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!

Heartbound is still in Early Access why are you going on sale?

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.

Why were updates slow this last year?

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.

What's next for Heartbound?

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. HBHeart -Thor

[ 2021-12-22 13:36:35 CET ] [ Original post ]