The Lonely Gorilla — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Added new water system & fixed bug when eating food from the ground | 2024-01-11 | Latest little update adds the new water system, (No boundaries in place currently), also groom now works in basic way - it is auto grooming which will change shortly and fix alignment, I pushed this update as I found game breaking bug when eating from the ground which is now fixed. I should have the improvements to the other updates very soon. |
| Message now shows when you steal a nest or non troop member steals yours | 2023-11-23 | A small update to show messages when stealing a nest occurs. |
| Nest Stealing form Rival Gorilla implementation phase 1 | 2023-11-23 | A little more activity on the nest building feature. You can now steal nests built by rivals and they can steal yours. Just the beginning of the competition between rival and player male gorilla. Much bigger update coming shortly with more notifications of the rivalry. |
| Gorilla's can now join your troop. | 2023-11-13 | Players can now add a gorilla to their troop once they find them by increasing bonding/loyalty. You do this by giving them food, building them a nest. Next tasks are to give the player more information in game within the UI. Next up is improving the competition with the rival alpha male gorilla so he can steal your troop members. Following that there will be extra work on the non gorilla animals and AI. |
| Thanks for the great support | 2021-11-08 | Thank you for the messages and support since I announced work has continued on the game. There have been lots of updates to install and test, thankfully that is complete so now we are getting closer to our first update with the new systems. Initially it will be a simple animal simulator needing food, shelter etc.. while we test the new controller and basic AI of the non player Gorillas. The environment is looking nice and running better than the old system even now, and the controller is much better with the ability to zoom out much further which will come in very hand when looking at the non player animals and performing troop tasks. I am ho |
| Back to development | 2021-10-12 | First of all I would like to apologise for the stop in development that happened shortly after covid 19 hit. We were a micro team of two and the pandemic hit both of us hard. My partner had to change his work patterns completely and could not continue and as my main business was hospitality I had to completely focus on that for my staff and business to survive. Unfortunately this meant not being able to devout any time to game development. Even with this however, the inevitable has now happened and the hospitality business has been forced to close. The upside to this is I can refocus on game development and with that in mind the plan is as fo |
| Overhaul on the way | 2019-09-03 | Hi all, Now our second game has entered early access The Lonely Gorilla is getting a complete overhaul. The problems we have had with some of the systems has led to us not getting the game into the shape we wanted. We have had to go back to the drawing board on a few things (Especially AI and the player controller). Both of these things have been completely re written so we can deliver what we set out to do. We are still a little bit off from releasing them but the improvements will be worth the wait and as mentioned on the previous announcement as a thank you for your patience we are gifting our latest game to all current owners of TLG. Our |
| Sale on tomorrow and Free game soon for the Lonely Gorilla owners. | 2019-05-15 | Hi all, Due to the delay on getting some of the bigger updates released for the Lonely Gorilla I have decided to extend the free game offer to all current owners as well the easy access owners. The updates will still be released for the Lonely Gorilla but due to the delay I hope this is a fair apology. The next game is an episodic adventure with the store page going live in the next few weeks. This will provide more information on the game itself. The first episode is free to all Lonely Gorilla current owners who wish to try it. If you own the Lonely Gorilla when the store page is live, we will provide information for how you get the free gam |
| Latest Update Live | 2019-02-21 | Hi all, We are back with a working updatable game! The first of the 3-4 updates rewriting the Gorilla AI and social interactions are live. It is now much clearer the effect on the female gorillas of achieving tasks like feeding, making a nest, achieving loyalty. A couple of important bug fixes have also been added. Branches for making nests were occasionally disappearing under the terrain, this should no longer happen making it much easier to find branches to build nests. rescaled the minimap so it is less cluttered and easier to see items close by. Added nest icon (home) so no longer need the smoke signal on nests. A couple of nice improveme |
| Almost there! | 2019-02-19 | Thank you all for your patience first of all. I have rolled back the project and finally got a version that works on steam servers. Unfortunately it is a little bit behind the last live version some I am now in the process of getting it back to where it was with the new update. The new updating version should be live within the next 24 hours. Sorry again I lost a few days in complete meltdown but now I have the ability to update again we should be making strides. Andy |
| Rolled back last update yesterday | 2019-02-16 | The first AI/social interactions update was posted last night but I had to take it down temporarilybecause of a compatibility issue with the package. I am working on the patch now and hope to get that update out today or as soon as the issue is addressed. Andy |
| Road map update | 2019-01-18 | Hi there, I hope you have all had a positive start to the year. I wanted to write a post about the next update in the works. I've been really struggling with getting the social aspects of the troop right. It's by far the most difficult part of the project but I wanted to reach out and say it is being addressed and to any player that thought the game development had finished it is far from it. I have decided to implement another level of relationship between the gorillas which I hope will finally give the AI of the troop the feel I am going after. This is on top of the quests or tasks the females can ask the silverback to complete, giving more |
| Update live | 2018-11-24 | A quick update which fixes camera clipping in the terrain and trees. Also adjusted the volumetric light settings so they reflect time of day better and also the current weather. |
| Update live | 2018-11-22 | Good evening all, The latest update adds a minmap radar system to the HUD. Some players have been having issues with the difficulty level so this feature should help. Currently it only detects Female Gorillas. We can easily add predaotrs/rivals or in fact all the animals if this is reuired. I will test adding to all food and thes nests too. Feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Andy |
