== Humble Keys ==
If you purchased the game via the Humble widget, the Steam keys should be working just fine now. Our apologies to anyone who got delayed.
== Updates ==
We pushed out a couple of new releases over the past few days. Most of the visible changes are related to how the mouse & keyboard are handled.
The Rules menu isn't perfect yet (you have to hover over a tab before the keyboard navigation will work), but you can at least click on the tabs to navigate that menu now (instead of being forced to use the arrow keys). We're still working on that one.
You can now move through menus using the keyboard, without the mouse's location messing with what is selected.
The "back" action is usually the "Esc" key now, which is a bit more traditional than "backspace" which we were using before.
The cursor disappearing at end-game is fixed now.
Our logging has been greatly improved, which should help us track down any crashes. If your game crashes, it will send us a Minidump. In addition, all games will now do some (better) logging to:
\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Hive\logFile.log (it's just text so you can open it in any text editor).
Thanks to everyone who is helping us improve this Early Access build! :D
More to come!
Early Access is kicked off!
As of Friday, Nov. 15th, afternoon, we're rolling on Early Access!! It's exciting times and there is a lot going on. Here are some important bits:
== Humble Keys ==
If you pre-ordered via the Humble widget, you WILL be getting an Early Access key. They are unfortunately delayed a bit, and this appears to be my (Sean's) fault, not Steam's fault nor Humble's. This morning we delivered the keys to Humble, but we could have done things in a different order and gotten them to Humble before the game went live on Early Access. We expect that the keys will be available to gamers on Monday if not before.
IMPORTANT: If you pre-ordered via Humble but did not receive a key yet, please email "support" at bluelinegamestudios.com and tell us what email address you pre-ordered with, and we'll get you a key as soon as we see the email. This will have the side-effect that many of you may end up with two keys once the Humble keys get processed. If this happens to you, please accept it as a gift (with our apologies) and feel free to give the key to a family or friend that you'd like to play Hive with!
== Bug fixes! ==
Since this is Early Access, please let us know if you see any bugs defects, bad strategies by the AI, or weird interactions (this was an Xbox game originally, and we're determined to make it feel seemless on PC... if it doesn't, then we still have more work to do!).
This morning, we got a bugdefect-report on the Steam Forum (thanks to "rawrVolitans") about two Beetle-related Steam Achievements that were not being rewarded. We have fixed this bug and pushed a new build live already. We're hoping that we can continue to very quickly iterate on feedback from the community, so that this whole Early Access process can result in a quick path to a final release of an awesome game! :D
== Yay! ==
THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING PART OF THIS EXCITING JOURNEY! :D
