- Heart. Papers. Border. goes to sleep - 22 September 2022
Hey everyone, For a long time, I thought I can find a way to finish this game. But Heart. Papers. Border. is just too difficult for me to continue. Not just because I am alone in developing this, but because this project holds too much of my painful past. I simply cannot look at it in a way that gives me any hope of a good finish line. Whenever I open the work files, I remember all the hopes and dreams I once had for this game, and how they all dissipated into thin air. Heart. Papers. Border. was supposed to be a simple game. I wanted to make a nice little puzzle that poses some interesting questions while delighting you with some neat retro futuristic art. But for reasons I would rather forget, it ended up close to becoming a grand strategy game, where you must balance complex logistics in order to be able to experience everything the world of Heart has to offer. What was once supposed…
- Please don't buy me - a status update - 15 March 2022
Hey everyone! I want to give you all an update about this project, which is, it is not abandoned. Currently, this IP is transferred to my new company. I will eventually be able to fund its development. But until that is possible, I must focus on other projects, specifically Lost Sunday Comics, Treasures, Thoughts & Trinkets and Zestrea. I am very grateful to everyone who still hangs around and sometimes asks about an update. This is a project very close to my heart and really full of personal history, which is why the development is both extremely difficult and also crucial for me to finish. While I now have solid plans to continue the development for Heart. Papers. Border., I strongly advise against buying this game now. Thank you for your understanding! Laura
- Puzzle time! HPB now has them - and also, join our dev updates forum! - 12 October 2020
The puzzle thing is becoming reality! Its not exactly pretty right now, but It Works! Help us out - we find making this puzzle quite soothing. Is it just us? Are we suffering from creative blindness? Or is this new puzzle mechanic a little bit soothing for realz? You can try this right now if you access the dev branch - its not password protected: right click Heart. Papers. Border. in your library, and then go to Properties in Properties, go to the tab called BETAS here, you can select in_dev - Development Branch We also started a shiny new Topic on our Steam Discussion board, where we'll be posting a lot of tiny day to day updates and WIP glimpses. And we'll be spicing up our regular HPB Design Sesh with Broadcasts! If you don't have the time to try the new puzzle by yourself, we will stream on Thursdays in the afternoon. So come onboard on the HPB Community Hub and talk HBP design & d…
- HBP Design Sesh: Public Backlog & Dev Branch - 1 October 2020
Game development is quite dramatic. It ebbs and flows and breaks your heart a million times a day... sometimes. But the problem is - all the drama is in your head. To an outsider, it looks like this: On occasion, it may look like this: but in reality, it's usually like this: ...and it feels way too often like this: Now, we can't share memes all the time (or... can we?!...) but we CAN share some of the drama. Worry not, it will make little sense to most of you! :D The HBP Backlog Here is what we are working on, what we are going to work on, what we worked on and what we will probably never work on: We use Pivotal Tracker to keep our backlog, and making a project public is actually part of this tool's free suite - I guess they are hoping we'd convince you to use it, too (it's a really good agile project management tool, actually). The blue lines are releases and we use them to loosely def…
- HPB Design Sesh: changing Everything* while learning how to KISS!!! - 20 September 2020
Some of you have been buying this lill monster even though we warned you not to. We hope you won't get scared of it but instead join forces with us to turn it into a beautiful.... ehm. Butterfly?! Meanwhile - THANK YOU! It would help us a ton to know why you recently bought this little monster called Heart. Papers. Border. Was it the price tag, or was it more? Hold nothing back, tell us everything (no asterisk!) HERE. Learning how to KISS Now, let's start with the rule: Keep It Simple, Stupid! Aka KISS. Anyone who has every designed a game in earnest know that this is... Very Freakin' Difficult. Because you always want to make the best game possible, and the best idea always comes tomorrow. Today's ideas are rarely good enough. Nor is today's code, art, sound, you name it. This is what makes game developers artists. And what leads to the horror of all horrors, feature creep. There are a…
- HPB Design Sesh: A feature creep horror story & a Monster discount - 14 September 2020
Once upon a time, I wanted to Change The World (tm) with a game. This game. I was younger, stupid definitely more naive and a ton less experienced. This is why Heart. Papers. Border. mutated very fast from a cute little travel game As One Should Do For Her First Commercial Indie into a Grand Strategy horror fuficulator* with confusing SJW elements and a terrifying amount of systems and complexities. Warning! Here's a bunch of disturbing and really terrifying Unity screenshots: I am really sorry you had to see this. I do not know what was in my head. But back in 2018, a HPB country ended up having a geographical area, streets and vegetation, a bunch of objectives to visit And Also: a visa that must be bought, has a processing time and expires; a flag and a passport stamp; a cost of living - later, depending on the objective you were at, cause it wasn't enough; travel costs TO the country…
- HPB Design Sesh: Complete The Picture - 13 September 2020
