Orange Season News

Hello everyone,

So... It's been a while! The last big game update (v0.6.2) was back in August of 2020. In the meantime we haven't been sitting still, but what is going on?

Behind the scenes a lot has happened in terms of the team. The project's original lead developer who you might know as 'Hudell' on the Steam Community Hub and the Orange Season Discord server is no longer affiliated with Fantasy Farming: Orange Season. No, nothing happened. He's just off to do other things! Thank you for everything, Hudell!

The team that was working on Fantasy Farming: Orange Season under Hudell is still there, and a veteran from the team has taken over the lead role. Introducing: Rafael & Kazz! Them and I will be the main points of contact both here and on Fantasy Farming: Orange Season social media/Discord.

In the meantime, a lot has happened on the development side behind the scenes, check this out!

When summer comes, some villagers like to test their skills in the water

Updated day/night cycle

The mines are getting expanded. New maps and system are in the oven

BUT, what about game updates? With this change in management, another decision came. Fantasy Farming: Orange Season was built on an engine that does not fit with our plans for the title. This is why we decided to start a porting process to the Unity engine. We expect this process to be done around May of 2022 and it'll come as a free update right here in Early Access on Steam. This also means that in the meantime, we will unfortunately not have any game updates for you in the meantime.

However, what will we have? From now on every month, we will post development updates to show you what kinds of new stuff we're adding to the game, that will become available once the Unity version of the game launches once we're ready!

If you have any concerns, please let us know through the Steam Community Hub! We'll see you in the next development update ;)

-Marten, Rafael & Kazz

Hey all!

Another patch just went live, which means we are at v0.6.2! This patch introduces new villagers, a new fishing system, sheep and animal petting! Check out the full patch notes here:

• Improved the graphics of trees, animals and mountain areas.
  
• Redesigned festival locations
  
• Added 4 completely new villagers to Orange Town: Gary, Yumiko, Shinnosuke and Kaori
  
• Expanded possible interactions with Orange Town Villagers: Martin, Mia and Prince
  
• Added portraits for every villager
  
• New brand fishing system with dozens of new fish
  
• Changed the way wild animals behave once tamed. They now have a regular routine and they sometimes will leave gifts for you
  
• Added new barn and coop interior
  
• Added sheep to the game, which introduces wool
  
• You can now pet farm animals and talk to them as your voice soothes them
  
• Implemented changes to the way farm animals are managed
  
• Added wind animation on trees
  
• A lot of bug fixes and improvements to general usability
  
• Changed game zoom level
  
• Added A few new sound effects, including footsteps
  
• Upgraded internal engine code
  
• New way to load and manage gamepad profiles
  

I hope you all like it! Please let us know any feedback you may have on the Steam Community Hub ;)

-Marten

Hi everyone!

As we've gotten quite a lot of new players with the Steam Summer Sale, I just wanted to let you know that we're still very much looking for feedback on the game! Any feedback we could work with is interesting to us, so if you have any, feel free to leave it as a Steam Community Hub post, or join our Discord server at https://discord.gg/soedesco to let us know!

Stay tuned for our next update post!

-Marten

Hello everyone!

You may have noticed the game had many tiny updates during the week. Those updates were fixing some bugs that you reported since the release of the 0.6.1 version. Here's a list of them:

• Some Sacis could be found multiple times.
  
• Sarah appearing on top of a fridge.
  
• Player could walk through the lumber near Raphael's house.
  
• Error when loading saves generated between versions 0.2.9.2 and 0.5.0.6.
  
• Devin events not triggered for new players.
  
• Affected area not updating when trying to place buildings.
  
• Graphic glitch under bridges during winter.
  
• Serge was not saying anything on weekends.
  
• Passage to the mountain top not working when riding a horse.
  
• Cindy was invisible when inside the inn.
  
• Some villagers were appearing on the forest map by error.
  
• Fatal Error when talking to Nathalia.
  
• Some seeds were lost when trying to use them too fast.
  
• Finding many Sacis without changing areas could sometimes crash the game.
  
• Fishing achievements were not being triggered.
  
• Raphael's Random Request was not being marked as complete and not rewarding the player.
  
• Some cutscenes were locking the player.
  
• HUD not refreshing when max fatigue increased.
  
• Saci disappearing without animation on his introduction cutscene.
  
• Brittany not saying anything.
  
• Interactions not triggering properly in some positions.
  
  

Other than those bugs, there have also been a few other minor changes:

• Moved some objects that were too hidden and hard to find.
  
• The game will now give you more information if a save file fails to load.
  
• Replaced the town sign boards that shows requests and festivals.
  
• Updated the festival list.
  
• Pause the game when Steam Overlay is active.
  
• Stop spawning items over player objects.
  
• Made cheat codes harder to trigger by accident.
  
• Show number of fish caught on the main diary.
  
• Show money made and spent on the main diary.
  
• Replaced town building signs.
  
• Updated female character picture on the character creation screen.
  

Hi all!

It's Marten here with some great news, because update v0.6.1 is live! This brings a LOAD of good stuff like new home upgrades, businesses, villages a completely new cooking system and much more! Here's full patch notes for this update:

• Send seeds to the farm storage when lacking inventory space
  
• You can now change items and tools while riding your horse
  
• Added the Sacis
  
• Added termite nests
  
• New house sprites
  
• New home graphics
  
• Changed Brittany’s house
  
• Changed Julia’s house
  
• Changed Rory’s house
  
• New general store
  
• New blacksmith
  
• New inn/restaurant
  
• New library
  
• New carpenter workshop
  
• New clinic
  
• Added a spa
  
• New tasks
  
• New villagers: Duke, Sarah and Thalia
  
• New house upgrade
  
• New cooking system
  
• New animal and friend list on the diary menu
  
• Improved save/load menus
  
• Changed the way crops die
  
• New conversations
  
• New heart events
  
• New furniture shop
  
• New sound effects
  
• Balanced ores, mines and tools
  
• Separate contents of each trash can
  
• Replaced town building signs
  
• Updated female character picture on the character creation screen
  
• Various bug fixes
  

Now, this is a BIG list and I hope you'll all like it. Let me know if you do, and if you have any feedback, feel free to share it in the Steam Community Discussions :D

Have fun!

-Marten