HoD: On open seas
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When we released the first version of the game it was only one person in charge of the development - This time it is a team of almost 7 people with many others helping out on the side.
We started to build the 2.0 version a couple of months before the release of the first version - However we decided to rebuild the game from scratch and fill it with as much as 15gb/20gb in content.
Now we are really close to have a version that we feel is a version that we can give out without feeling bad about it. Everything is in order and everyone that has tested the version 2.0 has made a very positive review about it.
However, we have kept some of the things from the old game (in terms of puzzles and gameplay).
We will also release a remade version of the old game for free as an easteregg in this new version.
More updates to come in the near future...
Reminder...
HoD 2.0: A pirate adventure - Coming soon....
However, since we are growing bigger every day we are going to be a lot more active here.
This game is all about survival and great adventures - An open world with pirates, treasures and all sort of other things.
We have included some in-game footage on Facebook - Feel free to check it out!
https://www.facebook.com/hjocreations/posts/756701504460360
It's been a while...
And the reason is.... We are working on it - Everyday, every night.
This time we are not going to show that much about the game until it's time for the final release.
However...
We have uploaded a small "Teaser demo" for you guys to check out on our website.
http://www.hodgame.com
This demo is a very small portion of the game and it was created a while ago so there might be some "stiff" things about it. But it will give you a basic idea of how the HoD version 2.0 will look.
2015.11.30
More updates coming soon!
Teaser.. HoD 2.0
As of right now, we can post a small teaser showing some things from the 2.0 update:
We will keep posting more things and when the time comes, we will press the update button and you will all be able to get the 2.0 upgrade for free.
Wait, what?
I wanted to push out version 2.0 as fast as possible, but we have a couple of beta testers out there and many pointed out that we shouldn't try to rush things out, because this will be a major upgrade do this game in it has to be great from the beginning.
What we have decided to do now is to create 2 seperates games, within the game. Everyone that has bought the game so far will recieve this without any charge whatsoever.
I really want change and I really enjoy creating things and doing things that has never been done before, so this is what we are doing. We are going to create a whole new game out of this game and still keep the old idea (and of course update it seperately)
We are working everyday towards getting the version 2.0 out with all achievements, trading cards etc and all the new features.
When the game launches you will be able to choose which game you would like to play and during gameplay you will be able to switch between the games whenever you feel like.
Hands on Deck: original series
Hands on Deck: A pirate adventure
Reviews and insight
Of course I have been talking to many people that owns this game and I always support critisism, and everything anyone says - We will take into consideration and the outcome will probably be "We will do what you say".
To clearify,
My name is Henrik (Squadleader32), 6 months ago I didn't know programming at all, I didn't know Unity at all or web-development at all. But I really wanted to create this game. I learned everything i could during the creation of this game. I have created 99 % of the game and written all the scripts myself, created all the models and the gameplay, I didn't even know how to create game models.
But I have been given the oppertunity to get help from other people, such as the old developers from Overboard, developers from Unity themselves and others.
However, I am still learning and so does the company HJO Creations. This is our first game - that we use as a learning stage in this process.
I can admit one thing, a couple of people pointed out that this game should have been in the "early development" section. That would probably have been a better way of doing this.
Unfortunately you can not revert this decision, but now I have learned that, and will not to that again in our upcoming titles.
I have a lot planned for this game, Update 2.0 will contain a lot of changes that will make this game into what it is supposed to be.
This version that is out now is "the base idea". That is the idea I built in my mind the first time I thought of creating this game. But during the development process I have thought up of a lot of other things that is going to change this game completely.
To summarize, I am 20 years of age, I have been working for almost 14 hours a day for 6 months on this game, I am currently running 2 companies and it's probably not that great to do so, but well, it happened.
This game will change A LOT the coming weeks and we hope to get from 400 mb of content to 6 gb of content within the timeframe 6-10 weeks.
I am not developing alone anymore, I have some people helping me including friends and my fellow co-founders in HJO Creations.
But I really appreciate that you point out the things you don't like, but please take a look at the creators first, what are their capabilites, how young is the company, how many games have they created before etc..
This is our first real product, of course there will be mistakes, boring things and disaster but the great thing with software is that you can change it after it has been released.
Those people that buy this game as it is today, consider yourself "baby-adopters". This game will not be the same one you bought in a few months.
Squadleader32 out,
A couple of bugs in multiplayer in version 1.99
Version 1.99....
Implemented
*Multiplayer (online) 4 worlds
*Steam trading cards
*Achievement content