Haunted Arcade

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• Patch Notes·29 Mar 2025Official

  🌸 Haunted Arcade - Blooming Update! 🌸

  Heyo! I wanted to give a quick update to confirm that I'm still working on stuff. I'm currently knees-deep into a fundamental update for Hooked on Art, and it is taking a lot of energy, but I really needed to put out something, anything at all, for my own sanity and to eliminate any time pressures, so here's an Update with all the non-Hooked-on-Art changes that I've made so far! :) They might not be that much compared to previous updates, but I promise that new content will come! Changes: Blooming Furniture: In the Storage Room, there's something new waiting - a flower! If you interact with it, you can place it freely around the Hall to decorate. Blooming Hat: The free Hat of the season is the Flower Hat! Equip it onto the Ghost by heading to the Ticket Shop and interacting with the shopkeeper. :) General: I removed DRM Protection. By default, the Steam API has a DRM system quitting the game when false launches are detected. I've removed this for several reasons, some of which include ease of use and to prevent crashes through false-positives. So feel free to send this game to your friend! UI: The game can now automatically detect the input device you have last used! If you press any key or mouse button, the input device is seen as keyboard, and if you press any controller button, the input device is seen as gamepad! All primary UI gets changed - eg. the floating the A button transforms into the Key! Boot-Up: I've added the Splash Screens for our Development Studio as well as my Publishing Initiative. :) These are the same Splash Screens that are on Hidden Arcade already! Code: I've optimized some performance heavy code in some scripts that were written very early on, the game should run a bit better now :) So as I've said, I am currently working on a major Hooked on Art update, aiming to not only make it work better, but also to make it feel more like the finale to the game. I've self-imposed a deadline of March 31st for this, but I am very doubtful that I will be ...
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• Announcements·2 Feb 2025Official

  A New Free Game in the Haunted Arcade Universe!

  Heyo! My partner and I have been working on our newest project, and it's finally here! You can find out more about it in this video: You can find it here: Get Hidden Arcade Now For Free! Q: What is this game about? A: 💗 Find and free the hidden Ghosts spread throughout distinct Arcade Game Worlds, and create your own ones! 💗 Hidden Arcade is a Hidden Object point-and-click game in which the player has to find Ghosts inside of different Arcade Machines! ✨ Q: Why this game and not any other hidden object game? A: The game's unique selling factor is that it innovates on the genre in many ways: 1) To add replayability, each level has a timer as well as a global leaderboard so that people can improve their times! You can of course turn it off if you would like a more relaxed experience. ✨ 2) To add functionality, people can create their own levels using the Custom Creator! Pick your own background image, drag Ghosts around, scale them and exchange each Ghost's texture, insert custom sounds, give it a name and upload it to the Steam Workshop! ✨ 3) To add community, everyone can download user-created levels and play them in the Custom Player! Clicking on any slot that says "Get more..." leads you straight to the Steam Workshop where you can subscribe to any levels you would like to play. Hitting refresh when you're back in the game will show all your new levels and allow you to enjoy them! ✨ 4) To add color to the world, this game is available in color! This might not sound that big, but the vast majority of "100 xxx in xxx" games are black and white only. This game features beautiful artwork that took hours to complete, and you can choose whether to view it through a black-and-white lens, or to see all the colors it was drawn in! ✨ Q: Why should I get the game now? A: For the Release Week, the Custom Creator is available to everyone! Just boot up the game and start making your own levels - don't worry, you'll be able to play user-created levels for free forever! But on Mo...
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• Patch Notes·17 Jan 2025Official

  Haunted Arcade - R1.22.4 Patch

  Heyo! It's been a bit, happy new year! Been keeping busy. Here's how it's looking today: :) Bugfixes: Arcade Hall: Fixed the Hub music no longer playing when exiting an Arcade Game. Exiting any Arcade Game will restart the Hub music every time now. Arcade Hall: Added a permanent save system for the relation to the Ghost. Previously, exiting to the Main Menu and then continuing reset your relation meter. It no longer does. I've thus also added a Reset when starting a New Game. Arcade Hall: Fixed the Interact Circle Indicator for the Shop disappearing / missing. Arcade Hall: Added a coroutine that clears all unused assets from cashe every 15 seconds while the player is not playing an Arcade Game, as well as immediately after exiting an Arcade Game. Since some people are still experiencing crashes, this is another attempt at combatting that. As is the next point! General: Removed significant amount of Warnings, as well as unused code. The project previously had 30 Warnings (not errors, 0 errors), now it has 6 Warnings. The remaining warnings come from the use of obsolete code in a Scriptable Render Feature, and from Wwise / Audio. If the crashes remain, it kind of has to be one of the two. Other: Arcade Hall: Players can no longer jump while carrying (heavy) objects. This also fixes the bug of players being able to float when holding objects underneath them and jumping.
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• Patch Notes·23 Nov 2024Official

  Haunted Arcade - R1.21 Patch

  Bugfixes: Pause Menu: When entering the "Controls" sub-menu and directly flipping pages or escaping without going back first, it now quits out of the sub-menu, preventing a soft-lock when going back to that page. Pause Menu: Fixed several selected icons for the Map page and added text to the page. Pause Menu: Adjusted Controls text to incorporate primary and secondary Action Buttons. Other: Laser Bike: Added Space Bar as keyboard control input for firing laser. E still works as well. Kind of a hotfix since this is a fairly important issue ^^
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• Patch Notes·21 Nov 2024Official

  🎄 Haunted Arcade - Christmas Update! 🎄

  Happy Christmas! For this theme, I have opened up the storage room of the shop, granting access to the Christmas Tree as well as two Presents! Additionally, I've added several Fan Elements that were requested by the community! :) Let's get into it! Headlines: Christmas Furniture: There is a new Storage Room behind the Ticket Shop counter, featuring 3 pieces of Furniture: a Christmas Tree and two Presents! If you interact with them, you can place them freely around the Hall to decorate it. Christmas Hat: A free Christmas Hat made its way into the Ticket Shop! Equip it onto the Ghost by heading to the counter and interacting with the shopkeeper. :) Fan Items: Over the past few months, the game was able to grow a little community, and not only did one fan win a contest for his Hat Idea to be transferred into the game, two other community members have been promised a chance for their special interests to pop up - so keep an eye out! Maybe you will catch a motivational Highland Cow poter, or an inflatable Ghost-Frog, or the all-round-wrapping Shark Hat! :D Quality of Life: Added an additional Save Point directly after the Opening. Reduced general Arcade Hall topology and shop object amount. Revamped general Ticket prices to be more in line with the amount of tickets earned in Arcade games. Bugfixes Fixed the Watergun for the Cleanup Quest no longer being available after Continuing from the Main Menu past Arcade Game #3. Fixed Shop transition between Hat view and Can view (partial fix). Improved overall code performance. And many more fixes! :D (E.g. Patch 1.12 last week!) I think that's everything for now. Thanks for reading this, I hope I can catch any bugs and issues, and have a nice day! - Lem ^^
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