Update 8 includes another great suggestion from our players - you can now buy back items sold to pawnshops. If you find a powerful weapon early in the game before your stats are high enough to make good use of it, sell it and come back for it when Kim is older. We've introduced a new way to earn money, it's less glamorous than the Allahabad Pioneer but working in the kitchen of Ferozepore’s barracks does have some (edible) perks! If that doesn't appeal, you might now be able to convince the lama to teach you how to draw the Wheel of Life! We’ve also been polishing the game’s art, keep an eye out for characters’ shadows, the pleasingly curvy travel line and zooming in on photos!
Changelist
v0.7.0 -> v0.8.0
New Stuff
- All characters and animals have procedural shadows and occlusion shadows
- There is a barracks in Ferozepore where Kim can work to earn money, if he works hard, he will get promoted
- After Kim has seen the lama draw the Buddhist Wheel of Life, he can ask him to teach him how to draw it, if he learns, he can draw it for other Buddhists
- Items that you buy in any pawnshop can be bought back at the same pawnshop at a later date for the same price
- You can click photos and they will enlarge and fade out the rest of the screen
Changes
- Wealth is divided by 20 instead of 10 to determine its contribution to total score - as a result of this and a couple scoring bugs, we’ve deleted some scores on the leaderboards
- A new and improved curving travel line replaces the old one on the map
- The Allahabad Pioneer no longer pays such high wages
- Kim always comes out of long stays in buildings (e.g. schools) in the morning
- HUD buttons flash slower and wait until previous animations have finished during conversations with the screen faded
- Kim’s minimum speed is limited by the fact the his Speed stat cannot fall below 1
- It’s no longer possible to sell food at pawnshops
- Some NPCs drop fewer items when killed
- NPCs insult Kim less frequently
- Delivery missions list their items in the objective description
- The Wealth chart on the results screen fills up slower
- The merit graph on the results screen now goes up to 2500
- Various UI elements polished
- Lots of conversations tweaked
- A few changes to improve performance
- We’ve been overhauling the pathfinding system and will continue doing so for our next update
Bug Fixes
- Wealth no longer counts rupees twice
- Opinion categories are all now capped at 100
- Permadeath can only be turned on and off when there is no active playthrough
- A signpost can no longer block Kim from entering Delhi
- Issues with context-sensitive buttons in suitcase fixed
- Reopening a trait info panel will work normally
- Tutorial labels aren’t visible over page turn animation
- Warrant typo in notification fixed
Update #7: Tread the Boards
Update 7 is here and the high and mighty of Simla await you at their cherished Amateur Dramatic Society! They always need stagehands and sometimes more. Since we completed our scoring system last update, it was time to add leaderboards, which you can now view in game. There’s a separate set for scores recorded with Permadeath on! To encourage players to use different items, we’ve added a new set of ‘bargain’ events, which spawn a character, who is selling an item at half price. If you don’t have enough money, they will be waiting for you when you come back, just don’t make any rash decisions in pursuit of a few extra rupees! We’d love to hear your feedback and ideas in the forums or on Twitter or Facebook:
https://twitter.com/SecretGamesCo
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Secret-Games-Company/536686379736918
Changelist
v0.6.0 -> v0.7.0
New Stuff
- Leaderboards screen added, all leaderboards are displayed along with your own entry via button in Scores screen
- New leaderboards for Wealth (with and without Permadeath)
- Gaiety Theatre institution added in Simla (your chance to tread the boards!)
- 7 new ‘bargain’ events added in which an NPC offers you an item at half price (countryside-only)
- Map icon hover effect added, all icons of the same type enlarge and others shrink
Changes
- When Kim is in a level, time passes at half the previous speed
- All characters now take a moment to prepare their weapon before attacking to improve combat pacing
- View cone system updated to create smoother movements
- Train system updated to make them more realistic
- All town colliders updated to reduce pathfinding issues
- New route to Buddhist temple added in Benares
- Weather probabilities updated to make it sunnier
- Rebalanced genders, professions and religions for more variety
- Text panels now always start scrolled to the top
- Turning on stealth or combat mode will close open UI panels
- More lights added to buildings at night
- Chefs no longer sleep in their restaurant
- A few updated assets including the map, lockpicking animation, rain particles and the cut for Kim's face
- Various UI tweaks for neatness and clarity
Bug Fixes
- Blocker in the long version of the tutorial fixed
- Turning on stealth mode will never cause Kim to become unresponsive
- The Kulu Sahiba’s son’s carriage won’t make Kim stop moving
- Windowed mode now possible in more resolutions
- Scores and leaderboard entries will always save correctly
- Speech bubble appearing too soon fixed
- No longer possible to have cheroots case convo with Creighton right away
- UI issues in 16:10 resolutions fixed
- Issue after reopening trait panels fixed
- Small map info panel fixed
- Kim takes a better route when exiting from NE milestone in Umballa
- Issue where you cannot select Lurgan Sahib fixed
- Skipping time now always turns off stealth and combat mode
- Neck-less British women fixed
Update #6: Wealth and Weather
For our 6th update, we've overhauled the weather system making it more realistic and adding different intensities of rain up to thunder and lightning. We've also adjusted the scoring calculations adding a new category, Wealth, and doubling the effect of Merit so expect a new personal best in your next playthrough. Exposed modifiers in the travel panels mean you can judge which items you can and cannot do without next time you're planning a journey to some far flung desert stronghold and the addition of bullet effects on guns will help you work out who is shooting at you when you get there! Read the full list below and let us know what you think in the forum!
