Ello Otters!

The new patch for Matrix Hearts is in the ocean! This begins the animation refresh for the game, which includes increasing the quality and framerate of the animations starting in Chapter 3. There is a new animator coming with even more incredible skills, so we are going to be moving to better animations. I work on everything in this game aside from crazy programming like the gallery or the animations. I render them, but another otter goes in and uses my graphics to make the animation.

You can find a new animation with Layla once you come home from the arcade. I am going to keep rolling out these new animations over the next month, so if you have an update for the game, that's why! Anyway, there are quite a few updates for this patch.

+Layla's, Gemma's, and Xia's routes have now been fixed with the correct number of Hearts
+All achievements are now achievable
+Fixed a few variable triggers on the routes to ensure they won't cause any issues playing
+A few grammatical fixes
+Added the Chapter 3 music to the Otter Tunes
+You can now name your bird if you chose to be its master! You name it when you are with Rylee in Chapter 3

I had also planned to add Steam trading cards to this update, but Steam wants Trading Cards, Emoticons, and Backgrounds all completed before it is going to launch and the game needs Emoticons and more Backgrounds. I am working on those now!

The next update is a Major Update! It is going to be the in-game phone integration which you can play through in all chapters. You can text, browse the ZippyApp, and more! That is coming later next month-ish.

There is plenty more ocean coming, and it's going to be otterly-awesome. I hope you enjoy playing Matrix Hearts!

-The Otter Team