Our last release contained a very unfortunate bug which rendered some portions of the game unplayable and made certain endings unreachable. In short: clouds fell down from the sky ... ... they no longer do.

[ 2024-01-30 13:54:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

After quite some time, we have released a new minor version release!

• Enhanced support for steam deck devices has been implemented.
• A "pixel-imperfect" rendering option has been added to the options to better utilize screens with aspect ratios other than 16:9.
• Linux users should notice that launching the game should now work as supposed.
• Lots of texts in the dialogues across the game have been cleaned up and a bunch of typos have been removed.

[ 2024-01-26 08:48:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Another minor patch release to bring the underlying framework (Electron) that is used to power the game engine to the latest version.

[ 2022-12-12 11:57:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Just a minor patch release to fix some issues that might occur during initialization of the game.

[ 2022-11-24 15:27:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

The previous minor release contained a bunch of bugs that slipped in: The new fullscreen toggle and the integration of the Steam overlay API were broken... :-( This release addresses these issues and fixes all known bugs! Yay!!!1

[ 2022-11-18 08:47:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

Full changelog

Added

• New in-game configuration options have been added to allow the individual adjustment of music and sound volumes.
• The possibility to toggle the game from windows to fullscreen (and vice versa) has been added as a menu option. The Desktop version of the game will persist the desired display mode and start windowed or in fullscreen mode according to the settings you made.
• The game has gained support for Steam overlays. Prior to this release, it was not possible to use Steam's key combination (usually Shift+Tab)to toggle the Steam overlay. This should now be possible.
• Gamepad types can be automatically detected. It is still possible to overwrite the gamepad button styles to be shown in help tooltips in the "controls" screen, though.
• Full support for Google Stadia game pads has been added. All overlays have been adjusted to show tooltips that match the button layout of Stadia game pads, if a Stadia game pad has been detected or manually selected.

Updated

• The Desktop apps are now based on Electron v21.3.0. As always, a new Electron runtime should offer improved performance, security and bug fixes, that may or may not be visible or even useful to end users.

[ 2022-11-17 13:49:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

This might be the last update for our little indie game, so go get it, while it's fresh!

• A bit of state persistence! Little ending icons will now appear in the main menu after finishing the game once to visualize which endings have been achieved and how many there are.
• It's all about the music! A new credit song arrangement with female vocals has been added to the game. The ending song in the credits is picked depending on the selected character asset. Ending E will play a formerly unused synth version of the ending song (with male vocals)

As always, the full release notes (and the source code) can be found on GitHub.

[ 2021-05-03 21:36:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

You can pet the dog. You should definitely pet the dog! Pet the dog already! This release contains a bunch of smaller bug fixes, improves some of the dialogues and is now based on a new runtime that offers improved gamepad support. Non-XInput-devices should now work out-of-the-box in most cases, so if you previously had no luck playing Friendly Fire with your gamepad, give it a try and let us know if things have improved. On top of the fixes and improvements, this release also adds two new alternative endings to the game. You heard it right: there are now five possible ways to finish the game (Endings A to E). Pretty cool, eh? The full Changelog contains all the technical details about this release, but be aware that it might also contain some spoilers concerning the new alternative endings.

[ 2020-11-30 21:15:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

As the game is fully open source, the complete changelog can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/friendlyfiregame/friendlyfiregame/releases A little note to the tech savvy people within the community: If you want to participate in the development of the game, you can always grab the sources, build the game yourself or leave your bug reports directly in the GitHub issue tracker.

[ 2020-09-05 10:01:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

We are proud to announce a new version of Friendly Fire. We have listened to the community and improved the game in many ways.

New Level Design

The level design has been completely redone and we are especially glad to tell you that many more quests and riddles have been added that make it worthwile to play the game for a second time, even if you already have finished version 1 some time ago.

More content

We have added a tutorial at the start of the game to ensure that new players get up to speed in no time and are able to learn the mechanics of the game. A bunch of new non-player-characters have been added and most of the dialogues have been polished. The overall time that is required to finish the game should now be between 30 to 60 minutes depending on your "style of playing".

New Character Selection Mechanism

Some players felt that the gender fairy felt way out of place. We apologize to all players that felt that such a construct might be offensive, unnecessary or even transphobic. Our intent was to offer a funny way with tongue-in-cheek humor to switch the player character (which is randomly chosen on game start up between a male and female version), but we have obviously failed to do so for some of our players. Sorry we want to do better.

Improved Gamepad Support

Friendly Fire did offer full controller support from the very beginning. With the new version it is possible to switch between PlayStation and XBox/XInput hints to make sure that your chosen gamepad better matches the on-screen help.

New Soundtrack

The soundtrack has been completely remastered. When watching the credits, don't miss the new song that has been written, composed and performed by some members of the team!

[ 2020-08-28 20:31:44 CET ] [ Original post ]