Jun 1, 2023

The Colonists - codebyfire

Hi everyone!

June Frontier

A new month means a new frontier! This month's frontier shakes your early strategies up as L1 residences produce Energy twice as fast and lumberjack huts use twice as much. Upgraded roads work twice as well though so good luck!

Multiplayer Beta

Good news if you've always wanted to play The Colonists with or against your friends, we'll be announcing a multiplayer open beta soon, keep your eyes out!

Featured Workshop Maps

Here are five more excellent Steam Workshop maps from players - a mix of old and new, peaceful and military.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2977297621
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2965727984
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2151517242
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2900486435
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2708748079

V1.6.5 Release Notes

June Frontier
Fixed fog of war not applying to fixed scenario games where it should (custom maps)
Fixed proximity boost UI panel bug
Fixed [Tab]bing through building levels
Fixed selected map panel disappearing when subscribing to a Featured map
[Modding] Special storage component now supports startingItems going beyond outgoing storage limit

Huge appreciation to everyone on Discord Server for all their ongoing testing and feedback! 🚀

If you do find a bug or have an issue please use Bug Reporting information page.

Thanks!

Jun 1, 2023

New Sealed League: Chapter 79 – The Rise of the Hermit

Eternal Card Game - Dire Wolf CS

The Rise of the Hermit June Event is upon us!

The Low-Down: Open eight packs, and build a 45 card deck. Each week of the Sealed League, you’ll get new packs to modify your deck. Combining Behemoths with The Dusk Road will give players all the Nightfall they can imagine!

If you join after Week 1, not to worry. You'll get the packs you missed, and your limit on games that count towards the Leaderboard will increase.

Each participating player will unlock the League card back for immediate use:

Sealed League

Starting Packs

Week 1: 4x Behemoths of Thera, 4x The Dusk Road
Week 2: 4x The Dusk Road
Week 3: 2x Behemoths of Thera
Week 4: 2x The Dusk Road

Minimum rewards for playing include:

4 x Behemoths of Thera packs
1 x premium Uncommon card
1 x new premium card back upon entering the League

All packs awarded from the Sealed League will be packs of Behemoths of Thera. The cost to participate in this Sealed League is 12,500 Gold or 1,100 Gems.

Alternatively, Players can also enter into the Premium League for 5,000 Gems, which guarantees that every card from your League packs will be premium! Plus, all players who enter will end up with at least 18 packs from the League (14 from play and 4 from rewards).

Happy playing!

Jun 1, 2023

Homebody FAQ

Homebody - Eriksobe

Hello Homebodies,

We hope you’ve been enjoying solving puzzles and evading the killer. Just in case you’re looking for a helping hand, we’ve created some FAQs and tips to help. Keep the questions and feedback coming, and happy gaming!

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q: There's too much to do and too little time!
Take your time. Focus on one goal at a time. You may have limited time for this loop... but you'll always have more time later. You can't do it all in one night, but you'll get there eventually.

Q: I don't wanna die!
You're going to die a lot. It will never slow you down much. Remember--Homebody doesn't have inventory items to find and collect. Instead, you have knowledge gained from previous attempts (saved in your Memory Log) that you can use in your next attempt. Knowledge lives forever... even if you don't!

Q: I seem to be out of things to do!
There will usually be at least a few problems and puzzles you can solve at any one time. Here are a few general pointers:
Have you explored your available environment completely?
Is there anything you haven't investigated? Be sure to use the Interact Reveal button (by default, ~ on keyboard and LB on controller) to find anything in the environment you might have missed. Keep an eye out for entrances that only open later on in the night, or things that only work at the beginning of the night.
If all else fails, and you die without making progress, the game might even give you a hint on where to look next.

Q: I'm afraid I'm gonna break something!
If something breaks or becomes unusable, you can either fix it or it won't stay broken for long. Don't be afraid to mess with things like the pump in the bathroom or the power box in the cellar, even if you're told not to. Those types of rules are made to be broken.

Q: How do I solve (PUZZLE)?
That's more spoiler-y than we want to get in this space, but here are some general tips:
Be sure to check your Memory Log to refresh yourself on any clues or other pieces of information you've found. You never know what might be relevant in retrospect.
Try talking to Emily's friends to see if they know anything, or if Emily can ask questions about what she's found.
Think about whether you have enough information to solve a puzzle. You might need a specific combination, or input, or number, or...
If you go a while without making any progress, the game could eventually give you a push in the right direction.

Q: Where is the person with the knife coming from? What did I do wrong?
You didn't do anything wrong--the killer is inevitable. But, pay attention to the time and place that the killer appears... plan your night around the window of safety before the killer arrives, and try to take note of the place where the killer first begins its hunt each night.

