Open World Game: the Open World Game news & patch notes

A few small updates are now live for all of you boss hunters!

Patch Notes:

• When selecting a file to save NG+ to you can no longer overwrite the file you're loading from.
• Fixed some visual bugs with multi-bar HP bars.
• Fixed a bug where the redacted's HP was incorrect.
• Added a little HP bar warm up on boss fights.

Hope everyone's enjoying your time in The Gratuitous DLC! Once again if you're looking to stay updated on the next Morning Person Games title make sure to follow us on twitter. Also, if you enjoy the DLC we'd greatly appreciate it if you leave a review about it! We love to see the great reviews you all come up with, and it's also a huge help to us. As always, thanks so much for your support and stay safe out there! - Zeus {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36093302/8328e1e4be998dd18111beab50f259e422fd8fa1.gif

Open World Game: the Open World Game — The Gratuitous DLC is out now! "Enjoy" the same experience again in New Game Plus, but this time it's chock full of gratuitous amounts of more content!

To Start The New Content in NG+

Just like any other NG+, once the Main Quest has been finished NG+ will be available from the main menu. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36093302/27ff9add7c3fea11689853feffc2ab4347138d67.gif {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36093302/bcae36302bdb9f51e7186e615ae3e1395e0e9b04.gif If you wanna read more on why this is even a thing check out this post. As promised, I want to share the first info on the next Morning Person Games title:

Heartless

Heartless (name still being finalized) is a 2D Action-RPG (or a Roguelite-like as I've been calling it) about choices, consequences, and perfection. Whether you take the left path or the right path, whether you wield a sword or a spear, or whether you decide to help out the blacksmith or your childhood friend... your choices determine how your character grows. You're stuck with every choice you make with one exception: At the end of every day a mysterious artifact allows you to begin that day again with the opportunity for new choices – but at what cost? We're still in the early stages, but if you're interested, follow us on twitter. We'll be sharing more and more details about it as it grows. We'd love to be able to make you a game that takes itself at least a little more seriously, and supporting this DLC is the best way to to make that happen. Think of it like a Patreon or Kickstarter that you start off with the rewards :). Otherwise, I hope everybody enjoys and is staying safe out there! - Zeus {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36093302/8328e1e4be998dd18111beab50f259e422fd8fa1.gif

Only one week until The Gratuitous DLC is out! First of all, since Steam doesn't share pricing while a game is coming soon, The Gratuitous DLC will be $2.99USD. I wanted to share a bit of my personal reasons on why that is and why I would even be making more open world game. Up until a few months ago I was deep into planning the next Morning Person Games project, and I am very very excited about this next one. Unfortunately, due to the obvious ongoing issue in the world, my plan on how to fund this next project was pretty vigorously uprooted. I didn’t think I’d be here making more content for Open World Game: the Open World Game, because well... the joke was made. So what else is the purpose of The Gratuitous DLC? For me, outside of the obvious punchline, this game was always an homage to the unfinished. So much gets thrown into creating (especially games), and so much more gets thrown out along the way. This can even include the very things keeping it from being the best it can be. There's an endless amount of factors that stop people from creating something the way they envision it, and I’ve always felt a deep sadness with how many things are never fully realized. If Open World Game: the Open World Game is an homage to the unfinished, The Gratuitous DLC is an homage to all the overdeveloped. Sometimes the ninth sequel in a series comes out only to make money, but sometimes life rips a rug out from under us and we have to find a way to adapt to the circumstance. Either way, plenty of great things end up overstaying their welcome. This doesn't mean these things can't be enjoyable or even better for that matter, they're just fighting a different battle. We're doing the best we can to make this game better, not stale, and I think we have a good bit of fun in store for you! I really wanted to make something that would not only help make the next project possible, but might bring a bit of distraction, and humor in this time. On the DLCs release day (May 14) I’ll also be sharing the first info on the next project, and will be sharing a lot more of the process of making it along the way. If you're at all interested make sure to follow us on twitter! I hope you enjoy The Grautious DLC, you’ll consider supporting the next project, and I especially hope we can bring you a few more good laughs (and gratuitous button mashing). - Zeus {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36093302/8328e1e4be998dd18111beab50f259e422fd8fa1.gif

Open World Game: the Open World Game — The Gratuitous DLC will release on 5.14.20! Experience it all again in New Game Plus — and this time...this time there's more content. To find out more check out the store page & wishlist here We have a lot more we plan on sharing in the following ~two weeks and beyond. If you wanna stay updated be sure to follow us on twitter. It's dangerous out there so stay safe! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36093302/8328e1e4be998dd18111beab50f259e422fd8fa1.gif

The biggest update yet! You can now play entirely by controller, or just never use the mouse (let's be real, using a mouse sucks). Not only that, but there are some significant Quality of Life improvements that come with that. Consider it a mercy that this was not a paid DLC :).

