Friends, we did it. We made the bard real. You can get your own until January 1st, 2023. Don't miss this once in a lifetime chance to have a bard. Get a bard here:
Friends, we did it. We made the bard real. You can get your own until January 1st, 2023.
Don't miss this once in a lifetime chance to have a bard.
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time… If you’re in need of an emotional lift at the moment, I implore you to go and play Wandersong . It’s the most goddamn hopeful and feel-good game you’ll play all year, I swear
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time…
If you’re in need of an emotional lift at the moment, I implore you to go and play Wandersong. It’s the most goddamn hopeful and feel-good game you’ll play all year, I swear.
Our new game is Chicory: A Colorful Tale! It's an adventure game that follow in the footsteps of Wandersong! You play as a dog in a Zelda-like adventure where you can draw and paint on anything. :) It features an OST by our friend Lena Raine, a composer whose work you may know fr
It's an adventure game that follow in the footsteps of Wandersong! You play as a dog in a Zelda-like adventure where you can draw and paint on anything. :) It features an OST by our friend Lena Raine, a composer whose work you may know from Celeste! We think you're gonna love it!
We've released a new build that should resolve the crashing users were seeing before! We tested it on a Mojave operating system and found that it worked great, so hopefully users who were having those issues will see an improvement as well! We did notice that Mojave has a number
We've released a new build that should resolve the crashing users were seeing before! We tested it on a Mojave operating system and found that it worked great, so hopefully users who were having those issues will see an improvement as well!
We did notice that Mojave has a number of new security features that interfered with the game a lot--running it through Steam circumnavigates a lot of the issues, but we wonder if that could be a cause for some users' experience. If you're still having issues, trying going into System Preferences > Accessibility > Privacy and add Wandersong to the list of apps which can "control your computer." This security feature is triggered by the fact that the game resets the mouse position when you're singing to keep your cursor in the game window (just like a first person shooter might).
Hopefully this helps! Thank you everyone for your support :)
Hello Mac players! We're aware right now of two uncommon issues some players are facing. It sounds like some users on the Mojave OS are seeing a black screen, and for some players, the game crashes in the Act 4 factory. We're sorry about this! For the crash issue, there's a quick
Hello Mac players!
We're aware right now of two uncommon issues some players are facing. It sounds like some users on the Mojave OS are seeing a black screen, and for some players, the game crashes in the Act 4 factory. We're sorry about this!
For the crash issue, there's a quick way to remedy it. Right click the game in your Steam library > Properties > BETAs tab > select "old-reliable" from the dropdown! This older version has some visual issues but no crashing. Once you're in Act 5, you can return to the original branch.
We've been aware of these issues for a time, but our own Mac we were using to test didn't have these issues. As of this year, thanks to the modest success of Wandersong, I decided to get a new Mac computer (the old one was a Macbook from 2009). I'm working on setting up the new machine and will hopefully be able to test and update the game soon to fix these issues for everyone. Some of it might be an engine-level issue with Game Maker, though, which means it could take some extra time to figure out since that would be out of my hands.
Mac users represent around 0.2% of all Wandersong players, but we really want you to have a good experience and I'm sorry for the issues that some of you have experienced. We'll post if and when we have an update!
Sorry to everyone who was impacted by that. Once you take the latest patch and run the game, you'll earn all of your Steam achievements--no need to go back or replay anything. Also, hello to all of our new players coming from the Humble monthly! We're *humbled* (hehehe) by all yo
Sorry to everyone who was impacted by that. Once you take the latest patch and run the game, you'll earn all of your Steam achievements--no need to go back or replay anything.
Also, hello to all of our new players coming from the Humble monthly! We're *humbled* (hehehe) by all your positive reviews and comments--usually going into a big bundle like this means a lot more thumbs down. =)
Thank you all for playing and sharing!
