Community Update

Aside from monthly event news posts and the 2nd Friday of each month being focused on art/coding updates, all other Fridays are centered around the community!

Official Lioden Raffle

LINK - This is our official community update raffle. Everyone gets a chance to win a rare prize, plus something extra for any runner ups. These raffles have a very minimal ticket price, and there is a limit of 1 ticket per account to make it fair! Good luck!
This raffle will automatically end on 2023-12-22 00:00:00.

It has come to our attention over the past couple of days that comments were made suggesting our main artist is colourblind due to certain artistic choices he has made.

We want to address this first and foremost: making assumptions or remarks about someone's physical abilities is not only incredibly disrespectful, but also demonstrates a troubling lack of understanding and sensitivity. It's important to remember that artistic choices are subjective and are a reflection of the artist's vision and style, and critiquing these choices by attributing them to a perceived physical condition is not only callous, it also diminishes the value of creative expression.

We encourage all members of Lioden to provide their feedback in a constructive and respectful manner. We're all human, and we all have feelings. At the end of the day, the passion for Lioden is shared among us all. Working together to cultivate a fun gaming space is how communities like ours flourish, and we want to see it continue to thrive.

With all of that being said, we would like to show you our plans heading into 2024. Please note that this is subject to change, and we will do our best to communicate if things do change. For now, this is what we have planned.

Q1/Q2 2024:
• Breed Only Bases
• Start on mutation decor conversions
• Jaglions

Q3/Q4 2024:
• Spirited pose
• Recode completion
• Another mutation

In the spirit of open communication, we'd like to address two things with the plans above.

1. Breed Only Bases: These were delayed due to gathering feedback that made us think the community was not interested in them and preferred the Spirited pose instead. This is on us for not communicating the reason for the pause. After hearing your recent feedback and with a new artist on board, we will be prioritising this project.
2. Jaglions and Spirited: Spirited's workload involves a lot of decors after the base and marking stage, so Jaglions are planned to be released while Spirited is being worked on, especially thanks to us getting an extra base and marking artist on board. The pose is still coming and is still full throttle. That being said, we will be polling you, the community, about what you would prefer to have first - please see the poll link at the bottom of the news post to vote.

Additionally, we'd like to be upfront about the status of previous plans and suggestions that were intended to be added but have not been. Growth doesn't happen in a straight line, so some things that were considered years ago are either no longer possible, or are not feasible to be added to the game. We will be working on going through the suggestion boards and locking the suggestions that are no longer going to be added so that it is clear where everything stands in regards to our plans moving forward. Please be patient as we do this, as it will take some time. With so many passionate players, there are a lot of threads to go through!
 
We appreciate all of you, and we are grateful that you're here enjoying Lioden. We can't wait to see what the future holds! We hope you're as excited as we are!

Raffle Lioness

Congrats to the winner of last week's raffle lioness!
A new Elysian lady with Cimmerian Burmese, Prismatic Undercover, and the sixth Kongou Falls background is up for impressing in the Special Lioness area linked here!

Poll Results - Thank you all for voting on last week's poll! We totally agree with Lioden VR being an Adventure RPG Slasher Roguelike Dating Sim. But who needs VR for that when you can get the full experience from Lioden.com?

NEW POLL - Which would you prefer to have released first: Jaglions or Spirited pose? The pose's workload involves lots of mane work and decors after the base/marking stage, so both can be worked on at the same time, but Jaglion would be finished much faster. However, you might prefer that all resources are focused on one project only. This is why we want your feedback here. Let us know in this week's poll!

Next Development Update: January 12th!


There is no goofy comic this week, apologies!