WitchHand news & patch notes

Hey there, just a small update for ya today: - improved camera smoothing - fixed text field sometimes starting with a null character when entering a custom familiar or village name I've also made a few stealth hotfixes over the past few months, here's those patch notes too: - fixed rare crash when mining multiple crystal deposits in a stack - fixed rare crash when destroying recipe ingredients - watchtower can no longer target the void king - fixed a crash when familiar and village custom names are blank (or just spaces) Thank you to those who reported those bugs! And thanks for playing :)

A few quick patches have gone up since the Phoenix Fire update went live. Here's a summary of all the recent changes and fixes: - auto buying explore cards no longer consumes stardrops that are part of an actively crafting recipe - Phoenix Monument and Phoenix Monolith no longer allowed in chests - unique Phoenix wonders no longer sometimes add themselves to the spellbook on load - emergency de-stack: for when card stacks get confused and bounces off itself (usually ending up out of bounds) - stacks try harder not to bounce off other stacks contending with the bottom wall - fixed happy phoenixes able to double resources that definitely shouldn't be doubled (ex: lighthouse) - fixed a crash in the spell choice screen when language set to French - fixed card stacks pushing themselves up out of the wall and into other card stacks causing lag spikes - fixed stacking cards onto slotted cards in the haze sometimes causing lag spikes

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Rise of the Phoenix

The Phoenix Witch is here! Warriors? Merchants? Who needs em. The phoenix is the only familiar this witch needs. Keep it happy and trained and it will reward you with faster crafting times and bonus resources. If you can find the elusive Phoenix Tamer, they may even be able to grant you new abilities that benefit both your phoenix and your witch. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/148caf09666631d1f32f8e77dd133ef33b2300ff.gif

German, Polish, and French

Three new languages have come to WitchHand! The game will try to use your computer's default language if possible or you can set it yourself at any point in the options menu. It's been super cool to finally get the opportunity to localize one of my games. The folks at Level Up Translation are real pros and I'm pumped to bring the game to new players.

Progression and Balance Changes

I changed up a bunch of stuff! Many research paths have been revamped, some buildings have been totally reworked, Waypoints are easier to craft, and much more! Full patch notes below. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/81a52996a69f086416e7532bb176b9689b64c41a.png

Nexus-In-A-Box

The game-changing Nexus may be acquired much earlier in a run by cracking open the unique Nexus-In-A-Box, gifted from your home realm. Enjoy the large amount of early game storage space and building automation! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/820bdbd791420c1f3fd8a64807795e23de4f052c.png

More Choices!

When completing a Golden Quest by paying 20 Stardrop Coins, you're now offered a choice of reward. Because sometimes you'd rather have a sword instead of another cat.

Patch Notes

- language setting added to options - two new achievements - buying explore cards tutorial now also explains selling cards - new tutorial for familiar corpses - new video added to first spell purchase tutorial - first waypoint tutorial explains slotting it to increase explore level - waypoints renamed to "Waypoint: First", "Waypoint: Second" etc. - waypoints' recipes now cheaper - Trader now guaranteed to always have Reagents in stock - Trader/Trade Hub now sells reagents in bundles of 2 instead of 3 - Void Core added to Trader's possible resources for sale - Trader now arrives every 8 days instead of 10 - golden quest completion now prompts a choice of reward - second letter from home now includes a Nexus-In-A-Box - Magnet: Fireball no longer pulls shackled enemies - Village in a Bottle Spell prerequisite changed to Capri Pen from Gem Forge - gem heart removed from Village in a Bottle Spell recipe - Spell Archive building now creates Spell Pages, recipe changed to Capri Horn x2 - exploring can no longer create multiple enemies in a row - first time exploring a level 1 explore card always gives a capri - first time exploring a level 2 explore card always gives a gem deposit - only record cards now allowed in the jukebox - storage chest cost reduced to crystal x3 from crystal x4 - storage chest spell now requires population growth, crystal quarry, and herbalist spells instead of first waypoint spell - first waypoint spell now requires storage chest spell - waypoints in spell choice now list some of the cards unlocked in the next tier - cards in the compendium now display their stats (attack, health, value, etc.) - compendium entries specific to a certain witch now display that witch's icon - Healing Touch spell cast time decreased to 10 seconds from 15 seconds - Renewed Village base slots increased to 4 from 3 - Fated Judge now demands 1,000,000 coins, up from 1,000 - placed card stacks now fall into place almost immediately - jumping cards may now pass through haze on the way to their destination - increased chance to receive reagents from exploring if you don't have any - fixed infection event crash if there's suddenly no faerie cities - fixed card compendium Cards Found count sometimes exceeding the maximum - fixed board expansion left void nests spawning too far up for some reason - fixed spellbook button rollover misalignment

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New Witch!