In Heart. Papers. Border., you are a traveller set to experience everything planet Heart has to offer. As you travel from country to country and from landmark to landmark, you gather hashtags that you can use to write a blog about your travels. When I started designing Heart. Papers. Border., I wanted to make a cute little game that conveys the idea of travel and discovery. I do believe there is a correlation between the number of countries one takes the time to visit and understand at a more profound level, and that person's tolerance and love towards another. And this is a feeling I capture whenever I read or watch travel logs. No wonder digital nomadism is so popular nowadays. That's what I tried to capture with the blog feature - but its something very hard to design in fun abstract ways, and - fast forward to now - I thing the blog system is the worst gameplay feature in HPB. It ha…
- Lights on! We're back - Heart. Papers. Border. continues - 8 September 2020
It's been a while. If you are reading this, we owe you a great deal of gratitude. You held on to a tiny promise that we did not yet keep. We said "life happened" and you trusted us that we won't bury Heart. Papers. Border. That we'll eventually turn the lights back on. The life that happened involved the transformation of a twenty year old relationship. Heart. Papers. Border. is a game made by two people who used to be married when this project started. To a tiny extent, Heart. Papers. Border. played a part in a beautiful, peaceful, painful divorce. It took a while for us to heal. We're back as friends and creators. We think this healing might have led to the healing of Heart. Papers. Border., too. But you will be the judge of that! Here's what you're judging.... Some antidotes to a severe Heart. Papers. Border. feature creep Why do you travel? It's a general question, indeed, but when…
- It's been a long time coming - update 0.1.5.20841 - 27 October 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28266633%2F9436efd8097d4cd19db4a88dc2d785794fa1db41.png FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING! We added a Day/ Night cycle and it can be upsetting if you have problems with flashing lights. This is by default ON but you can turn it OFF in the Settings. It can be disturbing especially if you play the game on Fast Forward/ high speed. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F28266633%2Fcf539005fc6622eedf462cc597aa2ec11a71a052.png Hey everyone! It's been a long time since we updated Heart. Papers. Border.. So this update is pretty big, and I will probably forget to mention some of the stuff we have added. The game is, however, far from done. I look forward for your feedback! What is new All the countries for which we have graphics done are now available and can be visited once you finish the last quest in Sputnik Ci…
- Updates are coming (aka, this project is not abandoned) - 29 May 2018
Hey awesome people! We are still working on HPB. Slowly, because life happened in pretty extreme ways, but we have no intention to abandon this project. Those of you who have beta access might have noticed that we unlocked all countries. We do not have quests and encounters yet, but we plan to unlock whatever we do have and go from there. There are some fixes we need to do until we push this update to public. We appreciate your commitment very very much
- 100 stories of Heart. Papers. Border. - 2 March 2018
As we prepare to publish all the content that is graphically done in Heart. Papers. Border., we started to write the stories that inspired and motivated us to make this game. The first post is about planet Heart and its real life source of inspiration, Proxima Centauri b. Warning! These stories are major spoiler alerts! https://i0.wp.com/heartpapersborder.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/HPB_Map_1280x720.png Here is The World of Heart If you want to be the first to read these stories, please subscribe to our newsletter HERE
- 100 stories of Heart. Papers. Border. - 2 March 2018
As we prepare to publish all the content that is graphically done in Heart. Papers. Border., we started to write the stories that inspired and motivated us to make this game. The first post is about planet Heart and its real life source of inspiration, Proxima Centauri b. Warning! These stories are major spoiler alerts! https://i0.wp.com/heartpapersborder.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/HPB_Map_1280x720.png Here is The World of Heart If you want to be the first to read these stories, please subscribe to our newsletter HERE
- A Wild Update Appears! - 21 February 2018
Hey awesome people! We finally managed to push a new update, which we call Update 2.2! I am sorry it took so long - we are both working and struggling to pay all our dues. What is in the update? A consistent bunch of bug fixes and painfully mandatory refactoring that's always boring to read about. Suffice to say the game should move much better and faster now, so tell us if you do notice a difference New time control buttons and functionality which should be sleeker and prettier. Play and Play Faster are now combined Finally, filters for hashtags in the blog, which I hope are a good step towards a better blog UI. Filters explain what hashtags are, and they can also be used for sorting. This is just the beginning though, we will improve the blog much more! Finally, you can now easily remove used hashtags cause they have the requested X button now. If you remove a title, all tags are remo…
- A Wild Update Appears! - 21 February 2018
Hey awesome people! We finally managed to push a new update, which we call Update 2.2! I am sorry it took so long - we are both working and struggling to pay all our dues. What is in the update? A consistent bunch of bug fixes and painfully mandatory refactoring that's always boring to read about. Suffice to say the game should move much better and faster now, so tell us if you do notice a difference New time control buttons and functionality which should be sleeker and prettier. Play and Play Faster are now combined Finally, filters for hashtags in the blog, which I hope are a good step towards a better blog UI. Filters explain what hashtags are, and they can also be used for sorting. This is just the beginning though, we will improve the blog much more! Finally, you can now easily remove used hashtags cause they have the requested X button now. If you remove a title, all tags are remo…
