Hey Akuparians! Guess what, it’s our birthday!,

Akupara Games is turning 8 years old and to celebrate, we have put Mutazione on sale for 63% off! Be sure to grab those deals, check out our lovely event page, and check out the sales! Maybe the game you’ve been waiting for is waiting for you here, with a crisp sale to match.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/akuparagames8thanniversarysale

Also, to celebrate, we will be hosting a multi-hour stream with tons of activities, announcements, and more! Stream is starting at 11:45 PM PDT! We really hope to see you there - and here’s to another year of publishing your favorite indie games on the market
https://www.twitch.tv/akuparagames

- Riv otter

Hey gardeners,

We have pushed a patch that fixes players with the M1 chip crashing and fixes launched issues for users on Mac silicon chips!

Note: Your save should still work on this new patch.

• Fixed Steamworks package for Mutazione which fixed the Steam version crashes
  
• Fixed launch issues for users on mac silicon chips (game should now launch with rosetta automatically)

-riv otter

Hello folks,

Die Gute Fabrik, the studio behind MUTAZIONE, are delighted to share an exclusive playable demo of their brand new story-driven adventure game Saltsea Chronicles!

https://youtu.be/NKOTdjNJe1s

Available from the 19th-26th June 2023 you can download the demo on Steam for a limited time only as part of Steam Next Fest.

The demo features an excerpt from chapter 4 of the game, where you’ll visit the cat-culture island community of Los Gatos.
Choose from three different expedition characters as you track down clues, and meet a wonderful cast of crew members and local folks.

You can also watch a stream of Creative Director Hannah Nicklin and Deputy Story Lead Sharna Jackson as they give a behind-the-scenes commentary on the demo.

Wishlist the game on Steam right now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1419620/Saltsea_Chronicles/

Hey Gardeners!

We’re teaming up with Huey Games to launch a campaign for a USB cassette that includes Mutazione! But, not just Mutazione, since also included with the USB cassette is another one of our Akupara Games titles, Whispering Willows.

USB cassettes includes
◆ Both Whispering Willows and Mutazione for Windows and Mac (DRM-Free)
◆ Whispering Willows and Mutazione OST
◆ Whispering Willows art book

Be sure to check out the campaign here!
{LINK REMOVED}https://bit.ly/MZWW_KS

-riv otter

In 2019, Akupara Games published developer Die Gute Fabrik’s award-winning game Mutazione. Fast-forward to 2023 and we’re delighted to share the news that DGF’s next game was just announced at Day of the Devs Summer Game Fest!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwxc2eyHfE4

Coming soon, Saltsea Chronicles is set in a post-flood world. The game allows you to guide a misfit crew in search of their missing captain.

The investigation and the decisions you make will see you explore a series of beautiful and intriguing islands, meet different communities, and see the lives of people built on the ruins of what came before – all as you unravel the mystery at the heart of the game.

Wishlist the game on Steam right now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1419620/Saltsea_Chronicles/

Hey Gardeners!

There are new seeds to discover, plant, share, and listen to! Play garden mode and these will start appearing in your gardens! You can also share seeds with others in our Discord[discord.gg]!

Mutazione is one of the cornerstone, foundational games that made Akupara what it is today so it’s very bittersweet to be ending development on it. We know how many of you connected with Kai as she healed the Papu Tree, connected with each other trading seeds and just connected with a gardening game that doesn’t ask for more than an attentive ear.

If you want to read more about the final update to Mutazione, today’s blog is a long, heartfelt farewell to the game!
https://www.akuparagames.com/2022/09/19/mutazione-three-years-later-a-look-back/

-Riv Otter

Today, we’re releasing our third major update for Mutazione, the Penpal Update!

While our last two updates focused on bringing Garden Mode to the game and unlocking all seven gardens to play through, Penpal offers an epilogue to Mutazione’s story. Over the course of a week, you’ll get to send and receive letters from your friends like Miu and Tung! If you’re hunting for new seeds to plant and trade, Penpal is going to bring new seeds and sounds to the game just like the Garden Mode and 7 Gardens updates before it.

Finally, we’re putting together The Mutazione Symphony! Players who send in a recording of their Garden Mode gardens will earn a game key for another Akupara Games title. More details on all of these can be found below!

Two years have passed since Mutazione’s original launch, and now - two years on from the events of the original game - this new “Penpal” DLC allows you to return to the game’s world to catch up with your favourite characters. You’ll be able to draft letters, catch up on the gossip, and see photographs from characters like Tung and Miu. Penpal Mode is a durational experience that expands to the space of a week, which means each letter will take 24 hours to unlock. This free DLC offers a gentle epilogue expanding on the story’s conclusion.

