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Ooblets is now out on Steam!

It feels like it's been just a day or two since development started...

Hopefully we're not rushing things by launching on Steam now!

But seriously, I want to thank all of you so much for your support and kindness over the years. It's definitely been a journey--and it's still not over! We have another update coming very soon (Oobmobiles!) and we have a couple other ideas we want to play around with after that.

For those of you waiting for the Steam launch to pick up Ooblets, ...

The Ooblets Halloween Event is now ALIVEEEE

There's trick or treating, new costumes, and a spooky riddle-filled quest.

The event will end on Nov 6th so be sure to play before then!

Changelog:

- Gloopy costume
- Zombie costume & animations
- Graveyard quest
- Candy price tooltip fix
- Change event to end nov 6
- Add clothing slot subtypes to hold pail and other accessories simultaneously
- Infinite forageables fix
- Energy decimal and half-meter fix
- Moved a tree

v0.8.23 Sitting Update!

Hey everyone! I have a lot of fun stuff planned for the rest of this year for Ooblets, but we just got sitting added to the game and couldn't... sit on that. So here's a small update with sitting and a bunch of other bugfixes and improvements. It's out now!

Changelog:

• SITTING!
• Fixed playable instruments
• Fixed longleg ooblet animations
• Updated oobnet signal indicator
• Particle system optimization
• Optimizations for d...
  2021-10-01 17:01:29 +0000 UTC View Post

v0.8.11 Mini-Update!

Thanks for making the Port Forward launch in June such a fun experience! Our next big milestone is the v0.9 "Secret Update" for later this year, but before then, we're going to be releasing a couple smaller bugfix and content patches, like this one, 0.8.11!

The big new change is per-room wallpaper and flooring in the player house. We know a bunch of folks have been asking for it so we're super happy to be able to support it now.

Another big thing we added isn't player-facing, but ...

Port Forward Devlog!

We worked super hard on this update so we hope you like it. It's a pretty big departure from the gameplay of our other regions, so we're excited/terrified to hear everyone's feedback! Be sure to share your high scores in our discord or on twitter!

There's a lot of new stuff, from the Port Forward region itself to six new mini-ga...

Port Forward Day & Wholesome Direct!

Today's the day that our big Port Forward Update goes live!

We're going to be kicking it all off at the Wholesome Direct, where we're showing off a brand new trailer we made just for the update. We hope you all tune in to see it along with a bunch of other amazing games.

Here's the link to the stream that starts at 1pm ET today

I'm so excited for you all to jump in to Port Forward. It's focus...

Plobpen development reel (+ finished product)

Hi everyone! We're only 5 days away from the launch of our big Port Forward Update to Ooblets, and we're sharing a bunch of behind the scenes stuff leading up to it.

Plobpen is one of the minigames you can play in Port Forward, and it's maybe our favorite one!

The idea is to build fences around the plobs and try to fence off as much empty space as you can without any of the plobs running into your fences while they're being built.

There's a bit more footage of the finished p...

Port Forward launch date (+ ANOTHER new ooblet!)

June 12!

It's coming out so soon! I just gotta finish it...

You might also notice a new ooblet if you haven't been following our twitter or discord this past week. We just announced Quabbo! Here's the teaser image:

And 2021-05-27 17:27:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Scrapped Port Forward script

Hey all! Ben here with an update as we get kinda close to the big Port Forward update launch next month.

I thought I'd do something a bit different and share one of the scripts I wrote.

It was originally written sometime in 2019 or earlier, but after the whole Jan 6, 2021 thing in the U.S. I felt the theme might give off some weird vibes for folks experiencing it all in a context that it wasn't written in. I didn't want folks thinking I was riffing on those events or themes in any...

Please meet our new ooblet, Angkze

As we get closer to our Port Forward update launch, we're going to be showing off a few aspects of it, like this new ooblet, Angkze!

We teased their existence a couple days ago and I can safely say nobody guessed this one.

The concept art this is based on is by our pal Miski:

2021-05-21 19:04:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Wholesome Direct (and more??) June 12th!

Hey friends!! I'm planning on posting a bit more here now that we've expanded the team (welcome to Rachel and Rich!) and Ben's mom is in town to help out with the baby so we've got a tiiiiny bit more time.

We're really excited to be a part of the next Wholesome Direct on June 12th, so you won't wanna miss it. We put a lot of work into our bit and there are a ton of great games being showcased. I'm sure it will be a great show!

You can join their mailing list over at 2021-05-18 17:26:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Wildlands Update (hopefully) coming soon!

I know a lot of folks have been looking forward to our Wildlands Update that we're a bit late with, so I wanted to give everyone an update.

I'm working really hard on the update and probably have another 7 days of work left on it I'd imagine. Unfortunately the baby has been difficult the last couple weeks, and particularly the last couple days, which has slowed me down a lot.

They warn you about the sleepless nights with a newborn but it never really clicked with me that ...

0.5 Winter Update coming soon (probably tomorrow!)

Hey folks! It's been a while since I've posted here! We've been really hard at work caring for the baby and getting some fun new stuff out for Ooblets.

The next big update is coming out tomorrow, which brings new winter features. It was supposed to be a small visual update only, but once we started adding things, we realized it was going to be pretty substantial.

You can play it right now if you want to install the Experimental branch on Epic (it works with your existing saves) or...

Nullwhere Update In Progress!

Amidst preparing for the baby and surviving the smoke cloud that's engulfed Seattle, we've been very hard at work on the big Nullwhere content update we said was coming sometime this September. I think we're still on track to make that happen!

