APRIL MID: 

Added hidden lore blurbs.

There are now hidden lore blurbs in the drop base, these will eventually populate all maps, unique locations especially. When standing beside an object of interest hit R, this interacts with the collider, and causes the lore inspection to trigger a short pop. Don’t mind the little monster in the jar. She enjoys the job she was specifically bred to perform non-stop...

The player can now sprint. Press shift to begin sprinting, press it again to stop sprinting.

Sprinting drains scout stamina. Cannot sprint when stamina is fully drained. Stamina pool max increased by increasing your fertility (with herbs).

MONSTER DROP: The first SPARK type monster enters the fray. A yellow, electric mouse? That will never work. She uses the first SPARK move: Snap Bolt

She’s only catchable in RosedewMeadow, where you might find her EZ encounter in the bushes beside the drop base. Or a regular encounter on top of the hill.

Aithon has been moved out onto the plains, where a horse belongs.

Drakia has her X anim, FINALLY I can stop thinking about it.

I also wasn’t feeling Drakia’s face, so I changed it to be more intimidating, which is in line with her lore as a dangerous dragon. 

I'm all hands on finishing up CAMPING NOW. Finally, a way to heal your monsters. And also for them to become hungrier, fall into a frustrated breeding frenzy, and betray your trust, making you their breeding stock. Truly the feature that monster catching games have been missing since the beginning. 

I said I wouldn’t make another massive level, and then I made the open plains.

The plains are a very wide open, empty space, and its rolling hills and spread out loot, is now added to the game. It FEELS like a sprawling open space, but that’s not necessarily a great feeling in this game format. Hopefully there are enough unique assets and points of interest to keep it engaging but honestly, I could double the points of interest in the future and make it feel more... WORTH exploring. It’s definitely the first area that drops big environmental story hints.

GALEM WINS the monthly monster poll. Her, and Pebs are finished in this update and will be stomping IN to the monster lineup. Pebs can only be caught in the open plains.  

MONSTER DROP: The first WIND type is swooping in, she is, predictably, a bird. She wields the first ever WIND element move: Razornado. Which is also the first move which is one word, weirdly enough. Pippin, her unevolved form can only be found in the open plains. 

NEW MONTHLY POLL:

I hope you’ve all enjoyed huge breasts and chubby monster girls because WIND type is going to get fleshed out, and these avian chicks are bringing JUSTICE. (Well maybe not vulture).

This month’s poll is between the VULTURE AND THE RAVEN, both carrion eaters, they are well suited to living in the wide open plains, which are littered with the bones of (hopefully) long dead monsters and people. The Raven wears a blindfold out of respect for the dead, and judging by vultures expression she doesn’t give a fuck what anyone thinks. I think both these turned out great, and whoever loses the election will have to be a future redemption poll challenger. 

Monster special moves damage upgraded from 20dmg base to 25dmg.

Caves are less dark. 

Fixed: In an earlier hotfix I corrected the Kihikihi fight and Mamamole fight to offer the correct monster when the fight is won. GET OUT OF HERE DRUII.

BUG: Don’t have a monster mount a scout in the stables and then pull the monster out and then jiggle them around your roster. The game gets really confused about where this monster is when you do this. 

The game also gets confused (still) in general about the party slots. If you start doing weird shit in there, I will be looking into this, and you won’t be able to mount a monster then pull them out of the stables while they are mounted in the next update.

Camping and questing is coming. It has to come at the same time, which will almost certainly be this month.

MARCH FIRST:

At my newish job I am supposedly a helper. Unfortunately I proved my competence in 2 short months, so instead of keeping me on the backbenches during this season's contract renewal period they put me in with the more veteran techs, and then gave me the work someone who is paid more than me, couldn’t finish, for me to finish. This tied me up completely for two weeks and so this month we didn’t get a mid monthly update and I feel a lot of momentum has been lost between this workload (which is done now), and the sickness that floored me last month. ONTO THE UPDATE:

So the mid-month update didn’t get done in TIME for the mid month, BUT THE CONTENT STILL GOT DONE, I just couldn’t bring myself to release it a week before the March update so I polished it more and its coming out now:

NEW ANIMATION FINISHED:
I said I was making new animations that allowed me to draw in mirror mode, and the first of the two I am planning is done. It is doggy style, but FACING the camera. But where are the monsters to use this new animation? Well...:

MAMAMOLE is a ROCK TYPE, and she joins the cast of monsters! This big bitch took longer than expected because I wanted to get her animation, the first of a new type, correct. She's fat and wide, how I like em, and a nice contrast to the WIND type monsters I am sketching up this month who are both turning out to be slender. You can find her in the cave.

KIHIKIHI has won the monthly  poll, she and her adorable unevolved form Minikihi are now a threat that exists along the rivers of the Gaian crater.

I have totally overhauled every single random encounter. Most of the improvements are going to be felt by me, since the coding organization of encounters is now way more readable. Going forward this will allow me to expand the encounter library easily. Now in encounters, you sometimes get to pick one of up to THREE monsters to recruit at the end of each fight, making the harder fights more worthwhile. There are more encounters now, the monsters are somewhat more spread out across the zones, and the encounters feel less janky (from an organizational perspective). Every monster has THEIR specific monster recruit encounter which includes two unevolved and two evolved monsters. There’s several EASY encounters early on in Rosedew meadow since it’s a starting area. Then there are more proper thematic fights, like the ‘aithonsMares’ encounter where you fight an Aithon, his Druidia, his Megamoo and their three offspring and then pick from the three offspring at the end of the fight. Or the Dog Pack fight where a male Cerberus, two Warwolves and their pups fight your party. All of this flows and looks much cleaner on my end, and will make continuing to expand the encounters easier. Not the kind of CONTENT that drives interest, but an important piece of housekeeping I had to get done.

Discord is up for 10$ tiers. I am new at MANAGING a discord server so I expect there to be problems.

This month's patron vote is for the third ROCK type monster. Will it be a golem gal or a rogue Scout-tech robot? The golem girl is actually made up of the three rock pallets I use to represent rocks across the crater, a fact I think makes her more interesting. The eyes she has are also a reference to the monster she’s descended from. Cyborg chicks with giant disembodied gauntlets are a vibe. The drone-bot meanwhile is something I wanted to hold off on introducing, a SYNTHETIC monster that has sinister implications (before the story reveal). SYNTH was actually going to be a TYPE at one point and may still become one, for balance, at which point electric and rock monsters might lose some of the roster I have planned for them. We’ll see.

This month is all going to be about reclaiming the momentum I feel I had when I kicked the prototype out the door to gauge interest. Also ignore the “Your monsters are restless because you didn’t camp.” message, Your loyal monsters cant get hungry, disobedient and jump you... Yet. 

Fixed: 
Norma’s pregnant sprite shows correctly (her normal sprite appeared) when she suffers an impreg loss. 
Norma can now be selected when you lose a scout that isn’t her, there was a bug where you could only play as her if you STARTED as her.
UNFIXED: Save system is semi-working right now, this probably became noticeable when the number of unlocks went from 6 simple unlocks to MANY complicated unlocks. Will be working on this.

TODO:
PLAINS AREA FLESHED OUT. I am not releasing it RIGHT now, because I am not happy with it. Will at the end of the week though (8th). 
Cindrak and ROsaria’s X anim (STILL eluded completion, omg, this month I swear and I can stop thinking about it and every monster will have x anims on release going forward)
Gameplay - CAMPING v1
Gameplay - QUESTING v1