Just like the Garden Mode and the 7 Gardens updates, Penpal includes new seeds for players to earn! In fact, you’ll be able to preview all seven of them in the trailer above. Even more special, you’ll receive those seeds from your friends in Mutazione alongside their letters! If you’d like to spend a little time trading seeds to get a full collection, make sure to join the Akupara Games Discord to find a collective of gardeners happy to provide!

Alongside the Penpal Update, we’re launching The Mutazione Symphony! Players who use Garden Mode to compose a short song (five minutes or less) can submit a video of their musical garden to us via the Akupara Games Discord. All entrants will be featured on the Akupara Games Youtube and receive keys to other Akupara Games like the recently released GRIME and Behind the Frame. If you’ve never recorded in game footage before, don’t panic! We’re happy to help players get the recording so they can add their song to the symphony. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

We’re so excited to be sharing even more Mutazione with you years after release. This has been one of our favorite titles to work on and we’re always excited to hear your enthusiasm over new content!

Greetings, fellow mutants!

The big Steam Autumn festivities kick off today! If you know anyone who’s had their eye on Mutazione but hasn’t bit yet, or think the soothing sights and sounds of this game might make a good gift for somebody, the game is currently on sale for 30% off for the Steam Autumn Sale! That brings the game down to a delicious $13.99, but the sale only lasts until December 1, so act quick!

While you’re here, why not help us get Mutazione recognized in The Steam Awards? Mutazione is eligible for the Labor of Love award, and I think we can all agree that this touching family adventure is an absolute labor of love. Do us a solid and give the game a nomination for the Labor of Love award category, it helps a lot!

That’s all for now. See you in the gardens!

Today, we’re adding all seven Story Mode gardens to Garden Mode!

Mutazione launched a little over a year ago and since that time we’ve loved seeing the way that players engage with the game. Going back even after the story is done to tend your gardens, collecting elusive seeds in Garden Mode, and trading those seeds with one another on Steam and Discord[discord.gg] has become this huge piece of the Mutazione fanbase. With today’s update, the gardens found in Story Mode can now be accessed in Garden Mode so that you can compose beautiful new soundscapes in the iconic gardens from the island.

If you’re new to the game, playing through each garden in Story Mode will unlock its counterpart in Garden Mode. If you’re only on Chapter 2, for instance, you’ll only have access to the Chapter 2 Rooftop Garden. If you solved the mystery of Mutazione, however, you will have access to all seven gardens when you load up Garden Mode today! Additionally, your Garden Mode seed box will now share seeds for all eight gardens in the game. Seeds you harvest from your Cloud Garden can then be planted in the East Garden without any issue. You’ll also find several new seeds to collect in the 7 Gardens update, so if you’ve been itching to breathe some new music into your compositions, now is a perfect opportunity!

“Alessandro composed so much music for the gardens, and we’ve saved some unique and special plants for these free updates! If you’re lucky, maybe you can find a super rare Empress seedling, which produces a lovely singing voice,” said Douglas Wilson, Co-Owner of Die Gute Fabrik and Designer/Audio Engineer for Mutazione. “Beyond the new instruments, we’re thrilled that players can finally revisit the story gardens from the game. We hope you’ll find your favorite little ecosystem or corner of the village, and let the garden music change and evolve in the background as you read a book or cook dinner.”

Features:

• 7 unlockable Story Mode gardens, now in Garden Mode! Explore a brand new variety of soils and environments in Garden Mode.
  
• New seeds and sounds to collect, grow, and listen to.
  
• Build beautiful ambient compositions, in the company of some of your favourite characters, as they visit and relax in the background.

Journey to the island of Mutazione to discover its hidden secrets, or revisit as composer of your own botanical symphony by playing today!

Hey, mutants!

This one goes out to all of the Linux fans! We've heard you and completed work on a Linux build of the title that's going live today! This update is going to bring Mutazione to Linux players, but doesn't otherwise contain new features. So, if you wanted to follow Kai's adventure through Mutazione or plant a few seeds in Garden Mode, you'll now have the option of doing it on Linux as well!

That's definitely not the only news we wanted to highlight, though, since Mutazione has also been nominated for four Independent Game Festival awards! If you didn't catch it, Gamasutra tracked down the game's writer, Hannah Nicklin, for a truly insightful interview![www.gamasutra.com] And, of course, we'll learn if it won next month at GDC, so stay tuned!

A special thanks goes out to all of the community testers who helped us try out the build over the last few weeks! The next round at Spike's is on us!

Until next time,
Buddy