Greetings and Salutations!

Smintheus celebrates its first birthday today. As a part of celebration, a discount of highest all time number will enter the party - 90% for one day. A giveaway of sorts!

Enjoy the game and have a nice weekend, folks!

Starts at: November 11 at 10 AM PST
Ends at: November 12 at 10 AM PST

Hey everybody!

Long time no see. As most of already aware of, my country is experiencing difficult times now. It's pretty tough, but fortunately for me not really critical. I'm staying home, safe and sound, away from the major events... hoping for the best!

Anyway...

Yesterday Smintheus became part of Ukrainian Indie Games Bundle #2. If you wish to support indie developers, then feel free to purchase this bundle full of wonderful games.

Link to the Bundle!

That's not it! This announcements also comes with the update:

• Couple of minor bug fixes
  
• Fixed major bug which under certain circumstances allowed players to have infinite life points
  
• Fixed major bug where certain options were not taken into account after game restart
  

Hey all!

Good news everyone!

• Steam Trading Cards feature is out!
  
• Price reduction (till the end of this year)
  
• Couple of tweaks on some mid game levels
  

• Gerald the Mouse
  
• Lanky the Cat
  
• Cactus Warrior
  
• Toby the Miner
  
• Sylvia the Fox
  
• Skoggz
  
• Bela Le Goosey
  
• Francis Von Drake
  

Hey everybody,

Behold! First Update since game release.

Major changes:

• "Supportive Movement" feature - no more accidental steps on uwanted places such as water cell. The game will require you to hold move button little bit longer before the water cell so that you won't accidentally step on it during your journey.
  
• Middle Mouse Button now toggles camera zoom!
  

• Bug fix: objects that had ambient sound effect attached didn't played at all.
  
• Bug fix: there was a small chance game would transit you into wrong level after victory screen.
  
• English: fixed couple of typos in some dialogues.
  
• Minor changes in first two levels
  

Hey everybody!

Smintheus finally sees the light! Yahoooo!!!

It's been a long journey, nearly 6 years full of sweat, blood and tears, but here we are - bringing a fine product with high quality polishing an indie game developer could afford. If you like action-adventure games like "The Legend of Zelda", but wish experience the challenge of puzzle genre then this game is for you - especially for you, if you are a 90s retro game aficionado. Smintheus is a true new retro-like game with a spirit of oldies mixed with modern accessibility.

Without doubt, made with love!
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So, what's next? Game development doesn't end with release - there are couple of plans that needs to be addressed. Here are some that concerns Steam release:

• Publish a walkthrough, both written and video versions
  
• Finish drawing achievements (they are all functional)
  
• Translate game to as many languages as possible
  
• Extend soundtrack, Ideally, each level has its own tune.
  
• Port to Mac
  
• Modding support
  
• Level Editor
  

Hey, hey people!

Here are some latest news about Smintheus I want to share with the public.

Release Date

Smintheus was planned to be released today. Unfortunately, mainly due to covid-19 world situation, it's not going to happen. The virus gave a big kick to the economical situation for lots of countries and in some way it affected developer as well. Game development was frozen and forced developer to focus on survival.

But not anymore!

Things got good again and opportunity to continue working on Smintheus finally arrived! The game should take one or two of additional months to be completed - expect release at the end of July. Most likely it will be released with 5 out of 7 episodes. Other two episodes will be added in a form of updates. Right now, game already provides nearly 10 hours of gameplay.

Quacktale Sewers

Even though project was frozen because of reasons, some little portion of time was still dedicated to development. It brought a new episode which consists of 8 levels - Quacktale sewers.



it's a sewerage system built on top of old ruins below underground. Despite the harsh conditions, many mouse folk found their home here. In the eyes of local dwellers, sewerage system of the Quacktale city is a great, well-hidden place isolated from the dangers of outer world, best suited for smaller creatures like they are. Perfect choice for a home, isn't it? Well, the world of Smintheus is not perfect and soon the folk will learn it the hard way...



Players will have opportunity to use new custom gadget. There will be shops that offers these new gadgets for sale as well other useful items. Puzzles will be more challenging and put the player into the situation where a combination of gadget planning and monster manipulation will be required to solve the challenge.

The Rogue

A new enemy type will be introduced as well - The Rogue. This shady character can disarm your traps and place his own. He will also throw knives at you and dodge your bullets. They are good, but you're better: the best way to beat this guy is to outsmart him.




Camera

A new major feature is added to the game - the almighty camera! Yes, that camera that is present in almost every game. It's, of course, an optional feature which you can disable in option menu or just toggle it off by pressing a button. As a result, It gives a great sense of motion and game feels more alive. Definitely a level up for a game.

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That's it. Thank you for your read!
Stay safe and stay tuned for more :)

Best Regards,
Henry