Overthinking Games runs every other Monday, and is an opportunity for Malindy Hetfeld to take something about a game and think about it too much. Today she brings you the unconfined joy of music in Wandersong. The central idea behind Wandersong is coming across things and singing
Overthinking Games runs every other Monday, and is an opportunity for Malindy Hetfeld to take something about a game and think about it too much. Today she brings you the unconfined joy of music in Wandersong.
The central idea behind Wandersong is coming across things and singing at them, just to see what happens. Sure, there s also this bit in the plot about the impending apocalypse, but no rush, we will eventually solve that with a song, too. More so than the story, the singing in Wandersong made me think about all the ways our brains connect to music, and how music is a natural element in our daily lives, and how that, in turn, connects us to each other.
In order to sing in Wandersong, all you have to do is use a wheel with different colours for each note (something that s extremely satisfying to do with the stick of a controller), and et voil , you re singing at something. Parts of the world will react to your singing, and even if not you can just stop and put little impromptu songs together. The joy of singing, captured in one small game.
Hello Mac users! As you may know, since launch we've been struggling some rendering/shader issues on Mac (making the bard turn black on some screens). These stem from engine issues in Game Maker Studio 2, and we've been working with Yoyogames since before our release to get a per
Hello Mac users!
As you may know, since launch we've been struggling some rendering/shader issues on Mac (making the bard turn black on some screens). These stem from engine issues in Game Maker Studio 2, and we've been working with Yoyogames since before our release to get a perfectly stable version out to players.
We got an update from Yoyogames recently saying that they had a new engine version that corrected our issues. We ran a new build off of it, and found that those issues were fixed, but in their place were new, worse issues that made the game virtually unplayable for us. :(
But we've been assured that the new version works flawlessly for them, so it's possible that we're experiencing a rare issue that won't hold for most users. It's hard for us to know, and that's why we've decided to put the build on Steam and open it to everyone to test!
To access it, right click the game in your library, go to PROPERTIES, then the BETAS tab, then select "beta" from the dropdown menu. Even if the game worked for you before, we'd appreciate it if you tested this. Let us know whether or not the beta build works for you! This will help us figure out our next steps to get a perfectly working build out to every Mac user.
Thanks! <3
(PS: Voting is still open for the IGF audience award! We'd love to get your support!)
If you love Wandersong and want to help us get a neato award, VOTE FOR US HERE! :) The competition is fierce and our chances aren't great, but your support always means the world to us. Thanks! <3
If you love Wandersong and want to help us get a neato award, VOTE FOR US HERE! :) The competition is fierce and our chances aren't great, but your support always means the world to us.
Thanks! <3
Hi all! First of all, I want to congratulate our dedicated Wandersong speedrunners, who recently discovered some hidden features we had and the alternate "bad" ending. Well done!! We were worried they would be secret forever. Following that discovery, we've made one new additiona
Hi all!
First of all, I want to congratulate our dedicated Wandersong speedrunners, who recently discovered some hidden features we had and the alternate "bad" ending. Well done!! We were worried they would be secret forever.
Following that discovery, we've made one new additional skip available today to bring the speedrun time even lower. Nice!
Additionally, this new build contains new features to help stabilize the game at different framerates + monitor refresh rates, which is our most common complaint. Users across the board should see a much more stable experience. Double nice!!
Finally, this new build also has expanded capability for language translation modding. Triple nice!!! With this, players helping with our ongoing fan translation project will be able to test their modded text more easily in-game, and eventually distribute their translations. Woo! Details on how to implement translations will be aded to the spreadsheet soon.
Thanks again to everyone for your continued love and support!
Greg
We've made a sign-up form! Enter your info there! We're looking to open up translation to be a collaborative effort, rather than expecting people to do it on their lonesome. After all... anything is possible with teamwork!!!
Enter your info there! We're looking to open up translation to be a collaborative effort, rather than expecting people to do it on their lonesome. After all... anything is possible with teamwork!!!
