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I wanna thank everyone for a super amazing launch! All your feedback has been invaluable, and I'm excited to both address issues and expand the content available for Lured In.
This small update focuses on QOL and critical bugfixes, as well as some rebalancing of some synergies. Steam Deck and controller should also be more usable now.
If you run into any issues, let me know in the Steam forums, or over on Discord. Thanks!
Added a game save backup system for whenever you reset your data
Added scroll hints to every scrollable section. Now a slight shadow shows up when a container is not fully scrolled
Added the ability to focus certain scroll containers on controller, like the fishpedia description, synergies list, and credits
Added a setting to hide the fishing input prompt in the fishing region
Added a little icon that appears when you have casted into a water event and are receiving the 2x fishing speed bonus
Updated all translations and the list of contributors
Increased the Salty Giants synergy multiplier from 1.25 to 2.5
Increased the Longlubbers synergy multiplier from 1.25 to 1.75
Fixed an issue where the game could reset all your data if you pressed either yes or no on the reset data prompt, then pressed yes on the ascension or liquid swap warning prompt
Fixed an issue where the cursor on controller couldn't reach the bottom of your shop
Fixed an issue where opening the fishpedia for the first time would show things that should be hidden, like the background and sparkles
Fixed an issue where the panels inside of the travel menu would be cut off when moving through with controller
Over a year since the initial concept, and 6 months of development time, Lured In is finally out! But really it even goes back further, from the times I played Fish Tycoon and other incremental games as a little kid. It's crazy that we've finally made it!
You can now enjoy a significantly expanded experience from the demo, including:
Shop expansions
Lures
The Coral Reef
Tons of new fish
New upgrades
Fish synergies
Large tanks
Countless bugfixes, QOL, and balancing
If you'd like to further support Big Boy Games, then please consider checking out our full collection! This includes our first game Pogo Rocket, and our co-op space adventure Starground.
Though Lured In is fully released, I still have loads of content planned out. Soon we'll start tackling our first big content update, v1.1, which will include bait, more fine-tuned minigame control, and more!
At some point, I will also be looking at tackling a mobile version, and macOS build as well. So stay tuned for more on that!
If anyone has any feedback on what features they'd like to see next, let me know over in the Steam forums, or on Discord.
No game is ever a single person's effort, so I want to thank everyone who has helped make Lured In a reality. The community has been an enormous help in playtesting and translation. And massive thanks to the other people who directly contributed parts of the game, including Sunny, Ollie, and Jack.
And big thanks to our publisher Graeme of 2 Left Thumbs!
In precisely 1 month on August 17th - also from 2 Left Thumbs - will be the launch of Void Pachinko!
This physics-based ball collecting pachinko-like more closely follows the more recent "incremental" definition, resulting in a rapidly scaling experience that can be beaten in ~4 hours. If you are interested, please try out the demo and/or drop it a wishlist!
And the Lured In Demo is available to play in 49 HAND-TRANSLATED LANGUAGES!!
(This includes a couple gag inclusions like Fish, Klingon and Pirate)
After a viral Short discussing the challenges of localizing games, we had a surge of volunteers show up to help us translate the game (proudly!!) without the use of AI!! We are certain there will be a few errors from juggling this many languages at once, and several of them are only partially completed (shown visually with the percent bar in the language selection menu)
We deeply appreciate your patience, and will continue to improve our international support with each passing update. Please share your feedback either in the Steam discussions, or the official Big Boy Games Discord server!
The growing new-wave of incremental games covers an incredible variety of genres! And 2 Left Thumbs is proud to represent multiple games, also taking part in this Steam Next Fest. If you love the progression of incremental games, watching numbers soar ever higher, with plenty of fun twists to stand out in the crowd - then I recommend checking out these other titles as well! Your support is greatly appreciated.
This very small patch fixes an issue that caused the tank notifications to stay visible, even without the research. Also the issue where tanks are always dirty after ascension is now corrected.
Fixed an issue where tank maintenance icons would be visible without the tank sensors research
Fixed an issue where new tanks purchased after ascension would have algae
Lured In has been updated! I've gone back through and cleaned up some stuff ahead of next fest. This update includes some new research for the fishpedia and your tanks, as well as lots of fixes and rebalancing of systems. Also the ability to exit out of a menu by clicking on the side.
Let me know if you have any issues over on the Steam forums, or on Discord. Can't wait to see you guys during Next Fest tomorrow!
