Changelog:
Traits are now in 2 columns in the fish card.
Fish cards grow on hover so they are easier to read.
Fish card text is slightly larger as well.
Misc. performance improvements and bug fixes (sorry, I forgot what I put in here...)
The eye trait regression has been fixed.

Notes:
I have chased down some of the crash reports that players sent me, and have concluded that the "game won't start" issues are most likely due to older graphics cards and/or drivers. We use Vulcan, which is a newer technology. I'll push an OpenGL compatibility build to a separate branch soon - that might enable older devices to run the game. You can also try running the game with the following command arguments: "--rendering-driver d3d12" or "--rendering-driver opengl3"

The crash reports I received (2 in total) were due to actual issues in the game code, so I was able to fix those

I do have a fairly large performance update in the works - it seems to be working, but I want to test it a bit more before pushing a patch. Believe it or not, but having 2000 fish wasn't the problem. The problem was creating and scoring them all. (In case you are curious, yes, I was already batching the fish on the GPU, but I was scoring them one at a time. It turns out, scoring 20 fish per frame is 10X slower than drawing 2000 fish XD. Just goes to show, the profiler is your friend...)

The game is out there, and people seem to like it, so I'm finally starting to slow down a bit. I also took an evening to watch YouTube and get nothing done. Normally, that wouldn't be a win, but after weeks of only working, it felt nice to waste a bit of time :) I am working on the first post-launch update (excluding bugfixes), as well as a longer-term roadmap, so I will share those in the coming days.

Changelog:
Cleaned up some UI elements, more clarity in the Fish Lab
Made quick scan 3X faster when scanning consecutive already-unlocked cards
Performance improvements in the late-game (more to come)
Added another cannon upgrade to make sardinos less scarce

Note:
There is an unlabeled hotfix before this one - traits got hidden on the fish cards. I noticed it right after pushing the patch, so it was only live for a few minutes. If you see that issue, make sure you update :)

The last hotfix caused eye color traits to disappear in some circumstances. This has been fixed. In other words, I made an eye patch XD. (I finally got some sleep now, so expect the quality of the jokes to drop going forwards)

Note:
Thank you everyone for the feedback this week. I'm going to look into fixing some of the UI issues next (especially font size on the fish cards). I also have a small economy adjustment for sardinos coming which should ensure that the LHC can stay running continually in the late-game.

I'm seeing a lot fewer bug reports now, which is good. From what I can tell, stability issues are more related to the rendering engine than any code issue, so I'll add some graphics settings where possible to reduce the strain on lower-end devices. Frame-rate issues are CPU-bound, meaning I can fix those more easily in the coming days. If you can't launch the game, or get a crash/hang anywhere, please reach out. I'm only hearing a couple of reports at this time, but will continue to investigate.

Changelog:
Fix multiple display issues
Currency patch - all numbers should display correctly now
Prevent tool-tips from spawning as sub-windows (was causing FPS monitor to snap to the tool-tip)
Hatchery navigation fixed - broken in hotfix 4
Add tool-tip descriptions in a few places - will add more
Removed Sardino cost from the fish lab - trait injection costs money only as indicated by the UI. We may bring this back in a balance patch in the coming days.

Changelog:
I was able to confirm that one of the achievements still wasn't firing after the last patch. That is fixed now.
I also added some extra checks when loading a save.
Income indicators on the black hole are reporting correctly for very large sums.

Note:
Thank you everyone for reporting issues! I haven't heard any major reports since the last patch, so I believe we are back to where we should have been at launch. I will continue to investigate things as they come up.

Changelog:
Fixed fish freezing in expeditions after timer expires
Added extra safeguards when loading a save. Auto-saving is more reliable and slightly less frequent. If a save fails, all saves and auto-saves will be copied to a new folder before attempting to load or recover.
Hatcheries were only auto-advancing when selected. Now, all hatcheries promote all fish when ready
Also increased the hatchery trait limit back up to 8. Allowing more traits to stack was a bug, but a happy accident (when not causing larger problems)
Ensured that all achievements can fire, check and re-try if something is wrong.
Misc small changes.

Note:
The first hotfix yesterday was meant to address the biggest issues I was seeing, but it ended up introducing a lot of bugs. Unfortunately, some player's saves were lost. If you were affected, please reply here (or ping me on Discord), and I can help you re-create the save to the best of my abilities. If you already commented in a discussion or left a review, I'll reach out today.

With that said, we now have additional safeguards around loading saves. If a save fails, you will see a message, and all saves will be copied to a backup folder before continuing. If this happens, please consider sending me your save file. I haven't been able to corrupt a save yet myself, so I could use help identifying the issue there.

Other than that, the fixes in the hatchery should improve the late game a good deal. I was always intending for automation chains to be a big part of this section, but auto-advance requiring supervision made the system more painful than fun. This was a bug, and is fixed.

Patch 1 introduced lag in a couple of areas. This should be fixed.
Also, I reduced the Hatchery trait limit back to the intended design (4 max per fish, so it matters which ones you choose).

I like the idea of expanding this in the future, but I want to make sure that any exploits make the game more fun/playable, not just broken. There are some fun multipliers in the late game that I want you guys to find and figure out :)

Patch notes:
Fixed mass stall around 2 billion
Fixed currency rollover issue (partial fix)
Corrected a few invalid costs (stocker price drops)
Fixed speed scanner prestige upgrade
Some achievements were firing conditionally based on how you moved cards (clicking vs dragging)

Hey friends!

We just pushed our first post-launch patch.

First off, I want to apologize for the delays on the Day 1 patch. I had all of the changes ready 12 hours ago, but I couldn't get the game to launch (any version, including the released version). After way too many hours of troubleshooting, I discovered that the fans were no longer spinning on my graphics card. That would do it ːsteamfacepalmː

Anyways, we are back up and limping, so I was able to get a few major issues pushed. I'm going to try to do smaller, more frequent patches going forwards so I don't get stuck pushing a large batch of changes.

There are a few major issues remaining which I am looking at now.
1. One, the Hatchery allows you to bypass the 4 trait per fish limit that I intended. This is making most of the late-game trivial, which was not my intention. The goal was for the money economy to top out around $1T, so all costs were balanced around that range.
2. One of the Steam achievement issues has been fixed, but there is still a problem where achievements don't re-trigger if the Steam API misses it the first time. This means that some players can't get some achievements for arbitrary reasons.
3. There isn't nearly enough text/tutorial/tooltips, and some of the UI is still a bit weird/unintuitive.

I'll get back to work, and I hope to have the next patch out in much less than 24 hours :)

Thank you all for the overwhelming response, this has been an amazing launch (despite the bugs and hiccups)