FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING!
We added a Day/ Night cycle and it can be upsetting if you have problems with flashing lights. This is by default ON but you can turn it OFF in the Settings. It can be disturbing especially if you play the game on Fast Forward/ high speed.
Hey everyone!
It's been a long time since we updated Heart. Papers. Border.. So this update is pretty big, and I will probably forget to mention some of the stuff we have added. The game is, however, far from done. I look forward for your feedback!
What is new
- All the countries for which we have graphics done are now available and can be visited once you finish the last quest in Sputnik City. They DO NOT have any quests, encounters or hashtags yet, however
- We added a day/night cycle which needs *A LOT* of tweaking but I think it adds to the game
- You can now see how much time you spend in every objective and in every country, in the SpacePad Location app
- We added the so called Birthday Mechanic which means you get a Space Cake when you grow older :) For now this is just aesthetics but this plays a crucial role for the end game
- We added more portraits you can play with, all of them inspired by fantastic real life people to whom we owe a great deal of thanks <3
- When you start a new game, we randomize the selection of portrait and gender
- We started to work on Influence. This is by far ready, but you can see how influential you are in each country from the SpacePad Location app
- The Blog has been optimized to support double click. So just double click on the hashtags you want to use
- We have done countless minor updates which should make the game play smoother
- We probably added more stuff that we forgot to keep track of. Note to self - keep track of what you add!
There are many KNOWN ISSUES.
Like some of the popups overlap in a non optimal way, many of them can be cut which is super annoying. Notifications pile up and we will refactor that system so you can use the SpacePad to browse through notifications instead of letting them clutter the UI. The Day / Night cycle is something that needs a lot of optimizing and frankly I am super eager to make the night version of our objectives and I also want to work with the roads for this.
Keep in mind - when you unlock all countries, you can see the TRAVEL button active but if you do not have enough uNits, nothing happens when you click on it. We will disable it with a message if you do not have enough uNits, just like it happens when you don't have a visa.
And of course there is a lot of work to do for the influence system, the SpacePad in general and Blog minigame in particular, and I will redesign the entire encounter/ quest system. Just so you know - its a long way to go.
Enjoy! :)
Laura aka Sarienn
/overworking Sebi's coding skills since 2017
