DOGWALK news & patch notes

It's been a while. We ended up skipping a version because of ongoing testing and bug fixes. This new version adds some improvements to reduce motion sickness and make the game generally easier to play.

Improvements

• Intro got improved. Barking is now possible when pulling too hard on the leash

• Improved the collision size of the Traffic Cone (much easier to grab now)

• Smoother camera movements on various points of interest, such as items

• The camera is now zooming into the map boards to help with readability (especially for us steam deck players)

• More dynamic leash wobble visuals and sound (No more spamming 'boing' sounds)

• Improved textures and geometry on snowy hills

• Replaced UI toggles with checkboxes (for consistency and readability)

• Improved some bush placements (that were very easy to get stuck on)

• Small adjustments on the credits (Sorry Danny!)

Bug Fixes

• Much smoother camera movement (to prevent motion sickness)

• Improved various fence collision points that tend to get the kid stuck

• Less likely to have flickering animations on the dog. Overall more consistent feel to the movement.

• Fixed some animation flickering with the dog's rotation and animation blending

• Improved position of the shovel (so the kid cannot see it)

Supporter DLC

• Updated the source code to reflect the current version of the game

• Updated the licensing information to be more specific for art assets as CC-BY 4.0 and the source code as MIT

Bug fixes

• Fixed the walking speed of the kid on snow

• Fixed the kid detecting the shovel where you can first spot it

• Fixed the kid jittering on uneven ground in the forest

• Fixed a bug where bumping into the kid during the intro will make them forget to give a treat

Improvements

• Improved the visibility of the tennis ball on the ground

• Improved the movement cursor aliasing

• Small changes and updates to the credits

• Added the game version number to the main menu

On Friday the team at Blender Studio was proud & excited to finally share DOGWALK with everyone. And the response has been truly breathtaking! Thank you all so much for playing and responding so positively :3

Our Launch Party

We did a live stream for the launch with a Q&A. Check it out if you haven't seen it. And thanks to everyone who joined!

What's Next

We're already working on getting a patch out to fix various issues. There were plenty of bugs still in the game that we didn't get ironed out in time for the release (and new discoveries through the gameplay you shared online).

In case you have any issues or bugs, post about it over on the Community Hub:

Report Issues/Bugs here

More Making-Of Content

We're also busy writing more about how the game was made on our website. A new article on how we used Blender in combination with Godot is live now.

Find out more

Thank you all so much. Happy dog-walking!