Hi all!

We just wanted to share the fantastic news with you that our new game Go-Go Town! has announced, as part of Wholesome Direct 2023[wholesomegames.com], that we will be doing a Playtest on 3rd July.

We have also released a Super Early Sneak Peak Demo for Go-Go Town! that you can download and play right now! However, this demo is only available for a limited time.

You can download the demo here:
https://gtm.you1.cn/storesteam/app/2195120/GoGo_Town/

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Thank you for being a part of the Prideful Sloth family and supporting our games. We are proud to announce our newest game titled “Grow: Song of The Evertree” which will be available on Steam, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in 2021. 505 Games will be our publishing partner for Grow and we are thrilled to be teaming up with them.

Wishlist Grow on Steam today at http://505.games/GrowSteam and help Arbor Day Foundation and #TeamTrees plant more green around the world. We have a lovely Wishlist campaign that provides our community with an opportunity to not only get Grow: Song of The Evertree at a discount but also help plant real trees around the world.

Grow: Song of The Evertree follows the cozy gaming movement and is a breathtaking world-crafting sandbox with life management and exploration elements. Players are introduced to the once vibrant and colorful world of Alaria, abandoned and overrun by the mysterious Withering.

The Worlds of Alaria have faded. The Evertree – where many worlds resided on its countless branches – is now nothing more than a sapling, its splendor long erased from memory. No one knows how to make it grow. But you are different. You hear the sun as it sings across the sky.

You are the last of the Everheart Alchemists and it is your ancestral task and privilege to care for the Evertree. Learn to craft World Seeds through Alchemy to generate totally new worlds with unique characteristics. Tend those worlds to rejuvenate them and see how they change.

Players will learn how to nurture, care for & grow new and unique worlds within the branches of the Evertree. As the old inhabitants return and life begins to blossom, players will be able to meet them, learn their stories, and create a dream town to nurture a blooming community.

Explore caves, solve puzzles, collect minerals, tend flowers, go fishing, catch bugs, and so much more… it’s up to you!

Build the town of your dreams. Grow offers an impressive catalogue of the cutest buildings and structures to create the town you want. Place them freely and customize them to make sure it feels like home!

Meet new people and create a community! Get to know interesting and unique characters, listen to their stories, and help them. You can make them happier by finding a place for them to stay, helping them land their dream job, or gifting them accessories and decorations.

After you Wishlist Grow please join our official community on Discord. Ask questions, make suggestions, meet other community members, participate in community events, and so much more!

[discord.gg]Here is a list of our official Grow: Song of The Evertree social channels:
Grow Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GrowSongOfTheEvertree
Grow Twitter - https://twitter.com/GrowEvertree
Grow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/growevertree/
Grow Discord – https://www.discord.gg/growgame
Grow Website - https://growsongoftheevertree.com

Hello explorers of Gemea!

"Fair Weather" is a large care and support update aimed at allowing more people to enjoy the game.
Many improvements and system based features have been added, and every nook and cranny has been optimised to make the game run great on lower spec machines, but also truly shine for those with great systems!

At the same time, we've polished a lot of things where we could improve the look and feel of the game without sacrificing performance.

• NEW: Added official OpenGL support for those suffering from DirectX issues! A lot of people have eagerly been awaiting this, we're happy to say it's finally here!
  
• NEW: brand new occlusion system. This gives a large performance improvement for machines that struggle to draw high amounts of geometry.
  
• NEW: ambient occlusion system. Faster and smoother, the new system looks great at a fraction of the cost.
  
• NEW: new radiosity system. Our realtime radiosity is the cornerstone of our lighting technology. This new version is a lot faster and more directly supported on a larger range of hardware.
  
  
• IMPROVEMENT: optimised LOD and mesh management system.
  
• IMPROVEMENT: faster, prettier shaders.
  
• IMPROVEMENT: optimised general CPU and GPU usage
  
• IMPROVEMENT: reduced issues due to world streaming. Less performance hiccups/hitching when running around the world.
  
• IMPROVEMENT: streaming + loading optimisations. You can now get into the game world very rapidly!
  
• IMPROVEMENT: saving system. The game can now save super-fast so there's no hiccups when auto-saving.
  
  
• FIX: camera glitch that can occur on saving
  
• FIX: resolved a crash that can occur when hiring farm hands for your farm - boy was it fun chasing that one down!
  
• FIX: solved a very rare, but repeatable crash when at Arcadia
  
• FIX: instances of some NPCs falling out of world
  
• FIX: serious physics glitch on slower computers
  
• FIX: out of memory issues on some low spec machines
  
• FIX: multiple collision issues
  
• FIX: Shader/Material bug on some older GPU's
  
• FIX: startup crashes with some older CPU's
  
• FIX: solved multiple areas of player getting stuck on collision
  
• FIX: Escape key not working for some microsoft keyboards
  
• FIX: scroll wheel issues on emulated mice
  
• FIX: crazy mouse sensitivity on track pad
  
• FIX: wide screen aspect ratio issue on a menu
  
• FIX: crash with a specific multi-gpu setup
  
• FIX: solved the focus issue on Windows 8 and 3 monitor setup
  
• FIX: serious physics glitch on slower computers

• FIX: Fixed a case where Maggie would freeze game
  
• FIX: Resolved rare save game not loading correctly when DLC item was in use

• FIX: crashes/lockup due to halloween event
  
• FIX: issues with Scarecrow quest
  
• FIX: achievements now working in offline mode (finally!)

There is a tradition in Gemea that whenever a embarking upon a long journey, the traveler would fashion two knots out of vine; one they would fasten to their home, and the other they would keep with them as they explore the world.
These Travelers Knots are said to connect two places togethor so that you are never far from home...


