Hello everyone, We would like to let you know that the sci-fi story-driven 4X strategy The Pegasus Expedition has just left Early Access! [previewyoutube=NKqW3jrau0I;full][/previewyoutube] During the first week after the full launch, it will be 15% off, so get your hands on it as soon as possible. There is also a deal running where you can get The Pegasus Expedition in a bundle with Space Rangers HD: A War Apart. This bundle is discounted by another 10% and that counts even if you already own one of the included games. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/33272/ If you want to know more about The Pegasus Expedition, check out its Steam page, watch the official release trailer or join the Discord where you can chat directly with the developers! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1521070/The_Pegasus_Expedition/
Hello everyone! This week, we celebrate the beauty of one of the most terrifying and scary genres ever created - puzzles! Let's be honest, we've all encountered a puzzle in our lives that we were not able to solve and it still haunts us to this day. Not today though! Today, we are going to face the puzzles and beat them all. Steam's Puzzle Fest brings discounts to tons of puzzle games across the whole platform, BLACKHOLE included, meaning you can get the game for 80% off until May 1st. So get to it and let us know how long did it take for you to beat it! Share your results and tag our social media accounts. Have fun! https://store.steampowered.com/app/322680/BLACKHOLE/
Greetings everyone! We are so happy to announce that the Fulqrum Publisher Sale just started and Blackhole is a part of it with an amazing discount! ALL of Fulqrum Publishing's games are discounted by up to 90% for an entire week! The sale ends on October 27. Besides, we have just launched a brand new game into Early Access, that being The Pegasus Expedition. If you have not checked it out yet, now is the perfect time! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1521070/The_Pegasus_Expedition/ Enjoy the sale, buy as many games as possible while they're discounted, play The Pegasus Expedition and don't forget to follow us on our Social Media so you never miss any important info!
Dear Endera agents,
It has been a while since we talked about new stuff in our development team. Since BLACKHOLE, we strive to create better games, trying to outdo ourselves. Therefore, we are proud to present our newest project to you: MATCHO.
Matcho is a unique action-adventure match-3 shooter that plays like no other FPS game you've ever experienced.
Start your new epic journey with Max and his friends as he tackles a mysterious alien invasion that could lead to curing his illness and saving the Earth.
Fight in action-packed arenas like never before and explore intricate areas all that with breathtaking visuals and an insane arsenal of abilities, including the freedom of parkour movement.
[previewyoutube=PGL4q5VYnP8;full][/previewyoutube]
It's Match-3 FPS - a unique combination of genres that merges frenetic shooting with quick decision-making. Explore story-driven chapters as you choose destiny for Max, his friends, and the rest of the world.
Also, we hope that you will be surprised since MATCHO's story is happening in the shared universe with BLACKHOLE.
- Intense and clever tactical fighting built around the match-3 shooter concept.
- Dazzling visuals powered by Unreal Engine.
- A non-linear, humor-packed plot with multiple endings.
- An extensive, built-in parkour system lets you wall-run, double-jump, float, and dash in any direction.
- A modern take on clever puzzle design and the platforming experience.
- Spectacular combo chains to launch, execute, and enjoy.
- A cast of colorful characters with full English voiceovers.
- Accessibility settings for colorblindness and difficulty curve.
As a part of the Czech and Slovak Games Week sale event taking place between 15. - 22. November, you can now grab the game at a great price with 80% off!
Get your copy now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/322680/BLACKHOLE/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/322700/BLACKHOLE_Testing_Laboratory/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/445920/BLACKHOLE_Original_Soundtrack/
Hello crew members, we are back with another update! We prepared a special event that is going to take place from 11th September to 18th September - The Coffee Cup!
During this week we are going to run a special season of Challenge Vault, our game mode that can now also be played for free! In this mode, players can play a new level every day and compete with each other by trying to finish it as fast as possible. To join the event, all you have to do is to get the BLACKHOLE demo version on Steam for free and start playing Challenge Vault. The existing owners of full version can also join, no matter whether they are playing on PC, Mac or Linux.
Besides enabling the Challenge Vault in the demo version, we also updated the singleplayer demo levels, so in case you don’t own the full game yet, you can experience a selection of 6 levels from the main campaign!
We are also going to be streaming our playthough of the game with developer commentary and we might attempt to beat some of the leaderboard times, too! You can watch the stream and check out our schedule on our Twitch channel.
Thanks!
-The Endera Crew
Yesterday we announced the console version of BLACKHOLE. We wanted to announce it so many months ago, but unfortunately, the process of publishing the console version is harder than we thought. Anyway, a lot of you are asking us how's the work on BLACKHOLE: Last Mission going.
Last Mission, of course, is still in our plan. Unfortunately, some complications occurred in the financing itself. We believe that now, after the release of the console version, we will be able to pay for the last missing voiceovers and finish the last screens and systems that are necessary for the release.
Although we've never announced the date of release, it is fair to say that the game will be out before the end of this year.
In the meantime, if you want to help us promote the console version of BLACKHOLE, please join our Nouncy program! Just connect your Facebook / Twitter with this site and specify what you want to post on your social media when we hit the release date. You're going to be a part of our super-power marketing team! At the time of writing this status, we've got social reach of 8500, which is amazing! Thanks to all of you!
So let's recap:
- the release of the console version is on August 8th, 2017
- there's not a scheduled box version yet, but we're discussing it
- Blackhole: Last Mission release date and information will come soon after the release of console version.
Thank you for your patience. We're trying to do our best.
Yesterday we announced the console version of BLACKHOLE. We wanted to announce it so many months ago, but unfortunately, the process of publishing the console version is harder than we thought. Anyway, a lot of you are asking us how's the work on BLACKHOLE: Last Mission going.
Last Mission, of course, is still in our plan. Unfortunately, some complications occurred in the financing itself. We believe that now, after the release of the console version, we will be able to pay for the last missing voiceovers and finish the last screens and systems that are necessary for the release.
Although we've never announced the date of release, it is fair to say that the game will be out before the end of this year.
In the meantime, if you want to help us promote the console version of BLACKHOLE, please join our Nouncy program! Just connect your Facebook / Twitter with this site and specify what you want to post on your social media when we hit the release date. You're going to be a part of our super-power marketing team! At the time of writing this status, we've got social reach of 8500, which is amazing! Thanks to all of you!
So let's recap:
- the release of the console version is on August 8th, 2017
- there's not a scheduled box version yet, but we're discussing it
- Blackhole: Last Mission release date and information will come soon after the release of console version.
Thank you for your patience. We're trying to do our best.
Dear Endera Agents,
The newest patch is now available for everyone using Windows, MacOS and Linux. This new update is focused on stability and performance issues instead of adding new features. We have revamped a lot of internal systems to create a smoother gameplay experience. It has been a really long and ongoing process over the last whole year (unbelievable).
Besides fixing the smaller bugs, we deactivated uploading your previous progress on Challenge Vault server. From now on you can't upload your older times and you have to achieve them again in order to get them uploaded. The previous solution had been fair until the newcomers started to be affected by ghost-players, who weren't playing BLACKHOLE but just started the game recently. The times for LEVEL 10 and SOE LEVEL 1 are purged for every player as the replays and times unfortunately got corrupted by this update.
We tried to avoid this purge as much as we could, but unfortunately the changes made in our game recently unabled us to solve this in another way.
We hope you all will enjoy our improvements. You can find the changelog below.
1.9 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- Fixed more than 300 small bugs
- 2015 profile upload to Challenge Vault server deactivated
- Fixed the blocker when skipping the main menu during the start of the game
- New function in leaderboards - skip on top / bottom
- New "Director's Cut" dialogue lines
- Fixed spacing in subtitles for all languages
- Fixed minor mistakes in all languages
- We removed all "inappropriate language" from the dialogues in respect of rating
- Fixed Challenge Vault functionality for Vanilla Levels
- Xinput & Direct Input Controllers are now supported on MacOS
- Added Direct Input Controllers functionality for DualShock 4 Controller to options menu
- (FIX) Fixed names of achievements
- (FIX) New asynchronous save system
- (FIX) New asynchronous loading system
- (FIX) Fixed players' names in leaderboards
- (FIX) Fixed bug causing that controller's vibration function continues indefinitely
- (FIX) Fixed achievement for "Spilled coffee" which was granted everytime even if the player didn't spill the coffee
- (NEW) Added the information to the profile about the game completion in percantage (%)
- (NEW) Added functionality which will copy your original profile when entering into Easy Mode - that way, you can switch back later without losing your progress
- (NEW) Now instead of text representation, you will see actual icons on selected controller in options menu
- There aren't any issues right now. If you know about some bug which affected your gameplay, please tell us here: Discussion forum
What's next?
We finished the console version of BLACKHOLE last week. And since we are waiting for its release, we can finally move to our planned spin-off. We announced BLACKHOLE: Last Mission in the Czech Republic, but very soon we will have more information in English, too. Stay tuned! You can check the website of the game for more information.
We want to thank you for all of your reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hearing how you'll like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Also, we have released a troubleshoot article to help you solve various problems with the game. Feel free to check it out here! :) Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio :auriel:
Dear Endera Agents,
The newest patch is now available for everyone using Windows, MacOS and Linux. This new update is focused on stability and performance issues instead of adding new features. We have revamped a lot of internal systems to create a smoother gameplay experience. It has been a really long and ongoing process over the last whole year (unbelievable).
