#🤝coral-feedback

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fair shale
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Something that I have just thought about and would be a cute implement to the game could be that we can set our own farmers birthday! it would be kind of cute that NPCs, for example the ones you've reached maybe 5 or more hearts with (To make it a bit of a challenge to get there), would send you birthday gifts of their choice. Maybe even if its not too much to ask for, have the spouse make a "surprise" birthday party or something for the options of more dialogues etc.
Maybe somewhere you would choose. The spouse could ask something like "Hypothetically, where would you want to hang out during your birthday?", you pick a location through the hangout map, and on the day of you get a letter from them asking you to meet there, and have a few townies you are closer friends with attend! :)
It would really just be something for more dialogue and gameplay, and a cute idea that came to mind

Edit: I just realised you could technically get "swarmed" with random gifts from multiple NPCs if everyone at a certain heart level does it, so for balance, the game can choose random selected few to gift- maybe even gift them personally at the party?

somber quail
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Seconding this, plus more underwater ranching automation

sand patrol
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Please dont forget to add upgrades for the way you harvest, there is always upgrades for the tools to make it easier and to get productive but you always have to gather crops one by one. How about this? In the beginning i harvest one by one but later i get some gloves and i can harvest one by one but faster and then i get a harvest bag and i can harvest like 3 crops at once and so on!

thick arch
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Good morning @sand patrol !

This is a really good idea, and observation. We are toying with some ideas on how to achieve this, that will keep true to the game world.

It is funny how this is the one thing you normally can't upgrade in farm sim life games lol

sand patrol
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I know👍

sand patrol
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If you guys played story of seasons(harvest moon) before you just have to keep the good stuff and fix the anoying things and you should be able to make a better game, it seems like nobody knows how to make a proper farming sim, and am saying this because this game has been around more than 20 years and still the same, thats why they are making a remake, they don't get better!!! Am couting on you guys,VIVA Indonesia! Hey if you want to recieve more suggestions just write the word harvest, watering, mining gor example and i see if i come up with an idea, i'll be more than happy to support you with this beautiful game, you guys take care!

thick arch
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Haha, i love the enthusiasm @sand patrol. That is indeed our goal, to take the best of what's come before us, add our own core elements and push the genre forward.

Definitely always open to feedback and suggestions -- part of why i am eager to show the community the things we are keeping under wrap :)

sand patrol
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Here is another idea....i saw in one of the pictures the land with pumpkins and above beside the tree what i think is a shiping box, give me the option to take my harvest(fresh crops) to the market to get the most profit if i take them on time, for example: i get 80 gold for one pumpking but if i take them to the market before 10 am i get 100 for each one, it adds to the gameplay.

thick arch
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Thank you @sand patrol -- we will be sure to keep this in mind!

sand patrol
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You are more than welcone

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Welcome

sand patrol
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Hey @thick arch try to make the game more fluid than the rest, for example: in other games the character stop when picking up a fruit and then put it in the bag and then you can move on, in Coral island let me pick up a fruit and let me move on while i put it in the bag, you can make a nice animation without stoping the gameplay, just another suggestion to make a different among the genre, thanks for reading my messages.

thick arch
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Hi @sand patrol -- indeed, we are tuning the game feel so that it is fluid and responsive. We want action (button press) to feel seamless for players, and nailing this has a lot to do the with number of frames per animation that we end up using 😃

sand patrol
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Thanks, am pressing the watch trailer icon in your official website everyday, can't wait man!

thick arch
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hey @sand patrol ! Lol sorry about that, the trailer button went up way too early 😅

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But we are indeed doing a make over on the site, and also committed to starting monthly dev blogs in March

sand patrol
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Ahh cool man! Keep up the rythem

proper quarry
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(just an idea) you could have a FAQ channel on discord. I wanted to know if the game will be multiplayer at launch... not sure where I would currently look for that info

thick arch
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That is a really great idea @proper quarry -- dang we really missed that haha. Yup for sure!

sand patrol
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@thick arch i think if you put more seeds on the strawberry it gonna look more like a strawberry and not like a red pepper.

thick arch
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Cheers @sand patrol — we’ll bring it up in our Monday meeting!

sand patrol
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👍

sand patrol
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In most farming games you always wake up at 6am and all eggs are there waiting for you, what if you give me the option to wake up earlier and actually watch the chickens at 5:30am laying their eggs? Animation idea for that precise moment: make chicken eyes smaller and make the eyes pop out(actual eyes) when laying the eggs, all chickens simultaneously, that will be fun to watch😜

dusty girder
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heheh 😅 that's a cool idea, but definitely after EA even to consider because we're chasing for other things first. My wife actually also really dislike the chicken's eyes @sand patrol (too big and too stupid). I don't have a problem with it, but I can see why.

sand patrol
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Well, the eyes are still there but for that precise moment, ask your wife what she thinks about it😜

dusty girder
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the animation itself I think is not a stretch to put in game (no promises) on the full release, the 5:30am is a big change to the game, and is kinda confusing to add without changing gameplay.

sand patrol
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Well, am just suggesting, i have no idea what you guys have done or have planed for the game itself, sorry if asking too much, if you guys consider the chicken idea, just let them lay the eggs at 6:15am or at a time that give me a chance to get out my house and get inside the chicken coop and watch the show. The time not runnig while in the house is a good start.

dusty girder
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oh, yeah, that's a good one. Not very many players are chicken oriented I think (first thing they want to do is chicken everday lol). No no, it's not asking too much, I am considering it, and being critical about it, but I always appreciate the input @sand patrol!

tardy umbra
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That's a very good idea, but yes as a veteran farming game player. I don't really have much time to always spend time to go see the chicken coop. It's always replaced by cutting tree, watering the plan, and other thing to do than see the chicken coop. Honestly i always check my animal at the afternoon. 😅

dusty girder
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but that's what's cool right @tardy umbra , it's a cool tidbits you find on those rare moments you do gets there at 6:10 in the morning!

sand patrol
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👍

tardy umbra
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Yes, that's why i call it cool. Because the event only do in the specific time in the morning. Like an easter egg!!

sand patrol
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Have you ever heard better ingredients better pizza from papa john's??
Well
Better animations better game
More options more people you please😝

dusty girder
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😂

indigo fulcrum
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Is there going to be a storage systems? I mean, something to put things at home
Some Harvest Moon have the fridge for food related item
Stardew have to build the box

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In my opinion, fridge is way more realistic to put food rather than some box 😆

dull sand
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In my opinion, fridge is way more realistic to put food rather than some box 😆
@indigo fulcrum hold up, you're telling me the 200 fresh steaks I keep in a wooden chest may not be safe for consumption? I punched so many cows for those

indigo fulcrum
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Definitely nope in realistic side, with some preserving method maybe its fine
Game side, everything is possible

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Adding preserving way in game might make it more realistic
Maybe the easy one, just combine salt n meat
Or fruits with sugar, increase the price when sold, or add it to someone like

thick arch
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hey @sand patrol -- just finally had the chance to get caught up. I totally get what you mean, and little animation detail like this is something we plan to explore as the game gets closer to its EA release.

I will say that we are planning on having TONS of NPC animation to paint as much personality into them as we can -- and we want to complete that before adding the the 'cherry on top' animal animations haha

sand patrol
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But do you like the idea?

thick arch
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I do man @sand patrol !

indigo fulcrum
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The animation of day and night is extremely good
I like that we can see it on the shadows that time is moving

thick arch
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Thats great to hear @indigo fulcrum ! I can't wait to show off the overcast/rain lighting haha

unreal sapphire
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Hi, sorry if this had already been asked and answered but I was wondering about the character options? The character models released look really lovely! But they do make me wonder if the player character will be gendered? Will there be non-binary options?

thick arch
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hey @unreal sapphire -- First of all, welcome! Second, great question. I am proud to share that Coral Island will have options in the form of pronoun honorifics in the character creator: Mr, Ms and Mx

unreal sapphire
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Thank you! That's really great to hear!! Is there also a neutral body type option or just the more defined female/male options shown in the models? Oh, and does the honorific option extend to pronouns used by npcs such as she/he/they?

thick arch
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Yup2! --

With regard to body types, I'll be candid in that the plan is to include more neutral body shapes, and cover other sizes as well including tall/skinny/full/chubby. However we are targeting an early access release to start, and initially the character creator will be quite limited in terms of options. The other options will be added post EA launch.

Yep, where a pronoun is used by an NPC to address the player in a non honorific form, they will use she/he/they. In our case, where the writing is at today, we actually have more instances of Mr, Ms and Mx so thats why i referenced that lol, been editing too much

unreal sapphire
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That's absolutely fantastic to hear! I'm so excited! The one big problem I've always had with life sim farming games is that they're usually so rigidly gendered for some reason and it makes me so dysphoric. I'm so glad Coral Island will be more open!!

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Ah, sorry to turn the suggestion channel into a q&a though!

thick arch
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Actually what a great idea for a channel, Q&A... and also @dusty girder we havent gotten around to creating the FAQ lol.

Also no need to apologize, I'm glad you asked.

indigo fulcrum
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Loving the update so far, about the log, maybe make it horizontal instead of vertical

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I mean, no one hold a log upright unless for a challenge 😝

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Nevertheless I love the new characters introduced there 🥰

thick arch
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That's a good point @indigo fulcrum lol

indigo fulcrum
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The added puff is great, and it worked to make it seamless
Tile visual will be extremely useful, and the choices to disable it is good as well

thick arch
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That log is a fence item, and when you combine two together they will form to make a fence. For sure if would make sense to rest is horizontally, so we'll try that!

indigo fulcrum
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Ah I see, great idea as a fence
That means there will be some wild animal in game as well

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NPC schedules is definitely important, it will make thing way more realistic
Thanks for the hard work 😁

indigo fulcrum
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For a start, I'm loving that bug of the month 😂

The walking and sprinting anims is extremely better
I love how the UI looks as well, will we be able to change the size of the font?
It's already readable as it is for me, just in case others need it

Dang, we will have a skill tree 😍

Oh and I also love our farmer looks, and the fact that they will have a different anims details on different time is so awesome

I'm loving this month update
Thanks for everyone hardwork on this update

dusty girder
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thanks @indigo fulcrum ! And yes, we'll allow change size of the UI and in turn the font as well

indigo fulcrum
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Thanks for that
I love the new characters introduced as well
This update makes me so excited, it will be awesome to finally try it someday 😍

sand patrol
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Yeah, a skill tree! This game is going to be great!

indigo fulcrum
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I kinda forgot, but are the NPCs gonna have idle animation as well?

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Proportion of character photo and 3 lines dialogue is just right, I love it 🤩

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And the temple, I suspect it's gonna give us something if we do our prayers? 😂

dusty girder
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I kinda forgot, but are the NPCs gonna have idle animation as well?
@indigo fulcrum yes all NPC have idle animations, and more actually (we'll show later).

indigo fulcrum
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@indigo fulcrum yes all NPC have idle animations, and more actually (we'll show later).
@dusty girder niceeeeeee
Thanks for the hard work

robust kayak
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I love the carrier pigeon and the range of characters and wanting to make them feel more alive. It’s things like that that make this game so lovable and unique. Also, thank you for making adorable pigs 🥰

robust kayak
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Not sure if this is doable but will there ever be an option for someone you have “full hearts” with to do the pursuing? I’ve always been the one chasing around my love interests but it would be so nice to be asked out in dates, purposed to, randomly be given gifts, etc. Also, the more variety the NPCs can say the better. I know you guys have done, are doing, and will continue to do a whole lot to make this game amazing. Thanks for letting us share our thoughts on here!

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Wow please disregard all those grammatical errors 😳

thick arch
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Great suggestions and no worries haha @robust kayak --

Definitely making it in the game:

  • randomly given gifts
  • tons of dialogue variety, that play depending on calendar, hearts, location, weather and game progression

What we want to add after EA release:

  • being asked out on dates by NPC's whose personality would do such a thing haha... we'll also want to experiment and make sure this feels good
robust kayak
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Thank you for the quick response! Will you be able to choose your own personality type, gender you’d be interested in romantically?

thick arch
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You'll be able to pursue any of the dateable characters regardless of gender yep2

lusty talon
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So excited to see more of the town! Idk if someone suggested this before, it’s rival marriages, it might be a lot of work so I’ll understand if you don’t add it to the game, but that’s something that would make me enjoy the game more cuz it’d feel more alive imo

dusty girder
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hi @lusty talon , you mean there are other guys / girls chasing the bachelors / bachelorette as well right?

lusty talon
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Yep!

dusty girder
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hahaha, I actually suggested this too in early phase. But same concern like you, afraid the scope grows wild. Will keep this in mind as a maybe after EA launch.

lusty talon
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Awesome! Good to know! 😄

visual sorrel
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love the update! two small pieces of feedback. i think the wind animation looks great, it feels smooth, if that makes sense. the rain animation also looks good but i feel like there's something slightly off with the depth? maybe my eyes are just dumb but i couldn't see much of the rain in the foreground which made it feel a bit off kilter/unbalanced. not sure if i'm describing that well.

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overall great update though, i look forward to seeing these every month

thick arch
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thanks for the feedback @visual sorrel !

Specifically for this "there's something slightly off with the depth" -- yup i agree, and have a few ideas how we can improve it. There are several VFX missing that we didn't have time to implement (like splash effect), and overall tweaking the drops i hope improves things

tardy umbra
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I saw the latest video on instagram about the chat table. I think the word movement animation need more faster time.

thick arch
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I saw the latest video on instagram about the chat table. I think the word movement animation need more faster time.
@tardy umbra Thanks for the feedback! We'll continue to work on it, but i think you'll be happy to know that you can skip the text animation altogether by pressing the continue button -- i use it all the time haha

robust kayak
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Will there be things like hot sprints to regain stamina? What if there was something at home like a hot tub you can buy? Or start small like a hammock and build up?

