Hey All! Thanks for a very educational launch. I've got quite a few things on the roadmap, but alas I'm only one person so I have to pick my battles accordingly. And this week those battles are:

-Changed windows taskbar logo from Godot to custom Boyce
-Defaulted difficulty to beginner (formerly known as 'easy')
-Story mode now loads a custom 'beat map' for levels 3,5, and 6 to address player comments on overall difficulty.
-Story/Beginner mode now regenerates health at a faster rate
-Attempted to address case of PS5 controller bumpers not working (thanks papercoyote!)
-D-pad movement now works to select first option on summary screen (thanks brett!)

I'm going to make an effort to tweak the ability to be a bit more accessible to non-rhythm gamer folk. If you run into any issues please throw them on the discussion page or hit me up on the discord directly - thanks!

-hotfix for saving issue

Hello everyone!

I just want to thank you if you're reading this. It's been a long journey of learning, failing, and trying again to get here - and although the product isn't perfect - I'm still pretty proud of what I've done so far. A little background: I started coding during the pandemic and really enjoyed it, I quickly joined multiple game jams, took a couple programming classes, and discovered the Godot Engine.

Fast forward two years and here we are: Boyce the Voice! It's a silly little game and I've got lots of work to do still. Please bear with me - this is my first commercial release so I'm still figuring out quite a bit. Prepare for errors, bugs, save files being corrupted, and long unnecessary cutscenes (whoops!).

I think we're just going to move into a shoddy beta where I build this thing as I go along and hopefully the chaos will be manageable if you're along for the ride. There are quite a few things I need to get to critically, and a ton of quality of life improvements I need to get on as well.

But I'll be frank: I'm a little tired of working on this game. I intentionally scoped it small, and like all good software projects it ballooned into an wreck about a year in. Haha. I'm trying to claw it all back to a tidy little piece you can play and get a memorable experience out of.

Okay, thanks for reading and see you on the other side.

-E