Bountiful Harvest Path Ahead
Our update with Bountiful Harvest is coming along in leaps and bounds.
There is one thing that was clear after I first came up with the addition of a new town - a lot of the polish and finessing that we had planned for version 1.0 would have to take a back seat to pure new content.
We've got a whole new city, and a whole new method of gameplay being introduced, and this one is a big Luca adventure. However from the very beginning I had an extra desire - to allow Belle to run rampant in the city and bring her potion slinging charm to the denizens of the big smoke. Given the single month timeframe that just wasn't possible. It's also something I didn't want to wait another year (it has been a whole year since version 0.3?! What?!) to implement. There are some other twists and turns in Erdenvale that, upon playing, may make you also wish to see Belle venture to the city as well.
As such, we've decided to make this a two month back to back endeavour. June will see the release of version 0.4 which will have:
The whole Erdenvale questline
A multitude of transformations for Luca
A new minigame
Six + new areas to explore
A new questing mechanism
A bunch of new graphics and music to go with it all
Bug fixes that have been pointed out to us so far
And in July we will release the polished version 1.0, which will include:
Belle given access to Erdenvale
Transformations of the denizens of Erdenvale as Belle gifts her potions
More Helios Spheres
More dialogue lines to the base game
A full polish and design consistency applied to the base game
Heaps more design updates
A few more elements that I'm keeping under wraps for now
I hope this makes sense to everyone and we thank you for your understanding with this shift in goals. For those looking for our non-gaming fare, be comforted to know that we'll be releasing a standalone animation in August.
Lots more for me to do before the end of month, so back to it I go!
Comments (31)
I love the height growth scenes accpeslly the belle ones hope there is more coming soon
This is super ambitious and titillating! Y'all are doing great work! Thank you for your hard work and dedication!
A great and respectable update work in progress. I can only imagine the amount of work required to make this happen and can understand why you'd want to take the 2 months to do it. Worth it IMO. Keep it up good sir!
As the great philosopher Jon Bon Jovi once said we're going to "code whilst I'm alive, sleep when I'm dead" or something like that 馃槑 I've been having a great day at work testing.
It would be cool if we could supercharge the potions to go a bit further on the day we use them. Like another step higher. But that鈥檚 because I鈥檓 greedy and bigger is better.
Amazing, will we see other transformations or creatures in the future? It would be quite funny seeing a Were-Bimbo TF, but being more respectfully with the character affected by that, similar with what i did in my works. Awaiting patiently that update.
Good! Will ve waiting two month and the idea of releasing a bit this month and the 1.0 on july is great too. I love this game and i know this update will be better.
We really hope it lives up to expectations. I'm having a great time testing it (and distracting BE Grove from work laughing at some of the things he's written).
Can we hope for larger sizes? Like maybe a story belle going too far and having to live with it?
I'm so excited for this one! Very happy it's another double feature on Bountiful Harvest, this game is amaaaaazzzzing
Sounds like an amazing plan that promises all sorts of big gains. It's been a long road. I am happy to see 1.0 finally arrive at the end of July.
This sounds awesome!! So excited!
This is great news! I love all of your work, animations and games, but the games are what really set the Grove apart for me. They are definitely worth the extra attention and I also appreciate that we still get to see the mid-way update.
I'm glad you feel that way, hopefully the mid-way update will show everyone the scale of what we're trying to do here.
Do we ever find the clothing for that one dude at the beach?
Te'rut will just have to keep enjoying the Hot Springs in his shorts for now.
It's always refreshing to have a devteam who is not afraid to say "Hey, the game is great but not perfect and we don't want to spoil your fun with bugs". And yes. Keep your health up, please :-)
Hopefully if there are any bugs they are tiny, easily squashable ones 馃悰
Sweet, any chance of Trish making a cameo? Or is that not planned or a secret.
Always great to see some love for Trish but I fathom she's busy with her own adventures.
This is honestly wonderful news, I wouldn't mind every month's rewards being BH updates until the end of time haha. Will we see Belle getting some use out of her dong in this next round of updates?
We love spending our time on the games too. There has been some chats about varying up the minigame in the Mystic Glades to show more of the forms in action, its a big undertaking so not something we'll see in these updates I'm afraid.
Ouuu this all sounds so exciting. I can't wait to one day play this game. It's making so much progress at an impressive rate. Great job 馃憦
It's certainly getting there.
Sounds great
Will Belle be getting any max size increases or additional growing animations in either of the new updates? Very hyped for the new Luca content and definitely gonna play a whole lot of both updates, but my favourite part has always been our lovely leading lady and her phenomenal gradual expansion. Also, with the Belle update next month planned to be numbered 1.0, does that mean it will be considered a finished game with no further plans to add content to Bountiful Harvest afterwards?
I haven't committed to Belle size gains, but they are a possibility. Honestly she is currently maxing out the space for her avatar, so if we go any larger it will require a remake of all her size stages. It's not a no, but it is a maybe. As for the 1.0 being the end of it - I'll always consider adding more to the game, but doing a 1.0 will mean this one is considered "done" for us, so we can scratch at least one game off the list of our "currently in development" schedule.
Yeah. Definitely waiting another month for that. Too bad I can't pay two months in advance. But holy crap you're a machine
Very kind of you, I hope that it lives up to your expectations :)
I will happily wait another month for more of this fantastic game. Be sure to take care of yourselves during the development. All the best
Thank you, trying to look after ourselves is part of what made the decision to split up the update... that plus wanting more time to really make the Belle part shine.