Hello friends,

Thanks to everyone who’s supported Playne since its full release earlier this year. I’m so happy to see so many active daily players, exploring meditation with Playne.

I’d like to announce a brand new update, which brings some significant upgrades to your guide, your mentor, your friend, the fox. As well as a number of other improvements.

🦊Fox Upgrade: Improved Dialogue

• Fully Enhanced Fox Script: Most of the dialogue of your fox guide has been augmented, redrafted and improved. A lot of effort has gone into making the instructions for meditation even clearer and easier to understand.
• Better dialogue interface: Less cluttered dialogue window and more natural dialogue flow and connections.

🦊Fox Upgrade: Other Improvements

• Fox encourages you: New event-driven dialogue system with over 20 new dialogue strands. What does this mean? Well, Fox will now nudge you with encouragement and enlighten/annoy you with its wisdom (you choose which!)
• Improved movement: Fox will now walk, trot and run to you! Animation glitches have also been removed, and transitions have been improved as well.
• Better dialogue screen: In Sandbox/Evolve Mode, the dialogue view has been improved. I can’t find another way to say it, apart from that it looks prettier.

🌳Sandbox improvements

• Planting distance indicator: The crosshair on the HUD will now tell you when you are far enough away from a tree to plant a new seed. Frantically spamming the plant key is no longer needed :)
• Improved notifications: Better instructions to help you understand and get feedback on the planting system. Game instructions have also been added to the Pause menu for new players.

🛠️Other Fixes & Improvements

• Grammar / Spelilng fixes. :- |
• Escape menu no longer intrudes on the achievements window.
• Better achievements UI .
• Better lantern (the polygon-y look wasn’t great, was it?).
• 'Remove guide text' option now actually removes guide text in meditation.
• Crosshair dot is bigger! Why did I think a pixel wide crosshair was a good idea?
• More prominent quest guide text.
• Reaching level cap is now indicated in progress menu.
• The volume of the fire can now be adjusted.
• Quotes no longer disappear in your second session.
• Fox no longer get warped around objects.
• Outline of interactable objects in Story Mode has been improved.
• Notifications no longer disappear in Sandbox / Evolve Mode.
• +Other minor fixes and improvements.

🌍Localisation Issues?

Due to the range of changes to the dialogue text, some existing localisations might appear incomplete or broken. Our community translators are working on adding these localisation (thank you!). lI’ll release this as a patch as soon as it’s completed.

Although Playne doesn’t officially support localization of game text, it's nice to have the translators who make the effort to bring Playne to countries that otherwise might not be able to experience it.

If any of you would like to join our community translators and help me update the missing localisations, then drop me an email at krish (at) playne.co. If you have already contacted me (and I haven’t been back in touch) don’t worry, I will reach out to you soon.

🌱Planting Trees

Well done to all of you who have unlocked Evolve Mode over the last few months, allowing us to plant one tree in real life for every player who did so. I’ll soon be announcing the details of trees planted as part of this!

💬Experiencing issues with this update?

I’ve had a group of volunteers who took the time to test this update (thank you!) But as a solo dev, I don’t have a lot of different dev environments that I can test Playne on.

If you experience any issues or bugs, then let me know by posting on the discussion forum here on Steam. You can also easily revert back to the previous version (Right click Playne on your Steam Library > Properties > BETAS and select branch LastRelease)

🙏Thank you!

Thanks to everyone who made the effort to let me know how I can improve Playne, as well as suggestions for improvement.

Special thanks to my Patreons for continuing to support me in making games like Playne 🙏:
G'ma, Karl, Holger, pitgamer, Erzhena S, Jesse H, Matt G, Michelle R, John H, Christian B, The Damn Shames, za7ch, Meditation Mind, Rodney A, Nin C, Elizabeth P, Agelorus, Leslie S, Valoky L, Jussi, VagrantFox, Tomas Q.

Links

Recommend Playne? : https://store.steampowered.com/recommended/recommendgame/865540
Playne’s Discord: https://discord.gg/Hu3UKBC
Support Thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/865540/discussions/1/
Support Email: help (a.t) playne.co