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Have you made any NPC that made bad choices and are homeless or not liked on the island and you can help them get back on their feet as a hired farmhand and earn their way back, sought forgiveness from villagers etc? I’m a sucker for reconciliation stories...and helping those who feel alone or useless to find their way again!

lusty talon
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Have you made any NPC that made bad choices and are homeless or not liked on the island and you can help them get back on their feet as a hired farmhand and earn their way back, sought forgiveness from villagers etc? I’m a sucker for reconciliation stories...and helping those who feel alone or useless to find their way again!
@robust kayak ohh I really like the idea of this, we could get help on the farm and some character development for one of the NPCs at the same time

robust kayak
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I just recently downloaded a game in early access and it has a bundle you could purchase to have special content all while helping give the team more money. Could this be something you guys do in place of a kickstarter? I basically paid $15 for a rainbow piggie 😂 but it was cute and it helps them. Maybe you guys could make different bundles to raise more money!

thick arch
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I just recently downloaded a game in early access and it has a bundle you could purchase to have special content all while helping give the team more money. Could this be something you guys do in place of a kickstarter? I basically paid $15 for a rainbow piggie 😂 but it was cute and it helps them. Maybe you guys could make different bundles to raise more money!
@robust kayak Haha that might be fun to do for sure!

"Will there be things like hot sprints to regain stamina? What if there was something at home like a hot tub you can buy? Or start small like a hammock and build up?"

Yep! There is definitely a hot spring in the game, and we also had the same idea of being able to build something on your farm to regain stamina =)

"Have you made any NPC that made bad choices and are homeless or not liked on the island and you can help them get back on their feet as a hired farmhand and earn their way back, sought forgiveness from villagers etc?"

There are definitely reconciliation stories in the game, and without spoiling too much (lol), i hope that it makes sense in the context of how we present it

As for farm helpers -- my lips are sealed on that unfortunately 🤐

thick arch
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Sorry i seem to have missed your questions, i just realized no one responded 😅

quick rampart
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Hey how do you plan to have the running for the characters on land or in the water ?
I am a console player and in so many games you have to keep pushing the controller's trigger to run or repetitively pushing a button to make your character swim faster. I am thinking of animal crossing or the recent Summer in Mara indie game . When you play for hour your fingers really hurt.

So i wish you could introduce a auto running feature and for swimming, moving the character with the left stick and not having to keep pushing the trigger or a button to go faster would be an amazing quality of life feature !

keen river
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yeah there are some good accessibility options for that out there!
one solution is to have something in the options to toggle between "hold to run" or "press to toggle run/walk"
another solution is an option for "walk by default, hold to run" or "run by default, hold to walk"

quick rampart
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Yeah that's what I'm talking about !that would be amazing. So many games do not offer there features unfortunately

dusty girder
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Taking notes guys, will keep it mind.

quick rampart
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Haha always open for suggestionss ! Thanks

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The swimming mechanic in animal crossing is.just horrible. Can you imagine pushing an button every few second to move your character😩

dusty girder
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I read there's an update, haven't tried actually

old rapids
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Are you going to add automatic dialogue commands to couples during two-person events?

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Whether it is us or our partner who asks us questions or who compliments us about us or about us. Instead of running into a partner who prefers to talk about him and say he's great ...

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In the game we will have a telephone as an accessory or use a letter box to send messages or gifts to our neighbors or to our love.

indigo fulcrum
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I saw someone suggest this on SV twitter and thought that this is a nice idea, can we be friends with the bachelor/bachelorette?
I mean max heart without romantic feeling involved, like a best friend maybe

I remember we can get close to everyone here before choosing who to settle down with

silent hornet
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having an in-game best friend without the romantic feels would be nice

lusty talon
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Yeah that would be awesome, like having friends, and a best friend too, like they’re the closest but nothing romantic

indigo fulcrum
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Yeah, it will be so different than other game too
Cuz most of the game are we choose 1 and probably break everyone else's heart
Especially if we try to get close to everyone

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Usually there is an in game achievement for max heart on everyone

marsh lotus
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I think it will be great to have 3 people on 'best friends' systems so like extra hearts but focus on friendship dialogues. so even though you are best buds with everyone, you have your 'ultimate bff' to back you up

thick arch
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Hello @old rapids

"Are you going to add automatic dialogue commands to couples during two-person events?"

During some events, a few dialogue, the NPC will ask player questions with multiple answers, yes.

"In the game we will have a telephone as an accessory or use a letter box to send messages or gifts to our neighbors or to our love."

Right now the mail system only works for player to receive something. Its not that we dont want to expand it, we just want to make sure to hit all the Early Access features haha

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Hi there @indigo fulcrum --

"I saw someone suggest this on SV twitter and thought that this is a nice idea, can we be friends with the bachelor/bachelorette? "

Yup -- this is one of the reasons i am excited about how we handle dateable relationships. So in the game, each dateable will have their own character story arc (just like other NPC) + a romance arc you unlock only when you start dating them.

In other words, in terms of hearts it might look like this as an example:

1-10 hearts = character story arc (best friend)
[only if player starts dating NPC]
11-14 hearts = dating story arc

In the game max heart achievement will only count towards getting 10 hearts with everyone

indigo fulcrum
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I love you all devs 😍😍

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It's going to be a new experience 🥰

sinful ledge
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this sounds like my dream game 😍

tall bay
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I'm glad we don't have to romance every character to get the achievement! I really don't like when games make you do that, it makes me feel like such a bad person lol

old rapids
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  • it would take a rival in a couple, the one who always comes to piss off the world to judge and criticize so that we choose him as our love.
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  • or a system when you are too much with the same person or when your loved one sees you with someone changes their behavior towards you towards jealousy.
loud cargo
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How about the ability to help dateable NPCs date each other? Maybe for a bonus friendship point or something. It would be awesome if we can have this impact on the relationships between NPCs even if it's just some of them. In FoMT all our rivals progress their relationships on its own, but they actually marry in the end. In SV we have Clint and Emily but Clint isn't a dateable and their relationship don't actually end up anywhere

tall bay
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I know in MTAP there's an instance where you can give a dateable NPC advice on his relationship with another NPC and you can either encourage him to go for it or tell him not to so you can date him later. Maybe something like that would be an option?

thick arch
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Thanks for the great ideas and feedback everyone, we will take this into account when we start tackling this =)

indigo fulcrum
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First of, I love the theme song, its sweet yet very interesting
Secondly, that disappearing wall is great, you guys make awesome interior, I don't want to missed out on it cuz of the walls, but the fact that it closed up when we're outside really increase the depths of the room
I'm guessing there are probably some room we need more hearts or special circumstances to get in then?

Shop UI is soo cute, I love it
Quick question, what's the currecy name here?
And yeah, can't wait for the characters idle animation, as in now they're pretty stiff, with animation they'll feel more alive

Animations on entering the mining hole is great too, you guys really pay attention to details

I don't really have any complain on this update, everything looks good and awesome 🤩

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Thanks for your hard work everyone

dusty girder
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hey @indigo fulcrum , still up for change yea, but we're calling them Clams now for the currency.

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Glad you love the update! and yes, can't wait to show some of the animations as well 🙂

indigo fulcrum
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hey @indigo fulcrum , still up for change yea, but we're calling them Clams now for the currency.
@dusty girder that's very island I suppose
If you guys have some more ideas on that and need help deciding, we definitely are up for voting

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Clams is cute as well 🦪

loud cargo
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Clams is cute as well 🦪
@indigo fulcrum maybe something like Shella? Cause you know, shells. 🐚

gusty siren
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💖

rustic fern
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My one suggestion would be to swap where the currency and the number of items is. It makes it feel a bit more streamlined to go from "select item" -> select amount -> see total

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Everything looks really fantastic and I'm super super stoked to play!

silent hornet
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Would it be possible, when you post the image of all characters together (The lineup), that their name be printed below their feet? It would be a quick way to reference a character if we don't quite remember their names.

thick arch
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Would it be possible, when you post the image of all characters together (The lineup), that their name be printed below their feet? It would be a quick way to reference a character if we don't quite remember their names.
@silent hornet oof, breat idea, i remember DoctorDDub mentioned the same thing and it slipped my mind. Will do that

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My one suggestion would be to swap where the currency and the number of items is. It makes it feel a bit more streamlined to go from "select item" -> select amount -> see total
@rustic fern thank you! We will try this out =)

lusty talon
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Idk if this feature is confirmed in any way or suggested by someone, but it’d be really cool to have seasonal outfits change for NPCs!

thick arch
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We'd love to do it @lusty talon ! The plan is to make this a stretch goal when the Kickstarter launches 🙂

lusty talon
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Yey good to know!!

robust kayak
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Yes!! I’m glad this is a goal. Those changes bring so much more life to the NPCs and the game as a whole.

visual sorrel
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Small comment on the Leah pictures from Twitter: not super comfy with the almost upskirt picture where she’s sitting down and you can see all the way up to her ass. It also doesn’t seem to match the dress from the other pictures. Like in the picture where she’s standing the dress comes down to just past her knees, but it appears significantly shorter in the sitting picture. Idk, sorry if I’m being a buzzkill, I guess I just found it a bit off putting. The art style, of course, is gorgeous even so

nocturne void
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@visual sorrel hi wombat, thank you for your feedback! I really appreciate your comments. I’m the artist on that image, and it’s actually a fan art. Not an actual official drawing and doesn’t represent Stairway games. So it’s totally my personal impression of Leah. Thank you again 😄

visual sorrel
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Oh my bad! I thought it was one of the extra pictures of the characters like have been shared on here. Sorry for sticking my nose in a fan work, obviously that’s different. And like I said before, the artwork itself is beautiful, and I love seeing more of the characters, so thanks for sharing them!

nocturne void
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No worries and thank you for your comment! 😄 I’ll be making more fan arts of Coral Island in the future

past frost
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hi hope its ok to make a comment , may be its just me but Annes short & legging colours dnt look right

latent pike
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Hi @past frost Of course! We love to hear thoughts and convos about the game. Makes the community more alive! Thank you for your feedback on Anne, we do try to read and evaluate all feedbacks. For her though, I do like the palette that David, our designer, chose. I feel that it matches well with her personality. Its true to the character😄

indigo fulcrum
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Again and always a good update everytime 👍

I have a suggestion regarding the move items thing, I think it's better if you make the appearance of the furniture on the floor a bit transparent before actually putting it
It kinda looks weird if it have the same look

Or put a colored box with the size of the furnitures

lusty talon
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Again and always a good update everytime 👍

I have a suggestion regarding the move items thing, I think it's better if you make the appearance of the furniture on the floor a bit transparent before actually putting it
It kinda looks weird if it have the same look

Or put a colored box with the size of the furnitures
@indigo fulcrum I was actually thinking the same thing! Making it transparent may look a lot better!

sinful ledge
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and maybe adding a grid on the floor and walls

torn lynx
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can I suggest updating the main page for coral island with the new bachelors and bachelorettes, I was showing my friends the page and noticed it's a bit behind. agreed to making the object you're trying to place transparent, it seems a bit odd to have two of the same solid objects on the screen

surreal mauve
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Would love to see a day of development. I'm sure there are other videogame designers and artists that would love to watch a live stream of your team coding and modeling assets for the game. Even to watch the discussion meetings in what needs to be built!

sinful ledge
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not gonna lie i think that might be too much for the team

mental kite
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I would love that too. I’d just watch it on. The side

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I find developing mesmerizing

surreal mauve
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Could be a way for them to get extra funding as a reward or a live stream patreon type thing.

dusty girder
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Again and always a good update everytime 👍

I have a suggestion regarding the move items thing, I think it's better if you make the appearance of the furniture on the floor a bit transparent before actually putting it
It kinda looks weird if it have the same look

Or put a colored box with the size of the furnitures
@indigo fulcrum, @lusty talon, @sinful ledge , thanks for the great suggestions. Agree with transparency: apparently, it is not that easy to just make it transparent. I really thought there's an alpha field to modify somewhere, but apparently not. ChickenFace A marker and grid is also great input. We didn't have time to polish that one before the blog, so that is a WIP (Work in Progress). But not to worry, we'll get there.

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can I suggest updating the main page for coral island with the new bachelors and bachelorettes, I was showing my friends the page and noticed it's a bit behind. agreed to making the object you're trying to place transparent, it seems a bit odd to have two of the same solid objects on the screen
@torn lynx will do this tomorrow! Thanks for the reminder

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Would love to see a day of development. I'm sure there are other videogame designers and artists that would love to watch a live stream of your team coding and modeling assets for the game. Even to watch the discussion meetings in what needs to be built!
@surreal mauve We actually planned this on the very beginning! But Corona happened, and it's going to be a bunch of Zoom meetings now 🤣 Thank you so much for the input! We have some articles made talking about each team members background and what they do. Reason it is not posted is probably we're unconsciously a bit afraid to overwhelm people with updates and think once a month is ideal. I think some of the articles are ready to publish actually. We'll discuss this tomorrow.

thick arch
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Could be a way for them to get extra funding as a reward or a live stream patreon type thing.
@surreal mauve

It goes a little something like this, i'll share in gif format

surreal mauve
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Ha ha @thick arch Can't forget:

thick arch
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LOL indeed

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Sometimes when something finally works

surreal mauve
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Hahhahahh YES! That moment when all of the problems start to desolve away and all that's left is progress...

thick arch
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Game dev is truly a trip

surreal mauve
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This is very true! Here I am trying to self teach myself 3D modeling and already am pulling my hair out (already bald)

thick arch
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Oh thats cool -- what type of modeling are you drawn to @surreal mauve ?

surreal mauve
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I'm really drawn to weapon design but been wanting to study more environmental/world design.

thick arch
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That's cool! Yea i dabbled in in modeling before, and there are two types, hard surface and sculpting -- the latter i really sucked at lol

surreal mauve
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Ah I see. I prefer sculpting as feels more natural but I find hard surface a lot easier to wrap your brain around!

twin plank
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Hello, first excuse my bad English. I have read about other comments and suggestions on relationships
and I would like to be able to contribute. 🥰

-Rival relationships: it’s something I like but I am one of those players who prefer a game without rivals
and give priority to the farm, when it comes to love, everyone is married in my game. (hello darkness my old friend 🥲 )
Perhaps a choice of setting up rival marriages on the menu? Rival marriages from the seventh year of play? (An options not for early access, of course)

-Jealousy System: I’ve played all kinds of farm games and none of them allow anything like jealousy,
I’ve only seen it in the HM:tale of two towns game, in which when you have 2 or more characters in love and
you have a date event with them, the next day their dialogues are jealous type:
"yesterday I saw you very happy with xxxx, you could have thought of me." I haven’t seen anything like it in any game since, and I think it would be something that would be humane and interesting to the characters. 🥺

-Love in marriage: In the majority of games I feel that when you get married love disappears or characters
lose part of their personality. Post-marriage events or family with kids maybe? 🤔

I’m sorry for the long text, just thank you for your work and I’m madly in love with the graphic style of the characters. 😍 ¡I love coral island game!

latent pike
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Hi @twin plank first of all, cool name! Love it. And your English is excellent.

