Hey awesome people!
Heart. Papers. Border. progress is slow due to the new systems we are adding which are complex. But we aim for an update this weekend, which will bring a bunch of bug fixes, several improvements and - we hope - a stable Linux build
We really, really welcome your feedback! We know the HPB experience is limited now, but we would really want to know what you think, what you like and dislike, and what you wish for next. We mentioned briefly what is on our backlog, but here is a bigger feature list, each and every one of them requiring complex work. All this work will progressively become available in later, more substantial updates. We are very very eager to finish and release them!
- Time Revamp System: You choose how much time you spend in a landmark. The more time you spend, the more valuable hashtags you gain
- Travel Revamp System: You no longer get back to the airport once you finished visiting an objective, but instead move to the next objective. The airport will be treated like a special objective with the perk that you can travel to other countries from it.
- Influence System: as you travel you influence the countries you are visiting. You need to know the impact of your visits clearly. Your influence is determined by the blogs you write
- SpacePad Travel App: You need a way to see where you have traveled, and what you have visited. This log will be available in the Journal
- SpacePad Expenses App: You need a way to see where your cash went. This log will be available in the Journal
- SpacePad Country Info App: You need to get more information about the countries you can visit, the objectives they host, their openness, and of course how to travel and visa information. We call this the Location app
- SpacePad Help App: Obviously, we need a Help app that explains all game features and mechanics.
- Birthday Mechanic: You will receive a thought provoking greeting every time your in game birthday comes. We want to urge you to change the world :) Well, just a viortual one, but still ^^
This is just a partial feature list. There is more, a lot more, but these are some of the ideas that take up a lot of design a develop time. We also of course prepare a lot more content: new countries, new objectives, new encounters and quests. We have planned the game for 26 countries, and 25 of them are inspired by real life countries. There is a North Korea in Heart, as there is also a Sweden, a Romania, a Turkey and Italy, a France, a Greece and many more. If you are curious about the full country list, remember we practice open game design (http://uzihead.servegame.org:8090/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=6193155)
Over & Out
Lara