Kabuto Park news & patch notes

Hi everyone,

We’re happy to finally share what we’ve been working on these past few months! Our next game is called Milki Delivery, and it’s a cozy exploration and delivery adventure coming in 2026.

You play as Neha, a young apprentice who just started her dairy delivery service in a quiet rural corner:

• 🐮 Deliver milk to friendly folks

• 🏔️ Explore the countryside

• 🚲 Upgrade your bike & dairy farm

• ✅ Complete quests & reconnect villagers

We are so excited and we hope you will like our tiny game! 💖

Time to put your bug collection away and wishlist your next little cozy adventure! 🌻

Hey 🪲🌻

I'm almost ready to release the 1.2 update, that will add 9 new languages and full gamepad support including Steam Deck. It should release for everyone on January 21st. This update does not add any new gameplay content.

You can try it now if you want to!

To join the beta branch, please do the following:

• In your Library, right click on Kabuto Park => Properties => Beta.

• Under Private Betas, enter the code KabutoBetaTesting

The Beta dropdown menu should now show "betatesting - Beta Branch" and the name of the game in your library should be "Kabuto Park \".

If you are playing with a controller that is not a Steam Deck, please manually deactivate Steam Input.

There might still be some bugs here and there, please report them so we can fix them before release 🐞

Thank you so much for all the love 💌

Doot

Hey there 🌻

TL;DR: We are still working on new languages and full controller support, they should be there around December 🌻

Localizing a video game is a huge amount of work. Translating the texts is just a small part of it! You need to set up every sentence and every world in your game so it automatically translates, and now everything will be longer or shorter depending on the language so you need to make sure it always looks good by tweaking tons of parameters. Then of course it leads to new bugs so you need to test a lot and fix a lot. How about images with text in it? You need to redo those to, plus many other things that I won't list there.

Same goes for adding controller support to a game that was designed to be played with a mouse! It's not only a big design work but you really have to break everything and build it again.

On Minami Lane, I decided to take the months of work needed to do both on my own. I'm proud of what I did back then, but seeing how painful it was, I decided not to do it on Kabuto Park. Seaven Studio, who did an awesome work on porting Minami Lane to consoles, offered to do it for me so that they could then port the game to the Switch. I agreed, and we started working on it that way: I supervise, they implement, and LocQuest, a great localization company that we worked with on Minami Lane, does the translation and LQA (localization quality assurance).

That means less work on my side, so I could rest a bit more during summer, work on other projects like the Doot Tiny Grant, and I'm now starting to work on a new game with Blibloop. But that also means that it takes longer than if I did it myself! I hoped we could have something by now, but it's more likely going to be ready around December.

Thanks a lot for your patience, I'll keep you updated when I have more news 💌

Oh and also:

We hit 50k sales! WEEEEE this is incredible 🪲🥳🎉

Thank you so much everyone 💕

Trading cards, profile backgrounds, badges and emojis are now available for Kabuto Park!

You'll get 1 card every 20 min. Crafting badges will earn you items such as profile backgrounds and emojis!

On another note, I posted a dev log in the community discussions about the future of the game, go check it out 💌

Hey, this is just a tiny hot fix for the 1.1 version. Thanks a lot to the players who pointed out the bug!

Bugs and fixes

• Fixed a bug where using the max level magnifier ability on the new legendary bug could cause a bugged version of the bug to appear.

Other

• The new legendary bug now appears as Legendary when sorting by rarity in the collection.

Hey everyone!

The game is out for two weeks now, and the reception is so amazing. I'm really touched by this. As a thank you gift, here is little update with a new bug! Or maybe 2?! It's nothing major but I hope you'll enjoy it.

Feel free to use the Steam forums or Discord to report any bug you find or to give me some feedback!

New

• New common bug in Calm Lake: Sunburst Diving Beetle! It comes with a new attack card and a very cute shiny variant. This bug is a water bug, so you can now fill your terrarium completely with only unique bugs!

• Another new bug?! This one is a secret, it's extra rare. Let the hunt begin!

Balancing

• Tweaked rare and uncommon probabilities for Bugpedia lvl 3, 4 and 5. Before this, it was harder to find a specific uncommon than a specific rare. This fixes it!

• Common bugs that haven't been caught yet have a bit more chance of appearing than already caught ones.

• "Cleanse" card now costs 1 instead of 3.

Bugs and fixes

• Fixed "Copy Action" messing with some animations.

• Fixed music not fading out properly when transitioning to main menu.

• Fixed shop hover sounds triggering behind another window.

• Fixed stat number display when over 1000.

• Fixed nullref on keyboard shortcut during capture.