Besides fixing the smaller bugs, we deactivated uploading your previous progress on Challenge Vault server. From now on you can't upload your older times and you have to achieve them again in order to get them uploaded. The previous solution had been fair until the newcomers started to be affected by ghost-players, who weren't playing BLACKHOLE but just started the game recently. The times for LEVEL 10 and SOE LEVEL 1 are purged for every player as the replays and times unfortunately got corrupted by this update.
We tried to avoid this purge as much as we could, but unfortunately the changes made in our game recently unabled us to solve this in another way.
We hope you all will enjoy our improvements. You can find the changelog below.
1.9 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- Fixed more than 300 small bugs
- 2015 profile upload to Challenge Vault server deactivated
- Fixed the blocker when skipping the main menu during the start of the game
- New function in leaderboards - skip on top / bottom
- New "Director's Cut" dialogue lines
- Fixed spacing in subtitles for all languages
- Fixed minor mistakes in all languages
- We removed all "inappropriate language" from the dialogues in respect of rating
- Fixed Challenge Vault functionality for Vanilla Levels
- Xinput & Direct Input Controllers are now supported on MacOS
- Added Direct Input Controllers functionality for DualShock 4 Controller to options menu
- (FIX) Fixed names of achievements
- (FIX) New asynchronous save system
- (FIX) New asynchronous loading system
- (FIX) Fixed players' names in leaderboards
- (FIX) Fixed bug causing that controller's vibration function continues indefinitely
- (FIX) Fixed achievement for "Spilled coffee" which was granted everytime even if the player didn't spill the coffee
- (NEW) Added the information to the profile about the game completion in percantage (%)
- (NEW) Added functionality which will copy your original profile when entering into Easy Mode - that way, you can switch back later without losing your progress
- (NEW) Now instead of text representation, you will see actual icons on selected controller in options menu
- There aren't any issues right now. If you know about some bug which affected your gameplay, please tell us here: Discussion forum
What's next?
We finished the console version of BLACKHOLE last week. And since we are waiting for its release, we can finally move to our planned spin-off. We announced BLACKHOLE: Last Mission in the Czech Republic, but very soon we will have more information in English, too. Stay tuned! You can check the website of the game for more information.
We want to thank you for all of your reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hearing how you'll like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Also, we have released a troubleshoot article to help you solve various problems with the game. Feel free to check it out here! :) Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio ːaurielː
We have prepared a special list of a few interesting features and options that BLACKHOLE offers and you may have not known about them before.
- Collectors Edition - extra content
- DLCs and bonus levels
- Leaderboards and replay system
- In-game tools and statistics
- Increasing FPS for better performance
- Using controllers
- You dont have to collect all selfburns
Collectors Edition - Extra Bonus Content
In case you have bought BLACKHOLE: Collectors Edition, you can check out some of the extras that come with the game. The bonus content includes things such as the digital artbook, soundtrack in MP3 and FLAC, wallpapers and the original prototype of the game! You can find these files in the folder with game content (install folder of the game). It is probably something like:
steamapps\common\BLACKHOLE\COLLECTORS CONTENT folder, and the soundtrack is located in steamapps\common\BLACKHOLE\OST folder.
Together with extra content you also have access to all the DLCs and bonus levels!
DLCs and bonus levels
There are several DLCs available in the Collectors Edition of BLACKHOLE - Testing Laboratory, Challenge Vault, Secret of the Entity and Directors Cut. You can access all of them right away, but it is highly recommended to complete the main gameplay and story sequence first! Testing Laboratory contains 10 new tests as well as some back story on the Endera mission (and what happened before the events of the main story). Directors Cut contains 10 difficult levels, which are meant to challenge even the best BLACKHOLE players. Most of these levels were too hard for the main game, so they were replaced by their easier counterparts. But in case you want to really test your skills, try to complete all of them (preferably after you beat the main game)! Challenge Vault is probably the most unique out of these three DLCs - it consists of 15 levels, but each of them can be played only for one week. Your time gets uploaded to in-game leaderboards, where you can compete with all the other players. At the end of the 15th week, the winner gets announced and they become the King of the Vault for that season! Next season of Challenge Vault is going to start very soon, so be sure to participate! Secret of the Entity will unlock once you finish the main story line. This DLC adds more "end game" content and additional story events. The twelve levels of this DLC are very challenging!
Leaderboards and replay system
Leaderboards are not just for Challenge Vault, they are also available in the original game levels! After completing each level (and collecting all selfburns), your time gets uploaded to the global leaderboards.
NOTE: If you complete the level under a certain time, you will get a "Coffee Time" award (as shown in the picture). To access the leaderboards, enter the game, pause it and use the in-game menu select Leaderboards. The compact version of leaderboards is also shown after you complete a level. Another option is to pause the game while being in a specific level - that way you can quickly open the leaderboards of the current level. You can view your position as well as time of other players. You can also share the replay of your level, if you would like to show others how you have managed to complete it. Use Share Replay to do so. You can also view the replays of other players - in case they shared it.
Also, here is a really cool tip for you: There is an option to turn on the specator mode, so you can move around the level while the replay is playing back! You can use this to directly compete with someone else, or to check out some move by repeating it after the replay ghost!
In-game tools and statistics
While you are exploring the overworld, you can display a 3D visualisation of The Entity. You can activate it by pressing the N key, Tab key or the left shoulder button on your Xbox controller. This is a great tool to check out the secrets scattered around the environment. While you are in a level, you can also explore it by moving the camera around. Simply hold down Q key, M key or left trigger on your Xbox controller, then use arrows or joystick to move your view around. You may notice arrows pointing in various directions - these are meant to guide you to a collectible or a task nearby. This can come in handy when you get lost. When you pause the game while being in the overworld, you can view your statistics on the right side of the in-game menu. It displays stats like the amount of opened levels, total of collected Selfburns or how far you ran in total. You can also view the total number of your deaths!
One of the useful features found in the in-game menu is the Teleport option. With this, you can quickly teleport to levels you have been in before. This can save you a lot of time you would spend by returning back through the Entity. On the other hand, you may find some hidden collectibles if you choose to explore the overworld. Another menu option is to view found blackboxes and dog tags. You can access them by choosing Collectibles from the in-game menu. And finally, the ultimate lifehack - if you hold down the restart button while being in the overworld, you can quickly teleport to the spaceship!
Increasing FPS for better performance
In the newest version of BLACKHOLE (1.7), we did a lot of optimization work. We improved and revamped a lot of game systems such as light engine, shadows and asynchronous saving. If you are still experiencing problems with low FPS or stuttering, please consider following steps:
- Set "Shadows" to "Disabled"
- Change "Background Quality" to "Low"
- Set "Parallax" to "Disabled"
- Set "Particle Quality" to "Low"
- Set "Extra Effects" to "Low"
- Set "Shaders" to "Disabled"
Using controllers
We recommend to use the Xbox 360 Controller or Xbox One Controller for BLACKHOLE. However, all Xinput controllers may be functional, but we did not test them. Feel free to experiment in this area, but please make sure that you are going to follow the right button layout - the one from Xbox 360 Controller. If you decide to use PS4 controller, rebind your controls to be same as Xbox 360 Controller, then in the game switch the icons for buttons in options menu / controller scheme. If you have a keyboard or Xbox 360 Controller, you are ready for an adventure out of the box - no matter what platform you use. If you would like to know how to install drivers for controllers on Linux and Mac, follow our guide.
You dont have to collect all selfburns
A crucial moment of BLACKHOLE is also the time when you have to decide to let go of trying to collect all the selfburns in a level and continue in the story instead of repeating same level again and again. You need just one selfburn to unlock the next level, so sometimes it is better to move onto a different level. Of course there are times, when you will need to go back to earlier levels. But the magic in our game is that you will learn new tricks along the way, so you can use newly learned strategies to collect all the selfburns. That extremely hard level you have never beaten at the start? After finishing the 3rd chapter it is going to be a piece of cake for you. Trust us.
And that is it!
After reading all these tips, you are pretty much a BLACKHOLE expert! Now you can master the game controls, explore all of the content and fix some of the most common problems! Time for a coffee break, then back to collecting the selfburns! :selfburn: -FiolaSoft developers
We have prepared a special list of a few interesting features and options that BLACKHOLE offers and you may have not known about them before.
- Collector’s Edition - extra content
- DLCs and bonus levels
- Leaderboards and replay system
- In-game tools and statistics
- Increasing FPS for better performance
- Using controllers
- You don’t have to collect all selfburns
Collector’s Edition - Extra Bonus Content
In case you have bought BLACKHOLE: Collector’s Edition, you can check out some of the extras that come with the game. The bonus content includes things such as the digital artbook, soundtrack in MP3 and FLAC, wallpapers and the original prototype of the game! You can find these files in the folder with game content (install folder of the game). It is probably something like:
steamappscommonBLACKHOLECOLLECTORS CONTENT folder, and the soundtrack is located in steamappscommonBLACKHOLEOST folder.
Together with extra content you also have access to all the DLCs and bonus levels!
