Hello agents! A new community Discord server is here! This server is currently hosting Competitive games, tournaments, events, and more!
All games played in the server will count toward your Skill Rating for the season. At the end of every season, credits will be rewarded based on what tier you finished in. Credit values subject to change. Season 1 begins on April, 14th and will last for 3 months, so it isn't too late to hop in! New Competitive Seasons and tournaments will continue to debut for the foreseeable future. It's all happening in the Community Competitive Mindnight Discord Server! Oh you also get a 5k credit code just for joining!
Come check it out here.

Welcome to a new part of town.
The new NTF-Access point is located in a small part of Chinatown called Hong kong. Special thanks to Amy and Ivan. You guys are the best mindnight_heart To ensure that there is enough workforce within the NTF a lot of new agents are joining the force. In total there are 13 new skins: [table] [tr] [th]Name[/th] [th]Preview[/th] [th]Artist[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]The Fool[/td] [td]
[/td] [td] Tobias [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Winky Dinky [/td] [td]
[/td] [td] Jacob [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] Anubis [/td] [td]
[/td] [td] Jacob [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] Liam [/td] [td]
[/td] [td] Corn Cobra [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] Jamie [/td] [td]
[/td] [td] Jacob [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] Billy [/td] [td]
[/td] [td] Corn Cobra [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] Redd [/td] [td]
[/td] [td] Jacob [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] Dylan[/td] [td]
[/td] [td] Corn Cobra [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]The Ponderor [/td] [td]
[/td] [td]Jacob [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Corporal Plastic [/td] [td]
[/td] [td]Corn Cobra [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Robopants [/td] [td]
[/td] [td] Jacob[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] Lexi[/td] [td]
[/td] [td] Amy[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Bonnie [/td] [td]
[/td] [td] Amy[/td] [/tr] [/table] In addition to the new agents, a few existing ones got new improved coats. Alice
Jond Blames
Dr. Whom
Gnome
Jonesy
Nefer The Undying
Million-A.I.-re
New bubbles for 'Cloning Vat F-48' Old
New
Also a very big thank you to all the people from the community that enjoy creating this nice content for the game. mindnight_heart Feature-wise this update sadly doesnt contain much. This brings us to the next topic of this post: The future. As you may notice updates got less and less frequent over the last year. We mostly added stuff that the community created. The team considers MINDNIGHT to mostly be feature complete at this point. For most of us, MINDNIGHT is a hobby project that we created in our free time. That being said, we need to be realistic and admit that we just cant keep new high-quality content coming forever. But dont worry, we wont shut down MINDNIGHT anytime soon. As long as we can afford it, the servers will keep running and we will try to keep the game in a working state with minor updates here and there if necessary. Regarding the mobile version of the game, we need to still disappoint you for now. Because not much progress has been made. A complete redesign of the UI is required to make the game work on small screens, and that is just too much work for our limited free time while other projects are going on in parallel. Lets get back to happier topics. mindnight_saint The last 4-5 years were a great journey and it wouldnt be the same without all of you. The players, the content creators and all the friends that helped during the several stages of MINDNIGHT life and its development. Nothing makes us happier than seeing people enjoying our game with friends or even making new friends while playing it. So keep having fun with it, especially in these weird times that we live in right now! The whole Team wishes everybody great holidays and a happy new year 2022. Here is a little Christmas present for you. [spoiler]7ec8cdc1e3[/spoiler] You can redeem that in the marketplace and then buy something nice with it ;) As always join our discord to get in touch with us or the community and keep up to date with everything regarding MINDNIGHT and No Moon. Cheers! - the MINDNIGHT TEAM

Greetings Everyone! We're listening to the feedback we received. The plan is to slow down skin releases, with each update being further apart and containing less skins, while focusing more on events and features. That said, this update does come with the following 5 skins:
1) Disco Dave - Created by Jacob (Community) 2) NTF News - Created by Luke (No Moon Artist) 3) Iwa Wa - Created by Phillip (Community) 4) Miya - Created by Amy (Community) 5) Lian (Male and Female) - Created by Amy (Community) Join the discussion on Discord! Thank you for your patience, stay tuned! -MINDNIGHT TEAM

Happy 2021 everyone! There are tales of new fantasy themed skins making their appearance, check them out:
[olist]

Merry christmas everyone! We have some new skins for you to unwrap! 1) Barion - Created by Luke (No Moon Artist) 2) Ogdoon - Created by Luke (No Moon Artist) 3) Isak - Created by Luke (No Moon Artist) 4) Trond - Created by Tobias (Community) 5) Rob Gloss - Created by Luke (No Moon Artist) 6) Benny - Created by Amy (Community) 7) Henry n Charles - Created by Corn Cobra (Community) 8) Gingerbread Man - Created by Corn Cobra (Community)
Alongside the skins, there are a couple of fixes to the game: - Fixed text in Nuke Phase (Mainframe) - used to show some rich text tags - Tweaked bot AI for Agents This is going to be our last update this year, as such we'd like to seize this opportunity to wish all of you a merry christmas and a happy new year! Join us on Discord to stay updated on what we'll bring next year! Cheers! -MINDNIGHT TEAM

Hello MINDNIGHTERS! It's update time! New skins are now available!
1. Pro Gamer - Created by TradeMeForHalo (Community) 2. [UNKNOWN] - Created by Luke (No Moon Artist) 3. Trisha - Created by Luke (No Moon Artist) 4. Sir Frank - Created by Luke (No Moon Artist) 5. Susan - Created by Luke (No Moon Artist) 6. Arcade Machine - Created by Jim (Community) 7. The Old Mage - Created by Theo (Community) 8. Jessica - Created by Amy (Community) A huge thanks to Tobias for this update's banner art! The team's efforts are focused on the big 3.0 update, which has been in the work for months now. Thank you for your patience! Join our Discord to find out more. Stay tuned! MINDNIGHT TEAM

Hey there, MINDNIGHT Community! The new Halloween 2.10.0 update is now live! The Halloween event will last until the 8th of November - so grab your limited deals and skins now! We have new skins to scare the competition!
[olist]

Nefer The Undying - Created by Luke (No Moon Artist) [/olist] ...and, we have some new limited skins being added to the game!
[olist]

Hey there MINDNIGHT nation! Firstly we want to take the time and mention Among Us, in case you don't know the game and congratulate InnerSloth for their successful boom through the kindness of content creators. We love all social deduction games, and we know you do to, so certainly try the game if you have not yet! MINDNIGHT seen a similar little promotional boom, thanks for Youtube content creators, although not at this scale - but it helped MINDNIGHT a lot to bring you all together and be part of this great community. Without further ado, let's get into the details of this next content update that is now LIVE:

