Hello, No Umbrellas players! How have you been coping with the hot summer(Cold Winter, otherwise)? Despite the heat, we are thrilled to bring you news about our new game.
Our team has been developing a new game, Forest Heroes, for the last several months. Forest Heroes combines tower defense with roguelike deck-building mechanics, featuring simpler and clearer gameplay than our previous titles. In this game, you will become an elf, protecting a forest suddenly cursed and corrupted. Your mission is to gather animal allies and fight against the spoiled plants to save the forest.
While this may sound a bit dark, both ally and enemy characters are depicted in a cute, cartoon style, making the overall game atmosphere delightful and charming.
The game is scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter of this year, but a demo will be available later today. For those who enjoyed No Umbrellas Allowed, we believe Forest Heroes will offer another layer of fun, so we hope you’ll give it a try.
Golden Record Retriever is a dice building game that tells the story of a golden retriever who must collect golden records while traveling through space. With this game, we wanted to combine the fun of deck-building games, where you recruit colleagues to win big and small battles, with the unique storytelling style of Hoochoo.
We developed and released our first game, No Umbrella Allowed, and learned many valuable lessons from you. Over the past 3 years, I think the studio has grown to make better games with your feedbacks and helpful opinions. By introducing through this community hub, we'd like to ask for your help once again.
We're also looking for crowdfunders through Tumblbug to get feedback before the official release of Golden Record Retriever. You can access the page through this link, but it's a Korean website and the page is written in Korean and international payments/shipping are not supported. So sorry about this :(
In addition, our studio will participate in PlayX4 which will be held at KINTEX in Ilsan from tomorrow! If possible, I would really appreciate it if you could come and play the new game and share your opinion with us directly.
Thank you always!
1.1.2 Hotfix Notes
- 1.1.2 Hotfix Notes
❗ Fixed text overlapping issues which used to occur while some of the retrospecting cutscenes are being played.
❗ Fixed freezing characters during conversations on the streets.
🐛 Also, fixed some cases where items are not registered for an auction.
1.1.0 Hotfix Notes
- 1.1.0 Hotfix Notes
❗ Fixed some cases where some of the achievements were not properly activated.
❗ Fixed the error that didn't unlock new products in the hair shop AJIK HAIR, the clothing shop NICE T.
🐛 Edited/Simplified some parts of the texts in ending scenes which used to overflow the screen and go unseen. It doesn't imply substantive changes in stories.
1.1.0 - Bug Fixes, English Language Script Rework
Hoochoo Game Studios brings you version 1.1.0 release notes. To get more details, please check the list down below.
- Release Notes
🐛 Fixed some cases where character parts did not load properly, sometimes soft-locking the game.
🐛 Fixed offering price to a customer in the background while managing the display case.
🐛 Fixed challenge mode leaderboard not showing some records properly for Steam
🐛 Fixed getting stuck on save select screen when there aren’t any save files
🐛 Fixed getting stuck in weekly nightmare cutscenes
🛠️ Minor performance optimizations
Meanwhile, the following are including what may have been fixed.
🐛 Fixed getting stuck on some tutorials
🐛 Fixed bought items sometimes not coming into the inventory
🐛 Fixed getting stuck on elevators when using the hoverboard
Also as announced, there has been a rework of the English language script of the game. And we’re so pleased to finally get our global players a better version of the script!
To celebrate and promote the rework, we will be commencing a 20% discount event for the game. It starts this Saturday(March 5th) at 12 am PDT and will last for 2 weeks. Please be sure to not miss it!
Meet Our Improved English Script With A Discount
Hello from Hoochoo Game Studios to our dear players around the world!
This must be our first hi to you since the new year has begun. During the last few months, the studio has been fixing multiple problematic spots in the game found and thankfully reported by our players.
So, a medium-size update is on its way, and with the upcoming update, we’re announcing a discount event to promote a rework of the English language version of No Umbrellas Allowed.
After its release, the game has been enjoyed by numerous global players, but there have also been requests for refining its English script. And finally, yes, the new English language version of the game will soon arrive and we’d like to celebrate and promote this rework with as many global players as possible.
The discount period will start this coming Saturday(Mar 5th) at 12 am PDT, which is going to be right after the patch release, and last for two weeks. We’re so excited (actually quivering, to be honest,) to finally provide a better version of the script. With it, we’re really looking forward to the players fully enjoying the whole story and the details of the game.