- Updates on updates ^^ - 23 January 2018
Hello awesome people! Those of you with access to the dev branch might have noticed some new stuff: Time control buttons have a new face and new condensed functionality. We combined Play with Fast forward. They are not final yet, cause I need to reexport new backgrounds. You can now see how much time you spent on every objective, both in the info popup and in the SpacePad. This includes the travel hub as well You can even see how much time you spent in a country in total. This is in the Location app in the SpacePad In the Blog, all hashtags now have a handy X (remove) button so you can remove them from your post Removing the title hashtag automatically removes all other hashtags Of course, a bunch of bugs have been squashed. They are all virtual so no real bug was actually harmed during this development ^^ We want to add a bit more stuff before we push this update on the Release branch.…
- Updates on updates ^^ - 23 January 2018
Hello awesome people! Those of you with access to the dev branch might have noticed some new stuff: Time control buttons have a new face and new condensed functionality. We combined Play with Fast forward. They are not final yet, cause I need to reexport new backgrounds. You can now see how much time you spent on every objective, both in the info popup and in the SpacePad. This includes the travel hub as well You can even see how much time you spent in a country in total. This is in the Location app in the SpacePad In the Blog, all hashtags now have a handy X (remove) button so you can remove them from your post Removing the title hashtag automatically removes all other hashtags Of course, a bunch of bugs have been squashed. They are all virtual so no real bug was actually harmed during this development ^^ We want to add a bit more stuff before we push this update on the Release branch.…
- Updates are coming! - 15 January 2018
Hello awesome people! We had a very difficult time in our personal lives which slowed down the development of Heart. Papers. Border. dramatically. We know this is no excuse and we are very sorry for this long period of silence. We are however as committed as ever to this project and we are now able to pick up more speed with development. So we are planning 2 updates, a minor one and a major one as follows: MINOR UPDATE new, proper and pretty time control buttons as well as combined Play/ Pause functionality some important quests will now be awarded as soon as you reach the needed destination hashtags used in a blog post will now have CLOSE buttons so you can easily remove them a bunch of bugs will be fixed The ETA is as soon as possible, we aim to push this update next week. MAJOR UPDATE we aim to import all the graphical content we have ready in the game. This means about 10 more count…
- Updates are coming! - 15 January 2018
Hello awesome people! We had a very difficult time in our personal lives which slowed down the development of Heart. Papers. Border. dramatically. We know this is no excuse and we are very sorry for this long period of silence. We are however as committed as ever to this project and we are now able to pick up more speed with development. So we are planning 2 updates, a minor one and a major one as follows: MINOR UPDATE new, proper and pretty time control buttons as well as combined Play/ Pause functionality some important quests will now be awarded as soon as you reach the needed destination hashtags used in a blog post will now have CLOSE buttons so you can easily remove them a bunch of bugs will be fixed The ETA is as soon as possible, we aim to push this update next week. MAJOR UPDATE we aim to import all the graphical content we have ready in the game. This means about 10 more count…
- HPB Major update now up! - 19 November 2017
Hello awesome people! You might have noticed that we pushed a major update on Friday. It contains a completely refactored time and travel system, and it also reintroduces the Pause and Fast Forward controls. We also sped up the duration of a day, and we hope this will make the gameplay much better - what do you think? Updates: Overhaul of the travelling system - now you can travel from objective to objective Travel Hub - each country has a travel hub that acts as a normal objective, however it is the only place that allows you to travel abroad. This is something we need to somehow show in the UI and it is not obvious right now - On It! Pause/ Fast Forward/ Normal time buttons are back You can use now buttons to stop/normalize/accelerate time Visiting Objectives no longer has a set visit duration. You can spend as much time as you want in an objective and the more time you spend, the mor…
- HPB Major update now up! - 19 November 2017
Hello awesome people! You might have noticed that we pushed a major update on Friday. It contains a completely refactored time and travel system, and it also reintroduces the Pause and Fast Forward controls. We also sped up the duration of a day, and we hope this will make the gameplay much better - what do you think? Updates: Overhaul of the travelling system - now you can travel from objective to objective Travel Hub - each country has a travel hub that acts as a normal objective, however it is the only place that allows you to travel abroad. This is something we need to somehow show in the UI and it is not obvious right now - On It! Pause/ Fast Forward/ Normal time buttons are back You can use now buttons to stop/normalize/accelerate time Visiting Objectives no longer has a set visit duration. You can spend as much time as you want in an objective and the more time you spend, the mor…
