Philo

Hey folks We're still brainstorming names for the new project that we're currently prototyping It's a game where people have to start a new settlement on the back of a giant creature that walks around. The genre will most likely be city-building, survival, simulation. Also still trying things out with the art style. Yesterday our artist Steffi made this picture: So I'm wondering, do you have some cool idea what we should name the game? Some ideas we had: Titan Tribe, Wandering Village, The Hillagers, Symbiopolis, Wanderland. Would love to hear your thoughts ^^

I'll let our webprogramer know, thanks for reporting ^^

Added you all @berri @haelihunt712 @pieguy56

You know have access to the Niche Mobile tester section in the Niche forums

@motorgeist Just to make sure there isn't a missunderstandig: Niche Mobile aka Niche Breed and Evolve is not a port. It's a new game Added you and @FireXspotted too ^^

Also, read the requirements there please ^^

After 1.5 years in Early Access, Nimbatus now has a release date: Full Launch on May 14th! It would be amazing if you could help us to get the word out! Here is how: Tell friends and fellow gamers to wishlist the game on Steam (there will be a nice launch discount) Tell your favourite Youtuber, Streamer, News-outlet about the upcoming launch Retweet our launch date announcement Share our launch date announcement on Facebook Review the game on Steam Play the game on launch day (May 14th) To celebrate the occasion we made a new trailer

It's really nice to see that y'all can have a nice, friendly discussion about gender As for me, I think I'm cis, straight. Though the whole demigirl topic sounds interesting, need to read more about that ^^

You can ping me @Aetherskye I can't, but I'll look into it with our web programer!

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Yes, it will be released on Switch, hopefully in the next few months @Keleynal

@Micha Can you maybe help here?

I draw too, rarely, but sometimes ^^ So I will be sharing stuff here when I do! I'm a huge fan of Renamon and yesterday I doodled this alternative version of her. Any name suggestions ^^?

@Micha Any idea what could be done here?

@WereWolfeKai @HotCoco278 @aylablue13 Added you folks

It is actually Nyoma, we're still switching around names ^^

Yes, turtle town was actually inspired by this ^^ But the gameplay is very different from turtle town. Wavi is a city-building game where you place buildings etc on the creature.

@FawnCat It's all still very much a prototype, but yes that will be the creature players will try to survive on I agree that another Niche storymode would be cool. But we really need to see after the porting if our team as A) the financial possibility (Running a game studio with 10 people in Switzerland costs us around $50'000 every month! So we always need to carefully weight all decisions to make sure the we can make games in the long run ;)) and B) the time to do it. But that never stopped us from brainstorming right :D?

@Bucket Friend Silver has asked me to delete her account. I told her that deleting her account a third time leads to a 6 month ban from the forums, which she agreed to. So she is banned for 6 months now. @Goggles-kun Nimbatus is coming out on Steam in 5 weeks after 1.5 years of early access with 5 big and lots of smaller updates. So LOTS of stuff going on there. The Nimbatus people seem to perfer to hang out on Discord though. Nimbatus has been our main project for 2.5 years now. After the game has been out for a month (so in about 10 weeks from now) the studio gets a new main project, which will be Wavi (see below). As for Niche, we currently can't do any updates since the game version needs to be frozen porting. The Switch port is nearing it's completion and we are most likely doing PS4 and Xbox too. It's unfortunately not possible to give people access to an unfinished game on consoles, so no beta testing there. After the ports are done, we have to sit down and evaluate what to do with the game. As for Niche mobile, progress is currently slow since the two main devs are still doing their masters degree and can only work on the game 1 day a week. Hopefully we can make quite some progress during the semester vacation. And maybe we can also let someone else from the team help out when Nimbatus is finished. You are welcome to invite new people to the forums as testers, please make sure they read the requirements. Other Niche related things that are going on are the Adam plushies, which we hope to run a Kickstarter for this or early next year. And, but this is still super early, so I have no idea if it will actually be a thing: We're looking into the possibility of writting a Niche book (aka hiring an artist to write a Niche book) maybe also combined with a Kickstarter, but really, no idea yet. And we are also hard to work on our third PC game Wavi (Walking Village), which I think Niche players will find cool ^^ We're making good progress and can hopefully start doing some testing with you guys in the coming weeks/months. We don't want to force anybody to stay in the forums. But I think lots of interesting stuff is happening and it also seems like all of you have lots of things to talk about too ^^ We're always open to suggestions on things to improve

Thanks for keeping an eye on this one @Sky @Clover I would like to remind you not to swear. @SilverHowl Sorry but I have to give you a warning for this. I reached out via PM. It's ok for people to say that something is not ok for them, especially if they are the owner of the thread. No moderator status needed for that. I'm glad that you guys opened a second thread for this

Always best not to anticipate too much in my experience ^^ That way you can't be disappoined and if something is choosen, it's a nice surprise.

Don't know yet

@BasicDemon Sorry, I'm not really sure what the problem is. You don't have to download anything, it can be played directly on the website https://zarkonnen.itch.io/turtle-town

Well, the current situation is that @inmiu and our main programmer for the project both went back to school to start their masters degree And everybody else is super busy with the upcoming Nimbatus launch in May. So currently we work only half a day - a day per week on the game. Let's hope we can pick up the speed again when the semester vacation starts Currently, we're working on the retirement system.