Dev Diary November 2025
Hello everyone, thank you for reading this month’s dev diary. I’m really excited to get the ball rolling because today we’re talking about:
- Our Steam page going live next week!
- Progress on bug traits
- Dev diary going forward
Steam Page Going Live December 9th
As some of you may already know, we’ll be unveiling our game next week during the Wholesome Snack live show! You’ll get to see the trailer during its world-premiere debut.
When
December 9th 21:00 Central European Time, 3pm ET (12pm PT)
Where
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WholesomeGames
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/wholesome_games
We will be watching the show live and would love to hear from you, so feel free to chat with us on social media.
After the trailer premieres, you can head over to our Steam page to wishlist the game. We will send you the link by email the following morning, and you will also be able to find it on all of our social media pages.
Bug Trait Discovery Progress
So, we know that bugs have traits but how do we use these to our advantage? Well when sending out bugs on a date, you will learn how they feel about their date’s traits. They can either be indifferent to a category of traits. For example a critter doesn’t care whether their date has wings or not. Otherwise they will Hate (red), Like (blue), or Love(green) certain traits. In the image above for example Ardene the yellerbee love’s Maggi’s Oozy attitude.
By the reaction a bug has to their date you can find out what their ideal partner looks like by deducing which traits they are looking for.
If you click the image below you can see a quick look what the end of a date could look like. Although as with anything this early in development, everything is still subject to change.
Changes to the Dev Diary
We are changing things up a bit! From now on, we will release developer diaries every three months so there is more exciting progress to share each time and we can do some deeper dives into the art, systems and design of the game. And don’t worry, our devs are still working just as hard behind the scenes.
So the next dev diary will be towards the end of February. Until then you can always catch regular updates on the development on our social media accounts.
We all at Grand Duck Games are really excited for the announcement and we hope everyone enjoys the trailer.
Flo
Grand Duck Games 