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📏 Added height adjustment option
🔧 Easier Valve Index calibration
🐛 Fixed various bugs
🗣️ Completed missing text localizations
🤩 Improved overall gameplay experience

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Players can now take advantage of the new 'Adjust Height' option in OVRDARK, allowing seamless play across a wider range of software and devices without needing external calibration!

Valve Index players can now experience the convenience of our new 'Valve Index' calibration, automatically adjusting settings like hand offsets and height for their specific devices.

We fixed some minor bugs you reported and made some adjustments on lighting and fine-tuned collisions based on your feedback.

We are working hard 💪 to make OVRDARK the VR experience you were looking for!

Thank you for your patient waiting. The game will be released before 0:00 UTC+8 on August 3, 2024!


Welcome to join NEW Discord to learn more about the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2897760/

Hello Dear Players,
Car For Sale Simulator 2023 is getting an awesome update soon! With this update, Palma's Deluxe Cars, a brand new car dealership, is coming to town! You will be able to buy our carefully selected, accident-free and undamaged vehicles with special finishes.

• BMM M3
  
• Buck Regar
  
• Chevlet Chevel S
  
• Fiyat Abarth 131
  
• Lamrgoni Cutch
  
• Porch 930
  
• Lord Faptom

🔧 Take your driving experience to the next level with these carefully selected vehicles, each in perfect condition!

• 0 vehicles, accident free and undamaged.
  
• Special skins and customization options.

Palma's Deluxe Cars, the newest and most prestigious car showroom in the city, is coming soon! Stay tuned and be the first to know! You can write your suggestions and recommendations on our Discord or Steam page, your thoughts are very valuable to us. 🚘✨

Also, we have a surprise for you! Can you guess the cars below? Don't forget to write us your guesses!🔍

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3062170/The_Enigma_Cases/


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2679810/Car_For_Sale_Simulator_2023__Super_Sports_DLC/

We’ve already spoken about Culture Buildings but Service buildings are surely the most important buildings in your city.

• They have a weak attraction but grant a lot of satisfaction!
  
• Unlike cultural buildings, they do not degrade during age changes, even if they cannot be evolved, nor unlocked and built outside their historical period.

As soon as their construction is complete, they provide access to numerous game mechanics, depending on their culture.

All these mechanics will evolve over the course of the city's history:

• The production service building is linked to the storage and management of resources.
  
• The Horreum (antiquity) provides a large storage capacity.
  
• The military service building is in charge of protecting the city, anticipating events and carrying out attacks.
  
• The Belfry (middle-ages) allows you to use army points to increase the city’s defenses.
  
• The religious service building is in charge of housing managemen.
  
• The Master builder’s office (middle-ages) allows you to modify the urban planning rules neighborgoods and integrate the wanderers.
  
• The education service building manages all the know-how learned in the ages.
  
• The Library (middle-ages) is the right place for your knowledge!
  
• The commercial service building is authorized to sell and buy various goods.
  
• Thanks to the Macellum (antiquity) you will be able to open trade routes in order to exchange resources with other cities.
  
• The politics service building allows you to pass decrees in your city.
  
• Don’t neglect the Senatus (antiquity)!

The Belfry

See you soon builders!

Time flies, and it’s been over a month since Aleph was launched. We’ve received a lot of valuable feedback, which has sparked a series of new insights, as well as some interesting and constructive discussions.

During this period, we’ve also received several thoughtful reviews from enthusiastic steam-curators. We extend our respect to those who reached out to us, discovered and recommended us at moments we hadn’t anticipated, and those who accepted our invitation to review the game.

Thank you to every player who put in extra effort. Once again, we appreciate all the recent comments and feedback! Your presence has added more dimensions to the presentation of our work.


Meanwhile, as summer transitions into autumn, Aleph has embarked on its first offline exhibition since its release here.

To better support various exhibition scenarios in the future, we have made a series of adjustments and detailed rules specifically for the exhibition context, including but not limited to:

1.We decided to use a Playtest branch version running on the Steam client for the exhibition.

• Considering the ease of updates and platform features (Stats/Achievements),
  
• Also, because we experienced ‘Word Game’ at the 2022 Beijing Biennial, we were inspired by the exhibition method it employed.”

2.We also activated a Steam account dedicated to the exhibition, making backend data easy to query and control via the Steam API.

• We built a series of non-global stats specifically for the exhibition context.
  
• Queries by the WebAPI: https://partner.steam-api.com/ISteamUserStats/GetUserStatsForGame

3.We believe achievements are an important part of the gaming experience, and the Playtest version also supports the achievement system.

• We configured the Playtest version with the same achievement data as the main game to ensure that on-site players can have a complete experience.
  
• To adapt to the exhibition context and ensure that player turnover does not interfere with the experience, the game will automatically return to the main menu when idle
  
• it will clear unlocked achievements and other non-essential save data when return to the main menu.

