Lakeview Valley news & patch notes

Hello! Little patch for the weekend! I have to admit that I've been working on Lakeview Cabin 2 a lot this week and Valley has taken a step back. That, and I also finally build a pc and I've been slaying some demons... Been good for the mental health during these damned times. I hope everyone's doing well despite all of the stuff that's happening. Because hearing it from a random lone game developer is totally what you need... Anyway, I still got some bugs squashed, here's the biggest ones:

• Increased “Pogo's” reach
• Tried a little fix for the black screen in cutscenes, they might load a bit longer now but at least they LOAD…
• Made sure the Preacher knows if you’re lying about being violent
• Tried a little fix for that one specific butterfly ruining your hobbies with other butterflies
• Sheriff shouldn’t stay clapping anymore
• Changed some lines in the Russian translation

Hello everyone! Sorry for taking so long with a new patch, but I've been working on the translations, along with some of the nicest people I have ever had the privileged of working with! But a few bug fixes did find their way into this patch too! Here's everything that was changed: v1.25

• Added Russian language
• Added Chinese language (Still needs some work, but it’s already better than nothing!)
• Fixed background and fading issues with some cutscenes
• Fixed the cutscene where only your nose was showing
• Fixed an issue wtih the “sauna challenge” not activating as it should
• Tried another little fix for the butterflies staying on till the next day
• Fixed a problem with transitioning from the southern beach area to the town area that allowed you to travel out of map bounds
• Escaping BumBum through lake should not lower your popularity anymore

v1.24 A little patch for the weekend! Small list but big fixes!

• Fixed problem with some flowers not growing properly
• Fixed the wings appearing ripped after bringing a new butterfly to the table
• Hopefully the state of the flowers will now save properly
• Added a new cheat “allmyseeds” which gives you 99 units of each seed
• Fixed the transition from Stuarts house north that caused some players to glitch out of the map

Hello everyone. I was down with the flu (still am) and wasn't able to get a patch up sooner. But here it is now, more fixes coming later this week! List of changes:

• Fixed the muscle sore problem. It was actually giving you more stamina… (This is why, when someone asks me what I do for living, I still kinda cringe when I have to say I’m a game developer…)
• Fixed another muscle sore problem regarding the big flies
• Tried a little fix for the butterfly stuff not saving properly
• Fixed Donna’s butterfly
• Made sure the whole wing collection is visible…
• You can now find the jar and mug in the town, so you won’t lose them if you “travel” without them. They still might not be around on older saves.
• Fixed the butterflies staying during daylight
• Fixed some more stuff in that secret place that nobody seems to be talking about
• Tried a little fix for the underwater distortion staying on screen if you wait until midnight underwater
• Made sure the good doctor has his dialogue during _the_ rampage
• Fixed some portrait issues

Ooookkay here's some more fixes. Feeling a bit hungover but I had to get these done today. I'll be back with more fixes tomorrow! v1.2

• Made muscle soreness go away by sleeping
• Fixed the villagers spawning from the bottom of the map… Embarrassing bug, sorry!
• Fixed the mailbox not giving necessary items
• Made the “pogo” killable
• Reduced the amount of days some flowers need to grow

This is not all the stuff that has changed but here's the big ones:

• Added flowers that you can grow
• Added alcohol into the game
• Made time skipping faster
• Made the doll into an item you do NOT want to find. Now it randomly changes places, but with a bit of investigation you can determine where it is.
• Fixed the “ineedmytools” cheat screwing up the cheat input
• Fixed the stalls and the npcs not working properly on the second Sunday
• Fixed Frank only warning you about collecting the sauna rocks, now he will attack after the first warning
• Fixed the “gym” not giving stamina
• Buffed the zombies a bit, but I think I need to completely rework how they behave in the future…
• Fixed your seed and flower collection not depleting correctly when used
• Changed all the status effects you get from drinking or smoking flowers
• Tried a little fix for the issue that caused the Sheriff or the Doctor to not appear at the hospital, causing the game to soft lock

Hey all. I just updated the game. Lots of new stuff. More bug fixes coming soon. Sorry I don't have time to explain. I'm just slightly impaired, and I'll probably regret this "news" in the morning. I'll be back after the weekend with a better explanation on what has been changed. Maybe we can just pretend this is some elaborate PR thing to appear more mysterious. Sorry! I love you all! Roope

