A Game About Feeding A Black Hole News

[p]Time flies! A Game About Feeding A Black Hole is now back on discount for a limited time at -20% discount.[/p][p][/p][p]We're also excited to offer an even further discount via Steam's bundling (purchase of buying multiple games).[/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Enjoy, don't forget to keep feeding the black hole.[/p][p]~Cory ("Thornity")[/p]

[p]Hey there! We hope you had a nice start to February. This week the game hit 2000 reviews on Steam. A huge thank you to everyone who has played the game, left a review, and shared it with a friend or two. We're always blown away when we hear about someone finding our game after their friend recommends it to them.[/p][p][/p][p]So if you haven't already please leave us a Steam review, it really helps us a lot![/p][p][/p][h3]Localization Help:[/h3][p] We'd love some more help cleaning up the current translations. To help you can join our Discord Server and make a post localization-help channel sharing the language or languages you are comfortable reviewing.[/p][p][/p][p]Reward: If you help us I'll send you a free Steam key for the game that you can use yourself or share with a friend.[/p][p][/p][p]We need help with:[/p]

• [p]Japanese[/p]
• [p]Italian[/p]
• [p]Korean[/p]
• [p]Thai[/p]
• [p]Catalan[/p]
• [p]Vietnamese[/p]

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Let us know if your language isn't listed here and if you want to help translate the game! We have two people helping us add Arabic and Hebrew as well.[/p][p][/p][h3]Speed Running Reminder:[/h3][p]We now officially have a category on Speed Run .com. We'd love to see more times submitted over there and maybe see if their world record can go sub 50 min.[/p][p][/p][h3]Reminder of What We're Working On:[/h3]

• [p]Roguelike mode! We have temporarily removed this mode from the testing branch while we work on the next version. Thank you for all the feedback you've given after playing the proof of concept on the testing branch, this helped a ton! Stay tuned for more updates soon.[/p]
• [p]Steam Workshop and Mods support. We've started exploring what it will take to add support for the Steam Workshop as well as mods. Again no timeline on when this will come, but it's something I am interested in exploring even if it's just to understand this for future games. Please let me know if you are interested in modding or have experience with that.[/p]
• [p]More game modes, quality of life settings, and fixing random bugs you all find[/p]

[p]As always, thank you for checking out our game. This game has changed both our lives and we can't thank you enough.[/p][p]Cheers,[/p][p]Andy (Aarimous)[/p][p][/p][p]This patch focused on fixing some of the localization issues with the help of our community! [/p]

• [p]Updated Czech translations. Thank you siSINka for helping us![/p]
• [p]Updated Chinese translations. Thank you XuFly for helping us![/p]
• [p]Updated Portuguese translations. Thank you kaua0f0m for helping us![/p]
• [p]Updated Russian translations. Thank you Ibax for helping us![/p]
• [p]Updated French translations. Thank you Roboter and Barbitos for helping us![/p]
• [p]Updated Polish and French translations. Thank you Polish etper_ and Oskar for helping us![/p]
• [p]Updated the game to use Gotot 4.6[/p]
• [p]Adjusted the game over screen to have less text[/p]
• [p]Added a button to the game over screen to go directly to the game mode screen[/p]

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[p]Happy New Year! Crazy that January is already almost over. So far the month has been a lot busier that Cory and I had expected (a good problem to have), and we've loved seeing people continue to find and play out game. I've been thrilled to see the reviews continue to pour in and it's always heartwarming to hear from a player who enjoyed the game.[/p][p][/p][p]If you haven't already please leave us a Steam review, it really helps us a lot![/p][h3]

Speed Running:[/h3][p]We now officially have a category on Speed Run .com. We'd love to see more times submitted over there and maybe see if there world record can can go sub 50 min.

[/p][h3]What We're Working On:[/h3]

• [p]Roguelike mode! Thank you for all the feedback you've given after playing the proof of concept on the beta testing branch. We are still not sure when this mode will be ready, but I have a few good ideas which I think will address a majority of the feedback we've seen. Stay tuned for more updates soon.[/p]
• [p]Steam Workshop and Mods support. We've started exploring what it will take to add support for the Steam Workshop as well as mods. Again no timeline on when this will come, but it's something I am interested in exploring even if it's just to understand this for future game. Please let me know if you are interested in modding or have experience with that.[/p]
• [p]More game modes, quality of life settings, and fixing random bugs you all find[/p]

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As always, thank you for checking out our game. This game has changed both our lives and we can't thank you enough.[/p][p][/p][p]Cheers, [/p][p]Andy (Aarimous)[/p][p][/p][p]A bit of a smaller patch than I would have liked, but this has been a busy month so I'm trying to give myself grace and let this month be what it needs to be.[/p][h3]
Demo Mode[/h3]

• [p]This is basically as close to an exact copy of the original steam demo that we launched back in September[/p]
• [p]Post demo launch we made a few changes to how core system like object mass work, but overall we think this mode will play/feel the same[/p]
• [p]Oh and this means that radioactive asteroids are now back in the game[/p]
• [p]New achievement added for beating demo mode
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[h3]Other Changes[/h3]

• [p]I update the back end code for how the upgrade tree loads which should improve some initial load times. The main goal here was to allow us to create upgrade trees with far more nodes.[/p]
• [p]Added a new achievement to break all the objects on the screen. Yes this is possible in the main mode if you take the correct early upgrades and it's also possible in a few of the additional game modes.[/p]
• [p]If you break all the objects on the screen you will now see a button in the bottom right to end the session early[/p]
• [p]Fixed some translation issues
  
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[p]RogueJack21 teamed up with us for their launch bundle![/p][p]Save on the games… then go “reinvest”. 🃏[/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p]