Changelist:

• We have improved the Select Phase Timeout - If you select the amount of required players and the time runs out without you pressing submit the proposal is submitted instead of the AI routine kicking in. Additionally if players will not propose in time and there are not enough players selected, the proposal is skipped instead of the AI making the decision.
• We have fixed some chat exploits that made the game crash sometimes
• We have fixed the cancellation of matches if they were already completed on the server
• We have improved the chat readability in certain level backgrounds
• We have adjusted the shop layout to always display the new skins that are available to purchase at the top of the shop

New Skins:

Three years. There has been three years since we launched the game and we had 30 players in the first month, until we made the game free to play. Now we are over 240.000! Happy great birthday MINDNIGHT, and happy birthday to you all, we raise a glass for all of you that are supporting the game, helping us improving it and putting a lot of time and passion in MINDNIGHT. We have to thank you once again for being so patient with us, and understanding that MINDNIGHT afterall is a project very close to our heart, and we are trying our best to put our free time into it as often as possible in order to improve everything that needs improving. Oh, and there's a lot to be improved, we assure you, we know. With this update we come forward, finally, with trading cards, as we have been in discussions with Valve over them for quite some time now. Happy collecting and happy using the emoticons that come with it! Additionally we have been busy creating a more streamline process to create skins for both us the developers and the community in order to try as much as possible to update the game's content more often! We'll try to do monthly updates from now on! Before going into the short list of skins that we've been added to this update, we also wanted to quickly dive into what we are working on right now: [olist]

Improving the process of buying a skin, so that the choice is easier for all players [/olist] Here are the new skins that we have been added for this update:
[olist]

MINDNIGHT has been around for almost 3 years now, and in our limited time while developing other games or tending to you full-time jobs, we always have struggled in trying to take care of MINDNIGHT's strong, big and passionate community. In good or bad moments, we have always turned to the community whenever we wanted to make a change, ask questions, open a dialogue or generally get help with anything. We are so grateful to have such a passionate and big community and we have thought for a while now that it deserves more. More events, more care and love and generally speaking we also need more time in order to really improve, fix and elevate MINDNIGHT's gameplay and universe. And in order for us to do this we have decided that is time to increase our team, get dedicated community managers and increase the number of moderators both in-game and on Discord. That is why we are proud to welcome two brand team members to No Moon, in order to help with MINDNIGHT and even other titles in the near future. Ivan Cotti aka iv2b representing the EU continent and tending to the community from the EU timezone and Andrew Lara-Kane aka Lofegolf representing the Americas and the US timezones and tending to the community from that part of the world.
We are so grateful to have them on our team and we are looking forward to see what ideas they have around taking care of MINDNIGHT's community and at the same time trying to grow it as much as possible. Let's now get to know them a little bit more.

Take a moment and introduce yourself to the community

When and how did you first discovered MINDNIGHT?

What do you like at MINDNIGHT the most and how would you describe it in a few words?

What are your goals as a community manager for MINDNIGHT?

Last but not least, what are some other games that you play beside MINDNIGHT?

Any final regards that you might have for the community?

After a week of hard work from all community members we spend the last few days choosing 10 finalists out of all of the 83 skin submissions. We have not expected so many submissions, and so much talent when we have started this contest. We are overwhelmed and really glad that we have so many passionate talented community members. Now - it is your turn - everyone in the MINDNIGHT community to decide the winners. All finalists will have their skin implemented in the game, but only three of them will get the big prizes. 1st Place: 50$ Steam Gift Card + Implementation of Skin in MINDNIGHT + 30.000 In-Game Credits 2nd Place: Implementation of Skin in MINDNIGHT + 15.000 In-Game Credits 3rd Place: Implementation of Skin in MINDNIGHT + 10.000 In-Game Credits Honorable Mentions: Implementation of Skin + 5.000 In-Game Credits (All finalists) You can only choose one so choose carefully. Choose your favourite skin and vote here -> https://forms.gle/tVCSbgidvBmRxoBYA We will announce the winners Saturday at 9PM UTC. Cheers, MINDNIGHT TEAM

Hello MINDNIGHTERS! we just pushed a very small hotfix addressing the issue with player names and reputation buttons not showing in some cases. Happy hacking, your MINDNIGHT Devs.

ART STUDIO RELEASED

What does this mean for MINDNIGHT?

How does it work?

• #info-read-me - Where you can find out everything about how the Art Studio functions
• #skin-guide - Quite self-explanatory - redirecting everyone towards a newly created skin guide
• #community-skins - The old, but moved channel where everyone can post their ideas and concepts
• #pending-skins - @Artists post skins here taken from #community-skins that they deem suitable in terms of theme and quality to be added to the game
• #approved-skins - @Dev-Artists post skins here taken from #pending-skins that were approved by them and the skin creator can now start creating animations for that specific skin
• #completed-skins - This is where @Dev-Artists will post completed skins that already are zipped and animated, for No Moon Developers, to get them implemented in the game.
• #skins-gallery - This is the gallery that has compiled all skins created thus far from #community-skins. Over 500 community skins.

How can I contribute?

SUMMER COMMUNITY SKIN CONTEST

Rules and Specifics

Let's dive into the patch notes: Fixes:

• Fixed some exploits that allowed some players to manipulate some minor aspects of the game, unrelated to gameplay
• Fixed some visual bugs affecting the chat system
• Fixed some security server loopholes that were pointed by one of our community member that was really helpful! Thanks a lot!

• Server performance when a lot of matches save the leaderboard has been improved
• Improved general server security

Hello MINDNIGHTERS! A small update is live now with very few specific changes and some surprises. In relation with our recent blog post about Bots and how they grew to be more than just a way to handle disconnections, into a reason for some players to abuse their patterns - we have decided to make some long-awaited changes to them. https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/667870/view/2074411495522256418

BOT CHANGES

OTHER STUFF

Hey there MINDNIGHTERS! This will be our first ever developer blog post. In these series we will try to cover development, justify new features, share interesting game facts, highlighting community feedback and elaborate on how MINDNIGHT is evolving. We also want to open a dialogue in order to get the valuable feedback that we need to make sure we are taking the right decisions moving forward.

Why Blog Posts now?

Celebration! Over 200k total players!

Improving Community Suggestions Process

Our views on METAGAMING

MINDNIGHT Development Goals

• We want to evolve MINDNIGHT into a game that emphasizes the importance of passive information and communication, rather the information that some players invent or exploit through metagame strategies.
• We want you to feel rewarded when you are nice to other players, non-toxic and overall focused on the match to communicate.
• We want you to not feel punished whenever you are playing in a particular style that might not be in line or synced with the other players in a game session
• We want you to not exploit a particular mechanic in order to gain advantage over other players, unless you are just better at communicating, deducing and manipulating
• We want you to have agency, but not be harassed by other players whenever you choose to do something in a particular way
• We want you to feel a sense of progression, but really not blame or rage whenever a game does not end with a Victory.

