Halve News

Hey hey!

Welcome to our very first Devlog of Halve - the puzzle platformer where you have to control two characters at once!
Our plan with these Devlogs is to showcase you, our players, the development process, and how we tackle different development scenarios.

I'm Airidas, a Game Designer/Developer from the Moonleaf studio, and I will try my best to post these updates at least once a month, so if you're interested in learning more about behind the scene's stuff, join me for a ride!


As this is the initial Devlog, I think that it's only natural that I should introduce the people who are working their hardest to make the game a reality.

We are Moonleaf studio, a small group of Indie Developers from Lithuania. We have been working on different game ideas in the past, but none were as ambitious as Halve!

There are four of us in total at the moment:

• I'm the Glowing Things guy with a Twist. In other words, I do Game design for the project, as well as VFX Art and develop some stuff here and there
  
• Eligijus is our Code magician - he does everything related to those 1's and 0s to make the game work behind the scenes.
  
• Migle is the Visionary Mastermind. She brings all the visions to life with her mesmerizing concepts and creative vision.
  
• Gantas is, as we like to call him, the Vertex king. He's a madman who can do anything that's related to 3D stuff. Oh yeah, and he does environments as well.
  

Long story short, we're a team who are extremely passionate about everything game related. For instance, we keep on getting involved in Game Jams ever since the first day we tried out the competition. I can't even remember how many projects I was a part of during these events.


It's actually quite a funny story to how we even got to the point of creating Halve.
Since we love taking part in Game Jam competitions, and we did just that about a year and a half ago - we took part in the Global Game Jam 2022. The Theme for that year was Duality - and you can probably already see where this is going by now :D. We brainstormed loads of ideas, bashed them together, and got the inspiration to create something similar to an old flash Co-op game Fireboy and Watergirl, just with a unique twist. Which was to make the game single-player, where the player would have to control both of the characters at the same time.


There were actually some other nuances as well - so if you'd like to know more about the story, and how we actually went from the small Game Jam prototype to where we are now, be sure to check out the Devlog video down below!

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Thanks for reading, and I hope you will join us on this journey of discovering the secrets of Halve!

Cheers,
Airidas

We are taking part in the DevGAMM Vilnius 2023 Steam event! And, on this occasion, there will be a 24/7 stream running for the whole duration of the event.

The event will be up from June 30, 2023, 8 PM up until July 07, 2023, 8 PM (UTC +3), so be sure to tune in!

By the way, we actually took part in the physical conference as well, where we were nominated in two of the DevGAMM Game Awards categories - Best Game of the Show and Best Game from the Baltic States!

The day is finally here, Halve Demo is out and available to play on Steam!

We’re very excited to see your thoughts and reactions to the game, so please share anything you’d like (gameplay videos, screenshots, etc.) on the Moonleaf studio Discord server!

Also, do not hesitate to let us know whenever you want to give us any kind of feedback on different game elements, such as bugs or other gameplay issues that you may have encountered while playing the game. We want to make the final game as fun to play as possible, and we believe that with your help we can make it better!

Hope that you will enjoy the game as much as we have enjoyed making it!

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Hello adventure seekers!

We have some exciting news for you today - we have finally decided to release Halve Steam demo on April 21st!

The Demo will consist of two chapters, where you will be able to experience a variety of mind-bending challenges in the world of Halve. If you're curious to see all the content that will be available, it should take you up to half an hour to complete all of the demo levels.



Here are some of the features that will be included in the first Demo version:

• Simultaneous movement of two characters - control both of the spirits at the same time by using the same movement keys to navigate through the world!
  
• Two environments - Forest and Ruins. Both environments will allow you to experience hand-crafted challenging levels and beautiful scenery!
  
• Unique character abilities - the final game will consist of many different and unique character abilities, and so during the Demo, you will be able to use two of these powers to solve more difficult challenges!
  
• Up to 20 short levels, where every level will introduce you to different possible encounters of Halve!
  
• Three mesmerizing and original soundtracks - Main game theme, Forest and Ruins chapters.
  
• And some additional features as well! (That I don't want to spoil you guys, so I'm not going to mention them here, haha!)
  

And for this occasion, we have opened up a Discord server! You are more than welcome to join if you'd like to give us any kind of feedback, or just chat about anything game related!



Talk to you soon!
Cheers!
- The Moonleaf studio team

We have recently showcased Halve in different game development events and after receiving loads of positive feedback, we think that the Demo is almost ready for a public release!

The plan is to do some minor adjustments, and bug fixes and provide Demo access to everyone, who would like to try it out!

Also, to be able to communicate with you, our players, more efficiently, we have finally opened up a Discord server! It's a warm and welcoming place, where we can answer any of your questions, share some behind-the-scenes content of the games we are working on, or just chit-chat about some other random things that we wanna talk about! ːsteamhappyː

Make sure to join Discord so that you get notified when the Demo will be available to download!