DLCs and bonus levels
There are several DLCs available in the Collector’s Edition of BLACKHOLE - Testing Laboratory, Challenge Vault, Secret of the Entity and Director’s Cut. You can access all of them right away, but it is highly recommended to complete the main gameplay and story sequence first! Testing Laboratory contains 10 new tests as well as some back story on the Endera mission (and what happened before the events of the main story). Director’s Cut contains 10 difficult levels, which are meant to challenge even the best BLACKHOLE players. Most of these levels were too hard for the main game, so they were replaced by their easier counterparts. But in case you want to really test your skills, try to complete all of them (preferably after you beat the main game)! Challenge Vault is probably the most unique out of these three DLCs - it consists of 15 levels, but each of them can be played only for one week. Your time gets uploaded to in-game leaderboards, where you can compete with all the other players. At the end of the 15th week, the winner gets announced and they become the King of the Vault for that season! Next season of Challenge Vault is going to start very soon, so be sure to participate! Secret of the Entity will unlock once you finish the main story line. This DLC adds more "end game" content and additional story events. The twelve levels of this DLC are very challenging!
Leaderboards and replay system
Leaderboards are not just for Challenge Vault, they are also available in the original game levels! After completing each level (and collecting all selfburns), your time gets uploaded to the global leaderboards.
NOTE: If you complete the level under a certain time, you will get a "Coffee Time" award (as shown in the picture). To access the leaderboards, enter the game, pause it and use the in-game menu select “Leaderboards”. The compact version of leaderboards is also shown after you complete a level. Another option is to pause the game while being in a specific level - that way you can quickly open the leaderboards of the current level. You can view your position as well as time of other players. You can also share the replay of your level, if you would like to show others how you have managed to complete it. Use “Share Replay” to do so. You can also view the replays of other players - in case they shared it.
Also, here is a really cool tip for you: There is an option to turn on the specator mode, so you can move around the level while the replay is playing back! You can use this to directly compete with someone else, or to check out some move by repeating it after the replay ghost!
In-game tools and statistics
While you are exploring the overworld, you can display a 3D visualisation of The Entity. You can activate it by pressing the “N” key, “Tab” key or the left shoulder button on your Xbox controller. This is a great tool to check out the secrets scattered around the environment. While you are in a level, you can also explore it by moving the camera around. Simply hold down “Q” key, “M” key or left trigger on your Xbox controller, then use arrows or joystick to move your view around. You may notice arrows pointing in various directions - these are meant to guide you to a collectible or a task nearby. This can come in handy when you get lost. When you pause the game while being in the overworld, you can view your statistics on the right side of the in-game menu. It displays stats like the amount of opened levels, total of collected Selfburns or how far you ran in total. You can also view the total number of your deaths!
One of the useful features found in the in-game menu is the “Teleport” option. With this, you can quickly teleport to levels you have been in before. This can save you a lot of time you would spend by returning back through the Entity. On the other hand, you may find some hidden collectibles if you choose to explore the overworld. Another menu option is to view found blackboxes and dog tags. You can access them by choosing “Collectibles” from the in-game menu. And finally, the ultimate lifehack - if you hold down the restart button while being in the overworld, you can quickly teleport to the spaceship!
Increasing FPS for better performance
In the newest version of BLACKHOLE (1.7), we did a lot of optimization work. We improved and revamped a lot of game systems such as light engine, shadows and asynchronous saving. If you are still experiencing problems with low FPS or stuttering, please consider following steps:
- Set "Shadows" to "Disabled"
- Change "Background Quality" to "Low"
- Set "Parallax" to "Disabled"
- Set "Particle Quality" to "Low"
- Set "Extra Effects" to "Low"
- Set "Shaders" to "Disabled"
Using controllers
We recommend to use the Xbox 360 Controller or Xbox One Controller for BLACKHOLE. However, all Xinput controllers may be functional, but we did not test them. Feel free to experiment in this area, but please make sure that you are going to follow the right button layout - the one from Xbox 360 Controller. If you decide to use PS4 controller, rebind your controls to be same as Xbox 360 Controller, then in the game switch the icons for buttons in options menu / controller scheme. If you have a keyboard or Xbox 360 Controller, you are ready for an adventure out of the box - no matter what platform you use. If you would like to know how to install drivers for controllers on Linux and Mac, follow our guide.
You don’t have to collect all selfburns
A crucial moment of BLACKHOLE is also the time when you have to decide to let go of trying to collect all the selfburns in a level and continue in the story instead of repeating same level again and again. You need just one selfburn to unlock the next level, so sometimes it is better to move onto a different level. Of course there are times, when you will need to go back to earlier levels. But the magic in our game is that you will learn new tricks along the way, so you can use newly learned strategies to collect all the selfburns. That extremely hard level you have never beaten at the start? After finishing the 3rd chapter it is going to be a piece of cake for you. Trust us. ____________ And that is it! After reading all these tips, you are pretty much a BLACKHOLE expert! Now you can master the game controls, explore all of the content and fix some of the most common problems! Time for a coffee break, then back to collecting the selfburns! ːselfburnː -FiolaSoft developers
Dear Endera Agents,
The newest patch is now available for everyone using Windows or Linux. MacOS version will be released in a few days. This new update brings a lot of new things!
Mostly it's all about optimization. So you should get higher FPS and less stuttering during gameplay for the most configurations now. We worked really hard on this one - to finally wrap up our development on BLACKHOLE.
We will still improve the game if we find something wrong, don't worry. We are not abandoning the title. We are in the middle of porting the game to Xbox One and PS4, and a lot of improvements are now available to you because of the optimization of console versions.
The game has a new game mode now! The 'Minimal Story' mode is a great mode for streamers and video makers, because it turns off 95% of all dialogues in the game. That's even twice more than 'Less Dialogues' mode!
We hope you all will enjoy our improvements. You can find the changelog below.
1.7 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- New game mode! MINIMAL STORY - great for streamers, video makers and speedrunners!
- New level 10 - changing "Hellishly Deep" to easier "Dungeon"
- Game now supports the native PS4 Steam Support
- Fixed issues in Adventure Mode
- Optimization of Sacred Library
- Optimization of Lava run
- Optimization of Avalanche run
- Fixed issues in game's epilogue
- Fixed collision system issues
- Fixed layers of depth graphics glitches
- Added new music
- Fixed issues in Testing Laboratory
- Fixed 99% of all game's fatal errors
- Revamped asynchronous save system
- Revamped options menu system
- Revamped main menu
- (FIX) Fixed bug which caused crash when rescuing Skelet
- (FIX) Fixed stuttering when entering/leaving the portal
- (FIX) Fixed stuttering when entering overworld
- (FIX) Fixed lacking controller support
- (FIX) Fixed out of memory error for good
- (FIX) Fixed memory leak in sound engine
- (FIX) Fixed bug in pause game state
- (FIX) Fixed light engine bug causing glitches in overworld
- (FIX) Fixed spectate mode in all environments
- (FIX) Fixed music volume for cutscenes
- (FIX) Fixed pre-loading sprites data between levels
- (FIX) Fixed bug in replay system showing unreal times
- (FIX) Fixed bug in replay system causing death to player on some places
- (FIX) Fixed elevator sound glitch
- (FIX) Fixed stuttering when game loads the tutorial actor
- On OS X it is not possible to use gamepads for an "unknown" reason. We are working on deploying 1.7 that fixes this issue soon.
What's next?
We are going to release the version 1.7 for MacOS, in the meantime, we hope you will enjoy these new improvements in advance on Windows & Linux. We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focusing on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hearing how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Also, we have released a troubleshoot article to help you solve many problems with the game. Feel free to check it out here! :) Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio ːaurielː
Dear Endera Agents,
The newest patch is now available for everyone using Windows or Linux. MacOS version will be released in a few days. This new update brings a lot of new things!
Mostly it's all about optimization. So you should get higher FPS and less stuttering during gameplay for the most configurations now. We worked really hard on this one - to finally wrap up our development on BLACKHOLE.
We will still improve the game if we find something wrong, don't worry. We are not abandoning the title. We are in the middle of porting the game to Xbox One and PS4, and a lot of improvements are now available to you because of the optimization of console versions.
The game has a new game mode now! The 'Minimal Story' mode is a great mode for streamers and video makers, because it turns off 95% of all dialogues in the game. That's even twice more than 'Less Dialogues' mode!
We hope you all will enjoy our improvements. You can find the changelog below.
1.7 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- New game mode! MINIMAL STORY - great for streamers, video makers and speedrunners!
- New level 10 - changing "Hellishly Deep" to easier "Dungeon"
- Game now supports the native PS4 Steam Support
- Fixed issues in Adventure Mode
- Optimization of Sacred Library
- Optimization of Lava run
- Optimization of Avalanche run
- Fixed issues in game's epilogue
- Fixed collision system issues
- Fixed layers of depth graphics glitches
- Added new music
- Fixed issues in Testing Laboratory
- Fixed 99% of all game's fatal errors
- Revamped asynchronous save system
- Revamped options menu system
- Revamped main menu
- (FIX) Fixed bug which caused crash when rescuing Skelet
- (FIX) Fixed stuttering when entering/leaving the portal
- (FIX) Fixed stuttering when entering overworld
- (FIX) Fixed lacking controller support
- (FIX) Fixed out of memory error for good
- (FIX) Fixed memory leak in sound engine
- (FIX) Fixed bug in pause game state
- (FIX) Fixed light engine bug causing glitches in overworld
- (FIX) Fixed spectate mode in all environments
- (FIX) Fixed music volume for cutscenes
- (FIX) Fixed pre-loading sprites data between levels
- (FIX) Fixed bug in replay system showing unreal times
- (FIX) Fixed bug in replay system causing death to player on some places
- (FIX) Fixed elevator sound glitch
- (FIX) Fixed stuttering when game loads the tutorial actor
- On OS X it is not possible to use gamepads for an "unknown" reason. We are working on deploying 1.7 that fixes this issue soon.