• Exploits and Metagaming
• Toxicity and Raging
• Motivation and Competitiveness

Bot Reading and Bot Exploits

Introduction

If the bot does not always refuse a proposal with a certain player, then the bot is an agent. [/olist] This gives a great cheating advantage to agents. Currently, abusing bots using the methods mentioned above, is considered a very discouraged metagaming. Some players leave the game to intentionally abuse the bot behavior - usually to prove innocence - this is reportable & bannable. Intentionally leaving the game is not allowed, moreover this is a direct abuse of the game behavior, it is considered cheating and you should report it under cheating.
Well - frankly speaking - players wanting more reliable gameplay outcomes is the cause of the problem. Any way that a player can take advantage and win a game - is a good excuse for exploiting a mechanic. Making bots not have a ruleset, will make the bots have no value. What are the consequences of this problem? Whenever a bot is tested by agents, hackers are put into a significant unfair disadvantage Significantly lowers the quality of matches, due to how reliable bot testing is sometimes.
We will try as much as possible, periodically - sometimes without notice to make the bots unreadable and non-abusable, but solutions and discussions will not be limited to that, we are open to different mechanics for disconnected players. The next update will have changes in bots and we think that will make them non-abusable for a while.
That is why we want to propose the following solutions and we want your thoughts around them: We are considering adding a feature when after a player disconnects a match, to let the players choose if they want to continue the match or not with a Bot replacement - while also making the match not count as a win, nor as a loss - if continued. Changing their behavior periodically in order to not become abusable - but within a ruleset that is not 100% random.
You might say - make them completely random. There are pros and cons to that.

• Bots behavior is completely unreadable
• Hackers hesitate to hack when included with their hacker bot teammate. This is good because when bots are unreadable, they become agents disadvantage

• It becomes a great disadvantage for agents, because even if the bot is an agent, its complete randomness makes it difficult to convince it for their proposals and they cant gain reliable information about its role.
• Agent bots can become the hackers advantage, by accepting their proposals or hackers framing the proposals.

That being said - because we want to ultimately address the disconnections issues - we want to go away from making Bots random, as it was proven in our tests that they are in their best form now - and they are trying to play as human as they can. We will just improve and change them periodically while considering other options to handle disconnections.
Let us know your thoughts around this and we will listen closely on all of our communication channels. Join our Discord to have the highest chances to have your voice heard. Stay tuned - In the next blog post we will be talking about the next issue in line - Hacker Protocol. Over and out, MINDNIGHT TEAM

[ 2020-03-29 19:56:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Crazy days. Crazy months. As we are working hard on doing lots of gameplay adjustments and on the mobile port - we have scheduled for this year a number of updates to bring more content to you for different occasions. Some occasions are secret, some are obvious. This time around we are bringing some new content + a new seasonal event! St. Patrick's. Happy St. Patrick's everyone! You are now able to put your hands on two new deals, one including a small Leprechaun skin!
We have also added a few new skins that you can check out in the shop now:

• Mr. Whom
• Town Drunk
• Cyber Thug
• Gimp
• Gnome
• Holo Grant

• OK Hand
• and.....a Snowman

We have just pushed a small update with the following changes:

• Fixed the ghost lobbies. The lobbies without any player shouldn't be there now anymore.
• Improved custom games browser.

Hey there everyone - we are doing an update with some important new improvements. Among the changes the game can now support voice chat on MacOS devices and we have made some preparations for other changes that will come soon in a bigger update.

Community-driven Development

Improvements

• Added support for animations for static skins such as Xmas Tree, Cake etc. that are not conveying to the default classic skin template
• Implemented a moderator in-game tool that can be used to manually ban players in extreme cases faster
• Changed the End Game Screen layout in preparation for the Reputation System development
• Added a Game Rating feature in the End Game Screen, where players can now rate the game that they just played with stars. We will use these ratings internally to improve the game.
• The number of active ongoing custom games are now displayed in the main menu
• MacOS users can now play Custom Games with Voice Chat
• Small performance improvements when loading
• We changed the time allowed for a player to join a match if he disconnected from 5 minutes to 3 minutes. Players will now need to join a game back faster, in order to avoid punishments
• We have changed the punishment amounts for when a player would leave a game. The first penalty was changed from 5 minutes to 30 minutes The second penalty was changed from 15 minutes to 1 hour The third penalty was changed from 30 minutes to 24 hours The forth penalty was changed from 1 hour to 7 days

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where emotes would be broken when a player would type colored names
• Fixed an issue where the chat would break when typing extremely long words
• Fixed a typo in the Reputation System Widget
• Fixed a glitch that would trigger when pop-ups would be active in the game menus
• Fixed a bug where the Cake Skin would be mirrored in-game
• Fixed a bug where the animated background in the main menu would enable again after playing a match

Notes

• The issue with achievements being claimed twice, was identified as not a bug, as the bug only occurs only on the client side. On the server side players receive the correct amount of credits and achievements cannot be claimed multiple times

Hey there MINDNIGHTERS, We wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for supporting MINDNIGHT so far and for continuing to play it! For the first time we have reached a milestone that we have never thought we will ever achieve after 2 years after launch. For the very first time we have Overwhelmingly Positive Recent Reviews. More specifically 99% of the last 30 days reviews (116 Reviews) are Positive Reviews! This may not mean a lot for the regular Steam user/player but for the perception of the game and for our motivation is incredibly important. Last but not least, having 99% recent positive reviews also means that MINDNIGHT was pushed in the Steam Visibility Algorithm and this is all because of you! Thank you! Despite the obvious problems that MINDNIGHT faces, such as toxicity, low playerbase, meta-game harassment, not so often updates and balance issues - we want to express our gratitude and humble thanks to all of you out there that believe in the concept and in our team. As we are moving forward, we are working hard parallelizing three fronts around MINDNIGHT: [olist]

It's December, so that means another year has passed. Another interesting year in which MINDNIGHT evolved into something that we have never imagined when we first released the game after a couple of months of development, after a short game jam. Christmas is the perfect season to reach out to others when laughter and good tidings are in the air. Heres hoping that your Christmas will find you among family and friends, sharing the spirit of the season. We would want to take this chance to tell you to try to not be toxic or in anyway mean to anyone in MINDNIGHT and in any other online game these days. Some players out there that maybe have no family and want to distract themselves from this time of year by playing some games. Instead, be mindful, kind and warm. We are doing a giveaway on our Discord with DLC Keys and Redeem Codes for in-game coins. Come and get your key while it lasts! If you don't want to join our Discord server you can also redeem the keys from here: :hacker: 50 DLC Hack Me Hard - Redeem here: http://tiny.cc/DLCgiveaway :credits: 100 Uses - Redeem 10.000 in-Game Credits: ace944b849 Cheers, MINDNIGHT TEAM

We just released a very small update with the following fixes:

• Ingame Gesture Toggle Button had wrong colors
• Load Static City Background after a match if selected
• Winter Bundles not visible in the shop

We have just pushed a small update when we fixed the following issues:

• Fixed an issue where players would only be able to report just one player at the end of a game. Now player can report multiple players again by accessing the Thumbs Down Menu, and pressing on the Report Button.
• Fixed an issue where some thumbs down and thumbs up buttons for the Reputation System could not be clicked

INTRODUCTION

THE REPUTATION SYSTEM

Happy Halloween!

