- Hardland Demo is live! - 20 May 2020
https://i.imgur.com/aI1079z.png This demo is a modernized version of the test build that was available to Early Access players. It takes place in the northern realm of Snow Peak with a mid-game player character. The adventurer has arrived at the abbey in Snow Peak after getting rid of the Forgotten Folk that had the castle and the surrounding city in a lockdown. Word of the good deeds has reached Queen Ingrid quickly, and she is now expecting our hero in court. If you've been on the fence about the game, or have wondered whether it will be compatible with your setup, the demo is a good way to find out. There is also a 35% discount on the game until the end of the week. Welcome to Hardland, adventurers!
- Lore Illustration - 20 May 2020
https://i.imgur.com/U3QWzw3.png The Negotiation "An ambassador from Tuskland sinks into a generous chair. An imp pours wine. They speak alone, candles holding the nighttime back. A toast: to a brighter tomorrow, and renewed alliances! Inside the ambassador's cup, the wine would shimmer green in better light." While we are working on the demo version for Hardland, I thought it would be interesting to show you this illustration I finished last weekend. It's based on one of my favorite passages in the game. I like it a lot because, despite the almost comical difference in the proportions of the two characters, both the imp and the mertusk are very much on equal footing in terms of influence and significance. The concept of size is a theme across the entire game: the player and the fox. That same design language of big and small is echoed throughout the game: player kind of becomes the fox…
- Halloween Update - 25 October 2019
https://i.imgur.com/fcFODkx.png This update is all about the pumpkins for the Halloween. These guys are on display in a house located in one of the more grim places in Hardland. Where might it be? Happy Halloween in advance you all! https://store.steampowered.com/app/321980/Hardland/ Detailed Patch Notes Includes this update and previous two smaller patches. - The Halloween House. - The Elven Lord storyline extended. - 1 new achievement for a gruesome quest. - An hourglass icon and better messaging in the loading screen. - Automatic save game cache file re-creation when loading the world file fails. - The state of windowed/fullscreen is now remembered across runs when changing it with Alt-Enter. - Domovoi damage animation playback fixed. - Fixed a bug where User.cfg was not loaded from a correct location. - Fixed a bug where pressing "I" next to a stump, outhouse, cauldron, etc. would f…
- Clan Cartwright Update - 11 October 2019
https://i.imgur.com/jfirC2U.png Why would anyone want to steal the Cartwright Gold? This update integrates the new location, Cartwright Shrine, to the game world along with all four contest winners. Congratulations once more to Pino, Zebogo, The Fiery One, and Petalwing! Another major change in this version is a bug fix to seeing just the black screen at startup. If you were one of the players impacted by this, please make sure to download this update. The bug surfaced if your user account didn't have a permission to write to the folder where the game was installed. The game couldn't create the files it needed, and failed to boot properly. Hardland now plays nicely with Windows permissions by writing to folders where you are guaranteed to always be able to write, but it also means your save games will no longer be located inside the game folder. They will be residing under a special fol…
- Hardland is a deeply weird world made entirely of unmarked quests - 8 October 2019
This is not a review of fantasy RPG Hardland , because I played for a few hours and, as far as I can remember, I only completed one quest. And it is all down to my deeply fallible memory, because the game doesn t provide any direction to its players, up to and including a log or any kind of notes. Instead, I m going to try to tell you whether or not that works, which is a big mmmmmaybe? (more…)
- Bounty Hunter Update - 7 October 2019
https://i.imgur.com/XziUFJ4.png Illustration of the new Bounty Hunter character. He is called Glorious Emmanuel, and this guy is your best bet for gaining access into Root Hall in case you've accidentally locked yourself out of that location by eating too many Great Hearts. Detailed Patch Notes - Added the Bounty Hunter storyline. He also sells Great Hearts. - Added three new text-based dreams. - Added clues to point out that killing goblins isn't always desirable. - Renamed Wilhelm's Graveyard to Lonely Glen. Extensive set dressing for that location. - Blunderbusses picked up from Ghoul Merchants stack correctly with the regular blunderbusses in the inventory. - Maude's Graveyard renamed to Ingamoder's Graveyard so it's not leading players to the wrong spot. Added a sign for Maude's Graveyard. - Fixed a bug where the Secret Hatches all lead to the same cellar, and also always take you…
- Patch Notes For the Last Two Updates - 29 September 2019
https://i.imgur.com/lQpykLn.png Concept art for a potential DLC location. The ability to fast-forward text-based dreams was a much-requested feature that has now been implemented. We also pushed out a patch that adds playing instructions under "How To Play" in the main menu, talking a little bit about what players should expect from the game. This is visible for anyone who hasn't yet completed the game. Additionally, dialogue has been clarified and tweaked in several sections of the game to make both the quests, as well as the dialogue itself flow better. Chandler decided to write a small new questline for the goblin disguise. https://i.imgur.com/cwxHFIv.png If you haven't yet seen Chandler's other work, I wholeheartedly recommend heading over to Castle / Princess / Dragon and checking it out. Detailed Patch Notes - "How To Play" in the main menu. - Dreams show the left mouse button ico…
