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New Thematic Pixel Art UI is Now Up on Main Build! (0.7.11(1))

Hello guys!
How are you today?
Hope you guys are doing okay.

Last week, we made a devlog about how and why we decided to change our UI design. The new thematic pixel art UI design will be the UI design we used for Aquaculture Land. We also get some feedback about the new design like the button is not that stand out if compared to the white UI design. We tried to implement the feedback about the new UI design and hopefully will make it better.





We are glad to know that you like the color we used for the new design. Because the main problem we get from the feedback for the white UI design is the color isn’t that match for the theme of the game. The thematic idea we took for the new design also got positive feedback from you guys. Really happy to know that!







The main build of the game has already been updated with the new UI design. If you haven't updated the game, go update the game and try the new thematic pixel art UI!

Experimental Build (ver. 0.7.11(Ex-1)) to Main Build (ver. 0.7.11(1))
Things to remember, we also move the current experimental build (ver. 0.7.11(Ex-1)) to the main build. So basically the new update is the experimental build with the new UI design (with some fix in some places so it's ready to move to the main build). We already updated the tutorial section on experimental build some time ago. But we still haven't updated the translation yet (except the English language). So, if you try to change the language into another language (other than English), the tutorial will be still in the English language. We will try to update the other languages as soon as possible.

We also updated the order system. The current order system will have a deadline and minimum quality for the order. You need to pay attention to deadlines and meet minimum quality if you want to complete an order.

There is also bond levels for customers. So in addition to getting money as a reward after fulfilling customer orders and exp points for the farm level, you will also get exp points for raising customer bond levels.

Changes to the order system are our first step to redesign the core games and goals of Aquaculture Land. Later, your goal in playing Aquaculture Land is to build relationships with your customers. By completing the request that they give, your relationship level (we will call it "Customer Bond Level") will increase and as the Customer Bond level increases, you can unlock something new (fish, items, features like breeding and fishing, etc. ). But for now, we haven't added an unlocking system via the customer bond level yet, the unlocking system still depends on the farm level.



To remind again, when we have updates for the game but we still not sure whether the updates are stable enough or not, we will update it to the Experimental Build. Why we do that? Because we want you to try the update first. We want to know if this latest update is good or not according to you. After the updates are stable enough, we will move it to the Main Build.

We hope this UI design update will make you more enjoy playing Aquaculture Land. We always open to your feedback and suggestions. So if you have any feedback or suggestions about today’s update or about Aquaculture Land, feel free to tell us.

You can join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC
And you can follow our Twitter here: https://twitter.com/MaulidanGames

Check and buy Aquaculture Land here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

Have a good day.
Cheers!

[Gaban]

Devlog 10 - Town Map

Hello guys.
How are you today?
Hope you guys are doing well.

Today's devlog will talk about the town map. Town map is one of the important things from the new design for the core game that we are currently working on. A little insight, later on, your goal in playing Aquaculture Land is to build relationships with your customers. By completing the request that they give, your relationship level (we will call it "Customer Bond Level") will increase and as the Customer Bond level increases, you can unlock something new (fish, items, features like breeding and fishing, etc. ).



Town map will be a place where you can meet your customers. You can also see what requests are available for each customer. You can choose what requests you want to take through this town map. There will be 2 types of customer requests, main requests and repeatable requests.

Later, when you want to take customer requests, you just need to click on the customer icon and then choose the request. We use the building icon as a representation of the customer because each customer will come from various backgrounds. Chef, middleman, pharmacist, fish collector, and others.



Right now, we have started working on the new core game design. Our target for the next update is the campaign mode demo as well as trials for this new design. We hope we can show this new design as soon as possible. And we also hope that this new design can make you feel more challenged and more enjoy playing Aquaculture Land.

That’s it for today’s devlog. What do you think about the town map? Do you have any suggestions or feedback about it? Feel free to tell us about it. We always open to your feedback or suggestions. It's from your suggestions and feedback that we can make Aquaculture Land even better.

Join our Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC
Follow our Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaulidanGames
Check and buy Aquaculture Land on Steam Early Access: https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

Stay safe everyone. Have a good day.
Cheers!

[Gaban]

Update 0.8.1 - It's Here Now! Try The Career Mode of Aquaculture Land!

Hello.
How’s your day guys?

First of all, we want to say thank you so much for all of your support so far, we really appreciate it. Thank you so much for buy and play our game, for giving us your feedback and suggestions, for helping us make Aquaculture Land become better and better.

Today, we have good news for all of you! After these few weeks, we're focused on new game mode for Aquaculture Land, finally we can show it to you guys. Yup, today you can try the Career Mode of Aquaculture Land!

The thing to note, the version that we show you today is the short version of Career Mode. It's just like a demo version for the Career Mode. We make it short because it is also a proof of concept for the new design. We want to know whether the new design that we have implemented for this Career Mode is good enough for you or not.

In some devlog before, we once talked that we were doing redesign to the core game of Aquaculture Land. That design is what we implemented into this Career Mode. In this new gameplay design, all things will be more customer-centric. We do it because we want to make the goal of this game is you need to make a good relationship with the customers in your town.

So, what's in this short version of Career Mode? Without further ado, let's check it out!


Story About You and Your Customer
In this Career Mode, you will be presented with stories about your journey in building an aquaculture business and how you build relationships with your customers. You need to make your relationship with your customers closer if you want to grow your business.