What we have in plan

• Improved and expanded Reputation System with Progression and Rewards
• Improved and expanded Vote History
• Extend the level cap and introduce new rewards for leveling up
• Add a play again button in the after game lobby
• Allow Key bindings to be changed in the settings menu
• New Maps (WIP)
• Scripted Tutorial
• Color-Blind Mode
• Gameplay rehauls to discourage and exterminate metagaming and metagaming harrasment
• Economy Retweaks
• Localization Support
• Mission System
• Draggable/Resizeable In-Game Chat Window
• Public Player Profiles

Halloween 2.7.0

New

• Reputation System In our efforts to make MINDNIGHT a more safe and enjoyable environment for both new players and veterans we have decided to add a system in which players can praise each other for their good plays and behavior. We have implemented this preliminary version of the Reputation System, where players can vote on their good or bad behavior at the end of each match. The Reputation system does not influence anything at this time, but we would like to update the feature in small steps and bring the rest of the system into place gradually. We would like to find out if you enjoy this feature and if you think this brings value to MINDNIGHT and your gameplay experience. Furthermore, we plan to add new modules and experiment with them as follows: - Positive reputation points will be shown in the Profile Screen - Reputation progression to reflect a players level of good or bad behavior
• We have added a total of 10 new skins Trick or treat and be scary. May you have a Halloween full of candy. Halloween Special Skins! We have added four skins to celebrate Halloween: Frankenstella
  Scabber
  Jack o Lantern - Limited until 5th November
  Stan - Limited until 5th November
  We have also added 5 non-Halloween skins: Hobo Joe
  The Human Pizza
  Penny
  Misung
  Chavo
  Last but not least - to celebrate 2 years since MINDNIGHT came to life, we have added a special 2-year anniversary skin. Cake
  
• We have added 8 new emojis:
  - Time - available by default
  - Cactus
  - Sleepy
  - Nervous
  - Celebrate
  - Smug
  - Suspicious
  - Mindblown

OS Support

Other

Thank You

Hello! We just updated the game with a small patch.

Fixed:

Improved:

Changed:

Hey there folks, Long time no see. As always. We will try to make this announcement short and sweet so that you can go back playing. We are super excited to announce that we have just pushed a new update 2.6.0 which contains our first iteration of VoIP. Courtesy of Vivox. Thank you Vivox!
From now on you will be able to create custom games with friends or strangers alike and play MINDNIGHT by communicating via your microphone. In-game you will still be able to type, but whenever someone will talk through his microphone, a small icon will be displayed above that specific player so that everyone will have an easy time following who is talking during gameplay.
This might seem like a small update, but this is our first step towards expanding the MINDNIGHT universe towards other platforms later this year. Yeap, in case you havent heard it from our Discord yet, we are preparing a mobile version of MINDNIGHT that will be available for both Android and iOS platforms. We cannot say for certain when that would be released, but its gonna be ready when its gonna be ready. This mobile version will be loyal to its PC version and it will not change gameplay, offer weird in-app purchases or other mobile gimmicks. All additional features (top secret) that will be added on mobile, will be available on PC as well, and vice-versa. What??! Don't you guys have phones or what?
Work in progress! The game will be cross-platform so everyone will be able to play on the same servers the same version of MINDNIGHT, together, forever. We are working hard to balance things out in the reporting system, roll out more bans over overly toxic or abusive players. We made a promise and we will deliver on it. We will improve and grow MINDNIGHT until everyone on the planet will play the game at least once. And Pewdiepie, for the memes of course. It's just like Dark Souls. Thats all for now, we wont spoil anything else about that version of the game. Last but not least - thank you to all of you that have helped test out everything before updating the game. HmmmmMMMMmmmm 42d542a17e HMmmMMMmmmmm HmmmmmMMMMmm Still Closed! Cheers, be respectful in-game and if you have any feedback don't hesitate to join our Discord and wreck the channels. Btw, the game is not dying. You're dying. We will make it grow once again soon, don't you worry. Watcha going to do about it? Help us or what? MINDNIGHT TEAM

Is it hot in here? We just updated the Server with a small hotfix update. This update should fix the bugged out matches that were caused by the Party system. At this point, I want to say sorry for the issues we had and also thank you for the help in hunting that nasty bug. Here is a Redeem as a small excuse: "0b63a26248". As always please let us know if you encounter any bug or issue with the game. The best way to do that is to join our discord discord.gg/mindnight . Also, this update brings the Community Skin Bundle III, so you can get all the skins that were added with 2.5.0 at once. Have a nice day!

It's now or never. You can now play with players that are similar in skill and level. With new skins, new maps created by the community and new music, it's the best time to stop complaining about noobs and start playing with real people. Yes, noobs, we are working on a tutorial, we have heard it and we will do our best to implement it as fast as possible. In other news, we are working on the mobile version and we will do more and more efforts to bring more players to MINDNIGHT! Meanwhile, read those worthwile changes that will blow your mind"

CHANGES

• Added new Patreon names - Auston, Cameron and Adrian
• Added a new skin called Develyn
• Added a new skin called Aumar
• Added a new skin called Zakk
• Added a new skin called Jonesy
• Added a new skin called Claudette
• Changed the Game Mode screen, removed Ranked, as we will not be working on it anymore now, because an ELO system with leagues and seasons will not work properly with the current player base.
• Improved the matchmaking system to improve the general quality of games, matchmaking players with similar level and skill. We will improve the system regularly as we will observe its behavior and the data.
• Added order feature in the Leaderboard Screen
• Removed Ranked Play category in the Leaderboard Screen
• Players can now join a custom lobby, by clicking on the IDs that are posted in the global chat. This only works for Public Custom Games, not for Private ones.
• Added a new map selector for Custom Games where players can choose one or multiple maps in a more accessible way
• Added a new map called the Hideout
• Added a new map called the Skatepark
• Added a new map called the The Sewers
• Added a new map called the NTF-Agency
• Added original soundtrack scores and ambient sound for each new map, composed by our amazing in-house composer Sasha Sirbu. New tracks will be added to the already existing MINDNIGHT Soundtrack DLC soon.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where the Cadet Skin has a typo in the description
• Fixed an issue where players were not shuffled before a match

Congrats to all winners and awesome job! We'll implement these soon. Noteable Mention: @TheWindowsUser92 Worst Map: @BulletBudgie! Best Map - 3rd Place - @J-Kode Best Map - 2nd Place - @Blearky BEST MAP - 1st PLACE - @unwillingpudding See map submissions, winners and prizes below:

Hello! We just updated the game with a small patch.

