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Ever thought of porting your game to consoles?

I have, and I want to some day! It's a bit of effort because of the networking code, getting access to devkits, testing, and so on, but when things wind down a bit I might have more time to take it seriously.

Are you guys still working on this game ?

Hi! I consider this finished, with further content updates really being on hiatus. At some point I’m going to clean up Android and try to fix more bugs, but other than maybe some new maps I don’t have much else I want to add. (This is a solo project and I have limited time/discipline to work on this, so it moves very slowly, I apologize.)

Ranged tree preview

I haven’t shown off new stuff (outside discord) in a while!

Here are a few of the skills available in the Ranged skill tree. Snipe has long range and deals huge damage, but with a very limited vertical range and some recoil. Grenade Toss lets you lob a grenade which slows and damages enemies over time. Lastly, Rocketlauncher fires a rocket towards the closest enemy. It’s detonation point has a fairly large range, but it takes some time to reach the target.

#pixel-art #indie #platformer #rpg

It’s a-live!

Click this hot little link right now!

I'm pleased to report that Heroes of Umbra is now live and available for purchase on Steam TODAY! This project has been in-progress since late 2012 (!!) and it wouldn't have seen the light of day without your interest and support. I'm excited to share it and begin to plant the seeds of a small community. The game does not need to be played multiplayer, but as a reminder, we're hosting a few games on the discord server if you're looking for people to play with. There's also a Getting Started Wiki (Also available as a Steam guide) for your convenience. If you run into any issues, have any feedback, or just want to chat, please do not hesitate to email [email protected] or tweet @zexyu.

Here is another link just in case you haven’t clicked yet

#release #indie #gamedev #nojoke #finallyreleasedsomething

when u max crit and aspd

June 1st

...Or six short weeks until Heroes of Umbra will be on steam.

The store page was recently approved and I’m so excited to move things along. This has been long, long overdue and I attribute the gray hairs I’m growing to this project, but I passionately believe this will be a good move for the game. I know 2D platformer/rpgs are a dime-a-dozen but my primary goal is to share this project with anyone who might be interested and build a closely-knit community around the game.

I’ll be keeping my hands full the next few weeks polishing the project, fleshing out the community pages, contributing more content, and attempting to find a small audience. If you have any questions or concerns please send me a message. Thanks for your support.💜

#update

This game is really great, I'm already enjoying it so far! Is there any future for this game though? I know how multiplayer works but I can't connect with other players. Will there be a new way to connect easily with players? I'm not seeing alot...

This is actually something I’ve thought about a lot!

From a programming side, connecting through steam should make playing with friends substantially easier. If there is demand in the future I’m also not opposed to building a service like terraria-servers.com (although because HoU is not open-ended I don’t see that being as useful). As a third option I can host servers for others to connect to, but that won’t solve the players issue.

Beyond that I think doing my best to build a strong community and building out content on the wiki, steam community hub, and subreddit I hope to also connect players.

This may be a dumb idea, but I've always wanted to make a game before. I was wondering if you could start like a tutorial series of how it all works. I have experience programming, but in terms of game development I have no idea where to even start.

Not a dumb idea, but it’s something I’ve always wanted to do. If you haven’t already, check the frequently asked questions. This is my first real experience doing something from the ground-up:

http://heroesofumbra.com/post/59122150461/frequently-asked-questions

Hello! I really love your game I've been playing it for 2 years now. May I just ask, when are you going to release the game on steam? And when it's released, will it have an steam invite functionality (like in terraria where you don't need to setup an external server you just need to invite your friend through steam)?

I’ve just finished stats/achievements and I’m working thru steam networking now. It will be very similar to terraria where you invite users to games through the steam invite flow. No need for a dedicated server. Thanks for suggesting this; I actually did some research as a result and I think it’s something the game needs for steam.

請問有中文的版本嗎?

Chinese translations are planned! I’m currently facing an issue where languages with lots of characters (Chinese and Japanese) aren’t playing nicely when converting to bitmap fonts with libgdx’s freetype font generator extension. Characters often get omitted. (If anyone has any experience with this please send me a message!)

I like this game a lot! Thanks for the Linux and Android versions too! However, I have a few problems: 1) The bug tracker is bugged I get an access denied error page 2) the game crashes (won't start) on macos.. looks like it's missing libraries.

I think the version is pretty old but I’ll be sure to get macos working. Thanks for reminding me -- I need to find a new bug tracker. Much to my dismay, I’m currently using a spreadsheet.

Hey! I was curious what the source code was you put into this game, I was wanting to personalize some stuff on it, but the code is a bunch of encrypted characters so I can't really alter it, if you could show me, I'd really appreciate it, and would absolutely have a lot of fun with it :D

The source is currently unavailable, but depending on the ask I could try to get it implemented myself. Or if you’re a learner I can share with you how I programmed specific things.

I want to help you with translation on russian language.

Please email me (dragonheartman at gmail dot com)! I’d love to get the game available in Russian.

Various Heroes of Umbra screenshots

#screenshots #gamedev

Stuff I’ve done since last year

Sorry I haven’t posted much recently!! This is still getting some love in my spare time though.

New party-oriented skill tree (TBA)

Lots of new maps. Some secret ones that will be tough to find, but reward you with neat little treasures.

Localization support! If you are interested in translating the game please contact me.

Proper controller support

Lots of tweaking to monsters, items, stat growth, etc

Plenty of new equips

Expandable inventory space

Architecture in purgatory looks less phallic.

Lots of polish: More particle effects, screen shaking, and so on.

More monsters

Bugfixes

????

I’ll have more details soon. Thanks for reading.

#updates

Do you guys plan on releasing a full version of this game for money? I would love to see this on steam and would easily pay 25$ for a game like this.

Yes! I haven’t formally announced it but I’d like to put it on steam if there is enough interest. I haven’t settled on a price point but it’ll be much less than $25. :)

Hi, love the game but now whenever I press play on the home screen it crashes the app. It happened earlier today too and I fixed it by clearing all the data on the game and restarting. However it has happened again and I have got too far to consider starting again. I have tried rebooting my phone, force stopping the app, deleting other apps to make sure there is enough storage space and removing it from recent apps. I domt knoe what to do, please help, I really like this game.

Hey! So sorry to hear that. I think your save file got corrupted. If you have a rooted phone by chance, you might be able to find the save files on the device’s internal storage. My personal device is actually not rooted so I can’t recall the directory, but the files are all named player1.dat, items1.dat, etc. If you happen to find those files I might be able to fix your issue.

These issues unfortunately do happen but if you play on desktop I can also get you hooked up with a save file that’s close to where you were before. Let me know, and thank you for playing my project!Edit: I also put a note to fix this issue in the future. Hopefully I can save backup files and roll back if an issue like this is encountered.

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