Avocado news & patch notes

I have fixed a bug that was causing menus to not open up again after being closed from clicking the avocado or background.

It's time for another update, this time focusing on getting UI in for future features.

• Added Guacamole Labs. This is a place where you can view and swap your skins out that looks better than the drop down in the options menu. The labs will be a platform for me to build more features, such as combining avocados into new exciting avocados!
• Changed default background color to something less harsh.
• Fixed wrong taskbar name (involved a registry edit so I am hoping it applies to everyone).
• Fixed avocado being in wrong position when resizing the window.
• Fixed "Diamonds are Inedible" avocado art
• Fixed buttons at top popping in and out at weird times.
• Clicking on the avocado or background now closes all open menus.
• Added 3 new avocados to drop pool!

Still monitoring reports of a few people saying that items are not dropping under certain conditions. Will update as I find out more. I will be working on some of the more advanced features of the app to go into the Guacamole Labs over the next couple of weeks! If you have any avocado art you would like to see in the game, don't forget to head over to the Discord and post it. https://discord.gg/KEkyuUxuSy

Hello again everyone, It's time for another update! I am really trying to nail down the drop system with this update, Instead of having 2 tiers of drop with common every 3 hours and rare every 18 hours, we are removing the 18 hour drop pool and now it will just be a consistent drop every 3 hours (You must click to trigger the drop after 3 hours has passed, every 3 hours). Each time a drop occurs now, it has a chance of being any rarity. The new rarity tiers and their drop rates are as follows:

• Common- 58%
• Uncommon - 34%
• Rare - 6%
• Ultra Rare - 2%
• Epic - 0.00000025%
• Legendary - 0.0000000357%

I have also added a button to reset the click counter. I am thinking of implementing a feature where you can "prestige" by resetting the counter after you get to 1,000,000, which would force an avocado to drop or something like that. I am still working on the details. I am adding support for animated 2D avocados in the form of GIF's that will be integrated in the next update. This will let us have some more creative freedom when designing the avocados. At the moment, there will not be any avocados that utilize this, but they will be added shortly after.

Hello again everyone! The early days have been going well as player counts have been increasing. Still need more people in our Community Discord so feel free to stop by! https://discord.gg/KEkyuUxuSy We have a nice update for today with some requested features and fixes.

• Click counter now saves on close and reopen of the game. (NOTE: It will not start saving the count until after you update unfortunately).
• You can now change the background color in the options menu.
• Can also change window border color in the options menu.
• Fixed a bug with the options menu being jerky when opening and off-center on fullscreen.
• Complete UI overhaul of options menu with scrolling. Will be more important as I add more features to the options menu.
• Added the ability to make 2D avocados rotate as well, will make more sense when I implement the fruit ninja slicing animation to chop them up when you click. Or maybe it will make less sense... hard to tell :P

I am planning over the next few days to shift the drop system to be a little more diverse, consistent, and drop more frequently without over saturating the Steam market. We will see how it goes. Until next time!

The buttons for going to the marketplace and to the item in inventory were not working for the item notification drops. It's fixed now!

Hello everyone, I hope you are enjoying the first couple of days of the games release! I have been collecting some feedback and am starting to implement changes in order of importance. This is the first patch to deal with some of the more critical issues I see with the game:

• Added in-game drop notification when a drop happens. It shows a picture and info about the avocado that dropped and has a button to take you to the marketplace to sell it if you like!
• Added an in-game Discord button to take you directly to the community server.
• Fixed an error with the "Basic Avocado 3D" loading the wrong skin into the game.

The taskbar right click menu is bugged and reading the wrong title. This is turning out to be a tough bug to fix in this engine atm so I will have to do some digging for a fix. I am keeping a close eye on reported drop rates by people to make sure that everything lines up and people are dropping the correct amount of avocados everyday. There are some bumps but nothing that can't be worked out over the next couple of days. I Hope everyone continues to enjoy the game! Look forward to more updates tomorrow!

The game is now officially live! Come hang out with us in the Discord. Hope everyone enjoys themselves and the community continues to grow! ːhappy_creepː

Discord:

https://discord.gg/KEkyuUxuSy

Hello Everybody! Hope you are all having a great day! I want to outline my thoughts and ideas for the potential future of the game to give the player base some idea of what they can expect to change and what will stay the same.

Planned Features:

• Steam Workshop integration for avocado art submissions. This should help streamline the community voting process, as well as allow the artists who made them to get paid when they sell on the marketplace. We will still be allowing and voting on submissions through Discord as well, as not to exclude people who don't know how to use the workshop.
• Audio and BGM with mute toggle.
• Resolution scaling slider for fine-grain control over the window resolution.
• Purchasable background art that can be applied in the options menu.
• In-game inventory viewer to switch your avocado skins instead of the current drop down menu.
• A way to delete store items potentially?
• A in-game award popup that shows whenever an avocado drops with a picture, name, etc.
• In-game button that links to the discord server.
• A process for submitting and voting on 3D modeled avocado art from the community to be integrated into the game.
• Avocado slicing animation effects. Slicing it in half like fruit ninja. Also another potential outlet for purchasable click animation effects on the marketplace.
• Exploring the Steam Marketplace inventory drop system further to try and make it more interesting, and enticing to players, such as coming up with new rarity tiers, changing drop rates/times, and implementing exchange item combos where you trade 2 avocados to make a unique one that can only be made by combining the two.

Release is at 2PM today and I am very excited to see how the game grows! I am always open to suggestions in the Discord on how to improve the game. I am currently working as hard as I can to get all of the avocados I currently have art for into the drop pool. As I start to really streamline this process, expect the rate of new avocados added to the game to increase. right now I am looking to target adding no less than 5 a week in these early weeks of the games release. This being a f2p game, I am sure it will be a slower process growing the community than usual because f2p games don't get featured on the front of the steam store, however these style of games are very popular right now so exposure is relatively easy to come by. This is more of a blessing to me though as it gives me time in these early weeks to increase the avocado count, and really put the polish on everything. Discord: https://discord.gg/KEkyuUxuSy

I ran out of time shoring up a few pieces of art, so I am going to have to push back the release till 2PM MST today. We are still on track for releasing today and I hope everyone has fun!

Hey Everyone! Tomorrow is release day! I am excited to get the game packed full of avocado's made by a combo of myself, paid artists, and the community! I am slowly getting everything into place to foster and grow the community for the game. I invite everyone to join us on Discord and have fun discussions, share your art, and make suggestions for how to improve the game and the community market that it revolves around. My ears are always open! ːhappy_creepː Discord: https://discord.gg/KEkyuUxuSy Avocado Art Submission Guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3285891950 I will be releasing a post-launch roadmap tonight or early tomorrow as well with details on future plans for the game, I look forward to everyone getting to play tomorrow and wish you all the best!