What's next?
We are going to release the version 1.7 for MacOS, in the meantime, we hope you will enjoy these new improvements in advance on Windows & Linux. We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focusing on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hearing how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Also, we have released a troubleshoot article to help you solve many problems with the game. Feel free to check it out here! :) Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio :auriel:
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Dear Endera Agents,
We hear all complains about minor bugs which you've experienced in the last 2 weeks loud & clear. We have been really busy before GAMESCOM 2016, but we wanted to get new patch to you as soon as possible.
We hope you all will enjoy our improvements. The list with the changes you can read below.
1.6.7 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- Resolved issue with "outside buffer" error
- (FIX) Fixed bug which cause crash of the game during Save Jetsen mission
- (FIX) Fixed bug which cause crash of the game during talking with Selassie about his lost herb
- (FIX) Fixed bug which cause crash of the game inside the main menu - when you want to mute some characters
- (FIX) Fixed issue preventing players to continue after level 12 with selected Russian language
- Issue causing letterbox when is the screenshot saved under smaller resolutions than 1920x1080.
- On OS X is not able to use gamepads for "unknown" reason.
What's next?
We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hearing how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Also, we have released a troubleshoot article to help you solve many problems with the game. Feel free to check it out on this link! :) Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio ːaurielː
Dear Endera Agents,
We hear all complains about minor bugs which you've experienced in the last 2 weeks loud & clear. We have been really busy before GAMESCOM 2016, but we wanted to get new patch to you as soon as possible.
We hope you all will enjoy our improvements. The list with the changes you can read below.
1.6.7 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- Resolved issue with "outside buffer" error
- (FIX) Fixed bug which cause crash of the game during Save Jetsen mission
- (FIX) Fixed bug which cause crash of the game during talking with Selassie about his lost herb
- (FIX) Fixed bug which cause crash of the game inside the main menu - when you want to mute some characters
- (FIX) Fixed issue preventing players to continue after level 12 with selected Russian language
- Issue causing letterbox when is the screenshot saved under smaller resolutions than 1920x1080.
- On OS X is not able to use gamepads for "unknown" reason.
What's next?
We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hearing how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Also, we have released a troubleshoot article to help you solve many problems with the game. Feel free to check it out on this link! :) Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio :auriel:
These are TOP 10 most fastest speedruns we have seen in the 6th week of Challenge Vault! It's so amazing how many players are trying to get in their position in leaderboards. Congratulations to everyone who was trying!
Every week we are sharing with you our leaderboard to celebrate the best of the best. You can be in this leaderoard too! Just try to beat Challenge Vault level for this week! Even the slowest playthrough is recorded in our hall of fame!
Here's a World Record video for this week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlVqERz8ImQ
The Week 7 has already started, this week we focused challenge on unforgiving land of strange things! Yeah, we are talking about Beyond the Void.
About Challenge Vault
Select your favourite character and beat the records set by other players in this brand new online mode. For 15 weeks, you will get access to new exclusively designed levels full of gravity-twisting puzzles and fast-paced action. Be the fastest and become the King of the Vault in our online tournament mode. http://store.steampowered.com/app/487520/
These are TOP 10 most fastest speedruns we have seen in the 6th week of Challenge Vault! It's so amazing how many players are trying to get in their position in leaderboards. Congratulations to everyone who was trying!
Every week we are sharing with you our leaderboard to celebrate the best from the best. You can be in this leaderoard too! Just try to beat Challenge Vault level for this week! Even the slowest playthrough is recorded in our hall of fame!
Here's a World Record video for this week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlVqERz8ImQ
The Week 7 started already, this week we focused challenge on unforgiving land of strange things! Yeah, we are talking about Beyond the Void.
About Challenge Vault
Select your favourite character and beat the records set by other players in this brand new online mode. For 15 weeks, you will get access to new exclusively designed levels full of gravity-twisting puzzles and fast-paced action. Be the fastest and become the King of the Vault in our online tournament mode. http://store.steampowered.com/app/487520/
Dear Endera Agents,
We are working hard to finally fix all previously reported issues. Yes, we have skipped 2 versions. So, by now you can play the newest stable version 1.6.6 on Windows, Linux and Mac! This new patch is not so big as the previous ones. It's a smaller one, but that only means we are close to the finish line.
We hope you will enjoy our improvements, though!
1.6.4 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- New name for executable file on Windows changed from BLACKHOLE.exe to BH.exe due to bad recognition by Anti-Virus software (Be aware: BLACKHOLE is well known virus shared by email - not Steam. Our game is not a virus - so we changed the name of the file just for player's sure)
- Improved stability of Mac OS X version
- Challenge Vault stability improvements
- New Challenge Vault music
- (FIX) Game sometimes crashes before it actually starts (driver issues)
- (FIX) Fixed procedure which saves levels
- (FIX) Fixed information about controllers during first game launch
- (FIX) Fixed sound of falling during cutscene in Crashsite to No-Man's Land
- (FIX) Fixed controller re-mapping issues and crashes
- (FIX) Fixed stuttering on Fullscreen when you play on NVIDIA GTX980Ti and GTX1080
- (FIX) Hopefully fixed Intel HD Graphics and Intel Iris texture memory leak on Mac OS X
- (FIX) Fixed minor bug in the main menu
- Issue causing letterbox when is the screenshot saved under smaller resolutions than 1920x1080.
- Issue which disable gamepad controller for OS X version.
What's next?
We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hearing how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Also, we have released a troubleshoot article to help you solve many problems with the game. Feel free to check it out on this link! :) Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio :auriel:
Dear Endera Agents,
We are working hard to finally fix all previously reported issues. Yes, we have skipped 2 versions. So, by now you can play the newest stable version 1.6.6 on Windows, Linux and Mac! This new patch is not so big as the previous ones. It's a smaller one, but that only means we are close to the finish line.
We hope you will enjoy our improvements, though!
1.6.4 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- New name for executable file on Windows changed from BLACKHOLE.exe to BH.exe due to bad recognition by Anti-Virus software (Be aware: BLACKHOLE is well known virus shared by email - not Steam. Our game is not a virus - so we changed the name of the file just for player's sure)
- Improved stability of Mac OS X version
- Challenge Vault stability improvements
- New Challenge Vault music
- (FIX) Game sometimes crashes before it actually starts (driver issues)
- (FIX) Fixed procedure which saves levels
- (FIX) Fixed information about controllers during first game launch
- (FIX) Fixed sound of falling during cutscene in Crashsite to No-Man's Land
- (FIX) Fixed controller re-mapping issues and crashes
- (FIX) Fixed stuttering on Fullscreen when you play on NVIDIA GTX980Ti and GTX1080
- (FIX) Hopefully fixed Intel HD Graphics and Intel Iris texture memory leak on Mac OS X
- (FIX) Fixed minor bug in the main menu
- Issue causing letterbox when is the screenshot saved under smaller resolutions than 1920x1080.
- Issue which disable gamepad controller for OS X version.
What's next?
We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hearing how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Also, we have released a troubleshoot article to help you solve many problems with the game. Feel free to check it out on this link! :) Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio ːaurielː
These are TOP 10 fastest speedruns we have seen in the fifth week of Challenge Vault. Congratulations to these challengers!
Every week we share with you our leaderboard to celebrate the best from the best. You can be in this leaderoard too! Just try to beat Challenge Vault level for this week!
Here's a World Record video for this week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsaYl8m_F6w
The Week 6 has already started, this week we based the challenge in ancient city environment with EMP!
About Challenge Vault
Select your favourite character and beat the records set by other players in this brand new online mode. For 15 weeks, you will get access to new exclusively designed levels full of gravity-twisting puzzles and fast-paced action. Be the fastest and become the King of the Vault in our online tournament mode. http://store.steampowered.com/app/487520/
These are TOP 10 fastest speedruns we have seen in the fifth week of Challenge Vault. Congratulations to these challengers!
Every week we share with you our leaderboard to celebrate the best from the best. You can be in this leaderoard too! Just try to beat Challenge Vault level for this week!
Here's a World Record video for this week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsaYl8m_F6w
The Week 6 has already started, this week we based the challenge in ancient city environment with EMP!
About Challenge Vault
Select your favourite character and beat the records set by other players in this brand new online mode. For 15 weeks, you will get access to new exclusively designed levels full of gravity-twisting puzzles and fast-paced action. Be the fastest and become the King of the Vault in our online tournament mode. http://store.steampowered.com/app/487520/
These are TOP 10 most fastest speedruns we have seen in the third and fourth week of Challenge Vault. Congratulations to these challengers!
Every week we are sharing with you our leaderboard to celebrate the best from the best. You can be in this leaderoard too! Just try to beat Challenge Vault level for this week!
The Week 5 started already, this week we centered the challenge around our beloved mysterious jungle!
About Challenge Vault
Select your favourite character and beat the records set by other players in this brand new online mode. For 15 weeks, you will get access to new exclusively designed levels full of gravity-twisting puzzles and fast-paced action. Be the fastest and become the King of the Vault in our online tournament mode. http://store.steampowered.com/app/487520/
These are TOP 10 most fastest speedruns we have seen in the third and fourth week of Challenge Vault. Congratulations to these challengers!
Every week we are sharing with you our leaderboard to celebrate the best from the best. You can be in this leaderoard too! Just try to beat Challenge Vault level for this week!
The Week 5 started already, this week we centered the challenge around our beloved mysterious jungle!