The Phoenix Witch is nearly here! Warriors? Merchants? Who needs em. The phoenix is the only familiar this witch needs. Keep it happy and trained and it will reward you with faster crafting times and bonus resources. If you can find the elusive Phoenix Tamer, they may even be able to grant you new abilities that benefit both your phoenix and your witch.

German, Polish, and French

Three new languages are coming to WitchHand! It's been super cool to finally get the opportunity to localize one of my games. The folks at Level Up Translation are real pros and I'm pumped to bring the game to new players.

Progression and Balance Changes

I changed up a bunch of stuff! Many research paths have been revamped, the game-changing Nexus may be acquired much earlier in a run, Waypoints are easier to craft, and much more! (full patch notes to come with release!!) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/f620580e9953db12105ffd8df9ac08023ae3927f.png

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The Phoenix

Unlike the other witches in WitchHand, the Phoenix Witch needs only one familiar: the Phoenix. The Phoenix has the potential to become very powerful if well taken care of. When happy, it has an increasing chance to produce double resources when crafting. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/d0f49690776c89d2a8f3f269b4579199f211f910.png Because the familiar training buildings no longer have familiars to train, they instead buff the Phoenix in various ways. For example, the Sorcerer's School allows the Phoenix to cast spells and increases its cast speed. Slotting additional Sorcerer's Schools will increase the cast speed even further. With the right set up, a happy enough Phoenix will complete many tasks almost instantly. You'll also be able to discover new cards that strengthen both your Phoenix and your witch. My current favorite is the Everburning Bond, which allows stat increases to the witch to also apply to the Phoenix, and vice versa. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/e23efdccf34d88aa0a001f9ed2363cb917eea3f1.png

Balance Changes

More than just adding a new playable character, the Phoenix Update will also be making many changes to the balance and progression of the game. Many cards will have their recipes updated, their unlock conditions changed, and in a few cases, their usage totally reworked (looking at you, Spell Archive!) Also! You'll be getting a special gift from your home realm after building the First Waypoint. Returning players can look forward to a revamped play experience and new players can go in knowing that the experience has been polished to a mirror shine. Can't wait to share more. Jon

I call the cards you get after you've learned every spell "Advancement" Cards but someone in the Steam forums referred to them as "Spell Mastery" cards and that's Very Good. Either way, you can put them in chests now. - advancement cards (Rising Sunlight, Harmonic Casting) are now able to be put into chests. - reworked chest storage limit calculations. Vault Wonder no longer overwrites Expanded Interiors advancement - chest cards now display their storage limits in their tooltip - fixed compendium showing descriptions of unknown spell cards

Back again with another quick round of fixes and quality of life improvements! Improved Ultra Widescreen Support - Display Ratio setting added to options - ui elements better react to display changes - the Mystic Workflow Wonder now prioritizes Scout familiars - improved Watchtower performance - fixed special chests (fortune teller, lighthouse) sometimes allowing stacks of mixed cards

Quick balance and fixes patch for ya today - increased Astrologian production speed boost to +20% from +10% - increased Archivist's Pasta production speed boost to +30% from +10% - reworked village collision behavior while grabbed - fixed Familiar Neighborhood incorrect description. Now reads "Increases your Familiar Cap by 5."

Hello friends! Happy WitchHand release week! Thank you to everyone who played the game and left a review and thank you for everyone's feedback and all around good vibes. It's been an exciting time over here! Let's get right into WitchHand's first post-launch update: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/f194c738726b91eb6af62b2103871878cf0afb3f.gif

Fated Future

We got three (3) new cards!

• Fated Delegate - Fated Quests that ask for a tribute of resources may be slotted here. They will automatically pull the cards they need from a Nexus. Requires Autocaster, Blacksmith, and Armory spells to learn.
• Magnet: Fireball - Newly created attack spell cards (Fireball, Shackle, Freeze etc.) will be pulled here. Learned alongside the base Magnet spell. (existing save files will automatically have this spell added to their spellbooks)
• Burial Spell - Permanently lays Corpse cards to rest. Creates 2 random resources. A good way to use up Corpse cards that you do not intend on reviving. Requires the Revival spell to learn.