TRAVELERS KNOT - fast travel
The Travelers Knot allows you to instantly return to any owned farmstead, but consumes the item in the process.
After you've built your first farm, the Travelers Knot recipe will become available; simply make a Travelers Knot, and use it as a tool.
You'll be presented with a choice of which farm you wish to travel to.


FREE ACCESSORIES - pack 1
To celebrate the year, we're launching a free pack of accessories -- simply install the free DLC pack, find Maggie in any village, and collect your items from her!

• NEW: Fast travel to farms. Craft a Travelers Knot to quickly return to any farm you own
  
• NEW: Free accessory pack released
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Localisation updates for Japanese
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Localisation updates for Korean
  
• IMPROVEMENT: lots of minor improvements, bug fixes, and optimisations
  
• FIX: Minor UI bugs in inventory
  
• FIX: issue with halloween scarecrow and fashionable scarecrow quest getting mixed up

• FIX: Stopped phantom clothing item icons appearing in Bobbintoff trader. These are empty placeholder stubs that should never appear!
  
• FIX: fixed a rare blocker when exiting halloween event on top of Murk
  
• FIX: performance issue during some dialogue with Maggie

It's said that ghosts and ghouls from all over Gemea party for eternity on the other side of the night.
Every Fall, the town of Bobbintoff hosts a Halloween festival to honour this folklore, but maybe there's more to it than just a tale?

TRICK OR TREAT!
Get dressed up for the occasion, go trick-or-treating, and hunt down as much candy as you can!
And if you visit Trader Jack while you're there, you'll also be able to get your hands on some great new halloween items...

New languages
We now officially support Russian, Japanese, and Korean.
This is the first major release for all three, so let us know if you spot any issues!
Русский язык теперь официально поддерживается!
日本語が公式にサポートされました！
한국어가 이제 공식적으로 지원됩니다!

• NEW: Russian localisation (version 1)
  
• NEW: Japanese localisation (version 1)
  
• NEW: Korean localisation (version 1)
  
• NEW: Bobbintoff hosts Halloween every Fall
  
• NEW: Lots of new Halloween items
  
• IMPROVEMENT: lots of minor playability improvements, bug fixes, and optimisations

• NEW: fix issues with cats no being collectable or showing up when they shouldn't
  
• NEW: fix farm inventory scrolling on mouse
  
• NEW: fix fishing competition not ending if player previously cancelled
  
• NEW: swap accept/cancel on controllers when system language set

As you journey to restore peace to Gemea, a new creature has appeared.

This creature was last seen so long ago that is now believed to be a myth.  A creature that only exists in stories.

The people say it's a good omen - they are said to only appear in lands where wise and benevolent people reside in peace...

This, however, is not the only creature spotted in Gemea. Kari and Tack are rushing around the island trying to collect as much information as possible about the new fox species that have been spotted!

p.s. We now officially support Simplified Chinese! 我们现在正式支持简体中文！

• NEW: Simplified Chinese Localisation
  
• NEW: Sightings of different sub-species of Grass Fox have been made all over Gemea...
  
• NEW: Legend tells of a mythical animal that may appear for those that bring about the Great Peace.
  
  
• IMPROVEMENT: dismiss a farm hand from the farm management book.
  
• IMPROVEMENT: player can cancel a quest board task by interacting with the quest board again.
  
• IMPROVEMENT: added custom waypoints to the map! You can cycle through these to change the icon type.
  
• IMPROVEMENT: custom pathing is now possible -- you can now set a custom destination for your Celestial Compass.
  
• IMPROVEMENT: it's now possible to toggle active quests on and off from the map
  
• IMPROVEMENT: mouse interaction with the map is now improved:
  1) Navigation is now edge-scrolling based instead of click+dragging.
  2) The mouse pointer is now the selection reticule instead of it locked to the center of screen.
  
• IMPROVEMENT: updated controller support -- more controllers should now work natively.
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Cats no longer instantly disappear if their appearance rules are invalidated but you're actively looking for them.
  
  
• FIX: NPC world icons sometimes did not disappear after the NPC had moved on from the area.
  
• FIX: made 2 tree plots in the Desert region easier to access -- they were previously VERY hard to get to.
  
• FIX: when backpack is full, don't allow auto-pickup of loot drops -- just notify of full backpack.
  
• FIX: NPC grunt variations implemented -- these were previously limited to a small set of available 'voice types'
  
• FIX: animal previews are back
  
• FIX: adopt a groffle quest, befriend not completable if player builds pen and adopts groffle before getting quest
  
• FIX: fabbit bounce sounds are now working
  
• FIX: Great beard off quest, resolved some players having issue with finishing quest
  
• FIX: Spike the sprite no longer appears in Arcadia after collection and loading.

edit: we've made some further fixes and released as a minor update:

• Fix: resolved missing language data issue for new Russian, Japanese or Korean region players. These languages are in the works but aren't yet included. Stay tuned!
  
• Fix: fixed missing mouse input in farm edit mode.
  
• Fix: added a small graphical fix to the gamma code. This was showing bad values in low light conditions for a small number of graphics cards.
  
• Fix: fixed cat interaction issue (When they were still visible, but its appearance condition meant it wanted to hide, it wasn't able to be collected. You can now collect them whenever they're visible)
  
• Fix: fix biome happiness counts for trees and cats -- these numbers were wrong, so it looked like some trees/cats were missing for some people when in fact they had them!

Kari has spotted a new creature roaming the lands!

We are travelling there now to find out more!

Stay tuned!

We are happy to announce that Yonder took out the Grand Prix award at Busan Indie Connect Festival (BIC Fest) over the weekend.

We had a wonderful time in Busan and enjoyed every moment of BIC Fest, so it was a suprise (to say the least) and an honour to walk away with the top award at the festival.

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