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Nice Day for Fishing 🎣 Launch Month Dev Log!

Hello adventurers! πŸ‘‹

We want to thank you all for your support on our Demo Update 1.0 and our recent Release Date Announcement at CAGGTUS 2025!

Today, we wanted to cover some topics we've seen discussed in the community and talk more about the full launch of our game set in the Epic NPC Man world! 🌏

[h3]Approaching May 29th! 🎣[/h3]

Everyone working on Nice Day for Fishing is getting more and more excited, the closer we get to our release day! Our small development team at FusionPlay have dedicated four years of our lives to bring the Epic NPC Man Universe to life through Nice Day for Fishing. We're so excited to see which of the many references to the Viva La Dirt League's world and the Epic NPC Man series you will find throughout the game and how much time you'll all spend fishing as Baelin!

It's been amazing seeing that excitement reflected in the community after your super-positive demo update feedback. We can't wait to see how players around the world experience our fishing-adventure game on launch day!

[h3]Rebuilding Honeywood βš’οΈ[/h3]

One game mechanic that you are yet to explore and features in the content past the demo, is resource gathering and town restoration. As you'll experience in the demo,Honeywood is destroyed at the start of the game and it's Baelin's job to rebuild the town.

Players find unique resources in each of the 12 underwater regions, dredging them with the magnet hook. These resources can then be used to upgrade the houses across Honeywood, with each upgrade unlocking new shop inventory (and more! πŸ‘€) for each building in the town!


As you upgrade Honeywood, you'll gain access to better fishing rods, new rings, hats and necklaces... alongside more challenging side-quests from the mayor. Yes, you read that right! There is a mayor of Honeywood, who gives out extremely dangerous quests like... collecting 10 oysters. Dangerous oysters with sharp edges! Who knows, you might accidentally step on them.

Overall, by gathering enough resources from across the land and upgrading the houses, Honeywood will become a beautiful town once again!


[h3]Character Sound Bites πŸ—£οΈ[/h3]

Nice Day for Fishing includes character voice line sound bites when interacting with characters from Viva La Dirt League’s Epic NPC Man universe! We also wanted to clarify that there are no plans for the game to be full voice acted, however the latest Demo Update added new voice line sound bites!

At the very early stages of development we wanted to hear the voices of Greg, Bodger, and of course Baelin in the game. After FusionPlay's meetings with Viva La Dirt League during this time, we decided together to go down the old-school RPG route of having the most common catchphrases from each character in Nice Day for Fishing. In the end, that's always what we wanted to make: An old school retro RPG, set in the world of Azerim with a fishy twist!

We then were super happy that we could incorporate even more voice lines for the game, adding catchphrases for Willow, Fred, Freda and Charles. We even created voiced for the new characters in The Goblin, Thidon and the Murgol!

As development progressed, we added more voice lines in the game for the existing characters, which became more "rare" voice lines! We find it particularly funny when Baradun sometimes greets you as "Peasant?" instead of his usually "Hello Adventurer!". We can't wait for you to hear all of the characters voice lines and find the rare voice lines too!


[h3]Button Remapping ⌨️[/h3]

We’ve also seen your comments around button remapping on Steam whilst playing our demo. Although this is something we’d like to implement, button remapping isn’t currently on the cards for Nice Day for Fishing, as it would require a full revamp of the coding behind the controls of our game.

We may look to add this to the game in the future, but at this time, we cannot guarantee it will be added to Nice Day for Fishing.

All of our focus over the recent months has been around integrating new features to our fishing RPG adventure game and delivering you the best game come launch day on May 29th!

[h2]Play the demo today: πŸ‘‡[/h2]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2393160/Nice_Day_for_Fishing/

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We hope you're excited for our launch on May 29th... Portal AWAYYYYY! πŸŒ€

Nice Day for Fishing launches May 29th! 🎣

Save the date adventurers... πŸ—“οΈ Nice Day for Fishing launches on May 29th for Steam!

We're extremely excited to share our release date announcement with you all. We hope you're excited for the launch of our fishing-adventure RPG set in Viva La Dirt League's Epic NPC Man world! πŸ’™

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[h3]Can't wait until May 29th to play? πŸ˜„[/h3]
Our free-to-play demo returned earlier in the week to Steam with a big update!

From your feedback around our first demo build, we've implemented changes, improvements and additions to make you have the best adventure possible as Baelin in our demo! 🎣

Demo Update 1.0 includes: βš™οΈ
🌐 New localised languages
🎣 Combat improvements
πŸ—£οΈ New NPC voice line sound bites
πŸ“ˆ And More!


The Nice Day for Fishing team have been working hard to fix many bugs reported during Steam Next Fest to provide a smoother experience with Demo Update 1.0! If you do run into any issues with our new Demo build, please let us know in our Steam Discussions forum.