We’ll be back soon with a new patch, so stick around and please take care until then!
1.0.6 - Halloween Contents, Bug Fixes
Hoochoo Game Studios brings you 1.0.6 release notes.
In this update, we've added some Halloween decorations and also focused on bug fixes and gameplay improvements.
In future updates, we promise to improve the English translation of the game and also to add more supported languages.
❗ macOS minimum system requirements is now version 10.13 instead of 10.12. If needed, please update your operating system.
🐛 1.0.7 Hotfix - Fixed cases where the customer thinks the player hid a card on the private slot when none was hidden.
- Release Notes
New Features
✨ Happy Halloween! Decorations have been placed all over Ajik City. You can also select "Dracula" for Hue's appearance.
✨ Missed the dialogue? No worries now! We've added a log you can browse to check back what the customer was saying.
✨ You can now collect all the game endings! In the past, only major game endings, excluding minor endings and game overs, were collectible.
Improvements
🎨 Improved some parts of the tutorial for a more detailed explanation.
🎨 To prevent players from getting stuck by spending too much money on their first day before the tutorial, players will be given their start money once they enter the store on day 1.
🎨 Fixed some wrong item properties.
🎨 Added a new path for players concerning the blackmailer, who may this time be "not so certain".
🎨 Some street-view graphic layer orders have been fixed.
🐛 Fixed the invisible calendar button being able to be clicked in the street view.
🐛 Fixed the calendar not showing the overlay properly.
Known Issues
❗ We're working on an English translation overhaul. Please stay tuned!
❗ We're working on cases where the mouse disappears during the game. This may have been fixed by this update, but we're keeping our eyes on this issue.
❗ We're working on cases where players can get stuck in the flower shop in the challenge mode. This may have been fixed by this update, but we're keeping our eyes on this issue.
⚠️ Checking on graphic glitches in the street view
⚠️ Trying to fix cases where the player can fall of the elevator
⚠️ Working on a case where the bonus extra slot for the auction is not being applied correctly.
⚠️ Some UI elements in the tutorial are not fully translated.
1.0.3 Hotfix Notes
- 1.0.3 Hotfix Notes
❗ Fixed some cases where endings could not be collected or viewed in the gallery.
❗Fixed possible game freeze in certain situations during purchase event for the .
🐛 Fixed player clothes not showing properly after viewing the game ending.
🎨 Added more help for players having difficulty getting through the Wooden Sculpture purchase event.
⚠️ Trying to fix cases where the mouse cursor goes missing.
⚠️ We're looking into cases where the "inventory" tutorial doesn't recognize the player opening the inventory properly.
⚠️ We're looking into cases where after each Friday's nightmare, the game does not save and continue but go back to the main menu.
1.0.2 Hotfix Notes
1.0.2 Hotfix Notes
❗ Fixed the game freezing, and dialogue becoming invisible in challenge mode when attempting to manage the display case just as the player is about to teleport to the other stores.
❗ Fixed some statistical data for the 'Notable Facts' not being recorded correctly.
🐛 Challenge mode - fixed an invisible event playing in the background with the customer's mouth synced to the hidden dialogue.
🐛 Fixed characters mixing up their lines in a certain event during day 4.
🐛 Fixed some street props' sprite layer order.
🐙 Purchased street-ridable hoverboard can be toggled with the hotkey 'H'. However, this is not very clear in-game, making it seem like the hoverboard was gone forever. A better guidance will be added in the future.
🎨 Changed the default spawn state to riding the hoverboard (if the player had purchased it.)
⚠️ We're looking into cases where the player's chosen outfit does not load properly.
⚠️ We're looking into cases where after each Friday's nightmare, the game does not save and continue but go back to the main menu.
⚠️ Trying to fix cases where the mouse cursor goes missing.
⚠️ We're looking into cases where the "inventory" tutorial doesn't recognize the player opening the inventory properly.
⚠️ Will be fixed in the next patch: not being able to collect endings after viewing the gallery or when collecting multiple endings in one game run.
1.0.1 Hotfix Notes
❗ Fixed the game freezing in certain cases where a certain type of customer nags the player.
🐛 Removed a misplaced street character.
⚠️ We're looking into cases where the game can freeze in challenge mode while using any of the available stores.
