Development Update #4

Development Update #4
Posted 2021-01-06 06:38:04 #286901 Hello Wolvden! As we blink our eyes open into the gloomy haze of the new year, we come to you with a fresh news post and an insight into some of our new updates and features planned for 2021! With most of us all facing some kind of struggle in the midst of this worldwide pandemic, we hope today's update will bring a smile to some faces. Further Pair Bonding Updates After using the last month to monitor how the Pair Bonding feature was utilised, we are now happy to announce that the following changes have been made to the feature: * Males bred in a pair bond no longer have a cooldown before they can breed again with their mate. As females have a cooldown of their own and a cooldown is in place when a pairbond is broken, we feel this isn't open to abuse and now this safety backup has been removed! * Wolves can now be placed in same sex pairbonding. To make this clearer, we have added the sex icons to the dropdowns so you don't accidentally click two of the same sex (or opposite sex) by mistake. There are no benefits to this beyond lore at this point but the developers have taken note on a few ideas for fleshing this further down the line, in a way that benefits all kinds of pair bonds, without diminishing the value of traditional breeding. * Finally, the initial 2 pair bond breedings per month limit will gradually increase with territory unlocks. Every ten territory spaces after your first ten will add +1 to the pair bond limit. If you have less than 10 territory, you will be allowed 2 pair breedings a month. If you have 10, you will be allowed 3. If you have 20, you will be allowed 4. This means if you go on to unlock the full territory size of 200 spaces you will be able to have 22 pair bond breedings per month. All players with territory above 10 will already have this limit adjusted as the news post goes out, so don't fret. We thank you for being patient for the pair bond adjustments as we watched how users adapted to the feature, and hope you will be satisfied with the updates. 2021 Updates Now, going forward, we'd like to outline to you a very brief list of features we hope to bring you in 2021! They are as follows: * Mini games. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic last year we ran out of time to integrate some mini games to Wolvden before launch and we understand how sorely these are wanted. We have a very exciting mini game scheduled for release very soon! * Custom Decors, so some of the incredible artists that play here can make, design and sell their own decorations in game. * Our first event, which has some absolutely breathtaking artwork that we hope you will all enjoy. We anticipate this releasing some time in February, but stress this first event will not be a month-long event as some players from Lioden may be expecting. Things will become clearer with this particular event as it launches! * Polls, 'special' wolf raffles, and frequent community updates. In with this we aim to add the mini updates ticker to the news page to make it clearer how our current workload is going. We think this will help both the community and us touch base a bit more, particularly when gathering your feedback via polls! * Talent trees with skills, abilities and battle moves for your lead wolf. We aim to marry this with some additional tweaking to battle opponents so that it all feels a bit more balanced. * More explore content. We hope to add this as much as possible over this year to really pad out each biome and keep content fresh. Exploring is such a major component of the game that we really feel the importance of pouring new encounters, opponents and discoveries into the game. * The introduction of a karma system, and all its associated unique encounters and titles it brings! * A beautiful dark theme for the site. We know how appreciated this would be for many players! * Training and education for your younger wolves, so you can start shaping their future for them before they hit adulthood. * More in depth content in relation to wolf personality and relationships between pack members. * A certain maternal bear, keen to adopt and nurture unwanted puppies having particular attributes... And many, many more features and tweaks to come! We hope you'll be just as excited as we are to see all of these come to light and invite you all to enjoy the ride. We aim for a development update each month but due to the current circumstances we will not give specific dates for when to expect an update, or when to expect a PARTICULAR feature update. We'll see you later this month with our second(!) January development update! Thank you, players!

Posted 2021-01-06 06:38:04

#286901

Hello Wolvden!

As we blink our eyes open into the gloomy haze of the new year, we come to you with a fresh news post and an insight into some of our new updates and features planned for 2021! With most of us all facing some kind of struggle in the midst of this worldwide pandemic, we hope today's update will bring a smile to some faces.

