Hey Beta Testers, the new mercy system is ready for you to see! Check out the Temple in Town to get started.
The system works like this, if you sacrifice a particular item enough, you'll be rewarded with a very rare item and along the way some smaller rewards. This gives you a guaranteed path to get certain items you...
2023-01-18 15:40:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cooking Skill is in Beta! Check the in-game Updates for full details and there is a new beta chat in-game for discussion/feedback also.
2022-09-26 15:02:26 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a very successful Alpha test of the Craftworks in the live game, the Craftworks system is now available to Beta Testers!
It's almost Farm RPG's 1st Birthday!
First off, can you believe Farm RPG has been online for over a year? The "Official" 1st birthday is coming up on May 12th and we'll be holding an event to celebrate! At the same time, we are on track to break 150,000 registered players by then, so we've got tha...
Hey all! It's been a couple months since my last "roadmap" update. A lot has changed and been added to the game since the 1st of the year. I'm pretty happy with the progress, even though there's been a number of bumps in the road.
New Roadmap Format
For the first part of 2022, I was working on updates ...
This is a short promotional video I had produced for Farm RPG. It will be used on the App Store listings for the game and shared on social networks, etc, and possibly used in ads promoting the game down the road.
I'm really happy with it overall. It does a great job of showing off the game with some nice animations and music. &...
2022-03-22 19:43:51 +0000 UTC View PostI just wanted to make a quick post to say thanks. Your support has allowed me to do so much with the game, and so much is yet to come!
Trying something new! The Vault is in Beta at the moment. Feel free to reply to this post with your feedback on it. The max Silver winnings was lowered to 30 million Silver this morning (based on your farming level)
Objectives:
Hey all! January is over if you can believe it. It was a pretty good month for updates, but a lot more things only made it to Alpha and need to be worked on more for Beta. I think this means February may be a very full month of updates.
Here's a high level list of what I'm hoping to get launched in February:
Hey everybody! It's been a while since my last Game Dev Blog post. For this one, I thought it might be interesting to give you a bit of history of the "text" games I've been making since 2009.
Here we go:
2009 - HaloSpher...
2022-01-26 20:07:22 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a Trade Rep System working on Alpha. It's something that I want to add to the game, but there's been some concern about it also. I'm putting this poll out there to see what our patrons think about a system like this.
Here's a screenshot of it to help you see what I'm doing:
2022-01-14 20:28:44 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody! It's been an exciting time working on this game and watching it grow. Daily, I am just blown away at the growth and activity the game sees. It's been a real motivator to continue to try to make it better. Thank you to everyone that has been a part of the success so far.
Since early May, over 100,000 a...
2022-01-01 00:35:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! Just wanted to drop a quick note that I purchased a 2nd dedicated server to run the database for the game. This will allow me to run the code/front-end on one and the database on the other, which should help with lag and growth going forward. I'm hopeful to migrate the database to the other server before the Christmas ...
2021-12-09 15:03:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe updated Workshop UI is now in Beta! Take a look at the updates in the live game for full details and check Home for "My Workshop (Beta)" to use the new UI.
Also, a quick note. The Beta system is working really well. The Beta for Crafting Effectiveness really made it clear how poor the old Workshop was and how much it ...
2021-11-29 17:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostFarm RPG sure has grown in the last 6 months. This week, with the Thanksgiving event taking place, it became apparent at just how many people are on the game at the same time clicking madly, crafting, exploring and more. We have been seeing close to 2,000 concurrent at once with 40-50,000 database calls per second. Some of that...
2021-11-27 02:38:19 +0000 UTC View PostI'm writing this post to help explain how the "Alpha" game works and to have as a resource I can send to new patrons.
So what is Alpha?
Alpha is a stand-alone version of Farm RPG I use for development and testing. It is completely disconnected from the live version of the game. It runs on its own serv...
If you were playing Farm RPG around 11:40pm game time on October 24th you might have noticed some issues with getting items and, in general, the entire game feeling wonky. I'm writing this blog today to go into more detail on what happened that night.
The night of Oct 24th
First off, I was asleep. Poor ti...
2021-11-04 16:13:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt went from Alpha to Beta pretty fast because of how cool it is!
October Wrap-up
October was a huge month full of content, updates and growth for Farm RPG. Along with a pretty large Halloween event, a lot of great features and items were added to the game. We had over 15,000 people register in October!
Here's a high level list of things that happened last month: ...
2021-11-01 16:10:19 +0000 UTC View PostFirst off, thank you! Thank you all for the support you show me and the game. Your support on here is incredible and allows me to keep the game ad-free and able to give out a lot of gold to all players.
To show my thanks, I've increased the amount of Grape Juices you can use daily based on your Patreon status.
So far, most of my posts here have been to let Patrons know about alpha or beta changes or to present ideas, features or additions to the game. I've had a number of people reach out and suggest that I also post more behind-the-scenes related content and share how I'm doing some of the things I do. So this is my first attempt at this ...
2021-10-21 22:10:11 +0000 UTC View PostPIG PEN IN BETA!
All tiers of support for Farm RPG have had their monthly Gold amounts increased! There is nothing you need to do and the extra gold for this month has been added to your account. This is a permanent change going forward as well.
Hey everybody!
I don't know about you, but September absolutely flew by for me. I think it was a great month for Farm RPG, both in terms of growth and new features/content. Over 15,000 people registered during the month of September!
Unfortunately, I did NOT finish 2021-09-30 17:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hit a pretty big milestone today at 500 patrons! I added a great special help request to the game today to celebrate.
Thanks for all of the support and I can’t wait to get more content and gameplay added this fall.
2021-09-25 19:35:45 +0000 UTC View PostOk, the Locksmith is open to Beta + higher players in Town. Here, you can bring certain items to be opened and get stuff from them. It's basically a big loot system with a lot of options for use, especially for contests and events.
Also, everybody supporting the game on Patreon received a Gift Basket today you can open at the L...
2021-09-20 14:54:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Wishing Well is now available to Beta Testers. You can get to this from Town.
You can toss in certain items into the Well for the chance to get something better. You get 3 tosses for free each day and then it will cost Gold for each toss after 3. The Gold cost goes up during the day but will reset nightly.
2021-09-13 14:46:01 +0000 UTC View PostFirst off, thank you to all my patrons that are both new and those that continue to support my work on Farm RPG! Your support means so much and has allowed the game to flourish in a very short amount of time! (nearly 50k registered!)
Next, here's a high level list of things I would love to get done and out this month:
W...
2021-09-01 19:43:15 +0000 UTC View PostToday, the books in the game were renamed to better fit my nearly finalized plan for what books are going to do. Here's the concept:
Bookshelf would be accessible somewhere, probably from your Farmhouse.
You could "read" up to 2 books (3 with a perk) per day. This would force you to decide what is the most important to yo...
2021-08-25 20:22:46 +0000 UTC View PostThank you!!!
It's quite a milestone that I never expected to reach. The support has been incredible and I probably sound like a broken record, but thank you! Patreon has allowed me to upgrade my server, cloudflare and do a lot of things I didn't imagine being able to do with this game. There's a lot of life ahead for Farm...
2021-08-19 13:44:11 +0000 UTC View Post