APICO News

Hi friends!

A new year is upon us, and it’s been a bit of a manic start with Ell moving house but we’re back on track now!

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As you may have seen on our socials, pets are coming to APICO along with the final “Honeycore” update! To celebrate, we held a design-your-own-pet competition (which receieved over 200 submissions!), and narrowed down the cuties to just five finalists, which were put up to a vote by all of you.



Although the dino was the vote winner by a small margin, everyone found it super difficult to pick - and why should they have to? We’ve decided that all five designs will be winners, so you’ll be able to enjoy all of them as pets in the final update - congratulations to all the artists!
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Ells been working hard on the Honeycore Update, and you might have seen some bits and bobs on our socials and on Discord!



New cute decor and furniture, light automation, moving crates & beeboxes without emptying them… we've been very glad to see your reactions to all the new things we’ve planned for this last update and can’t wait to let you all get your hands on it!

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For those of you who use Amazon Prime Gaming, APICO is currently part of the free Prime games you can claim! You have until February 14th to claim it - once you do it’ll be added to your library indefinitely!

This is the same as the latest Steam / PC release, so you get all of the same nautical goodness.

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Coming very shortly after this recap, Whitethorn Games (APICO’s publisher!) will be having their Whitethorn Winter Showcase! This is a celebration of gaming magic across all the other sister games, so be sure to check it out to see what other new games are coming that might bee off interest to you.

There’s also a new Humble Bundle where you can get APICO along with some other fantastic games, all to help celebrate Black History Month and raise money for NPower, so if you’re still looking to pick up APICO as well as support a wonderful cause this is your chance!

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And that’s it for this first recap of 2024! Big thanks for your amazing support
Take care!
Manon, Ell and Jamie

Hey beekeepers!

As you might have seen in the last post, the final update for APICO will be adding pets! To celebrate, we had a competition to submit your own pet design - and we had so many (nearly 200!!!) wonderful submissions. Thanks so much for everyone who submitted a design (and shout out to the person who submitted their designs using MINECRAFT as a medium, actually genius)

It was really hard because they were all so cute but we've narrowed the submissions down to 5 finalists - so now it's time for all of YOU to vote on your favourite below! The winning design as voted by the hive will be added to the gang along with the other pets coming in 4.0 - (bee, butterfly, bird, bunny, frog, imp, fish, and crab).

Please have a look through each of the 5 designs and then vote for your favourite in the form here:




Voting closes on February 1st, after which we'll announce which cutie won the vote and will be added to the game!

Hey Beekeepers!

So some exciting news - not only will there be little pets to collect in 4.0, but this is your chance to design your own and potentially get it added to the game!



If you'd like to have a chance to see your design chosen by the Hivemother, submit it using the form below before January 25th. I'll select 5 finalists from the submissions and then everyone will be able to vote for their favorite - the winning design will end up in the game along with the other pets :D
https://forms.gle/14WLGpbuCqqJzFeCA

Your design must be pixel art, and is limited to 10x10 pixels! It's tough but I believe in you!
Check the form above for some reference examples you can download as well as some free software you can use to make your design. You can also go old school and get out the graph paper if you'd prefer analogue.

Looking forward to seeing all the cute friends that get submitted
Good luck, have fun!
Ell

Hey Beekeepers!

As some of you might know, there is one last content update planned for the game - which will also be the last update for the game! 4.0, AKA, "Hive Of Industry" will see the honeycore process finally expanded, letting you forge your own honeycore crystals and build your own lite automation machines, such as the hopper (move items around), plopper (move liquids around), and forester (tree harvester).

There'll be lots of QoL tweaks, useful items, decoration, a few more bees and butts, some seasonal events (hivemas! hallowbeen!), a final OST, and some other lil secrets - it'll also finally let you walk through that mysterious doorway to lead to one final location to wrap everything up story and gameplay-wise...



I'll also be creating a self-hostable version of the Beenet (the multiplayer server) so you'll be able to run your own server. I'll still keep the current Beenet up for as long as I can afford, but just want to make sure there's some future proofing there.

So outside of new content this is everyones last chance to submit your 'last orders' for things you'd like added! Obviously I can't add every suggestion no matter how cool it'd be, but if there's been some QoL stuff or tweaks you'd like to see in APICO then this is the last time you'll be able to post them to potentially be added to the game
You can post in this thread below, or use the feedback form if you want to do some longer feedback (just ignore the other questions and dump in the last one)

~ Ell

P.S. Don't worry about any outstanding bugs as I already have a big old list for that and there'll still be some bug patches after the final update - this is purely just for features!