Patch Notes:

• Controller Support (duh)
• Tabbing through the menus.
• Significant QOL improvements overall, but the lore menu feels this the most.
• Some additional clarity in texts throughout. Most notably the text in the skill tree that notates whether or not a skill actually does something is now highlighted blue.
• Rolling buff! It should feel a bit better now and be ever-so-slightly faster.
• Fixed a small bug with Eagle Vision (I know it's been causing so much trouble for you being the essential skill that it is).

Notably missing:

• Widescreen Support: I've mentioned before I wanted to improve this. I dug into that a bit while working on this patch, and it looks like way more of an overhaul than I can take the time to fix at the moment. I'm not giving up on it yet, but there is the chance it might be out of our current scope.
• Configurable controls: This was something I really wanted for this patch, but it would have taken a lot longer to get it out for what I think is not that big of improvement (especially considering the large variety of inputs this game takes). I'm really sorry that this means it's still annoying to play on a non-QWERTY keyboard. That being said, the arrow keys have the same functionality and now the controller is available, so I hope that helps out. As additional means to combat the lack of configuration, you can pick your flavor of controller stick to use, as all three of them are usable (except the right stick in menus for reasons).

This was a significant portion of changes in code and structure. I wouldn't be surprised if some errors slipped past the large amount of (1) QA members on our team (despite their best efforts). As always, it's extremely dangerous out there, so stay healthy my fellow collectors. P.S. If you're looking for a place to hang out, talk about OWGTOWG, or stay the _most_ updated with Morning Person Games head over to our discord https://discord.gg/RHKfCgw !

Wow. We are entirely blown away by the support. I'm ecstatic that this has resonated with so many of you and I'm glad you're getting a couple laughs along the way. I hope that this doesn't entirely ruin the genre for any of you, and instead helps you reminisce on the joy any open world game has brought you; regardless of the means. Enough of that — THERE ARE STEAM ACHIEVEMENTS :D! (EDIT:)Don't worry, if you've already completed everything you don't need to again. Just load your finished file and it will check for your steam achievements right after loading. On top of that, I did some continued bug fixing.

Patch Notes:

• Steam Achievements!
• Cleaned up some hover issues in the stats menu.
• Arrow icon doesn't appear if you attempt to track after completing the game.
• If you load a game while in a game, you no longer need to pause to continue playing.
• "this is helper text." should no longer show up.
• Music no longer continues to play when changing scenes.
• Loading game correctly sets switches.
• Windowed mode stays as window mode.
• (EDIT v1.2.2): Fixed the sound settings (again) so the sliders are clearer and more functional.
• (EDIT v1.2.2): Added additional controls for vSync and frame rate capping.

Next on the chopping block is Controller Support! There might be a bit of a longer period before I get the next patch out with the coming Holiday, but I'm hoping to fix some of the harder-to-solve problems people have brought up (like widescreen support) in v1.3. We also have at least one exciting(?) surprise to come after v1.3. It's extremely dangerous out there, so stay healthy my fellow collectors :).

Fixed some of the bugs that have been brought up - most importantly the region tracking switch not being set correctly. Patch Notes:

• Added extra work on the Region Tracking/Music Switch. Unfortunately this fix won't fix current playthroughs with incorrect region tracking. HOWEVER that's only a visual and slight music bug, all other functionality is fine. If this continues to pop up I'll spend some time to overhaul the system.
• You can open up that sound settings in the main menu now.
• Sound settings save correctly.
• A few duplicate lore entries have been fixed.
• Apostrophe's show up in lore entries now.

Keep me updated on any issues you find and I'll see what I can fix! I am currently working on Steam Achievements, so hopefully I can get that out to you soon. Thanks for playing - hope you're getting a few good laughs :)