Thank you for the feedback! I have to strongly agree with your last point that love does disappear after marriage in some games. So in here, we plan to have post-marriage events, different dialogues, perhaps dates? or even a domestic (nothing too crazy, but like you said, a little jealousy might be good for the soul)... the events are also gonna depend on how you'd treat your SO. Heh!

twin plank
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@latent pike Your words are wonderful! Thank you so much for responding so quickly. Be so encouraged with your great work 😍

silent hornet
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One suggestion that I would like to make after reading the October dev log. The ranching video( awesome by the way, love the chickens and how the mad face looks, cute) when you use the scythe for collecting the grass and there is this dinging sound for every piece that goes into your inventory. You may want to have no sound or lower the volume for that sound because if I collect say 20 or 30 pieces of grass and have to hear a ding every time something goes into my inventory, it could get a little frustrating . It’s like if someone’s phone was getting allot of texts and just kept dinging every second.

raven pike
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Hello, first i'm loving seeing your work and i can't wait to be able to play for the first time and sorry for my english.

First suggestion: when the character does something that involves the npc's tastes they have a positive or negative opinion regarding it. For example: I was able to remove pollution from a coral area, researchers and lovers would probably like and could comment in conversations with the character.

Second suggestion events with the npc's closest to the character, for example: Alice in her spare time goes out with her friends in the city, if the character has 5 friendship points with alice for more than 15 days there is a chance to receive an invitation to leave with Alice's group or just with Alice(maybe a crush?).

Third and last suggestion: City-specific commissions for the farm. for example: Alice and Suki need a specific amount of eggs this week for their customers' breakfast.// Pablo and Rafael need specific ores for an order from the mayor (oh maybe very important !!!) / / Scott needs help restoring an artifact or something to improve the museum's exhibit.

The idea of ​​the latter would be that the commissions are random or for large events in the city that need the help of the farm, they can hinder each other and the player has to make a choice or not, who could know if the choices can affect the relationships or not ?

latent pike
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Thank you @silent hornet and @raven pike for taking the time to give us detailed feedback. We will read through and consider them😄 keep them coming, guys!

dusty girder
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One suggestion that I would like to make after reading the October dev log. The ranching video( awesome by the way, love the chickens and how the mad face looks, cute) when you use the scythe for collecting the grass and there is this dinging sound for every piece that goes into your inventory. You may want to have no sound or lower the volume for that sound because if I collect say 20 or 30 pieces of grass and have to hear a ding every time something goes into my inventory, it could get a little frustrating . It’s like if someone’s phone was getting allot of texts and just kept dinging every second.
@silent hornet Regarding sound, we actually increased the sfx sound up for the recording because it was hard to listen before. But this is 100% a good point.

keen river
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would love to see some fancy pitch shift stuff to make it extra satisfying ;p

thick arch
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Haha that's why we boosted the volume a bit there, we were actually trying to showcase the increasing pitch that happens when multiple items enter player inventory in succession 🤣

robust kayak
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Some games have a very satisfying sound when items are picked up and placed in inventory but I totally relate to the annoyance sfx can have like another adorable game that has the character grunt after every. single. action. even turned down all the way I couldn’t make it go away 😂 So maybe an option to temporarily mute sfx

dusty girder
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" adorable game that has the character grunt after every. single. action. even turned down all the way I couldn’t make it go away" aha, i know which one is this lol Yeah, rebwil, as of now sfx can be muted already so this option should be ready.

silent hornet
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@robust kayak Lol and that grunting is unfortunately what made me stop playing that game 😂

robust kayak
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@silent hornet it’s too bad because the inventions made it so interesting to me 😆 I also saw someone on the freeway today whose car had all the stickers and accessories for that blue robocat.

supple juniper
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I suggest some stuff to add :

  • Horses, bicycles, skates to ride
  • Replace that box shipping with a truck that comes at a some specific times
  • Add port to export some goods at prices more expensive than usual ( port opens 1 day every month or maybe 2 times every year )
  • Add a danger area has some special goods but full of monsters,
  • And I hope that you can add an ability to visit your friends farms
dusty girder
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Thanks for the input @supple juniper . Horses is actually in the current plan, bycles and skates are a cool idea tho! As for danger area with special goods, that will be the mines / caverns. For visiting friends farm, this one is often requested by our colleagues as well, alas, this can be done only if we can do multiplayer. Multiplayer will be stretch goals for our upcoming KS. The other ideas are definitely new, we'll keep in mind.

ivory latch
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Minor Discord thing, but the world language channels are for players to chat, yeah? I wonder if it would be more accessible to have those channels named in the languages themselves, like "日本語" instead of "Japanese" and "Deutsch" instead of "German"

dusty girder
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ahh, good one @ivory latch !

dusty girder
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did it @ivory latch ! Do let me know here if I translated this wrong. I used deepl and google translate.

torn lynx
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Korean is wrong, it's 한국어

ivory latch
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oh. that one was stumping me. thank you, Tani 😂
Thai is listed as ภาษาไทย in the language options on Wikipedia, which looks slightly different than what you have right now. the other ones are written correctly, as far as I know, but is there a reason that Spain's Spanish is specified instead of simply Spanish?

dusty girder
dusty girder
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I'll just simplify and remove the spain / brazil

alpine sun
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when i was learning spain spanish it was always referred to as español but then i'm not a native speaker so

sinful ledge
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afaik Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese are slightly different but thats more akin to dialect
same with Spanish and Mexican Spanish

rustic fern
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They are (mostly) mutually understandable so you don't necessarily have to differentiate although sometimes there can be bigger differences than you'd think.

sinful ledge
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yup

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thats why I think comparing them as dialects works fine
its like English and American English

ivory latch
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One of my Mexican friends once mentioned that there's neutral Spanish. She was upset that Latin American Spanish is never included in games/etc., since Spain's Spanish sometimes includes stuff that she can't understand, and it makes her feel like the world ignores Latin America's existence. That frustration stuck with me

simple grove
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there is no neutral spanish

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at most there is something considered neutral among latin american countries

ivory latch
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🤷 That was her phrase for it. I don't know much about Spanish, myself

simple grove
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it's something I see mentioned a lot, but to anyone from spain is still going to sound like a latin american accent

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not that there is anything bad with that

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but "neutral" is just not possible

ivory latch
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Mm. Gotcha, thank you

west fiber
# simple grove there is no neutral spanish

It’s also known as commercial Spanish, it’s a variation that tries to avoid, as much as it can, to use words that can be confusing or that are specific of a country. So in the end it’s a Spanish that it’s friendly with most countries

simple grove
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as latin american spanish I'm sure it works, I'm just saying it doesn't work in Spain

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so you still need the two variations, or just put that and label it "latin spanish"

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technically you could use one per country, spanish from argentina is quite different as spanish from mexico

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or any other country

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but that's too expensive

west fiber
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But still, 90% of the things that are on the market that are translations from English to Spanish are in Spain’s Spanish, that was the reason of my complaint (I’m just talking about the video game market)

simple grove
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that why I'm saying that I also wish more games came with the two variations, spain-spanish and latin-spanish to make it more accesible

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just that what is called "neutral" doesn't sound neutral at all here

west fiber
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Latin-Spanish would be the commercial Spanish then, since there are not just two variations of it. Precisely because each country has their differences is why commercial Spanish is used in things that are going to be commercialized among Spanish speaking countries. It’s called neutral because the point is for you to not know from where is that variation of Spanish

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That’s why it’s neutral and not universal

simple grove
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well, i personally play most things in english so wouldn't care

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but I don't think it would work well here at all

west fiber
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I wouldn’t care either if my games arrived in their native language with subs, but sadly, 8 times out of 10 I have to deal with the Spain’s Spanish translation without the option of change the language

dusty girder
simple grove
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mmm but a lot of games don't even come translated to spanish here

dusty girder
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My personal feel is similar to @simple grove . Indonesian got it even worse, no games translate to our language. So we are so used to English.

simple grove
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it's gotten better in later years for sure, and for big companies

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but most indies are english only, understandably of couse

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because of costs

west fiber
dusty girder
simple grove
dusty girder
simple grove
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i'm curious cos that seems like the opposite I've seen

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only older pokemon games come to mind in games that would only have spanish

west fiber
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Skyrim, bioshock, and Spyro are the ones that comes to my mind, console versions

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I think assassins creed too

dusty girder
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and in the console stores, you're not given an option to buy the English version?

west fiber
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Nope

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I wish they had an option in game to change the language but they don’t

dusty girder
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Oh my god, yeah, that's terrible.

simple grove
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but you have the console itself in english or spanish?

west fiber
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In Spanish but I think it’s a matter of the cd, because I own games in English too so I don’t think it should make a difference

simple grove
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most game take the language of the console

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and don't have an option to change it

west fiber
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Mmm I’ll try to change the language to see if it works

short adder
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I was going to say, most games have an option to change. Unless the console itself is in a different language. Maybe changing the console to English would help?

dusty girder
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This is a real issue @simple grove . When I purchased FF7R, PS Store defaults to Chinese language, and NO English. OMG. I played the game using Google Translate Camera 🤦‍♂️

short adder
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That’s horrible. And exhausting.

dusty girder
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It's really stupid like.... why do you only allow other languages but not English?

short adder
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Is there a way to change the default language in the PS Store? I honestly gave up the PlayStation console a long time ago. I have a PS4. But I never use it.

west fiber
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Omg that sounds like hell

dusty girder
dense mortar
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so, no, and yes. I think you can change the language by changing the region in the PS Store.

dusty girder
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Me, getting new materia, whip out my phone. My wife laughed at me so much 😂

dense mortar
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(I know I've had to do that semi frequently because I import a game series which required me to set up a singaporian account.)

short adder
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I still haven’t finished the FF7 remake.

dusty girder
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In my case they still have the English version, it's just mislabeled, and I didn't see the language when I pre-ordered.

dense mortar
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ah

dusty girder
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do you know why they do that @dense mortar ?

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My hunch is it's a publisher thing

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Like Asian --> different publisher, than English

dense mortar
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That'd be my guess. Most of my knowledge is in visual novel spaces, which is completely different than triple-A studios

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(Although, I have to wonder why Sony is odd about regionals, since it has regions for a lot of SE Asia, unlike Nintendo.)

dusty girder
ivory latch
tacit ermine
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I actually thought of a Calender Event where the NPCs would gather and visit your farm and have a party there anually. It would be fun to see them complimenting our farm.

ivory latch
thick arch
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This is really great feedback @ivory latch ! We were just talking about this earlier today... a lot to prep and update for when the trailer drops 💪

ivory latch
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excited!!

thick arch
bold oracle
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Oops can’t post images. Anyway. How about setting up that invite button that sits at the top of the channel list?

dusty girder
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hey @bold oracle, sorry which one do you mean?

bold oracle
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On mobile, most servers I’m in have a invite button you can press to get the server link.

bold oracle
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The “other questions” in #❓coral-faq don’t have any answers 😅. Just in case you wanted to answer them.

drowsy blaze
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I'm going to copy this here because it's probably the one major request I have when it comes to relationships in a sim game: if I play optimally in my interpersonal relationship with a love interest then one of two things should happen: I should either help them fulfill whatever dreams they have for their life, or worst case scenario: part of their plot line involves them realizing that their original dream was bad for them in some way and I help them find a new dream that they can pursue. Said dream should NOT be "marrying the PC and working on the farm." I hate feeling like I made my chosen spouse sacrifice what they wanted from life just to be with me. I like the idea that if I don't treat them well then our relationship might have issues, but please, don't give me a situation where I realize that I actually screwed up their life goals just because I married them. If they tell me they want to be a famous rock star then don't have them tell me one day out of the blue that "well, my life didn't go the way I planned, but I'm happy with this life even if I couldn't have my dream." Let them keep pursuing it, just maybe in a different way, like on YouTube or something instead of touring.

bold oracle
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CoralTube

lusty talon
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It’s doesn’t even have to be or love interest, like they could be one of them and they still do it and we don’t see them for a whole year

drowsy blaze
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Hey, if my spouse decided to be a touring musician who was gone half the year and I had to call or write letters that would be an interesting mechanic at least.

bold oracle
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Precursor for domestic troubles cutscenes

cursive bridge
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Honestly a penpal turned relationship would be something interesting

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but it would be an entire mechanic on it's own

bold oracle
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There’s only so much time and budget a game can have

drowsy blaze
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Yup. Sadly

latent pike
cursive bridge
silent hornet
cursive bridge
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Hey, so I watched your video. Really loved the visuals and music. Just some feedback:

  1. It's looks hard to judge the distance between the player character and the monster because of the camera angle. I'm not sure if this can be fixed(or just something we learn to adjust to) but that was something my friend and I noticed

  2. I just wanted to say I really appreciate that you can pet the dog 😁

short adder
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I am curious on the swimming animation too. Is there a possible way to make it look a little more like swimming? Or will it still look like bouncing across the bottom of the ocean?

bold orchid
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what are the mechanics to fishing. as an older gamer 52, i have alot of hand movement issues moving a mouse in circles fast, up and down etc, not so easy. is this going to be like sdew valley or portia fishing? i notice alot of my age plays animal crossing, and this game can fill that " i cant play sdew"group need for this game

thick arch
# bold orchid what are the mechanics to fishing. as an older gamer 52, i have alot of hand mov...

Hi there, we’ll be responding to more tomorrow, but i really want to take the time to address this now. Accessibility is important for us, and we might not get everything right or have the manpower to implement everything we want by Early Access, specific to combat and fishing though, players will be able to adjust the difficulty there, be it reducing the need for precise motor inputs or dealing more dmg/more player health

bold orchid
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❤️

olive kestrel
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just a quick opinion, it'd be cool if the farmable land texture was stretched to the edge, like where it meets the fence (not a path or opening) so it looked more fluid or natural.

vestal dove
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Hi! I've watched the trailer and I wanted to give some feedback too. I'm new here so I may not know all the information, sorry if I missed something!

