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Development Update - May 2022

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Development Update - February 2022

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Updates on Heartbound, our studio, and our global community.
This month has been tough for a lot of people.
You got this, don't worry.

Development Update - January 2022

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These videos will go out every month to show what new content was worked on. This won't showcase everything that goes into the game just some general direction and specific changes. If you want to follow the team you can find us all at the links below. Hope you guys enjoy!


[h3]Thor[/h3]

[h3]Shaye[/h3]

[h3]Stijn[/h3]

Lunar New Year!



Starting from January 27th until February 3rd, Heartbound will be 20% off.
Happy Lunar New Year everyone! ːHBHeartː

[h3]When is the next update?[/h3]
Really soon actually. I just finished all of the timelines for the end of Avocado's section. This includes a ton of tie-ins to the other chapters so it was a bunch of work to get finished. This stuff will be good to go for the translators soon.

[h3]What else is going on?[/h3]
Planning to release a monthly video update of everything we've worked on to keep everyone updated. Was originally going to be a text post but video carries better on all the socials out there. First one should come out in the first week on February as we get the pipeline for that to handled.

[h3]Where can I follow the development?[/h3]
I stream Heartbound dev Monday to Saturday every week over on Twitch. You can also come hang with the community on Discord or Guilded!


As always, thanks for being awesome.
You guys rock.

-Thor

Steam Winter Sale




Starting from December 22nd at 10:00am PST until January 5th, Heartbound will be 20% off.
This is our first sale ever for the game and something I was pretty hesitant about before.
Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and this brings some cheer to you and yours!


[h3]Heartbound is still in Early Access why are you going on sale?[/h3]
I think the last patch really set up enough content that I feel comfortable finally engaging in sales like this. Last year a number of people were upset that we didn't put Heartbound on sale so I thought it would be best to do it this year. With everyone being hit financially by the pandemic it felt even more appropriate to do so.


[h3]Why were updates slow this last year?[/h3]
No easy way around this one, I had Covid. As a small team we can't really adapt to illness and injury as well as larger studios. It took me a little over a year to recover and I am finally back on track and making the game at the pace I feel happy with. For everyone who was upset about the release cadence... sorry. As far as we can plan it won't happen again. Some stuff is just unavoidable.


[h3]What's next for Heartbound?[/h3]
We have a ton of stuff we're working on for Animus right now. Avocado's storyline is roughly half-released and the other half is finished internally so I'm pretty confident in getting the rest out to you in the next few months. After that, we're going to be focusing on The Mossbacks storyline which is a lot of family dynamics and dating related stuff. It's pretty heavy, might hit some people harder than others, and something I'm pretty happy with in terms of writing.

When that is finished Animus will have it's final battle and we will be working on Jotunheim. Going forward we will also be putting up monthly development updates here as announcements as I have really only been leaning on the stream to distribute information.


As always, thanks for being awesome.
You guys rock. ːHBHeartː

-Thor