Mar 5, 2023

Handshakes - Pet Pumpkin

Hey Shakers!

The Soundtrack Supporter Pack has just released!

If you've enjoyed Handshakes and you'd like to support us and buy us a coffee, you can do so by picking up the Soundtrack Supporter Pack. 🤝

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2330460/Handshakes_Soundtrack_Supporter_Pack/

The pack includes:

The Handshakes Theme Song
2 Bonus Tracks (including a sneak peek track from Handshakes: Hands On)
All tracks in MP3 & FLAC
MIDI files for the musicians out there (share your remixes with us!)
Digital Bio & Postmortem PDF [15 Pages] (an insight into us developers and the development of Handshakes)

A massive thanks again to everyone who has played, left a review and enjoyed Handshakes, we can't wait to get Hands On into your shakin' hands.

Hands On

While we're here, here's a little update on Hands On.

There's still a lot to do but we're chipping away and aiming to get the game into a sharable state in the next month or so, so that we can get it out into your hands for some testing and feedback rounds. (if you'd like to help with testing, hop into our discord server)

We've made some good progress on the community levels aspect of the game, we're able to upload, download and upvote levels which is quite exciting. There are still some kinks to clean up but that's one big system more or less checked off the todo list.

Our team has also grown! We're officially joined by BarryLawnmower, who will be assisting on the coding side of the project. He's already helped with the mobile port and has been hard at work implementing localization and tooling to help make development smoother, we're stoked to have him on the team!

If you haven't already, be sure to wishlist Handshakes: Hands On, it really helps us out and you get to stay in the loop once the game is eventually released.

Happy shaking!

Mar 5, 2023

Disassembler Mode Released

Final Upgrade - TaosX

The new mode turns the gameplay upside down.

Instead of raw ores and liquids, planets provide composite resources that need to be disassembled into primary ingredients and used to create what the colonists demand.

Another important change in this mode is that the demand on the planets will increase with each new level. Instead of a fixed consumption of 1/s, the demand will be between 1 and 12 units per second. Global supply and demand are balanced in terms of basic resources.

This mode is recommended for experienced players.

Mar 5, 2023

[COMPLETE] 3/6 Emergency Maintenance Notice

Onigiri - Onigiri Official

Greetings from the Onigiri Service Team.

The emergency maintenance begun on 11:00 pm PST 3/5, 2023 has concluded as of 5:00 am PST.

We will send the following items in compensation for a bug that prevents returning to dungeon.

■Compensation Items
・Full Energy Restorative x4
・ALL Boost +200% (60Min.) x2

◆Validity
　Accounts existing as of 11:00 pm PST, 3/5, 2023

※Items will be delivered to an account's present box.
　Gifts can be received by navigating to the [Menu] → [System] → [Present] screens.
※Item can only be recieved by one character per account, so please select the correct character.
※Compensation items will not be destributed on a specific schedule.

Thank you for your attention.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.
Thank you for supporting Onigiri!

Greetings from the Onigiri Service Team.

We will be conducting maintenance on March 5th at 11:00 pm PST.
This maintenance is expected to finish at 3:00 4:00 5:00 am PST on March 6th.

※Players will not be able to login during this time.
※We will post a notice at maintenance's conclusion, so please do not try to log in during this time.
※Please note that the end time of maintenance is subject to change without prior notice.

We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Mar 5, 2023

HOTFIX: Crash fixes Coallateral mini-game and updated bug reporter.

Metal Heads - MetalHeadsGame

Hi everyone!

Thanks to a few of the bug reports that have come in (now that there's a functional bug reporter), there are 2 main crashes that have been reported so far.
SUMMARY:
(CRASH FIX)- Fixed Coallateral physics bug crashing the game.
(POSSIBLE CRASH FIX)- Players using Dolphin/Wii controllers, sensor bars or using 3rd party controller emulation software should still be able to play without a crash. If using these things and it's still crashing, unplug those controllers, and/or turn off the emulation software and try again.
(Updated Crash Reporter)- More information on the crash reporter, specifically targeted to those using Dolphin/Wii controllers etc.

There is a known issue with Playstation DUAL SHOCK controllers (I can only test with Dual Shock 4), where if you try to play with one connected via BLUETOOTH, the game will crash.
Thankfully, I was able to test this and find a work-around/fix.

Go into Steam Settings -> Controller -> General Controller Settings
and enable "Playstation Configuration Support".

The Dolphin/Wii controller crash bug is one that unfortunately I cannot replicate, because it's to do with players having things like the Dolphin Wii controller plugged into the PC. And that's not something I have a hardware set up for.

Metal Heads uses a super helpful plugin that allows me to have 8 players, but it doesn't know how to deal with strange 3rd party controllers such as Dolphin Wii motes/nunchucks, Dolphin sensor bar's, and emulation software for Dual Shock controllers, such as Better DS3 and DS4Windows.

I have been in contact with the plugin developer, and he has been super helpful, and helped me put in place some code that HOPEFULLY will stop the game crashing simply because one of these devices are connected to the PC. NOW the game should still run, but those devices won't work in the game as they are completely unknown (hence they need emulation software to work).
Unfortunately, without me being able to replicate the crash at all, due to not owning any of the hardware, I cannot say for certain if this actually fixes the issue.

If you are someone who is using these types of controllers, and it isn't crashing anymore, please let me know, but also let me know if it STILL crashes.
Please let me know by either joining the Discord forum HERE or posting on the Metal Heads Steam support forum. Which is found HERE

OTHER NEWS
I am working super hard on the board game customization menu, and it's coming along nicely.
Bear in mind, that this is extremely complicated to make, so it may take me a while to do, but I'm making fantastic progress, and cannot wait to get it into your hands.

Anyway, ROCK ON!

Mar 5, 2023

Polishing and bug fixes patch

Svarog's Dream Playtest - lynxbird

Polishing:
-Updated the text and fixed the grammar for all abilities.
-Updated item forge text descriptions.
-Added more grass and details to the land near Dead Island.
-Added more grass and details in the area near the Underworld entrance.
-Increased player detection for some enemy types.
-Added new audio for plagued enemies.
-Added new audio to Rusalka ghosts.
-Added a torch to the character's inventory after respawn.

Bugfixes:
-Fixed a bug where the player could end up with a quest item after the quest is solved.
-Fixed a bug with doors that were open while locked in Green Hill Village.
-Fixed a bug with some animations for enemies who use bows.
-Fixed a bug where spell tooltips were visible for locked spells.
-Fixed a bug where music on Dead Island would reset near the entrance.