Desktop Tuesday, Combat Campaigns!
Hi everyone. Alpha 9 development is in full swing. This week I give you guys a sneak peek on a huge upgrade to our AI Gamemaster, with Combat Campaigns. These are designed to give a more meaningful,...
View ArticleStonehearth latest branch updated to develop-2193
Just a quick note that we’re continuing to shake out bugs in the 64-bit version of the game. This latest round includes a fix for the out-of-memory error many of you were seeing, along with other...
View ArticleTom has the plague, no stream tonight
Ok, saying the plague may be overstating it a bit, but I’m a bit under the weather. No stream tonight, but I should be right as rain in a few days. So the stream will resume next Tuesday at the usual...
View ArticleDesktop Tuesday, Combat Tuning!
Hi everyone. This week’s video takes a sneak peek at the work we’re doing to toughen up the goblins. Right now the goblins are pretty much cannon fodder, and only a threat in great numbers. With the...
View ArticleDesktop Tuesday, Introducing the Stonehearth Community Roadmap Board
Hi everyone. Big announcement for this Tuesday’s update, in lieu of a video. Feature development in the game is coming along nicely, and we’re getting a lot of feedback from you about where you’d like...
View ArticleHere Come the Goblins! Steam Latest Branch Updated to develop-2283
Hi, We’ve started the official release train for Alpha 9, with an update to the steam latest branch. That means we’re feature complete for Alpha 9. Once we shake out the major bugs, we’ll release it to...
View ArticleSteam Latest Branch Updated to Build develop-2291
We continue to fix bugs and polish the Alpha 9 release. We are tentatively planning to release Alpha 9 around the middle of March. For now, here are the latest changes in the test branch. Build...
View ArticleDesktop Tuesday, Combat Update Part 2
Hi everyone. This week the Alpha 9 bug squashing fest continues. There are two big new systems in this Alpha (combat campaigns and a new music manager), which has prolonged the process a bit, but...
View ArticleSteam latest branch updated to develop-2307
We’ve updated the steam latest branch with a new Alpha 9 release candidate, for real this time. Lots of save/load bug fixes in this one, along with more tuning of the goblin campaign. In particular,...
View ArticleOne more update for today, develop-2310
We’ve just updated the steam latest branch with two crash fixes. Fix a crash on game startup for Intel GPUs Fix a crash on load. Carry on…
View ArticleSteam latest branch updated to release-206
We’re in the home stretch for the Alpha 9 release. We’ve updated the steam branch with a flurry of bug fixes. Most notably, your soldiers will now attack and open the goblin camp chest. Use the new...
View ArticleLatest Branch Updated with Potential Frame-rate Fix
Hi. Some of you are reporting greatly reduced frame-rate issues in the Alpha 9 unstable builds. We think this may be an issue with GPU acceleration in our embedded browser. We’ve pushed a new build,...
View ArticleA9 Bug-fix-palooza. Stonehearth latest branch updated to release-223
Hi everyone. Thanks for your continued testing and reporting of issues in Alpha 9 release candidate builds. Alpha 9 has a lot of under-the-covers changes: a new renderer, the 64-bit build, and new tech...
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Desktop Tuesday, Alpha 9 Title screen speed paint
Hi. The Alpha 9 bug-fixing continues. Thanks for all your bug reports. For this week’s video, here’s a speed paint of our new title screen, featuring the goblins! We’ll get Alpha 9 out to all of you as...
View ArticleProgress! Stonehearth latest Branch Updated to release-240
Great news! We have finally nailed a major cause of the “workers get randomly stuck” bug. Our latest build greatly reduces that problem, if not out-right eliminating it. Thank you everyone who provided...
View ArticleAlpha 9 Release Candidate, release-256, Updloaded to Steam latest Branch
Hi all. Over the past week we’ve added quite a few performance and stability fixes. Things aren’t perfect, but they’re good enough for us to consider releasing Alpha 9 and continuing with feature...
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Desktop Tuesday, CSI at the Scene of an AI Bug
So as you many know, we’ve spent the last two weeks or so focusing on bug fixing and performance work in advance of Alpha 9′s release. For this week’s dev update, I thought I would do a little...
View ArticleStonehearth Alpha 9 Released!
Hi everyone. Alpha 9 is officially out the door, and man this one was a big one! Humble Bundle users, you can download the new build from your My Library page at http://humblebundle.com. This release...
View ArticleDesktop Tuesday, Multistory Buildings!
Hey everyone. By far the #1 voted feature on our Trello Roadmap is support for multistory buildings. Well wait no more! Actually you’ll have to wait until Alpha 10, but the next version of Stonehearth...
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Announcing Really Incredible New “HOBA” Stonehearth Game Mode
Hi everyone. On this very special day, I’d like to take the wraps on something we’ve been working on behind the scenes for quite a while. I think it’s best to just show you, so without further ado,...
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