Andrew Gower

I am very pleased to announce, that my new game Brighter Shores is now available in early access on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2791440/Br…

@Infinity_Chief yes one of the key feedback points we got was there wasnt enough incentive/reward for levelling up so some of the newer content is higher level.

@AndrewCGower Is it correct that it unlocks at Milestone lvl 2? it takes quite some time to get to m2. i was hoping for it to unlock at m1

Brighter Shores - Filtration Station, Kobold Arena and Blacksmith bounties are now live! There are three kinds of blacksmith bounties: Craft only - Craft the weapons listed in the bounty for extra rewards. Craft and deliver weapons to the Kobold Arena - The kobolds in the Kobold Arena are hungry for battle, but they need the shiniest metal weapons you can make to really show off their skills. Filtration Station - Spongle has been placed in charge of the new filtration station, a machine designed to clean the corruption from the river. However, getting the water to the right place can sometimes be more work than one goblin can handle, and Spongle wants your help.

Project Milestone Phase 2 is launched! brightershores.com/news/project_m…

It's time to go undercover in Brighter Shores. Try our new 6⭐️ Crenopolis quest - The Imposter. You can start the quest by talking to Inspector Fairhogg in the Guard's Archive.

Brighter Shores Quality of Life Improvements Today! This update was meant to be launched next week, but some cheeky Christmas elves pressed the wrong buttons and it accidentally went live a week early. Consider it an early Christmas present from us! - The character select interface now shows what passive your character was doing when you logged out, and how long before it lapses and needs restarting. - The passive activity footer now shows how long before your current passive activity lapses and needs restarting. - When repeatedly fighting the same foe, your character will automatically choose the weapon you chose the first time you defeated the foe. - When repeatedly crafting the same weapon, the weapon crafting interface will open with the level you chose when you previously crafted the weapon. - After opening a bank from a storage rift, you can now press the back button to go back to the bank selection screen. - The storage rift in Ray Bay has been moved slightly, so you can access it equally easily from Pirate Hideout and Ray Bay. - You can now withdraw monument pieces from a storage rift. - You can now drink potions while doing potent potions and while using the smelter, the B.R.E.W.S. vat and the T.E.A. machine. - Viewing a recipe from the professions interface now shows only the relevant recipe, and does not interrupt your current action. - You can now choose the level of the epic weapon you get when infusing (up to the average level of the input weapons). - Completed quests are now sorted to the bottom of the quests interface. - The tooltip on side quests now displays the precise level requirements. - The game window will be restored to the same position and fullscreen state it was in when you closed the game.

Brighter Shores Christmas 2025 Event Adothria continues to suffer from unusual weather, with snowfall occurring in the town of Hopeport, but nowhere else. Zondrin, a dwarf from Stonemaw Hill, has come to Hopeport to check out this strange occurrence. This enterprising individual is reported to have a great idea for something that can be built with all the snow that is falling... You can start the Christmas 2025 event by speaking to Zondrin in the Town Square in Hopeport.

Todays Brighter Shores Update! You have been lucky enough to be invited to join the goblin maintenance crew. Report for duty to Thimble in the Maintenance Room immediately! For those of you who have forgotten where the Maintenance Room is, it can be found off Strange Junction. The Maintenance Crew is a 4 ⭐️ side quest in the Mine of Mantuban, and the lead developer for the quest was Steve.

Brighter Shores is 1 year old today. In the last year we have launched: - A heap of quality life improvements. - Leaderboards. - Transmog system. - Potion Belt. - 3 holiday events. - Merged combat profession. - 5 new quests. - Player-to-player trading. - Botanist profession. We also have a good pipeline of in-progress stuff including a 6th quest ready to go, and a massive amount of work on project milestone already done. The focus this year has been on making sure the fundamentals of the game are right before we make it a lot bigger. Re-engineering the fundamentals of the game is much more time consuming than creating new content, so once project milestone and the combat rework are done, we should be able to ramp up the pace of development. I also spent over 10% of my time last year on recruitment and training and moving to a bigger office, to put us in a good position for our 2nd year. Thank you to everyone who has supported us on our journey so far, we are still just getting started, so watch this space!

The Mask Maker has arrived in Hopeport. This mysterious character has opened a pop-up mask shop inside the Abandoned Shop off Old Street East. She will be delighted to make your acquaintance, and maybe even some masks. The Mask Maker won't even charge you. You just need to bring her the correct 'raw materials'. Although it's probably best not to ask what she does with the left over pieces. The Halloween 2025 event will end with the game update on the Monday 17th November 2025, after which you will not be able to collect any mask pieces or claim any rewards. As with previous seasonal events, we will never make these Halloween 2025 rewards available again, so now is your only chance to get them.

Due to popular demand we now plan to launch the Brighter Shores Halloween event 1 week earlier than originally scheduled. The halloween event is due to launch on Monday the 20th October, and will last until Monday the 17th November.

We are recruiting for an additional game developer who can both design and code new content for Brighter Shores. For more information see: brightershores.com/careers/game_d…

We have launched the new botanist profession into Brighter Shores today! We have also added new potions, improved forager, improved storage rifts, improved ventures, and more!

Today we have launched a new 6 ⭐️ side quest into Brighter Shores. The quest is called The Zatapajra Beast and can be started by talking to Blunkster in the Stonemasonry Room in the Mine Of Mantuban. The lead developer for The Zatapajra Beast was Paul.

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@AndrewCGower New quest? 🤨

We are planning on doing this weeks update tommorow (i.e on tuesday 12th Aug).

Also I can’t spell tomorrow apparently.

@DiogoYpratin yes, definitely

@AndrewCGower Hello there Andrew i have a off topic Q if u can answer me, its simple actually, i have around 700 hours ish in the game loving so far, but in the combat I really miss the magic, in the future we will have more combat styles? Like magic etc? Ty and keep the nice project!

To put things in perspective, in the last week the team as a whole spent approximately 94% of their time on project milestone stuff and new quests and only 6% of their time on the safety guide (which we had to do) so its not a big deal.

The patch notes just list what we changed in an update. We arent required to have patch notes but people generally like to know what the update was for. That was only a small update which is why it was on thursday. We normally do big updates at the start of the week in case there is any problems we need to fix.

@AndrewCGower Genuine Q: Are you required to include updates to the Online Safety Act in w/ any patch notes or is it included for transparency? I appreciate it but wonder if some sort of “Work on safety act is ongoing” statement rather than in patch notes would make people cool down a tick

@janveelhof That was the last big thing. There is obviously a small amount of ongoing admin work to review things periodically, but the dev work is done so you probably wont see it mentioned in patch notes or weekly leek again anytime soon.

@AndrewCGower Do you think most of the UK safety law work has now been completed or is there still stuff to be done?