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New Walking Sprite Animations, Maps, and More

September 5, 2022by Joseph

GamePatchNote Digest

Familia News — September 5, 2022

Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.

Walking Sprite Animations

This last patch was a huge art update. Almost all characters received a high fps walking animation cycle. Previously, characters only had a running cycle and idle. The walk cycles took up most of the hours contributed to the game since the last patch.

Character Walking Sprites Updated

Koko
Poki
Keeria
Lono
Red
Wicks
Bedge
Muffins

Shogun and Sero's walking sprites have not been updated with a walk cycle.

UI / UX

Map view now blurs when using the top menu
Autosaved feature removed

The autosave feature was great in theory. It was difficult to implement as a feature without adding optimization issues to the game. Familia may again have an autosave feature in the future, but it will take time to find and create the best solution.

Cutscene / Dialogue

The first beach cutscene cleaned up
Shifu walks away after the Scoutmaster battle scene
Henry's text bubble wasn't showing at Kalbi home
Additional Map and Stat Screen upon completion of a reach granting other loot drops

Maps

Character shadows have been upgraded
The screen no longer flashes when poisoned or taking floor damage; it now uses pixelation
Update map version of Sero’s Hut and Outside Sero’s Hut
The first floor of Kalbi house updated
Many of the zoomed-in map areas now no longer allow running

Achievements

‘Go Outside IRL’ achievement fixed (not tested)
Fixed achievement: ‘A dead pirate.’

Battle

Improved shadows for Reach bosses, making them more fitting with the style of the game
Before and during the fight with the Scoutmaster, Wedge and Bicks will no longer speak
Increased damage and abilities of Shogun and Muffins at higher levels
Fixed bug where characters saw negative experience gain upon achieving master class

Community

Publishing VODs to YouTube again (stopped a year ago due to copyright reasons)
Maui Game Studio website updated to match the current version of Familia
Maui Game Studio is an official and registered business name
Maui Game Studio is officially a child company of Maui Interactive, LLC
Maui Game Studio started a Meetup.com and Facebook group called Maui Game Dev

Edit: Additional Updates and Thankyous

Thanks to Mushi, Lemon, Codemora, and LMPGames for all your helps with this patch. The game is better than ever, and I could have never done it alone.

The company was spelled 'campany' in Volcano Resting Spot (Mushi)
Crate ‘if’ snakes changed to Crate ‘of’ snakes (Mushi)
Walking under stairs on transport route no longer glitches after starting prologue (Mushi)
Record Keeper in Castle to keep track of achieves (Lemon suggestion, LMP solution)
Regular help with plugins and stuff (Codemora)