Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars News

Greetings Winter Night Gamers!

We are very excited to announce that the long-overdue update for Arkhangel is now available with a limited time special promotion sale at 33% off list price!

So, what all is included with this update?  Let's get to it, shall we?

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UPDATES:
+ Added full game controller support.  This was a full replacement of the Unity Input System!  Yowza!
+ Significant overhaul to Player navigation settings and speed.
+ Added a "Run" option to allow the player to explore at a faster rate.
+ Restructured menus to allow for easier controller navigation.
+ Inventory has been significantly overhauled.  It is now opened/closed by an input key rather than a mouse over. Interaction methodology and presentation has also changed.  This has had cascading effects on multiple other systems that required adjustments.
+ Visual Quality settings, Screen Resolution settings, and Controller Customization are now all handled with in-game menu interactions.
+ Updated multiple camera transitions in the game to be fades rather than movement based.
+ Updated camera positions and control perspective in the Library and Saloon.
+ A ton of small tweaks and adjustments!

KNOWN ISSUES:
+ Use previous saved games at your own risk!  With the sheer amount of changes to the underlying systems of Arkhangel, we cannot 100% guarantee that loading into old save games before this update will be completely reliable.  By all means, give it a shot, but know that there very well could be significant issues with player animation, controls, and menus.
+ We recommend using D-PAD when navigating through menus with a game controller.

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This update took significantly longer than we expected.  Being the only Unity developer on our team, I (Zack) vastly underestimated the number of hurdles and cascading effects that such an update was going to introduce.  That being said, we've had a lot of great feedback on this update.  Friend of Winter Night Games and game industry veteran, James Goddard gave us some incredibly valuable advice regarding player speed, animation settings, and controller feel.  When the guy that worked on Street Fighter II gives pointers, you LISTEN!

Thanks James!  :-D

As always, continue to give us feedback.  Your thoughts and insights have been incredibly valuable and are the main reason why we pushed so hard on this update.  We knew that the controls needed some love and your guidance made us really want to focus on it with a microscope!  Y'all help us grow!

Okay, with that being said, the update is now live!  If you've already played the game, we'd love for you to check out the new control scheme and some of the other bells and whistles.  If you've been waiting for this update to take the plunge, the limited time sale at 33% off is a great way to dive in!  :-)

Here's the default controller layout for the upcoming patch for "Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars". You'll be able to modify it to your liking. The game controller is quickly becoming our preferred way of playing the game!



We're getting closer and closer to wrapping this patch up. It's been a big one!

Hey all!

Based off of player feedback, we've really been focusing on adding game controller support and tweaking player movement settings. While it's not going to be a wholesale redesign of how the player moves, it is a substantial overhaul to some internal systems that will require a lot of testing before we release but we think that it's feeling much better. We're also adding the option to allow the player to run in addition to just walking, so if you want to take a quick jog around Haven, you'll be able to do so.

Expect an update in the next few weeks!

Thanks for all of the wonderful feedback, it is greatly appreciated!

-WNG

Greetings!

Just a quick update to let you know that we recently pushed a new build that has a handful of small fixes! Here's a quick list:

- Simplified a few QTE sequences to be more forgiving for lower spec machines
- Fixed a situation where you could get two bottles of alcohol in Day 2
- Added new journal entries after administering the medicine in Day 2

Future patches: We are currently investigating having actual game controller support and a full Linux port! Stay tuned for more information!

We've been getting a few reports online about some issues w/ Windows 7 & Arkhangel. AA was designed with Win10 in mind. While previous versions of Windows might technically run AA, they are not supported by us at this time so play on older versions of Windows at your own risk!