The first thing I noticed was that it looks veeeery much like Stardew Valley, even more than My Time at Portia. I don't think it's a bad thing, as I love this game, but I hope that there are enough different content to keep your game interesting. I especially hope that the story is nice and that the interaction with the characters are also interesting. I've seen many different characters, so if each of them has a well developed background story, it could be really amazing! I've heard that some characters could ask you to marry them, and I think that's a really great idea. And it's something that's not in Stardew Valley! I also liked that Erika talked about her date with Frank. It's nice that there is some interaction between the characters themselves, not just you and the characters individually.

By the way the characters look wonderful. I love the difference between the 3D looking game and the drawing looking characters. Everything looks beautiful, the colors are nice and the landscapes are amazing too. I don't know if it's difficult to make, but I think it could be nice to zoom a bit, especially with other characters or in beautiful places, if it's not possible yet.

Last thing, I think some animation are maybe a bit slow? Like when you cut a tree, it looks like you just hit it once, then you rest, then you hit it again, etc. I've seen the same with hitting monsters I think. I hope that it gets faster during the game and that it's just slow at the beginning!

bold oracle
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Did you want #📰media-coverage left open to everyone or did you want to lock it only to moderators?

cursive bridge
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^

dusty girder
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thanks for the catch, I think let's lock it to mods for now yeah, DM me if you find anything new!

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I'll still allow emoji reacts

urban finch
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When i &my friend see the trailer , all of us thinks its good, especially the diving mechanics, but we think the game need something that differentiate it with other farming simulator in major , the diving aspecs was good but we need something that lock your eyes for the game in the first place, maybe give a chance for the player to crafts some machine to make their farm automatic, and because the developer was indonesia, why dont put a spear fishing/ Harpooning mechanics in the game in addition to get a fish, or maybe something more traditional like , instead to pay debt or rejuvinating the economy of the island as a plot, why dont you guys make a story where born in the island, have a different story route , maybe the character want to create A corp carnival in the island? I will leave this to you guys to decide

urban finch
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I also want to ask, 1 year in the game will only have 4 season right? Did you guys use the system "1 season only last for 1 month, and 1 month only 30 days" Like the other game similar game? ,cuz in my opinion, 1 month for each season is too short, the player ussually completely understand the mechanics after the first & the second season was passed, that makes a lot of player skip a lot of things , i think if you implement something different will be pretty fun, maybe 2 month for each season, or maybe the settings will be in the alternatives universe where 1 week is 10 days, and 1 month is 5 week, i know this is non-sense & sounds wierd, but im serious about 1 month per season is so short

dusty girder
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Hmmm, will keep this in mind . The flip side is that part of what makes farming games fun is the changing of seasons right. New stuff to see etc.

urban finch
rustic fern
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That can also be rectified by how long a day in the game actually lasts. If an in-game day only lasts 15 minutes you can't get a long done. If an in-game day lasts an hour or more, you can generally get stuff done with time left over which makes the seasons feel longer, so I think even if it is 30 days per season with 4 seasons, the real tweaking and balance can be on the length of an in-game day. 🙂

red ember
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It could be fun if we could set birthdays and loved, liked, dislike, and hate gifts for our characters haha. Idk if there's a mechanic where NPCs can send us gifts but if so, this could be cute. I've always wanted to have this set but idk how hard this will be to code.

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Also for NPC dialogue, what I like about World's Dawn is that they actually have dialogue for when we have low health/stamina, saying things like "Maybe you should take a break?"

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Dialogue like "Are you sure you're okay? Want me to take you to the clinic?" are super cute because I feel like they actually care.

urban finch
# rustic fern That can also be rectified by how long a day in the game actually lasts. If an i...

I didn't mean it short because you can only do a small amount of thing, i say it short because some content will be limited to each season, for example you can't go fishing in the winter, so you will try to find the biggest fish you want before it, but if you cant find any info about winter before it come because you explore the other thing, you will never know what happened in winter and miss the chance to catch the biggest fish in auntum, my point is, a lot of player cant experiencing the full content in the season if 1 season only have 1 month, but your idea is'nt bad either

rustic fern
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I tend to find that most seasonal events are things that can either a) be done during that season or b) you learn about it as it comes and the next year you can prepare for it. Just like in real life, you don't always know what happens in your town annually and you learn by experiencing, and then the next year, when you've become a more permanent member of your community, you can participate in a more meaningful way. I don't ever think that the first year you should already be winning every contest and all that either, although I'm sure some people will use spoilers and wikis to learn what's coming up or what the schedule is so they can prepare. I understand what you're saying, but I think it detracts from the game and the experience.

urban finch
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I see, i will wait the dev to make their game "unique" &"interesting" in their own way & their own touch then

twin plank
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I suppose the length of each day is something that should be set according to the size of Coral Island. Developers will adjust the characters' time and speed so that their movement speed and travel time is balanced. This is perhaps what I least like about other games like Stardew Valley, which takes 2 hours to go from the farm to the beach and you should think ahead the way forward to save time. It’s something we won’t know about Coral Island until we play it

rustic fern
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On the other hand, My Time at Portia allows you to adjust the amount of IRL time an in-game day takes to more easily suit your playstyle or the things like you like to do. Obviously there's a cap on either end for how short or long it can be, but it's really nice to let it be adjustable in any capacity. But yeah, for HM or SDV it gets frustrating (for me) how long it can take to get somewhere and how hard it can be (for someone like me) to plan ahead

dusty girder
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Thanks the input everyone, yeah, balance are definitely a critical and difficult part to get right. There are so many ways to play a farm sim game. Each type of play is valid, and that's the beauty of a good farm game. But yeah, we will do our best to achieve balance. That's why the backer demo is important because we can't possibly get everything right the first time.

silent hornet
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i just want to say from watching the trailer for the 100th time lol you absolutely nailed a perfect sound for the text when a character is supposed to be speaking.. I was worried it was going to be overpowering and clicky but it was soft and nice, great job

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a suggestion can frank and Erika since they are married have wedding rings? If that’s mostly an American culture thing i completely understand, was just wondering

coarse wedge
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Please bring Coral Island to Playstation and Nintendo Switch to...
I really want to play this game...

robust kayak
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Not sure if this had been brought up yet, but will we be able to choose the placement of: house, mailbox, shipping container? As I’m playing Stardew Valley I realize some things are not placed the way I like it. Maybe we can have an editing option at the beginning? I’d take just the shipping box being editable once or a mobile one like a cart or wheelbarrow. 😬

topaz anchor
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great game like stardew valley with better graphic, i hope this game have a speaking dialogue like my time at portia game.. can't wait for the game.

twin plank
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Since the npcs clothes were announced I turn my head over the wedding clothes. Will both our player character and the npcs dress properly on their wedding days? I hate that in my time at portia the bachelor/bachelorettes have their normal clothes. Or in stardew valley when it’s the spring dance event everyone has their dance clothes but not the player. Another thing, I do not know if the developers have thought: I guess if we want to change our clothes we will use the closet of our house (I saw it in the trailer, I guess it’s for that, sorry if I’m wrong) Perhaps there is an npc with a tailoring shop that allows us to buy costumes or is unlocked with some events ? Not now but yes in a future update?

latent pike
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Hi @twin plank ! Yep, each date-able NPC will have their own unique wedding outfit. We make sure to tailor each design to fit their character as well.

As in for the Players, yes, the goal is to give you the option to wear a wedding outfit as well, eventually. It will be in one of our future updates. We havent finalized the details just yet though, in term of how, where & when you should change into it.

Also for the shop, yes!! There is a merchant that you can visit to change appearance💫

latent pike
latent pike
twin plank
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thank you so much for everything, you are wonderful. Thanks to all the team also for their great work

urban finch
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Is that possible to be single till the end in this game? Or to continue the story we need to choose 1 ?

latent pike
urban finch
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Okay, thanks

lusty talon
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Speaking of making friends, it’d be so cool to have like.. idk how to explain it but it works how marriage works I guess that you get after-marriage scenes but it’s like having someone as a best friends and there’s more scenes with that person I guess sorry if my explanation is bad lol

red ember
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silent hornet
twin plank
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I'm loading games and I marry everyone to see all romantic events 🤣

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Same thing I did

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red ember
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Inspired from the small convo in the questions channel and Sarcosmic's mention about Portia's commission board:
It could be cool if we could also send requests in a commission/job board, so it doesn't feel like we do everything in town and we can send payment or barter through mail or something

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World's Dawn may not be the best game out there but the dialogue is pretty good, and made me really love the characters because they made me feel like that actually care

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it also has dialogue like these for every npc whenever your energy is below a certain threshold and i think it's lovely

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they also have dialogue if your character goes out in their underwear and it's pretty funny lol
it really adds to the immersion of the game and make us feel that the npcs are actual people

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also pls, this isn't a priority but it would be really nice if our characters could have character birthdays, liked, love, neutral, dislike, and hated gifts ;3;

ivory latch
# red ember Inspired from the small convo in the questions channel and Sarcosmic's mention a...

Moving my suggestion from that channel here:

There's more info on that loot commission system on the wiki, if you'd like to take a look! It's really great in Portia, since grinding materials yourself can be tedious and detract from time spent doing things you may enjoy more. The dungeon-diving commissions cost a lot (in the typical early-mid game budget, at least) and also require that you have personally cleared a dungeon level once in order to commission loot from that level, so it's definitely a service that's earned https://mytimeatportia.fandom.com/wiki/Civil_Corps#Commissions

latent pike
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Thank you guys for the suggestions! Keep em coming wavechicken

robust kayak
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Will there be an adoption option? For singles or couples experiencing difficulties? Can Emily and her husband adopt since they can’t conceive? My heart goes out to those who can’t have children!

torn lynx
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I'd love to see events that happen in people's lives occur throughout the game so it doesn't feel so static. Like families that already exist maybe have celebrations in their homes and if you befriend them, they invite you over. If you start dating someone maybe their family wants to meet you, or if a family wants a pet maybe you could sell one you've raised to them and you see that pet at their house afterwards. Hanging out with a couple of friends in a group 👀

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I also tend to really like atmospheric additions to games like hearing loud voices and laughter near the pub, hearing waves and seagulls near the beach, seeing light in the window of a home at night and personalized stuff at every house like a bike for a kid or plants for someone who enjoys gardening, fishing kits for a fisher, etc. It's the little things for me 😂

lusty talon
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Another thing I thought of, gifting. In most farming sims you're always giving people gifts but you rarely get anything in return. It'd be nice if people you're getting close to would randomly show up on your farm and be like "I noticed you've been working hard lately I made you this dish, I hope it helps you keep your energy up!" or like if you're befriending a fisherman maybe they give you a fishing pole they've had in their family, or the blacksmith would give you a sword they'd worked hard to make for you, etc

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Also deeper backstories, like giving them and their families an origin, another thing I dislike is lack of depth. "Hi I'm Suzy I'm the rancher," but they'd be more interesting if they were like "Hi I'm Suzy, I come from a long line of ranchers, my grandfather moved here when he was young and built this ranch from the ground up and since my parents moved away, I was left to inherit his legacy" and then there's like a portrait of the grandfather or some sort of tribute to him in the house

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I know I'm suggesting a lot but I don't expect anything, just some ideas in my head 😂

silent hornet
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Truly, giving 90% of my farm's profits to befriend townsfolk and I don't get so much as a scrap of junk in return in most games 😂 I be out here handing out diamonds and other precious gems, cooking people their favorite dishes daily, and all I get in return is "oh thanks"

red ember
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Maybe the people we have the highest friendships on will give us bday gifts or special gifts

lusty jasper
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Omg that would be amazing

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Having our own gift preferences and bdays would be great

torn lynx
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I'd be fine with different gifts from different people

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Like depending on their career or personality

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If one tended to give clothes, blacksmith gives weapons or tools, housewife cooks you meals, stuff like that

lusty jasper
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Yeah that would also be a really good idea

torn lynx
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Though I'd feel really bad only befriending certain people for the gifts they give LMAO

lusty jasper
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One thing that i love in games is customization so as long as theres that ill be happy.

red ember
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i think those would be good as general gifts, like when they wanna give you something out of the blue but i do agree that it's cute lol

silent hornet
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it’s definitely needed! sometimes while i’m playing a game i think about that” why am i breaking my back to get this for you”

stray merlin
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Have you considered releasing the game in Thai as well?

thick arch
# stray merlin Have you considered releasing the game in Thai as well?

Hi there! Yes we did. However because we have limited funds, the way way decide what languages to support several months after the EA release is by looking at where our game is receiving wishlist from.

If it were up to me, Coral Island would be localized into as many languages as possible haha. So i hope in the future we can add Thai and many other languages as well.

thick arch
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Great suggestions @torn lynx! Little details really are the best, and our goal is to try and incorporate as much of it into the game as possible. Since we are launching into early access, not all areas and or homes will be as fleshed out as we like at launch. The goal is to have several places in the game where the community can get a good feel on how much detail we plan to pack in most areas/homes, and of course, we need feedback to tweak. So yea, i am very much looking forwad to it!

robust kayak
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I think one of my favorite little details about the artwork is that the characters have little hairs out of place and it isn’t smooth and unrealistic.

lusty jasper
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idea: be able to gift them a razor

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hahaha

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lmaooo

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I personally don't mind but it would be really cool to have the option to toggle their hair or beards.

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I feel like also looking at the same character with or without facial hair can make them look so different haha

silent hornet
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same i love when guys have beards but a toggle option for those who don’t would be cool

red ember
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same tbh, i like them usually but i mostly prefer if they don't have as much facial hair;;;

torn lynx
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A furry? Real people have body hair lol that doesn't make them animals

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I get it not being your cup of tea but that's offensive to people who have body hair

cursive bridge
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Woofwoof... I hear that, @torn lynx 😟

lusty jasper
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smh

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im just a dude

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a guy

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a bro

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a man

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LMAOOO

torn lynx
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Anyway, I do not like how negatively that was put, but maybe when you're starting to get close to a bach they'll come up to you clean shaven one day and ask what you think and you can have the option to answer "I like it" to keep them clean shaven or "I like your natural look better" to have them keep it grown out

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If it's really that big of an issue for some people

tall bay
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that would be a cool mechanic

lusty jasper
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I think thats a cool idea

rustic fern
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Yeah, body hair is.. normal, lol

torn lynx
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Even women get body hair lmao

rustic fern
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I get not liking it on yourself maybe, but saying that it's gross on other people is... rude, to say the least

tall bay
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agreed especially when you add the comparison to animals

lusty jasper
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I also just like the idea of a toggling system. Cuz id just like to keep switching between them lol

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i feel like there could be a cool in-game way to do it without it just being an option in the menu but also... im too inconsistent haha and id just be wanting to change it a bunch

lusty talon
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I mean.. that’s what modes are here for right?

lusty jasper
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true

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also watch me getting excited for a feature that isn't even in the game lmaoooo

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I need to chill

lusty talon
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Lol I can relate tbh

dusty girder
# lusty talon I mean.. that’s what modes are here for right?

