While this test is primarily focused on the combat Heartlands is so much more than just another VR combat game, its a full scale scrollslike RPG, the Alpha includes most core systems of the game, allowing you to test combat, magic, equipment, and character progression.
Heartlands: The Arena closed alpha test is live. If you signed up you should receive an email. If you haven't yet signed up why not? Look at this!!!
Sign up here
forms.gle/hyq4rEFXe3Cg...
Thanks for the support, Heartlands has been in development for nearly 5 years whats another few months delay right?
but have spent like 70 percent of my time at the hospital with her so I don't know when thats gonna happen. If you signed up for the pre alpha combat test I'll be reaching out to ask if you wanna play it without the tutorial as everything is functional you'll just have to read the text instructions.
It completely turned our lives upside down, basically all company operations have been paused. I have written maybe a dozen lines of code in the past 3 weeks. Working on anything is damn near impossible right now. I was supposed to be working on the tutorial voiceover for the pre alpha combat test,
On October 31st my sister in law who is an animator and VFX artist for Heartlands was admitted to the hospital with an intracranial hemorrhage due to newly discovered moyamoya disease. It wasn't clear if she was going to survive, but she is now stable, but has been reduced to a toddler state.
The closed pre alpha combat test for Heartlands: The Arena will be launching soon. Just uploaded the initial build to Meta. Sign up here.
forms.gle/nYyzm6qHTGy1...
Its been a long road, a labor of love, but we are starting to see the end of the road. What we are launching soon is a small taste of the internal RPG development platform we have been developing for nearly 5 years.
The framework for ALL of Heartlands spells is done! Huge leap forward!
38 Arena Combatants designed and implemented
Wrote a new lighting system.
Made a bunch of tools!!
1 server crash. 😬
1 New hire.
Over 3500 World Items created
Over 100 Spells worked on
Nearly 200 Meta Sounds
Over 300GB of data added to our source repo
60 creatures created.
Over 90 sets of clothing.
Over 300 Metahumans updated and optimized
Combat completely redesigned
Every system received some kind of overhaul.
Heartlands : The Arena will launch in 2025. Some fun stats from this year of development in no particular order.
Over 12000 hours of work across the team
Over 2000 submitted change lists
Nearly 400 lines of dialogue written
Over 4 hours of dialogue recorded
Hundreds of particle effects worked on
We have been hard at work on Heartlands: The Arena. Had some voice actors in a bit ago to record some lines and we finally got around to getting the facial animations plugged in! This is Anduros an aging Kadian blacksmith down in the Undercroft.
Heartlands: The Arena is nearing the end of development, we are to the point where we are polishing things up and adding in small details like blood on clothing and weapons during combat. Here is a taste of that. #VR #unrealengine #ue5
Screenshot from the game tiny glade featuring a pond with some ducks.
Screenshot from the game tiny glade featuring some buildings one with a tall tower.
Screenshot from the game tiny glade featuring a small path leading to a collection of buildings.
A top down screenshot from the game tiny glade.
I fucking love tiny glade if you haven't played this yet you really should! @pouncelight.bsky.social made something special!
Gotta say man you're looking great. Been struggling with my own weight loss recently, nice to see you still going strong.
I was just thinking earlier today that there needed to be one of these. I do unreal things!
Red team dining area in Heartlands: The Arena.
#VR Red team dining area in Heartlands: The Arena.
I make microwaved cheese sandwiches does that count? 😅
Ever since I started working in the VR industry I've found it funny that I'm from a town called Villa Rica. My high school moto was "We are VR."
I'd like to be added probably gonna be using this more often for obvious reasons.
Hello world.
These cat and dog photos y’all are posting are great and all, but what bsky really needs are some guinea pigs photos.
Came for the game dev stuff stayed for the guinea pigs.
I make VR games! Unreal engine enthusiast, expert in a few areas. Shipped one solo title and working on an elder scrolls like RPG for quest with my team.
Heartlands.
