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We’re releasing DLC!

joshsteam_community_announcements

1114d ago

Hey everyone! Alex and Josh here, the devs on Heavenly Bodies. We hope you’ve been well since the last time we made an update on here :) We have an exciting one today for all of you. Remember when we said about a year ago that we were working on more content? We’re so happy to finally reveal what that content is – our DLC, Cleanup, coming on July 26th! We’ve been working hard on this DLC for a good while now. It’s given us an opportunity to prototype and implement mechanics we’d always wanted to make but didn’t find a home in the original game. The DLC has also given us a chance to develop a larger scale level and change up how the new gameplay is structured. Expect a brand new, huge semi-open level split across 7 days; a new Piloted Manoeuvring Unit (PMU) Vehicle; new tools and gadgets including magnetic attractors, drills, and more; and new challenging gameplay mechanics! A large challenge with developing it has been finding the balance between the bigger scale of the new level and pacing the introduction of new items and mechanics. There are still lots of things those of you who have played the base game will be familiar with, but there are also lots of new exciting things for you to learn and discover as you progress. It was a delicate balancing act to find a logical place for all of this across several hours of new content. And we mean *hours* – Cleanup will be anywhere from 3 to 5 hours long: the same as the base game itself! The DLC on its own is priced at $7.99 USD; if this will be your first time playing Heavenly Bodies, the base game and the DLC together are priced at $25 USD. We’re really excited for you to play this. It’s our way of thanking you for all the incredibly kind feedback you’ve given this tiny 2-person developer duo. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We’ll update you again when the DLC comes out on the 26th of July. Please feel free to join our Discord for a humble but nice time with the rest of the Heavenly Bodies community. And please give the DLC a wishlist! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2391340/Heavenly_Bodies__Cleanup_DLC See you soon!

End of Year Check-in

alex2ptsteam_community_announcements

1322d ago

Hey everyone! As things wrap up for the year we wanted to take a quick moment to give you a little update with how things are developing with the new content. This is just a small check-in, but we hope it comes as reassurance that things are still moving along confidently! While it’s been a slightly slow year for development, we’re happy to say that the end is finally nearing sight. The new gameplay is fun, solid, and we’ll be proud to show you what we’ve created. But what does this actually mean? What’s in store? Well, while things are still subject to change and we’re not safely able to do any sort of grand reveal, we do have some fun new gadgets to show that we’ve shown prototypes for in our Discord. Behold:

The Manned Manoeuvering Unit (MMU)

https://media.giphy.com/media/LzScyy4i6MGHzUfjzt/giphy.gif This mean, glorified jetpack of a machine gives you improved mobility when performing tasks outside (and, if you're so bold inside) of the station. You'll be using it frequently to move around the large new spaces we have planned, so it's worth having a read of the manual and getting to know it well. Of particular note, is the ability to enter a 'hands free' mode when using the MMU. This allows you to use your tools without losing the unit.

The Drill Tool

https://media.giphy.com/media/prwdxXz8ErM8sf0xAn/giphy.gif We've been keen to get this into the game for a long time. It's actually been in the design docs since the early days but we just never found the right place for it. For the DLC we've finally picked it back up and given it some proper attention! Currently, you can drill together specific objects with bolts on them, as well as remove them to take objects apart. It's turning out to be a very satisfying mechanic that we're hoping to use all over the place, so keep an eye out for those special bolts while you're playing! The image above also features something else that's new to the game... tool storage! This will be a way to keep items secure, and allow a place for tools to respawn if they happen to float off into the void.