Added the ability to close out of menus by clicking on the right
Added the field reports research, which lets you see more info on undiscovered fish in the fishpedia
Added the tank sensors research to enable you to receive notifications for tank maintenance (cleaning and food)
Decreased the research cost of the fishpedia from 200 to 30
Increased the cost of the weather station research from 50 to 60
Made it so the weather station now requires fishpedia (instead of the other way around)
Increased the default zoom level of the research and ascension menus
Fixed a couple of reeds in the pond clipping into the edges of the water
Fixed an issue where you could sometimes spend more money than you had if you had a spontaneous lag spike
Fixed an issue where the playtesting prompt would show up if you had the "skip main menu" option on, and would brick your game
Fixed issues where clicking out of a menu in the fishing region would cause you to be unable to cast
Fixed an issue where picking up your crab pot while inside of your keepnet would cause your list of fish to duplicate (only visual)
Fixed an issue where focus of your decorations was not followed on controller
Regions will now have "water events", which right now include fish splashes and bubbles. These are things that happen in the water to aid (or harm) the player's chance of getting fish. This will be expanded out more in the future.
We've also got four new fish, which really help flesh out some of our regions, particularly rare fish drops (which also has a new system, making rare and legendary fish way more common)
Stormy weather is here, which is like rain, but, Stormier
And lastly, minigames now change their background to reflect the rarity of fish you are catching.
If you run into any issues, or have suggestions, let me know on the Steam forums, or over on Discord. Thank you gamers!
Added new breaking and placing sounds for decorations
Added dust particles for placing and breaking decorations
Added the Smallmouth Bass to the lake
Added the Rudd to the lake
Added the Oarfish to the ocean
Added the Oranda fish to the pond
Added the stormy weather type
Added fish splashes and bubbles that appear in the water that will increase fishing rates around them
Added a new system for fish rarities. This makes rare and legendary fish much more common
Added thunder sounds for the stormy weather type
Added an option to close menus with right click (on by default)
Added new background layers to all regions
Added catch rarity backgrounds to all minigames
Added support for Korean (thank you translators!)
Added Literary Chinese (thank you translators!)
Added music track Tomorrow
Made it so the chef only asks for one type of fish
Increased the value of the offers the chef makes on your fish
Removed the carp and bluegill from the lake
Updated all the weather icons to be inline more with our style
Improved the rain shader to have better control over how it gets displayed
Made it so moving decorations now properly show the correct preview with settings applied
Improved the fishpedia menu, and grouped fish into regions
Updated all translations
Updated all translator credits
Fixed an issue where your aquarium decorations would disappear whenever you left your building
Fixed an issue where hovering over the fishpedia button would show itself needing research even when you already had it unlocked
Fixed an issue where the playtest menu was technically not a real menu
Fixed an issue where there were certain parts of the screen blocking you from casting in the fishing zone
Fixed multiple translation errors
Our 6 months of work and playtesting has all built up to this moment, and now everyone can play the demo! Explore 5 different fishing zones, 36+ fish, tons of upgrades, research, and more! This launch also comes alongside a new update, v0.4.2.0, which includes a ton of new QOL, rebalancing, and fixes.
Thank you everyone for your continued support and help with playtesting, translating, and more! We've still got so much more in store for Lured In!
Added more supported fonts for languages with non-latin alphabets (japanese, chinese, arabic, hebrew)
Added a slider to modify your UI scale
Added font glyphs for Vietnamese
Added tutorials to each minigame, giving a tiny description on how they work (also includes new options in the options menu)
Added catch rate percentages to fish in the fishpedia
Added a languages tooltip to the languages button
Added a panel background to the weather icon in the travel menu
Made it so fonts no longer use your system font as a fallback. This was done so we can spot any broken characters, and make sure things will display properly on web
Changed the stats inside of the fishpedia to be in their own little boxes now
Changed the weight indicator inside of the keepnet list to be in a separate box
Made it so the research and ascension buttons now show locked tooltips when hovered
Updated the customer icon to fit with the game's art style better
Increased the size of the research icon in the shop stats panel
Made it so the fishpedia tab now shows that it requires a research to be unlocked
Rebalanced every fish value and passive income to use a new automatic system
Made it so the FPS slider now shows an infinity symbol when it reaches 0 (unlimited FPS)
Updated all translator credits and translations
Fixed an issue where buttons weren't wiggling anymore
Fixed an issue where the UI shader would break on web
Fixed an issue where there was missing font glyphs on web
Fixed an issue where the 2x bite rate text was not translating properly
Fixed an issue where the "hide fish" button would not be set properly after closing the tank menu
Fixed an issue where the cursor changed into a pointing hand when hovering over the root node in ascension or research trees
Fixed an issue where having the options menu open and clicking another UI on the bottom tab in the aquarium would softlock the game
Fixed an issue where the reeling sound would keep playing
This new update for Lured In includes a lot of fixes toward translations and gameplay. Thanks to everyone who has helped identify issues. This update also includes the ability to release fish from your keepnet, so you can stay in a region and pick and choose what fish you bring home.
