages and updates to different systems in preparation for the upcomming DLC!!!
  
• Fixed a bug where you were able to match an animal with another person even if the animal was already matched with someone
  
• Updates to litterboxes
  
• Fixed random animation playing during play animation, sniff or fight with other animal
  
• Fixed random animation playing during sniff animation
  
• Fixed random animation playing during fight with other animal
  
• Disabled camera rotation change after finishing player-animal animation
  
• Added safegourds to cage furniture
  
• Fixes to applying medicine
  
• Corrected translations
  
• More fixes to disappearing decorations
  
• Small changed to the popup system
  
• Better handling of items
  
• Fixed socials media buttons in Main Menu
  
• Added DLC promo banner
  

Once again, thank you for your bugs report, feedback and suggestion it is extremely important for us. The game is still in development and we'll have more news for you, so be sure to keep checking upcoming news. 😊



[h3]Please write to us what you think and join our Discord channel! 👇[/h3]


Regards,
Animal Shelter Team

[h3]We’ve just released a new bundle! 🦕🐶[/h3]
Thanks to Care & Discover Bundle you can now purchase our game together with Dinosaur Fossil Hunter - a Paleontology Simulator made by our friends at Pyramid Games! Just click the link below! 👇

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/25930/Care__Discover/

With Care & Discover bundle, you can either search for fossils and learn more about dinosaurs which were inhabiting Earth millions of years ago in Dinosaur Fossil Hunter or look after living animals in Animal Shelter!


Enjoy!

[h3]As announced, the remaining $2000 USD was donated to the animal shelter of your choice and for which you voted the most![/h3]

[h2]The winning shelter is:[/h2]
[h3]Shelter Friend - Ukraine
http://dryg.org.ua/eng/about/ https://www.facebook.com/shelterFriendDnepr/[/h3]

The transfer has already been made, its confirmation is below. We are glad that we were able to support animals in Ukraine. We all know that Ukrainian society is going through a difficult period now, so we are glad that your choice was to help animals in Ukraine. We would like to thank you for all sign-ups.



We also remind you that you can still help animal shelters by purchasing a soundtrack with all proceeds going to animal shelters. 👇


If you haven't joined our Discord community yet, you can do it now! Just click the link below. 😊


Regards,
Animal Shelter Team.

- Big changes to the location system: should fix many saving/loading issues
- Enhancements to save system that should make saving/writing more robust (forced file access to read/write, forced file share to none, cleaning all buffers for file stream and making any buffered data to be written to the underlying device, closing the current stream and releasing any resources associated with the current stream, better handing of write operations of save data when saving to a file, changed loading save file with forcing access mode to write and sharing mode to write, improved loading of files)
- Save load game manager creates copy of save file if saving is unsuccessful
- Small fixes to popup system
- Fixed disappearing animal decorations when zooming too close
- Fixed photo table starting rotation in photography building
- Reduced how fast cages get dirty
- Better handling of item focus then changing locations
- Corrected location collisions for office lvl2 and lvl3
- Fixed saving dirt in cages
- Bladder in animal statuses always displays "+"
- Better handling of items then hiding it into inventory
- Corrected translations for medicine
- Added safeguards to 'washing' action
- Added safeguards to 'play with other dog' action
- Added safeguards to spring toy
- Fixed wrong rotation of animated object while interacting with animal
- Fixed (disabled) matching an animal with another person if the animal is already matched to a human

[h2]HELLO ANIMAL LOVERS! 🐱🐶[/h2]

Just as we informed you that we managed to contact the Best Friend Dog and Animal Adoption and the transfer was sent, unfortunately, we still could not find a way to make a bank-to-bank transfer for the - Feral Feline Friends of East Tennessee.

We can't wait any longer, but the last $2000 USD will be transferred to another animal shelter and it's your choice which animal shelter will receive it. 😊

[h2]The rules are very simple:[/h2]

1. Action begins from April 15 and finishes on April 24.
   
2. You can sign up shelter only in this post, just write a comment
   
3. It is very important that the shelter has its bank account number on the page. We can only make a transfer from bank to bank.
   
4. The application form below:
   

• NAME OF AN ANIMAL SHELTER
  
• WEBSITE
  
• E-MAIL
  
• BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER
  

A nice addition will be information about why you chose this shelter or the history of this shelter. 😊

[h3]Animal shelter with the most votes wins $2000 USD. 🏆 [/h3]

We are waiting for your applications.

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[h2]🥇 THE WINNER IS:[/h2]
[h2]Shelter Friend - Ukraine[/h2]
http://dryg.org.ua/eng/about/
https://www.facebook.com/shelterFriendDnepr/

[h3]Congratulation! 🏆 [/h3]
We would like to thank for all sign ups. We'll let all of you when we make the bank transfer. 😊


Regards,
Animal Shelter Team.