Monthly Dev Log #24

A lot of new cartographers joined our community over the last few days. Let's start with a:

Welcome! We’re happy you joined our adventure 🤗🥰

We also want to thank you again. The last few days have been amazing! We’re grateful for all the positive feedback and reviews 🙏 Those are always super helpful for showing Map Map to even more people 🤗

Of course, it’s also so much fun to see you play the game after three years of work! We were rooting for you Discord when you collected all the treasures in under 24 hours 😲🥳 It’s great to see how you help each other out when you're struggling with a quest (thanks for being so careful with spoiler tags). Your screenshots and videos make it feel like we're part of your adventure 🗺️🥰

Thank you also for the helpful feedback and bug reports. Please be assured that we’re reading everything, even if it might take a while for us to respond 🙂🙏

One last thing before we start our usual Monthly Dev Log: This will be the last official Dev Log for Map Map. We’re still working on bugs, performance, and quality-of-life improvements. However, we want to share the patch notes immediately instead of waiting for the monthly dev log. Rest assured, we’ll share any important news with you as soon as they come up 🤗

Now, what have we been up to in the last month?

🎮 Gameplay

• Final polishing and testing for the islands 🏝️

• Added a few more treasure hunts

🎨 Art

• Finished painting all maps 🗺️

• Painted all treasure maps

• Added new achievements

• Lots of small UI details

• Prepped marketing materials for release

• Polished the islands ✨🏝️

• Finished the outro

• Fixed visual bugs

• Added a lot of Easter Eggs (how many have you found so far?) 🐰🪺

🖥️ Programming

• Fixed a lot of bugs that were found during playtesting 🛠️🐛

• Added the last few tutorials

• Created difficulty settings

• Tweaked controller support ✨🎮

• Uploaded a few patches (including one rollback 😅)

🎶 Audio

• Added the soundtrack to the outro 🎹

• Implemented a full dynamic soundtrack

• Added ambience for the new biomes

• Added sound effects for new interactions

• A lot of polishing ✨

💬 Other

• Released Map Map 😄

• Testing Testing Testing

• Added French and Portuguese localization 🗨️

We hope you have a wonderful day and lots of fun playing Map Map! Feel free to share your beautiful maps on Steam or Discord 🗺️📍☀️🥰