The Magnet Gun

https://media.giphy.com/media/0vewBodDB5qicQ4eRM/giphy.gif When engaged, the Magnet Gun will attract magnetic objects towards you and allow you to collect, move or carry multiple objects at once. The Magnet Gun can also be attached to your belt hooks while it's still activated, freeing up your arms to continue moving around while collecting objects as you go. You'll be making use of the Magnet Gun for all sorts of purposes, so keep it close. All of these fun new additions will be available as part of new gameplay content which, while I can’t yet give away too much about (a tease, I know, sorry), I can say is shaping up to be hours of new open-ended fun. It’ll be all the goodness and chaos of the Heavenly Bodies you know… but presented in a slightly more open, fresh way that, based on the feedback you've given us from the base game, we think you'll love. Of course, this all begs the question: WHEN? Please forgive me, we still don’t have a date. However, we’re past the trickiest stages of making new gameplay, so provided things stay smooth, we hope to have things ready to go in the first quarter of 2023. As you probably know, we’re a 2 person team, so everything takes frustratingly long, but we recognise how patiently you’ve all been waiting and we’re immensely grateful. Hang tight, friends. That’s about all for now. Stay tuned as announcements will definitely become more frequent as we approach release! We have some more development posts on our Discord which we welcome you to visit! It’s a humble time, but a nice time. Have a safe and pleasant end of year!

New Content Coming for Heavenly Bodies

alex2ptsteam_community_announcements

1540d ago

Hey everyone! Alex and Josh here, the devs on Heavenly Bodies. I hope you’re all travelling safe and well. First and foremost, we want to give our biggest, most sincere thanks to everyone who has given Heavenly Bodies a play. It’s hard to express just how magical it feels for us to see so many people enjoying (or, even better, absolutely despising) their time in space. Heavenly Bodies took a monumental amount of time and energy for our tiny team to develop over the last few years, so to see it well received makes it truly worthwhile. Thank you. We’ve needed a good rest to get our heads screwed back on, so we admit it’s been a pretty quiet start to the year and we thank you for your patience! Today, however, we’re pleased to announce that we’re rested up and, guess what? We’re starting the process of designing more content. Yep, additional Heavenly Bodies gameplay is on the way! We do have to stress that at this stage, the plans are very loose and that we can’t say what it’ll be yet, or when it’ll happen. However, we’ve been listening to all your wonderful suggestions (thank you!) and we’re looking to create some extra content that we know you’ll love. All good things take time, and we’re committed to making something worth your while, so we appreciate your patience while we get the next chapter sorted out! In the meantime, we’re of course still working on improving general stability and other gameplay issues such as controller support. We thank you all for helping us fix some surprisingly complex issues, and, as always, if you do experience any problems we kindly ask that you send us an email at [email protected]. We’ll do our very best to help you out. We're keen to be a little bit more open with development this time around, and we'll be posting development screenshots in our Discord! We welcome you to join us there or in the Steam forums and encourage you to share your thoughts on what you'd like to see more of in the future of Heavenly Bodies. That’s about all for now! Stay tuned and stay safe. We can’t wait to share more with you as things develop.

Update Notes for Jan 20

alexsteam_community_announcementspatchnotes

1659d ago

Hey everyone! We've been working hard on fixing a bunch of small issues, most of which you'll find in this patch! Check out this massive change log:

Added support for pairing multiple users to keyboard and mouse controls.
Fixed issue where some spawn points could cause the player to become stuck in space in Newtonian movement mode.
Fixed issue where the game would not end if a single player was connected to both ropes in the outro scene.
Added the ability to speed up the Operations Manual objective and challenge completion animations using Button South on gamepad and Spacebar on keyboard.
Fixed zoom action input threshold on Operations Manual.
Added the ability to navigate back to the title screen using Button East on gamepad and Back on keyboard.
Fixed music playback issue in Data if antennas were completed out of sequence.
Fixed music playback issue in Minerals.
Fixed missing I character when playing using a Turkish system region.
Changed collectable trophy display logic so that it now requires user input to finish the sequence instead of using an automatic timer.
Fixed issue where speedrun timer would pause during cinematics where gameplay was still in progress.
Fixed issue where speedrun timer would not work for some system cultures.
Fixed issue where speedrun timer would stop before the game had finished.
Fixed issue where speedrun timer would have a non-zero value at the start of Evacuation.
Fixed issue where speedrun timer modes would have the same behaviour. The ‘Game’ timer mode now displays the total play time for the loaded save slot.
Fixed rare issue where Evacuation airlock door would not open if the lever was pulled at a very specific moment.
Fixed issue where Operations Manual could be opened after completing a mission.
Fixed potential exploit where players could complete Data time challenge by restarting from checkpoint.
Fixed issue on PlayStation where players could not reconnect devices after the play session expired.
Fixed issue where escape pod would not depart if the player entered the seat before closing the hatch.
Fixed issue where ropes could break in the vents section of Evac.