Q: The killer keeps coming for me! What do I do?
The house is haunted by an unstoppable presence with a knife. You can never escape it completely, but you can evade it for a while as you make progress on your goals in the house. Here are some general tips on dealing with it:
While you're working on puzzles in a first-person view, pay attention to what you can see like corners or shadows on the wall, and look around to get a better view (by default, by tilting the right stick on a controller, or with WASD on keyboard.) Pay attention to the sound of the surrounding environment to stay aware of the killer's position.
Remember that you can break line-of-sight with the killer or hide in closets to temporarily escape the killer's attention.
The killer is attracted to certain sounds. Objects in the environment can make noises that distract the killer. And remember that the killer is more able to track your position if you loudly run all over the house!
Try to plan your actions each night around when the killer arrives. What can you finish before the killer shows up? What's only possible after the killer begins its hunt?

Q: Why won't Cliff talk to me? I don't like him!
Cliff is a hard guy to like. Emily likes him anyway, and so do his other friends. Try talking to them about him.

PC Specific:

Q: The maximum resolution is 1080p?
That's right--the game's pixelated vibe means we can't have the resolution go too high! But we hope you'll like the crunchy pixelation and dither as much as we do. The game automatically should scale to your desktop resolution in Borderless Window mode, so you can play the game on any display you like.

Q: I don't have a controller, just a keyboard and mouse, is that okay?
We designed the game to work great with keyboard and mouse (or any input device!) With a mouse you can click on the environment to move (double-click to run!) and on interacts to, well, interact. With a keyboard and mouse, use WASD to explore the house with camera-relative movement controls and click on interacts to interact.

Q: Can I play with a controller?
We designed the game to work great on a controller (or any input device!) With a controller you can explore the house with camera-relative movement controls by tilting the left analog stick, and use the right analog stick to select nearby interacts.

- Jory and The Game Grumps Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1959350/Homebody

Jun 1, 2023

Humble beginnings

Machi: Above the Void - HOKAGE

We are happy to present you our new Japanese-style project with mind-blowing puzzles! This game is based on the well-known game "Skyscrapers" for puzzle lovers. The release is scheduled for June 30th.

The main idea of the game is as follows:
You have cells and tips on the sides. You need to fill in the cells in such a way that the hints do not contradict them. There are only two rules:
-Numbers cannot be repeated in their row and column.
-Hints say how many buildings (skyscrapers) are visible if you look at this row/column from the side of the hint.
Your task is to completely fill in all the numbers on the game board.

Campaign
In the campaign, you can go through progressively more difficult levels and bonus levels.

Achievements
By completing missions in the campaign, you can get achievements. Achievements are also given for multiplayer games and for simple actions.

Leaderboards
Leader boards are available in some missions. You can set the world record by winning the mission in the shortest time or be the best among your friends!

Multiplayer
You can compete with other people in solving puzzles for speed. In the future, it is planned to add a rating mode, where you will have a rating and an opponent will be selected for you according to the rating.

Playing with a friend
You can also create a lobby to play a variety of modes with a friend.

Soundtrack
Enjoy the game's atmospheric soundtrack in an Asian folk style.

Jun 1, 2023

Arttista 1.8.4 is in da' house

Arttista - helmuthschmitz

Hello there! We are proud to announce Arttista 1.8.4 and also a new 2D Animated Short Film Made in Arttista, called "Wild". From time to time, we create short animation movies to test Arttista features. This way, we can feel what else could be missing on it and start to create new features in Arttista besides to find and fix bugs. Wild was enterily created inside Arttista and no other software was used for illustration, coloring, shading and animation. All the drawings created during the process will be available as "Examples" shiped with Arttista next verstion(1.8.5). The ideia behind Wild was to show that is possible create complex animations with complex shading and forms, resulting in a awesome 3D aspect. Don't forget to check it out what is new is 1.8.4 version after watch Wild.

So check it out "Wild"

Check it out Arttista 1.8.4 changelog:

New: Now there is a new button on Animation Panel, that when enabled, will force animation to be synched with your drawing frame per seconds, droping frames if necessary when rendering is slow.
New: Now there is a new bone mode in the object editor panel, that when enabled, will highglight all points that are related to a bone when mouse cursor is over this same bone. This way, all the skin of a bone will be hightlighted for conference purpose.
New: Now you can use alt+scroll(mouse) to change size of circular selection mode area.
Bugfix: Memory dealloc bug fix in Windows and MacOS versions.
Bugfix: Removed unecessary files int Linux version.
Bugfix: A huge, huge, very huge amount of bug fixes in interpolation, rendering and user interface.