Promo image sketch by Franxurio 

There's been a lot in...

Ooblets post-launch recap!

This message will be going out to everyone on our mailing list as well, so apologies if it's doubled up for you! If you aren't a member of our discord yet, you can view our changelog history at the bottom of our post here.

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It's b...

Pausing the Patreon

Hey everyone! Just following up on my post from earlier in the month about what I should do with my patreon.

First off though, another huge thanks for everything you've all done to help me get to launch! We're so grateful to all of you. This lovely community has been a wonderful refuge for us throughout development, and we can't begin to express how much it's meant to us.

It's been such a hectic couple weeks and I appreciate you all being so patient with me getting back to you all...

Ooblets is finally out!

Thank you so, SO much to everyone here for supporting us and being a part of Ooblets!! This community has meant so much to me over the years (can't believe it's been years!) that I can't describe it.

So now the game is finally out! And we have our very own store pages!!

PC: epic.gm/ooblets 

Xbox: https://...

[download] Ooblets Soundtrack!!

Before everything goes live on Wednesday, I wanted to give you all early exclusive access to the very special Ooblets OST we've put together, as a small thank you to everyone.

If you're reading this in your emails you'll probably need to click through to the post to grab the attachment.

The soundtrack is by our wonderful composer Pedro Silva and we're so pleased with how it turned out. The lovely cover art is b...

(Feedback wanted) Plans to shut down the patreon :(

Hey everyone!! As the Ooblets release date is looming (July 15th!), I've been revisiting my plans for sunsetting my patreon.

I had planned to shut it down last year, but after the outpouring of support we got following the Epic backlash, I felt it would have been awkward to just turn off this whole support network of people who wanted to be there for me right when so many people were joining.

This little community has been such a huge help to us, and it's been a bastion of calm, f...

Very old Ooblets gifs/images collection (high data warning)

We were digging through our archives and found a bunch of stuff from very early on in development and wanted to share them with you all as we get so close to our release.

Starting with the gif of a lil art test that got way more likes on twitter than we'd ever gotten before (probably like 50 hehe) which convinced us to actually go forward with making the game:

2020-07-06 18:17:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Mini release: Create-a-Team demo!!

Some of you might remember I had a patreon goal a looong time ago to put together a lil demo where you could choose an outfit and your ooblets--sort of like a simplified version of how The Sims would release their CaS system as a standalone demo before their releases.

Well! It took a lot longer for me ...

🎉 Early Access Release Date Reveal! 🎉

My most beloved patrons, I know I've been very quiet lately, but that's because I was working insanely hard towards this day (and a day in the very near future), which is the EARLY ACCESS RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT DAY!!

I'm so hyped to share that we'll be finally, FINALLY launching Ooblets onnnn... 🥁

🌟🍄 JULY 15th! 2020! 🍄🌟

We slightly missed our 2018 launch estimation but we're feeling pretty confident we can make this new deadline.

It's...

Early Access trailer & key art!

Hey everyone! I hope some of you managed to catch the PC Gaming Show but in case you missed it, here's our trailer from it!

Also I'm not sure if I shared it with you before, but here's our new key art by Dina Norlund:

And here's it with the logo:

And just for you folks, here's an earlier ve...

Wholesome Direct Starting Now (ft. Ooblets!)

We're so happy to have been invited to participate in this!

There's going to be a brand new trailer that we put together ourselves being unveiled for the first time, so make sure to check it out!

(And sorry for the late notice!!)

New animations and screenshots to tide you over!

Now that there's a lot less for me to show off on the new systems front, I've been focused on fixing the millions of bugs to get us to certification. It's a lot of boring stuff that wouldn't work too well to feature in patreon posts, but thankfully we have our animator Dave to fill in the gaps!

He's been putting together some hand-crafted screenshots and animations that might end up in a trailer or main menu screen or in-game.

Here's what he's been up to:

2020-05-11 18:10:46 +0000 UTC View Post

April 2020 Devlog! (+map wallpaper)

As we prophesied last month, this devlog doesn't have too much juicy stuff to report since we're deep into bug fixing mode and preparing for certification.

That said... we finally added in a map for Badgetown and we're really happy with how it turned out so we wanted to share it with you all.

First off, here's the illustration our good pal Bree made:

2020-05-01 05:07:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Dialogue we'll probably be changing...

As we were playtesting recently, we realized a bunch of the lines we wrote last year for Churles, the resident clothing designer and phobia-laden hypochondriac, were going to be read in a much different context than that which they were written.

Ben had written all these to sort of poke fun at his own predilection for these sorts of thoughts, but it turns out they weren't all that far off the mark unfortunately.

I'm not sure what Churles' new dialogue will be like given that a big...

Finding secrets :o

I spent a bit of time yesterday implementing a bunch of interactable items around the houses in Badgetown to let the player snoop in/around/under things to uncover secret goodies or secret secrets...

Under pillows:

In chests:

In cabinets:

2020-04-12 22:52:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Badgetown Map WIP

Bree has been working on this wonderful town map illustration for us to use in the game. It will probably be used to show where you can find some town projects and possibly NPCs (although that might get a bit too busy).

We wanted to do something that was kind of like a touristy/theme-parky map look.

Here's her first style test for the map design:

2020-04-07 19:27:22 +0000 UTC View Post

March devlog! ❤️

This past month has been a little difficult with everything going on in the world, but we still managed to get a lot done and we're a lot closer to the finish line.

Oobcoops

We spent the most time finishing off oobcoops, which are now a much more important part of the game.

They originall...