Fixed:

Changed:

Scrape together, hoard the talented, forgather the pixels and cluster your ideas onto MINDNIGHT's first Map Contest. Since the last Skin Community Creation contest, we have been asked hundreds of times when would we organize the next community contest. Here we are now! We hope you gathered all your strength and patience cause this will be a hard one. A lot of explanation to do and a lot of instructions to respect in order to qualify as being the Map BG King. In addition in winning a lot of In-Game Credits, your map will be implemented in the game and we will also send a shiny nice MINDNIGHT T-shirt to your house. It will smell of indie developers, we apologize in advance. You should wash it before wearing it. In order to participate you need to create a map background for MINDNIGHT in 2 weeks. The contest will be over on the 22nd of July. Current map backgrounds are two, Subway and Backalley. You can see them here.

Technical instructions

Hey there, First and foremost thank you for playing MINDNIGHT and we hope that this update will spice up things with a new game mode that we are adding to Custom Games. The new game mode is called Mainframe and you are able to find out more about it here Let's get into some bugs, issues and new features that are in this 2.4 Update. Enjoy.

Fixed issues and bugs:

• Fixed an issue where the penalty given by the game to a player was not correctly displayed in the Penalty Pop-up
• Fixed an issue where the node tooltip was displayed continuously
• Fixed an issue where the continue button at the end of the game was not visible
• Fixed an issue where the achievement “Speechless” was not triggered properly
• Fixed an issue where the achievement “Not on my watch” was not triggered properly
• Fixed an issue where sounds were played during the mission phase by pressing hotkeys, even when the player can’t do any actions
• Fixed an issue where starting a party while being in the matchmaking queue was not working properly
• Fixed an issue where a muted player was still able to write in global chat
• Fixed some general typos in the game’s UI text labels
• Fixed an issue where players were able to use a chat exploit to impersonate other players
• Fixed an issue where skins were not sorted correctly

Changes and new features:

• When a player receives a penalty, he is now able to see the amount of time that he is on a penalty in the Penalty Pop-up
• Added a new Game Mode, called “Mainframe”. For more information on how the game works go here. This new Game Mode is only available for Custom Games. At this point we are not planning into adding it to the normal matchmaking. Enjoy and don’t forget to give us feedback about it in our Discord.
• Added 7 additional female variant skins for all progression skins
• Added 11 new in-game names (Thanks a lot to our patreons for supporting the game and believing in MINDNIGHT)
• Added 46 new achievements
• We have removed 3 achievements that were encouraging players to behave against the game’s rules and recommended gameplay loop.
• Added a chat notification when a player is passing a turn.
• When a player is being banned, a notification will be send automatically to our official Discord server, in the #bans channel
• Players that reported another player will receive now a pop-up notification when that respective player will be banned. Thank you for being diligent and making MINDNIGHT a better place.
• Custom games settings will now persist and be saved
• Players that will not play for more than 90 days, they will be automatically removed from the leaderboards. This functionality is in effect as of now.
• The Skin Deal price was increased from $0.99 to $1.99 for all skins which costs more than 10000 credits to balance out the monetization

Hello! We just updated the game with a small hotfix.

Fixed:

Changes:

Improvements:

Hello hackers. And agents. We just rolled a quickfix with some bug fixes and improvements. Thank you for your support and patience. We will constantly listen to your feedback and without our dedication and diligence we would not be here now. Right, let's go into the patch notes now:

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where letters were typed twice on Linux Devices when writting messages in-game
• Fixed an issue where the user interface was overlapping when closing the How to Play Video
• Fixed an issue where the global chat was displaying the text on two lines and was not readable
• Fixed an issue where the backstory info buttons were too small and unclickable
• Fixed an issue where the dates were showing incorrectly in the match history
• Fixed an issue where animations were played when using the Jukebox Skin or XmasTree Skin
• Fixed an issue where Custom Games played always showed "0" in the player stats
• Fixed an issue where the Node Team Rejection counter showed the wrong number
• Fixed an issue where the current node was not displayed correctly when reconnecting to a game
• Fixed an issue where the chat log messages were not showing displayed when looking at the Vote History Tab

New Stuff

• Added a new emoji - The Broken Heart Emoji
• Added a new emoji - The Hammer Emoji (suggested by ItsShero)

Hey MINDNIGHTERS - ready or not here we have our semi, sort-of monthly update. This time a huge update with lots of changes! Before going in the change log, we wanted to thank the beta testers that helped identifing bugs and suggesting general improvements of the new features that we have added. The game would not continue to grow without you and your constant support. Thank you! Now the change log: FIXED BUGS:

• Fixed an issue where the XP text on the first win of the day was not displayed correctly
• Fixed an issue where a chat bubble would not be displayed if a lot of emoji's would've been present in a message
• Fixed an issue where the node hover tooltip got stuck during a mission change if hovered by the player

• Complete re-design and re-implementation of user interface across all main menu screens.
• Added a new maintaince mode message notification
• Added user interface notification indicators for when a player unlocked something new
• Added a Party System. Create a party and invite your friends to join the fun together!
• Added in-game notifications where players are inviting other players in a party and/or in a custom game
• Changed and re-designed the Custom Game Lobby with extended custom game customization options
• Added skin lore backstories. Find out more about the world of MINDNIGHT and the characters in it
• Added a welcoming message in the global chat in the Main Menu
• Players can now see in global chat when a Moderator or Developer is typing
• Moderators and Developers are now able to mute players in global chat for abusive language, harrassing and spamming
• Added a Special Skin Deal. Each 3 days a random choosen skin will be on sale for 0.99$
• Added level display for players after a match is done
• Added a Redeem System. Use Special MINDNIGHT keys to redeem rewards given out from giveaway, moderators and developers. For example: 1000h4ack$. Ctrl+C, CTRL+V.
• Added an option to display the Main Menu Background without animations for potato computers. Don't worry, we love you.
• Added option for players to choose a Random Skin.
• Added keybindings for gestures, Hack, Secure, Accept and Refuse actions - you can see the keybindings in the Options Menu
• Added timestamps to global chat messages
• Added six new skins: Raggy, Alice, Angela, Holo San, Bob and Jond Blames
• Added five new in-game names from our beloved patreons: Loki, Andrew, Appa, Situ and Sunny. Thanks a lot for supporting us!
• Added Discord Rich Presence Integration. Players will not be able to see when you play MINDNIGHT in Discord.