About Challenge Vault
Select your favourite character and beat the records set by other players in this brand new online mode. For 15 weeks, you will get access to new exclusively designed levels full of gravity-twisting puzzles and fast-paced action. Be the fastest and become the King of the Vault in our online tournament mode. http://store.steampowered.com/app/487520/
We are happy to announce our next patch, which cover a lot of previously reported issues. You can play newest version 1.6.3 right now on Windows, Linux and Mac!
1.6.3 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- Improved stability of Mac OS X version
- New Challenge Vault level!
- Fixed Steam Cloud on Linux
- Revamped main menu functions (to be more responsive)
- (FIX) Fixed missing dialogue when entering Avalanche mission
- (FIX) Fixed option to load shared replay
- (FIX) Fixed leaderboard button occuring to be enabled in no-speedrun missions
- (FIX) Fixed issue be able to play Challenge Vault before finishing tutorial in story-mode
- (FIX) Fixed broken movement of jumpad in Jungle for dog-tag
- (FIX) Fixed dog-tags records in some level select regions
- (FIX) Fixed issue when you beat your own score and it's not updated on the servers
- (FIX) Some improvements in language files
- Issue causing letterbox when is the screenshot saved under smaller resolutions than 1920x1080.
- Issue which disable gamepad controller for OS X version.
- Issue where game crashes without any error on OS X because of known memory leak of the Intel Graphics drivers.
What's next?
We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hearing how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Also, we have released a troubleshoot article to help you solve many problems with the game. Feel free to check it out on this link! :) Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio ːaurielː
We are happy to announce, that today all players get instant access to our newest patch. The Challenge Vault is our answer on multiplayer in Blackhole. It works as asynchronous tournament mode. For the next 15 weeks you will find brand new levels crafted specially for speedruns challenges.
If you'll have the best time, you can become the King of the Vault! And that's something, you can also win one very special price.
1.6.2 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- Fixed more than 300+ bugs across the game
- New game mode: Challenge Vault
- Online leaderboards
- New ingame menu for lost Dog Tags
- New Director's Cut levels for owners of Complete Edition
- New bonus content for Complete Edition owners
- Brand new locations in the game to explore (2 for each entity!)
- Improved overall FPS rate in the Sacred Library
- Replaced some graphical resources to newer iterations
- Fixed missing overlay on OS X version.
- (FIX) Fixed several camera issues during cutscenes
- (FIX) Fixed issue on Mac causing crashing the game after 10 minutes of gameplay
- (FIX) Fixed issue in Challenge Vault Replay system after which game crashed
- (FIX) Fixed missing dog-tags by recovering map files
- (FIX) Fixed two minor memory leaks
- (NEW) Added ability to hide hint keys during the replay
- (FIX) Fixed several GUI problems and text overlapping
- (FIX) Fixed missing translations (all languages)
- (FIX) Fixed stability of the server for Challenge Vault
- (FIX) Overall improvement in texture pages causing less crashes on integrated graphics cards
- (FIX) Fixed issue where you get disconnected while exiting the level which is not included in Challenge Vault Leaderboards
- (FIX) Fixed issue when wind dissapear from the level in Crazy Avalanche on Mac
- (FIX) Fixed several camera issues during cutscenes
- (FIX) Fixed issue causing “BLACKHOLE stop responding” when exiting the game
- Issue causing letterbox when is the screenshot saved under smaller resolutions than 1920x1080.
- Issue which disable gamepad controller for OS X version.
- Issue when you change windows to fullscreen or vice-versa, causing memory leak on OS X and Linux.
- Issue when some sounds are missing after a while of playing on OS X and Linux.
- Issue game unexpectedly crashes without any error on OS X.
What's next?
We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hear how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Also, we have released troubleshoot article to solve many problems with the game. Feel free to check it out on this link! :) Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio ːaurielː
Join the very special session with Vojta Šiman (Level Designer) and Filip Kraucher (Producer). They will talk about Challenge Vault DLC and Complete Edition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lof_u4Sfv1E
If you have any questions, please, leave them in the comments section below.
Take everything you’ve experienced to the next level. Enter the Challenge Vault, a special simulation for Endera agents, and participate with others on a secret training protocol. You can also win this special pack of goodies when you'll be on the first place!
Enter the Challenge Vault and take your place in the leaderboards to win this amazing BLACKHOLE Merchandise Pack (free shipping over the world!)
Challenge Vault is free to play DLC for every owner of BLACKHOLE game on Steam! :)
These are TOP 10 most fastest speedruns we have seen in the second week of Challenge Vault. Congratulations to week 2 challengers!
Every week from now, we will share with you our leaderboard to celebrate the best from the best. You can be in this leaderoard too! Just try to beat Challenge Vault!
We have surprise for the winner of the first season the King of the Vault! So, let's go! The Week 3 started already, this week we are visiting the "Egypt-like" entity.
About Challenge Vault
Select your favourite character and beat the records set by other players in this brand new online mode. For 15 weeks, you will get access to new exclusively designed levels full of gravity-twisting puzzles and fast-paced action. Be the fastest and become the King of the Vault in our online tournament mode. http://store.steampowered.com/app/487520/
Big congratulation to this week's challengers! These are TOP 10 most fastest speedruns we have seen in the first week of Challenge Vault. Good job everyone!
Every week from now, we will share with you our leaderboard to celebrate the best from the best. You can be in this leaderboard too! Just try to beat Challenge Vault.
So, let's go! The Week 2 has already started. This week we are featuring our snowy-windy mountains entity.
About Challenge Vault
Select your favourite character and beat the records set by other players in this brand new online mode. For 15 weeks, you will get access to new exclusively designed levels full of gravity-twisting puzzles and fast-paced action. Be the fastest and become the King of the Vault in our online tournament mode. http://store.steampowered.com/app/487520/
One of the highest-scoring puzzle platformers of 2015 is back with Complete Edition full of awesome content and a 50% launch discount!
- Fully updated BLACKHOLE
- 3 pieces of DLC (Testing Lab, Secret of the Entity, Challenge Vault)
- Over 130 levels, including 10 all-new, insanely difficult locations
- Digital artbook and soundtrack featuring more than 40 tracks
- Developer diaries
- Playable first prototype of the game
- Printable high resolution artwork
- 12 wallpapers and collector cards
We are super happy to announce BLACKHOLE: Complete Edition! This ultimate package will include fully updated BLACKHOLE, plenty of exclusive bonus materials and all DLC - including the upcoming Challenge Vault. And that's not all! All BLACKHOLE: Collector's Edition owners will get a free upgrade to Complete Edition! Complete Edition will be released on June 15th along with the new Challenge Vault DLC, so stay tuned! Bonus materials include:
- PDF Artbook
- Original Soundtrack featuring over 40 tracks
- Printable hi-resolution artwork
- Developer diaries
- Playable prototype of the game
- 10 new insanely difficult levels
- ...and more!
For several weeks, there was huge problem hidden from us in BLACKHOLE demo on Steam. We know, that most of the players will not see this as something big and important, but still - We've released the fix for the demo version. If you haven't BLACKHOLE in your library yet, you can try our DEMO right away for free! :) http://store.steampowered.com/app/395510/ Thank you very much for your patience and of course, for your support over the year. We are still working on Blackhole. Challenge Vault is really coming! :) -Fiola
Dear players, for several weeks We were trying to recover and run update for better Intel HD Graphics experience. The game is crashing, especially on Windows 10 because of changes made by Intel in drivers. To better understand our struggle, it's like driving a car on the highway, but with constantly changing the surface of the road. We are aware of that, but can't do pretty much anything about it right away. We have to learn and adapt our export to that. And that's not instant. Our Blackhole is now at stage where we want to activate online mode. We are working on this for very long time. This is causing some trouble to quickly adapt & respond to each problem you have. But we are still trying to solve all problems you experienced. Even on Laptops systems which are not supported natively because all of this. We are really sorry to see many of you going to refund just because the crash on the intro without contacting our support or writing into our phorums, but this is something what we have to accept as it is. We will of course try to do better in the future, but you should know that we really care about our players - about you. Thank you for your patience and to give it a try at first. If you are not able to play our game - if it is crashing on your system or you have any other problems, you should maybe try to change game into Beta Version, where we are testing newest builds and trying to catch every problem before we release such update world-wide.
How to activate Public Beta of Blackhole:
- Go into your Library in Steam
- Find Blackhole
- Open Blackhole Properties
- There is section "Betas"
- Select "beta - Public Beta Branch"
- No need enter password
- Download the update
- Try to play game now! :)
Let us know, if the beta version helped. If you don't have any issues with Blackhole on your system, please, don't update into beta branch. Still, better is to play stable release than our untested unfinished exprimental build. Thank you very much for your patience and support. If you need any special support, don't worry to contact us directly using kontakt@fiolasoft.cz - thank you! PS: If you have problem with running the game, would you mind to tell us your CPU, GPU and OS? If you want to help us, leave them into comments below. It will give us the perspective, how large our problems are. Have a great day, Fiola
Starting from today, BLACKHOLE Original Soundtrack is available on Steam as separated DLC! You don't have to own Collector's Edition to have Soundtrack in your library! Also, we have added the FLAC version for even more higher quality playback! Enjoy this masterpiece from Jakub Miřejovský and Jan Ševčík, with featured David Kopecký original song! BLACKHOLE Original Soundtrack now for $3,99. http://store.steampowered.com/app/445920/
Several months past after we have made the biggest preparations for console launch of the game. And since it’s coming for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 some additional features, we implemented the same features into our Windows and Linux version as well.
