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- Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: April 2026
Progress We’ve come a long way on Nyazen’s model and animations this month! The majority of the rigging is done, except for the smaller details of the fur on their ears and sides of their face. We want to be sure that a…
Patch notes6 changesWorkshopGameplay - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: February 2026
Six years ago today, our Kickstarter campaign came to a close, and with it, something incredible happened. Over 11,000 of you believed in the vision of Kindred Fates enough to back it, and that moment changed everything…
Event9 changesFixGameplay - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: January 2026
Happy new year! From now on we’ll be posting newsletters on the final Friday of every month instead of the first Friday, that way they can encompass the entire month. Apologies that we didn’t mention that in the previou…
Store6 changesFixGameplay - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: December 2025
Progress We’ve been making great progress on the Training Dummy bond activity! At the moment, the exercise for increasing a Kinfolk’s Speed stat is the most complete. While there are still plenty of details to perfect,…
Store5 changesMapsCompatibility - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: November 2025
We’ve had some very exciting developments recently behind the scenes. While we're not allowed to share details publicly yet, what we can say is that our studio now has a much more stable and reliable foundation for the…
Patch notes4 changesGameplayMaps - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: October 2025
This past month looked a little different for Skymill Studios. A big deadline at our second jobs meant less time than usual for Kindred Fates, but this isn’t what you should expect to see month to month and won’t be a f…
Security7 changesStoreCompatibility - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: July 2025
Progress Our main focus over the past month has been improving polish and fixing bugs for the Beta Combat Arena, and we’re beginning to shift some of our focus to development for the Early Access single player. Our next…
Store16 changesFixCompatibility - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: June 2025
Progress Our main focus over the past month has been improving quality of life and major bug fixes for the Beta Combat Arena. We found and fixed the cause of corrupted save files, one of our highest priorities. Shrines…
Store24 changesFixCompatibility - Kindred Fates
Combat Arena Beta is released!
The time has come! We're happy to finally announce that the Combat Arena Beta is available to download! We know it's been a long time, and as always, thank you so much for your patience as we've navigated unexpected del…
Store15 changesCompatibilityGameplay - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: April 2025
Progress We’re in the final stretch of preparing for the Beta release (which comes out on April 26!), so we’ve been working on scrubbing the floors, polishing the candlesticks, and dusting the shelves for your arrival!…
Security12 changesCompatibilityStore - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: March 2025
Progress This month, we focused on fine-tuning the game in preparation for the upcoming Beta release. This will be a fairly short newsletter, but we recently posted a very detailed overview of our development progress f…
Store11 changesCompatibilityGameplay - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: February 7, 2025
Progress This sprint we focused on some big networking improvements and bug fixes for the Beta, as well as quality of life improvements. We’re currently on track to release the Beta near the end of Q1 this year! General…
Store8 changesFixCompatibility - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: January 24, 2025
Progress This sprint we focused on technical improvements to the Alpha like continued stability, bug fixes, and networking improvements to make the game more playable on poor connections. A few team members were out of…
Patch notes9 changesFixPerformance - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: January 10, 2025
Progress Happy New Year! The Skymill team had a great holiday, and we’re looking forward to making this a big year for Kindred Fates! Since we last updated the Alpha, we've been hard at work on UI improvements, stabilit…
Store15 changesFixPerformance - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: December 14, 2024
Progress One of the most important things we’ve been focusing on for the next Alpha update is ensuring players are logged in to their Skymill account as soon as they launch the game. Earlier today we verified that this…
Event14 changesFixGameplay - Kindred Fates
Community Newsletter: November 29, 2024
Progress We’ve resolved several major issues/shortcomings with the “Arena Boxes” feature, and have since renamed it to “Team Loadouts” to better communicate how this feature is used. Now Loadouts function much more like…
Store10 changesFixGameplay
