The build has been out for a few days, but this is just to let you know that Valley has gone back into the level set. We are periodically reworking the biomes, so some may dissappear once in a while, but by popular request here is Valley back. Mainly unchanged for now.

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Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please ​let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive[x.com] or emailing fuglsupport@kotoristudios.com

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While we do have a series of bigger updates in the pipeline, from the player point, this one is a small update focused on bugfixes and polish. We have made some major improvements to the file loading regarding performance, and particularly crash fixes and memory usage, but a lot of players might not notice this. These have been important fixes for us going forward however, to make room for future improvements in other parts of the game.

Feedback
Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please ​let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive or emailing fuglsupport@kotoristudios.com

Also join us on the Fugl Discord server: https://discord.gg/8Cb4Uya.

If you like the game, please leave a review here on Steam.

After a bit of a journey, and 5 different submissions, Fugl is now finally Verified on Deck! We went from Playable -> Unsupported -> Playable -> Unsupported -> Verified, as each time we fixed something, something else would come up!

Besides focusing on getting Fugl working properly on the Steamdeck, we have also made a number of minor fixes, mostly bug and crash fixes.

Feedback
Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please ​let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive or emailing fuglsupport@kotoristudios.com

Also join us on the Fugl Discord server: https://discord.gg/8Cb4Uya.

If you like the game, please leave a review here on Steam.

We have just released the official soundtrack for Fugl, made by the amazing Martin Kvale and Joar Renolen. The soundtrack is available both as mp3 and as high-quality wav files.

Get it here https://store.steampowered.com/app/2559240/Fugl_Soundtrack/!

This update focuses on the technical foundations, the nuts and bolts that holds the experience together. Some of the larger improvements are listed below.

Major updates

• New animation based help system
  
• New fluid based wind system
  
• Fixes manual morphing mechanic

Detailed Fixes

• HiDPI support
  
• Improved rendering of the menu
  
• Fixes PlayStation controller glyphs
  
• Fixes fold posture in avatar editor
  
• Controller updates could cause wrong help texts to appear
  
• Devices with no windowed mode do not overwrite preferences
  
• Fixed missing windows icon
  
• Fixed small avatars falling too slowly
  
• Fixed missing windows icon

Feedback
Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please ​let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive or emailing fuglsupport@kotoristudios.com

Also join us on the Fugl Discord server: https://discord.gg/8Cb4Uya.

Just a small update. Something had gone wrong with the signing of the mac build, so that it stopped working. This has now been fixed.

Feedback

Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please ​let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive or emailing fuglsupport@kotoristudios.com

Also join us on the Fugl Discord server: https://discord.gg/8Cb4Uya.

This update focuses mostly on the audio side, though the release features a number of other improvements.

Audio - Reworks and Polish

• Better 3D audio attenuation, hear more from far away
  
• Every avatar sound is now in stereo, many of them new
  
• Avatar and creatures emit footstep sounds based on material
  
• Creatures emit sound when walking, jumping, flapping, landing and taking off
  
• Lots of new creature sounds, almost every creature now have unique calls
  
• Every biome now have unique ambiences for above and under water
  
• Reworked wind sounds, added more 3d feel to it
  
• Added whooshes when passing terrain at close range
  
• Volume has been tweeked for all music
  
• Better reverb for biomes and caves
  
• Added particles to avatar chirping
  
• Headphones are recommended for the full experience

Game

• Morphing is now more consistent and manual morphing works as expected
  
• Fixed an issue with wrong help text displayed in some cases
  
• Some levels have been regenerated

Graphics

• Specular highlight in water is now pixelated
  
• Creatures fade into view
  
• Avatar now clips correctly with water
  
• Clouds white out effect now works correctly
  
• Added Launcher app to reset prefs and choose graphics pipeline

Feedback
Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please ​let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive or emailing fuglsupport@kotoristudios.com

Also join us on the Fugl Discord server: https://discord.gg/8Cb4Uya.

We realize it has been a bit quiet, but we are now ready to publish the first major overhaul of Fugl.

• New and more performant graphics engine
  
• Localisation in 16 languages (English, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian, Turkish, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Chinese)
  
• Audio polish
  
• Black screen fix
  
• Controller fixes
  
• Level selection screen
  
• Loading screen
  
• Much more legible menu
  
• New creature discovery effect
  
• Reworked levels

PS. While we still only officially support AMD & Nvidia cards, we have verified the build works on some recent Intel graphics cards. If you have already bought the game and have an Intel card, then we are keen to hear if the game works for you.

Feedback

Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please ​let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive or emailing fuglsupport@kotoristudios.com

Also join us on the Fugl Discord server: https://discord.gg/8Cb4Uya.

We are continuing to gather pace for a major update of Fugl, and have now added Mac and Linux to the Experimental branch. Please let us know what you think and if you encounter any problems.

PS. While we still only officially support AMD & Nvidia cards, we have verified the build works on some recent Intel graphics cards. If you have already bought the game and have an Intel card, then we are keen to hear if the game works for you.

Feedback
Fugl is still early access, so features are still missing and bugs hide in the corners. Please be patient with us.

Please ​let us know what you think by leaving a comment here, tweeting @melodive or emailing fuglsupport@kotoristudios.com

Also join us on the Fugl Discord server: https://discord.gg/8Cb4Uya