But this isn't love. Real love can't be bought, nor can it be sold. Sorry, it's true. You will not find love browsing a digital game store.
But can you trust me when I say that I made this with love? That I love making games and I love anyone who bothers to play them? It's true.
I am not a salesperson, trying to make a pitch. This is not an advertisement. It's just a "thank you" note, a love letter of sorts, to you. Thank you for taking interest in my game.
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
The visuals are the best part of PH0B0S by far. It's pretty simple otherwise.

Features and customizations

• The step to start the ingame story is made by a first boss.
  
  • "Blargh the Great Devourer" can be found at the corrupted mana collectors, to the west of the portal ruins.
    
  • The battle is accented by the new storm weather effect.
    
  • Slime puddles inflict the first abnormal condition on you: you slow down for a short time.
    
  • The boss leaves behind a mineable slime box, a slime armor and slime balls. The latter will get a use in the future.
    
  • A new achievement is awarded for defeating the boss.
    
  • It can currently still happen that the battlefield is not generated. In this case, a new game must be started.
• When you die, you will now leave behind a tombstone that contains your items.
  
  • The tombstone can be used like a box to recover your items.
    
  • If the tombstone is mined, you can take it with you as a decoration, but you can no longer use it as a crate.
    
  • A marker at the edge of the screen indicates the direction to the tombstone, similar to the marker back to the home totem.
• In combat, stamina is now used to attack. In return, the short invulnerability time after hitting mobs is removed.
  
• Walls, fences, floors, and some crafting materials now require fewer resources and/or have a higher yield.
  
• Mycelium can now be removed with both the shovel and the hoe.
  
• A water trough can now be crafted at the carpenter's table. It is purely decorative at this point.
  
• The bucket can now be made on the carpenter's table.
  
• Swamp grass now spawns in waters of the swamp biome.
  
• The graphics for the chicken egg and the egg nest have been improved.
  
• Minor improvement to the flashing of hit mobs.
  
• Minor performance updates to entity generation and display sorting.

Bugfixes

• Special Places were sometimes not registered correctly in the save file, resulting in fewer Special Places.
  
• When being knocked back by a hit, it was still possible to attack at the same time.
  
• In windowed mode, the mouse cursor position did not match the marker in the game world.
  
• On some resolutions, the pointer movement speed with a controller was different.

Coming soon

• In-game beginning of the story.
  
• Map generator improvements.

Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/artimus83

Discord
https://discord.gg/AWPcAfC

Website
https://pad-soft.de/

We've made a lot of changes to the world of Chinese Empire over the last few years.

We have implemented over a dozen new buildings with animations and mechanics of raw materials that they produce, process or consume. From now on, people move only on roads designed by the player.
We can also draw from natural resources, cut down trees, mine stone or sulphur, fish, etc.



We also have created many dependencies between the buildings thanks to which the cities we create are teeming with life from the very beginning, and each person performs an important activity for the city.

Fixed chase music not playing even though The Myth has entered the chase mode

Updated server endpoint to fix domain name going down yesterday. Online play should be available again!

• fixed some typos
  
• static obstacles and targets in combat won’t trigger the graze effect anymore (yeah the little sparkles are grazes which increases your mana I just haven’t explained it yet lol)
  
• made Mi’s running less floaty
  
• added transparency to forest trees
  
• Reworked overworld music
  
• mapped WASD to movement controls
  
• mapped Xbox controller to input
  
• signs who explain the controls now switch their personality to which device you currently use (keyboard or gamepad) before you first interact with them

We're currently working on the translation issues. You might have seen that sometimes there're language loading errors in the game. With this update we will try to find out why this happens. After this update is published we should know better. We will fix the language loading error in the next couple days. Thank you for your patience! ❤️




- You can rebind keyboard keys again (tell us if you want to have changable controller buttons)

- fixed a bug where notes counted multiple times for the statistics

- fixed the tutorial for those who couldn't skip it

Have a nice evening!
Cheers,
Andre

Fixed bugs that prevented the game from continuing in some locations of the game.

Obviously, I am going to do a new chapter, and I will focus on Eric at the moment (although there is a chance I might do one more for the update depending on how much work needs to be done. :) However, one thing I am noticing is the bloat of the visual novel.

1. Part of it is because some of those image files are WebP at 95% quality, which is the lowest I could go that meets my acceptable quality. That portion will be reduced with AVIF. For example, one WebP that is 445KB is 221KB in AVIF, which adds up. Currently, Renpy 8.1 sits at 86%, so there is still a bit to go before that is released.
   
2. Animations are actually a BIG cause of the bloat. Those embers you see in the main menu? That is actually 22MB worth of WEBPs. After experimenting and playing with some ideas, I will be changing it to WebM with specific quality and items to ensure that it plays smoothly. ;) The size reduction? That 22MB embers will be 6MB. So far, I have worked through some scenes with conversions and thus far seen a 20% reduction in overall build size. That release will likely come in the next couple of weeks so I am not hogging up all your disk space. :)

Hey all-

The official Steam release for Interior Worlds is upon us, and just like I did with Hypnagogia: Boundless Dreams, I'm starting up another round of fan art submissions!

A quick breakdown:

• Your submission can be anything 2D, such as a photograph or illustration.
  
• It will be displayed as a painting in a hidden level, dedicated to showcasing art.
  
• Each artwork will be accompanied by a readable text box with a title and description.
  
• Submit through Twitter or Discord by March 29th!