🎁 New addons are HERE! 5 days left of the campaign 👀
over 2 years ago – Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 08:04:20 AM

Hi Loftians!

We hope everyone's been doing well! Even though the campaign has been running for a few weeks already, them team is still starstruck by all of the incredible support and hype that all of you have been building towards Loftia. We seriously love and appreciate y'all so much!

We've got 5 days left in the campaign, and just there are some more stretch goals left to hit! We know how much these goals are exciting everyone, so let's make a final push to hit them - together, we can do it! The final days of Kickstarters are always super important, so please share the campaign with your friends and on socials if you can! 💙 

And if we hit Additional Islands & Biomes, we have another very special stretch goal to reveal... 👀

New Rewards and Addons!

Now let's have a look at the new campaign rewards! We've got a few addons, and one new "ultimate" reward tier.

Pebble, Pebble and even more Pebble!

We know how much everyone loves Pebble, so we had to introduce a new in-game Pebble Onesie Outfit! Imagine the in-game onesie slumber parties you'll be able to have with your friends, in the comfort of your cozy, shared homes 😊

We also received many requests to make the In-Game Pebble Plushie an addon as well, so we've gone ahead and added that too!

Pet Hat: Sprout Edition!

Grab yourself a pet-compatible sprout hat that will match perfectly with the player sprout hat that's been included in all the reward tiers! This hat will be wearable by all pets in-game.

Cloud Turbine Hat

Carry the sustainable nature of Loftia with you at all times, with a cute Cloud Turbine Hat!

"Ultimate" Reward Tier: Loftian Designer!

Our final NPC Designer slot was taken a few days ago, and to be honest, we didn't expect it to fully sell out until the end of the campaign! However, we've decided to open up just more 5 slots for a final, "ultimate" tier of sorts: the Loftian Designer! This tier will come with:

• NPC designer (and everything else in the NPC Designer tier) included!
• Pet designer & pet outfit designer addons included!
• Each of the 4 game keys will get all in-game reward addons included!
• 1 x Golden Pebble Onesie outfit! 

Reward Breakdown Table

We mentioned this in our previous rewards update post, but we know that it's still a bit confusing that some of the older reward tiers have outdated "Details". Unfortunately this is because Kickstarter doesn't allow us to update the text or items-included sections of any reward tiers. Sorry about the confusion!

Please refer to this Reward Breakdown Table for the exact breakdown of what is included in each reward tier!

Additionally, please note that all Kickstarter rewards (excluding game keys, physical merch, music OST and digital artbook) will be Kickstarter-exclusive!

Thank you!

Thank you for your ongoing support, everyone! Let's hit these additional stretch goals by the end of the month, together!

Animal Conservationist UNLOCKED, Team Q&A recording link, and an end-of-campaign mini rewards drop!
over 2 years ago – Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 11:54:17 AM

Hey Loftians!

Let's all give ourselves a huge pat on our backs - we've now OFFICIALLY UNLOCKED the Animal Conservationist stretch goal! Thank you all so, SO much for making this possible!

We're going to dive a little deeper into what the animal conservationist feature, but before that, we've got some other news to share quickly!

Loftia Team Q&A

Earlier in the week, we did our first ever Team Q&A session, where several members from our team got together on Discord and answered a bunch of questions from all of you in the Loftian community. Thank you to those who came along and participated, we had such a blast!

For those of you who couldn't make it, we've uploaded a recording of the session onto YouTube. You can check it out here! It's quite lengthy, so for timestamps, check the video description on YouTube!

We'll be doing more streams like these in the future, so there'll be more opportunities to have your questions answered. In the meantime, if you've got anything you'd like to ask, please do drop them into the comments section of the Kickstarter, or direct message us here on the Kickstarter platform!

Final rewards and addons mini-release!

Since we introduced the new rewards and addons last week, we've gotten a bunch of additional requests for some more! So we're going to drop a final, small batch of addons tomorrow morning, at 10AM ET/7AM PT on August 26!

There'll be some Pebble-related in-game items (we realized that everyone loves Pebble even more than we had thought, which had seemed impossible!), and some more clothing and pet-related addons. Keep your eyes peeled!

Animal Conservationist

So, coming back to animal conservation in Loftia - what will it involve? Well, there will be several different aspects to it, including:

• Players will be able to rescue endangered and injured animals from nearby floating islands, as part of natural world exploration, as well as adventures!
• The existing Loftia animal sanctuary will now be expanded to accommodate additional conservation-related activities, such as helping nurse injured animals back to health and, conducting research on endangered species!

• Players will also be able to contribute to community events to clean up and restore the habitats of nearby islands and areas, and upon being nursed back to health, animals can be released into those areas to repopulate them.

As this is such a newly hit stretch goal, the finer-grained aspects of the design are still a work-in-progress, but we hope that these details have already gotten you excited! And because the design is still in flux, we'd love to hear your ideas too. What additional mechanics would you like to see in animal conservation in Loftia? Leave your ideas in the comments below!