• Players will now be redirected to the Custom Game Lobby after finishing a Custom Game with their friends
• Players must now have level 3 in order to participate in the Global Chat
• Increased ban durations
• Increased penalty durations

Prepared or not, we now have our ecquisite music now bundled into a DLC together with a shiny Jukebox skin. Together with a new small update bringing some small changes and new things. The Soundtrack of MINDNIGHT, in "220kbps MP3's" format and also in a high quality .flac format . Over 4 tracks, unlooped, for over 10 minutes of pure synth ear joy composed and scored by Alexandru "Sasha" Sirbu, No Moon's music composer. This package also includes a bonus track that is not implemented in the original game. Track-list: 1. The Hacker (1:44) 2. Rooftops & City Lights (2:08) 3. Cyber Market (03:47) 4. City Drive (Bonus Track) (03:06) https://youtu.be/wVHlZ0PNAXs Last but not least we have also included a super awesome surprise future-worthy wallpaper at a 4k resolution with the beautiful sunset of San Francisco. The patch notes for 2.2.5:

• Added new patreon names in-game
• Added DLC with the officialy MINDNIGHT OST
• Added the Jukebox Skin

Hey there MINDNIGHTERS, We just rolled another small update, in our effort to update the game more often. This update contains skins that were proposed by the community in a Skin Creation Contest. The skins were proposed originally by:

• Generic User (the most talented skin creator) - Hangover John
• gangster_heart (one of our veteran players and ranked 1 in-game) - Grim Reaper
• Fudjijama (one of our beloved Discord moderators, xoxo!) - Tuxedo Guy (Kingpin from Spider-Man)

Snuwolfie aka Eva (Skin Contest Big Prize Winner) - Leela (Futurama) You can see the original Contest prizes and winners below:
Together with these skins we are creating a bundle that it is valued at over 17$ in this update that contains all of the Skins from this community event and it can be purchased for only 6.99$! Now, the complete changelog for 2.2.4 update:

• Five new skins proposed by the community in the last Skin Contest Event
• Added a skin bundle in the Credits Marketplace for only 6.99$
• A sound will now be played after each purchase

As a closing note for some of you that might be concerned about this. We will never add anything regarding monetization that will affect the gameplay in anyway. For those that want to support the game, you can always choose to purchase cosmetic features in our game or not. Nevertheless playing our game will always overwhelm us and that is the best way to support the game. Join our discord to take part in development chat and find games - discord.gg/mindnight Thanks, have fun and cheers! MINDNIGHT TEAM

[ 2018-03-05 20:37:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there guys, We have just pushed another patch and we are working around the hour to tweak and fix any issues. Thank you for your patience and help to make MINDNIGHT better. Patch Notes:

• Tweaked the penalities when abandoning a game
• All the faulty penalties should now be reseted, let us know if this issue persists on our discord.gg/mindnight
• Tweaked the number of reports that are needed for a player to be banned in certain situations
• Improved the general AI behavior - we will keep improving this in order to create a more human-like behavior

Hey there, Thanks a lot for your recent response and feedback! We have done another hot fix, addressing some of the recent feedback that you, the community expressed in the last 24 hours. Explanations and reasoning behind the recent decisions that we've made are explained below the patch notes, including what we have done in this hotfix to address any issues that we had in the latest update. For us it's very important to put all of our efforts in making MINDNIGHT a better game and listening to you feedback as fast as we can. Last but not least, we apologize for any inconvience or ill intented feelings you had to put up with during the last major update 2.2. Hotfix Patch Notes:

• We have disabled the Level Based Matchmaking for now, to counter long queue times. This is a temporary solution, until we modify the system with a more versatile approach
• We have re-added the Find Game button in Custom Game Lobbies, as a temporary solution until we will introduce the Party System. When the Party system will be introduced, the Custom Game Lobbies will not be connected in anyway anymore, with any other game mode queue
• Renamed Casual Mode to Quick Play to emphasize the fact that this is the quickest way to find a game, although some players may be queued up with players of different skill levels

Thought process, Reasoning and Future Plans

Dear players, We just updated the game with a small hotfix where we solved several issues and made a few improvements. Fixed: - The emoji selector in all chats is not replacing anymore the written text in the chat input field - Fixed game mode window layout issues in certain screen resolutions - Fixed connection problems on starting the game - The ingame maintenance notification is showing the time now correctly Improvements: - The game mode window is now closeable using ESC - Improved server performance - Show purchased emoji in emoji selector right after purchase Make sure you join us on Discord if you haven't already to stay in contact with us and the community. Cheers! The MINDNIGHT Team

Hackers, Agents, A much-expected update that we have delayed several times it's now love. We apologize for this late update, but we have worked very hard in refactoring the game's code, implement, fix and add new features to accommodate the current state of the game. Thanks a lot for your patience and your help in improving the game together with us. We have added a lot of things, and changed some elements in the game, but the most notable are the Automated Banning System, Penalty System and Join in Progress.

Automated Banning System

Join in Progress

AFK/Leaving Game Penalty System

NEW FEATURES

• In order to accommodate the difference in skill between new players and more experienced players we are introducing level based matchmaking with 3 level groups - 1-10, 11-20, 21-30
• When pressing the play button, players can now choose between Casual Mode and Custom Games. We are working on the Ranked Mode and this will be added at a later date
• Added a new skin called Mr. Hacker
• Added 4 new emojis - Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, Thinking and a Heart
• Players can now re-join in progress games in case of disconnection
• AFK players will now be kicked out of the game
• A penalty system now it's implemented to punish AFK players and players that abandon a game on purpose
• Players are now automated banned when reported by a lot of players
• Added two new names to the general name list used in Casual Mode that were submitted by two of our fellow patreons - Patrick and Nunya
• Winter Custom Maps were added to Custom Games
• Added an option to select the gender name before searching for a game.
• Added a notification when planned maintenance will be announced before hand
• Added a new splash screen with warning text about conversational gameplay, warning players about the nature of the game
• Added spam protection for both global and in-game chat windows
• The global chat now it's also accessible from a custom game lobby
• Added the emoji selector in the global chat as well
• Added Screensaver mode