Over the past week, I've also put out a few patches that -- amongst the bug fixes -- included new features like: - support for widescreen displays - villages now have production toggles that toggle all slotted buildings - can now click during most end of day events to skip through them (Turn on "Fast Witching Hour" in the options to get through them even faster) - "Allow Camera Pan with Interact" setting added to controls screen - card symbols added to temple of rites outline sprite {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/f19ac0c4aef530589f7b255542ce9be56be1ec30.png

Yooo We Got Trading Cards!

Steam approved WitchHand for community items! :wh_cat: I'm excited to see my art in those official Steam card frames. I don't know. It just feels really good. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/34b13796852e110811a4fd936ac80bcbb7a94b84.png

What's Next for WitchHand?

Good question! A lot of things are still up in the air as I balance continued WitchHand support with other ongoing projects. I don't want to make any grand promises on what I wish or hope to do for this game. That said, the game will be getting, at the very least, one (1) new witch. Stay tuned. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/5e97618d0446c0b2fc1fd261520b71e0b96d461e.png

Patch Notes (additional)

- swords, shields, flame cake, armored smoothie now have better tooltips when being used - fixed source cards able to craft on top of enemies - fixed explore tooltips not showing the correct explore contents - fixed collapsed village outline collision not factoring for the radiant beacon max seven slots

Closing Thoughts

Thank you. I've made three games now and this one is far and away my most successful* game (in terms of sales and reception). Thank you for making that happen. I appreciate all of you. <3 Jon

Yooo it's bug fix and balancing time! Notable new features with this patch are villages getting their own production toggle that toggles all buildings slotted to that village, the ability to click through most end of day events, and a setting in the controls menu to disable camera pan with left click. Also! WitchHand became eligible for Steam Community Items so be on the look out for those once they're approved! - villages now have production toggles that toggle all slotted buildings - can now click during most end of day events to skip through them - familiar corpse cards now function with magnet cards - newly created cards now choose randomly from all eligible magnets instead of always jumping to the closest (with a slight bias towards nexus chests) - allow camera pan with interact setting added to controls screen - made the Judgment Quests harder again - celestial link and chef friendly soup recipe output now better checks for "building" recipe types (exploring with an unslotted celestial link in the stack was causing a crash) - fixed a crash when tooltips try to display an improperly set crafting timer - fixed escape key on controls screen unpausing the game - fixed too many message card packs spawning under certain circumstances - fixed cards unfreezing on death and dealing damage

Another round of bug fixes for ya! And some balancing sprinkled in too, for flavor. Thanks again to everyone providing bug reports and feedback. - soul trainer spell now requires first waypoint spell to learn instead of sorcerers school spell - familiar cap base value decreased to 2 from 3 - first waypoint spell now requires village upgrade spell, crystal quarry spell, and herbalist spell to learn instead of familiar home spell - familiar home spell now requires first waypoint spell to learn - familiar home recipe cost increased to crystal x5 from crystal x3 - fixed corpses and advancements functioning with the autosorter - fixed 's cards sometimes becoming misaligned - fixed 's cards sometimes causing a crash when defeated by a stack of familiars - fixed golden quest not granting achievement for chaos witch - fixed forests having a below average chance to spawn compared to other land cards - fixed Chaos Witch's flameblood spell not being consistent with its 1hp cost - hud witch health now shows proper damage taken effect when flameblood spell is used

Just a quick round of bug fixes for ya! Thank you to everyone who provided the feedback and reports for these changes. - screen option now cycles through Fullscreen, Windowed, Borderless Window - fixed cards created by a nexus for an autocaster revival spell sometimes getting confused as being a part of the spell and causing a crash - fixed a crash while autopurchasing from the Trader - fixed lighthouse "villages" being effected by the Radiant Beacon wonder - fixed cards colliding with walls on loading a save sometimes causing a hard lock - fixed end of day entering destroy event when there's no cities to destroy - cards jumping into a chest or onto a stack that becomes full now restack into new stacks that respect the maximum stack size

It's here!

WitchHand is now available on Steam!

Use cards to build your empire of witches. Maximize the production of your villages and use your resources strategically to upgrade and expand. Focus on trade, alchemy research, or war in order to secure your coven's place amongst the Council of Fates, influencing the destiny of all. It's just the two of us on the team, so if you're able to do any of the following...

• Tell your friends
• Leave a review
• Share on social media

...it'd be much appreciated!

But what about those tunes?