Hello everyone! Some good news and some bad news! I've talked about this on the Lakeview Discord, but I thought I'd write something here too. Good news is that it's the holidays and we're soon moving to a bigger apartment. Bad news is that it's the holidays and we're soon moving to a bigger apartment, which means that I haven't been able to work on the game as much as I have wanted. I know I promised the big update before Christmas, but life got in the way... I'm so sorry for not being able to deliver that... Buuuut I decided to upload a Beta for everything I've been working on for Lakeview Valley, which you can access from the games properties. A lot of the new stuff is still WIP, but there's some improved stuff to the base game (or at least I hope they're an improvement) so I feel like it's a nice patch in it's own. I'm just so sorry I wasn't able to get everything done I wanted. But now I need to take a breather and focus on the other stuff for a moment. I hope you all have great holidays! I'll be back full-force in January! For now, here's all the stuff that has been changed in the beta:

• Added flower-planting
• Added a pipe to smoke the flowers out of (status effects are not hooked up yet so it doesn’t do much)
• Added a teamug to drink some flower-tea out of (same issues as the pipe)
• Added a mailbox so you can receive letters, and maybe a gift or two
• Added butterflies
• Added more stuff to that trash thing
• Added more stuff to that big thing
• Added more stuff to that thing that scares the crows (this is very unfinished)
• Nerfed all the melee weapons
• The villagers will now get a bit stronger and faster every time you “travel”
• Added new stat “Base damage”, which affects how much damage you do (duh).
• Added new stat “Metabolism”, which affects how quickly you need to eat after gaining stamina.
• Added new stat “Sauna Skill”, which affects how much heat you can take in a sauna
• Added new stat “Mojo”, which affects how well you perform during THAT minigame
• Added new stat “Blood thickness”, which reduces the amount you bleed from wounds.
• Added new stat “Luck”, which affects how easily you find seeds with the shovel
• Another fix for the speed boost staying into the next day
• The doors at the town won’t lock anymore. It’s easier on the players this way, and nothing bad ever happens at the Valley so why would they lock them anyway…
• Extended the overworld theme, even though I believe a shorter loop makes people more murderous…
• Added a mute button for the overworld music in the pause menu
• The “murder-theme” will now play when near any corpse, instead of only when near the bus accident victim
• Added a thermometer to the sauna, which will show just how hot it is. Taking a good sauna will increase your metabolism stat.
• Tried to optimize the beach area so it will load faster (this was happening because of the stage updating the pathfinder map every time you entered the area, it might still happen since it’s required, but not as often.)
• Getting killed by the Sheriff won’t immediately subtract from your popularity points
• Changed the “ineedmytools” cheat to give you only tools
• Added cheat “greenthumb” to give you all gardening items
• Added cheat “imhangry” to give you some food items
• Added cheat “dontlookatme” to give you all the masks and Amy’s face
• Added cheat “eenymeeny” to give you a selection of weapons
• Added cheat “thatstuff” to give you misc. items that didn’t fit into the other item cheats
• Added cheat “movethatbus” that gives you all the furniture (in white color)

v1.07 Sorry for not patching the game earlier this week, some of you may already know that I was bed-ridden with flu and fever this week. That’s no excuse though, and I reeeally want to update the game at least weekly. So here we are again, with a list of changes!

• Added a little text and audio cue to when it turns midnight
• Fixed the number keys sometimes not working for the inventory
• Made keyboard players able to change inventory slots with T and Y
• Made the map upgrade work with the Y button on a controller
• There was a problem with the randomised “treasure” dig-sites, fixed it, and also added almost the double amount of dig-sites to the game
• The metal-detector shouldn’t keep peeping after you’ve digged the hole anymore
• The cat and the dog should not get suspicion “pop-ups” over their heads anymore
• Made Dr Don move a bit slower
• Made sure the Sheriff’s contribution to the building of the stage gets reset if you “travel”
• Made sure the Sheriff’s decision to start with the song gets reset if you “travel”
• Fixed the “bone throwing” problem if you “travel”
• Made sure the Hermit doesn’t give his “gift” speech if you’ve already gone to bed
• The signed work permit will now be removed if you “travel”
• Found a reason why the “big guy” didn’t take damage from the chainsaw, fixed it
• Made sure Luanne’s shop doesn’t leave the “sell prompt” open if you exit during it
• Tweaked a thing with the Scarecrow, so that “thing” should now work if you “travel”
• Made a promise to myself not use as many quotation marks in future patch-notes

v1.06 This one is a bit of a smaller patch since I’ve been working on the Upper League update, and had to disable most of the stuff I’m adding to the game soon ;) Also had a bit of a problem with my software subscriptions, which is another reason why this patch took a few days longer to get out. List of changes:

