Clarissa | making Enigma HeartEnigma Heart v0.1.68.01 is now uploaded to Steam for playtesters (and the original Google Drive URLs if you opted for a standalone build).
Changelog in the game directory and at https://www.hadrosaurus.net/enigma_heart/CHANGELOG.txt
A bit of an update on publishing and overall game progress.
New on ko-fi: some updates on my progress on Enigma Heart, both in terms of pitching and development of the game itself.
I suppose this also counts for a #ScreenshotSaturday post!
https://ko-fi.com/post/Some-updates-J3J61WTK2M
#ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #EnigmaHeart #PixelArt #IndieDev #IndieGame #kofi #mutualaid
Uploading some gameplay footage for a ko-fi and Patreon update 👀
- Fixed bug where overworld music wouldn't resume if leaving Snow's lair before fade-out was complete (no music would play until an encounter)
- Fixed incorrect shadow placement on Esme's dialogue in farewell scene at end of chapter 1
- Aenwald now nudges away from Zalia during their initial conversation
- Lydaea main town, Aenwald's farm, and Brygate main town all reduced in width by an average of one screen each
Changelog (final, probably) for v0.1.68.01
- Added glowing mushrooms to various locations in the dragon cave and grain mill cave, to help the player see better in critical locations
- Changed "dark room brightness" setting to per-device
- Fixed a bug in how horses in hoofprint squares count enemies
- Possible fix for incorrect scene scaling after switching display modes
(cont'd)
I really don't think, once people enter the valley, that they're gonna go back to Lydaea for updates now that they can just explore at will.
Zalia being solo really makes telling a story about relationships hard. Like, in a party-based RPG, your "hometown" (as it were) travels with you, so you have a built-in narrative device.
And I think Zalia and Esme writing letters back and forth is going to get old fast.
I really do think I've designed myself into a corner.
I think the reason chapter 1 of Enigma Heart works so well narratively is because it is on rails. You're guided through a linear story.
Wanting to take the rails off and let the player do things in any order from chapter 2 on is really at odds with me wanting to tell a story, especially since all of Zalia's friends are in Lydaea, and Zalia is on the move halfway across the continent.
(cont'd)
v0.1.68.01 is, unfortunately, going to again break save files, despite my promise that it wouldn't. It's my own fault; instead of just addressing the immediate issues, I went ahead and started developing chapter 2 content.
Good news is, I've reorganized the save file format to guard against this specific type of breaking change in future, so that's one less pain point going forward.
"Annoying customer."
