Hello everybody,
We really hope you enjoyed the holidays. We are back from them, and already working full steam ahead on the game (if mother nature and its nasty bugs permit).
Today we have uploaded a new version of the game that, aside from many bugfixes, adds the first quests to the game (apart from the hidden quest that was already present in the tutorial).
This quests will appear on some playthroughs of the first level (maybe on too many, or maybe on too few. You tell us!) and they will provide the first act of Heart & Slash's story, as well as slightly expand on the good Dr. Sympahtic's narrative.
With this, the first level is pretty much content complete at last! (still polish/bugfixing/balance left, specially combat balance).
As usual with these content updates, there are probably some bugs in there. Please, let us know if you find any, so we can issue a hotfix. Also, we think we will change some of the dialog, which still is WIP.
And of course, we are looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the quests themselves!
WHAT'S COMING NEXT:
While we continue working on the thrid level (we are almost ready to show it) we are also going to implement the unlock system. As of now, all the equipment previously available is still available from the get go, but we want to change that. Only a small subset of this equipment should be spawnable on the first playthrough. It's by advancing on the game (and solving quests) that you are supossed to start unlocking new items and weapons.
We will implement this in the coming days (it's relatively easy and most of the framework is done), and also we will start to integrate new equipment (weapons and items) into the game at last! Adter all, if we are going to start locking equipment behind quests/achievements, we need a bigger pool to draw from.
So for the next bi-weekly content update, look forward to fight robots in new and interesting ways.
A NOTE FOR OUR MAC USERS:
We have changed the way the game is built on mac this time. Hopefully this solves some of the gamepad issues people are having. Let us know if this works, please...