Once again, thank you to all of our testers for ensuring that this patch is nice and tight. If something has slipped us by and you run into an issue, please don't hesitate to let us know - we'd greatly appreciate it. See you around. Alex from 2pt

Heavenly Bodies - Development Blog #001

Terrysteam_community_announcements

2381d ago

Hey everyone! Welcome to 2020, and our first official post for the Heavenly Bodies Dev Blog! We wanted to start by thanking everyone for the support and encouragement you’ve all given us in 2019. The responses we’ve had from the community have been so positive and constructive and have filled us with the strength and excitement to make Heavenly Bodies something (hopefully) really special. So… why a Dev Blog? For those who aren’t familiar with the concept, it’s pretty simple: We make things, then share samples and snippets for you to see. It’s a nice, easy way for us to keep you in the loop with what we’re working on, while at the same time allowing us to keep working on it! Just for today we’re doing a boring little ‘Hello Again’, but in the future we’ll be making short, spicy, nerdy, technical focus posts. If there’s anything that you’d love to hear about, please feel free to ask us in Steam Discussion or join our Discord. We’d love to know what takes your fancy. For those unfamiliar with us, we’re called 2pt Interactive. We’re a tiny team based in Melbourne, Australia, and consist of core members Alex and Josh. We’re both illustrators, designers, and lovers of motion, detail and games and interactivity. Some of our recent works include Short Trip and Pogocat, but we’ve been tinkering in the industry as interactive digital media designers for years, doing all sorts of weird work to pay the bills. Heavenly Bodies is our first large-scale original games title. It started from this question we had back in (yes, really) 2017, which was: What simple control method could we use to create an elegant, magical movement system which captures the essence of weightless human motion? After some (ugly) initial tests, we decided it was impossible and forgot about the idea entirely. Then, after a little bit more thought and time, we gave it another shot and decided that with the most absurdly challenging and over-engineered system of inverse kinematics and finely balanced physics simulations, it was possible. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35621539/07415d2c92fd755d24b574fd0973e5f9d597f7f2.png We hope it goes without saying that what we’re trying to do is really difficult, and that even with our years of technical experience, we’re having to squeeze out every bit of skill and knowledge that we have to make this thing tick. We both obsess over technical work like this though, and are determined to take all the time and effort necessary to make Heavenly Bodies feel and look just right. With our recent feature as a demo in the Steam Games Festival and exhibitions at lots of games expos, we may have been giving the impression that Heavenly Bodies is nearing its completion. In reality though, we’re still in early days, and are aiming to have this thing out some time in 2021. For the next few months, we’ll be working away on locking down development roadmaps, game features and further level designs. While this may sound like a trivial process, it involves a lot of research and discussion; trial and error; bickering and arguing; denial and acceptance, and more. We’ll be sharing as much of our development as possible, but please keep in mind that we are a very small team and creating the game is obviously our priority! So if we ever have any quiet moments, it’s probably because we have a new feature we’re implementing or working towards a major milestone. None-the-less, please stay tuned for some more nitty gritty posts from our tech lead Alex and art lead Josh in the coming weeks! We honestly can’t wait to show you all what we have planned for the rest of the year. Thank you again for your support. - 2pt Interactive https://2pt.com.au

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