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Name

 HexiHashi 

 

Developer

 NCC Moore 

 

Publisher

 Devonian Interactive 

 

Tags

 Indie 

 

Singleplayer 

Release

 2021-01-19 

 

Steam

 € £ $ / % 

 

News

 3 

 

Controls

 Keyboard 

 

 Mouse 

 

Players online

 n/a 

 

Steam Rating

 Mixed 

Steam store

 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1219070 

 
Public Linux depots

 HexiHashi Depot [82.06 M] 




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Patch 3

Hey Launch Day Crew! I got some fresh patches for you!

So, I think I may have finally found the problem with the achievements bug. I fixed two things, either of which might have been causing it in my estimation.
1. In the steam achievements configuration, each of those stats was tied to a reported stat, but for some reason, the range on the stat was zero to zero. I hypothesize this might be the cause of getting achievements without having even downloaded the game.
2. The default value for a lot of the stats (by in-game reckoning) is -1, and -1 is always less than whatever time trial threshold you may want. I was, like a big dummy, using an equality comparison to check if the value was -1 or not, but I was comparing it to an integer, not a float (which is the native data type of these parameters.) I have changed it to an inequality comparison, which should be stable. At some point in the future I'll patch in an "achievements validator", so you can get these achievements fair and square, but not tonight 0_0

I'll be able to tell from the achievement percentages if the fix has taken, but further bug reporting is universally appreciated.

The steam overlay should not pause the game during the level-complete dialog anymore as well.

Also, I managed to track down that weird bug where inputs wouldn't respond for a a few seconds every once in a while. It turns out this was an indexing error in the sound effects script, and it only happened when the game reaches the last entry in the modulations file. I've fixed it, so that shouldn't be a problem anymore.

Further to that, I took luckz's suggestion with respect to making the victory screen suspend, rather than quit, the current game as the second option. You can pick up where you left off now after having completed an entire puzzle. Thanks for that!

Anyways, hopefully that achievements bug is finally taken care of.

Happy Trails!


NCC Moore


[ 2021-01-20 02:21:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch 2

A new version is up with the following changes:


  • "Resume" button is disabled after having performing a data wipe, because "you wouldn't want to end up in the middle of invalid memory!"
  • Squashed the bug with the time attack (and other modes) not triggering best stage achievements. Turns out I had used > when I meant < ! Gets me every time.
  • Steam overlay interaction should work now. Expected functionality is for activating the overlay to pause the game when unpaused, and to do nothing if the game is paused or on the title screen. The steam overlay wasn't working for me at the time, so I haven't had a chance to test it. (If someone would shoot me a line that it's working I would appreciate it ^_^)
  • Added fourth instructions screen with some additional info
  • BGM is (very) attenuated during level-up and game-over sound effects.


In addition to the above bug fixes, I've done some major tweaking to the achievements, based on feedback from some wonderful people. I used MATH and GAMEPLAY ESTIMATES to try to bring all the achievements in line so that the game can be (hypothetically) finished in 20 hours of playtime. Mileage will vary widely of course, but some of those achievements were 100+ hours to get, so this was good feedback I think...

Here's an overview of the changes:


  • Substantially reduced the number of puzzles you need to play to get all of the "play something a certain number of times" achievements.
  • Modified Levelling formula. It now takes subSTANtially less XP to gain a level, especially at higher levels. Again, this has been brought roughly in line with the 20 hours of playtime estimates.
  • For players who already have some levels, the game will automatically recalculate your level based on your accumulated XP when you launch the game.


One of the planned updates is daily challenges, which will award higher XP amounts, so that will also probably offset the time it takes to hit level 100.

So yeah! I think that's everything that needs to be taken care of pre-launch. I have a very healthy list of suggested features which I'll be gradually patching in over the coming weeks. (I might have thrown one in here, but sorting out the achievements pre-launch was higher priority for sure.)

Thanks to everyone who has been enjoying the game so far, and thanks to everyone who has been providing feedback.


- NCC Moore


[ 2021-01-17 02:08:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch 1

New version up, here are the changes:

Bug Fixes


  • Windowed mode - Game should no longer pop you back into fullscreen mode, and windowed mode should be consistent across sessions.
  • Achievements Bug - You should not get all the completion time less than x achievements by default upon starting anymore. You'll just have to EARN THEM.
  • Leaderboards - Maybe these are fixed now? Hard for me to tell, I need some data coming in from players to be sure. Might have to contact Valve for support actually...


New Features:

  • Windowed mode hotkey - Press "F4" at any time to toggle windowed mode.


That's it folks! More changes to come! Gotta get all the bugs fixed by launch day!

NCC Moore

PS: If there are any Mac users out there, I would really appreciate if you could try it out and see if there are any bugs outstanding. Normally I would borrow someone else's for this, but, ya' know... global pandemic and all that...


[ 2021-01-12 23:27:31 CET ] [ Original post ]