Simplified Chinese, Belarusian, and Pirate (yarr!) are now all new languages clickable from the languages menu.
Added a button to the keepnet menu so you can now release fish back into the water
Added a darker brown shoe color (you can finally cosplay as grandpa)
Added colors to the list of translators in the credits based off of how many contributions were made
Added Belarusian to the list of languages
Added Chinese (Simplified) to the list of languages
Added Pirate (yarr!) to the list of languages
Changed the flag of traditional Chinese to the flag of Taiwan
Changed the flag of Arabic to the Pan-Arab flag to better represent all Arabic speakers
Changed the layout of the keepnet menu
Made it so the fish food tool will immediately go away after use
Increased the chance to get the pupfish by 10x (my bad guys)
Fixed an issue where the old translators credits was still in the credits
Fixed an issue where the incorrect flag for Gaelic was used
Fixed an issue where pressing spacebar inside of the fullscreen tank menu would cause the game to break and the tank to turn white when you return
Fixed an issue where you can just avoid the keepnet weight limit by clicking the keepnet button again
Fixed multiple pieces of text not properly translating
Fixed an issue where the GO! text would follow your bobber when you reel
Probably fixed an issue where customers freak out
Fixed some issues with the customer navigation areas
Fixed some issues where people weren't showing up in the credits properly. Now accounts made on our old weblate will show up
This update for Lured In includes the addition of loads of new languages. I wanna give a big thanks to everyone that has helped translate the game so far. I never really expected us to have 40+ languages only a week into the playtest. This update includes a lot of bugfixes, and also a new countdown popup whenever a minigame begins, just to give you a second to realize which one is about to start and get ready.
Added in tons of new languages (huge thanks to all our community translators!)
Added in a new minigame countdown popup you can toggle
Changed the credits menu to show all translators at the bottom
Increased the zone you can hit inside of the hook minigame
Decreased the maximum speed a row can move the hook in the hook minigame
Tweaked various texts inside of the game to work better for translation
Changed the wait and go popups to be translatable, and also fade in
Updated all translations
Fixed an issue where the circle minigame was offset incorrectly
Fixed an issue where tanks would stay as saltwater after ascension
Fixed an issue where text would get cut off in the fishpedia (it now creates a scrollbar)
This first public update for Lured In includes the addition of the Fishpedia. A quick and easy way to view all the remaining fish you haven't caught yet, as well as their stats, where they live, and more. This update also includes the first batch of localization! The reaction to the video I posted has been insane, so I want to thank all the hundreds of people who have offered their help with localization! I still have many more requests to work through, so stay tuned for new languages! Also, due to the enormous number of names, I will be working on a better way to display them all. If you aren't seeing your name in-game, don't worry! It'll be there next update.
Added a gameplay tab to the options menu
Added a gameplay option to disable fish nibbles (the little wait text that pops up)
Added the ability to cast and play minigames with spacebar for people on laptops
Added a gameplay option to toggle minigame time limits
Added a new darker skin tone
Added in new hair colors (orange, copper, blue, pink, green, red)
Added pink to pants and shoe colors
Added the music track "Crosswinds"
Added a fish encyclopedia to the inventory in a new tab (fish caught in previous versions will not show up until you catch them again)
Added in localization for Czech
Added in localization for Traditional Chinese
Added in localization for Russian
Added in localization for German
Added in localization for Polish
Added in localization for Swedish
Added in localization for Bulgarian
Added in localization for Tagalog
Added in localization for Romanian
Added in localization for Portuguese
Added in localization for French
Added in localization for Spanish (Spain)
Added in localization for Spanish (Latin America)
Added in localization for Norwegian
Added in localization for Italian
Added in localization for Danish
Changed the text on the chef's offer to "Accept Trade" to better imply that its a transaction instead of a quest
Made it so you can no longer drop customers inside of the entrance
Changed the appearance of the "GO!" text to scale in size, rotate, and appear and disappear more quickly
Increased the cost of the river research from 400 to 500
Updated the visual design of sliders
Updated the visual design of scrollbars
Fixed a spelling typo in the tutorial
Fixed an issue where removing fish from a tank, and then changing liquid type would cause the game to crash
Fixed an issue where the "GO!" text would reappear after casting
Fixed an issue where you could see sparkle and food particles in other tanks when swapping between them quickly
Fixed a spelling error with corydoras (thought it was the plural form)
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