We are thrilled to announce that Papaya Plaza is participating in the Wholesome Games Celebration on Steam, running from August 6–13!
To celebrate, we’ve just released a freshly updated demo! Step back into the plaza and experience:
✨ A host of brand-new features
🐛 Quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes
Whether you're visiting for the first time or returning to see what’s new, we’d love for you to check it out and share your feedback.
New Features:
- Inventory and Quick Bar. Collected items now enter a player's inventory to be used. Quick bar allows the player to quickly select and hold items. Held items can be given to characters to complete quests.
- Eat things! Certain collected items can be eaten by the player by pressing and holding the interact button while the item is equipped.
- Gifting! Villagers will now accept gifts and react based on individual preferences.
- Collection book showing which collected items the player has found so far.
- Added Melonbird to the game! Catch them if you can!
- Randomly spawning items on the map (Forageables as we call them) now follow restrictions based on weather and time of day.
- Buy something in your shops! You can now purchase an item from any staffed shop.
Bugfixes / Optimisations:
- Cleared out unused chunks of code and cleaned up data layouts.
- Added version display.
- Improved performance and persistence of Forageables.
- Misc minor rendering bugs.
- Improved Fruit Drop Technology - Using our patented and revolutionary TREEMASTER 5000 technology, the 3rd fruit on every tree now drops in front of the tree instead of behind.
- Player can no longer build out at sea (lol)
We've also fixed a load of other minor bugs and UX issues.
Important Note: The save data from the previous demo isn't compatible with this build due to quest handling changes, so our returning players won't see a continue button / will have to start the demo anew. We apologise for the inconvenience. We hope to have backwards compatible save support for the next demo update.
If you missed our recent playtest, don’t worry! There’ll be more chances for you to take part in the months ahead. Join our Discord to sign-up for future playtests.
Enjoying your time in Papaya Plaza? We’d also be grateful if you could leave us a review!
Thank you to our community for your continued support.
- Biscuit Factory Games