Spry Fox Making Happiness

Spring Has Sprung, Spirit Scouts! 🌷

The delicate buds are sprouting, the snow has dried up, and the air smells fresh and dewy, which means it’s time for our Full Bloom Frolic! From now until May 24, you can hatch & befriend adorable ducklings, tend to orchids for vibrant new dyes, unlock new badges and collectibles, and earn new Spring themed rewards for your Scout.

Be Crystal Clear 💧

Purchase the Crystal Dowsing Rod from Ms. Carouse to earn Fresh Water, your main currency for getting your hands on all of the unique rewards from the Full Bloom Frolic. 

This Will Quack You Up 🦆

Dig up feather-filled leaf piles from the ground to uncover placeable nests that with time (and love) will turn into devoted little duckling companions. Visit Ms. Carouse to purchase food for them, and perhaps they’ll reward you daily with something special in return!

Orchids & Dyes, Oh My! 🌼

Ms. Carouse will also be your valuable source for craftable & upgradable orchids! Place your new flowers and they’ll reward you with orchid blossoms (redeemable for new exclusive dyes) or orchid hearts (used to upgrade your flowers for higher tiered dyes). 

Holi Collectibles 

Don’t forget to offer your Full Bloom Frolic items to Tallow for Spring-themed clothing and other presents! You can get these by participating in activities during the Spring festival, such as powerwashing, and feeding hungry imps.

🛠️Bug Fixes:🛠️

• Some changes to the Spring Festival to make it a bit easier to obtain the limited edition rewards
• Fix for missing companion badges – they’re back!
• Stability and crash fixes
• Swapping an item on a mannequin should no longer cause missing items (Reach out to SpryDeckard on Discord so he can send you whatever you have already lost)
• Blank Memo Moth quest from Sofia has been fixed
• Fix for coins floating over the water
• Displayers will now show what type they are and be properly registered in photographs
• The hint dispenser will now function correctly if you no longer have the quest
• Miscellaneous quest and quality of life fixes
• New minimum iOS version (17.0) and Android (Android 9.0 ‘Pie’ (API level 28))

Also, just a reminder that Cozy Grove Camp Spirit is now available in many regions on your compatible TV or on Netflix.com (PC & Mac)! And as always, be sure to let us know what you think on Discord or Reddit!

NOTE: We are no longer accepting applications for this position.

Spry Fox is looking for a lead engineer, experienced with working in Unity, to help us develop a new cozy game! Note: we intentionally keep our teams as small and as experienced as we can, while sticking to a 40 hour work week and avoiding crunch, because we believe small teams accomplish more and are more pleasant to be a part of. This means that you’ll definitely be rolling up your sleeves and writing code alongside all the other engineers at all times, but you’ll also be sharing your wisdom and helping solve our hardest technical problems on a team-wide basis.

Position requirements. You must:

• Have at least five full years of professional game development experience, and preferably more
• Experience shipping at least one commercial games using Unity, and preferably more
• Be very comfortable working remotely (we’re a virtual studio; everyone works from home!)
• Speak and write fluently in English
• Live in a US-adjacent timezone or be willing to work from 10am-2pm PST Monday through Thursday
• Want to make the world a better place

While not required, it would be nice if you also:

• Have any backend (i.e. multiplayer/server) development experience
• Have interests outside of game development
• Have shipped several games in your professional career

What are we offering?

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NOTE: This position has been filled. We are no longer hiring.

In Spry Fox, we think of producers first and foremost as people who facilitate communication between other members of the team and make sure that everyone is on the same page. Producers also help identify exciting opportunities that the team might be overlooking as well as dangerous risks that might be going unappreciated. And last but not least, producers help ensure that we’re not dropping any important balls. Great communication and organizational skills, empathy for others, and an ability to remain and to spread calm are all highly appreciated in this position. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Requirements (mandatory)

• You’ve shipped at least one commercial video game as a producer.
• Strong communication skills that will help you succeed in a remote team environment.
• Well-developed empathy that helps you connect with your peers across disciplines, relate to our customers, and display mature conflict resolution.
• You must live within three hours of the Pacific timezone.

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Hi Scouts!

The major Fall update for Cozy Grove is now live!

We had a few goals for this update: tackle some of the more challenging feature requests that the community has been asking for, add content to some of the systems that we think are currently underutilized in the game, add at least one major new activity, and last but not least, add a special Fall limited-time event!

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We are delighted to announce that Alphabear 2 is available worldwide as of today! 🙂

The first Alphabear – a quirky English word puzzle game, for those of you who haven’t played it – was an award-winning and relatively popular game. It has been downloaded well over five million times. Our new sequel is bigger and better in every way. It has a full narrative, several new modes, a new Avatar system (yes, you can finally *be* a bear, not just play with bears), new dictionary tools (featuring Merriam-Webster), greatly enhanced “bear speech”, and more!

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