Good question! Topher absolutely killed it with the WitchHand OST. It's all bangers start to finish. It's available for purchase right here, which I highly recommend doing!

Yeah, but what if I want to hear more from you?

Another great question, thank you for asking. Here's our twitters:

• Jon on Twitter
• Topher on Twitter

And here's where you can sign up for the mailing list, where I'll send out any news about me and my games, advance notice of any sales or discounts, and sometimes even alpha/beta testing opportunities. Okay, that's it! Have fun! <3 Jon and Topher

WitchHand just received a release date AND a new trailer! I'm super excited to finally announce the release date for WitchHand:

🌟 FEBRUARY 7TH! 2024! 🌟

WitchHand will be launching on Steam and if you'd like a reminder on launch day (and other updates on me and my games), join my mailing list.

Oh! Also I Updated the Demo

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/1ec2a68ee428749da0fec4ce185cd32948709f1c.png In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, the Trader has been added to the WitchHand demo! The Trader visits every few days and offers a variety of resources for sale. Perfect for when your stock of reagents runs low. There's also a new setting in the options to speed up end of day events, if that's something you want to see less of! I hope to see you on launch day!

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It's the Rite Time

The Temple of Rites allows you to perform a variety of rites with unique effects you won't get anywhere else. Want to block all damage to your witch for a night? Temporarily boost the attack of all your familiars? All you need is the right cards to sacrifice! And don't worry, if you're not excited about sacrificing your favorite warrior cat named Gregory, you might be able to find alternative options. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/63ff98267cb430842cfa055478927037a438fda4.png

Bribery!

Not a fan of your Faerie neighbors? Maybe they're not selling the thing that you want? Don't want to kill them in cold blood? Then bribery is the answer! A peaceful solution, simply give them some money and they'll leave! But! If you do decide to keep them around, they might provide some extra services once they become friendly. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/79ea2eb49c74d423c8386e3c3091a68f1e73d0e7.png

CHAOS CHAOS

The Chaos Witch really likes attacking stuff! So much so that they don't allow any of their familiars to attack. To help the witch take on every enemy all on their own, they have a lot of options to beef up and quickly become overpowered. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/7a6c59738713a3c9034775a9c69b6c6363b6dd68.gif Skulls from defeated enemies are used as offerings to the Chaos Gateway, which in return rewards the Chaos Witch with new abilities and, you guessed, the opportunity to get more skulls per skull. It's skulls all the way down and you can never have enough.

Oh Yeah and I Updated the Demo

The demo got an update that featured a pretty heavy polish pass. Many things now look and feel better! Also there's a new land and village that increase Silversage production speed. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/0bed3280b690fe131baba762359e40aeccf28e11.png I gotta get back to work, but thanks for reading! See you next time, Jon

Hello friends, happy spooky time! On this, the spookiest of days, I come to you with a WitchHand demo update! Let's get right into it. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/e0e1eac78b9cf09cc9aedc7e3c9934e2fd9da7dd.png

Burn Burn Burn

The hands-off approach to setting your enemies on fire. Fireballs are a bit pricey to cast but keep your familiars out of harms way. The fireball spell will become available to learn once you've learned the Sorcerer's School spell. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/945c9c9f858b89d1841b9e2873d6d4a534e38eb6.gif

Familiar Tracker

I kept losing track of my apprentice familiar, so I made a tracker to do it for me! The familiar tracker automatically displays an icon for each of your little buddies, even letting you know if they're currently crafting or are in battle! You also get a bit more info by selecting their icon. And the best part is that when you can click their icon, your camera will move to their location! Never lose a familiar again with the official WitchHand Familiar Tracker™. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/5fe4810a87994b57871b93ca0d63c6d27154c7e4.gif

Village Collapsing

Like cards but want to see less of them? Double-click on any village to collapse their slots! It's fun! Collapsed cards remain fully functional, they just get smaller and cuter. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/03822ead9b7fa1d9e7af37bc36d2b52a7b52f961.gif

Spellbook Grid View

This was a highly requested one! You'll now be able to toggle the spellbook between list and grid views. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/4ffe65d5f0fcb840ef11c670f878b4fa2e38ced7.png

Production Toggle

Have too many mana extractors chewing through your crystals? Click the toggle and power them off until you need them!

Bigger Chests

There's larger chests later in the full game but I figured why not increase storage size across the board? Storage Chests can now store up to 60 cards! (Might only take effect on new saves!)