We want to apologize to all Mac version players. This following update is not compatible with Mac OS X yet. But we are working hard to finish update also for OS X version as soon as possible. Thank you for understanding.
We have hopefully resolved the biggest issues with controllers, several layout issues in GUI, we updated our FONT to newest version which currently supports also Cyrillic charset – making the game available also in all-native Russian language!
On top of that, we have fixed more than 300 bugs/glitches, made big optimization of both: the code and the engine. This update signed under 1.0.5C is also nicknamed as CONSOLE READY. And we are proud to announce the game is coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 really soon this year! :)
Right now, we have last big step ahead in our Blackhole journey. Release of completely new FREE DLC called “Challenge Vault”. Challenge Vault will uncover each week for several times new levels – each week you can run through the level and be the BEST from the best and stand on the top.
Challenge Vault is feature available only for STEAM version of the game, and it will be great thing for everyone seeking the "multiplayer" element in our game. :)
1.0.5C CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- Fixed more than 300+ bugs across the game
- Added new language: Russian
- Revamped Endera graphics
- Newly scripted intro section
- Steam Controller Support
- New loading system (slower, but efficient for laptop users)
- New controllers finder procedure
- Brand new locations in the game to explore (2 for each entity!)
- Improved overall FPS rate in the Sacred Library
- Replaced some sounds to higher quality ones
- Fixed graphical issues for most of the integrated graphics cards
- Fixed textures fallout on Intel HD Graphics
- New texture streaming causing overall less RAM usage
- Improvement movement for the character
- Added Rage Quit Shortcut [ALT+F4]
- Fixed problem with newest DirectX library causing Blackhole won't start
- (NEW) Added MASTER VOLUME option
- (FIX) Fixed several camera issues during cutscenes
- (FIX) Fixed glitched map on Linux
- (FIX) Sacred Library – Elevator – jump through walls
- (FIX) Starting spectator mode hides the result screen
- (FIX) Fixed issue when Ati leaving Sacred Library, he got stuck into doors – jumping
- (FIX) Fixed issue when Selassie is trying to run to you – glitches
- (FIX) Fixed both endings – bad language file in English mode
- (FIX) Fixed graphics glitches causing lines around object on smaller resolutions of the game
- (FIX) Fixed issue, when WIND were disabling some sounds unintentionally
- (FIX) Fixed issue with neverending Quest from Selassie after finishing the game
- (FIX) Fixed several dialogues errors (dialogues which had never chance to play)
- (TWEAK) Easy mode: Crazy avalanche run is 3x slower
- (TWEAK) Easy mode: Lava run is 3x slower
- (TWEAK) Easy mode: Blocks in desert entity are disintegrate 3x more slowly
- (TWEAK) Easy mode: Rescuing the crew members are easier than in original mode
- (TWEAK) Easy mode: Finding all missing parts are easier than ever
- Issue causing letterbox when is the screenshot saved under smaller resolutions than 1920x1080.
- (Windows Only) Issue causing “BLACKHOLE stop responding” when exiting the game
- (Mac OS X Only) Missing Steam Overlay
What next?
We are now working on Challenge Vault DLC. In the meantime, don't miss the opportunity to get some additional content for the game: http://store.steampowered.com/app/322700 http://store.steampowered.com/app/323650 We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hear how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Also, we have released troubleshoot article to solve many problems with the game. Feel free to check it out on this link! :) Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio ːaurielː
UPDATED ON 2/9/2016 - This problem should be resolved now. You don't have to go into beta channel anymore. Game should start well as usual. Dear players, we have new reported problem with BLACKHOLE and Intel HD Graphics / AMD chipsets. The newest Intel drivers unfortunately causing the problem with DirectX 9.0C and BLACKHOLE stop responding or doesn't working correctly. The same problem also often triggers the message that the DRIVER has crashed and was restored. Please, let me really apologize for this trouble. But on the other hand it's nothing we could prevent from. We have to update our code, and bring support for more laptop players. That said, we are working really hard for 2 months now to release brand new version of BLACKHOLE, which will solve like almost 300 bugs and adds new locations & puzzles for free. But, here comes the sad part: we are not still ready to release stable version yet. For that reason, we created public beta branch for those, whose experiencing problems with starting the game. This public beta contains everything what we'd planned to release next week.
How to activate Public Beta of Blackhole:
- Go into your Library in Steam
- Find Blackhole
- Open Blackhole Properties
- There is section "Betas"
- Select "beta - Public Beta Branch"
- No need enter password
- Download the update
- Try to play game now! :)
Dear players,
Last month we've been part of the biggest czech developer conference hosted in Prague. Game Developers Session 2015 was special for trying to unite talented and great game developers. It was all about networking and sharing experience.
Our experience was mainly about 'you' - the community around BLACKHOLE game. We are so glad to have you on board of our Endera spaceship. The whole year 2015 was amazing and we don't regret anything.
The release of our game on Steam was quite a success. It should've been done in a more proper way though, but that's the thing: it's an experience we've gained.
All owners of Collector's Edition of BLACKHOLE now have exclusive access to the video from GDS 2015 talk about our game. The english and czech subtitles are included.
You can find the video in this folder: /COLLECTORS CONTENT/VIDEO/GDS after the update is downloaded.
It is a great opportunity to see background of the development.
Once again: thank you very much for your support. We are happy to announce that we will support BLACKHOLE for the whole year 2016 and we will release additional content for free in upcoming updates.
If you want to have access to exclusive content, be sure to upgrade your game to Collector's Edition by using this DLC package or you can buy Digital Collector's Edition right now along with BLACKHOLE itself!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/322680
Enjoy this update and please, feel free to contact us if you have more questions. Use forums here on Steam or the contact form on our website.
Thank you,
- FiolaSoft Studio ːenderacoffeeː
We've made it! Thanks to your kind support over the past week, we have gathered enough votes to be part of Indie of the Year 2015 - TOP 100 selection!
And now it comes the real chance to do something stunning. Help us achieve the TOP 5! Vote for our game in the 2nd round, and together - let's win an ultimate fame! It's now or never!
Thank you for your support! We already made it together so far! ♥
And we are so happy! We will vever forget to have such an amazing supportive community.
VOTE FOR OUR GAME HERE
Something more?
Kind of, yeah. It looks like we will run something against our game. But it is exact opposite. Don't just vote for our game. Really. In this epic IOTY poll are amazing games. Like for instance work of our friends: Novus Inceptio, Space Engineers, Medieval Engineers and Planet Nomads! Not only that these games sharing similar topic with our game (exploration and space!), but they are made by very talented people from Czech Republic and Slovakia. The same countries we are from. Support them as well. This voting is not only about "fame". It's all about community and support. You can do it. We can do it. Together. And as always... DON'T FORGET ON COFFEE IN SPACE! ːenderacoffeeː #coffeinspace #futureishere #blackhole
IndieDB is now hosting the biggest community contest for Indie Game Developers. The Indie Game of The Year 2015 and we need your support.
Right now is the nomination phase in progress, and we need every possible fans to vote for our game and get it into the TOP 100 selection!
We are doing our best to make our game better right from the February. This is the chance to get to know about our game to everyone else!
Let's go together make this happen. Let's world know about BLACKHOLE!
1. Open the link
2. Click on the vote
3. Find a cup of coffee
4. Make sure that coffee is really hot
5. Pour coffee down your throat!
6. Profit ♥
You can vote here:
http://www.indiedb.com/games/blackhole
And you can see stats of the competition live here:
http://www.indiedb.com/groups/2015-indie-of-the-year-awards/scoreboard
As always,
we can't even express how greatful we are for such a great community around our game. Please, stay in touch with us. Follow our dev story here, on our Twitter or Facebook.
If you have any questions, let us know in the comment section below. And hey, let us know that you've voted for us, to see actually the players that care! :)
Yours,
FiolaSoft Studio & Auriel ːaurielː
Last week we have released a special article at Gamasutra, and we want to thank all of you for an amazing support over the years of development. In this article, We would like to share a couple of discoveries we've made during the development of BLACKHOLE. Also we'd like to show you the power hidden inside a community and how important it is to promote your games outside of the internet. We also have two stories about our experiences from attending two major events, with very different outcomes. This blogpost is targeted mainly for developers community. But it's a great open window to the background of our development for curious gamers. Read more at Gamasutra Also, our game is on the sale with -70% off for limited time! So, if you don't have game yet, it's great to pick it up right now! Yours, FiolaSoft Studio
Good news for all 2D platformers’ fans out there who, until now, thought that Blackhole might turn out to be too hardcore for them. Not only Easy Mode was just added to the game, but the free demo is also now available. And if the amount of dialogues bugged you too, consider it solved as well.
FREE DEMO
Consisting of 5 diverse levels, the demo will allow gamers to get a glimpse of what’s best in Blackhole. Playing with gravity, solving puzzles and learning how to wall-jump should be enough to convince all not convinced yet, that it’s worth to join Endera crew and learn their story. http://store.steampowered.com/app/395510
ADJUSTING THE AMOUNT OF DIALOGUE LINES
Not a big fan of long chats between NPCs, that interrupt your platforming experience? No problem as from now on you’ll be able to choose ‘Less dialogues’ option and turn it on or off freely throughout your whole play through. This option doesn’t switch the story off completely. It only disables some side dialogue lines that are not core for the plot. And leaves you with pure, dynamic, platforming joy.