Valve’s attempts to identify ‘fake’ games on Steam through automated metrics may have backfired, hurting the developers of some excellent games in the process. As brought up by Wandersong developer Greg Lobanov on Twitter yesterday , the well-reviewed, multi-award-winning game wa
Valve’s attempts to identify ‘fake’ games on Steam through automated metrics may have backfired, hurting the developers of some excellent games in the process. As brought up by Wandersong developer Greg Lobanov on Twitter yesterday, the well-reviewed, multi-award-winning game was flagged as an unknown quantity on the store. Until Steam somehow learnt more about the game through users interactions with it, it wouldn’t be eligible for full Steam store perks such as offering trading cards, but nothing seemed to be budging even months after launch.
After raising awareness of the issue on Twitter, Lobanov has since been contacted directly by Valve, who say that this was a bug that Wandersong and “many other games” were permanently restricted by, and that the problem is only now being addressed five months later. Wandersong is now free of restrictions, some other games appear stuck in this bizarre ‘not quite real’ limbo state.
Yahoo! Wandersong is a finalist in the narrative category at the IGF, with honorable mentions in audio, art, and even grand prize!!! :O Cheer us on this year! :)
Yahoo! Wandersong is a finalist in the narrative category at the IGF, with honorable mentions in audio, art, and even grand prize!!! :O
Cheer us on this year! :)
We asked a bunch of our regular writers to tell us what their five favourite games this year were. Today it’s the turn of Alyse Stanley , who’s picked a brace of lovely indie weirdness for you It s been a pretty stinking great year for indie games. We ve seen the release of sever
We asked a bunch of our regular writers to tell us what their five favourite games this year were. Today it’s the turn of Alyse Stanley, who’s picked a brace of lovely indie weirdness for you
It s been a pretty stinking great year for indie games. We ve seen the release of several long-hyped darlings (finally) as well as a few surprise hits that went on to dominate newsfeeds. You easily could have missed them, though, what with all the big budget map fest games making huge waves this year. I know there are about a million games demanding your attention right now, but if you have some time over the holidays, each of these titles experiments with or otherwise builds on their genres in a way that stands out amidst all the noise.
We asked a bunch of our regular writers to tell us what their five favourite games this year were. Today it’s the turn of Giada Zavarise , who has smuggled in an extra five games by making them awards and having runners up 2018 is the year I played Symphony Of The Night for the f
We asked a bunch of our regular writers to tell us what their five favourite games this year were. Today it’s the turn of Giada Zavarise, who has smuggled in an extra five games by making them awards and having runners up
2018 is the year I played Symphony Of The Night for the first time. Can I just rave about Symphony Of The Night for the whole article? No?
Fine. Here are some other games that aren t too shabby, either.
Hi, quick update! I messed something up when I last updated the game and left the Mac build empty, so Mac users were missing the game for a couple days (oops) :( It should be back online now! Sorry to anyone who was impacted by that!
Hi, quick update! I messed something up when I last updated the game and left the Mac build empty, so Mac users were missing the game for a couple days (oops) :(
It should be back online now! Sorry to anyone who was impacted by that!
Our new build with external text is now public on PC! With it I've also made a few tiny fixes and tweaks, so small I can't remember any of them... Check out the previous update for more details! Basically, it's possible now to fan-translate all the text in the game, or mod the te
Our new build with external text is now public on PC! With it I've also made a few tiny fixes and tweaks, so small I can't remember any of them...
Check out the previous update for more details! Basically, it's possible now to fan-translate all the text in the game, or mod the text in any way you like. I hope players have fun with this feature! (I've seen a couple people play with translations already--nice!)
Our Mac build still isn't up-to-date. We've been in steady contact with Yoyogames, who made our game engine, about fixing some of the remaining issues. Every time something is fixed, a new different issue seems to come up. I get the impression that Wandersong is pushing the boundaries for what GameMaker is meant to do, so they're having trouble keeping up... But please know that this remains a priority issue for me!