| Terrain Update | 2018-11-20 | A new update is live which improves CPU performance. This is the first of several terrain updates that will move usuage from the CPU to the GPU. This should be especially helpful for AMD based rigs but everyone should benefit. I noticed a few reports of slow movement which will be related to FPS, this should really help. I am going to open a couple of disussion threads so any reports can be placed there and if you could add you machine details that will be really helpful in targeting any issues. Thanks Andy |
| New update | 2018-11-19 | A small update has been released adding a few more varieties of ferns to the rain forest biomes. We have also added an action for the rival male gorillas. They can now steal your food. More actions for all the gorillas are being later in the week. Andy |
| Update live and game is released tomorrow. | 2018-11-15 | Special thanks to everyone who has helped support us in early access. The game goes full release tomorrow and then I will update on the roadmap for future additions with hopefully take further feedback and ideas. Next week I will also try get some initial information out our next game which all Lonely Gorilla early access owners get the first episode free. Thank you all! |
| New Update out now | 2018-11-10 | Latest vesion is release candidate one for transitioning out of early access. 6 achievements added. New animals, biomes and activities. I missed the publishing deadline for Friday night so we will be out of early access next week - the game is already live to all early access buyers of course. Thanks for all the support and feedback. I still want to add lots more content and another game mode in the future. I also look forward to player feedback and feature/mode requests. Thanks Andy |
| Update live | 2018-11-07 | More improvements to the vegetation and AI. We are just waiting for a few more small fixes to the AI damage and quest mechanics. Initial release will be Friday night or Saturday morning depending on region. Last chance to grab a free episode of our next game. Thanks, Andy |
| New Update out now | 2018-11-06 | Another step closer. Some small changes and optimisations. Further work integrating quests. Fixed the crocodile bug. Added two survival based achievments. Survive a game day and survive and game week. I still want to adjust the animals AI further before adding achievments relating to them. We have two AI systems, one for the gorillas and one for all the other animals and we just need to get them communicating both ways. Currently all gorillas can hurt the other animals but it is not working the other way around. We should be adding the quests for the baby gorillas and fixing the AI integration mentioned above and then the game will get first |
| New Update out now | 2018-11-02 | A step closer to release. More animals added. Rhino, hippo, lion, lioness, crocodile, and elephants. Still more work to do on the AI and to link in the achievements but hopefully we will get more progress to that tomorrow. The quests are working from the female gorillas but are not linked to achievements yet. New biomes added for rivers/coastline, rainforest,mountains and savannah. Another day or two for initial full release but work will of course still continue after that. We look forward to getting feedback for new features and additions. New/current purchasers still qualify for a free copy of the first episode of our next game titled "Lig |
| New update live 21/10/2018 | 2018-10-21 | Latest version is live as we move towards initial full release. We have fixed the black and white lighting glitch after finally being able to replicate it. Improvements to the terrain and rendering means we are now hitting 60fps average on our mid-range test PC (i7 4790k CPU, 660ti GPU). (1080p). More improvements will be made soon. The quest system is in and producing procedural quests from female gorillas. This is the first version and will be added to in the next update. As mentioned before as an extra bonus and thank you for your support all Early Access owners will be eligible to receive the first episode of our next game free of charge. |
| New animals coming into the fold | 2018-09-04 | Some great new animals being added at the moment. Soon to be seen are lions, crocodiles, rhinos and elephants. We now have the basis of the working quest system which is going to be used to develop the social bonds in the gorilla troop along with task linked to achievements in the game. Big changes are happening in the game. I can't wait to get them online and see what you make of them. |
| Final early access sale and bonus for all owners | 2018-08-22 | Hello all, We would like to announce the game's final pre-release sale will begin today. The game will leave early access on or very close to 31 October 2018. As an additional bonus to all early access owners you will also be given a free copy of our next game (to be announced very soon). The only info I can give is it is going to be an episodic adventure and all The Lonely Gorilla early access owners will get the first episode free. Updates are a little slow at the moment because the re-write of the weather system has led to a couple of issues that we are working through but expect much faster updates through September and October as we clos |
| Update and achievements coming soon | 2018-07-26 | Just a quick announcement that a new update will be delivered shortly (next week or so) with achievements included. I have had to focus on the business side of things for the last few weeks but that is completed now so the focus is back on updates. After that we will list the road map to leaving early access which is still on schedule for 6-10 weeks time. We will also announce a bonus for all early assess purchases which we hope everyone will appreciate. Andy |
| Update Live | 2018-06-27 | Fixed some issues regarding vegetation and lighting. Improved terrain and texturing. Theses fixes have also brought a nice 5+fps boast to the game. Test PC now getting 45-50FPS. |
| Rain Update | 2018-06-21 | Fixed the excessive rain. The tropical climate still leads to regular rainfall but the weather system should now change daily. |
| Update | 2018-06-20 | A small update that reduces damage from Leopards and tweaks AI of rival male Gorilla. I have also unlocked the framerate for the game so players can benefit from higher spec machines. I am getting 40+fps on a decent but old test machine @1080p with all settings high. Spec of test machine. i7 4790-K 16gb Ram 660TI GPU Achievements and trading cards are being worked on by our artists and hopefully they will be included very soon. Andy |
| Update Live | 2018-06-12 | Latest build has an initial help page and some improvement to the animal fights. Rivals and predators now try to attack your troop members as well as the player. |
| Update Live | 2018-06-12 | Fixed bug making you slide on high sloped terrain when sleeping. Improved leopard movement and increased damage from players and AI. Currently working on an in game help page to go over basics at the beginning of each game. This should be completed and added to game today. |