CHANGES

• AFK players are now kicked out of a match. A player becomes AFK when not making an action two times in a row (e.g. a player did not propose a team and after that he did not accept the next team proposal)
• We have improved several AI-Player behavior to prevent finding out their role
• Disconnection messages in-game chat shows if a player left manually or by disconnect
• The Find Game button was removed from Custom Games because this encourages meta-gaming and cheating. We are working on a Party System that will only work in Casual Mode in the future, with certain limitations

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where high ping caused FPS drops or freezing of the game
• Fixed an issue when a steam invite was not working after a match was completed
• Fixed an issue when a game lobby that was in progress did not close properly, and it was displayed in the custom game list
• Fixed an issue when sometimes disconnected players were not detected by the game client
• Fixed an issue where ASCII codes were breaking the chat
• Fixed several game glitches when a match would end before a team won 3 missions
• Fixed an issue where players would get disconnected on loading screen and the players would not get marked as being disconnected in-game
• Fixed an issue where clicking on how to play and then pressing ESC would stop all the main menu music
• Fixed an issue where ESC would make a player leave the lobby when a friend invite is open
• Fixed an issue where disconnected players were getting experience and credits
• Fixed an issue where the achievement "Finally, we caught them" was not working anymore
• Fixed an issue where the experience sound was playing after the maximum level was reached
• Fixed an issue where the report button at the end of a game would not be clickable when obscured by other UI elements
• Fixed some typos in all menus

Merry X-mas, hackers, agents, elfs and mandeers!

• Improved emoji graphics
• Integrated special event. The one activated now it's for Christmas Holiday
• We have implemented a Reporting System. Players can now report other players at the end of a game. Through the reporting system the game can now handle suspension and banning of players that are not respecting the rules of conduct.
• 6 new skins are now available. 4 of them are exclusive for the Christmas Event
• We have added a new emoji: owo
• We now highlight the players that were on a certain node mission inside the Vote History tab in-game
• We have now added an Emoji and Gesture selection ability in the in-game UI. This can be used at all times during the game.
• Player avatars are now playing the Cry/Celebrate animations depending on their outcome at the end of a game session

• The overall performance of the server has been improved
• We have fixed an issue where custom games were shown, even after they were not available
• Fixed an issue where a node would be hacked even if a hacker was not on that respective node.
• Fixed "Everyone Loves You" and "Divide and Conquer" achivements
• Fixed some achievement icons not showing properly
• Fixed an issue where the Lobby Chat did not support emojis
• Fixed an issue where new players did not had visibility over the last messages in the Global Chat in the Main Menu

Sup hackerz? We just updated the game with a few small changes and a lot of improvements both on the server and client side. Thanks a lot to everyone that helped us find issues and bugs and for all of the reports. For those of you that want to contribute and help us improve the game going on, do not forget we have a very active Discord community here. Join us and let's make MINDNIGHT better together. For the next period of time we will focus on the X-mas update that brings a few new features and themed content. ːsteamhappyː Without further ado, these are the changes that we just pushed:

Gameplay changes:

• We have changed the lenght of the talking phases, and incremented them depending on which node the game is at a specific moment. The old value for all node talking phases was 70 seconds. New values: Node 1 Talking Phase - 30 seconds Node 2 Talking Phase - 45 seconds Node 3 Talking Phase - 60 seconds Node 4 Talking Phase - 75 seconds Node 5 Talking Phase - 90 seconds Old Talking Phases Total Lenght - 350 Seconds (6 minutes) New Talking Phases Total Lenght - 300 seconds (5 minutes) We have made this change because it is in line with the amount of dialogue that is going on in each phase. The further the node, the more everyone has to talk about.
• Added text colors for the following words to highlight words that are related to gameplay for both Agents and Hackers: GREEN - secure, secures, secured, securing, agent, agents RED - hack, hacks, hacked, hacking, hacker, hackers

Fixes and improvements:

• Fixed a general issue that glitched the server in several situations. There are situations where the problem might persist. If so, please help us identify them.
• Fixed a high CPU usage issue when a lot of messages were sent in games
• Fixed an issue when the Hide UI button was not instancing all menus and screens
• Fixed an issue where when a player is too late for an lobby invite via Steam and clicks the invite later, the game was stuck in a functional loop.
• We have fixed a potential exploit where a tooltip was different in the UI, making players know who were the hackers and who were the agents by asking what the tooltop sais. The tooltip caption was now replaced with a neutral tooltip for both Agents and Hackers.
• Fixed the tooltip for the Reject mission button
• Fixed an issue where names such as Hanna and Anna were not colored correctly.
• Fixed an issue where a player was 2x hacker, leading to some matches in having 2 hackers instead of 3, for example.

Hallo there MINDNIGHTERS, After another week of crazy stuff, lots of suggestions and a bunch of new players in our community we are doing another small update, bigger than the last one in which we are making small changes and we are adressing some bugs and issues that were both known and/or reported by our players. First of all we want to thank all of you for the support, perseverance and patience around the game as we are adressing some issues and preparing for big improvements in our upcoming X-mas 2.1.0 Update. Here is a full list of the changes and for any other suggestions and issues that you have, join our [discord.gg/mindnight]Discord so we can chat, talk strategies and find games if you are in a different timezone than the current playerbase.

New Features

• Temporary leaderboard sorting change - where now we are sorting the leaderboard not based on W/L ratios, but instead around how many wins. NOTE: This is a temporary improvement until we will polish the ELO system. Together with the ELO system we will most probably introduce soon after ranked games and unranked games but the is still TBD.
• Added a small feature where gestures are now auto-completed when typing them
• Added more name in the Funny Names list in Custom Games
• Added a small feature where players can repeat a command by pressing the Up Arrow Key
• Added Maintenance Mode to control when and how the server behaves while under maintenance.
• Improved the disconnected player AI: Now the AI will always vote Yes on the node team Now the AI will always vote yes when on hammer Now the Ai will vote randomly when not on a node team, minor role bias added
• Improved server logging, where each phase will log in its room ID, thus showing errors better when multiple room are running
• Improved statistics tools where we monitor additional in-game stats
• Players now can send a message by also using the Numpad Enter Key
• Players nicknames are now saved in Match History Server Data

Fixed bugs and issues

• Partially fixed - An issue where game with disconnected players, started behaving uncontrollably.
• Partially fixed - An issue where players found themselves in an endless loop in the selection phase
• Fixed an issue where players would receive First Win of the Day, two times
• Fixed issues with infinite looping sounds
• Fixed a consistency issue where the scrollbars in the UI were not behaving in the same way in all menus
• Fixed an issue where the chat would scroll at the last message where a new one would be received
• Fixed a typo of "Strak" to "Streak" in the menus
• Players that leave a match will also get a win or a lose in their match history and that match will affect their ranking.
• Fixed an issue where emoji image tage would get colored and bugged

