Developer posts and news about this game.
Hi everyone! Ivan's here. In this springey update i will be introducing some new features, a lot of fixes and the super mega awesome Polish localization made by Cubey!! Let's go! Polish localization: hey, our community member Cubey made this awesome thing come true! He translated
Hi everyone, Ivan's here! In this update i'm releasing the new command line console, which is an aid tool intended to help out for testing, modding and everything you want. There are also other implementations and a number of fixes. So let's list them all: The new console is avai
I've pushed on the Beta branch the "console update". Now there's a command line console in-game (press F6 to open it) which you could use to manipolate doors and spawn items. The console backbone is there and is working, but there are few commands implemented. Another notable thi
Hi everyone! Ivan's here. In this latest patch i'm going to address some fixes but also i will introduce some new features regarding items and modding. So let's start! robbery_effect: the effect fired when robbing a shop is not fixed anymore but can be modified and changed by mod
Hi everybody! Ivan's here. In this big new patch the game is receiving a good amount of fixes and improvements, focused especially on modding. So let's start the dance: Added support for scripting custom state machine actions for Npc's ai behaviours. Those new actions can be scri
Hi Everybody! Ivan's here. I am pushing this new patch today which addresses some problems which were pointed out in the forums and some new stuff: the support for bigger containers. Tooltip bug: some users are having problems with in game tooltips. Those users experience all voi
Hi everybody! Ivan's here. In the latest patch i have released a small number of improvements, thanks to all the suggestions and hints given to me by players on the forum and on the discord server! Fixed the "spare metro ticket" miniquest image, which was wrong Lowered consistent
Hi everybody, Ivan's here. I just pushed out a small patch addressing a problem existing in the weather system which caused some players to end up in a loop of ever raining weather which was very hard to break out from. I should have corrected the issue and now the weather in gam
Hi everybody, Ivan's here. I'm writing this patch note for the last two bugfix patches released in the last days. I've been correcting some issues as reported from users on the Steam forums, including: removed the possibility to pack up containers containing items. You have to em
Hi Everyone! Ivan's here. In this latest Hard Times patch I'm pushing some bugfix to the game (thanks to user plank'st for pointing them out). -- The first bug was an horrid and blasphemous problem concerning the drag system, letting ghostly images remain on screen when someone i
Hi everybody!!! Ivan's here! HARD TIMES GOES FREE TO PLAY The great news here is that starting from 1st february 2020 Hard Times is going to be released as a Free to Play game. Open and free for everyone to play. I'm gonna close the Early Access phase, in which copies were sold a
Hi everyone! Ivan's here. With this new patch I am introducing the scriptable quests, a new api which let's modders script their own custom quests type to be played in game, along with the base quest types already present in the game. So lets start with the awesome change list: S
Hi everyone! Ivan's here. In this brand new update there are a number of juicy news regarding modding with the HTSA (Hard Times Scripting Api), particularly about creating new scriptable items in game which can add unforeseen radical changes to the game, further expanding modding
Hello all! Ivan's here. In this lates patch i am finally introducing a couple of important new things which i was working on since quite a while. So let's start dancing and let's introduce Patch #4312836 new features: LINUX SUPPORT : I've finally managed to release also the nativ
Hi everyone, Ivan's here. In this latest patch i am addressing a number of important bugs. Other than that i am introducing a new poster entity. It is moddable via json, as everything else around here... Lets start with the list of things addressed in this patch: Furniture overwr
Hi everyone! Ivan's here. In this small update i am fixing a number of pesky bugs which should be banned from the game. Or at least i hope so! The infamous 'equipped item bug' Thanks to Mastadans for pointing it out! When you had equipped items and corrupt cops took your stuff so
Hi everyone! Ivan's here. So i'm pushing this small update with some new features and a small improvement. In the church of Father Squid Have you ever been in the church of father Squid? In case you haven't yet you should go and check it out, cause you could find different ways o
Hi everybody! Ivan's here. This patch introduces the Player effects log panel. It sits on top of the healt panel and will display all effects activating or disactivating. Easy enough. It's meant to have a way to get an overall idea of whats going on. I am planning on expanding th
Hi everybody! Ivan's here. I have just released Alpha 0.0.2 b.4204364, which fixes a number of small issues with scene components, adds the Credits section in the main menu and fixes the Discord button. It's been three days since the Early Access release and I am quite happy abou
I've finally made it! Hard Times is now available for everyone on Steam Early Access!! I will continue to do my best to keep up with the community, gathering feedbacks and suggestions as new players will try the game. Please, feel free to get in touch with me, for any kind of tou