- Achievements are available! - 23 September 2019
https://i.imgur.com/uNYj9Ft.png The latest patch is now live. It adds support for 30 Steam achievements. Should work even for older saves. So if you load a game in which you have fulfilled the requirements for a specific achievement it should unlock the achievements accordingly. PS. Cartwright Clan Shrine competition is still ongoing! There's been 2 correct answers so far by users Pino and Zebogo. Two verses remain unanswered so you still have a chance to win and get your name in Hardland! The competition post can be found by scrolling down or clicking this link: https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791436569549/announcements/detail/1575620709897618877
- The Clan Cartwright competition - 22 September 2019
https://i.imgur.com/SBxGoCA.png The names in the statues of the Clan Cartwright nobility are worn off. In whose honor were these statues made? Time to find out! https://i.imgur.com/rhN6wmP.png One of these might be you! The competition rules are simple. There are four dreams with missing verses: 1. Dream I "You dream about woods." "About moving deeper into an ancient forest." "About drinking gold from a horn, and building bridges" "that nobody can cross without the lightest feet." - Correct answer provided by Zebogo. 2. Dream II "Snow roars across a frozen battlefield." "Corpses lie outside high city walls." "In the storm, a monstrous creature stalks." - Correct answer provided by The Fiery One. 3. Dream III "Your teeth decay." "Your skin bloats on your bones." "You turn in your sleep, and you turn underground," "disturbing the worms that coil in your coffin."- Correct answer provided b…
- Upcoming feature: Achievements - 21 September 2019
Many of you have been requesting achievements so we're in the process of implementing that as the next feature. It will be available in the next patch! https://i.imgur.com/BOZ3Lgr.png Btw. anyone tried the new Steam library beta yet? It looks pretty neat, especially the way the trading cards and achievements are integrated to the library view. - Timo
- Hardland is out now! - 18 September 2019
https://i.imgur.com/J2WaHKB.png Today is the day. After over six years of development Hardland is ready. I'll let that sink in, because I haven't fully internalized it myself! My sincere thanks to everyone who supported us through Early Access; Hardland exists because of you. The people on the forum deserve a special thanks, because Hardland is immensely better because of you. At the end of the day, we are a tiny indie team who got a lot of help from people in the front lines to find the land mines, the flow issues, and anything that needed attention. Being able to rely on that has been massive. Thank you. People have been asking what other game Hardland resembles. The most accurate thing would be to say it's a modern Quest for Glory. The Quest for Glory series, for those unfamiliar with it, is an adventure game series by Sierra from the 1990s with role-playing elements sprinkled on top…
- Hardland is coming out within an hour! - 17 September 2019
https://i.imgur.com/nqUkiiu.gif And a list of the final tweaks that we did. CHANGELIST Improved the game flow in the beginning to make player's goal more clear. New relic. New book item. Compass / minimap can be acquired more easily in the beginning. Reorganized quest and note items so the new items fit into the grid. Bonfire close to Mrs Dunyazad. Intro weather refined. Snow area audio balance tweaked. Consistent use of Hardland logo in the menu. You need just one click to load a game on a mouse. Barry's Field area has prettier sunflower fields. Levitating items are not taken by the Death Dealer. They are preserved on save game migration. Fixed bugs in the gamepad interface where it wouldn't be correctly displayed if the player died or went through a door into a new world. Fixed a bug where migrating a save game not set the time of day and its advancement correctly. Fixed a bug where t…
- Hardland's Release Date: September 17 - 14 September 2019
September 17. Mark the day on your calendars. That's when Hardland will be officially released, and also all of you who have been watching the development, but haven't been able to purchase the game, will be able to finally jump in! You can watch the release trailer below: Kimmo
- Release date and trailer will be revealed tomorrow! - 12 September 2019
https://i.imgur.com/jQgvYqo.png Meanwhile, here's the changelist for several smaller updates that we've released since the last announcement post: CHANGELIST Added five new place names to the map: Fisherman's House, Goblin Tavern, The Broken Horn, Mountain Sheep and Queen's Tower. "Jump stamina cost" decreased from 30 -> 10. "No stamina jump speed" increased from 4.6 -> 7.0. InteractionCamera's head bone location is calculated more accurately, it targets the lower third of heads so faces should fit better to the camera. Changed the names of important doors to give a bit more guidance about the building type or location of the door. Player always drops items forward, not in world space position. Ghoul Merchant corpses can contain ghoul brains. Death Dealer can be attacked and it can hit player. Merchants can sells torches. Cart02_Static added. Barry's Field entrances aligned exactly to g…
- Release Candidate is live for all Early Access players! - 20 August 2019