New Way To Unlock Things
In the previous version, you need to increase your farm level to unlock something. But, in this new version, you need to increase your customer relationship level if you want to unlock something new. And also, to unlock something, whether it unlocks commodity licenses or equipment, you will do it through a new feature called Journal Map. In the Journal Map, you can also see your progress so far.




A Customer Request You Need To Fulfill
Customers are no longer just order number of fish you need to fulfill, but they will give you a variety of requests. There is a request that needs you to deliver amount of fish to the customer, there is also a request asking you to sell your fish to the market.

For this short version, there will be 2 types of customer requests you will meet, urgent order request and target market demand request. Do you want to know what it is like? Go try the Career Mode now!




Access The Career Mode
We're really excited to show you this new mode of Aquaculture Land. We really want to know what you guys think about it. We hope with this new mode, Career Mode, you will feel new experience when playing Aquaculture Land. And of course, we hope you will feel more enjoyable when playing it.

Try this Career Mode version, with this few steps:

• Right-click on Aquaculture Land in your Steam client and click properties.
• Click Betas tab.
• In “Select the beta” dropdown menu, choose beta career mode.
• Click close and you’re ready to play the short version of Career Mode.

For now, you need to buy the Early Access version of Aquaculture Land if you want to try the short version of Career Mode. We're doing this because this is one of our ways to say thank you to our supporters that buy the Early Access version. So, if you haven't buy Aquaculture Land yet, you need to buy it first.

Looks like the news is already long enough, we will end it here so you can try the Career Mode right away. And as usual, if you guys have any feedback or suggestions about this Career Mode version (or maybe about the game as well), feel free to tell us. You can also join our Discord channel, you can click the link below.

Join our Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC
Follow our Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaulidanGames

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

Have a good day guys.
Cheers!


*notes:
- Currently, the only available language for the Career Mode is English. Chinese and French are still in progress. We will update it regularly later when everything has been translated.
- The Career Mode version is using a different save file format, so make sure you make a backup for your current save files.
- The Career Mode version is a little bit unstable. If you find any bug or something wrong with the game, please tell us (you can tell us through the discussion section or join our Discord Channel).

[Gaban]

Devlog 11 - Fulfill Your Customer Needs Through Customer Request

Hello!

Back again with Aquaculture Land devlog. For your information, last week we just updated Career Mode to Aquaculture Land. It is still a short version of Career Mode, but there are new kinds of things you can try like a new way to take requests from your customers, new type of request, and more. You can see the details here.

And today we will discuss the main features of the redesign that we do on the Career Mode, the customer request system. As we mentioned before, in this new design, all things will be more customer-centric. Your goal in playing Aquaculture Land is to build relationships with your customers. You will have a customer relationship level that shows how close you are to the customer. And to raise this level of customer relationship, you have to complete requests from customers.

Main Request and Repeatable Request
In this new design, requests from customers will be divided into 2, "Main Request" and "Repeatable Request". Main Request is a request related to the story of the game and you can only do it once, whereas Repeatable Request is a request that you can take repeatedly to raise your customer relationship level with existing customers.

There are 2 types of Main Request, Unique Request and Customer Request. And for Repeatable Requests only the Customer Request.

Unique Request
Unique Request is a request in the form of a scenario that you will only encounter for the purposes of the story. It's a little bit different from Customer Request type which directly involved with the customer, unique request more towards a thing that you need to do besides fulfilling the request from customers.

Unique Request: Reach Relationship Level 2 on Bernard.

Customer Request
Customer Request is a type of request related to the main features that are involving customers such as customer orders, market, and visitors (fishing). Actually there are 7 types of Customer Requests we design for the game. But, we only implemented 2 of them in the short version of Career Mode. And that 2 types of Customer Requests are Urgent Order and Market Demand.

Customer Request: Urgent Order Request
Urgent Order Request is a type of customer request in which customer will request an amount of fish to you. If you have played Aquaculture Land before, you will be familiar with this type of request. You just need to pay attention to the weight required and the minimum average quality of the fish.

Customer Request: Market Demand Request
Market Demand Request is one of the new types of customer requests. This request is a customer request which is related to the market. Before, we already implemented a feature called market demand where if you are selling one kind of fish to the market too often, their market demand will decrease, and that will affect their market price (the lower the market demand is, the lower the market price becomes).

Market Demand Request needs you to decrease the demand of the fish to a certain point, according to the target demand of the request.

Later, the types of Customer Requests will be spread among existing customers. There will be some customers who have requests that are related to customer orders and some that are related to the market and visitors.

Every time you’ve completed the request, you will get a customer relationship exp. and some money for rewards. You can raise the customer relationship level for each customer this way. And when customer relationship level reaches a certain point, you can unlock some features or items. A little sneak peeks, you will get something special if you can reach level 10 (max level) of your customer relationship level.

There are 5 types of Customer Requests that we still working on. Another request related to order, another quest related to market demand, and other 3 types of customer requests related to the visitor. But, let's talk about it another time, okay?

So, this will be the end of today’s devlog. We hope this new main feature will make you more enjoy and feel more challenged when playing Aquaculture Land. And as we mentioned before, we already implemented these new features on Career Mode. So, if you want to know how are these new features, make sure you try the Career Mode.

And as always, if you have any suggestions or feedback about these new features or maybe about the game, feel free to tell us. That will really help us to make Aquaculture Land better so you can more enjoy to play it.

Join our Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/Fkk2wsC

Follow our Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaulidanGames

Buy Aquaculture Land here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

Stay safe everyone. Have a good day.
Cheers!