EASY MODE
Unlike ‘Less dialogues’ this option can be chosen only once as it changes the gameplay massively. Also it disables most achievements based on hardcore playthrough and timing. And it won’t allow you to send time record or coffee-time for levels to online leaderboards. So be careful and think twice before enabling it! In the same time this may be a great solution for gamers who seemed to have problems with finishing the game but yet were keen on learning the whole story. Mostly because with Easy Mode on, you will be able to keep your collected selfburn if you die. And if you run over the start portal, your progress will be saved. Those, who already had a chance to try out the game know, that this will make beating the levels and solving puzzles significantly easier. And in result the game should be more accessible for casual gamers.
1.0.5B CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- Fixed 120+ bugs across the game
- Fixed some level solutions
- New less dialogues mode
- New easy mode
- New options in the menu
- New asynchronous save system
- (FIX) Testing laboratory DLC loading fixed
- (FIX) New volume for some music files
- (FIX) Buttons are now more responsive
- (FIX) Fixed bug causing hack in Videogameception level
- (FIX) PS4 controller images fixed
- (FIX) New save system has now backup function
- (FIX) Fixed bug causing death for character close by you
- (FIX) Fixed bug with loading external resources
- (FIX) Fixed bug in datapads at Sacred Library location
- (FIX) Fixed bug causing hidden Ati's auto-batery
- (FIX) Fixed typos in english language file
- (FIX) Fixed bug causing sound loop and game crash in Sacred Library
- (FIX) Fixed bug causing that logo of the game is missing
- (FIX) Fixed bug when you're getting more than one quest at time
- (FIX) Fixed graphics glitches
- (FIX) Fixed some achievements
- We need to translate new lines for Secret of the Entity into all languages (missing lines are temporarily replaced by english)
- Missing Steam Overlay in Mac OS X version (still under review)
What next?
We also want to inform all players that we are currently working on another big update for the game. Challenge Vault in version 1.0.6 will bring a new set of levels for free every week, also we will introduce the "online mode" for the game! Thank you for your patience and support! In the meantime, don't miss the opportunity to get some additional content for the game: http://store.steampowered.com/app/322700 http://store.steampowered.com/app/323650 We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hear how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Also, we have released troubleshoot article to solve many problems with the game. Feel free to check it out on this link! :) Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio ːaurielː
Blackhole hands on demo was available at Indie Arena Booth at GAMESCOM 2015. With several developers and computers on site it was possible to swing by any time and even without an appointment spent a couple of relaxing minutes trying out the game and chatting with developers about upcoming updates.
EASY MODE INCOMING
Based on community feedback & because we want to our game adjust also for casual or „mainstream“ players: the easy-mode is coming. If you experience the problem with finishing the game and you want to complete the story & enjoy the levels in "easier" way. The easy mode enabled could help you do that. In easy mode, when you collect selfburn and run over start portal - your progress is saved. If you die, you will respawn with already collected selfburn. This is so easier way how to solve many puzzles - so please, remember and think twice if you set your profile to easy mode - because there is no way how to set the easy mode off on that profile again. Be aware that enabling easy mode you will turn-off most of the achievements based on „hardcore“ gameplay and timing. Once you set easy mode on, it can’t be turned off on that game profile. Also with easy mode enabled you can't send time record or coffee-time for the levels to online leaderboards.
LESS DIALOGUES MODE
This mode (unlike the Easy mode) could be turned on and off anywhere & anytime in whole game. When you set the game into "less dialogues" mode; we will cut-off most unnecessary dialogues, so you will experience less story events (like by 60% less). This option is here for all who wants play only & mainly platform experience and story is for them some side-related thing. We are not removing all the story! Story is still presented. We will just cut-off the lines that „extends the basic storyline“. So even with Less Dialogues on, you will have to repair the ship, hear all blackboxes & save everyone from the crew.
FREE DEMO WILL BE AVAILABLE
We will also release the DEMO of the game in a few days for free on STEAM, to give a taste to everyone who wants the game just try & maybe we will convince some new players to join our Endera crew! :) Our DEMO contains 5 levels, player will learn how gravity platforms works, then go to the jungle, experience puzzle in sacred library (city & emp glove), learn how to wall-jump and try to solve little puzzle in desert at one from „Eternal Thirst“ levels.
THIS BIG GAME UPDATE COMING IN A FEW DAYS!
Hope you will like how we expanding the game in order to get it more attractive for other players than just hardcore base. Thank you! ♥ - Devs from FiolaSoft Studio PS: Keep calm and make Cpt. Jetsen coffee! ːenderacoffeeː
GAMESCOM 2015 is the biggest opportunity in central Europe for every game to get noticed by all world-wide media. This year, we want to showcase BLACKHOLE there. But it's hard with our results for time being. This contest provided by Playfield is a chance for every game developer to get spot on GAMESCOM event. The contest ends in a few days (on Sunday 19th of July, 18:00 CET), exactly two weeks before gamescom. The two community winners will be announced on the 19th, and the Jury will choose the third winner during the following week. We're now in the top 5 (2nd place right now!) out of hundreds of games. But only first places can gain the spot on GAMESCOM. So we need your support to make it happen! Thanks to our community we are on the good way to win this contest with Blackhole. But we need your support. If you love our game, if you loved the experience of the story - this is your chance to support our dream.
HOW TO HELP?
Just head to Playfield's game page of BLACKHOLE and follow these steps: [olist]
- Follow our game BLACKHOLE on Playfield here
- More information about contest is here
- Check leaderboard
Who said 13th is a bad day of the month and in general brings bad luck? Well whoever it was apparently was completely wrong. I mean it can’t be such a bad day when today gamers all over the world, who already purchased the hardcore Blackhole platformer, get a massive add on to their space adventure. 5 hours of gameplay, even more challenging puzzles, new story and bursting with humor dialogues and all that for as little as... ZERO, NADA, NOTHING, NULL, with other words completely for FREE! How cool is that?!
Now assuming that you have successfully rescued all crew members and repaired the ship you’re probably now ready to get back home. Right?
Not so fast soldier. How do you want to go back when The Endera spaceship tank is empty? You’ll need to refill it with gas. To do so follow Jetsen’s guidance in order to collect special black ‘selfburns’ and use them as Endera’s fuel. This should be easy right? In the end you already know the universe, are a master of turning levels upside down and nothing can surprise you. Or does it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkol94fckw
1.0.5 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- Fixed 160+ major bugs in the whole game
- New & Final ingame menu design
- Fixing all missing achievements and dogtags
- Added Coffee Time! functionality
- Fixed major problems with controllers & key bindings
- New story dialogues & missions
- 12 brand new hardcore levels
- New exploration puzzles
- New overworld map!
- You can now mute characters by your selection
- New stories in the Sacred Library! Search the datapads!
- (NEW) New particles & effects on Endera
- (FIX) Fixed XBOX Controller detection on Windows, Linux & Mac OS X
- (FIX) Fixed other controllers detection (see FAQ for more info)
- We need to translate new lines for Secret of the Entity into all languages (missing lines are temporarily replaced by english)
- Missing Steam Overlay in Mac OS X version (still under review)
- Option to play the game in "Less Story mode" with overall less dialogues
What next?
We also want to inform all players that we are currently working on another big update for the game. Challenge Vault will bring a new set of levels for free every week, also we will introduce the "online mode" for the game! Thank you for your patience and support! In the meantime, don't miss the opportunity to get some additional content for the game: http://store.steampowered.com/app/322700 http://store.steampowered.com/app/323650 We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hear how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio ːaurielː
All gamers from France, Italy, Germany and Poland now get the chance to explore Blackhole and save the universe in their native language.
The universe is large and full of dangerous Black Holes. To close them all we need more brave adventurers. Calling all hardcore gamers from France, Italy, Germany and Poland to join forces and save not only Earth but the entire universe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FjdmL8q64w
BLACKHOLE has been released with this language support:
- English: HUD / Subtitles / Voiceover
- Czech: HUD / Subtitles / Voiceover
- Polish: HUD / Subtitles
- Italian: HUD / Subtitles
- German: HUD / Subtitles
- French: HUD / Subtitles
- Spanish: HUD / Subtitles
1.0.4G CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- French, Italian, German and Polish language is now available
- Fixed major bugs in the DLC: Testing Laboratory
- (NEW) New water effect (with splashes! :))
- (FIX) Fixed XBOX Controller detection on Linux & Mac OS's
- (FIX) Fixed PlayStation Controller detection on Linux & Mac OS's
- (FIX) Fixed PlayStation Controller tutorial icons for Windows.
- (FIX) Language selection has been improved.
- Missing Steam Overlay in Mac OS X version (still under review)
- Adding support for even more controllers
- Adding option to mute selected characters, setup the tutorials and etc.
- Option to play the game in "Adventure mode" with less dialogues
What next?
We also want to inform all players that we are currently finishing another big update for the game. Secret of The Entity is coming really soon and it will bring a new set of levels & story absolutely for free! In the meantime, don't miss the opportunity to get some additional content for the game: http://store.steampowered.com/app/322700 http://store.steampowered.com/app/323650 We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hear how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio
We are proud to say, that our first additional story content for the game BLACKHOLE has been released. Now you will be able to experience unique prequel to the BLACKHOLE story.