https://i.imgur.com/OKpdBkA.png With this new Release Candidate, you no longer need to switch to a branch to play the full version. This version is available for every Early Access player by default. We'll be fixing small things here and there up until the official release date, but at this point the game is fully playable from the beginning to end. There are over 10 different endings in the game, though, so if you happen to stumble across something we have overlooked, just let us know on the forum. HIGHLIGHTED CHANGES https://i.imgur.com/oUAssNj.png https://i.imgur.com/QXd64Pe.png The intro has new areas and an additional layer of polish. https://i.imgur.com/KPBmu3J.png 5 benches and cinematic camera angles at the Port of Palms. https://i.imgur.com/0hBEYFY.png All house connections in the desert and snow biomes are functional. https://i.imgur.com/rSrZghj.png Catodon Sands polish: more…
- Release Candidate Hotfix #2 - 15 August 2019
A bug uncovered is a bug fixed. https://i.imgur.com/BMawwky.png Added missing interactions and cameras for two Town of Fortuna benches. https://i.imgur.com/G6x4TuB.gif Added a missing interaction and camera for the Barry's Field bench. https://i.imgur.com/fjs0pbY.png Wolf riding tweaks. HOW TO PLAY THE RELEASE CANDIDATE Go to your Steam Library. Right click on Hardland, and go to Properties, then Betas. Enter the beta access code WhereTheFoxIs, hit check code, and select full_beta from the drop-down list. That's it! Steam will download the release candidate for you. OTHER CHANGES Fixed a bug where "Press E to stand up." couldn't be seen when sitting on the benches. Allow menu entries to be selected while its still fading in (for a smoother user experience). Don't show the menu entry selected with the gamepad when using the mouse. Fixed a bug where the pause menu would work incorrectly o…
- Release Candidate Hotfix - 14 August 2019
Lo and behold, new issues were uncovered, and the Release Candidate has now been updated with new improvements and bug fixes. NEW DAMAGE EFFECTS https://i.imgur.com/IwxMEzt.gif They're done for the Goblin Minions, Goblin Healers, Goblin Bombers, Goblin Captains, Goblin Archers, Goblin Brutes, Goblin Kings and Wild Boars. Inspired by old PC classic Severance: Blade of Darkness. Anyone remember that game? SUPERSAMPLING https://i.imgur.com/adRWKiw.gif Allow supersampling up to 1.6x with the Render Resolution slider. HOW TO PLAY THE RELEASE CANDIDATE Go to your Steam Library. Right click on Hardland, and go to Properties, then Betas. Enter the beta access code WhereTheFoxIs, hit check code, and select full_beta from the drop-down list. That's it! Steam will download the release candidate for you. OTHER CHANGES Default gamepad sensitivity lowered to 80%. Fixed a bug where button textures wer…
- Hardland Release Candidate - 10 August 2019
FULL CONTROLLER SUPPORT https://i.imgur.com/wgdiMic.gif Xbox One and PS4 icons included. This is another very large update, as you may be able to tell by the size of the scroll bar on this page. This update is also different in that it is the first Release Candidate. What it means is we don't have anything on our task list that would prevent us from launching with this version of the game. However, since there only two of us, and a lot more you, you will probably run into a problem that we didn't see, so this update is unlikely to be the very last one, but it is certainly the last big one. This Release Candidate is available right now for you all who are subscribed to the branch "full_beta". Once everyone is sufficiently happy that there isn't anything terrible going on, probably not before uploading a few patches, we'll turn the Release Candidate on for all players by default. Now we j…
- Full controller support coming up! - 20 June 2019
https://i.imgur.com/wuWdsRi.gif The icon layout changes automatically when you start playing with the gamepad. Alright, good news for you all who have been putting off playing the game because its gamepad support is lacking: the next release will remedy that. It's a big, sweeping update that touches most of the UI, and we need to do just a few more things to call it done, but I wanted to give you a quick sneak peek into it all right now. https://i.imgur.com/pEeVJ3w.png The inventory has received an overall facelift. https://i.imgur.com/x2IOJNJ.png 300 icons needed to be partially redone. Timo separated the items from their backgrounds which allows for all kinds of small visual tricks to make the inventory more readable. Here's the current list of other features and fixes coming up in what will be the Beta Iteration 7: Dynamic weather. Armor gets regenerated. Sleeping recovers stamina. S…
- Hardland Beta Iteration 6 - 27 May 2019
https://i.imgur.com/MqcvN4n.gif Beta (May 28, 2019) is here. The update is pretty extensive: it includes a long list of fixes and improvements. The game has been updated to 64 bits, because it was starting to run out of memory for many people. Is anyone playing on a Radeon, by the way? Is the game working alright for you guys? CHANGES: Two new locations. (See the extreme spoilers section for more info) Generated Merchants walk the wilderness roads, three three unique Northern Guards, unique Elder Guardian and unique Wood Elf. "Fearful" Wolves next to Snow Peak roads that evade patrolling guards. New location to make the game flow clearer. (details in the extreme spoiler section) Sound effects for all player equipped weapons. Weapon trail height automatically calculated from weapon height. Added weapon trails for all weapon. Use stamina cost defined for all weapons (does not yet affect i…
