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- Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
Community Newsletter: July 2026
Progress Humble_Shepherd is our next focus for animations! We’re currently working on their standard animations, which you can see an early work in progress video of below. Gatherable items like berries, herbs and other…
Patch notes7 changesFixPerformance - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
Community Newsletter: June 2026
Progress With the help of our community members on Discord and Bluesky, we now have an official name for Hull_Piercer! Please welcome Ravanuuk to Kindred Fates! Big thanks to everyone who weighed in on this and contribu…
Patch notes10 changesGameplayBalance - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
Community Newsletter: May 2026
Progress Nyazen’s unique body type continues to give us a fun challenge as we work on their standard animations! Most recently, we’ve been blocking out a rough version of their “walk” animation (if you can call it that)…
Event10 changesGameplayStore - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
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 notes9 changesGameplayUI/audio - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
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…
Event11 changesFixGameplay - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
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…
Patch notes4 changesFixGameplay - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
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,…
Patch notes5 changesBalanceCompatibility - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
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 changesGameplayUI/audio - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
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…
Security8 changesGameplayCompatibility - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
Combat Arena: Beta 1.0.2 Patch Notes
New Features New Arena: Training Ground. This will be the default arena from now on when fighting the Guild Officer in camp. The arena is also visible from camp, but only accessible during combat. New character model di…
Store52 changesFixGameplay - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
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…
Patch notes16 changesFixCompatibility - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
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…
Patch notes24 changesFixCompatibility - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
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…
Store18 changesCompatibilityGameplay - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
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 changesCompatibilityGameplay - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
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…
Patch notes12 changesCompatibilityGameplay - Kindred Fates: Combat Arena
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…
Patch notes10 changesFixCompatibility