Thanks so much to everyone for your continued love and support. :) Wish you all happy holidays and a happy end to your 2018!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! By popular demand, I'm making changes to the game so that it can be translated to other languages! This wasn't easy. Up until now, every word of text was hand-coded into the game, so there was no way to change the text without changing the code. But w
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
By popular demand, I'm making changes to the game so that it can be translated to other languages! This wasn't easy. Up until now, every word of text was hand-coded into the game, so there was no way to change the text without changing the code. But with the use of DARK MAGIC, I've moved all text in the game to an external file, one which you can easily browse and edit yourself!
I'm anticipating that this will introduce bugs, so I haven't put this in the public build yet. But if you want to help us test, you can access this new version of the game on PC ONLY by right-clicking the game in your library > Properties > Betas > and accessing the beta called "language"! I would welcome anyone to play this version, especially repeat players! If it works well then you shouldn't notice any difference. But it's possible this change messed up formatting or text in some obscure area of the game... we aren't sure! There's a lot to test! So all help is appreciated :)
If you want to see and edit the text, you'll want to right click the game in your library > Browse Local Content > PC > lang > lang_english.tsv! The game only reads in the ID# and text line sections, so you can just add a TAB to move the english text out of the game-read area and write your translation into the old space (if that makes sense). I would only do this if you're comfortable with spoilers!
In the future, when we are able to release an official translation, I'll make it possible to add new files to this area and have the game auto-detect them and add them to the list of languages in the in-game language menu, so modding new languages into the game will be very easy. :) For now, you can just edit the english text (but be sure to copy everything externally so that steam doesn't overwrite it...)
This game has a word count around 75K, and most lines of text have custom hand-made formatting and timing, which adds a lot of complication for translators... This means that translating to even one language is very expensive, and this game is still fairly niche, so we will have to choose carefully which we can afford to do. That's why I wanted to make it very open and easy to mod, so that fans can fill in the gaps where we can't, if they want to. <3
Finally: with the steam award nominations underway, we'd like to humbly ask anyone who wants to support Wandersong to nominate us for the "Labour of Love" category. Many have told us that they nominated us for Game of the Year, which we're very grateful for... but Wandersong has an abysmally low chance of winning in a category like that, which will surely go to a title that sold millions of copies. For that reason, we would like to strategically try for something less competitive. :)
We've been really blessed by wonderful players, reviews and fans since the game has come out... So we want to give a warm THANK YOU to everyone, not just because it's Thanksgiving :) The outpouring of love we get every day has given us a ton of life and we're very grateful to everyone who's been playing and telling their friends about us. It means very much. Thank you.
Developer: Greg Lobanov Publisher: Greg Lobanov Release: Out now On: Windows, Mac OS From: Steam , Itch.io , Humble , GOG For: 15, $20, 20 You can jump on your bed in Wandersong . You start the game by waking up after a revelation: the end is nigh, and you can t do anything about
Developer: Greg Lobanov
Publisher: Greg Lobanov
Release: Out now
On: Windows, Mac OS
From: Steam, Itch.io, Humble, GOG
For: 15, $20, 20
You can jump on your bed in Wandersong. You start the game by waking up after a revelation: the end is nigh, and you can t do anything about it because you re just a bard, the most useless class ever. The situation doesn t look good.
But before getting out of your house, you can jump on your bed. And in that moment I understood that, despite it all, everything was going to be okay in the end. Because Wandersong is a game that wants to make you smile.
Hiya! We got a fix back from Yoyogames and have just uploaded a new Mac build! Previously, some users reported crashing on load screens, starting during the act 2 concert, and for some users in the act 3 map screen. We never replicated these ourselves, so we can't test it, but we
Hiya!
We got a fix back from Yoyogames and have just uploaded a new Mac build! Previously, some users reported crashing on load screens, starting during the act 2 concert, and for some users in the act 3 map screen. We never replicated these ourselves, so we can't test it, but we're told it should be fixed in this new build.
If you had these issues before, please try giving the game a try and see if it's fixed for you!
Thanks!