Pine Hearts News

[h2]Hey Campers! 🍃[/h2]

[h3]We’ve got a very exciting update to share with you today 💚
We recently organised a behind-the-scenes day for creators with various needs and understandings of the importance of accessibility options in games to have a hands-on experience with Pine Hearts! [/h3]

Safe In Our World ambassadors therealpengy and Phoebe Hesketh, and content creators psykit and mousewastaken, advocate for and are involved in supporting accessibility and mental health awareness in games. We wanted to give them a hands on opportunity to test our accessibility features and learn more about the game's story and themes and why building something inclusive was so important to us at Hyper Luminal Games.

They got to chat with members of the team including Creative Director Rob Madden, UX/UI Designer and Accessibility Lead Searra Leishman, and Social and Community Coordinator Melissa Cocker about all things Pine Hearts. As well as testing various accessibility settings and our accessibility hardware set up for events, we chatted about the origins of the game's stories and themes.

You can see how the day went and hear more from everyone involved in the video below!
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For future updates make sure to wishlist and follow Pine Hearts on steam!

[h2]Hello Campers![/h2]

[h3]We heard your feedback from our demo asking for more Quest Markers and Non-Playable Character locations to be included in the map, and I'm happy to share a peek of the updates we've made![/h3]



Our in-house cartography team (our UX/UI and art specialists 💪🎨) have been hard at work sharpening up our map designs across the whole park, as well as adding a whole host of new features, including:

• 🌎 Updated world map
  
• ⛳ Updated regional maps for each area of Pine Hearts
  
• 🏃‍♂️ Added Player Character marker, to keep track of where you are in the world!
  
• ⭐ Added markers for Primary Quest Interactions
  
• 🏌️‍♂️ Added markers for Primary NPCs
  
• ⛺ Added markers for Secondary Quest Interactions
  
• 👩 Added markers for Secondary NPCs
  

[h3]We've also included a couple images that show off the maps for newer regions of the park, yet to be explored. Get yourself over to twitter for some more sneak peeks![/h3]

That's all for now, but lots more news coming your way soon! Make sure to wishlist Pine Hearts and follow the store page to keep up with the latest news! 💖
- Melissa (Community Manager)

[h2]Hello campers! 👋[/h2]

[h3]Melissa here with some piping hot news for you: we've updated our game trailer on our steam store page![/h3]

Featuring some previously never before seen regions of the Pine Hearts Caravan Park with a whole new host of things for you to discover!

⛳ Admire the perfectly manicured lawns of the Golf Course
🍰 Try some home baked treats in the Caravan Park
🏰 Unearth the treasures of the Ruined Castle
🌊 Smell the fresh sea breeze down by the Rock Pools

[h3]There's so much more to see and we can't wait to share it with you⛺💚[/h3]
Make sure to wishlist the game and give us a little follow on steam to keep up to date with all the latest Pine Hearts news!

[h2]Hey Campers! 👋[/h2]

[h3]Thank you from the bottom of our hearts from everyone here on the Pine Hearts team for all of the love and kind words about our wee demo 💚[/h3]

We've been reading your comments, tuned into your streams, and watched your videos about Pine Hearts over the past week and it's been an absolute joy to see such positive reactions to the project we've put so much love, care, and passion into.

We've extended the demo play time until Thursday the 15th of February, so make sure you check out the game before then if you haven't had the chance already!

[h3]Thank you for the feedback 💪[/h3]

We also wanted to thank you for your feedback and thoughts on the demo. I've passed that on to our dev team and we're currently reviewing what we can improve before launch. And I'm happy to tell you I have some updates!

• We have the UI assets for PS5 controllers ready and they'll be in the game for launch
  
• We're looking into the screen resolution bugs currently and have some promising leads thanks to your feedback. This should be resolved for launch
  
• We've got some shiny new map markers which should help with navigation and quest completion
  
• Many more little updates based on your feedback!

[h3]Keep up to date with our progress 🔨[/h3]

We'll be keeping you updated on new features and fixes here in the Steam Community, but if you'd like to see more content and sneak peeks you can check us out on our other social channels linked below!

Twitter - @PineHeartsGame Tiktok - @LittleNookGames Instagram - @LittleNookPublishing

Thank you again for all of the love and support, it's a huge help for our game and truly means the world to everyone working on Pine Hearts ⛺💚

We'll be in touch soon with more updates!
-Melissa (Community Manager)

[h3]Pack up your camping gear and get ready for an adventure! 🎒 [/h3]

Join Melissa, our Community Manager, as she gives you a (*pre-recorded) tour around the Pine Hearts campsite! (with closed captions!)🌲

[h3]She'll be showing off some of the features you can find within the demo,
such as:[/h3]

• The Accessibility onboarding flow
  
• Our Dyslexic font options
  
• Colour blocking mode gameplay
  
• Simplified input controls
  

[h3]✨PLUS!✨ She'll be giving you some tasty behind the scenes developer secrets as well as hints and tips!
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The Pine Hearts demo is available as part of Steam Next Fest until the 12th of February so stick on your hiking boots and get adventuring! Make sure to leave us a wishlist and follow us on steam to stay up to date with future news from the campsite ⛺Your support means the world to our team! 💚