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September Wrap-up and October's Planned Updates
🕑 Added 2021-09-30 17:20:05 +0000 UTCHey everybody!
I don't know about you, but September absolutely flew by for me. I think it was a great month for Farm RPG, both in terms of growth and new features/content. Over 15,000 people registered during the month of September!
Unfortunately, I did NOT finish every update I wanted to get done in September, but I did get quite a few things finished and some other things really close to being done.
Here's a short list of things that were completed in September:
New Farming UI, Locksmith, Wishing Well, New Inventory UI, New Fishing Zone, tons of new items, Borgen, Flour Mill, New Pets, Slaughterhouse, Referral System, Market Item of the Day and a load of small updates and bug fixes!
October's Planned Updates:
- Feed Mill - This is basically done, but it's only in Alpha at the moment. It will go into Beta at the same time as the Pig Pen
- Pig Pen - This is very similar to the Cow Pasture, but to level your pigs up you use feed which comes from the Feed Mill. Pigs, once level 5 or higher, can be sent to the slaughterhouse and you get Bacon
- Whispering Creek - Level 70 Exploration zone. This will be quite challenging to reach and has a lot of items that are a setup for the Cooking Skill (planned for November / December)
- October / Halloween themed items and events - There's already a lot of items in the system for this. I'll post about them as they happen. October should be a lot of fun with these items, events, contests and more!
- Bookshelf - Here's the plan for this and I would love to get to it this month.
- New Fishing UI - I started this on Alpha, mostly in terms of Fishing Nets, but have decided since then I want to redo the entire Fishing UI. Fishing just needs to be more streamlined like Exploring.
- Glassworks - This should be an easy addition that will use your Sandstone to create Glass Orbs and possibly some other new items. Will be very similar to the Ironworks.
- Horse Stable and Horse Racing - I'll be honest, I want to get to it in October, but it's more likely it will get pushed into November. There's just so much on my plate this month already.
- iOS App 1.3 - This is really close to being done. It adds 2 background music options and should be submitted to Apple in the next 5-7 days.
- Google Play IAP options - This is another thing I want to get started on in October that may or may not happen.
- More QoL fixes and updates as well as bug fixes, small changes, new content and Help Requests will happen throughout the month also.
About my development pace
I've been able to keep a very fast pace of updates so far, and I would certainly like to continue that pace. However, as the game evolves and grows, the complexity of updating the game increases as well. Each new update has the chance to affect the balance of previous updates, so more care has to be taken going forward.
Basically, the expectation of very fast updates is already in place, but just know that it's more likely that I have to do a better job of pacing myself as the game keeps growing. This means big new features will probably stay in Beta longer and in general things might just take longer than you would expect.
Also, thank you!
I really enjoy working on this game and have been blown away month after month with all the support and feedback I've gotten. To may Patrons, your support means so much to me and I look forward to doing my best to keep the game fun, fresh and enjoyable as time goes on.
Comments
Doing good work! A road map is just that a road map, not an iron clad contract, don’t stress or burn yourself out, it’s better to play a little loose and shift, and the game is progressing nicely. Excited for the future.
I would also love a higher limit on orchard trees, appreciate all the work you do, I know the servers can only go so fast.
