Harvest Island News

October is coming around the corner and I have exciting news to share to you guys!

I've been struggling to market Harvest Island for a while but I have a secret weapon that's going to change everything. A new trailer that I'll be posting. When will this be? That's a secret! But once this gets released, everyone will know about Harvest Island. Even the media! In the meantime, I've been trying to go viral on Tiktok and youtube. I'm taking a scientific approach to this and you can watch my progress! Be sure to follow my tiktok and youtube as well to see the shorts I've been making.

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Updates on the game. The game is finished! Woooo! It's like 99% bug free. But I still have to go through the Japanese and chinese testing, so that's going to take a while. I do have bad news that goes along with this. I'm going to delay the game just a tiny bit but the game's release is still in October! This is mostly for Marketing and to give me a little bit more time to finish the testing. I'll let you know about the new release date once the new trailer is out.

Oh! And have you checked out the new Key art for Harvest Island?

Harvest Island is in the Tiny Team Festival!!! Woooo!!! In this special occasion, I have allowed streamers to play the extended demo! That means, for this broadcast, you get to see a lot more Harvest Island content wayyyy past the public demo. Give it a watch or visit Kitinue on her channel to watch the entire stream!

https://www.twitch.tv/kintinue

Since we got 2 months left before Harvest Island release, I'm going full ham on marketing the game! And going crazy.

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Harvest Island will be in the Tokyo Game Show! Isn't that exciting news? Wooooo! Basically, the event will start from September 21st - September 24th. During this event, I will extend the demo indefinitely with all 8 languages done! Look forward to that!

And another big news! Harvest Island will be released on October 2nd, 2023! Woooo. Very very close to release! And since Harvest Island is a horror game, this is a perfect release date for those streamers that would want to stream horror games!

I can't believe it's almost done! The testing is about 80% complete. There's so much work to do to prepare for the release.

I hope a lot of people will like my game, just as the testers love it.

Welp, since the day I announced my delay, a lot of progress has been made. A lot of polishing has been made and a lot of balancing as well. There's even a fast travel! Check that out!

This past two weeks has been hectic for me that I forgot to post a new demo for the indie fest. So, I've uploaded a new polished demo for you guys to take a look and play! Hopefully I'm not too late. I'll also upload a broadcast sometime soon this week as well for those of you that just want to quickly glance at the game and check out how it is. I'll talk about the game development in my broadcast.

As for the game update and how it's going. I would say it's 95% complete. I just need to wait on a bit more art, make a bit more music, and have a few more testers to play the final version of the game one last time. Very very very close to being done. In my next post, I'll give you a confirm release date of when Harvest Island can be played. It really will be released this year!

Here's the list of new things:
-Game scale (You can now zoom into the game 2x since people had a hard time seeing the game)
-Text box animated to come from sides
-Clear petting Objectives (This reduces confusion and helps balance the game when you feed, tend to the animals, and pet them)
-UI Art implemented
-Animals have Favorite foods (I'll let you figure the secret out :))
-New Heart Emoji
- New fish animation
-New coconut animation
- New bugs animation
- New Well watering Animation
- New cotton animation
- New apple tree animation
- Replaced a few old object arts (Like logs, twigs, mussels, apples)
-Refined part of the story's writing so that it doesn't feel repetitive.
- New Character Portraits (Lot's of new expressions added)
- Fast Travel added (There's an entire new world in that fast travel!)
- Balanced food consumption and energy consumption for "Tutorial" part.
- Extended the demo just a little bit more so that the game has a resolution and finishes the game's "Tutorial" and premise.
-Added 3 children's story books (Read it in the father's room once you journey along the game a bit)
-New Translations added (But this is a bit incomplete since I'm still working on this.)
-Added Nap Feature

There's probably a lot more which I can't remember from the top of my head since I'm just working purely in getting the final game released vs keeping the game updated to you guys. There's a lot of changes and I know you'll like them.