Hi friends!

Back from a really excellent vacation abroad, and excited to tackle some more on Vidar. We’re spiraling frantically towards Early Access, and the past few weeks focused on:

• Artistic modifications to continue to make the game feel more responsive;

• Bug fixes forever

• The first new content patch

I’m by no means an artist, but I’m pretty proud of some of the modifications I was able to make to the Stranger to get a few more animations possible.

With more testers, more bugs in the early part of the game are being reported - ranging from small little nits in the text to crashes in some of the rarer quests. Those have been addressed, and, mercifully, the Continue screen now opens much faster.

Finally, a great deal was done on the upcoming Content Patch (which will include the Library) - while it won’t be ready for release for a few more weeks, it’s nearly done and feeling like a really fun puzzle :)

For those who like things in list form, here you go!

Alpha Build 0.7.2.0

Quests

• Journal entry fixes

• Fixes to cutscene when receiving “Bury the Hatchet”

• Fixed a crash when receiving “Hair of the Dog”

• The entrance to the wolf cave now spawns

• You will not be given the option to bless graves for “Faith in the Dead” if that quest is already failed

• Ghosts will no longer gab while the option to enter a side-room is pending

Maps/Puzzles

• Added shadows to the Church back room

• Fixed passage issues in and around the castle ruins

• Continued cleaning graphics issues in Erik’s cave

• Time now freezes in the Dark Cave Waypoint

• The UI correctly displays when entering the cave from a waypoint, and displays on Day 1

• Tint is properly removed if coming from the Ice Cave or Boulder Cave into the Dark Cave or Water Cave

• Fixed a passage issue in the back of Cecilia’s house

• The tool UI appropriately displays in the waypoints (so you can use the Dark Cave waypoint)

• Fixed a graphical glitch related to the lightpillar

• Szabina now moves around in the castle ruins

• Climbing rope animation has been added; changed the functionality of ropes slightly to be more intuitive and graphically interesting

• Added the weather effect for real-real in the Ruins this time

• Added music to the Ruins

• Torches in the imp cave now use the lantern (like all other torches in the game)

• Brought the flicker on the torches in the imp cave down a little

• Footprint icons now will no longer hang over the edge of cliffs

• Fixed the back lights in the Hospital, Seamstress’s Shop, and Barnabas’s House

• Borbalo knows where the back room of the Church is now, he’s less likely to get confused

• Statues will now no longer allow you to activate them if it would cause you to drown

Miscellaneous

• Item description fixes

• Added animations for falling

• The Save/Load/Continue screen should load much faster now

A pretty egregious bug has been found in the Mac build, so sadly no additional Steam key distribution for now - but give it a hot second and we’ll get there!

See ya next week!
Dean