Changelist v0.5.0 -> v0.6.0
New Stuff
- More realistic weather including rain, thunder and lightning; health penalties from sleeping outside are doubled when it is raining
- Wealth scoring category added to results screen comprising money and total value of owned items
- More info button added to results screen to display the amount each scoring category contributes to total score
- Strength stat now modifies damage resistance reducing incoming combat damage when above 20 and increasing it when below 20
- Projectile effect added to ranged weapons when they fire
- Travel modifiers from maps and compass displayed on travel panels
- Many more NPCs have unique opinion modifiers
Changes
- Tents now protect Kim from health penalties incurred when sleeping outside while travelling
- Merit now contributes twice as many points to total score
- Ranged weapon's have 20% shorter ranges
- Speed stat has a slightly smaller effect on Kim's speed
- If Kim collapses and is rescued, no travel line is added to the map
- Towns updated to better handle alleys and gaps between buildings
- HUD buttons appear when their stat changes during convos when the screen is faded
- Containers and houses respawn their items after 6 months
- Thieves' and bandits' possible weapons updated
- View cone colours updated
- Kim starts the game with 40 fatigue
- Temple of the Tirthankars now a Jain Temple not a sleep location
- Thugs unlocked after a time delay rather than completing a mission
- Various art and UI assets polished
- Lots of conversations updated
Bug Fixes
- Save/load error causing a small amount of progress to be lost fixed
- Encumbrance warning displays correctly in suitcase
- Objective panel now displays missions with more than 5 objectives without cropping info
- Prices now update as soon as a heal is purchased
- Sleep and reading effects only visible after page turn animation
- Stat effect lists in suitcase now scroll properly
- It is now always possible to sell weapons at pawnshops
- Pawnshop price calculation fixed
- All pawnshops now have a vendor icon
- Incorrect shadow strength fixed
- In endless mode, the final results screen will now show the correct score
- Various minor lateral scrolling issues fixed
- Letter writers now sleep in houses
- Attacking NPCs won't ask if you're ok
Update #5: Thugs and Lighting
Update 5 brings a new danger to the quieter corners of colonial India. Borrowed from the pages of history (and repurposed in modern parlance), Thugs are members of a secret society sworn to rob and kill defenseless travellers in service of their goddess Kali. Thankfully, the suffocating embrace of your colonial overlords comes with some perks. Notices about Thug activity will be at letter writers around India so you will hopefully be able to avoid them...unless you have other ideas. We’ve added a snazzy new map feature, which displays all the buildings in each town so you can better plan your journeys. We’ve also overhauled the lighting system and polished every light in the game so nighttime has never looked so pretty. Check out the changelist for all the details and let us know what you think in the forum!
