Orwell's Animal Farm news & patch notes

“Politics is not a game, but a serious business.” Winston Churchill. We’re very excited to announce the launch of the Keep Your Politics bundle of six indie games. There’s a 10% discount for the entire bundle. It’s a Complete-The-Set bundle so you only pay for the games you don't yet own. And to introduce the bundle, further discounts are available for each game this weekend up to additional 75% off! Keep Your Politics is a bundle of six political games from six different indie developers. These games span a variety of gameplay genres and tell stories from different spaces and times - imagined and real. But all of them have important messages to share about the powers controlling politics and the people trying to survive its effects. Take a look at the amazing games we have in the Keep Your Politics bundle:

• Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
• Not Tonight
• 1979 Revolution: Black Friday
• Headliner: NoviNews
• Bury Me, My Love
• and Orwell's Animal Farm

The Dev Team,

Hello Everyone, Orwell's Animal Farm is 10% off this weekend as part of the Steam Lunar New Year Sale! Ps: The recently released original soundtrack comes free with with the game. The Dev Team,

Hello Everyone, We are thrilled to announce that the original soundtrack of Orwell's Animal Farm is now available on the Steam Store. It is free to all past and future customers of the core game. And it is also available as a standalone OST album for purchase ($1.99 / £1.69 / €1.59). We've worked closely with our composer, Murugan Thiruchelvam and added both a standard and a high quality version of the album. We hope you will enjoy it! The Dev Team,

Hi There, We are happy to report that we have implemented a bunch of bug fixes, balancing changes and other content improvements! The changelog of the most notable updates are below, but the most important news is that we have rolled out a fix for the infamous "undead" animal bug where dead (or exiled or otherwise absent) animals returned later in the story. Main bug fixes, balancing changes and other content improvements:

• fixes all the bugs to do with the animals having extra lines of dialogue after death or not being dead after their battle
• revises the way the windmill is handled so that you either get it blown up by humans or knocked down by a storm, not both
• addresses the bug about being confused about the Population ending by tying population more clearly to the specific animals that are alive/dead
• changes on the onboarding to facilitate the understanding of the game mechanics by taking a couple of hidden variables (farm reputation and the success of pig propaganda) and instead associates them with the health of the birds and squealer
• shortens the later seasons a bit and tightens the pacing of narrative events to offer a higher proportion of dramatic events vs maintenance events
• makes a handful of dialogue passages shorter if the player has already seen them once, again to try to reduce the sense of repetition
• fixes the places where parsing errors were making some animal actions unavailable when the animal was in a particular numeric range
• cleans up a handful of typos encountered
• also fixed the encoding issue so there are no longer problems with the dashes
• the cat will now disappear from the barn if it's gone

Please continue reporting bugs on the bugs forum! And thanks for playing! The Dev Team,

Hello Everyone, George Orwell once famously said that " In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia ” and games are no exception. If we want to mature as art and entertainment, we need to learn how to tackle a wider range and more complicated subject matters. Our indie adventure game adaptation of Orwell's Animal Farm attempts just that. Seventy-five years after Orwell’s Animal Farm was first published, his classic literary novel is now available as a video game! Licensed by the Orwell Estate, with the approval of the official Orwell Foundation, and developed by the Indie Development Collective: The Dairymen and Nerial – creators of the BAFTA-nominated Reigns series – Animal Farm is a narrative, choice-based game that puts you at the centre of a revolution. By choosing which of the animals’ wishes to follow – and who is ignored or sidelined – you will influence the critical events that define the fate of Manor Farm. You must devise strategies to balance resources, defend the farm, and keep the animal population happy. We believe Orwell's 75-year-old allegorical novella remains relevant to this day, maybe more than ever. And as such we felt there is no need to reinvent Animal Farm. There is no need for "Animal Farm... IN SPACE!". Instead we tried our best to faithfully adapt this literary masterpiece. A video game adaptation requires player choice and therefore the creation of content not found in Orwell's book. But we were very careful to only add elements which fit Animal Farm and Orwell's wider body of work. Adapting Orwell's Animal Farm was a humbling challenge but it was also a labour of love. Every member of the team was committed to creating something special. We know that a text heavy adventure game is not everyone's cup of tea, but we sincerely hope many of you will like what we have created. Cheers, The Development Team