This is our non-announcement of our next game! In other words, we are announcing that we are working on a game, but we aren’t revealing it (yet)… It’s more of a promise of things to come… in the future. Or far future, depending on your attention span. Actually, it’s more of a “we’re not dead, promise!”-kind of announcement, but I digress.
Project B is a game that we have been working on since August this year and plan to have reasonably playable in time for next year’s IGF. That’s highly unreliable information though, but we’re aiming to have it done by March 5, 2011, which would be exactly three years after the release of Harvest: Massive Encounter (and Kinten’s birthday!). Project B’s development is realized by thewreck who does most of the work (and is paid pocket money from our Harvest savings). We others try to help when-ever we have spare time… which is too little *sad*
Anyway, we are not showing anything from the game just yet! We will leak tiny bits of information during the development of the game, but beyond that we will keep this “strictly offline.” That means that we will show you the game, but the game will never leave our own computers. You will have to meet us in person to see anything.
LavaSoft has created a site for selling their AdAware anti-virus/anti-spyware/anti-rootkit system bundled together with a bunch of different indie games, and Harvest: Massive Encounter is one of them!
We’ve also changed the price if you buy the game on our site too, because Steam is not available for Mac OS X yet, and we don’t want you to feel left out. Also, a new year calls for a new high-score table, so the stats have been cleared (we made a backup first, of course). During 2008, 46 340 games have been reported, and who knows how many games that have been played in total? I can’t wait to see what 2009 brings!
It’s time for another “Harvest: Massive Encounter” update. The new version is numbered 1.14, and is a non-crucial patch that adds mod support to the Creative Mode. We have started a whole new section on the forums related to Harvest modding, head over there now and check out all the mods that are being made! The forum section also contains all the necessary information needed to get started with making your own mod. For example, check out How To Create Mods or How To Create Custom Graphics to get you going. All mods are open source and easily changeable in any text editing tool.
The patch contains the following mods:
Emulate Normal Mode: A mod that works just like the Normal Mode.
Emulate Rush Mode: A mod that works just like Rush Mode.
Emulate Wave Mode: A mod that works just like Wave Mode.
Starhawk: A mod that allows the player to send in a small fighter jet with custom graphics by entering “starhawk” in the input field that appears after pressing Enter ingame.
Super Gun: A mod that allows the player to upgrade defense towers into bullet spewing super guns! These guns don’t require energy, but instead eat credits when they need to refill ammo.
Infinite Credits: A mod that gives the player infinite credits.
Here’s the Mac OS X updater for registered users (2.6 MB). Open the dmg and run the patcher, then simply drag and drop the Harvest application on to the patcher’s window.
The Windows update is available here (1.3 MB). This patcher requires a previous installation of Harvest, simply use the same application folder when you run it.
Only a week until the release of Harvest: Massive Encounter! We are very excited! The game will be released for Mac OS X and Windows, and launch with support for at least 6 languages (English, Swedish, Portuguese, German, French and Korean). If you plan to buy the game, you better hurry up to get the pre-order discount! We will have this option available up to this Sunday (March 2).
Its a good new year, and what better way to start it off with than with a brand new homepage! Hooray!
As you can see, we decided to go for a more lively (read: living) front page than before. Our games are still what its all about, and thats why you can peek into the world of each game by hovering your mouse over the menu.
Out with static front pages and in with life and development! From now on you will be getting updates, news and sneak peaks straight from this page! If you want to make sure not to miss anything you can get our RSS Feed or sign up to our newsletter at the bottom of the page!
Don´t forget to visit our forum where our community is chatting away like crazy about how to beat the crap out of Harvest: Massive Encounter! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, make sure to download the open beta and try it out!
(Not) Announcing “Project B”
LavaSoft has created a site for selling their AdAware anti-virus/anti-spyware/anti-rootkit system bundled together with a bunch of different indie games, and Harvest: Massive Encounter is one of them!