• Added 15 new outfits
• Added 6 new hairstyles
• Added a delay to crapping your pants so you have time to react
• Fixed the bald hair not working
• Added a little tweak that should allow you to get out of a shop, even after closing time
• Made the number of flies reset when “traveling”
• Made the time warping move the clock faster
• Fixed the home award achievement not unlocking
• Hopefully fixed the issue that caused you to transport to black screen area when you drag an object and die

Hello everyone! Lakeview Valley has been out for almost a week, so I wanted to talk about what's coming next! There were some stuff that I really wanted to add into the game for release, but just didn't have the time because I wanted to hit the Halloween window. But that doesn't mean that I'm just scrapping them! So now I can officially announce that I've started to work on a bigger update called "The Upper League"! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34943366/41307da070878e2cace6326c00d063337aa81832.jpg So, what does this update contain? Well, at least a couple of new secret boss fights, some new tools, and a new feature that allows you to really get to know the villagers... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34943366/d271bc9650fb908623602db0ee3780892ab2926c.png Now I want to say this again: Thanks to everyone who has bought and played Lakeview Valley! I know the game still has some issues that my rushed development caused, but as I have said before, I had to do it this way if I want to continue working as a game developer. And, I can now say that HypnoGames (my company, it's still just me here) gets to continue business through 2020! So thank thank thank YOU! I'm just trying to feed my kids and all of you have made that possible! I've also been thinking that releasing Lakeview Valley on Early Access might've been better, but I kinda feel that there's still a stigma around it among players, so I didn't do it that way. So now I ask you: What's Your opinion on Early Access? I feel like I've at least proved that I post patches regularly (some even say it get's annoying how the game updates so often), so I think I might be trustworthy enough to not seem like I'm trying to make a buck on a game that I don't intend to finish. Early Access is something that I will consider more seriously for my next game, which is going to be an episodic game again. The name of it starts with L and ends with a 2. So it might be better to do a proper release when all the episodes are in, while letting players get in right when the first is released. Instead of, you know, doing a full release with just one episode, so Steam doesn't give a **** when all the episodes are released and treats it like a regular update. I have some experience about that. I'm rambling again. Meds are kicking in, so I'll put my headphones in and get back to working on Valley! Best, Roope PS: You can join our Discord to discuss the game and report bugs, it's easier to contact me there anyway! I also really want to know what you might want to be added into Valley, so let me know and it might make into the Upper League update!

v1.05

• Made it so the football gets teleported to a pre-determined position in the next area once it leaves the screen
• Drew portraits for all the villager faces you can wear
• Fixed the “Fall of morality” achievement
• Made it so you lose the Sheriffs trust if you “travel”
• Fixed the instance that caused Morgo to stop doing what he’s doing on Sunday (you know what I’m talking about)
• Tweaked a thing that might’ve caused the murdered NPCs to disappear after you killed them and “traveled”
• Made it so you can still heal yourself at the doctor, even if there’s someone to meet him
• Fixed the problem with the pause menu in the underworld
• Made it so Morgo should now only focus on the villagers on Sunday

v1.04

• Fixed the remaining achievements not working. Really sorry about this one, I know how annoying it must have been to not unlock the achievements!
• Fixed the softlock that happened if you continue on Saturday after dying instead of restarting the day
• Added an offset to where the masks drop when you use beds or chairs etc. so you will be able pick them up again more easily
• The arrow keys should work for movement now
• Fixed the worm partly staying on your yard if you swim away
• Made George have his regular shop dialogue if you talk to him while Ruth is there
• Made the stubs in your yard disappear after you get the better lawn
• Made sure the credits don’t loop after waiting too long
• The clock will now hopefully disappear if you die while “time skipping”
• Made Ivan sleep on a futon so I was able to remove the collider so you’ll have an easier time fucking him, YOU’RE WELCOME!
• Fixed the scarecrow thing (that not many have found)
• Fixed the colliders near the eastern bridge that allowed you to glitch out of the map
• Tweaked the fishing mini-game since the rod disappears if you exit while the fish is showing

v1.03

• The achievements should work now!
• Found a reason why Jimmy suddenly disappeared at the arcade cabinet. Added a little fix so it shouldn’t happen with any NPCs anymore. Unless it’s midnight of course.
• The stage floors quest should now reset if you travel
• Tweaked the pathfinding, it might still cause some slowdown but I’ll keep optimising it
• Fixed Amy’s body not registering to anyones eyes when you drag her
• Fixed the NPCs doing that weird shuffle and then teleporting back to their location. They still do the shuffle but at least they don’t teleport now…
• Added some precautions to the “restart day” mechanic so everything gets destroyed and reloaded properly, hopefully it helps with the duplication problem
• Made BumBum to re-path himself if he deems himself stuck
• Fixed the embarrassing “Return to title sreen” typo…

v1.02 First patch after release! I wasn't able to get everything I wanted done today but tomorrow is a new day! If you're enjoying the game, consider leaving a review, it really helps the game to show up to more people! Here's a list of all the changes:

