Heartless & Dreadful : Return By 72 Hours News

Sorry, I was recovering from the surgery for the past month so there hasn't been much going on in terms of updates.

I was mostly lying down and sleeping.

Yeah I don't announce stuff like that, but that's the excuse if you were wondering.

In this extremely tiny update there's just two fixes.
- Fixed an issue where blocked damage counted as "real" damage done to the player, this affected the final score calculations.
- Fixed eternal nightmare not showing the correct rank after completing a mission. It was always supposed to show S.

There was also an issue someone reported with the Total Results screen not working properly, but I was unable to reproduce the problem. I finish the mission on the difficulty, the rank shows up in the proper spot... so If you've got more information on that, let me know. I'll take a look into it.

To be quite honest there's also more going on now. I am not very motivated anymore, I still get occasional notes mentioning how the game is janky, clunky, floaty... you get the point. But at this point I have no idea what's the real issue.

Is it the first magnetic pull you towards the enemy so the first hit lands better? That could be turned off. If it's the culprit, I could always adjust the default setting so it's off by default.

Still, I believe I have fixed all the major issues and have no issue playing the game even after not touching it for a month, but some people still feel this way even after many patches.

It is okay, we're all different after all.
I just wish I could understand what exactly is the problem so I could at least try to work on it.

If you have some thoughts or analysis about this, feel free to email me at [email protected]
I'd be happy to read them.

Thanks for playing.

give me your liver.

- Malice's projectiles can now be parried/reflected.
- Malice's attacks have been de-randomized, instead he attacks in a pattern.
- Malicereceived additional attacks, will now switch between grounded and flying state. Basically, the projectile spam has been reduced a lot and it's better to fight overall as now you get to use your normal grounded moves a lot more often.
- Fixed an issue where the Sinner mode was set incorrectly in a cutscene.
- Sinner gauge no longer "unlocks" for characters that is not Shamir.

Known issues -
You can check them below, you can also check what is being worked on/what's on the todo list as well.
https://trello.com/b/suviZn7g/known-issues-and-bug-tracking

If you find any other issues or have some feedback, please report them to me either on Steam Forum, E-mail ([email protected]), or on the stinky Discord server.
For Discord, it may take time to approve new people due to someone having to sleep.
https://discord.gg/2ZyurUSbeE

Look at me ma, I work on two things at the same time.

- Added a missing effect to boss Seth's lunge move.
- Adjusted Dominika's battle theme a bit. Yeah it's kind of why I didn't put the new tracks into the soundtrack just yet.
- Adjusted it so that one memory fragment in the final fight spawns properly in the air.
- Adjusted the last boss fight music to be less ear grating.
- A certain spoiler boss now teleports in preset positions instead of random positions. That prevents him from teleporting behind the invisible wall in Tower Of Blood.
- Bosses with player-esque movement tag no longer have snappy animation transitions, so the Knight no longer gets a seizure when you are locked on on him in a specific distance.
- Fixed Seth's fire spit aiming at the wrong direction. (WHY did I have 4 different projectile spawning methods in code...? What a mystery. I don't know either.)
- Fixed boss Knight's physics for the juggle attack.
- Fixed the difficulty setting not properly applying in the training mode. (Oof.)
- Slowed down attack animations of boss Knight to be more readable. He suffered the most from this. No more sudden unavoidable juggle.
- Other minor fixes.

Known issues -
You can check them below, you can also check what is being worked on/what's on the todo list as well.
https://trello.com/b/suviZn7g/known-issues-and-bug-tracking

If you find any other issues or have some feedback, please report them to me either on Steam Forum, E-mail ([email protected]), or on the stinky Discord server.
For Discord, it may take time to approve new people due to someone having to sleep.
https://discord.gg/2ZyurUSbeE

Hi, I've been prototyping more this past week.

Working on a new project slowly. I really need it, to not get burned out on game development.

It's turning out quite well so far. I do very much like the new visuals. No more pixel stuff this time.

I've also got some sort of cutscene system working for that new project, too.
(The implementation is awful. Shocking.)

It'll likely lean a lot more into visual presentation rather than descriptive presentation this time. Bread and circuses, and all that.
Though, it's still on a lower budget side. (aka none at all!)
So don't expect anything grandiose for whenever the next thing comes out. But I think it'll look... nice.

Anyhow. It won't be an action game. And I likely won't release a whole new game immediately.
Thinking about making at least one episode, just to gather interest, maybe. See where it goes.
Then decide if I want to make the full thing or not. In any case, stay tuned for some news someday.

As for Heartless & Dreadful, its still here.
Like I said before I feel a bit burned out working on the same thing for so long, (I mean, look at the update history, lol) but I still want to rework the boss fights to be better.
Just need some brainstorming and hope that the old code will handle it well when the time comes.

As per usual, if something broke, let me know.

- Mission 09, 12 - Adjusted enemy spawns for each difficulty.
- Fixed enemy projectiles only targeting the player and ignoring allies. (This happens like only once in the game, but it's fixed now.)
- Corrected final score calculations. Because whatever I've done before was stupid.
- Reduced enemy aggression on the higher difficulties. They still attack very often, just in a less "impossible" rate. Giving enough time for the dodge to reset at least.
- Fixed the last enemy type shooting into the ground. Not sure when that happened, but it is fixed now.
- Fixed the grounded shadow disappearing when standing under certain angles. Or at least, it should be fixed. I dunno, sometimes it still just poofs away. I am just glad it reached the point where if there's anything bugging out, it is something super minor and not destructive.

Known issues -
You can check them below, you can also check what is being worked on/what's on the todo list as well.
https://trello.com/b/suviZn7g/known-issues-and-bug-tracking

If you find any other issues or have some feedback, please report them to me either on Steam Forum, E-mail ([email protected]), or on the stinky Discord server.
For Discord, it may take time to approve new people due to someone having to sleep.
https://discord.gg/2ZyurUSbeE

The lag was making me mad because it never showed in the Profiler (performance analysis thingie) what was actually causing it.
Good thing a proper debug build did.

- Mission 08 Adjusted enemy spawns for each difficulty.
- Fixed an issue where enemy projectiles would flicker for a little bit when spawned. (That caused snipers to misfire occasionally.)
- Fixed the major frame drop when many enemies get spawned in. If you were on the weaker CPU and experienced major lag there, that should help.
- Refixed playable Enerith getting stuck and sliding on the ground when using one of his moves because apparently I broke it at one point. Good job, me.

Known issues -
You can check them below, you can also check what is being worked on/what's on the todo list as well.
https://trello.com/b/suviZn7g/known-issues-and-bug-tracking

If you find any other issues or have some feedback, please report them to me either on Steam Forum, E-mail ([email protected]), or on the stinky Discord server.
For Discord, it may take time to approve new people due to someone having to sleep.
https://discord.gg/2ZyurUSbeE