4.The game initially included a screensaver system, which also serves as a tutorial menu that can be called up (TAB key on the keyboard / X button on the gamepad). Typically, if the game is idle long enough, this interface will automatically appear. Considering the flow of people and potential player turnover during the exhibition, in the exhibition version:

• The idle trigger timer for the screensaver is shorter.
  
• The screensaver will appear after a period of idleness.
  
• In conjunction with the stats, if the screensaver is manually canceled after a period of time, it can be considered an indicator of new player entered.

5.Finally, we distinguished the exhibition version from the store version using scripting define symbols to keep each version clean and independent.


The current exhibition, named Ephemera Project, focuses on the concept of a “a child friendly city,” emphasizing themes related to children, aesthetic education, technology, and the future.

At this moment, our exhibition-specific version is running in Hall 4 on the first floor of the Hunan Art Museum.

During the nearly one week of the exhibition, we have collected a lot of interesting new data through the built-in information collection system.

We would like to thank the players who recently experienced Aleph on-site, especially those who provided more specific feedback through the questionnaire system! Reading your questionnaires has been a pleasure and has provided us with a wealth of valuable information.

We also want to thank the on-site staff and volunteers for providing support and capturing wonderful on-site records when we couldn’t be there.
Special thanks to curator Mr. Kun Ni for his continuous support and care. You have witnessed the journey of Aleph from its birth to its launch!



The exhibition runs from July 27 to October 7, 2024.
Address: Hall 4, Hunan Art Museum, No. 2 Jinjiang Road, Yuelu District, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Recently, we have refined and polished several details extracted from the feedback during this period.
The game version has now been updated to v2.94.

Local friends are welcome to experience it for free on-site ( just make a reservation in advance through the museum’s official account ).


We wish everyone a great time enjoying the rest of summer and hope you all stay happy.

And don’t forget to play more good games!

LIVE NOW - August Update - Week #1



Slime? Climb?

• Changed the Boxing gloves to blue, to stand out better across NPC's.
  
• Changed the colour of the female snake to light red, to stand out better when wearing a cape.
  
• Quick fixed the Builder belts crashing game when placed on Chick's and Kitty's.
  
• Sorted the Npc's only climbing half way down, then dropping left/right.
  
• Stopped the bombs counting down and exploding, when showing assist/hazard unlocks.
  
• Reworked the capes, I think they look much better now. In fact they look super, man!
  
  
  Please note! Some of the assist alignments have still to be manually manipulated by me.
  
  I may need to change how the assists activate, as it sometimes has an adverse effect.
  i.e. The reversed floating cape and the sometimes lagging behind cape, and slightly misaligned NPC's
  
  
  

• PVP Safe Zones Added and Improved: Added and improved PVP safe zones to ensure a secure environment for players.

• Point and Click Camera Find Method Changed: Changed the camera find method for point and click characters, enhancing gameplay experience.
  
• Set Number of Current Players Communication Improvements to Bionic Ape Orchestrator: Improved the communication of the number of current players to the Bionic Ape orchestrator for better tracking.
  
• Double Click P&C Characters Move to the Focused Location Before Doing the Action Fix: Fixed the movement of point and click characters on double-click, ensuring they move to the focused location before performing the action.
  
• Antialiasing Method Changed, Name Widgets Material Improved: Changed the antialiasing method and improved the material of name widgets for better visual quality.

It’s blog day, heisters!

This week we hear directly from Mio, our game director on PAYDAY 3, about an upcoming balance change to the Ammo Funnel and Replenish skill combo. We know how popular and prevalent this combo is, so we wanted to speak about the changes in a separate blog post rather than just in patch notes.

You can learn about the changes here: https://t.paydaythegame.com/c/19tp5p

Here's a sneak peak on the time difference with and without Ammo Funnel

We found a problem with how the cooking taste and nutrient caps were applied causing issues if players stacked high value ingredients with effects that boosted the values above 100, the problem has been fixed and you can now work with high taste and nutrient values and the 100 cap will only apply on the final result.



This required adding a new tag on every single ingredient, it should update correctly on existing saves, but just to be safe start a new game if you enjoy minmaxing the cooking.

We also had time to add a new edible forage, Witchhat Catcaps will spawn during winter, harvest them before the cat ears pop as the spores are toxic and you cannot eat the mushroom flesh after the spores form.



With this we have reached 40 wild forageables, 45 fish and 80 critters spread through the seasons and biomes, this is a lot of content most players don't notice at first, the game also doesn't really give any tips, so we will work on it, NPCs will give you tips and trivia on the nature bounty of Edengrall, and after getting the tips your collections screen will show where and when to get the critter or fish with more detail.

We apologize for the delayed release of "No Return." However, there's no need to worry, as it will be available no later than August 6, 2024! Prepare yourself for an endless loop of nightmarish hallways as you attempt to uncover the game's mystery.

To make up for the delay, we are giving away 10 copies of the game via Steam keys on our discord. Join our server, enter the giveaway, and stay tuned!

Giveaway ends on 4th August 23:59 GMT+8.