Full Patch Notes

- spell page card now found in explore level 1 - can now pan camera with middle mouse button. Keybinding can be changed in controls screen. Try panning while grabbing a card! - new sound for potions - new options: Display Day Timer Seconds, Pause Game When Minimized - all lands now have a value of 0 until the first village is created, allowing the player to hold onto their first beacon if they want - longer card names now break into two lines - cards now jump further to reach stacking opportunities - cards are now much smarter about jumping into empty places - cards jumping to a stack or chest that becomes full now create a new stack with any other cards that were jumping to the same place - cards now resolve bouncing off other cards much faster and smoother - village outlines now bounce off each other - storage chest size increased to 60 from 30 - silversage created by an herbalist now always stacks onto that herbalist - slotted building card tooltips now show in addition to card stack details - increased the strength of later void rifts - clicking on the hud witch portrait now moves the camera to your witch card - added autobuying tutorial - added time played to save select - improved environment performance - fixed exiting controls screen also exiting options screen - fixed cards created by the spellbook sometimes appearing underneath it - fixed being able to pan camera or pick up cards while dragging the spellbook scrollbar - fixed cursor lag on some computers - fixed the spell choice and end of day screens having a chance to occur at the same time - fixed buildings jump stacking onto slotted buildings, cancelling their timers

Known Issues

- In-game familiar tracker turns invisible when changing to/from fullscreen. Fixed by saving and reloading.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/242fdf88b9d67d6b58658e4305ffe64ea2d4adc2.png Hello friends! I've been hard work on WitchHand and the good news is that I have a lot of new features to share! But before I get into that, I want to say thank you to everyone who has played the demo. Your feedback has been great and really pushed the game to be greater. The demo has gotten a positive reception over the past few months -- especially from the previous two demo festivals -- and I'm stoked to finally share more about its future. If you haven't played the most recent version of the demo, you should check it out! I've made a ton of improvements to it (again thanks to feedback!) That said... what's coming to WitchHand?!?! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/86fed2e0e46cd59dc621793e9f682b855777282e.gif

Automation with the Nexus

A mid-game village type, the Nexus will allow all buildings to automatically pull the resources they need from the Nexus' chests. The Nexus chests also function as magnet chests, meaning they will pull new resources to themselves from anywhere. Which is good because soon your playing space will be bigger than ever! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/b3a7455729a76f970c89ca2dcc2d98619b4520c8.gif

Expanding Playing Space

During your explorations, you will sometimes encounter the Fortune Teller. Pay her fee and watch as she expands your opportunities for growth. Sometimes it's dangerous though, so watch out for that. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/457c328d268e8258101ad7561c5743b654a0c461.png

But will there be Bosses?

There will be! Let me tell you about the first one: Encountered while exploring the Void Ruins, Void Lords always come with a few of their little shieldling buddies. These shieldlings will need to be defeated before you can damage their boss, but doing so might net you a unique item that will help you keep your witch alive.

Any other juicy secrets? That can't be it?

Nah, but here's a tombstone. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/752a7715920d5d43160ed8004ed8b88d59102668.png I gotta get back to work, but thanks for reading! See you next time, Jon

Hey friends, here's a quick update to the WitchHand demo! Everything in here is a direct result of player feedback. Thank you to everyone who played and provided the feedback and bug reports for these changes! Here's the full changelog. It's mostly minor tweaks and fixes but I also snuck in some new content for ya: - new land card: Barrens - new village card: Barrens Village - "Slotted familiar training buildings receive +100% production speed. Familiars trained here gain +1 armor. Armor cannot exceed Familiar's max health." - new faerie village that purchases lightning glem cards - new faerie village that purchases capri horn cards - void bramble, void ogre, void giant slime added to later void rift summons - extra white border added to pause vignette - healing touch and healing wave spells now say "cast" instead of "create" in their tooltips - waypoint spell tooltips now mention that they increase the spells available to research - game over screen now has an exit choice, quits to title screen without restarting or saving - camera manual pan speed increased by current zoom amount - "defeat an enemy" quest can no longer spawn in peaceful mode - cards used to manually make a purchase now no longer allowed to stack onto other cards, sometimes causing crazy collision slowdown - fixed familiars sometimes being consumed in unrelated building recipes - fixed game window defaulting to a tiny tiny size Oh and I added a new opening when creating a new save :)

Hello friends! Please enjoy this prerecorded gameplay of the dev (that's me!) playing the new WitchHand demo! The demo includes hours of gameplay with no hard end, so I hope you get a chance to check it out!

