October Progress

October Accomplishments

• Irene has SO MUCH to say about love. Now there's a separate tree for if she doesn't think you're sleeping together, but is concerned that you're co-dependent.

• Updated Steam page with GIFs and punchier text.

• Redid nighttime conversations so that all possible conversations are visible from the start. Also made them better.

• Made it so that Holmes always interrupts your nightmare, even if he's annoyed with you.

• Added Holmes' relationship to Watson to the status screen so that you can always see it.

• Fixed some contrast issues and redid Books screen again to fix different screen resolutions/have Holmes' current mood.

• Wrote and implemented talking to Holmes about love. [Romantic]

• Wrote and implemented talking to Holmes about love. [Platonic]

• Made it possible for Holmes to look to the side. No power is beyond me.

• Wrote and implemented Chemistry scene. [Romantic]

• Wrote and implemented Chemistry scene. [Platonic]

• Updated the 'Talk With Holmes' downtime option to be an informative check-in about the nature of his current mood instead of just a rather boring way of slowing increasing your relationship.

• Updated nagging Holmes about his health to be more worth doing, though still probably not actually a good idea.

• Added extra reward for publishing Study in Scarlet while Holmes is Playful.

• Added a bunch of extra rewards for doing chore-projects and book-projects while Holmes is in particular moods.

• Updated Save/Load system to be more readable.

• Setup the game to autosave whenever time passes

• Redid TimePasses to be a CustomUI, giving me more control.

• Completely changed how alerts work. They're better now. I promise.

• Updated the H&H presskit to be more useful to streamers.

• Composed streamer email.

• Procrastinated wildly about actually researching/sending the demo to relevant streamers. I have a bit of a mental block about it. If anyone would be willing to help let me know. I think I just need help getting started.

• Below is the new copy for the steam page--

Sherlock Holmes.

Genius detective. Middling flatmate. Delightful disaster of a man.

He is one of the world's most beloved literary characters.

He is now your problem.

You are John Watson.

You are Sherlock's roommate and best friend.

You are worried about him. You are right to be worried. Left to his own devices Sherlock will destroy himself with overwork and cocaine. Don't let him do that.

Did you ever have a virtual pet?

Was your virtual pet responsible for solving mysteries in the cruel streets of Victorian London? Did your virtual pet forget to eat? Did he stay up to 3AM doing chemistry experiments?

If so, you are well prepared for this challenge.

If you succeed your reward is a fulfilling relationship with a cool detective and his friends: an opera singer whose house you tried to burn down but for fake, a perfectly normal college professor, and your landlady.

Hearth & Holmes is a mystery-solving life simulation about the importance of self-care and relationships.

It contains scenes of graphic violins.