Changelist v0.4.0 -> v0.5.0
New Stuff
- Groups of Thugs will spawn in certain levels after Kim sees letter writer’s notices
- A buildings map overlay is accessible via a new button in the map and hovering on buildings in the key will highlight only this type on the map
- New lighting system makes lights flicker and fade in and out like gas lamps and wood fires
- Characters that are patrolling or searching will now sporadically look left and right
- Characters will now insult Kim if they have a particularly low opinion of him (and he will give as good as he gets)
- New version of price panel for pawnshops
- Conversation choice mouseover effect added
Changes
- Weapon stats and prices updated to ensure more consistent weapon value
- Better selection of resolutions available
- Country stables link to 3 nearest towns not 2 nearest towns
- View cone asset, size, shape and trait effects updated
- Policeman’s and chai wallahs lights made more realistic
- Travel lines on map polished
- When the HUD is hidden, notifications trigger the HUD icon they are going into to appear
- Kim and the lama will enter stations from the correct side
- ‘Other’ category of opinion scoring updated to fluctuate less
- Various UI panels, icons and art assets polished
- Lots of conversations updated
Bug Fixes
- Price panel will not appear behind other panels
- Trait panels can now be closed during train conversations
- Opinion scoring categories will always match their character’s opinion of Kim
- Police huts at road ends will always spawn inside the level
- Building icons in levels update correctly when Kim is nearby
- Sleeping will always turn off stealth and combat mode
- Fleeing characters won’t disappear at edge of level
- Lama flashing and spawn location issues after Kulu Sahiba’s son mission fixed
- Travel effects no longer visible before travel
- Travellers will not spawn facing the wrong way on roads
- Effects of 0 will not appear in lists
Update #4: Improved User Interface
Welcome to Update 4! It’s focused on making Kim’s user interface both easier to use and more informative. Ever wondered what determines an item’s price? Now you can click on it to see its modifiers and understand when and where to get the best deals! We’ve also made other characters’ opinion of you more important, added more ways to affect this in conversations and created a new scoring category so if you want to misbehave, don’t let too many people see! Check out the changelist to see everything we’ve polished and fixed and let us know what you’d like to see in future updates in the forums or on Twitter or Facebook:
https://twitter.com/SecretGamesCo
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Secret-Games-Company/536686379736918
Changelist v0.3.0 -> v0.4.0
New Stuff
- Vendor prices are now displayed on a button, which opens the price panel listing all modifiers on that price
- Opinion scoring graph includes a new ‘Other’ category summing all opinion effects on other NPCs, this is included in total opinion and total score
- Begging system expanded to add potential downsides to begging and better consider and affect vendor opinion
- Notifications now animate into the HUD button where their information is stored
- 3 new portraits for Lockwood Kipling, Peachey Carnehan and Danny Dravot
- You can now click on things displayed in sliders to select them (or scroll to them if you prefer)
- Lateral sliders can now be scrolled with the mouse wheel
- Extra info added to sleep information when carrying a tent
- Context-sensitive text on all travel panels
Changes
- Lots of tweaking and polishing the UI to improve readability and make it neater
- 50+ conversations updated
- Chai wallahs now stay open later and have a light at night
- Sharper lines on map, merit graph and stats chart
- New mouseover and selection effects on merit and stat buttons in inventory
- Panel and button assets polished
- Travellers can now begin in the level
- Different resolutions available on the options panel
- Entering a random seed on the title screen now begins a new playthrough immediately
- Paying a doctor to heal you will always set your health to 100
- Tweaked art for Shalimar Gardens in Lahore
- Certain NPC behaviours tweaked
Bug Fixes
- Dissident and Backer conversations can now be opened
- Jeysalmir stable allows travel to Bikanir
- Train no longer appears pixelated when moving fast
- Fixed lag at end of quick tutorial
- ‘Do not show again’ checkbox will never start checked
- Map info panel appears over map not before it
- Lama will not walk on roof of country station
- Policeman’s lantern won’t illuminate rooves
- Animals won’t get on letter writer’s table
- Lama now always enters and exits Wonder House correctly
- Identical random seeds will always generate the same NPCs
- Small church collider in Simla fixed
- Fixed line on ground in Saharunpore
Update #3: Endless Mode
Update 3 brings lots of polish and some new content to improve the latter stages of your playthroughs. What's more, when Kim turns 18, you will now have the option to continue playing. Your score won't change anymore but you can finish anything you're in the middle of and perhaps discover some late-game secrets! We've also made significant balance changes to make decisions about how you travel more interesting and reduce how often you need to eat (food is also more expensive). Overall, we've aimed to keep the difficulty about the same, we'd welcome feedback on what you find challenging and in particular, if anything feels unfair - let us know in the forums!
