Progress on Pivot of Hearts is slow but steady, we are on our way to finish three out of four chapters. However, we also did several improvements to the game as a whole and we think the demo deserves some love as well.
Full notes
Full Pivot of Hearts update
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What changed
1 fix1 addition2 changes0 removals
Gameplay
UI and audio
changedHowever, we also did several improvements to the game as a whole and we think the demo deserves some love as well. As such, this patch backports these improvements for all of you to enjoy while playing our free demo ;)
addedAdded Experimental lip-flapping support (only in one place for now - can you find it?) More Wén sprite expressions Bárbara's sillouette when she send voice messages in first scene (see gif above!) Expression variations to Artist Ana's sprites Cool SFX now play when characters speak
changedChanged Assets and scene scripts are now packaged for reduced build size Make most text pauses in Chapter 1 end automatically after a delay Bárbara's tarot tutorial options become hidden after you choose them Tutorial order can be chosen by player Transition animations changed to real dates instead of "Week X" Frames for card animations replaced with smaller resolution to load faster
fixedFixed Some sprites with graphical issues Dozens of typos and other minor mistakes "Indícios" BGM not looping as it should All clocks and time references Crashes on flashback scene Going back from drop-down menu wrongly taking you to pause menu Missing translations for suit tooltips
Pivot of Hearts changes
changedHowever, we also did several improvements to the game as a whole and we think the demo deserves some love as well. As such, this patch backports these improvements for all of you to enjoy while playing our free demo ;)
addedAdded Experimental lip-flapping support (only in one place for now - can you find it?) More Wén sprite expressions Bárbara's sillouette when she send voice messages in first scene (see gif above!) Expression variations to Artist Ana's sprites Cool SFX now play when characters speak
changedChanged Assets and scene scripts are now packaged for reduced build size Make most text pauses in Chapter 1 end automatically after a delay Bárbara's tarot tutorial options become hidden after you choose them Tutorial order can be chosen by player Transition animations changed to real dates instead of "Week X" Frames for card animations replaced with smaller resolution to load faster
fixedFixed Some sprites with graphical issues Dozens of typos and other minor mistakes "Indícios" BGM not looping as it should All clocks and time references Crashes on flashback scene Going back from drop-down menu wrongly taking you to pause menu Missing translations for suit tooltips
Progress on Pivot of Hearts is slow but steady, we are on our way to finish three out of four chapters.
However, we also did several improvements to the game as a whole and we think the demo deserves some love as well. As such, this patch backports these improvements for all of you to enjoy while playing our free demo ;)
Here are the main changes:
Added
Experimental lip-flapping support (only in one place for now - can you find it?)
More Wén sprite expressions
Bárbara's sillouette when she send voice messages in first scene (see gif above!)
Expression variations to Artist Ana's sprites
Cool SFX now play when characters speak
Changed
Assets and scene scripts are now packaged for reduced build size
Make most text pauses in Chapter 1 end automatically after a delay
Bárbara's tarot tutorial options become hidden after you choose them
Tutorial order can be chosen by player
Transition animations changed to real dates instead of "Week X"
Frames for card animations replaced with smaller resolution to load faster
Fixed
Some sprites with graphical issues
Dozens of typos and other minor mistakes
"Indícios" BGM not looping as it should
All clocks and time references
Crashes on flashback scene
Going back from drop-down menu wrongly taking you to pause menu