🎵 Loftian Tunes and 🐞 Bug Booster BOTH UNLOCKED! Additional sky islands and biomes! ☁️ And a Q&A Live Stream with the Loftia development team!
over 2 years ago – Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 12:35:03 PM

Hey Loftians!

We've blown right past two stretch goals in just the last 3 days, which is absolutely incredible! We say this in every update, but only because it's so true: we cannot appreciate the wonderful Loftian community enough for all of your support for the game and campaign. None of this would be possible without you!

In this post, we're going to dive into more details about the newly-unlocked stretch goals: Loftian Tunes and Bug Booster. But just before that, we've got an exciting community event to announce!

🖥️ Loftia Team Livestream

We're running a Team Q&A Livestream on Discord with 7 members of the team, next Tuesday evening (August 22nd) at 6pm PT / 9pm ET! We'll be answering questions from the community about anything Loftia and Kickstarter related, including any specific or technical questions for our team members!

If you've got any questions that you'd like answered during the livestream, you can pop into our Discord server and drop it in the "kickstarter-faq" Discord thread! The stream will run for an hour, and will be recorded and uploaded for anyone who isn't able to watch it live.

🎵 Loftian Tunes

Hitting the Loftian Tunes means that we're going to introduce record players to Loftia! You'll be able to collect record items throughout the game world from a variety of different activities to add to your collection.

Certain records will only be attainable via specific activities, including from exploring and foraging out in the Loftian islands, completing adventures, or receiving as a gift from an NPC once you've formed a strong enough friendship with them. We're also thinking about allowing the trading of records between players, so you can help each other complete your collections!

To play the records you've collected, you'll need to have crafted or bought a record player and set it down in your home. We've already begun concepting some art around Loftian record players!

Later on in your Loftian journey, you'll even be able to acquire fancier record players. These upgraded record players will push the aesthetics of your room further, and may even offer additional gameplay features in the form of minigames!

And that's not all. If you're a composer or songwriter, you've got even more reason reason to be excited about this one, because we will introduce the occasional record containing pieces submitted by you - members from the Loftian community! The player-submitted tunes that are hand-picked by Loftia's staff will be baked into the game in the form of a record item that players can obtain, and will of course also credit the author for all to see!

🐞 Bug Booster

Bug-catching is a very common feature seen in other cozy games. Now that we've hit the "Bug Booster" stretch goal, you'll be able to catch bugs in Loftia too! We've already concepted a few species of unique Loftian bugs!

However, bug-catching in Loftia comes with a twist: instead of simply just keeping them in your inventory and showing them off, you'll be able to introduce your new critter friends to your farms, where they will form symbiotic relationships with your crops! Bugs can help your farm by cross-pollinating the crops to increase the likelihood of better seeds, as well as contribute to keeping the balance of nutrients within your farm at optimal levels for better crop quality and growth times, and more!

☁️ Our next major stretch goal revealed: Additional Islands & Biomes!

With the unlocking of the above stretch goals, we're super excited to reveal the major stretch goal at the US$ 1M mark: Additional Islands & Biomes! This will be such a major addition to the Loftian world -- explore, forage, and adventure in wonderous new biomes, floating in the sky!

We're really hoping to hit this goal, and to do so, we'll need your help - please share the news about Loftia and our campaign with anyone you think would be interested! We've still got until August 31st, with over 10 days left to get there. Let's do this, together!✊

Thank you!

Have an amazing day, everyone! We'll see you back here with even more updates before we know it. 💙

🎉 NEW Rewards and Add-ons have dropped! 🎉
over 2 years ago – Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 07:27:45 AM

Hey Loftians,

We’re super excited to announce that we’ve just dropped 10 new items across several new reward tiers and add-ons! All of these were designed with y’all in mind! In fact, almost every new item is a direct request from someone in the community (and often, many in the community!).

Some existing reward tiers and backers will now automatically be getting MORE STUFF!!! 🙌

These new rewards that we've introduced have been added in between a bunch of the existing reward tiers, and rather than make things more complicated, we've decided that we want to say a massive THANK YOU to our existing backers who have already pledged at certain tier levels! So now a bunch of the existing reward tiers will get a bunch of the newer tiers automatically INCLUDED!

But, because of the way the Kickstarter platform works, it's not possible for us to edit the existing reward tiers to update them to reflect this. So if you check out the "Details" of a certain reward tier and see that something is missing there, don't worry!!! For the latest, most up-to-date resource for exactly which tiers receive what stuff, make sure to check out the Reward Tiers Breakdown table. It's been updated on the main campaign page, and you'll find it at the bottom of this update post as well! 👇

How to grab the new rewards! ✊ 

If you've already pledged to the campaign, you can still switch to a new tier (or grab some additional addons) by clicking the "Manage your pledge" button on the project page!

And now without further ado… let's introduce these new reward tiers and addons!

