Hi everybody! Ivan's here. In the latest patch i have released a small number of improvements, thanks to all the suggestions and hints given to me by players on the forum and on the discord server!

• Fixed the "spare metro ticket" miniquest image, which was wrong
• Lowered consistently the wallets and bags spawn rate in all of the game scenes.
• Now the drop rate of shops being robbed is much lower, from 1 to 3 items. Also shops have now a parameter in their json file ("shopMaxItemsDropOnRob") which can be tweaked to choose the maximum number of item that can be spawned when each shop is robbed (default is 3). I will take some time to tweak them and release another update in the next days.
• Fixed a bug in the modding engine which prevented custom c# scripts to be properly compiled when attached to furniture items. Now furniture items created by modders can implement custom c# scripts for new behaviours to be created.
• Consistently lowered the prices paid for furnitures by the furniture buy shop in the vanilla game.

As always thanks to all the people playing the game and giving me support, advices and hints. Also i would like to give a special thanks to modders who are working on the modding engine, helping me out in developing new features and fixing problems as they find out about them (especially XC who is creating a lot of content and helped me point out many problems and things to fix). That's all for now, i will be back in the next few days with further improvements, balancing and fixing. Happy Hard Times everybody! iv.

[ 2020-04-08 20:59:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hard Times is an extreme urban survival game where you have to put yourself into the shoes of a homeless man, taking on all the challenges that daily survival places in the great metropolis of indifference.

You will have to look into junk, beg for money, escape corrupt policemen and citizens maniac about decorum. You will feel hunger and cold. You will suffer in the long rainy nights and be glad when you can get a decent meal.

You will have to learn to build your own tools by yourself, craft and recycle objects to gain resources. You will make artifacts of all kinds, including furniture, work benchs, kitchens, beds, cardboard boxes, storage containers for your little treasures and much more.

You will probably have to give up your innocence to survive. Small thefts and looting will become a gesture of self-preservation, beyond any moral judgment. You will know the thrill of introducing into an abandoned property to take possession of it.

You can choose whether to become a squatter and build your base in the city, live in a homeless camp or move your stuff daily with a cart to sleep every night in a different place.

You will be hunting for rats and fishing radioactive fish to cook them in the live fire of an old rusty bin. You will contract illnesses, use drugs and experience on your skin as cold and indifferent the great metropolis can be for those who live Hard Times.






### 10% of all revenues created by this game will be donated to "L'alternativa Onlus" a charity ngo organization, active in homeless people support programs in the Ostia Lido (Rome - Italy) territory. ###