To all of you: happy 2018 and thank you for making 2017 such a wonderfully successful year for our game!
Oh my GOTY!
In a year with 7,000 new games on Steam, Unexplored somehow ended up with five GOTY-mentions on three major publications! And yes, we're super proud of that!
Here's the proof we weren't hallucinating:
PC Gamer GOTY Personal Pick by Wes Fenlon
http://www.pcgamer.com/unexplored-weaves-personal-roguelike-stories-with-clever-random-generation/
Rock Paper Shotgun GOTY Top 3 by Dominic Tarason
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/12/27/dominic-tarasons-favourite-games-of-2017/
Vice Waypoint GOTY Top 5 by Austin Walker
https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/ne47nd/austin-walkers-top-10-games-of-the-year
Vice Waypoint GOTY Mention
https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/a3nepz/the-best-games-of-2017-day-1-xcom-pubg
PC Gamer GOTY Category Nomination
http://www.pcgamer.com/game-of-the-year-awards-2017/
Some heartfelt congratulations to our friends at Guerrilla Games for winning every single PlayStation Game of the Year-award, to our friend Adriaan de Jongh for his iPad Game of the Year Hidden Folks (which is also on Steam) and to our friends from Twirlbound for their awards over at IndieDB for their upcoming Pine!
That was 2017, what's in store for 2018?
Next project
First and foremost we are working on our next project, which we cannot reveal just yet. We hope to be able to announce it soon. But that doesn't mean we've stopped working on Unexplored.
DLC, Mac & Linux
The Mac and Linux versions are in beta, they're up and running and being tested. We may need some more beta-testers, so if you're up for that, drop us a line. We have no definitive ETA, but we're aiming at Q1 2018.
The final (free) DLC will probably have the same time frame, but we're not making any promises. It's already (partly) available in the Unstable Branch (our beta).
Voices & Facial Expressions
Currently the first set of voices is available in the Unstable Branche (our ongoing beta for new features). We want to add a set of more female sounding voices before we release them proper.
Bug fixes
We will continue to update the game and fix the bugs you report. Remember, Unexplored is entirely procedural, so it's physically impossible to check all possible combinations of levels, enemies and 'furniture'. We're confident we've squashed all major bugs, but every now and then some turret will block a hallway or a door will lead you into lava. So, keep reporting these instances, we WILL continue to hunt these rare bugs and kill 'em!
Features and fixes in Unexplored 1.17.5
And to start the year in style, we've just released another (small) update:
New Features:
- You can assign numpad number keys to items
Game Balance:
- Increased chance of spawning a potion of Deafness
Bug Fixes:
- Classbound items cannot be dropped using a gamepad.
- The first five potions no longer auto-id after restoring a game
- Fish cannot attack you after drinking a levitation potion in shallow water
- Fixes a generator issue with missing bonus items
- Rewards for the Arbiter Grounds are improved
- Journal entries that do not specifically mention the level never show up in a filtered journal
- Fixes crash with enchanting staves inside a chest
- Fixed a number of typos