Developing Gravity Oddity was a wild journey and I am thrilled that it is finally available for everyone to play!

I hope you will enjoy the game.

Big Love <3
-Tim

Hey there, Ara: History Untold fans!

We've got some super exciting news to share with you. If you haven’t heard, we recently kicked off a weekly Dev Diary series on our YouTube channel! We talk to our developers, spill the tea on everything Ara-related, and even show you some exclusive gameplay footage!

Last week, we dropped Part One of our Dev Diary on Ara’s Living World. We had a blast talking to Dorian Newcomb, Art Director at Oxide Games, on the process of bringing Ara's world to life through art and design. Trust us, it's a must-watch!



But there's more! We've been on this rollercoaster for a few episodes now. We've talked Armies and Combat with Director of Production, Satch Puri, and explored Ara's Simultaneous Turns with Lead Designer, Michelle Menard. If you missed any of these, no worries – they're all up on our channel, ready for your binge-watching pleasure.



Now, it's your time to shine. We want your input! What features would you like to see covered in future episodes? Whether it's unraveling the mysteries of crafting, exploring diplomacy, or geeking out over city management, we're all ears. Leave a comment, hit us up on social media, or jump into the discussion on our Insider forums – your voice matters.

Get ready for more mind-blowing episodes of our Dev Diary series each week. Subscribe to our channel, hit that notification bell, and come along for the ride as we dive deep into the world of Ara: History Untold. Your support keeps us going, and together, we'll make history – in more ways than one!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2021880/Ara_History_Untold/

Check out our audio deep dive by composer, Joel Baylis, during today's Save and Sound event on Steam!

Until next time!

• Fixed an issue with loading campaign mode fortification puzzles after a certain problematic puzzle was attempted to be loaded.
  
• Fixed an issue with loading a tutorial which asks for player input on the first node. It was previously marking the options of where to play next on the board, which was not intended when asking the player to decide where to play.

Jane’s been asked to shoot a TV program called “Cooking Strike” to show off her incredible cooking skills, and she needs to complete five levels in a row to make sure she’s ready!

While you complete the levels to get ready for the show, the TV crew will bring some more professional equipment.

If you fail a level, your progress will be reset and you’ll have to start from the beginning!
You can try as many times as you want. The TV show’s paying for the food, so you won’t be using yours up.

When you finish the fifth level you’ll receive a big reward that includes booster parts, Coins, Rubies, and blog points!



If you don’t complete all the levels before the event ends, don’t worry. You aren’t losing anything, and there’ll always be another TV program!

Hello! This is Francisco González, developer of Lamplight City. I've got a special message from Lamplight City’s composer Mark Benis:

Today, September 13th 2023, marks the 5 year anniversary since we released Lamplight City. Whoa! Months ago when I found out this milestone was coming up, it had me reflecting on really how lucky I was to have collaborated with Francisco on this game. I was a young(er) composer just finding my way, and Lamplight City inspired me to write music that I feel brought out the best in me. The confidence I had to explore different sounds and focus in on a mid-19th-century-inspired orchestral score I really attribute to the game's vastly imaginative world and how much Francisco trusted me to do it justice. For that I'll always be grateful, and I know I'll always look back at our collaboration on this game quite fondly.

So to celebrate this milestone, I dug through my old files and included in a new soundtrack update we've put together 9 pieces arranged for piano and 4 of those with a full score. I chose the piano arrangements based on playability + what I thought would be fun to play, and the pieces with full scores are those where the orchestration/integration in the game might be fun to peek at should you be interested.

Special thank you to the team at Materia Collective -- Sydney, Jamie and Sebastian -- for supporting this project and for their hard work in making this collection a reality. I hope you enjoy revisiting the dark alleyways of Lamplight City with all this new sheet music in hand. And if you give the piano arrangements a go I'd love to hear, please feel free to share!

- Mark

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As Mark said, there’s a Soundtrack update that includes a bunch of new sheet music! Current (and future) owners of the soundtrack can click on “Browse Local Files” after downloading to easily find them.

Thanks everyone for celebrating this big milestone with us! Your support over the years has meant so much, we hope you’ll continue enjoying the game for many more years to come. As a reminder, a developer commentary was added in 2019. so if you haven't listened, it's a great excuse to revisit the game!

-Animated Return Holes

-Added caution signs to areas containing pits of instant death

-Replaced 2 screen images

-various sprite additions

-various adjustments

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-We've made some changes to the Proton version of the game, more specifically, an error is resolved which throws an exception 'Jacob's Quest Cache' when attempting to play on Steam Deck. We cannot yet guarantee compatibility 100% as of yet but are making major strides making Jacob's Quest cross-platform friendly.
-We've also fixed some bugs in the mainline version of the game.

bug fix