Progress on Pivot of Hearts is slow but steady, we are on our way to finish three out of four chapters.
However, we also did several improvements to the game as a whole and we think the demo deserves some love as well. As such, this patch backports these improvements for all of you to enjoy while playing our free demo ;)
Here are the main changes:
Added
Experimental lip-flapping support (only in one place for now - can you find it?)
More Wén sprite expressions
Bárbara's sillouette when she send voice messages in first scene (see gif above!)
Expression variations to Artist Ana's sprites
Cool SFX now play when characters speak
Changed
Assets and scene scripts are now packaged for reduced build size
Make most text pauses in Chapter 1 end automatically after a delay
Bárbara's tarot tutorial options become hidden after you choose them
Tutorial order can be chosen by player
Transition animations changed to real dates instead of "Week X"
Frames for card animations replaced with smaller resolution to load faster
Fixed
Some sprites with graphical issues
Dozens of typos and other minor mistakes
"Indícios" BGM not looping as it should
All clocks and time references
Crashes on flashback scene
Going back from drop-down menu wrongly taking you to pause menu
Missing translations for suit tooltips
Pivot of Hearts Next Fest Livestream
Pivot of Hearts will be participating in Next Fest! Join us in a livestream of our demo on June 15th, at 4pm Pacific Time!
Livestream test!
We are testing the livestream feature!
Brazilian-Portuguese patch available!
This is the much awaited Brazilian-Portuguese patch for the Pivot of Hearts demo! You can now play the entire demo in the same language the characters of the story speak ;)
There are also some internal improvements that shouldn't change the usual gameplay experience, but that make our lives much easier! XD
Demo patch 0.7.0
Here's the first patch for the demo of Pivot of Hearts, version 0.7.0!!
The highlights among the changes are:
New cursor
New animations when characters win or lose love points!
Fixes to keyboard and gamepad UI navigation
Fix crash when seeing a phone chat during auto mode
And a few other minor corrections here and there =)
We would like to thank everyone who sent us feedback and bug reports! If you haven't played the demo yet, now is a great time to try out this enhanced version!
The next patches should include even more quality-of-life upgrades and a Brazilian Portuguese localization!
Pivot of Hearts Demo is now LIVE!
PIVOT OF HEARTS DEMO IS LIVE TODAY!!! 💖💖💖
Dragonroll Studio's Valentine's Day gift to you is a demo of our first game! Check out this non-monogamous Visual Novel that's overflowing with love 💓
Also, tomorrow (2/15) we'll be streaming (in Portuguese) with our wonderful mentor Flávia Gasi, at 9:30 PM BRT (GMT-3)! Follow us on social media to stay tuned. We'll play Pivot of Hearts, draw some chibis, have some cake (?!); Join us, it's gonna be awesome!
