Meadow News

A great big thank you to all of you who shared and played our Anniversary Play Event last weekend: we broke our 10k player target and raised a welcome donation for Safe in Our World. We saw lots of you sharing the event on your social channels and some of you helping newbies around the place, and we do appreciate that for a fair few of you the Meadow was a little more crowded than you're used to - so thanks for sharing your space for the party



We're glad you enjoyed helping one another visit them all, and we've heard that many of you don't feel super keen on time limited achievements, so we'll be putting them back for another ten days, which we hope will be enough time for new players to find them all and will allow previous ones to finish up. Expect to see them some time on May 5th. We might add a few extra too, more info on that next week. You'll get achievements for the first, fifth and tenth elephant that you visit.



The elephants were so popular that we thought we'd make some more statues for you to find, so in the next couple of months we'll be dropping a different kind of animal in for another ten days. Every animal will be from Shelter 3, and our first new animal will be appearing in June.

We hope this is good news for you and thanks again for a really great super feel good anniversary weekend!

Best Wishes and Stay Safe!

Helen and the Team

Content additions

• New feature: 10 hidden statues! (limited time) Elephant statues are removed for the time being
  
• A new Seasonal 3D emote has been added: Spring blossoms!
  
• Seasonal Snow 3D emote takes a break for now
  
• 6 new achievements
  

Hotfixes

• Issue with achievements solved
  

Thank you from the devs: https://steamcommunity.com/app/486310/discussions/0/2260187970828214845/

About this time in April ten years ago, Might and Delight was made, and to celebrate suitably in these times of lockdown we're holding a great big Meadow play event. For the duration of the play event all profit from our Steam sales will go to charity Safe in Our World, and if we get 10,000 players joining us in #Meadow we'll add 25% to that donation - so please join us, bring your friends along... and help us get to 10,000 players by sharing the event on Twitter and beyond!

ADDITIONAL NEWS! Meadow will be free to play all weekend, so please share this news and invite your friends and family to join in too!




Safe in our World’s mission is to create and foster worldwide mental health awareness within the video game industry and beyond. Founded by industry veterans in 2019, the charity is currently working to promote positive mental health in the Covid-19 crisis - you can read more about their work here.

The event begins on Thursday April 23rd and will end at midnight on Sunday 25th. As well as obelisks to unlock together, there will be some special edition statues of elephants to find, which will gain achievements.

• #PlayApartTogether Event in Meadow
  
• Starts 10 am PST Thursday 23rd April, ends Sunday 26th
  
• All profit from sales of M&D games over the duration go to Safe in Our World
  
• An extra 25% will be added if 10,000 players attend
  
• Spot 10 new hidden elephant statues to unlock achievements and look out for the devs in their special dev skins!
  
• Find your new playmates on Discord during and after the adventure (#Meadow or #Play-With-The-Devs)
  

Thank you so much for your support through the years - we're so glad to have had you with us and we look forward to all we can create together in the years to come!

Stay safe and be well,

Helen and the team xx

Wherever you are, you’re most likely reading this against a background of troubling newsreels and unusual routines, of uncertain futures and surreal conversations with friends, family, co-workers, strangers... At Might & Delight we’re working from our homes trying to manage the new demands of isolation, stay-at-home kids and ambient instability. And while we push ahead with development schedules for Shelter 3 and Book of Travels we’re taking a new look at ways to connect with you in these new times. (If you have any thoughts or suggestions, we’d love to hear them.)

As you may recall, we’d already planned to do a 'Play with the Devs' this spring, but we hadn’t expected it would be in this newly forming, stay-at-home world. With so many at home and alone, there’s a bittersweet flavour to the connections we make in virtual worlds. So it’s with extra special warmth that we invite you to join us in Meadow on Friday.

We will be there at 13.00 CEST wearing transparent dev skins, and to add a little extra fun we thought we’d play a game of Hide & Seek: you’ll know when you’ve succeeded in finding a dev by the way the skin will transform! And be sure to come and find your animal friends on the Steam forum or Discord after the session.

It's fair to say that most of us have heads full of grey clouds right now, so let’s find some sunshine in adventuring together! We are all looking forward to it very much and we hope to see you there.

In the meantime, please stay safe and look after one another.

Best Wishes,

Helen and the team at Might & Delight

Hello!

Today we are really excited to share this, our new trailer! We hope you like it. Much like an elephant, development is coming along slowly but surely. Currently the team are working on elephant behaviours, level design and bringing some animal NPCs to life.



Elephant Development

But the truth is that we should have been further along than this by now, and today we're writing to let you know that we've had to revise our schedule - release is now set for a realistic early 2021. We're sorry - we know that some of you have been waiting so patiently! But we're a small team and along with updating Meadow, we just don't have the resources to move much faster than this. This means that we won't be working on any new updates for Meadow until Shelter 3 is released. Pulling resources away from Meadow means that we can fully commit to our deadline for Shelter 3, however we do have plans for some fun Meadow updates when that time comes - we think it will be worth the wait!


Meadow in the Meantime

Meadow has been an unexpected high point in our journey and we want to say a huge thank you for making Meadow what it is today - it's been four years of animal joy, and we've never stopped being surprised, touched and deeply grateful for all that you have produced and shared. Thank you. 

Our recent Kickstarter means that there's been a few new faces in Meadow recently, and we'll continue to do more Play-with-the-devs events (one soon-to-be-announced for April). We also want you to know that the emotes you've been using so effectively will be gaining a sibling in our upcoming fairytale RPG, Book of Travels. Again, to all Meadow players, a huge thank you for helping us test and develop this communication system and showing us how magical it can be.

That's all for now - thank you for all your comments here on Steam! (We've been a little absent lately but we'll be around more often to say hello in the future.)

Best Wishes,

Helen and the team at Might & Delight