Heart of the Woods News

Hey gamers,

We're super excited to say that we pushed the button, and the voice acting update for Heart of the Woods is now live! Super big thanks to our amazing cast and crew, as well as our Kickstarter backers who made this all possible!

Maddie Raines - Allie Goodell
Abigal - Heidi Tabing
Tara Bryck - Stephanie "Teffi" Arata
Morgan Fischer - Kira Bucklan
Evelyn Fischer - Tara Langella
Fairy Queen - Emaline Tuck
Fairies - Anairis Quinones, Lisa Reimold, Tina Kim
Casting - Studio Coattails
Direction - Wyatt Abernathie
Engineering - Lisa Reimold, Nikki Kaelar

We hope you guys enjoy this update as much as we do. It's been a dream come true being able to do this.

《森灵之心》已更新官方中文版本，感谢 Hakui Project 提供的汉化支持！

Hey everyone,

We're excited to announce that, courtesy of our friends at Hakui Project, Heart of the Woods is now available in Simplified Chinese! They're the same folks who translated our other game, Highway Blossoms.

This is a text-only translation, and doesn't/won't affect the voice acting. You can enable it from the Options menu anytime! If you notice any issues or typos, please feel free to post 'em in the Discussion section and we'll fix them in a patch sometime.

Also, for anyone wondering about the voice acting update: it's currently in beta testing, and rather close to the end. The actual timing of the release will depend on some other stuff, but we're crossing our fingers that it'll happen sometime next month.

We'll post our next update when that happens. Until then, take care!

Hey everyone,

We're super excited to premiere our new voice acting trailer, introducing the English voice cast of Heart of the Woods! Check it out:

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]










Maddie Raines - Allie Goodell
Abigail - Heidi Tabing
Tara Bryck - Stephanie Arata
Morgan - Kira Buckland
Evelyn - Tara Langella
Fairy Queen - Emaline Tuck
Fairies - Lisa Reimold; Pickle131; Anairis Quinones

We're currently holding a crowdfunding campaign to fund the voice acting, as well as offer a bunch of merchandise for the game (most of it exclusive to the campaign). If it's successful, we'll be delivering the VA as a free update to the game, most likely early next year. Details and more can be found in the description for the Youtube video! We're also hoping to add a couple touch-ups to the game at the same time, like some minor art fixes and other stuff. We hope you like what you hear - we couldn't be happier with our cast!

A full changelog is at the bottom of this post.



Happy Friday! Technically. It's Friday somewhere.

As always, thank you everyone so much for your support. Big news!! We have, almost definitely, fingers crossed very tightly, fixed the rather big issue of the "Sad Story" patch. As such, we removed the Anti-Patch files from the build, and hope the game will run smoothly~. A big thank you goes to Kevin Turner for helping us debug and fix this issue! If you're still experiencing a bit of a problem, it's most likely the system requirements of the animations and transitions, so we recommend disabling transitions in the options for the duration of the segment.

In addition to that, we've touched up some bits and pieces of dialogue. A scene in Chapter 5 erroneously didn't check for some flags, so there was some repeated information/dialogue, another scene in Chapter 3 saved as Chapter 4, ho-hum-drum!

Now, the fun part! We've added a couple new screens to our Extras menu, "Notes" and "Credits". We've left a couple sentiments from our team members in the Notes section, and the Credits screen will let you scroll and appreciate all the wonderful humans who made Heart of the Woods what it is today. Thank you Adirosa for the beautiful designs, as always!

Have a great weekend!

Changes

• Removed the Anti-Patch. Abigail's Story should now display correctly for all users, but if you're still experiencing performance hiccups, we recommend disabling transitions in the Options.
  
• Added two new screens to the Extras Menu: "Notes" and "Credits"
  

Fixes

• Flag checks for some dialogue. No more repetition of events!
  
• Save Name fixes to show the correct chapter in a couple scenes
  
• The first screen of Abigail's Story doesn't try to generate a 20,005 x 57,880 texture - which was causing the "hiccups" (sweat emoji)
  

A full changelog is at the bottom of this post.


by @huixci


by @pentagonfruit


by @vividgrim

Wow.

It's been a week since release, and we're still blown away by all of your love, support, and feedback. Thank you all so much! For those of you who have already completed the game, those of you still playing, and those of you yet to even start it... Thank you. We love seeing your posts on social media, from your playthroughs, to your image edits, to your keymashing.

For us, this is just the first step in a long journey of bringing magic, love, and élan to the world.

On to the patch notes!

Changes

• Per the title, in Chapter Four "In The Past Now" we received numerous bug reports just before Abigail is about to tell a story. We've moved some in-line image manipulation to the init phase, which should help some people experiencing crashes. If not, we've also added a file in the game directory called "Abigails Story Anti-Patch". If you're still experiencing crashes, we recommend DELETING this file and trying again. All image manipulation is removed and instead replaced with panning images of what it was supposed to look like.
  
• Added more text to the help menu. Right-Clicking on the skip button will fast-skip to the next Chapter or Choice, and this information was omitted from the screen. Replays ahoy!
  

Fixes

• SO. MANY. TYPOS. Thank you everyone for your numerous reports. We've gone through and hopefully fixed all of them (fingers crossed).
  
• In Chapter Five, there was a missed POV switch between Morgan and Maddie. The POV colors now switch to Maddie as intended.
  
• Typos, again. There were a lot of them!