The palette of the rain forest’s mood and lighting expands again today with the release of the Nighttime decoration set and background. The deep blue and twinkling stars set an awesome scene for arranging bright flowers that seem to glow in the moonlight. Jump into the feature store to see the background, or grab one for your grove on the ‘Special’ tab. You’ll also find new matching foliage and premium flowers to complete the set!

Also released today is a set of items that have been requested for a while: Fruit Tree style foliage. Now you can make your whole grove environment flow together with the style of your fruit tree, pasting tree leaves all around your grove. You can find them in the normal foliage panel.

Boy have we had some long design meetings this week! We’ve been very busy prioritising whats next for the game, balancing refinements to the existing experience with new content for our dedicated players. We now have a plan for the next few months and are busily working towards a couple of big upgrades we’ll be able to sink our teeth into. Will be able to share more with you soon.

See you in the rainforest!

Say hello to the Feature Store, a new space in the rainforest you can go to check out neat premium items in the flesh. We’ve packed it full of new goodies including a very special golden epic flower (10,000HD a day for you and your friends!), the Blue Doctor Butterfly, and decorative flowers. We’ve also added an area for Potion Packs, so with one quick purchase you can stock up on insta-brews or insta-grows to speed your way through the game. You even get 2 potions for free when buying a pack of 10!

We’re working really hard to line up some great new quest progression content for you all, so if you’re a high level hang tight cause theres some brilliant new exploration coming for you soon! We’ll also bring a new background and decoration set next week. I wonder what it could be?

Thank you all for your wonderful support, we hope you enjoy looking around the store, and remember the revenue from all your Facebook Credits purchases is coming back to the developers so we can make more, bigger, better adventures for you to experience in the rain forest.

Introducing the Sunset background and premium item set! Warm up your home grove with this stunning background of a sunset in the Amazon, and match it with beautiful new premium item flowers. You grove sure will stand out amongst the crowd. We’ve also added three new “Bright Tropical” flowers which you can buy just with Honeydew.

We’ve been wanting to get more variety in the lighting and environments in Flutter for a while so it’s great to get this live. It’s incredible how much of a change that background lighting makes, transforming the grove into even more of a calming, sleepy vista.

So the users keep on climbing! Half a million is a lot huh? We’re so appreciative of all your feedback, it helps a lot in making the game better. Another feature we’ve added today is extra help for the “to-dos” on your quest list. These will steer you in the right direction if you’re a little lost as to where to go next.

Keep the feedback coming, and we hope you have fun playing around with the new items!

You guys asked for it, so here it is, a new way to get more of those elusive fungi you need for your quests and potions!

The Fungi Generator is a new functional item that sits in your grove, and will produce one of the 4 fungi a day for 5 days before recycling into a seed chest (the fungi is chosen randomly, remember to trade with friends!). We’ve also added a special version that produces Super Fungi (double XP when feeding to the beetle) and turns into a rare chest after 5 days. This super version is 20 Facebook Credits, but you can get the regular version for just 20,000 HD.

You may also notice we’ve updated our top bar and hint system. Remember to click “Like” to keep up to date, and it’s always great for us to get positive reviews from our fans.

What an exciting week! We’ve passed 300,000 users and are working on some very exciting new things for you to all play with. Thanks again to everyone for being so supportive

We’re very excited to unveil the iPhone and iPad game we’ve been feverishly working away on for the past 6 months:

Puzzle Planets on the iTunes Store

It’s a co-production with National Geographic, inspired by some of the core concepts in their show Clash of the Continents (produced by NHNZ). Nat Geo were so great to work with and it’s an exciting step for us to collaborate with such a respected brand to bring our style of factual fun to mobile devices.

Here’s a video of how the game plays, and you can see the press release here.

We’d love your feedback, so jump on the App Store and grab yourself a copy. It’s just 99c US!

What an awesome week! Facebook decided to feature us on the games dashboard which has brought in a huge surge of new players. It’s been a big learning experience for us as the servers had to scale very quickly, but we’re happy that everything is running smoothly and the game should be loading for you all. If anyone has any issues with loading you can help us optimise the game further by sending info about the error or problem to support@runawayplay.com

So to all our new players: Welcome! It’s great to have you along on the journey and we love your feedback so please send it through.

Based on this great surge of success for the game we are very excited to announce we’ll be moving the dev team back on to Flutter! We’ll be working to refine the game and add some new items and functionality, and if we continue to grow this month we’ll be locking in a long term plan to scale the game even further which is hugely exciting. We have so many great ideas both from within the team, and from our community, and can’t wait to get started on it all.

As if that wasn’t enough, we’ve just launched some new quests! These include 8 new magic potions to brew, 2 new types of seed chests, 5 unique orchid flowers to collect, and a new Nurturer quest to complete. These should keep you guys busy while we get to work on more

Thank you so much to our passionate and supportive community of players. You’re the best. Now let’s make this game a hit!

Capy

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