The Beat: A Glam Noir Game Steam news

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• Review score64% positive
• Total reviews11
• Release dateAug 23, 2022
• DeveloperUp Multimedia
• PublisherUp Multimedia

Genres: Indie

Company pages: Developer: Up MultimediaPublisher: Up Multimedia

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The Beat: A Glam Noir Game Steam news

The Beat: A Glam Noir Game news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

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• A Big Risk for The Beat - 3 December 2025

  I'm taking a big risk with this release of The Beat and I'm hoping you'll come with me.Over the last two years I have rewritten the game code from scratch and today I am ready to share it!This new version is better in some ways, just some of the improvements include:better user interfacegame no longer needs an internet connectiongamepad and keyboard remappingmassively simplified codebase for future updatesBut it is a case of ten steps forward, five steps backwards.Some features such as Brofinder are missing from the new version. In fact, the new version is extremely "no frills" and lacks a lot of polish (such as tutorials and shortcuts between calendars and messages). This is the risk: At the moment the game is fairly inscrutable. It's not at my usual standard of "pick up and play". I think people will not like the game in its current form. But on balance I had to act.So, how did we get…

• The Beat streaming event - 18 September 2023

  As part of Melbourne International Games Week we join the developers of The Beat in a rare play-through and/or post-mortem of the classic Noir indie game, The Beat.

• Update notes for 6 April 2023 - 5 April 2023

  The Beat v1.1.1 - TheVoice edition add: Voice over narration (for day one only -- we're trying it out) add: disable interactive on some characters when they are not part of the script to reduce player confusion when script starts to play change: tutorial now occurs in stages change: you can no longer cancel an appointment when it is about to happen next fix: the warning about outstanding events is now separate from caption system, solves intermittent issue with interactives getting stuck fix: don't warn when Ash is revealed that Leo is not revealed fix: Ash won't send an empty message to Leo when they first meet

• Updates Notes for 22 March 2023 - 22 March 2023

  v1.1.0 - "Daniel's Birthday" edition add: warn player when there is no internet connection add: new script "Out In The Open": Jackson can be present when Dylan tries to kiss you (thanks Joe Yun) add: new script "Sharing Spit". Anthony can be present and paranoid when Dylan tries to kiss you change: update engine (Godot 3.5 to 3.5.2) change: add link to oscarwildecard to title screen change: boost contrast and brightness 10% by default change: script clash info is presented in a more human readable way fix: "Protest Too Much": Jackson goes to the beat afterwards instead of Dylan

• Now on Mac - 23 October 2022

  The Beat, our game about a closeted detective investigating a murder in the gay community, is now available on Mac OS X, including M1 and M2 machines. If you own the game on Steam, the Mac version should be automatically available for free. Enjoy!

• Update notes for Glam Noir: The Beat - v1.0.2 - "Queen" - 26 September 2022

  Fix resolve clash between work solo and work default scripts (20) resolve clash between bar solo and bar default scripts (9) resolve clash between beach solo and beach default scripts (8) replace broken tooltip on settings menu replace broken tooltip on title screen (will go live in v1.0.3) Change updated from godot 3.4.5 to 3.5.0 Add new script when coworker and wife are both at beach at same time (4) new script when coworker and wife are both at laundrette at same time (4) add tooltip to clothing editor app add mini-tutorial to opening scene

• Update Notes 24 Aug #3 - 24 August 2022

  fix: follow up issue where light bulb csv was not included with build and causing an error on windows. Now the missing files have been added.

• Update Notes for 24 August #2 - 24 August 2022

  fix: on Friday evening a similar issue can occur with the video texture as the previous update.

• Update Notes for 24 August - 24 August 2022

  fix: video texture was trying to load before scene loads in At First Sight scene and this caused a crash in the windows build. Now the texture waits for the scene to load.

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