Paw Pads!

We announced this long time ago as an art update and polled the idea for months, so you all knew this will arrive soon enough! It's today!

Paw pads will automatically appear as part of "Skin" layer - they will match Nose's colour, which was the decision community made via a public poll we had in past.

Previously, paw pads were just half-transparent and of colour that legs were showing, so most lions with any white unders just had white pawpads.

Older lion art (specially adult males) just had the paws drawn awkwardly, (and Xylax worked hard for past 5 years to improve anatomy ever since, like on newer art such as poses and mutations), but we still had troubles to make the new pawpads look good on such old art. We do know it's not following the lines perfectly, but it's for a reason to make it look better.

What we did was use original lineart, cut paw pads out and polish up a bit to make it look better, added gentle lineart so it wouldn't collide too much with existing paw pads on lineart, and then went for recolours. Colours were made to match noses as close as possible, using more unified colour template. Dudley, Butterfly and Marbled paw pads got cute spots, just like household cats have.

We understand the change is always hard to get used to immediately, your lions will look different after all. There's always Plain nose colour that has no pawpads and no Nose colour, using the original lion lineart transparency. If you notice any specific issues such as art moved to side or stray pixels, please use Art Bug Boards to report it so we can fix it.

If you have any observations that would be better with tweaking (like fixing shading on any stage), Art Bug Boards would be more suited rather than Suggestions.

New content:
To celebrate the Solar Eclipse of August 2017 that happened just days ago (and was a pretty big deal all over the news!), we've decided to add a 3GB Oasis BG until October 31st, called Solar Eclipse. It will be an annual BG from now on, but next year limited just to August. For now, enjoy the extended sale time!

There's also a special rare decor that can be found ONLY during patrolling - "Charmed Dwarf Lioness!". This decor has 2 uses by default and might start a new trend of such exclusive decors.

Image shows off a Charmed Dwarf Lioness decor and Solar Eclipse background without an actual lion in it.

Mocha Markings!
We're introducing a new colour of markings! (Mocha has a hex code of 967B6A - for all the artists out there.) It's a user-suggested grayed out brown that will bring a lot of new colour combinations!

Mane Markings:
* Mocha Top Smooth (custom)
* Mocha Low Flow (custom)
* Mocha Half (custom)
* Mocha Flow (custom)
* Mocha Bottom Smooth (custom)
* Mocha Back Hair (common)

Body Markings:
* Mocha Smudge (custom)
* Mocha Shell (custom)
* Mocha Sable (custom)
* Mocha Points (custom)
* Mocha Paws (common)
* Mocha Face (common)
* Mocha Cover (common)

MINIGAME!
We really wanted to introduce an idea of event-based minigames, and this is our first one - Fire Escape! Next year it should trigger along with opening Event Stud bar!

The game banner is located in Games Section. LINK

In "Fire Escape", your world is burning around you. It seems there is no end to the destruction being wrought upon the land. As you attempt to escape you must avoid any and all obstacles. One misstep is the difference between life and death.

To play, you must click or press the space bar to jump. Careful timing is key to avoid hitting the various obstacles. Bonus points can be earned by collecting the floating beetles as you make your way through the game.

The speed of the game slowly increases the longer you play, testing your ability to time your jumps.

Each player may submit their score once a day to earn up to maximum of 200 Carrion Beetles and 100 Dry Bones. Yes, a day. :D

There's a Leaderboard you can send your score to as many times you want, no matter if you already received rewards today!

Polish your skills before submitting your score!

For some other events in future, we might do reskins of this game. It looks like it took a lot of coding and art teaming up to create this game from scratch, so we might not do one for September or October, we'll see though!

Updates:
Leopon Adult Male and Leopon Newborn have had their files updated.

Xylax - I truly hoped to catch up on muties for this update, but because I twisted my left arm, it's much harder to do script-based art (my left art is used for keyboard, while my right hand is for drawing). I have to take a lot of breaks so it just is so much slower and I am very sorry. It is much easier for me right now to just draw, rather than produce keystroke-based content. There's only so much medicine can do, the wrist also needs time :( Next art update is planned on 8th so let's hope I can cover more until then.

Art Style thread has a new update:
Charmed Dwarf Lioness - NEW!
+ Felis stages custom decor .psd added
+ Mane Specific .psd got updated with Pariah mane

Shad has added new tags as usual! (just.. not sure where today ;'D)

Also, when working today I have noticed that the tiny mutation we announced some time ago has finally been conceived, whole two days ago! It should be born tomorrow if that person rolls over, and we will enable it in wardrobe and Trading Center search when that happens - hopefully very soon after as Kitty moved into her house and has no internet yet! (Remember it's a lethal mutation, so it will only work for Cub stage)

Raffle Lioness

Congrats Serendibite (#94607)! You have won the last raffle lady!
New lady with the Sunset over Entabeni BG is up for impressing in Special Lioness area in Explore or in NEWS section under News Post List!

Polls and dev notes
Looks like Underground Tunnels were voted to be the next level! Perfect level for a September art update!
LINK - New poll! Which beetle would you like to see next? I included few options, Event, Oasis and Explore, to pick from! Sorry I cannot really include photos from google, so I hope you guys can google the names on your own ;0;