Vidar is Dying
In the middle of a blizzard, a community's remaining citizens are forced to confront their impending deaths. Every night, a villager is killed, and the survivors are forced to alter their course in response. Chart a path through always-changing, challenging environmental puzzles, and explore the stories and grief of these townsfolk before Vidar is lost forever.A Random Story Every Time
In Vidar, every villager has heavily interdependent relationships with the others. When one person dies, everyone else’s stories change - if the blacksmith loses her apprentice, she’ll give you different quests; if the blacksmith loses her supplier, still different; and if she predeceases both, then those two will respond accordingly, etc. Because the order of deaths is random, the story and quests you receive will be different every time you play.New Challenges to Overcome
To stop the killings you’ll need to enter a puzzle dungeon. Use your tools and your environment to help navigate to the center of the cave before everyone in town is dead. These puzzles are also randomly chosen from a bank of hundreds, so that when you come back to see a new story unfold, you’ll also face a new challenge.Key Features
- Explore themes of grief, community, nostalgia, loss
- Quests, rewards, and story determined by who lives and who dies
- Town events reflect the state of Vidar, as jobs go untended
- Four unique puzzle biomes, each with new takes on classic mechanics
Hi friends!
It's been just under 2 weeks since launch, and already it's been really exciting to see people playing, posting videos on Youtube, and of course reporting bugs. Vidar has gotten some great coverage in IndieGames.com, KeenGamer, Siliconera, and elsewhere.
Also, some of y'all have achievements that I don't have, and that seems unfair. So I should probably get on that.
Today I've pushed a hotfix that addresses a handful of crashes and other nasty things. The nice thing is that, as a result, it unlocks a brand new quest ("Smoke Them Out") which basically wasn't accessible before, and it allows completion of another one ("Vodka Stinger"). Fun fact, until a bug report came in about Vodka Stinger, I had completely forgotten it existed. In hundreds of playthroughs, I had never seen it.
Thanks so much for bearing with me with the inevitably-rocky launch, and hopefully your visits to Vidar going forward are a little more stable!
- Dean
Hotfix 1.0.1.0
[u]Quests[/u][u]Smoke Them Out[/u]
- ]Fixed a crash in Barnabas' dialogue that prevented receiving this quest
- Dig sites now spawn in the Boulder Cave
- Adjusted the charity values for various items; additionally, the reward can no longer be donated to Csaba
[u]Vodka Stinger[/u]
- Fixed a crash in Dani's dialogue on completing this quest
- Giving away mushrooms as part of this quest or Dr. Spore all properly updated the journal entries for other quests involving mushrooms
- Dani will not complete this quest unless the player has all of the necessary items in their inventory
[u]General[/u]
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Hi friends!
It's been just under 2 weeks since launch, and already it's been really exciting to see people playing, posting videos on Youtube, and of course reporting bugs. Vidar has gotten some great coverage in IndieGames.com, KeenGamer, Siliconera, and elsewhere.
Also, some of y'all have achievements that I don't have, and that seems unfair. So I should probably get on that.
Today I've pushed a hotfix that addresses a handful of crashes and other nasty things. The nice thing is that, as a result, it unlocks a brand new quest ("Smoke Them Out") which basically wasn't accessible before, and it allows completion of another one ("Vodka Stinger"). Fun fact, until a bug report came in about Vodka Stinger, I had completely forgotten it existed. In hundreds of playthroughs, I had never seen it.
Thanks so much for bearing with me with the inevitably-rocky launch, and hopefully your visits to Vidar going forward are a little more stable!
- Dean
Hotfix 1.0.1.0
[u]Quests[/u][u]Smoke Them Out[/u]
- ]Fixed a crash in Barnabas' dialogue that prevented receiving this quest
- Dig sites now spawn in the Boulder Cave
- Adjusted the charity values for various items; additionally, the reward can no longer be donated to Csaba
[u]Vodka Stinger[/u]
- Fixed a crash in Dani's dialogue on completing this quest
- Giving away mushrooms as part of this quest or Dr. Spore all properly updated the journal entries for other quests involving mushrooms
- Dani will not complete this quest unless the player has all of the necessary items in their inventory
[u]General[/u]
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Minimum Setup
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or higher
- Processor: Intel Core i5 equivalent or faster processorMemory: 1 GB RAM
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon HD 2400 or comparable
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Recommended Setup
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