Update - Final Stretch Update (Release date Sept 22!)
Author: indiefoldcreator
Date:
Sat, 01 Jul 2023
Game: Dog Sled Saga
Road to Dog Sled Saga 1.0
September is a huge month for us - we'll be in the Indie MEGABOOTH at Pax West Sept. 4th & 5th, and in the inaugural Google Indie Games Festival Sept. 24th!
This is the seventh and final in a string updates themed around major changes to the game. On September 22nd, 2016, we're releasing the 1.0 version of Dog Sled Saga to Steam, Google Play, and the Apple App Store!
View this update on our website
Previously:
5) Star & Support Update
5) Employee Update
4) Informed Decisions Update
3) Sponsorship Update
2) Operating Cost Update
1) Dog Dynamics Update
Changes
The release date is the big news, but this final update has got some tricks up its sleeve as well.
- New Options Menu
- Added resolution selection*>
- Gamepad remapping*>
- Added resolution selection*>
- New save file system
- Multiple save file switching*>
- Steam Cloud Support*>
- Multiple save file switching*>
- Dog Petting
Petting Favorite Thing type added (or you can just do it to be nice)*>
- Music cycling in menus*>
- Software OpenGL rendering allowed
May allow the game to run on certain problematic hardware*>
- Various polish and fixes*>
What's coming in 1.0?
Lots of new features are already completed for the full release, plus a few that are still coming together...
- Breeding
Train your new teammates from the day they're born - influence their unique traits to be just what you need!
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- New Scenes
- Embarkment Lodge - the go-to tourist hub for Mount St. Something
*> - Monument to Aurora - an age-old statue honoring the subject of Mount St. Something's favorite campfire story
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- Embarkment Lodge - the go-to tourist hub for Mount St. Something
- Rival (and other story elements)
Look out for this jerk on the trails...
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The future
Version 1.0 won't be the last you'll hear of Dog Sled Saga! There are a number of ideas we had during our Kickstarter campaign that we would still like to develop as major post-release updates to the game.
We hope you're as excited as we are for the final release!
Let us know in the comments, forums, Twitter, or Facebook if you have any feedback on this update.
- Dan and Lisa
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