Everhood News

First of all, we want to thank everyone who gave their feedback about the new health bar mockup! It has been a fun experience seeing so much discussion!

After looking at discussions and doing a lot of testing Chris and I decided to keep the hp bar above the player.
We first did some adjustments like reducing the width size of the bar and further polishing the art assets so it reads better!



better gif quality here: https://imgur.com/a/ZofANtF


Not only does it make the game viewport feel more cleaner but it also helps the player to have all important information in one place and with the visuals shrunk a bit it works well in more hectic battles with more notes/projectiles SPOILER!



We are going to participate in the steam game festival event!
It’s a show of games set to be released within this and the next year.

But best of all

We plan to do a Livestream Thursday 18 at 8 pm CEST and also do a live chat this same day at 10 PM CEST



Make sure to tune into the Livestream as we are preparing a little challenge that will be very amusing!
LIVESTREAM reminder link: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1229380/announcements/detail/2261317222898267856
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1229380/announcements/detail/2261317222898269976


Cover art made by Roposhipin from Everhood discord!
Really cool render of Red and Blue, the posture has so much action and there really feels like a story is going on here
We added the health bar above just so to tie it up with the post a bit! :D


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To celebrate Steam Game Festival, Everhood developer Chris Nordgren plays Everhood blindfolded but is allowed to read live chat to navigate through levels.

Make sure to join us! Oh boi that won't be easy...

To celebrate the Steam Game Festival, Everhood developers will do a live chat answering all your questions!
Make sure to tune in

First of all we added a smear effect on when Red is moving and jumping! Thanks to our discord member Kirby and PhilipL for the suggestion of adding that effect It really looks and feels better and fits well for the character!





After many playtesting sessions we have gotten feedback about the health system being sub-par visually. It was mainly ugly and we have removed it from the old trailer because of this reason as well as it’s distracting.

In some cases we noticed players were surprised as they didn’t understand why they died when taken damage when the gameplay got extra hectic.

So our way to fix this is by putting health on the main character

We did a lot of concepts of different health


In the end, we decided with this approach:

A- HealthBar


One important factor was to get rid of the bars as it will potentially unlock more design flexibility of some projectiles adding less damage and we can keep that number a bit hidden if needed, it could be a useful tool if needed. Previously we pretty much looked at rock bands and copied. Rockband’s solution is okay and very clear once you know what to look for but doesn’t feel entirely natural for non-gamers

We understand some players might feel it was better before, mainly that it was clearer before but we think the new design will feel more coherent in the world, makes it more clear for new players, and also potentially helps us for balancing issues!

We also had some other health user interface candidate :

B- Reverse sidebar


C- Normal


We might open a channel in our DISCORD to hear your thoughts.
Let us know what do you think!

Amazing artwork made by @TheOnlyPapaDra3 !


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Vampire boy is a mischievous and energetic little guy and looks young but you never know with vampires how old they are, spoilers! The criteria is

We prefer something gender neutral but any name is welcome!
Feel free to pitch any name in discord channel Vampire Boy’s name in the channel #vampire-boy-names



Now back to our biweekly devlog:

Sometimes it feels like nothing has changed and sometimes everything is changed

We have feature creeped some content and done many changes based on playtesting but mostly fixing bugs that occurred during testing We also started to make internal proofreading which has improved some dialogues tremendously but haven’t got through the entire game as we are looking at all dialogues with a microscope

We will continue going forward with internal playtesting many looking at different difficulties and also trying to improve some animations during the story As always, we can’t wait to release the game… when it's done! Very much looking forward to Q4

The purple artwork made by: 0HLO4DY


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