Changelist v0.2.0 -> v0.3.0
New Stuff
- Option to continue your playthrough after Kim turns 18 (your score will no longer change)
- Lots of the longer and more complex missions have been improved including River of the Arrow, The Five Kings and The Vellum Ledger
- Injury artwork for Kim's portrait
- Esc will now exit panels and then open the main menu
Changes
- The lama automatically travels with you if he is in the level
- Travel effects updated and base travel durations slightly increased
- Sleep effects brought in line with new travel effects
- Food is more expensive and has a bigger effect
- Abandoned campfires, crates and barrels will always contain something
- A few important NPCs will remain awake at night
- Quicker boot sequence
- The lama tries to avoid combat
- Rivers will always have bridges
- Capped daily health and happiness score accrued while in prison or convalescing (Wellbeing leaderboard reset as a result)
- More effects added to traits
- Slightly longer train journeys now available
- Info panels will no longer appear over other panels
- Vendors moved closer to their shops
- Slightly fewer travellers on roads
- Various UI elements polished
- Lots of conversations updated
Bug Fixes
- Bug where you cannot find Hurree Babu in the mountains fixed
- Objectives will complete if Kim already has the relevant item
- Total weight of items now considers duplicates
- Traits affecting prices now modify them correctly
- Missions will always sort chronologically
- Chai wallah will now sometimes give chai when you beg
- Mouse wheel scrolls at correct speed
- Missing reward notifications fixed
- Broken characters in Victorian travel guide text fixed
- View cone traits now affect NPC view cone size
- Merit graph lines improved and now always up to date
- The lama won’t walk through buildings to get to the train
- Inaccurate town colliders fixed
- Speech bubble text will shrink to fit
Update #2: Combat Encounters
Our second update is live! Combat encounters are the biggest addition but there are a host of smaller changes to polish the game and fix bugs. We’ve been taking inspiration from your feedback, in particular one suggestion that the game needed more opportunities to acquire and use weapons. Combat encounters provide both but if you don’t want to participate in such earthly shenanigans, you won’t have to and what’s more, the lama will approve! We’ve designed the encounters to echo Kipling's accounts of the trials and tribulations of his countrymen so if you do want to get caught up in this sort of thing, remember that while the towns and the heartland of British India are relatively orderly, the hinterlands are less so!
Changelist v0.1.5 -> v0.2.0
New Stuff
- Combat encounters added
- Kim has a spinning Buddhist wheel icon after he has been still for a few seconds
- New shader, we switched from a cutout shader to a more standard fade shader to improve handling of alpha cutoff, which required updates to the cloud and shadow systems
- New Merit graph on Scores screen
Changes
- Clearer objective information in Kim's notebook
- Travel line on the map fades to show recent journeys
- Train stations have sensible exit points
- More bandits in remote regions
- No more Merit penalties for violence in self-defence
- More NPCs have the star icon
- Serais and Campsites have more entry points
- Kim's sprite does not grow as big
- Slightly more food in abandoned campfires
- Lama follows Kim less closely
- Many conversations updated
- Various UI panels polished
Bug Fixes
- Can no longer get stuck after missing the train
- Issues with train stations with 4 destinations fixed
- Stats correctly modified after collapsing and waking up elsewhere
- NPCs do the correct amount of damage with fists
- Keyboard commands not appearing in Info fixed
- Stealth correctly modifies NPC alert time when lock picking
- Melee attack particle effect fixed
- Now possible to delete final score
- Incorrect HUD buttons flashing fixed
- Horses in country stables get dark at night
- No more national warrants issued outside British India
- Sounds never audible on title screen
- Combat icons sort above NPCs and plants
- Combat and stealth modes turned off when time skips forward
- Partial reloading no longer saved
- Lama icon no longer under objective icon on map
- Topless British farmer now has a shirt
Update #1: Fixes and Feedback
Hello! First off, thank you to everyone who has played Kim and helped spread the word especially anyone who has shared their feedback, which has been really useful. This update includes some changes and features suggested by you! We've also fixed a lot of bugs and continued to polish the game. We didn't want to take on anything too major in this first update but there is a lot more to come! We'll be discussing our plans in the forum and on Twitter and Facebook so let us know what you think:
https://twitter.com/SecretGamesCo
https://www.facebook.com/SecretGamesCompany/
Changelist v0.0.1 -> v0.1.5
New Stuff
- Each type of temple has its own conversation
- Corpses now also contain the outfit that the NPC was wearing
- If you are good at a job you may be invited to work for a 2nd month
- Keyboard shortcuts added, details in main menu > info
- You can view your current score at any time in main menu > scores
- Three new tutorial panels after 1 day, 1 month and 1 year
- Combat animals now have view cones
- You can start a new playthrough from the title screen
Changes
- Effect of happiness on opinion reduced and can now be negative
- NPCs no longer think Kim is cute when he is young (used to increase opinion)
- Objective labels show deadlines
- Scores now show the real life date they were last updated
- Lama now shortsighted instead of honest
- Certain conversations can no longer be had with inappropriate NPCs
- Fewer travelers riding horses
- You are less hungry after the tutorial
- Some stations now connect with further away towns
- Some UI panels have been tidied up
- Some icons have been made sharper
Bug Fixes
- Bugs relating to recording software fixed
- Crashes relating to pathfinding and Kim's movement fixed
- Crash during delivery mission conversation fixed
- Freeze after rapid clicking during start-up fixed
- Opinion leaderboards now work and have been reset
- Happiness bottle now filled to correct height
- Bug with grocer on top of stable fixed
- Horses that don't animate fixed
- Cropped speech bubble text fixed
- Show button appearing in tutorial fixed
- Weird shadow in Ferozepore fixed
- Many and various text edits and typos fixed!