[h3]Play the demo today: πŸ‘‡[/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2393160/Nice_Day_for_Fishing/

We hope you're excited for our launch on May 29th... Portal AWAYYYYY! πŸŒ€
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Demo Update 1.0 - OUT NOW! 🎣 Our demo is back on Steam with improvements!

[h3]Nice Day for a Demo update, ain't it? 😏[/h3]

Our Nice Day for Fishing Demo is back on Steam with a big update... Adventurer, we hope you accept this quest to explore Honeywood in Demo Update 1.0!



Your overwhelming support during Steam Next Fest and beyond has been incredible! From your feedback around our first demo build, we've implemented changes, improvements and additions to make you have the best adventure possible as Baelin in our demo! 🎣

We'd also like to highlight one major addition, as we've added new localised languages to the demo. The demo now includes German, French, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese languages!

Please read our patch notes below for a full list of demo additions, changes and improvements:

[h2]βš™οΈ Patch Notes Demo 1.10 βš™οΈ[/h2]
[h3]Additions[/h3]
New Languages
  • Added German, French, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese languages.
All Additions
  • Added permanent attacking when holding the attack button.
  • Added new voice line sound bites for all NPCs.
  • Added a maximum level cap.
  • Added new treasure chest visuals.
  • Added consumable item status effect tool tips.
  • Added a Next/Skip function for dialog lines.
  • Added more detailed information during fish collection.
  • Added more tutorials, including additional tutorials for movement and adjustments to existing tutorials for added clarity.
  • Added new decorations to the world.
  • Added a new title screen animation.
  • Added more quality and language settings.
  • Added a message to alert players that they are deleting their saved game when starting a new game.
[h3]Changes and Improvements[/h3]
  • Changed the Frame Rate, so the game is locked at 60FPS.
  • Made adjustments for the block, parry, and defaults for minimum damage.
  • Made multiple small audio tweaks and adjustments.
  • Updated controls for Gamepad.
  • Update the UI for Consumables.
  • Moved the Enemy Information UI during battles, so this is below the enemy.
  • Changes to the map, with regions now hidden until you discover them.
  • Enhanced both the visuals and sounds for all spells and consumables.
  • Updated the frequency of manual attacks.
  • Updated the parry timing window.
  • Updated the Worm visual.
  • Changed the parry quest, so this quest is optional.
  • Updated the UI so the default price of items is now shown beside the item's current price.
  • Removed the aggro reduction on parry.
  • Changed the bait selection area to be greyed out when equipping the magnet.
  • Changed the item wheel to be greyed out when shocked.
  • Changed the tutorials, which now pause the game for better readability.
  • Further small improvements and adjustments.

Alongside the patch notes below, the Nice Day for Fishing team have been working hard to fix many bugs reported during Steam Next Fest to provide a smoother experience with Demo Update 1.0! If you do run into any issues with our new Demo build, please let us know in our Steam Discussions forum.



We hope you enjoy the Demo Update... Portal AWAYYYYY! πŸŒ€
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2393160/Nice_Day_for_Fishing/

Demo under maintenance! βš™οΈπŸ› οΈ Nice Day for Fishing's Demo - Back Soon!

[h2]Our Nice Day for Fishing Demo is under maintenance! βš™οΈπŸ› οΈ[/h2]

Adventurers, thank you all for your support towards our demo! We were truly blown away by your support during Steam Next Fest and our extension to the demo.

[h3]We've taken down the demo, but it'll be back soon! πŸ‘€[/h3]
We're undergoing maintenance on the demo so have taken it down on Steam, but don't fret- the demo will be back on Steam soon.

Since the start of Steam Next Fest, the team have been collating your demo feedback and are working on implementing changes based of your suggestions! Whilst the demo is away from Steam, the development team will be hard at work to implement tweaks and improvements for a future demo update! We'll have more news to share on the demo update soon.



We want to thank you again for all your feedback during our first demo for Nice Day for Fishing and we're looking forward to sharing more of the game with you in the near future! πŸ’™

See you soon with more news! But for now... Portal AWAYYYYY! πŸŒ€
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We're part of the 50 Most-Played Demos in Steam Next Fest Feb 25! 🀯

Adventurers! Thank you all for your support during Steam Next Fest πŸ’™

Our demo was one of the 50 Most-Played Demos in Steam Next Fest Feb 25, which is incredible! We appreciate you all for adventuring with Baelin for the first time during the event on Steam. 🎣

[h3]View the 50 Most -Played Demos in Steam Next Fest here! [/h3]

Thank you sincerely for everyone's feedback, support and excitement for our game. It's been a whirlwind for us! We can't wait to give you the full game and we'll have more news to share about Nice Day for Fishing soon!



Due to our demo being one of the most popular during Next Fest, we've put our demo back up on Steam... it's once again a Nice Day for Fishing, ain't it? 🎣

[h3]Play our demo today! πŸ‘‡[/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2393160/Epic_NPC_Man_Nice_Day_for_Fishing/

[h3]Stay updated with our RPG Fishing Adventure ⬇️[/h3]
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