Other

• Added a shiny icon for bugs you caught as shiny in the "List" panel of map destinations.

• Small animation on cards cost during battle to make it more visible when you have enough energy to play them.

• Achievements for catching all bugs in a region now have a progress bar.

• Trying to sell a bug with 3 perfect stats from the bug panel will now ask you for confirmation. You can still sell them by mass selling, be careful.

• You can now press space during battle to toggle pause.

• Expended tooltip on calendar to explain how days pass.

Have a nice day 💌

Balancing

• "Excite" card now costs 6 instead of 5.
• Slight tweak to shiny probabilities. Shinies are slightly rarer than before in the late game but repeating spots with the max magnifier ability will boost the shiny chance slightly. This is a very small tweak but it will make it a tiny bit easier to find a specific shiny without making them feel less special.

Bugs and fixes

• Fixed shiny Roly Poly sprites having the wrong size in some UI panels.
• Fixed achievements for catching all bugs in an area sometimes not triggering properly.
• Fixed another visual bug on number of bugs and candies when selling a large number of bugs at once.
• Fixed cards stacking in your hand if you used "Copy Action" after your opponent used "Amnesia".
• Fixed minor bug that would induce a tiny lag if you launched the game with a demo save that contained no bugs caught.
• Fixed typo on Roly Poly flavor text.

Other

• Save backup will now happen a bit more often after you finish the game.
• You cannot use honey during the animation after you caught or missed a bug.

Balancing

• Excited Flapping now costs 3 energy instead of 2.

Bugs and fixes

• Fixed a game breaking bug that could happen if you paused a fight with the top left button and went back to menu with the fight still paused.
• Fixed the deck panel appearing behind the opponent selection in post game, making it impossible to close it normally.
• Fixed weird dates on bugs brought from the demo.
• Fixed visual bugs on some big numbers (when selling a very large amount of bugs + other).
• Fixed terrarium sometimes duplicating bugs.
• Fixed terrarium info panel stuck open when quitting the terrarium with the panel open.
• Fixed typo on card "Small Tenacity" (was Tenactity)

Other

• The game will now do a backup save on every new in-game day. It's extremely rare and out of my control, but save corruption can happen if the game crashes for unknown reasons while saving. With this backup file I'll be able to help people if this happens.

FAQ

Why?

Isn't that a bit cheap?

Isn't that a bit expensive?

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New features

• The game now saves automatically every time there is a transition screen! You can come back to see your awesome collection at any time now.
• Ultra rare shiny bugs added to the game. Each bug in the demo now has its shiny variant with different colors and some nice sfx. They also usually have above average stats.

Balancing

• Buffed Soothing Buzz by lowering cost.
• Buffed Calm Down by lowering duration.
• The last encounter with Doot (hey it's me!) is slightly harder and cooler.

Bugs and fixes

• Fixed typo in name of Cerulean Chafer.
• Fixed duplicate sounds playing on top of each other.

Other

• Bugs now have little shadows.

Bugs and fixes

• Fixed a bug that made some bugs much rarer than they should be. This was noticeable on the Hercules Beetle.

New features

• Heavy rework of the team selection. You can now select or unselect bugs for your battle team without opening each bug panel. It's also easier to clear your whole team to select a new one.
• You can now sell multiple bugs at once directly from the collection by using a new quick action menu.
• New cute cursor.
• You can now catch bugs with the spacebar.
• You can now skip the post capture size bar animation by clicking anywhere or pressing the spacebar.
• The "new" tag will also appear in the bug panel the first time you look at bugs that you just caught.

Balancing

• Opposing team will now always get the first push. I'll work back on this for the full game but having it as random without a proper UI to show it felt bad and could lead to some underwhelming fights.

Bugs and fixes

• Fixed Kim's name (was called Jun 2)
• Fixed a typo. (specy => species)
• Fixed level up animation (title was not bouncing as expected)

Other

• Changed the "Battle Selected" icon for two cute little swords instead of a boring checkmark.
• Games now run in the background, music won't stop if you do something else like manage your chat while streaming.
• Removed "base stats" sort options from collection to keep things simple.
• Upgraded to latest Unity 2022.3.58f1 to avoid crashes during build and potential in game crashes.

Bugs and fixes

• Fixed dropdown menu behaving weirdly in the collection
• Fixed several typos and inconsistencies
• Fixed multi-click on Go button in the destination panel that could lead to negative money
• Fixed multi-click on Sell button in the bug panel that could lead to exploits
• Fixed multi-click on cards while fight was paused that could lead to lost energy

Other

• Added tooltip on perfect stat star in the bug panel