What a good idea, I have not think about it that way. We've discussed this adding options for this and that as well, and it always ended with the same issue that is: It will be too many options that it's confusing. But I think you're right modding support is the answer, I've never look at it this way, thanks! Can't promise anything yet, modding support is not easy 😅

lusty talon
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Hey you do you what you gotta do! you can’t please everyone and that’s okay!

bold oracle
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You can’t please everyone, just as long as I get what I want.

rustic fern
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Modding support can also just... go on the back burner to be something to add further down the line after the game launches and stuff, when y'all have more time to work on the back end, added features, etc. I know everyone is so excited about this game, and we all have our ideas of what we want and stuff, and I know y'all are so receptive to feedback but also like... you're doing a great job so far, and don't let us throw off your priorities or schedules or whatnot. It's a solid community and everyone seems pretty flexible, willing to wait for things, etc. And you've all shown the care you put into the character/NPC creation and the aesthetic of the game, and through the dev updates it's obvious that y'all are working hard so like... we're proud, and we're excited, and y'all just keep doing you!

lusty talon
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Yes exactly. I think these Ideas could be considered until post launch and once everything planned so far is already out there. I wouldn't want to overwhelm the developers with requests or anything!

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Everything so far looks good so im gonna be happy with whatever happens

slim shuttle
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equating humans with body hair to animals doesn’t seem a bit rude to you?

dusty girder
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hi all, let's stop discussing this topic in this channel.

thick arch
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I'll DM you @frank swan and hopefully we can sort it out 👍

lusty jasper
red ember
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I'd love to have a toggle system tbh

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idk how to code tho so idk how hard it is to put in the game

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ALSO please give us global settings pls pls pls

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like in the startup menu, we can set up all of the settings instead of just changing all of the settings in that particular save file

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key binds, sound, graphics, language, etc before actually launching a save file would be a godsend

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Idk why stardew doesn't have this but we've already raised it to CA, so i really hope this game has it asdfghjk

red ember
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also got this idea when @cursive bridge mentioned lore:

Asia, most specifically South and Southeast Asia, has a lot of creepy lore and ghost stories that it might be cool if there are some dialogue regarding some spirits or cultural creatures from some of the NPCs. Doesn't need to be something spectacular like adding actual supernatural beings other than mermaids, but maybe something like "Some say that a tikbalang sometimes roam around the forests of X place." I'm filipino so i'm more familiar with our lore but this would be a great cultural touch point in general haha

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or maybe some elderly NPCs tell the kids "Don't go out after sunset. The tianaks might take you."

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as a kid growing up, i heard many varieties of this so this might bring a lot of nostalgia for a lot of people haha

coarse pond
# red ember also got this idea when <@456226577798135808> mentioned lore: Asia, most specif...

Very cool idea, i like it. Maybe change a little on its name/design, so it wont so obvious but still sparks familiarity to some people. Make it an easter egg or something.

Can't wait for kickstarter launch. So we actually can give a real feedback and support. Rightnow I hope devs are not to be overwhelmed by our suggestions, and focus for the launch. (Everyone here is so hyped, that any idea might pop out every second)

red ember
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and yes, please don't feel as if we want you all to rush. a good game takes time :>

lusty jasper
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It could also be cool if the player could choose between outfits suited for each season for their character

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thats just a little idea that could be a cool touch

cursive bridge
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Yes! Plz! It would add so much to a game of this type

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NPC too!

feral beacon
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That would be super cute!

cursive bridge
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Also,If there be player kids,I pray they grow at least to child stage and run around out side!

cloud veldt
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I'd say toddler would be nice, but not like little little toddler and more like talking and running around toddler

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Although I think it'd depend on if they got the teen tier reached on the kickstarter.
Baby=>toddler=>Child vs Baby=>child=>Teen

torn lynx
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I hope we make the stretch goal 🥺

cursive bridge
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Me too

cursive bridge
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Plz allow us to sit down! Big game changer there if can’t 😢

thick arch
cursive bridge
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That’s great! As long it gets in there!🥰

thick arch
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👍

red ember
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Can we boop the snoots of sharks

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Pls

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Water doggos

bold oracle
red ember
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yes

bronze moat
grim plover
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I am not familiar with the inventory/storage system currently planned however, i greatly recommend the My time in Portia storage system

How it works is when you have all your chests organized on your home plot regardless of where they are on the plot you can open one of the boxes then click the sort all button from your inventory and it will sort them into the boxes that has a stack of that item.

Even if its not the box you initially opened, it will find the box the item is in and place it in the same one.

If the stack is maxed itll make a new stack of that item if there is room.

You can also craft anywhere in the home as long as there are required resources either on your person or in the storage boxes

Reorganizing - Chests are able to be picked up without removing the items from the storage first, the chest does not go into your inventory and needs to be placed back down if it is full.
You can put it into your inventory in portia but that would empty the chest into the player inventory

Playing the game yourself would be easier than explaining here! 😅

ivory latch
fringe void
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Just saw the trailer for this and got real excited for it! Only thing for me is that i hope the movement/animation feels smoother than it looks. Looks a little stiff. But other than that i love the concept and design!

craggy widget
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I dont want to hate but personally I'm missing a red haircolour for the marriage candidates. Especially for the boys. And maybe a darker blond or something, cause I feel like the haircolours are pretty much the same brown/black-ish exept one.

rustic fern
bold oracle
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True. It was also a tad disappointing how perfect and young all the date-ables are. There’s no options to date Millie or Connor.

rustic fern
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Top row... green, blonde, blue-black

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second row, pink

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fourth row, another blondie.

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Also, the devs are Asian, so that might greatly influence design choices.

bold oracle
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There’s a red headed doctor but he’s not date-able

smoky flint
bold oracle
smoky flint
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Whaaaa why isn't he dateable?! :v

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He would actually make me torn between him and Rafael

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lol

craggy widget
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haha

craggy widget
twin plank
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I don’t know, in my case it’s the first time I’ve liked all the dateable characters. I guess you can count on your character to add more personality to the game. I find (at the moment) more interesting Suki than Alice but I feel it’s quite wonderful to have 16 singles to choose from.

frosty coyote
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I think the cast is amazing and for once I'm very glad whites are not the majority buuuut there's still representation for them

silent hornet
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this is the first where the characters are actually diverse.. i’m excited to just see people looking differently.. bravo to the team

red ember
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Yeah. It's nice to see characters that has the same skin color that I have. I don't see a lot of brown Asians in games or media so this is nice.

bold oracle
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It makes sense considering the plot of the game. Plus Dippa does have dark red hair, she’s just not date-able and there’s no males with that hair colour.

spice scarab
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if you want a game with red hair bachelor/ette you can just play MTaP, they got plenty of those.

craggy widget
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I do play that. But since there is the doctor with red hair it's not totally crazy to have a date-able red hair male candidate. but thats just my opinion as I said.

spice scarab
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yeah i think this game is more SEAcentric, i personally would love to date some of the ineligible npcs but we cant have everything. there are plenty other game with red haired candidates

bold oracle
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Plus red hair is what? 2% of the world? The game has* already filled it’s quota 😅

spice scarab
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exactly, other similar games got like 1-2 token poc, so this game is a blessing.

atomic token
signal bone
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My feedback is: Coral island has a great team love you do a nice job blush_eoto_002

grand crater
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I know it's a brand new game, but will it ever feature multiplayer capability? My siblings live in another town so multiplayer gaming is a great way for us to spend time "together", and this game looks amazing, so I want to share it with my brother and sister. 🥰🙏🏻

rustic fern
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That's one of the stretch goals on the kickstarter, I do believe! Or is slated to be, in any case!

grand crater
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Oh! Thank you!! 😍

ivory latch
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could you please specify the currency listed in the #❗kickstarter pricing to eliminate any chance of confusion?

raven pike
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hey we have a kickstarter goal and discord goal... maybe will be good a steam wishlist goal too?

gusty ocean
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I don't know if thats something that can be tracked or not...

silent hornet
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i think they should be able to see how many people have wishlisted the game on their side. we wouldn’t be able to see that

edgy skiff
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I know Pathea is doing a steam WL goal for Sandrock so it is doable. But yeah we wouldn't be able to see it.

raven pike
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well we maybe not see but they probably can. The idea it's one more way to interactive with a possibly players

ivory latch
thick arch
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great suggestion @red ember and thanks for pointing it out @ivory latch , this should be easy to add tomorrow!

red ember
full karma
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Let us love Mermaids and -men please 🥺

calm yarrow
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This is just a minor suggestion but I believe that Noah should have lighter palms in order to represent black people better 😁 But this isnt necessary as we can hardly see it, just a small tip

magic marsh
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i agree with Kirschbier. Please let us love the mermaid/ man

robust kayak
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I know an evil sea creature that can give him legs...

eternal tide
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aw how nice of the sea creature 🥺 what could possibly go wrong?

robust kayak
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Hmm maybe it’ll make him mortal and single 🧐

drowsy thorn
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And unable to speak

full karma
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I'll take all that for a romance with him jinholaugh

eternal tide
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actually, do we have any npcs with confirmed disabilities?

spice scarab
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Randy has a prosthetic arm

torn hawk
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Minor suggestion, but you guys should add into the kickstarter that the romance/marriage options can be romanced by any sex/gender! because i'm not gonna lie, i joined the discord JUST to find out whether or not they are. it's definitely what's making me pledge to the kickstarter!

swift orchid
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I completely agree with this

opaque parcel
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Hiiii I asked this on the steam page awhile back, but just wondering if there’s any word on optional camera angles? Specifically over the shoulder or just less top down? It’s more immersive for me personally. Super excited either way, and pledged today for the alpha testing!

merry granite
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Hi! I’ve been such a fan since the beginning because I love and believe in your vision! I had a question/suggestion. In the future, will there be rival marriages? So no one has to end up alone? Unless they want to!

dusty girder
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Hey there, just wondering as I'm not sure if this is too ambitious or hard to programme. But I was curious if there would be an option of wedding attire so that any wedding cut-scenes feel special but players can feel accurately represented in their choice of clothing and gender-identity. Just thinking back to other farming sim games in which the wedding events lose a bit of magic when you're showing up to get married in overalls that you wear everyday 😄

bleak junco
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Maybe if we could have a fish tank r o show off our fave fish in home

bleak junco
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Also it would be cool to have stingrays and sword sharks in the game, they are both becoming or are in danger of being extinct. Could be a good late game fish to catch when you've cleaned the ocean up a lot.

lavish frost
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Apparently I am the 2181th person to join lol. Honoured 🙂

red ember
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hear me out

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boop the snoots of sharks

edit: i have learned that this disorients sharks and now would ask

can sharkies come to us instead

gusty ocean
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D: But that makes them disoriented!

soft sandal
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Alternatively: Pet along sides and tum as they swim by and over you

kind pivot
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Shark skin is super rough, though, right? That is why people don't recommend actually petting them, because you will most likely bleed and thats not good

soft sandal
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Not all sharks have rough skin, some are actually incredibly smooth (such as the bonnet head shark) but divers wear gloves while diving because most things in the ocean are sharp to avoid being eaten so you're already geared up for that issue

gusty ocean
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Sharks coming to us while we're diving and then petting them would be pretty cool

kind pivot
soft sandal
kind pivot
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That is true, too, yes xD

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Although that works for wild animals in general, too

craggy widget
dusty girder
simple grove
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Will there be support for ultra wide resolutions?

placid canopy
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I want to say that the game looks fantastic and keep up the hard work! 👏🏽 One suggestion is that we please get at least one kind of animal festival (with possible horse racing). 🤞🏽 This is one thing I really appreciated in the HM/SOS series and something that SV lacked. It’s nice to have pets, livestock and poultry feel less like an alternative cash crop and/or cute prop and more like an.. animal. 😭

bold oracle
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Just as long as it’s not a luwak coffee harvest festival

frosty coyote
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I made that same suggestion back then cause that's my gripe with SV, the lack of animal festivals. They said that the festivals are already drafted but they couldn't disclose information rn which is pretty understandable!

edgy skiff
dusty girder
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Ohhh, wait, do you mean zoom in zoom out? That is supported

silent hornet
dusty girder
cursive ivy
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Free pan is always my preferred camera. It makes it a lot easier to take fun in game pictures.

cursive ivy
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I'm hoping that since mining is already a thing that we can make a pseudo blacksmith. With the mini games that would be fun. Mining, Smelting, Crafting the tools, then using my own tools for farming and such.

torn hawk
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oh! that'd be so much fun!

opaque parcel
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@dusty girder Thanks for the response! Being able to zoom in and maybe move the camera around a bit is good too!

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@craggy widget Yeah maybe not, the world just looks so pretty I wanted to see it at that angle but I understand 😊

bold oracle
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I’m in another server that was currently adding their new game to twitch’s database so I thought I’d check out Coral Island. Someone added your game already but there was no info. I added in some details from the press kit which are pending verification.

Just something to think about for the alpha release. The twitch game cover is also a portrait 600x800 image.

dusty girder
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Thank you so much @bold oracle . Hmm, if I recall we dont have a 600x800 cover image yet

bold oracle
dusty girder
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Thanks, once things easen up on the marketing art pipeline we'll make one

coral slate
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Ohh 😮 talking about cover image, is it possible to give us landscape for phone wallpaper 🥺 or something that i can use for profile picture in my messenger app that’d be nice ..

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Honestly i really like the art-style. goatlove2

lunar sphinx
dusty girder
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Right now it's just zoom in / out. Tilt about should be possible but not too much.