• Fixed the looping problem if you go into the water on the last Sunday
• Found a possible reason that might’ve caused the Sheriff to always say you were reported of suspicious activity, even if you weren’t, fixed it
• Made the footstep sounds stop when you’re in a cutscene
• Dropping an item while swimming will now make you lose the item! So be careful not to drop anything valuable!
• Made sure the severed heads get removed if you travel
• You should now be able to exit the map with the “B button” on a controller
• Added a little more feedback for when you kill that mysterious creature
• Made sure the footsteps get muted when you pause the game
• Fixed (hopefully) the mysterious creature’s animation problems
• Fixed Matt thinking that Donna is dead right after starting a new game
• Added the big guy to the list that gets reset if you travel
• Fixed the collider problem near the abandoned house
• Made sure the number of snakes you have killed will reset if you travel
• Fixed Ruth doing that weird teleport thing at the beginning of the game
• Fixed the thing on that bridge in that one place not counting the killed villagers properly
• Fixed the prices at Amy’s stall AGAIN SINCE I’M AN IDIOT!
• Fixed Morgo telling the story again and again and again
• Made sure Luanne actually leaves when she is done at your home
• The shotgun works, but the spread made it miss easily, so I doubled the amount of pellets it releases on a shot
• Made it so that one gentleman acts independently on LakeDay if you haven’t taken any help from him
• Made it so the shroom affects a certain dialogue between two characters
• Tried a little fix for the Mystery Ladys certain dialogue not activating properly. Not sure if it helped since I couldn’t find an obvious reason for what might cause it
• Added some dialogue if you bring the Sheriff to a certain place
• Made it so the game also saves your current selected inventory slot, not sure if it helps with the item duplication problem but fingers crossed!
• Fixed the weird clipping problem with Mary
• I reduced the time warp speed that happens when you sit on a bench. The minutes should still go about as fast as before but the characters will move a bit slower. The faster it goes, the easier they get stuck inside walls so let’s try this

v1.01

• Fixed the shop buy prompts being porked on certain resolutions
• Fixed the prices in Amy’s stall
• Fixed the bridge problems
• Fixed the disappearing beard bug
• Fixed the problem with the dreams
• Made Dr. Don teleport to his office in a certain cutscene
• Fixed dialogue not branching properly in numerous places
• Tried a little fix for the dialogue regarding the stage on Saturday
• Fixed the dream dialogues
• Fixed that one thing staying on Rebecca
• Fixed the typo in one of the pop-ups
• Added a longer delay between certain pop-ups when you catch something
• Added the missing colliders to Frank’s house
• The cow should now disappear at midnight too
• The corpse of Amy Cooper will now act like a regular corpse and alert NPCs if you move it
• Added introductory dialogue for the doctor
• Fixed Frank being able to shoot you even after midnight
• Fixed Franks map displayer showing up in the map after midnight
• Tweaked the big guy again, wasn’t able to get him stuck now, but it still might be bugged
• Added dialogue for Amy at that one place
• Made it impossible to get out of your bed during the transition to the next day
• Made the moths and corpses react to chainsaw
• BumBum should now stop following you and not bug out if you’re swimming
• Made it so if you die during the Sheriffs cutscene, it doesn’t go to the next dialogue entry
• The date on Friday won’t happen if you haven’t been invited now
• Using cheats will now disable the achievements
• Tried once again to make sure the Preacher doesn’t stay at your yard if you die and continue onto the next day…
• Fixed the colliders near the beach diner that allowed you to glitch out of the map

