The Void Rains Upon Her Heart
v8.9c
Two game crashes were found, and I don't like letting any known crashes live for too long, so I moved this update up by a week. I'm aiming for July 19th for a proper version 8.10.
v8.9c - July 6th, 2024
-2 new Power Gifts (Total: 219)
-5 new Bonus Gifts (Total: 66)
-3 new Blessings (Total: 122)
-Improved the performance of the change log screen which was starting to lag from the sheer weight of all the text
-Bug Fix: The game would crash in Scrambla or Boiler's events if you had one of the newest blessing or burden gifts active
-Bug Fix: The game would crash if you inspect a quick gift you just used under specific conditions
v8.9b
v8.9b - June 28th, 2024
-Made several changes for optimizing how graphics are drawn. This may improve performance in battles with certain backgrounds.
-Bug Fix: The first tutorial scene showed old text markers that were removed from the game
-Bug Fix: There was a memory leak when the game was paused potentially crashing the game after many hours of pausing
I'm aiming for another update on July 12th, but if it ends up being only gifts again, then so be it.
Thanks for playing!
Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #85
Blessings and Burdens
A problem that I've run into a few times is the limited amount of space in the text box that holds all the gift effects. (This is not about the card itself, but the big box with more descriptions you can find in the collection and various other places.) This is especially a problem with many of the burdens that have all sorts of unique and longer to explain effects. It got even worse when it was brought to my attention that some words are just WAY longer in other languages! So, I finally made that text box scrollable!
This was really REALLY hard to do, and I had to make it work in several different menus that all function a little differently, so I didn't have time to finish a bigger piece of content this time. But these are the rare times where I can actually focus on a batch of new gifts. I have 17 new Blessings and Burdens for you! The blessings are related to the main 3 shot types that didn't have enough gifts dedicated to them in The Towers mode before.
All the new burdens have relatively low stake effects, and they must be unlocked first. It might seem strange to want to unlock burdens, but I'll only do this with weak effects that you'd probably prefer over most of the other ones. There won't be too many more of these, and the total amount of burdens will end up lower than the total blessings.
Early Access updated game version to v8.9
Content Added
- 12 new Blessings (Total: 119)
- 5 new Burdens (Total: 112)
Updates and tweaks
- When checking a gift's detailed effects list, it is now possible to scroll through the text if it does not fit on one page. This took a really long time to do, so you have to find a gift like this and scroll through all the text while complimenting it!
- Added more details to several gift descriptions that didn't have enough room to show more details before
Bug Fixes
- Bug Fix: After a battle, the particles created by your heart would continue to spawn off-screen potentially crashing the game if you stay on the result screen for a few hours
I'll skip the "upcoming list" section since nothing on it was finished this time. I do want to finish a few more gifts that I have planned, so I'm going to drop as many as I can in 1 week on June 28th!
Thank you for playing!
ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː
v8.8a
-Adjusted score earned from certain parts of the new monster and score medal goals
-Bug Fix: Increased the chance of encountering the new monster compared to others of the same type, if you have not yet completed her story dream
-Bug Fix: breaking parts of the new monster too quickly could block some treasure bullets from spawning
Cardiac Event Recorder - Update #84
New Monster
I often think about how there are certain monsters that only a tiny fraction of players will ever see. Most players will never go far enough into the unlocking chain to reach this new battle. But part of the whole appeal for me is to make it feel like the unlocks are endless and unique. Even though making a game be truly endless is not actually possible, I am proud of just how long you can keep going while finding new and unique designs. Even though only a small fraction of you will ever see it, it was worth all those hours of work on this battle just for the few of you that find it!
Early Access updated game version to v8.8
Content Added
- 1 new monster to find! (Total: 103)
- 2 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 712)
Updates and tweaks
- Event: Hadesoh now reacts to a certain burden
- Event: Changed Prisma's comment on trading quick gifts
- Snowball can now use the ice bullet web attack at level 7
- Trinity can no longer have a challenge to absorb bullets with panics
- Using Rest, Nap, or Snooze in a family tower will now shuffle the order of monster choices
- All menu prompts now use the smallest font to save space
Bug Fixes
- None
Upcoming Stuff
10 more bosses coming up in this order
- The Orange Heart
- The Purple Heart
- The Special Heart
- A Common Veyeral
- Shamble Tower Boss
- Guardian Tower Boss
- Glyph Tower Boss
- Zaramech Tower Boss
- Glass Flora Tower Boss
- Veyeral Tower Boss
13 events left to go
- Sandrome
- Voladrome
- Shanx
- Dendrohai
- Lavalin
- Chionotoh
- Ventra
- Dot
- Storm Veyeral
- Molten Veyeral
- The New Common Veyeral
- An exclusive tower mode event
- An exclusive endless stress event
I think I can finally return to my regular 3 week update cycle. Next update will be on June 21st!