Pan mode, hmmmm, this definitely is possible technically, but I'm wondering what is the use case of pan? Because I'm afraid it will ruin the gameplay as it will serve as a cheat way to find npc / items if we allow them to be done at any time.

Rotate is not going to be supported as we've decided early on to make this a top down game, and optimize the game from one angle.

swift orchid
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Personally I don't love the top down thing, but that's a personal thing on my end. I like that you guys are choosing something and sticking with it. The little bit of zoom to get in there and see plants and animals and stuff will be enough I think. 🙂

white geode
cursive ivy
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Yeah Zoom is the most important. Pan, Tilt, and Rotate is just for screenshots really. I'd say stick to the zoom if top down is the solid plan.

swift orchid
lunar sphinx
# dusty girder Right now it's just zoom in / out. Tilt about should be possible but not too muc...

Thanks for the quick reply, I was thinking that there might be an option to freely control the camera in the 3D space, which is why I wrote about panning. If it's fixed to top down mode, then panning wouldn't make sense.

However, is there any chance for a 2D-space rotate so we can see things at a different angle? One of the biggest annoyances I find in a game like Animal Crossing: New Horizons is that the camera is angled in such a way that if you're behind a tree, rock, building or a hill, you kinda have to guess if you're picking stuff up.

dusty girder
lunar sphinx
ivory latch
ruby mango
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Are there any plans for some sort of vehicle? I figured similar to the series we can probably ride horses but I've always wanted options in Stardew that aren't there outside of modding like a bicycle or even a scooter, possibly a car or motorcycle, or even just other animals besides horses ya know?

lilac drift
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Will the pets have different outfits? I could totally see switching the dogs bandana out for different seasons, events, or perhaps even with quest rewards, stuff purchased in shop, gifts from NPCs after you've developed a friendship. Maybe even a kickstarter -reward accessory 🤩

full anchor
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Will the pets have different outfits? I could totally see switching the dogs bandana out for different seasons, events, or perhaps even with quest rewards, stuff purchased in shop, gifts from NPCs after you've developed a friendship. Maybe even a kickstarter -reward accessory 🤩
@lilac drift maybe yes if they get the goals, $250.000

bold oracle
dusty girder
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ahh, ok Mark, thanks I was checking and it was still blank as well

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hmmm,I googled, can't find a way to submit as a developer

bold oracle
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It’s in the link I posted

Game Developers and Publishers: Game developers and publishers can click here to provide us with verification information and request access to the Twitch developer console. Once approved, they can add box art from the Games section of the console using the file uploader, view analytics about their games’ performance on Twitch, setup drops campaigns, and more.

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But no rush. 😂 got until June

soft sandal
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I know this point was already suggested, but as I was rewatching the trailer (because I can't stop it's so pretty) I was thinking about the suggestion to have positive shark interactions. I know that including a whole new wildlife interaction could be a lot for the team but I do think having sharks depicted in a positive or even neutral light in the game is super important to the overall concept of ocean conservation so even if sharks were added in in the background just swimming around (like the jellies near the pile of trash that Denali is trying to move) so you can see them but they're not there as a world danger or anything like in other ocean-themed games that would be really amazing

compact ocean
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Hi! So one thing that has always bothered me with these types of games is how dull and boring the Marriage candidates become after having been married. To still have some type of events and interactions with both them and their children would just be so cool and keep the game alive long after you've married the person you want to.

coral slate
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Gosh, upvote this. Yeaa shark is really cute lemon shark esp 🦈 follow sharkaddict in IG and see how spoiled they are ...

bold oracle
dusty girder
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If someone makes a baby shark, dooo dooo doo doo doo joke now..... I would..... 🤯

ivory latch
kind pivot
dusty girder
dusty girder
kind pivot
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would be cute, I would be on board

dire cosmos
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I don't know if this has been voiced by other people, but it would be cool if we get 'perks' by having higher relationship with townies and bachelor/ettes. Example would be shop discounts, unlock secret shops/forage area/etc. or EXP multipliers. That could make socializing much more engaging and rewarding.

kind pivot
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I wouldn't mind it, but I also don't see it as important, personally. I become friends with people because of them, not their perks, and in games I tend to think the same way 😅

dire cosmos
bronze moat
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my friends never give me discount 😢

kind pivot
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while that is true, I dont expect people who know me to automatically give me a discout xD

dense mortar
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yeah, I've worked for a retail store. They never gave discounts to friends on a regular basis

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(just occasionally.)

kind pivot
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I could see that being okay, like a small chance, but not guaranteed

bold oracle
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Friends and family discount. Charge them an extra 20%

kind pivot
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xD

dire cosmos
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XD

dense mortar
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notes never to shop there

dire cosmos
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Or i can see if you're close to a doctor or even health-nut NPC, they teach you breathing techniques so you lose stamina slower.

dense mortar
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Reminds me of something that World's Dawn did (you get unlocks for bigger houses/barns) based on heart level with the carpenter

kind pivot
bronze moat
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thanks for the suggestion, we will discuss it with the team about this perks system

silent hornet
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i just saw your updated post on kickstarter, and wanted to suggest maybe not putting the loves and hates for the dateables. it’s fun to figure those things out by trial and error while you play. Just my personal opinion though..

compact ocean
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I haven't been able to find anything on this, but are there ways to regain stamina after a long hard day? Food, hot springs, other things. Or do we not even have stamina I haven't seen a bar for it anywhere but I assume there is.

dire cosmos
dire cosmos
bold oracle
dire cosmos
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Like instead of Loves : Cake, Donuts, etc. they could write Loves : sweet things, shiny things, green colored things, etc.

compact ocean
compact ocean
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Also, I know mini games are probably coming, but having a cooking Minigame that's really in-depth would be really awesome! I can see myself spending a rainy day meal prepping. Chopping up vegetables, boiling things, frying things, and placing it into like bento box or something would be really satisfying imo.

dire cosmos
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Which is a shame because there are 100+ kinds of recipes yet none of them gives any visual output for the players to enjoy in doing it.

compact ocean
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I tend to avoid cooking entirely because it's so lack luster, and most of the ingredients are really hard to get. There could be a cooking skill that unlocks new recipes, cookware, and the ease of cooking.

Exactly I have no motivation to cook when I have nothing to do just throw it in a menu and it just happens. Bam you have a meal. It's real sad.

coarse pond
dire cosmos
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Even animation where the player just use their cooking utensils used primarily in the recipe, instead just a UI menu, That'd be enough for me.

compact ocean
kind pivot
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maybe like in fantasy life?

bold oracle
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The game Staxel has a crafting/cooking system where you physically place up to 4 items on the left side of the table. You craft with animations in the middle and the result appears on the right side. You have to use particular craft tables as well. So a mixing table, cutting table, boiling table, combining table and oven.

It’s still slightly flawed but it was a nice change of pace for a more engaging cooking experience instead of “click ui and cook”.

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Sadly people are always complaining they want to just use a ui

compact ocean
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Now see id love that. Building a meal with different crafting items to eventually put it all together into a meal. Granted I wouldn't want to spend a full day on a single meal.

kind pivot
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sadly I have a hard time really getting into staxel, as I am terrible with building xD

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fantasy life has a little mini game whenever you craft

bold oracle
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Building creative things is hard. 😞

kind pivot
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little things like timing or holding a button for a few moments and things like that, and its randomised which steps you need. but it always shows you using your tools during that

compact ocean
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It would make the game feel more.. slice of life I guess. Which I'm all for. I wouldn't want minigames for everything obviously like everytime I'm milking a cow, that'd get really annoying lol hopefully though they look into the cooking thing because I would just die. Spends all my time cooking while the island dies around me lol

kind pivot
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like everytime I'm milking a cow, that'd get really annoying
Now I remember some of the Harvest Moon games for DS...

compact ocean
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Oh lord, that's a blast from the past lol

dire cosmos
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Or maybe a cooking mama-esque minigames for the basic motions of cooking (slicing, frying, baking, etc.)?

compact ocean
bold oracle
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I usually avoid cooking in farming games when it’s sort of just a bunch of chests with tonnes of ingredients and all you’re meant to do is put* the correct ones into a ui and wait for it to cook.

kind pivot
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some games are kinda fun to experiment with though

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I liked it in spritfarer, although thats not a farming game

compact ocean
kind pivot
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trying out different things, figuring out what fits together and what makes different things

dire cosmos
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I feel like as of now, cooking is a very stale aspect of farming games to the point where "house upgrade" that only adds kitchen feels like a chore.

bold oracle
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I kind of eventually got sick of having to feed everyone in spiritfarer

dire cosmos
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Like when i upgrade my house i just go "Great, i unlock a new UI i guess..."

kind pivot
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ah, that is true, though, it started getting annoying right as people started leaving

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for me, I mean

compact ocean
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Yeah it's just the next step to getting a large enough house for a family. My kitchen is just a piece of my house I never touch. With a cooking type Minigame, I can see myself keeping crops and ingredients rather than stuffing it all in the shipping bin.

bold oracle
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My server role is sort of true. 😂 I know farming games are always farming, animals, fish, cooking etc. but I usually just farm and socialise.

compact ocean
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Same! But it's because the mechanics typically don't allow for a more fun and immersive system.

dire cosmos
simple grove
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but there needs to be a UI menu too, otherwise I probably wouldn't cook cos it'd be a bother

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like in portia, I only use the cooking set for discovering recipes, otherwise it's ack for mass producing

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same with the assembly, fun for a bit but give me the automatic one please!

compact ocean
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Well yeah they could combine the two or even make it an optional in game setting.

bold oracle
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Yeah. It’s hard to find a balance of this is boring but efficient and this is engaging but time consuming

kind pivot
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getting this part right is not something easy, as everyone has different wants, I feel

simple grove
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an idea could be that you get better quality the more times you make it manually, but can apply that quality to automatic cooking once unlocked

bold oracle
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I also get very fixated on breeding challenges. Like the Stardew Slime hutch or animal crossing flowers.

dire cosmos
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True, at one side i'd love to have all exciting aspects are implemented in game while on the other side i understand what this nightmare looks like to the developers.

compact ocean
kind pivot
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thats something you can do in fantasy life too

bold oracle
coarse pond
simple grove
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yep, I mean at this point almost everything has already been done somewhere

dire cosmos
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Or maybe make the cooking aspect kinda like the 'alchemy' of the game?

compact ocean
coarse pond
dire cosmos
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lol

compact ocean
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Yeeesss? Maybe? Lol

coarse pond
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Yea actually Harvest Moon, Old game and tons of features!

young dove
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Alchemy cooking sounds kinda cool,I gotta say

compact ocean
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But also real alchemy? Lol

dire cosmos
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imagine making fried rice with diamonds, lol

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That'd be bad

bold oracle
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It’s been 20 or so years since I played harvest moon so my memory is pretty fuzzy. I just remember childhood me loved it

coarse pond
dire cosmos
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Unless.....

compact ocean
ivory latch
dire cosmos
coarse pond
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-I hope the devs not to be overwhelmed by these chats xD

ivory latch
compact ocean
coarse pond
compact ocean
ivory latch
compact ocean
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I love how weve been discussing cooking in a fantasy game for 45 minutes 🤣

bold oracle
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I just want to be able to make all the SEA cuisine I’ve been seeing in #🍱coral-foodies

compact ocean
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Yesss I need hundreds of recipes lol

ivory latch
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I want to be able to make boba milk tea, that's it

coarse pond
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I love how HM slowly unlocking for us the recipes. First maybe for the cheapest one, A KNIFE! And Instantly the food I was thinking i can make is: Salad and a sashimi!

young dove
compact ocean
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Tea! I want tea!

bold oracle
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But will there be meat?

young dove
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Meat tea?

compact ocean
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I mean... Fish? These games have stayed away from slaughtering your farm animals for sustenance. Lol peta has a long arm.

compact ocean
coarse pond
young dove
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Wait... would soup made with meat be considered meat tea?

bold oracle
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It’s a broth 👀

compact ocean
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Hmmmm... Maybe? Lol

ivory latch
compact ocean
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Sure!

TLDR; Cooking Minigame, to add life to cooking mechanic. Using the various cookware to prepare the ingredients. But also some form of ui. Auto cooking for mastered Recipes.

latent pike
# silent hornet i just saw your updated post on kickstarter, and wanted to suggest maybe not put...

Great point! I agree with it being fun to figure out what your neighbors like/dislike. So to keep some things mystery, we actually only reveal some of the love and hate items.

We have 5 stages of their preferences (Love, Like, Neutral, Dislike, Hate) and each stage can have a range of 1 to 7 or 8, depending on how picky the islanders are. So, Noah may hate Metal Bars, but it may not be the only things that he hates... 🧐 gotta befriend him to find out.

latent pike
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compact ocean
dire cosmos
dusty girder
cursive bridge
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Just a heads up the mee6 bot says February 1st 2020 instead of 2021

silent hornet
dusty girder
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ok, done, thank you for bringing this up

cursive bridge
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Not a problem!!

still patio
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the bot is re-living 2020. no one deserves to re-live 2020

ivory latch
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typos happen, haha
thanks for fixing them!

raven pike
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hey @dusty girder, sorry to mark.
But I noticed that in the kickstarter the comparison table the values ​​300, 1000 and 3500 have x3 in the rewards but next to the 300 it is seen as x2.
follow the print about what I mentioned.

dusty girder
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Yes, so the image is what is correct. We just uploaded this recently, but should have add text explaining. We made a mistake for the pricing when posting first time, and Kickstarter did not allow changing after posting. So this image is our attempt of explaining this better.

raven pike
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understand, thanks for explaining.
I was a little confused at the time but because of the table I thought it could be something like this

dusty girder
bold oracle
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Wow. That chart’s nice

dusty girder
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I edited and add this, thanks for letting me know @raven pike

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Jeremy's in charge of this, but he is sleeping right now.

ivory latch
# dusty girder

If it's okay, I would like to suggest something like this because the first sentence's slightly ambiguous current wording might leave room for confusion:

The image below displays the correct rewards for each tier. Some rewards listed on the pledge tier list show incorrect quantities. Note: we made a mistake and Kickstarter does not allow us to change the tier wording after posting. Sorry about this!

dusty girder
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Love it! Thank you

swift orchid
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Sarc is the best

raven pike
dire cosmos
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Trivial suggestion, but would chilli be one of the crop in the game, and if it is, i think sambal should be a dish we can make! (you guys might've thought about this).

flat kelp
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Mac version

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pls and thanks

vapid dew
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I feel like snakes should be a pet option! Implementing lizards but not snakes? Preposterous!

