Frog Update #9

Some of the habitats have received a major facelift, making them look far more polished and spectacular!

The rest of the habitats (besides the "Lily Pond", of course) will be re-worked soon, to match.

Ready to collect new frog data in style? Let's go!

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🛠 PATCH NOTES / CHANGELOG

New to"Frog Up!" v0.9_gamma_1:

Mechanics

• New items have been added to Patches' shop for purchase:

  • Plants & Flowers: "Date Palm", "Crane Flower"

  • Nature: "Skull", "Ostrich Egg", "Chicken Egg"

  • Decor: "Clay Jug", "Signpost", "Flagpole", "Pride Flag"

  • Special: "Light Gray Tile", "Gray Tile", "Dark Gray Tile", "Hot Pink Tile"

• The "Birdhouse" item now increases the amount of birds spawned. Mo' birdhouses, mo' birds!

Design & Polish

• The "Sun Dune" & "Lake Tikitaka" habitats have been given a major facelift, and now they look way better!

• Birds now swoop in with more natural trajectories and speeds, landing somewhere near the pond and pecking about for a bit before taking off again.

Assets & Optimization

• The required library/source files for Mac OSX & Linux (+SteamOS/Steam Deck) support have been added in anticipation of full game support for all common operating systems.

• Added a prototype for a habitat designer dev tool to expedite the habitat creation process. This can easily be used for custom habitats via custom player-made mods. Keep an eye out here for more dev tool notes in the near future!

Bug Fixes & Other Issues

• Certain items have had their habitat boost typing changed to try to better match the game's theme & flow.

• Items placed in the "Lily Pond" habitat should now reflect the appropriate lighting in their respective colorations at night.

  • Apologies that nighttime colors & brightness/visibility has been a recurring QoL issue, but with each fix it gets better and better!

• Reworked a number of individual frogs' info/data from the "Frog Log" to be more accurate, such as changing habitat biome typing, re-naming to match common names, etc.

• Implemented the previously-unused "Woodland" frog habitat/biome type for a handful of frogs.

• Fixed the "Lake Tikitaka" habitat to now properly spawn "Aquatic" type frogs; it had been using the "Desert" habitat biome type for frog spawns for a few versions by mistake.

• Miscellaneous code & text changes.

Coming soon, in v1.0 and beyond...

• Tentative full game support for MAC, LINUX & STEAM operating systems!

• Massive DESIGN OVERHAUL for older habitats to make them look better!

• TADPOLES! STAR FROGS! NEW NPCs! Oh my! :D

• ...and even a HUGE NEW HABITAT to explore!

Frog Fact of the Day:

• The Arizona Tree Frog, the official state frog of Arizona, does not live in Arizona; however, the possibly genetically indistinct Wright's Mountain Tree Frog does live in Arizona... just not in mountains. So, I guess we'll just go with "Arizona Mountain Tree Frog" to cover all the bases, eh? ('@~@)

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Thank you for playing! Talk to y'all soon,

~ ya boy, KRAKEN

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