Ale Abbey News

Hello brewers and Happy holidays!

We hope you had a good christmas and that you are ready for 2025!
On our side between the festivities, we are still working on the release of the game for Q1 2025!
Here are some news from this december

[h2]Let it snow[/h2][hr][/hr]
Since we are in winter already; why not share with you some snow from around the Abbey!
The seasonal cycle will be available in game for the Early Access ☃️


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[h2]Ale Abbey in the Top-10 Best Upcoming Indies!![/h2][hr][/hr]
This december we participated in the IndieDB Indie of the year 2024, following a month long campaign in two phases of votes, we have reached the top 8 in their upcoming games category!
If you voted for us, thank you for your support and we're onward to compete in another category next year 🍻

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That's it for today!
This news was lightet than the usual one but we wanted to celebrate the top 8 of most upcoming games with you as well! We also hope you liked the preview of the seasonal changes, there are more coming in January!

Happy new year everyone, thank you for following us in this journey and we'll see you in 2025!

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Hey Brewers!
Here is the recap of the main information given on Discord following yesterday's Dev Talk. Giving more information on the release date for the game and our release plan.

Happy reading!

[h3]When is the game releasing? [/h3][hr][/hr]
Following all the feedback we received during the demo. It made us reconsider the time we had for the release of the game. We prefer taking our time and digest all the feedback and suggestions into account before the release. This pushed the date from what was December to a few months later, in early 2025 (Q1)

[h3]How will it be released?[/h3][hr][/hr]
After a lot of back & forth, we decided to aim for an Early Access before the 1.0 release!
This allows us to gather more feedback, as we continue working on the game and push its development to the point we consider final! Of course, a roadmap of the early Access will be published, to keep an eye on our progress!

[h3]What's planned on the EA release? [/h3][hr][/hr]
The official release plan has not changed, and you can still follow the current announcement. You can expect other things as well like a redesign of the research system, the arrival of the long-awaited Abbot/Abbess and a lot more! We'll be sure to reveal more details as we get closer to the release🔧



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Hey brewers!

After the last patch notes on the demo, we took some time to reflect on the work ahead of us and about our release plan for Ale Abbey. We know that this is a question many of you are looking an answer for! As we are approaching the end of the year, we would like to reveal it to all by nex week.

[h2]A new Dev Talk[/h2][hr][/hr]
We held our first Dev Talk after the reveal of our game back in June, five months ago. We have since participated in a Next Fest, but now the release date is ever closer. We thought it was high time to answer some of the most popular questions from our forums and Discord!

Next Tuesday we'll be holding another Dev Talk on our Official Discord to discuss the game, the progress we made, and most importantly, the future release!
More precisely, we'll discuss a release time frame, our impressions and learnings from the demo, as well as what we would like the game to look like upon release, and why it might be a little later than initially planned!



[h2]What if I can't join?[/h2][hr][/hr]
If you are unable to join the discussion on Discord, fear not! A scribe has been tasked with writing down all the important information you might want to know. This scribe will make this scroll available to all on Steam and will be released shortly after the Dev Talk!

So, if you are free and want to hear us gush about monks and brewing, join us on Discord next Wednesday!



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Hey brewers!

If you're an avid reader of our patch notes, you may already know that last week we updated the demo! The changes and addition were made to answer the feedback received during the Steam Next Fest that couldn't be implemented just yet!
Here they are:

[h2]➕ Additions [/h2][hr][/hr]

• Added non-pixel font and scalable UI options
  
• Added resolution picker
  
• Added a few missing tool-tips (more to come)
  
• Localized village names have been added
  
• Improved stability of the feedback tool
  
• Making a series of UI optimizations for recipes

[h2]📝 Changes [/h2][hr][/hr]

• Changed feedback key to F11 to avoid overlap with steam screenshots key
  
• Changed word limit on recipe names
  
• Removed unlocalized Monk name from Ale name

[h2]🔧 Bugfixes [/h2][hr][/hr]

• Fixed the furniture menu (ring menu) and furniture selections
  
• Fixed monks glitching into walls
  
• Fixed ale visualization when multiple ones are on sale in the same village
  
• Fixed a bug allowing to hire Fermentines for free on low money
  
• Fixed camera moviement while being on the feedback form
  
• Fixed several issues related to ale results which softlocked the game
  
• Fixed text in the negotiation and into panels
  
• Fixed Laymen workers loading beers into the cart
  
• Fixed visualization of panel for rebrew with dummy values
  
• Fixed a bug on loan repayments being requested at the wrong times
  
• Fixed an escritoire bug when removing researchers
  
• Fixed several bandit payments-related bugs
  
• Fixed some bugs related to the bishop cleaning tasks
  
• Fixed a barrel bug allowing to refill a barrel partly used for an order delivery

We know a lot of you are wondering about the official release. We would like to continue polishing the details before sharing any release date. As soon as we feel confident in sharing one, you will be among the first to know!

If you would like to get more updates, follow us on our socials media channels, or join us directly on Discord!

See you soon for more info on the release date!
-Ale Abbey Team

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Hey Brewers!

Thank you all for being part of the journey, as we said on Friday it was incredible to see so many of you testing the game and interacting with us!
Now that the Next Fest is over, here are the numbers at the end of the event.

[h2]THE WISHLISTS 📜[/h2][hr][/hr]
Last week we were at the 45K wishlist mark, we challenged you to get to 50K... The goal has been reached! You have answered the call and surpassed the goal we set for you!
[h3]Ale Abbey got over 60K wishlists at the end of the Next Fest[/h3]

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[h2]THE DEMO 🎮[/h2][hr][/hr]
Out of the 13,000+ brewers who tried the demo, 12,000 more joined over the weekend, giving helpful feedback and making great beers!
[h3]More than 25K brewers joined the Brewing orders[/h3]

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[h2]THE NEXT GOAL ➡️[/h2][hr][/hr]
We couldn't let you down after such a warm welcome. The demo will remain available on Steam until the end of the year!
For now, we'll continue to work towards the full release of the game, and wish you a good brew!

Play the demo and wishlist now if you haven't!

-Ale Abbey Team

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