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jokes aside, snakes are amazing, can be designed with a lot of colors and are super adorable. Also, they should be "easy" to animate haha Just imagine the possibilities of slithery friends..

vapid dew
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(ok also ferrets. Mammal snakes.)

twin plank
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I suppose what I’m going to propose is a very difficult thing to do, but I explain it in case you can come up with ideas.

I always wanted in farm sim games choose the love and hate objects our player character. It is a wonderful thing for people who like to give more personality to their characters as for speedrunners who choose more expensive gifts.

The most similar game is Stardew Valley which allows you to choose a love gift in the character creator. But it really doesn’t work for anything.

I think it would be cool to choose at least 2 gifts, one loved and one hated and that there is a high probability that the npc will give them to you by mail, day events of the lovers etc I hope it will at least give other ideas :thumbsup:

vapid dew
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the loved thing in Stardew is the taste of the Stardrop, actually

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when you eat one it will say "the taste reminds you of [item you put]"

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If a love interest sent you an item you hate in the mail, your friendship would go down outside of your control, no? That doesn't sound like a good thing. Also, it could be exploited if someone for example put a very expensive thing as "love" and a love candidate sends it to them every so often...

twin plank
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Yes, you’re right about the hated object. I’ve included it simply to come up with ideas. As I said before, it’s obvious it’s not going to be done in the game. I only make a proposal with possibilities. Choosing the expensive item to get more money is something that many do, but not all. It is only crazy ideas because how you say: the hated object does not serve but the loved one so npcs can send it to you by mail for example.

full karma
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The hated object would work if the npc would find out about us hating it. Just like we dont gift them things they obviously hate, they'd have the same kinda consience

cursive bridge
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@dusty girder I would really like to see in the game: a yellow camel, a golden dragon, a green dinosaur, a red panda, a colorful parrot, a pink flamingo and so on ...

dusty girder
urban plover
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I was going to suggest Indonesian native animal but figure that could send the wrong messages😔

bold oracle
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If only green dinosaurs were native to Indonesia

cursive bridge
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@dusty girder there is a dinosaur 🦖 and a camel 🐫 in the stardew valley. I would really like to see them, I would really like to see a unicorn 🦄, a pegasus, a llama 🦙, a giraffe 🦒, a zebra 🦓, a lion 🦁, a tiger 🐅, a mammoth, an elephant 🐘, a rhino 🦏 and many more animals ... well, this all a dream 🙄

still patio
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fishy pets too!

vapid dew
latent pike
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Thank you all for the pet suggestions, great ones! We cant promise anything right now but we will take them into consideration.

vapid dew
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That's more than enough, of course not everything can be implemented! Thank you for considering chicklove

cursive bridge
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@latent pike I'm not asking you to do it, but I would just like to see all of them there, so that you will do it, see for yourself)))

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@dusty girder I'm not asking you to do it, but I would just like to see all of them there, so that you will do it, see for yourself)))

vapid dew
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@cursive bridge Hey love! You can tag multiple people in the same message. Also, people who you didn't tag will also be able to read it! So you don't have to post it twice chicklove

cursive bridge
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@dusty girder I am writing to you from Russia. Thank you very much for the Russian language in the game! we have a big crisis in our country, we live in poverty, I was able to give you $ 3 in kickstar, I would really like to receive this prize: Character Designer Pack will receive 3 x [keys +

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@latent pike I am writing to you from Russia. Thank you very much for the Russian language in the game! we have a big crisis in our country, we live in poverty, I was able to give you $ 3 in kickstar, I would really like to receive this prize: Character Designer Pack will receive 3 x [keys +

vapid dew
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Oh, I have been ignored CapooSweat

cursive bridge
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@dusty girder I am very grateful to you for the Russian language! If this is all so good, then I think that your game will be better than animal crossing and stardew valley ... I would like it, also play nintendo 3ds and ps vita and android

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@latent pike I am very grateful to you for the Russian language! If this is all so good, then I think that your game will be better than animal crossing and stardew valley ... I would like it, also play nintendo 3ds and ps vita and android

vapid dew
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I don't think it's possible to make this game for the Nintendo 3Ds or older playstation Thinkpitz

cursive bridge
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@Cas#0666 Thank you very much) I am recently on discord and I am writing via google translator. I know English very poorly, I write from Russia 😂😂😂

vapid dew
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Don't worry, I think your English is fine HR_NayuSmile

latent pike
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Thank you for the suggestion @cursive bridge ! Please keep the discussion/ feedback coming, its lovely to see how the community is so supportive and engaging. We’re reading through them all and keep them in consideration✌️

cursive bridge
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@vapid dew this is an English google translator, I am an Azeri Turk, originally from Georgia and I live in Russia ChickenFace 😂 😂 😂

vapid dew
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As long as you can be understood, it doesn't really matter if it's through google translator, right? ^^

cursive bridge
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@latent pike please, do you think she can go to nintendo 3ds, ps vita and android? I have all of them, please answer (

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@vapid dew yes, google translate 😂

latent pike
vapid dew
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Ah, to put what Ayuni said a little simpler: The game might be coming to Android in the future, but it is not certain yet!

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(for google translate, which can be a bit weird)

cursive bridge
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@latent pike I will buy a switch and ps5 in the future, in Schaa Allah, I just, I would very much like to play on Nintendo 3ds and ps Vita, as well as a pc and an android, it would not be bad either, thank you very much 😄

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@latent pike at least on android it is necessary to release the game, many people love to play stardew valley on android, including myself, as well as other games, such as mk, lineage2 and so on ...

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@vapid dew I understand what you are saying through google translator) at least on android it is necessary to release the game, many people love to play stardew valley on android, including myself, as well as other games, such as mk, lineage2 and so on ...

vapid dew
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nothing is "necessary", but they said they will look into getting the game to android so it might happen! We just have to wait and see!

lilac drift
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I was told to post here -
What if we have titles in the game (maybe unlocked through achievements)? Y'all already have a great start with the titles you gave each other on kickstarter. (And I totally want to be a Foliage Master...)

white geode
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Aaaaaaa I would love that!

vapid dew
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Add-on to what Puugu said: Make the titles give perks of some sort! Like, "Foliage Master" makes plants grow a little faster (either if earned or if equipped)!

cursive bridge
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it's boring to write everything in English, let's talk in Russian, repeat after me 😂

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Privet vsem - привет всем - Hello everybody! Kak u vas dela - как у вас дела - how are you doing?)))

wicked crater
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Hello all together, i have a small bit of feedback for the kickstarter campaign:
I really love the game and would like to support it, but in my country (Germay) it is not really that common to have a credit card, and kickstarter is just possible per credit card...
For me it would be perfect to have a way to support the game per paypal or bank transfer, even if that means transferring it directly on the companies webpage (ofc, just if the amounts still count towards the stretch goals 😉
Good luck with the campaign, and all the best for development, looking forward to it. Dont worry, I will still buy the game as soon as it will be out on steam, but wouldnt go and get a credit card just to kickstart an already financed project.

magic marsh
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@wicked crater Have you tried the app. I think someone said that in the app you can pay per Paypal but don't know if its true

bold oracle
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The app only has a card option

magic marsh
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so this person was wrong. My bad, sorry

wicked crater
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Just got my hopes up 😄

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np

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I just dont get it, why that is the only possible way...

cursive ivy
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I mean a debit card works too.

wicked crater
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I tried, and it does not work with my card

magic marsh
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But i feel you. I'm from Germany as well and i just have a kreditcard because i went on a trip in another country and its easier to use this card

wicked crater
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I had one from my company for trips in other countries, so no need to get one for myself 😄

bold oracle
wicked crater
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I even linked my bank account on kickstarter, but even then they just want to draw in stuff per credit card info

cursive ivy
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Idk man. The only thing I can think of is that your bank card isn't covered by a major lender so it's only through your bank. You would definitely think they would have gone to allowing Paypal at this point.

ember needle
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Debit cards?

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Or is that a british thing

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Idk if this'll help but myself and someone else in the server are splitting on the deluxe pet one
Maybe you could find someone else to split with that can pay and you can transfer money to them

wicked crater
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@ember needle I checked multiple times on the kickstarter page. It just works with credit cards, or debit cards that function similarly to credit cards

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yeah, that makes sense, I already asked what other people in the German community do, maybe I will find someone who is willing to share

ember needle
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There may be people who want to do certain teirs but only want one set of everything 😅 its worth a shot

still patio
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hmm in uk most debit and credit cards are Visa's

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do you have something like that?

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ive never had this problem as i've always had a debit visa...

mossy apex
wicked crater
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The Deluxe one (including the pet) for around 72€ (85$)

ember needle
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Same

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😂

gusty ocean
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I had an idea for an underwater minigame!

Fish and Seek -
One of the Merpeople will ask you to find a certain something that can only be found underwater. You won't need to actually fetch it, just try and find as many as you can within a time limit.
Get points for it, and get aquatic-related rewards for it

mossy apex
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Are you able to use paypal? If you'd like you could transfer the money to someone you trust and they could get it for you? Then send you the steam keys after?

wicked crater
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@mossy apex for sure that would be a possibility, as I said, I will check if someone is willing to do something

pliant fossil
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Ok what about a pet beauty contest?

wicked crater
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still I would prefer them including a possibility that does not restrict people to a single way of payment. thats the reason I wrote under feedback and suggestions

mossy apex
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Ah gotcha. If you can't find anyone, let me know and I wouldn't mind doing it for you. But I'd understand if not since we don't know each other @wicked crater

ember needle
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Its kickstarter that has the issue not the team unfortunately

mossy apex
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I agree, kickstarter should allow for paypal at the very least but idk if that's a kickstarter thing

wicked crater
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well. it is also an issue for the team then 😄

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@mossy apex thanks for the offer. I might come back to you 🙂

mossy apex
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Just dm me if you do ^-^

vapid dew
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My partner has an Amazon credit card which worked... my debit obviously doesn't work either since it's not also a visa catcry

jolly osprey
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My feedback regarding character designs (I loved them all!):
Scott's head is a little too big in proportion to his body. Or his legs are too short. Something feels off regarding proportions.
Lily's face, I loved it. But it looks like her legs are a little thin? I don't know. Probably is because her outfit (big hoodie, tight jeans).

vapid dew
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They both look fine to me proportion-wise...

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Lily just has narrow hips

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I guess Scott could have longer legs but it might just be a perspective thing Thinkpitz

edgy skiff
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I don't see anything wrong with Lily. I can kinda see the scott thing (the head and neck maybe?) but body to legs part he's built like my dad so that looks fine to me.

vapid dew
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yeah I agree that it's more likely the head that is a bit out of proportion rather than the legs

ruby summit
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Yeah I agree there

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And to me it just seems more of a stylistic choice?

ember needle
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Women can have thick legs

ruby summit
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Yeah Lily’s legs look fine to me

vapid dew
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They arenm't even thick tho?

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let alone masculine

mossy apex
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Could we possibly have a general artwork channel for things that aren't fanart?

tidal current
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if possible we should have a scavenger hunt mini game/mechanic for the museum

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It would also be cool if we can eventually farm ocean stuff (maybe end game or even dlc). Things like kelp, oyster things, seaweed to make sushi and racks to make them

lilac drift
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I think they've mentioned harvesting kelp and bringing it to a research lab to use for upgrades

sinful garden
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Any chance we’ll see horse riding in the game?

mossy apex
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O.o we wondered briefly earlier if there was a way to make a bot that could grab the kickstarter amount through here instead of always needing to go back to the page itself and someone was kind of enough to try for it. @cursive bridge was able to get it working and we were wondering if it or something similar could be implemented? Maybe in its own channel so people could check on it if they wanted? Here's a link to the test pic

#🐔coral-general message

frosty coyote
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Would love to see that bot on a channel, what a great idea

tidal current
lilac drift
thick arch
mossy apex
lilac drift
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I think it would help the kickatarter if you included the dev diary notes in daily updates. It shows communication and progress on that platform

bleak junco
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I would live if when you married an npc they kind of continued their schedule like they invite friends over bring decorations into the house continue working. Not just stand in the house everyday ahha

compact ocean
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What about a sea pet? Like a unique fish is in distress and you save it and then anytime you go diving the fish comes and swims with you.

young dove
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Yes Sea pet all the way!

latent pike
latent pike
bold oracle
latent pike
lilac drift
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Yeah. Maybe it's because I'm a dev, but I love seeing the daily notes. It's a nice way to see progress

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(Or should I say "sea progress")

latent pike
latent pike
lilac drift
# latent pike Good luck on your game!

Oh, haha. No, I'm a web applicatiom developer. I'd love to do game design and I've helped out as a freelancer on a few educational games for school in c# and unity. But there aren't any studios near me, so I'm stuck in a regular corporate job.

latent pike
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@fierce idol here 😄

fierce idol
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So my suggestion is to have outfits influence our comfort level? Or something!? Like in winter not being dressed properly would lower your stamina or make you feel uncomfortable or hungry faster. Just a thought. Thanks!

ruby oxide
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you guys should reach out to the mods of the official stardew valley server about partnering with them! it'd be a great way to get the word out, the SDV server is really active

fickle goblet
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The dragons look great!

I'd love to be able to pic a color for the KSE mythic pet out of a set colors. That way even if the mythic pet is KSE those with it have the choice to have a different color than others that also have it.

