APICO News

Hey friends!

March has flown by, and with it the weather has slowly turned from wet and rainy to... well still wet and rainy cos it's the UK baby!!!! Here's what's been going on…

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Another friend joins the gang! Ell took part in a week long game-jam, and the result was Mudborne, an APICO-like focused around frogs + mushrooms.

You can read more about the development of the game over the 7 days, or just try the demo out for yourself on itch.io or Steam!

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Speaking of friends joining the gang, we have a new TNgineer! Some of you might recognise StarVenus/Beenus from Discord or /r/APICO, we’re delighted to announce she’ll be joining us as a social + community manager!

It’s getting a bit hectic managing 3 (now 4) games, so reinforcements were needed, and have arrived!

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Feed The Beasts finally has a steam page, so you can get those wishlists in and follow us for updates on the progress of the game!

We’re slowly edging towards a demo release, and can’t wait to share it with you all!

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Some of you may remember our “Design A Bee” competition back before the butterfly update - well we’re doing another one, and this time it’s for designing your own butterfly!

The winning design will be added to the game, plus the designer will win a bunch of prizes too - check the announcement post for more info!

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So that’s a wrap on March, bee safe and we’ll see you next month!

Love,
Ell & Jamie (AND BEENUS)

Hey Beekeepers!

An APICO devlog? That can only mean one thing - new content! However don't get too excited as this month's devlog was mostly just planning :')

Saying that, there's a couple of pretty pictures at least, hope you enjoy!

https://ko-fi.com/Post/APICO--February-Devlog-2023-Y8Y6J5L5U

~ Ell

Hey friends!

February has been and gone - I know it's the shortest month but damn that was quick! Here's what's been going on:

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Our favourite moth composer released their debut album, Moth Symphony! Moth is currently three for three on composing TNgineer game music so might as well be one the family and they deserve the shoutout!

If you’re a fan of APICO’s music then you’ll very much enjoy this, you can grab it on Bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube, and Amazon Music.

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As you might have seen, we’ve started planning out the next major content update for APICO - What Lies Beeneath!

This update will cover fishing, deep sea diving, coral reefs, more bugs (and actual bugs), and a whole lot more! Follow along on Ko-Fi for the February devlog that’ll be out in the next week or so to find out what we’re up to
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God help us all I’ve only gone and make some Tiktok accounts! But fret not, for next month we’ll be introducing our first new TNgineer to join the team who’ll be taking over our social media + community management and will be at least 40% less cringe than me*

If you want to get in early you can follow APICO, FTBS, and Rift Breach over there RIGHT NOW

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This month we also applied for the Xbox Dev programme and got accepted! We’re still signing some paperwork but once settled it means we’ll have our own Xbox DevKit, Hivemother help us all…

We got accepted from proposing Rift Breach (so guess thats happening now) - but should also help us sort out APICO’s Xbox build, which has been in limbo for a hot minute/hour/day/year/century

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So that’s a wrap on February, bee safe and we’ll see you next month!

Love,
Ell & Jamie
*thats a big ask I know

Hey Beekeepers!

Some more small fixes and a few multiplayer tweaks - thanks to the people who reported these!
I’ll be off on a short break with my partner for the next week, so catch ya soon
~ Ell

[h3]Multiplayer[/h3]

• Fixed some issues with beehives offscreen of the host acting up for the client
  
• Fixed host Rehabeelitators sometimes clearing client slots before the client recieved the repopulation points
  
• Fixed an issue with nurseries not always giving the client the repopulation points
  
• Fixed clients not getting "beetrice" points from the offspring of host hives
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed camera issue still ocurring at the bottom of worlds when not in a boat
  
• Fixed some tooltip transparency issues
  
• Added a check to respawn jurassic hive if RNG of the worldgen somehow missed it
  

Hello friends,

A new year has begun! I’d like to say I eased back into things slowly after having Christmas off but I literally started the month by releasing a new game lol. Here’s what we’ve been up to:

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With the butterfly update for APICO we had a new influx of players beeing introduced to the wonderful world of bees! This also meant we could make a new batch of donations to various conservation, pollinator and butterfly charities.

New donations included Pollinator Partnership, Regional Science Consortium, and Butterfly Conservation! You can view all the donations made from APICO sales here.

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To celebrate the Lunar New Year on 15th January, we finally released a Simplified Chinese localisation for APICO! This had been a long time coming and we can thank Whitethorn Games for helping arrange this.

You can check out this language option in version Papilio 2.2.0+

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So like I mentioned, a new game is here! Sadly not Feed The Beasts just yet (although that’s well on it’s way!). I wanted to work on a much smaller scope game to help me creatively, and the result was a small “player-cedural” sci-fi dungeon crawler called Rift Breach that I made in 3 weeks.

You can read more about the thinking behind the game as well as the development here, and you can go play the demo over on Steam now!

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Well I say new, but truth be told we’ve never had a website for TNgineers, only APICO! Now that we have 3 games to keep on top of I wanted to make a one-stop shop for all things TN to try and keep on top of things.

You can check it out over on tngineers.com, which has some general information as well as links + presskits for all 3 games!

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So that’s a wrap on January, bee safe and we’ll see you next month!

Love,
Ell & Jamie