ABOUT TESTING LABORATORY
DLC: Testing Laboratory tells the story back on the Earth. Testing Laboratory is kind of a flashback chapter or a prequel if you want. Our hero just signed up for the Endera's suicide mission, but he wants to be captain of the mission. What really happens and why he ended up as the coffee-guy? Try to uncover this secret! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_SWdRaWPR8
DLC FEATURES
- Introducing new character: House
- 10 ultimate tests
- 20 levels in total
- New back-story revelations
- Get 5 new achievements
- More than 30 minutes of additional gameplay
1.0.4d CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- DLC: Testing Laboratory for OS X now available
- DLC: Testing Laboratory for LINUX now available
- DLC: Testing Laboratory for Windows now available
- (NEW) EMP indicator is not aimed on lights now
- (FIX) Fixed graphics glitches in Eternal Thirst by crumbling blocks
- (FIX) Fixed bug causing bad resolution by ingame menu
- (FIX) Smusa has now resolved all animations
- (FIX) Fixed bug causing bad numbers in gameplay statistics
- (FIX) Fixed bug causing that Cpt. Jetsen is invisible in the rescue mission
- (FIX) Fixed collision bug on Endera
- Missing Steam Overlay in Mac OS X version (currently under review)
- Adding support for even more controllers
- Re-master of basic tutorials
- Adding option to mute selected characters, setup the tutorials and etc.
- Re-design of the ingame menu
- Adding the native support for PS3 controller under the LINUX
- Option to play the game in "Adventure mode" with less dialogues
- Adding more languages (Russian, Polish, German, Italian, French)
What next?
We also want to inform all players that we are currently finishing another big update for the game. The End Game update is coming soon and it will bring a new set of levels for free! We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hear how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio
Linux and Mac OS X version of the game Blackhole has been released. Now you will be able to play the game on three major platforms (with all features including upcoming cross-platform Challenge Vault, cloud functionality and audiovisual effects).
We want to thank you for your amazing support & all the positive reviews. We hope you are all enjoying BLACKHOLE. The following are brief upcoming news. We are still trying to collect all your feedback. Please, continue to send us your awesome thoughts and ideas
New accolade trailer
We have prepared brand new trailer showing final version of the game! Look at the awesome combination of gameplay, story and our original music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FjdmL8q64w For a better gameplay experience, we've made these changes in this update:
1.0.4c CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- OS X version now available
- Linux version now available
- (NEW) Particles & GPU optimalization
- (FIX) Graphic glitches in some levels
- (FIX) Improved game performance for most laptop graphics cards
- Missing Steam Overlay in Mac OS X version (currently under review)
- Adding support for even more controllers
- Option to play the game in "Adventure mode" with less dialogues
- Adding more languages (Russian, Polish, German, Italian, French)
What next?
We also want to inform all players that we are currently finishing another big update for the game. The End Game update is coming soon and it will bring a new set of levels for free!
Free Story Update: Secret of the Entity
We are preparing a big content update for all players for free! With version 1.0.5 you will get access to "Secret of the Entity" - more levels and more story incoming! UPDATE: Secret of the Entity Approx. game time: 5+ hours of gameplay Release date: June 2015 Price: Free for all users At the same time, we are working hard to release our first DLC for BLACKHOLE.
DLC: Testing Laboratory
On May 15th you will experience a new chapter in life of Coffee-Guy! DLC: Testing Laboratory tells the story back on the Earth. Testing Laboratory is kind of a flashback chapter, or a prequel if you want. Our hero has just signed up for the Endera's suicide mission, but he wants to be a captain of the mission. What had really happened and why he ended up as the coffee-guy? Try to uncover this secret! This DLC will be available for all owners of Collector's Edition for free! If you don't want to miss this chapter, you have the option to upgrade your game to the Collector's Edition - or you can buy this DLC separately. DLC: Testing Laboratory Approx. game time: +1 hour of gameplay Release date: 15th May 2015 Price: Free (Collector's Edition) or 1,99 USD/€ We want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hear how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio
E3 Expo is big opportunity for every game developer to get noticed by all world-wide media. Indies Crash E3 is a movement to make the presence of independent game developers a major part of E3, the world’s largest video game expo. We're now in the top 10 (6th place right now!) out of hundreds of games. But only 5 places can gain the spot on E3. So we need your support to make it happen! Thanks to our community we are on the good way to win this contest with Blackhole. But we need more support.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT
The contest ends on April 26th, so we have small amount of time to click some more support for BLACKHOLE! :) Support Blackhole here Don't forget to show us your own SCORE! We are curious how you actually achieved this success! Show us it here: Facebook status about contest Thank you! - Devs from FiolaSoft Studio
Dear players, we want to thank you for your amazing patience with us. We hope you are all enjoying BLACKHOLE. The following are brief upcoming news. It's been a month since the BLACKHOLE release and we've been trying to collect all your feedback. Please, continue to send us your awesome thoughts and ideas. For a better gameplay experience, we made these changes in this very critical update:
1.0.4 CHANGE LOG
MAIN ISSUES
- Improved engine processing by 400% (less FPS drops)
- Configurable key bindings option
- Fixed STEAM CLOUD functionality
- Featured Spanish language pack
- Player's profiles are more visible now
- (INF) Windows XP is no longer supported
- (NEW) You can turn off controller's vibrations now
- (NEW) Particles & GPU optimalization
- (FIX) Fixed bug causing sticking in the Sacred Library elevator
- (FIX) Fixed minor graphics glitches
- (FIX) Fixed random bugs with "duplicating" the player or platforms during the fast respawn
- (FIX) Fixed bug caused by obj_bug in the jungle
- (FIX) Fixed ingame menu that could not appear on lower fps when pressing escape button
- (FIX) Fixed ingame statistics
- (FIX) Synchronized subtitles with actual voiceover
- (FIX) Switched XBOX360 controller button (X) for confirm to (A) button
- (FIX) Added font support for more languages
- (FIX) Fixed sound volume issues
- (FIX) Fixed crashing the game in the lava run and crazy avalanche levels
- (FIX) Fixed Cpt. Jetsen rescue mission
- (FIX) Fixed un-achievable achievements
- (FIX) Fixed a bunch of critical bugs, causing crashes on some machines
- Adding support for even more controllers
- Option to play the game in "Adventure mode" with less dialogues
- Adding more languages (Russian, Polish, German, Italian, French)
DLC: Testing Laboratory
On the 30th of April, you will experience a new chapter from the story! DLC: Testing Laboratory tells the story back on the Earth. Test Lab is kind of a flashback chapter, or a prequel if you want. Our hero just signed up for the Endera's suicide mission, but he wants to be captain of the mission. What really happens and why he ended up as the coffee-guy? Try to uncover this secret! This DLC will be available for all owners of Collector's Edition for free! If you don't want to miss this chapter, you have the option to upgrade your game to the Collector's Edition. Or you can buy this DLC separately. DLC: Testing Laboratory Approx. game time: +1 hour of gameplay Release date: 30th April Price: Free (Collector's Edition) or 1,99 USD/€
Free story update: Secret of the Entity
And even more exciting news! If you don't want to go deep into DLC stories, we are preparing a big content update for all players for free! With version 1.0.5 you will get access to experience "Secret of the Entity". More levels and more story incoming! UPDATE: Secret of the Entity Approx. game time: 5+ hours of gameplay Release date: May 2015 Price: Free for all users On the other hand, we want to greatly apologize to all players with Windows XP, before this update Windows XP was functional, but we have updated our code to a new engine version which also means that Windows XP is no longer supported (in fact it has never been, but we want to be honest and say this). Also, we want to thank you for all of your positive reviews and all the reported bugs. We are fully focused on making the game even more enjoyable and looking forward to hear how you like the update on our Steam Discussion forum! Enjoy the game, FiolaSoft Studio
BLACKHOLE
FiolaSoft Studio
1C Company
2015-02-27
Action Indie Adventure Singleplayer
GameBillet
7.43 /
€
Game News Posts 50
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support
Very Positive
(579 reviews)
http://www.blackhole-game.com
https://store.steampowered.com/app/322680
The Game includes VR Support
BLACKHOLE LINUX [1.12 G]
BLACKHOLE: Testing Laboratory
BLACKHOLE: Collector's Edition
BLACKHOLE: Challenge Vault
BLACKHOLE is an award-winning hardcore platformer with over 15 hours of story-driven sci-fi comedy and gravity-twisting puzzles. Complete Edition now available!
When the crew of the spaceship Endera is sucked into a black hole, it seems like the end. Fortunately, the ship crashes on Entity – an unidentified object resembling a planet. After the crash, the first member to wake up is the guy who makes coffee for the crew - you! There’s no one around and your only ally is Auriel, the ship’s computer’s sarcastic A.I. Together, you’ll need to come up with a plan to fix the spaceship, save the others and become heroes of planet Earth by closing the black hole once and for all. It won’t be an easy task, because the mysterious caves, lost cities, towering mountains and deep forests are full of tricky, gravity-defying puzzles and deadly traps.
Main features:
- More than 90 levels in 6 dimensions to explore
- Hundreds of secrets to discover and puzzles to solve
- A fully-voiced sci-fi comedy with a cool soundtrack
- Pixel-perfect controls for both keyboard and gamepad
- OS: Linux (Most distros should work)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 DuoMemory: 2 GB RAM
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: SM4 512MB VRAM
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04
- Processor: Intel Core i5Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: SM4 1GB VRAMNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Recommended Xbox 360 Controller with Xinput Drivers installed
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