I also think the dragon would look amazing in purple ❤️

placid canopy
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I also think maybe a mini-game geared at cleaning up the ocean or the world would be a wonderful addition. Maybe there’s a small impact on the ocean/environment or an incentive (such as increased friendship with townies for collecting recyclables from the ocean and recycling it appropriately).

coarse pond
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wait, cleaning the world is the core gameplay as the world cleaner, more fish will come 😀😎

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*sea

grand kindle
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MAYBE it’d be a dlc or a backer thing, but uh, romanceable mermaid or romance options (that were originally not romance options) villagers?... trying to type that hurt LMAO

gusty ocean
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@placid canopy definitely an awesome idea!

rose frigate
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is there a list of accepted suggestions?

red ember
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A spreadsheet of accepted suggestions would be nice

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Or at least the "heavily considered" ones

young dove
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Hello, a possible suggestion is to perhaps have the marriage-able candidates have paired outfits with us players for events and the like. If that's possible! Maybe with the kimono-like premium outfit 🥰🥰

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(Or any outfit)

frail raptor
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(I feel like I need to add a disclaimer that obviously the devs know what suits this game best) but one thing from a harvest moon game that I think could suit Coral Island is the ability to unlock more pets as you progress (it was linked to house upgrades in HM).

thick arch
mossy apex
thick arch
ivory latch
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#coral-questions-and-help doesn't allow general members to post images other than posting images via url, which had been making it difficult to post images that could help answer questions. idk if that was an intended setting.

mossy apex
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I'm assuming it was so that people don't accidentally clutter it by posting accidental pics, at least linking it through url works for when we need it

bold oracle
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I’ve just been posting URLs until I get caught out and told to stop. 😂

rough hornet
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It'd be awesome to have the option to use Paypal somehow to support the game, maybe externally from kickstarter? In germany theres quite a lot of people not having the ability to pay with the methods kickstarter allows, me included unfortunately

dusty girder
ivory latch
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it works! thank you!

amber vault
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Congrats on meeting the bug catching stretch goal! I'm sure you already have a lot of plans for this, but just wanted to suggest that it's always nice to have a strong reason to be catching the bugs (maybe rewards for every 10 new species you catch, and you've been asked to do it to chart the island's insect diversity?) and also to get some good info about the bugs you catch so that we all learn some fun new stuff.

dense mortar
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well, given the next stretch goal is "fill the museum" I think one will be probably given yeah

novel condor
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I'm hoping your fishing mechanic is not as difficult as stardew valley. I enjoy fishing very much but I get really frustrated if it is too difficult

novel condor
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I also really love decorating the townspeople's houses according to their desires. That was my favorite part of littlewood

amber vault
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You could link the bug species you catch to better nets, an extra storyline, making something new available for your farming. I have no fears, because the devs seem to be developing very cool, in depth mechanics, but there's bug catching in lots of games and I'd love to see them do something special with it

fierce idol
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Have you thought about using Uservoice.com to collect feedback from the community? We could vote on our favorite ideas and suggestions, and see progress on some of them (on hold, working on it, not gonna happen, ...) all in one place. Easier to read than this loooong discord channel too! 🤍

scarlet flax
orchid marsh
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I love the fishing in Stardew as well

rustic fern
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fishing in MTaP is also not terrible, in my opinion

amber vault
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Any fishing that isn't button mashing is a plus for me!

young dove
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^^^

mossy apex
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I'm still getting used to that mechanic and I agree it's a bit difficult....

ruby summit
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I ended up just installing a mod to remove the fishing minigame in SDV and it’s been so much better lmfao

dire cosmos
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I'd like to see a balanced skill tree where it's not obvious for the player on which one to specialize first.

cosmic basin
dire cosmos
novel condor
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Littlewood had flowers in their museum and if you planted them close to one another you could get different colors

young dove
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👀👀

frail raptor
mossy apex
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Maybe we can have a setting that works for accessibility purposes too. Button mashing hurts for me but also SDV's fishing method seems to be messing with my thumb a lot

rustic fern
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I'll suggest again something along My Time at Portia's method, which is literally just keep your cursor over the fish as it moves back and forth across the screen. No button mashing involved

simple breach
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I totally forgot Portia has fishing... I have never done it lol

edgy dew
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Portia has a fishing mechanic where you basically move your cursor over it and click/hold to move it closer while making sure your line doesn't snap.
No button mashing at all, but a very interesting mechanic. Makes me wonder if they'll use it here! Or maybe make it an option!

dense field
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I prefer that over the sdv mechanic

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I like the harvest town mechanic except some of the better fishes seem almost imposdible to catch

gusty ocean
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Well, they'll be able to test things out during Alpha and Early Access and see which one the people respond the best to

vapid dew
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this may be a stupid one but... blinking animations? I noticed the animals don't blink in the gifs and it is a tiny thing but somehow it's a bit odd haha @dusty girder

vagrant canopy
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Going back to others comments on replayability and marrying different people, it would be nice if your husband/wifes portrait was displayed alongside yours in the save screens (not sure how those are going to look) so that we dont have to remember who we married in that file. This has to be my biggest gripe with SoS/HM/SDV.

cosmic basin
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Oh speaking of Stardew Valley and accessibility, I've heard that snow effects can trigger seizures for certain people, and Stardew Valley has a menu option to turn that effect off, so that's probably a good idea to do here too! (If there's snow)

bold oracle
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Same with thunder effects

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And the sudden light flashing

mossy apex
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^Apparently this is sometimes something that's triggered by a certain amount of light flickering per second, maybe a quick look into what rate/patterns triggers it and avoiding that sequence/pattern can help avoid that problem too as well as adding a removal feature altogether

(Had to do an EEG study with a doctor once to make sure I wasn't ecliptic and that's how they explained it to me. Pretty interesting info)

heady hemlock
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Actually being able to turn off thunder and lightning effects would be great because I'm terrified. So that's always a problem when I play stardew.

uncut lintel
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Yeah the flicker thing is why florescent lights make me sick

frail raptor
fierce scarab
fierce idol
thick arch
fierce idol
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Cool thank you!

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It's a nice platform. Would probably have everything you need to collect feedback. Have a good day!

thick arch
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Cheers for recommending it @fierce idol !

tropic fractal
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I'd like to have cherry blossom trees in spring 😍

mossy apex
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Were you all planning anymore emojis for the discord by chance? I think the server has been boosted to the ability to have.....a lot xD but I don't think we'll ever need that much

torn hawk
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Suggestion: can we have unlockable/earnable mermaid themed clothes?

torn hawk
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oh!! also, can we have a tiny decoration for our house of pride flags we can hang on the wall? That'd be cute i think!

quaint badge
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I mentioned this in the Kickstarter comments, but I would love to have a trans and/or nonbinary marriage candidates.
I’d also love to make my characters body type plus size (like me!) and to have a plus sized romance option (Like how Dream Daddy had Brian)

frail raptor
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It would be really cool to have a wheelchair item we could place somewhere. I’m a part tome wheelchair user and having one in games always makes me really happy 🥺 (also! If you want a reference for something that looks more like an active wheelchair I’d suggest looking at TiLite and Quickie chairs)

native pelican
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Oh bouncing off that idk how the equipment works, but i'd love to option to have my farmer wearing hearing aids! (just like i do irl!)

fleet bobcat
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I am Broth Minister and I wish there will be broth in the game.

vivid grove
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Since we unlocked the museum the other day I think I’d be pretty cool that in addition to the bugs/fish wings that there could be a section for gems/ rare minerals, fossils, or artifacts. And the way you could find these would be in the caverns and/or diving

lilac drift
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bold pilot
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I am wondering if there are different ways to plant a crop. Like in dragon quest builders some crops needs to be planted in water while others needs poles.

mossy apex
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I hope we eventually get an update where is she though q.q I'm totally gonna try to be mega friends with her

quaint badge
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Oops! My bad. I was getting Yuri and Suki confused in my head.
I wanna be friends with Suki!
And Yuri is becoming one of my favorites XD

mossy apex
lilac drift
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Oh yeah. I'm totally gonna hang with Sunkist and Dippa

raw belfry
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Hi! This is more like a question/suggestion, but Wondering if date-able NPCs that you “don’t end up with” will have their own story progression and date eachother, have kids etc?

bold pilot
raw belfry
bold pilot
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👍

uncut lintel
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God I want a rival system so bad

sweet pine
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re: minigames I'd love a match 3 (gems/candycrush) type game.
Maybe a gameboard with the goal of 1) eliminating all the garbage tucked in among other items 2) matching up in-game items and if you "collect" enough of a single item you receive one as a reward 3) game shows up as a task you're doing for an npc (game = doing their chores) with an associated reward

edit: Maybe even if you play the game and match up the animals for enough points once a day you automatically collect produce/groom them

heavy ferry
bold oracle
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Which in hindsight would be weird. Why are your kids growing up and Zoe stays* the same age

simple breach
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I think it said that npc children grow up too with the stretch goal

bold oracle
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Ah it does. That’s curious.

warm sigil
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I feel like that's assumed to be the case, since it says "kids grow up", not "player kids grow up

bold pilot
simple breach
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Might just mean Zoe or any other npc children that are already announced.... (I haven't paid too much attention to the villagers so that they can be a nice surprise when I play)

lilac drift
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Skills is a single mom, so im guessing she has kids too

cosmic stump
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The kickstarter told me to write my suggestion on the discord. I guess here's the place. My comment was to speed up the character/animation. Either via an option or maybe a powerup, because after a certain point, the movements are going to be tedious. I noticed that in multiple 3D farming games. So far, only 2d/pixel managed to keep a good speed (and rune factury 4). All other 3d based get really slow after the 1st months. Also, shortcuts would be great. Rune facture had a good one. One press brings you to the village gate. Two press to the room. Or the Atelier games gives you a menu to travel. Star dew lets you pay upgrade to give alternate road or teleports. So, anyway, my comment is to think of a shortcut idea

lilac drift
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I thinking having the animation speed on a slider, like the day/night cycle might be cool

bold oracle
# cosmic stump The kickstarter told me to write my suggestion on the discord. I guess here's th...

On the topic of shortcuts. I posted this on a different farming game discord so figured I’d share it here too.

In Stardew, I had a real issue with having to rush back from the dungeons to your home before you pass out. Maybe some sort of sleeping bag mechanic or some method of sleeping away from home. Or even an inn near the dungeons might be interesting. So, Stardew has an adventurer guild next to their dungeon. It might have been nice if you could sleep the night at the guild.

young dove
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Man crashing at the Adventurers Guild in SDV would have been nice. This is a good suggestion

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Or even have the sleeping bag as a crafteable

raw thicket
bold oracle
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I would definitely make that a mod if... you know.... I could mod. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

warm rune
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Possibly? though for me i like the time management aspect of not having shortcuts but that's just me XD

ebon rain
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will it be available for mac? saw in steam it was only for windows?

rustic fern
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I had ADHD. What's time management, precious?

bold oracle
warm rune
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LOL me every day in stardew lol

bold oracle
rigid shoal
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In the worst case, you can always Bootcamp and then get a copy of windows for mac?

frosty coyote
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One of my gripes with most farming games is how unimportant your and your spouse birthday is! In SV nothing happens on your birthday and your spouse doesn't get any event, just a different dialogue. It would be really cool if we had something like a dinner or mini event for specials birthdays like your spouse one or even yours! Something more than a dialogue haha

bold oracle
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Tbh birthdays are overreacted

cursive bridge
rigid shoal
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I would really love it if our pets did things like collecting items or herding our animals, OR even if they could follow us into town. I like it when the pets get things like contests and what not and you get to give them skills which can benefit you down the line and give you a reason to befriend your pets

heavy ferry
rigid shoal
bold oracle
rigid shoal
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Agreed!!

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Cattle Komodo Dragons... That sounds really neat!

lilac drift
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I know they said thr pets will be used in at least one of the minigames

bold oracle
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everyone grabs their pets and you have to compete with who can give the most belly rubs?

silent hornet
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lol

edgy dew
warm rune
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I also love the idea of that upgrading your crops is included in this game. That is the one feature i loved when I played Harvest Moon DS cute, was that you could upgrade ( or rather level them up, i think to like a lvl 100 or something) and i missed that feature greatly so being able to do that in this game in some way is wicked

harsh bolt
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Hey is it possible for the devs or mods to change the dev diary channel into an announcement one? Would like the posts for my server

bold oracle
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Looks like someone has already done it

harsh bolt
cursive bridge
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Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but is there a possibility for break up/divorce after you're married and romance other ppl again? 🤔

dull sand
cursive bridge
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Thanks! 😀

pliant fossil
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I know this is probably a bit of a pipe dream but I saw this in the new Story of Seasons trailer and I think it would be a cool feature

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Basically I want to take glamor shots of my chickens

regal valve
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Will the language used simply refer to all characters with "they/them" type pronouns to prevent any incorrect gendering, or is there going to be options for character selection?

ruby summit
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There will be options! Even non binary options

dull sand
regal valve
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Sounds great! Thank you!

lilac drift
upper idol
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has anyone else suggested merfolk romanceables if/when we get the merfolk village stretch goal ??

rustic fern
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oh trust me

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that's a daily conversation. 😛

upper idol
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let us smooch the fish people!!!! lol

steel agate
feral beacon
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I'm hopping on the Mer-romance train 😍

neon wedge
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yesss

upper idol
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maybe if we suggest it enough once we reach the goal they’ll do it LOL

wary yew
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In that case please..... mermaid boyfriend 🧜‍♀️ 🥺

latent field
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My friend and I looove mermaids and she said what if there was a way you can turn into a mermaid when you go diving?? Like a potion or something? Ahh I love mermaids but maybe that would be too much idk but doesn’t hurt to ask 🥺🥺

drifting mist
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Does anyone else want to be able to romance the Pufferfish business lady (who is most definitely evil), or is that just me? 😅 goatlove2

mossy apex
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I'm not sure if you all have the code system in place already but would it be possible to hold off on choosing the game codes till a little closer to launch? Or having an option in the end of campaign survey that says something along the lines of "You can choose which code you'd like to be emailed later now, or wait a bit closer to launch to pick."? Or @frail raptor suggested having some sort of "verify/change" option? I know it might be a bit much to keep track of, but I know some people are questioning whether their system of choice might be able to run the game or not.

peak stirrup
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For the mermaid thing, on their most recent update I'm pretty sure they suggested romance

bold pilot
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I need this info

peak stirrup
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Okay it says build a relationship I may be getting hasty 😂

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I also super want to romance a merperson

bold pilot
lean lantern
peak stirrup
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I just wonder... Like, I doubt they could move in with our character. It'd be interesting to think of how to work around that

rigid shoal
fleet bobcat
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I wish we could have one day option to craft clothes and furniture, if possible. It is always cool to have around something we made up.

ivory latch
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I'd just visit my merhusband at the beach every day SOshrug