Hello friends! Please enjoy this prerecorded gameplay of the dev (that's me!) playing the new WitchHand demo! The demo includes hours of gameplay with no hard end, so I hope you get a chance to check it out!

Hello friends! Please enjoy this prerecorded gameplay of the dev (that's me!) playing the new WitchHand demo! The demo includes hours of gameplay with no hard end, so I hope you get a chance to check it out!

Hello friends! I got a big update to the WitchHand demo for you. Let's get right into it! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/55333750d39463cfccfcaa8108fde7cbc25b6643.gif

Custom Familiar & Village Names

Shift+click on any Familiar or Village to give it a custom name.

New Familiar

The Envoy, trained by an Embassy, is better able to make friends with Faeries. Especially if they're mad at you! The Envoy is also capable of befriending enemy Faerie units, bringing them under your control.

New Enemies

Six new enemies will appear from Void Rifts on the new moon. They're tough! And one of them might even drop something that your familiars will like.

Auto Buying

You may now shift+click on the Explore and Spells buttons to complete the transaction automatically, without needing to drag the necessary cards over.

Card Locking

Right click on any card to lock it in place. This prevents it from being pushed around by other cards. Can be given a custom keybinding in the controls menu.

Peaceful Mode

A chill game mode where no enemies will spawn! Set on a new save during character select.

Auto-Pausing Option

Turning auto-pausing on in the options will automatically pause the day timer while dragging cards.

New Cards

- Envoy Familiar, Embassy - Bog land, Bog Village - Void Spike, Void Slime, Small Void Slime, Void Icicle, Void Cocoon, Void Emergence {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/0409a1dc4efc0f0e0f17abaadb4849cab59a9ef9.png

Full Patch Notes

- two new music tracks added - new card back art - newly created cards try harder to jump into empty spaces - enemy attack/health icons move to the sides so that they are visible while in combat - all land cards are now possible to find while exploring from the start of the game - cards stack more tightly together now - rebalanced card results from exploring - improved spell card tooltips readability - updated many cards' flavor text - new sound for cards placed into chests - new sound for warriors attacking cities - spell cards now craft when there are non-relevant cards in the stack (buildings already did this) - spell card tooltips now show in addition to card stack details - faerie city tooltips now display extra information when friendly - increased maximum camera zoom - stardrops from selling now auto enter nearby stardrop chests - spawn familiar quest no longer spawns if at familiar cap - clicking a card to open/retrieve now easier to execute, especially when zoomed out - cards now bounce off of each other much more smoothly - villages now better prevent themselves and their outlines from going inside of walls - cards accidentally spawned out of bounds now better reenter playable space - many performance improvements for when hundreds of cards are on screen - Healing Touch and Healing Wave cast times halved. - Terrain Recycler recipe changed, now crafts any 2 land cards into 1 Reagents. Craft time halved. - combat time decreased to 6 seconds from 8 seconds - fixed spells crafting while stacked on a slotted building - fixed newly created storage chests sometimes stacking into themselves - fixed cards sometimes forgetting what card they're on top of after being restacked - fixed a crash caused by pressing the Sell and Interact keys on a stack of cards at the same time - fixed silversage created by herbalist not stacking consistently - fixed crafting getting confused and halting when there are multiple explore cards and crystal deposit cards in the same stack

Hey friends, here's an update to the WitchHand demo! This update focuses mainly on bug fixes but there's some tweaks and quality of life improvements in here too. Thank you to everyone who played and provided the feedback and bug reports for these changes! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44224141/2d10272bdcf8686cbb55feddada5b55926bc1187.gif - newly created cards can now enter chests - newly created cards can now jump a bit farther to cards of the same name - newly created cards will no longer jump to cards with an active crafting timer - hud resource counters now count cards stored in chests - spell choice screen prettied up a bit - fixed a crash when a building forgets it's slotted into a village - fixed a crash when multiple Population Growth cards are trying to upgrade the same village - fixed Familiars Homes increasing the familiar cap when stacked on top of each other - fixed multiple familiars summoning at once and exceeding the familiar cap - fixed music tracks overlapping on game over restart - fixed hud negative familiar count on game over restart - fixed quest cards expiring under certain conditions causing a crash

It's here! The WitchHand demo is now live! We're very lucky to be a part of Yogscast's Tiny Teams event. Big thanks to them for featuring the debut WitchHand demo! Check it out! And let me know what you think! :)

Get the WitchHand demo now.

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