Hello to all of you,

aside from the boring business tasks 😴, we have been having fun working on the following things:



The effects you get as a reward for completing shrines are now a permanent buff. If you're lucky enough to solve one shrine type (e.g. bear, bird or squirrel) more than once, the buffs will add up new effects until the end of your run! 😲


We've added new visual effects to the totems to better communicate their mechanics and - more importantly - make them prettier! ✨✨
As a refresher, the duck totem heals all players in its area of effect, the thunderbird totem deals damage to enemies, and the hamster totem transports resources your storage 🦆⚡🐹


This was one of the most upvoted requests during the playtest. In addition to that, we have also heard the desire for a difficulty system at PAX East (alot). After some brainstorming and reading all your feedback, we decided to implement three different difficulty levels: The one you know from the demo will serve as the "normal" mode. The easy mode will be for beginners or our younger audience. Last but not least: the hard mode for those who want to fight for their lives ⚔️🛡️


There is still some work to do in the second biome to make it even nicer. This includes polishing the boss as well as the game environment.


The tutorial has been updated to include the new mechanics. It now needs some translation work from our external language geniuses 💬

• as we added the difficulty system, the next step is setting up a first set of values to balance in the next tests
  
• Add a notification UI that appears when you buy updates, get a buff or choose a direction at the crossroads
  
• Continue polishing the second biome
  
• Implement the first set of Steam Achievements (if you have more pawsome ideas, join our Discord[discord.gg] to share them with us)

We wish you a relaxing weekend! 🐈💚

Miau, 🐈👋

We hope you enjoyed the last few days of the demo. As we explained, the last demo didn’t match the current game mechanics, so it was time to take it offline. Many of you were wondering what changed, so here’s our Monthly Dev Log, which explains the new challenge system and more:



As we mentioned in our last post, we have changed the challenge system. Our primary aim was to respond to feedback that crossroads could be overwhelming with information, and the frustration when you needed to choose a path due to the lack of resources. It’s a bit abstract if you haven’t played the new system, but we’ve tried to break it down:

When you enter a crossroads, you can still choose between two events (e.g. ambush, safe camp). Every path may include a challenge (e.g. stronger rabbit) which adds some difficulty. So why should you choose a path with a challenge? For every challenge you take, you will earn points, which can be exchanged for rewards in the safe camp. Once you have traded them in at the safe camp, the challenges will end. For example, no more annoying rain disturbing your fire! 🙅‍♀️🌧️

As a result, we don't have to pay as much attention to how challenges influence each other and therefore are freer in the design of new ones. Therefore, more challenges for you to overcome! In addition, as challenges may end in the next safe camp, we can really go wild with this: double the strength of enemies, invisible health bar, torrential rain, and so on.

With a wide variety of challenges, every run you take becomes more different from the last one. In the long term, this influences the replay value of Wild Woods.


We have improved the games performance. As a result, Wild Woods now runs at 60fps almost all the time, even on the Steam Deck 🥳


Back in March, we gave you a sneak peek at the second biome. Even though it looks really nice, there are still some things missing. So we expanded the level and added a boss. Can you guess which animal the second boss might be?


Valeria from Osmotic Studio has joined our visual effects department. Among other things, she has been working on the visual effects of the totems. The additional visual effects should make the totem’s buff more obvious at first glance.


This was one of the most popular requests from the Playtest: a communication system. We already implemented the basic structure of an emote system, and now we need to polish the aesthetic. Do you have important emotes for communication in mind? 🤔

• Steam Achievements
  
• Challenge system iterations
  
• Update the tutorial with the new challenge system
  
• Preparation of the next translations
  
• Improve readability and comprehension of game mechanics

Last but not least, we'd love to hear your ideas for challenges. As mentioned before, you can go wild with these. They can also be fun challenges (e.g. Rosie changing color every time you throw something in the wagon). Head over to Discord[discord.gg] to share your thoughts.

We look forward to your feedback on the new challenge system. It changes some of the gameplay, but we think it will make Wild Woods even better! 🔥💯🥳

We wish you a great start to the week 🥰😺