Further Pair Bonding Updates

Pair Bonding Doodles

After using the last month to monitor how the Pair Bonding feature was utilised, we are now happy to announce that the following changes have been made to the feature:

* Males bred in a pair bond no longer have a cooldown before they can breed again with their mate. As females have a cooldown of their own and a cooldown is in place when a pairbond is broken, we feel this isn't open to abuse and now this safety backup has been removed!

* Wolves can now be placed in same sex pairbonding. To make this clearer, we have added the sex icons to the dropdowns so you don't accidentally click two of the same sex (or opposite sex) by mistake. There are no benefits to this beyond lore at this point but the developers have taken note on a few ideas for fleshing this further down the line, in a way that benefits all kinds of pair bonds, without diminishing the value of traditional breeding.

* Finally, the initial 2 pair bond breedings per month limit will gradually increase with territory unlocks. Every ten territory spaces after your first ten will add +1 to the pair bond limit. If you have less than 10 territory, you will be allowed 2 pair breedings a month. If you have 10, you will be allowed 3. If you have 20, you will be allowed 4. This means if you go on to unlock the full territory size of 200 spaces you will be able to have 22 pair bond breedings per month. All players with territory above 10 will already have this limit adjusted as the news post goes out, so don't fret.

We thank you for being patient for the pair bond adjustments as we watched how users adapted to the feature, and hope you will be satisfied with the updates.

2021 Updates

Now, going forward, we'd like to outline to you a very brief list of features we hope to bring you in 2021!

2021 Teaser Image of Fish

They are as follows:

* Mini games. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic last year we ran out of time to integrate some mini games to Wolvden before launch and we understand how sorely these are wanted. We have a very exciting mini game scheduled for release very soon!

* Custom Decors, so some of the incredible artists that play here can make, design and sell their own decorations in game.

* Our first event, which has some absolutely breathtaking artwork that we hope you will all enjoy. We anticipate this releasing some time in February, but stress this first event will not be a month-long event as some players from Lioden may be expecting. Things will become clearer with this particular event as it launches!

* Polls, 'special' wolf raffles, and frequent community updates. In with this we aim to add the mini updates ticker to the news page to make it clearer how our current workload is going. We think this will help both the community and us touch base a bit more, particularly when gathering your feedback via polls!

* Talent trees with skills, abilities and battle moves for your lead wolf. We aim to marry this with some additional tweaking to battle opponents so that it all feels a bit more balanced.

* More explore content. We hope to add this as much as possible over this year to really pad out each biome and keep content fresh. Exploring is such a major component of the game that we really feel the importance of pouring new encounters, opponents and discoveries into the game.

* The introduction of a karma system, and all its associated unique encounters and titles it brings!

* A beautiful dark theme for the site. We know how appreciated this would be for many players!

* Training and education for your younger wolves, so you can start shaping their future for them before they hit adulthood.

* More in depth content in relation to wolf personality and relationships between pack members.

* A certain maternal bear, keen to adopt and nurture unwanted puppies having particular attributes...

And many, many more features and tweaks to come!

We hope you'll be just as excited as we are to see all of these come to light and invite you all to enjoy the ride. We aim for a development update each month but due to the current circumstances we will not give specific dates for when to expect an update, or when to expect a PARTICULAR feature update.

We'll see you later this month with our second(!) January development update! Thank you, players!

Posted 2021-01-06 06:39:04

#286903

Wooo! Nice update!

Ravencore
#9129

Posted 2021-01-06 06:39:09

#286904

Wooooah exciting!

Veilchenblau 🌈
#19151

Posted 2021-01-06 06:39:09

#286905

Awesome updates to pair bonding, thanks!

Raine
#19819

Posted 2021-01-06 06:39:20

#286906

NEWS!!!! :D

|+ Hidden Valley +|
#8331

Posted 2021-01-06 06:39:56 (edited)

#286908

uPDAAAATEEEEEE

Thank you so much for this I and many other players were worried because of the lack of updates, but the future of this game is looking very promising <3

Excited for the event in my birth month! It's exactly a month away from today :)