v1.00

• Added introductory dialogue for most of the villagers
• Added A LOT of new hidden dialogue
• Changed the bracelets into something else
• Your inventory should now save when traveling
• Fixed the improved grass appearing in front of the interior of the sauna
• Fixed the mascara being in front of the shed
• Spruced up Frank’s cabin
• Made the town fountain into an actual fountain
• Added something to the old man
• Sheriff should now continue onto his act if certain criteria isn’t met, that previously just caused him to stop doing anything
• The game should now save the “turned” poops, so restarting a day should now still have their transformed versions
• Fixed the background on a certain cutscene
• Fixed the hat on a certain cutscene
• Morgo shouldn’t attack Dweller now
• Your clothes should now return if you restart the day while nude
• Blocked the path where you could glitch yourself into the water near the western beach
• Fixed the colliders at the Sheriff’s office and at other places
• Fixed colliders and the water at the eastern bridge
• Fixed Matt being inside of the house while talking to Dixon who is outside
• The Hermit shouldn’t stay at the beach now
• Fixed a collider that allowed you to glitch out of the map near Franks home
• Fixed the collider on the sidewalk near the abandoned house
• Fixed the snakes being able to bite you even when they can’t reach you
• Added echoes

The beta is now over, and the game is almost content ready. If you still have the game in your library, congratulations, you earned yourself a free game! Here are the changes:

• You may notice there are more trash containers in the game now…
• I’m trying a thing with the resolution, let me know if it causes frustration (some of the pause menu buttons look a bit off right now because of this, will fix)
• Prettied up the Lakemart and the Sheriff’s office
• Tried a little fix for that big guy getting stuck
• Nerfed the sword a bit, still too OP I think
• Fixed the stage collider being there even if there are no poles on the ground
• Tried a little fix for BumBums music staying on after you are done with him
• Removed the ring item and added two other items you will be able to find
• The metal detector didn’t work if you switched to it from another item in the inventory, fixed it
• The metal detector didn’t alert you about “treasures” that have predetermined locations (example graves), it should now alert you about them too
• Tried a little fix for the big guys music staying on after you die
• Found a reason the NPCs might stop following you and just staying idle when you are fighting them, fixed it. Hopefully it was the only reason it happened.
• Fixed the shop buy prompts looking flat
• Tried a fix for the weird lines appearing between the tiles at some areas
• Changed some dialogue that refererred to the burned house
• Added some dialogue for Lil Bobby
• Fixed the bug that caused the continue button to not work even if the doctor is alive

v0.32

• Added a big ol’ lore dump
• Buying the stove will allow you to drink coffee every morning
• Added a way to gain stamina without killing anyone
• Fixed the issue with the shotgun ammo upgrade
• Fixed the swimming issue
• Lowered the volume of a certain “scare” audio
• Made it so the time traveling resets some of the quests, while allowing you to keep your upgrades and inventory.
• There was a bug which caused your stamina to not increase. Sorry! Fixed it.
• Rebecca should now be romanceable in a hard to find way
• Luanne should now be romanceable if you play your cards right
• Fixed the bug where the Sheriff would just stop his speech on Sunday and nothing would happen

Here's a list of changes!

• Added a secret boss (still missing some sounds, sorry)
• Tried optimising the game a bit
• Fixed the clothes looking clean when you sit
• Added a background for the buttons in the character builder
• Your character will now look to the side when in the character builder
• Added a bald option for hair. Sorry for taking so long, it took a lot of time to draw.
• Fixed the buy prompt staying on top of the shop window if you exit while the prompt is visible
• Tried a little “tweak” for the issue that hitting people with a 0 damage item (for example a fish) caused
• Tried a fix for the inventory problem where the item you had in hand when sleeping didn’t save properly
• The sauna rocks shouldn’t reset anymore if you have collected all of them and you use time travel
• Fixed the home-gate depth problem
• Tried a little fix for the football getting stuck near walls
• Fixed Lil Bobby sometimes being missing in that one place
• Fixed the zombie portrait and dialogue problem
• Fixed the zombies attacking you while they “talk”
• Fixed some items staying in the end credits
• Clicking will activate your cursor and move to the keyboard layout

Here's a list of changes. (I'll try to get into the habit of posting patch notes here also.)

• Added a “TOO EARLY” warning when you try to sleep before 8pm
• Moved the inventory to the bottom of the screen (let me know what you think of this)
• You can now exit the shops and the pause menu with the B button on your gamepad
• Added a GUI element for Stamina if you have the HUD upgrade
• Made sure the inventory stays behind the “Time to choose” screen
• The zombies should not follow you into the water anymore
• Fixed the cut out trees at the junkyard
• Made the junkyard dirtier
• Added a loading text, no more just black screen when you load or start a game
• Villagers will now make a note if they see you with the chainsaw. Sheriff will then link all villagers killed by a chainsaw to you
• Fixed an issue that caused you to appear behind benches and toilets
• Started to add more dialogue to the villagers on the end of the week