Thank you for playing!
ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː
v8.7e
-Improved the transitions of the new alternate music intros into the main tracks
-Bug Fix: Attempting to access the Language menu anywhere other than the title screen would softlock the game
-Bug Fix: In a Lv3 battle with Nova, Emerald's return had a longer than intended delay before attacking
v8.7d
For now, if you would like to try the Russian language, or if you would like to attempt a different translation, you will have to look in the game's official discord. (The link is in a pinned forum post) Although, it should be noted that Japanese, Chinese, and any other language that will require a different font is not yet supported, but soon.
The other big thing in this patch is that most battle songs have a new alternative starting point. If you hear a song again in the same run, it will have a new intro that leads to some point in the middle of the song! Probably some parts you didn't get to hear often before! Each song will alternate intros every time you hear it within the same run.
v8.7d - May 9th, 2024
-Added support for custom language translation files
-1 New song for Kiwi's event
-Added several new characters and wave layouts to Kiwi's event
-In Kiwi's event, slightly lowered enemy HP in later waves and made several other balance adjustments
-In Kiwi's event, you will now reach maximum mood after 9 battles instead of 8
-In every mode except Quickplay, most battle songs will start from a new intro point if they are heard multiple times in the same run
-Adjusted the rates of removing Burning and Poisoned Health so that they are easier to clear
-Bug Fix: Certain HUD elements were offset incorrectly if you had a burden that hides your health bar
-Bug Fix: The setting for Lower Quality mode did not save
-Bug Fix: In Dandy's battle, breaking a glyph on the same frame that it creates a beam would cause the beam to stay for the rest of the battle
-Bug Fix: It was possible for Dual Prisma to hit you with a beam during their first faked glitch movement
-Bug Fix: While paused, entering the check monster dreams menu would potentially softlock the game if you had low frame rates
Now that my other work on Keylocker is (mostly) done, I can set a date for v8.8 on May 24th!
Please wishlist it if it looks like something you would like to play! I made all the menus and minigames for it!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325040/Keylocker__Turn_Based_Cyberpunk_Action/
v8.7c
When I'm confident that nothing has been broken (or after I fix anything that was broken), I will merge the beta branch back to the main branch automatically and you won't have to do anything. If you want to help me out, just join the beta and play like normal. If any crashes do happen just post the log message that should pop up on the screen.
v8.7c Beta - April 1st, 2024
-Added an option to disable the border in windowed mode
-You can now resize the window in multiples of x0.5 of the main resolution
-Adjusted some foolish names (Shiny Snowball and Citrine) for next year, or now if you use the famous secret code
-Fixed some typos and made a small adjustment to Bonding Time event text for the translators
-Bug Fix: The game would crash on the title screen if you pressed an extra button after inputting the secret code correctly
v8.7b
-Bug Fix: Heartbreaking on the same frame that you create a magnet helper would crash the game
-Bug Fix: Active gifts with exactly 3 remaining duration would appear as unradiated in Boiler's event
-Bug Fix: Panic Challenge counters did not appear in the right place if you had a burden that hides your health bar
-Bug Fix: Sacrificing Panics or Half Health to Abyss could give her more power than her limit
v8.7a
-Added an option to make your bullets transparent
-Added an option to force low quality mode if your device needs help improving frame rate
-Bug Fix: HP values shown in Kiwi's event could be fractional and missing a decimal point, appearing like a huge number
-Bug Fix: Forgot to advance the backup save files to version 8.7
-Bug Fix: One of Default's worm forms did not have damage flash on the head segment
-Bug Fix: On the rare chance that you get both Indecisive and Dissociation burden effects, the charge attack type would not cycle