Herten Held is released!


Happy 4th anniversary of development!
After a long year, Hjort Helten can finally leave it's Beta version and turn into Herten Held!

Much changes have been made since last year, for now, I'll mostly highlight the biggest ones:
- Backgrounds everywhere! along with background tiles and objects in every room.
- There are now intro and ending scenes. Including an ending timer,  and  various ending screens depending on your actions and time.
- Some enemies have improved their behaviour, the Final Boss has recieved some new attacks as well.
- The top area of the game is rebuild into the ruïns of a sanctuary, and it has gotten a new miniboss too.
- The overall artstyle on enemies have been redesigned so they blend better with the other backgrounds. 
- The Shadow Wolf boss have become stronger, with more health, new attacks, and a second phase.
- New music added for the Sanctuary, and the boss theme is changed to an original soundtrack!
- Controller Support! Although changing the keybindings aren't possible yet, you can now try a new comfort of button settings.
- Minor changes, including improvements to items, rooms, enemies, secrets and more.

It has come such a long way, with a lot of up and downs. I was also thinking back at the time I almost discontinued the game mid-way.
I'm glad to see how things have turned out now. And I'm really glad for all the support I've been recieving along the road!

I've still decided to keep this game free of charge, as asking for donations would require all assets used (mostly sound effects) to be licensed for commercial use. I'd like to think about this for another time.

There are some ideas for future updates, but currently I rather want to take a break from the pasttime game development. Once I feel recovered, I'll likely focus on smaller projects. This game has been a huge learning journey and I'm glad that I've taken this mountain to climb.

And that's all I've to say.

I hope you'll enjoy playing my game!
I'm welcome for any feedback given.

Files

Herten Held v1.0.zip 51 MB
Feb 04, 2021

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