Hey there hackers....and agents... ːsteamboredː Thanks for helping us go through the transition. The more people play the game, the busier we are. Therefore, we are working on the game almost 24/24 to improve, fix and add new features. Before going into patch notes I want to let you know that we now have a Thunderclap campaign going on so that we can spread the word about the MINDNIGHT, together. With you help and dedication we can grow the game and improve it. Only with your suggestions and demands we can create a... cough... master-piece. Also, we now have a Patreon page as well, where you can give us all your money. For what? Well, you can received special flairs on Reddit and on our Discord Server. And also, T-shirts and other goodies if you are really generous. Now for our hotfix we have:

• Fixed an issue where Steam was thinking that the game was still running
• We know show players their local curreny/prices in the marketplace for Credits
• We have fixed an issue where micro-transactions were not working for certain player from certain countries and regions
• Fixed an issue where the Match History was showing defeats for games where, as an agent, was a win
• We deleted "Will", we will miss him

Hey folks, The wait is over. We are now Free to Play and we would like to thank everyone that helped in this transition. All players that already own the game will be properly compensated with In-Game Credits, that can be used to purchase Skins, Emoji or Gestures. If you have any issues do not hesitate to contact us. Together with this we are also releasing a big update with the following changes: Join our discord here - https://discord.gg/mindnight TL;DR: Progression System, Over 18 Skins, lots of Emoji, Gestures, In-Game Credits, matchmaking improvements...and more.

• Reworked the Main menu and now features a more straightforward way to search for a game, and access all of the other menus present in the game
• Added Profile and Stats section, where we show your stats, match history, achievements list and your collectibles progression
• Added Global Chat in the Main menu, together with Find-A-Game separate chat room
• Added Skins, the ability to change the character that appears while playing
• Added Emoji, can be used during chat, full list in-game. For example: :) (Smile Emoji)
• Added Gestures, can be used during game-play to trigger an animation on your character. It work with any skin. For example: /laugh (Laughing animation trigger)
• Added Marketplace, where player can purchase with in-game credits Skins, Emoji and Gestures.
• Added Credits, that can be acquired through game-play but also through micro-transactions
• Improved the overall functionality of Custom Games
• Changed the maximum number of player from 10 to 8 to balance the game more
• Added Community external links section and announcement sections to the Main Menu
• Added Leaderboards, where players can see their position world wide and see the Top Players
• Added a How To Play Video that can be accessed through the Main Menu button
• Added Progression system, where the player can now level up by playing games, and from time to time, rewards will be unlocked. The maximum level is 30 right now.
• Added a Rules of Conduct button, that redirects the player to an external page, covering the rules of the game that need to be followed in order to avoid being suspended or banned from the game
• Added a tracking system where we can see abusive players and ban them
• Added a new gameplay map called Backalley. Players will be matchmaked randomly on a map or they can choose in Custom Games what map they would like to play
• Added a Connecting Screen, when players have difficulties connecting to the server
• We have reworked the Matchmaking system to facilitate more players finding games
• Players can now join a Custom Game Lobby even if they are invited through Steam and they have not yet run the game
• Added a Friend List button and functionality, where players can invite other players to a Custom Game Lobby
• The Mission Phase now has a duration of 15 seconds, down from 30.
• Added additional sounds for all events in-game. Approximately 30 sounds have been added.
• Integrate RedShell SDK for better installation tracking
• Fixed a bug where text got entered upon vote click
• Fixed a bug where entering a text and then performing other actions caused the text to be entered
• Fixed a bug where found players/player did not refresh sometimes while finding a game
• Fixed a crash where the game became unresponsive if Cyrillic characters were typed in-game
  
  [ 2017-11-30 18:10:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello fellow Agents, Hackers and Wish listers, We apologize for not doing more frequent updates, but we are looking at changing that from now on. As we are moving forward with the development of MINDNIGHT we would like to go through some subjects that are very important for us regarding going free-to-play, launching a new website for the game, expanding the community in a number of ways and adding new features to the game.

Going Free-to-play

TL; DR - We will go Free-to-Play starting 30th of November

Update 2.0 - New Features

• New Main Menu
• Profile and Stats
• Global Chat in Main Menu
• Friend List in Main Menu
• Player Database and Tracking System ....and more

New Website and Expanding Community

Hello there hackers..or agents... We are moving forward with our quick updates to improve the overall experience and prepare the game for some bigger changes that we are working on currently. Therefore we just pushed the update 1.0.2 with the following changes and new elements:

• When a player that is a hacker is Away From Keyboard now, it will always hack when the timer expires in the Mission Phase
• The Mission Phase is now 15 seconds from 60 seconds, thus making the game more fast-paced
• An issue with sending typed message when the Mission Phase started is now fixed
• When the timer expires in the Proposal Phase, it will not count as a failed proposal anymore
• When creating custom games, players can now choose from new several random name lists to play custom games
• Random Name assignor will now pick random names with different starting letters (first 3 letters)
• After a game is completed, players can now find a new game or create a lobby with the same players, to play again
• The player that created a custom game, can now kick players from the game lobby
• The steam avatar is now displayed accordingly for individuals that are not in your friend list
• Fixed an issue where players that are disconnected are not shown as being disconnected

Hey, I am Francisc, one of the MINDNIGHT developers. We wanted to thank you guys for your support and understanding during the launch. As you know, we will keep supporting and updating the game. In this context, we prepared a hotfix to resolve and improve some elements of the game. More so, as we are going through the first days of our release, we would also like to apologize for the long occasional matchmaking queues. For these times when it is difficult to find a match we created a discord channel so that we can gather more people in our community. In this discord channel you will be able to discuss with developers, find and create matches and discuss strategies with other players. You can access the discord channel here. Thank you for your understanding and your support.

MINDNIGHT 1.0.1 Hotfix Patch Notes:

• Players can now track and observe in Steam “last played with” players/friends
• Players that are found during matchmaking, are now displayed during matchmaking. Their Steam nicknames are now visible in the main menu. The nicknames are also clickable to show their Steam Profile.
• After a game ends, the nicknames of players are revealed, showing their real identity
• The How to Play button that redirects players to the How to Play screen was moved in the Main Menu
• The matchmaking system has been slightly changed. While finding a game, the matchmaking will continue until a match is found or matchmaking canceled by the player
• The maximum number of players in a game session has been changed from 10 players to 8 players
• Players can now join the MINDNIGHT discord channel from in-game. The link is displayed in the main menu while searching for a game.