🌟 Premium Bestie Pack 🌟

This is one of the tiers that we're the most excited to share with everyone!! We've seen just how many of you have been opting into the existing Bestie Pack, and we're so encouraged to see how so many Loftians are planning on playing together with their friends! We also received feedback and requests asking for a way to get a bunch of the other rewards that weren't included in the bestie pack. We've decided to bundle almost all of the core rewards into a single reward tier that's easy to access!

The Premium Bestie Pack comes with it all!! BOTH besties will get: both Farming Skin Sets (wait, what do you mean "both" Farming Skin Sets? well, you'll find out in just another moment!), both Furniture Sets (yup, there are now 2 furniture sets!), and of course, both Wheelie & Waddle with their adorable outfits!

And that's not all: we've thrown in an In-Game Decorative Pebble Plushie for each bestie as well! This plushie will be Kickstarter-exclusive (like most of the other Kickstarter rewards) and will only be available in this bestie pack (and any other tiers that are inclusive of this tier)!

🍄 Mushroom Skin Set 🍄

First up, we've got another skin set to accompany the existing "Loftech" farming skin set: it's the Mushroom Skin Set! You'll be able to deck out your home farms with these adorable toadstool-themed skins. Both the Mushroom Set and the Loftech Set are now also available as addons!

💭 Dream Furniture Set 💭

 To accompany the existing Bioluminescent Furniture Set, we've conjured up the Dream Furniture Set! Complete with its own hammock, dresser, curtains, coffee table and cloud couch (clouch?), you'll have one of the fluffiest, floatiest and most exclusive furniture sets for all of Loftian time! Both the Dream Furniture and the Bioluminescent Furniture are now available as addons as well.

🖌️ YOU can help design a permanent part of Loftia! 🖌️

When our campaign first launched, we only had the "NPC Designer" tier. In your feedback, there were many, many requests to have some more ways of having some more creative input into Loftia. So we're introducing a number of new DESIGNER tiers and addons!

Recipe of Your Own: Become a Loftian chef - add your very own recipe to Loftia, along with its required ingredients! The recipe will be added to Loftia's cookbooks, and all players will be able to learn it, and cook it! There'll even be a spot where you will be credited as its author.

Outfit Designer: Work with the dev team to create your very own outfit that will be obtainable and wearable by all players of Loftia, for years to come! An outfit will include a hat, top, bottoms, shoes, and optionally gloves. (Please note that there may be some technical limitations that might rule out pieces of clothing that are particularly extravagant, or overly long or large in size! If you're unsure if your request will be possible, please shoot us a message to check!)

You'll be the first player in Loftia to receive the outfit you designed, of course! Other players will also be able to obtain the outfit over time. All copies of your outfit will be credited with your name!

Pet Designer & Pet Outfit Designer (addons): As we all know, everyone loves pets! When we hit the "Additional Pets" stretch goal, we were flooded by such a huge number of pet suggestions from everybody. We've selected 6 pets so far out of the 10, so there're 4 left! But even so, there are so many more types of pets that we know the community wants.

So, we've added the Pet Designer addon that will allow you to choose additional pets to add! The pet you choose can be either:

- a brand new animal that we haven't yet decided to add to Loftia! (please note that the pet needs to be within reason, and a real, non-extinct animal. If you're unsure if your choice is eligible, send us a message to check with us!), or

- a unique appearance for an animal that we've already confirmed as a pet that's being added to the game! You can even send us a photo of your pet, and we'll recreate their likeness in-game, just for you!

Additionally, the Pet Outfit Designer addon will allow you to create a pet clothing piece for a particular type of pet!

You'll be the first person in-game to receive your pet and/or pet clothing! Other players will also be able to attain them, over time.

Some more addons!

We also received so many requests to make the chat bubble and walking trail items addons, so we went ahead and did that! But not only did we make them addons, we also introduced additional versions of both of them - check them out!

The Seasonal Walking Trail VFX is a very special, Kickstarter addon-exclusive reward! It's a four-in-one walking trail that cycles includes through  4 different visuals, each representing one of the seasons. You'll be able to configure it to either stay permanently on 1 season, or cycle through the 4 at regular intervals! How cool is that?!

And last but not least - there's one more way you can immortalize your legacy in Loftia, by engraving your name and a special message of your choice, on a plaque hanging from one of the trees in Loftia City! This plaque will be there to stay, and all future players of Loftia will be able to see your name and check out your message.

Reward Tier Breakdown!

As mentioned above, because we are not allowed by Kickstarter to change the text for any older reward tiers, there may be some inconsistency between the "Details" page on the Kickstarter platform for some of the rewards - sorry about that!

Please instead refer to this following table as the true breakdown of reward tiers and rewards! This table is also available on the main campaign page as well (just under the rewards section).

Thank you!

As always, THANK YOU all so much for all the love and support you've shown to Loftia!! None of this would be possible without you! We hope that you're as excited about these rewards as we are.

Let us know in the comments below what you're the most excited for! And also let us know if there's anything else you'd really like to see as a reward or addon - we've added a lot in this round, but if there is demand for more, we'd be open to making some final additions in the final weeks of the campaign too!