- 🌸 Haunted Arcade - Blooming Update! 🌸 - 29 March 2025
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…
- A New Free Game in the Haunted Arcade Universe! - 2 February 2025
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 ba…
- Haunted Arcade - R1.22.4 Patch - 17 January 2025
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 significa…
- Haunted Arcade - R1.21 Patch - 23 November 2024
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 ^^
- 🎄 Haunted Arcade - Christmas Update! 🎄 - 21 November 2024
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 specia…
- Haunted Arcade - R1.11 Patch - 13 November 2024
Bugfixes: Plushville: After beating the game, the Story now continues as it should and the achievement is granted. Plushville: If you escape the game or die, phases transition naturally when they should on further playthroughs now. Other: Jumping Witch: The Arcade Machine has a new logo! Thanks to Steam user @Prawie for helping out with this one (identifying the issue and keeping me on track)! I know this might be an unexpected patch since I said one update a month, but this does not replace this month's update. I just wanted to release part of it already to take care of important issues as soon as possible. Also, not sure whether I've mentioned this yet, but I'm applying for a stipend for upcoming game developers / publishers right now, I'm really hopeful as I'm quite proud of the pitch and video I've produced for it, and so if it works out, I will have more time to fix things, add con…
- 🎃 Haunted Arcade - Halloween Update! 🎃 - 17 October 2024
Happy Halloween! For this month only, you can get the Halloween Texture Set by just walking up to the Spraycan at the counter, without having to earn 30 tickets first. In addition to that, it's expanded, with all-new textures for Arcade Machines! Before we get into the update news, a quick disclaimer / roadmap: It's been about two months since our initial Release, and one month since the last Update / Patch. Most of the team has gone on with their studies and is working on different games right now. Since this is not a lucrative business, we do not have the budget to hire someone to work on it nor the ability to spend all our time on it, and so continuously working on updates is not possible for me right now. Thus, I've decided to limit it to one (major) update a month, excluding patches. This month is the Halloween Update! Next month, I would like to do the Fan Update and incorporate a…
- Haunted Arcade - R1.09 Patch - 16 September 2024
Bugfixes: Story Mode: I've rewritten a large part of a heavy script in the Hub Scene, responsible for Ghost interactions and progression. It is now about 350 lines shorter while still fulfilling the same function, and several frame-based or computationally very intensive Unity functions have been replaced with different ones, which should result in a more consistent frame rate / less drops on cutscenes, as well as slightly less CPU usage. Any Mode: I have tweaked a few lighting settings and removed unused Render Assets, resulting in a 20% frame increase on my PC. Story Mode: The 7th Arcade Game bugged out for several people when it unlocked after beating the previous 6 games, but no longer! The trigger for it now remains active and prompts the locked icon whenever the player tries interacting with it before beating the previous 6 games. Story Mode: Automatically saving the player's ques…
- Haunted Arcade - R1.08 Patch - 7 September 2024
Bugfixes: Story Mode: Reworked the Core Struture of the Arcade Game Implementation - saves about 23% or 504MB of RAM on average. Planning on continuing this technique in future patches to optimize memory usage in order to prevent crashes on lower-end or falsely allocated hardware. Arcade Mode: Back button properly leads back to the Main Menu. Arcade Mode: Escaping out of an Arcade Game properly leads back to the Quick Selection. Story Mode: UI Overlays fixed - speech bubbles can no longer overlay Arcade Games or the Shop. Story Mode: Laser Bike and Sheepy Runs! now feature less bent screen curvatures to prevent motion sickness. Story Mode: The screens of the Arcade Machines now get re-activated after fixing the power. Also, whenever you are not playing the Arcade Game, they are properly displaying the Arcade Game's Start Menu now. Story Mode: On KBM, A and D could flip the pages in the…
- Haunted Arcade - R1.02 Patch - 27 August 2024
Bugfixes: If you bought a hat, equipped it and unequipped it again, it would be gone - no more! In Robot Time, after beating phase 2, you could die in/before the cutscene - no more! In Laser Bike, obstacles would sometimes flicker - no more! In Drama Llama, the scores were misalignned - no more! Several other issues! Some other changes: The default sensitivity is now much lower for players that use controllers. Players on KBM can chagne this in the settings!. And more!
- Haunted Arcade - R1.01 Patch - 20 August 2024
Bugfixes: The player got soft-locked after beating the second Arcade Game - no more! The player could not interact with the powerbox if continuing the game after having beat one Arcade Game - no more! Several other issues!
- ✨ Haunted Arcade - RELEASE 1.0! ✨ - 19 August 2024
It is time - three new Arcade Games, making for a total of 7! As you are reading this, we are packing our things, getting going to Cologne and setting up our booth in Hall 10.2. And this also marks our arrival at a version we feel comfortable with calling a Release 1.0! There are three new Arcade Games, an overworked Arcade Mode, an extended Story and more! Headlines: Defenders of Plushville: In this light-gun-game, you find yourself in a mall and need to defend the wholesome build-a-teddy workshop from the Gorgonzola that escaped the supermarket down the hall!! Laser Bike: Ride down the beach at sundown, enter the city, and end up in space in this transformative racing game! Sheepy Runs: You want to eat some delicious looking flowers, but the local wolves want to eat some delicious looking you! Evade them in a labyrinth of hedges, and reach the highest score! Quality of Life: The Arcad…
- Haunted Arcade - EA3.02 Patch - 15 August 2024
Bugfixes: The audio in Drama Llama as of phase 2 stopped working - no more! The enemy AI in Robot Time was glitching out - no more! The game crashes for some of you. It does not crash on any of our PCs, but I think I have narrowed down the issue to two possible problems - it is either the 32-bit build, or our audio implementation. Since I can hardly do anything about the audio issue aside from a week long project of replacing it with the setup, I have set the build to 64 bit for now. I am reliant on you guys to tell me whether it is still funky or not! Several other issues! This one' a bit between a regular update and a patch, so here are some content updates: We have heard you, and the Gamepad Controls have finally been remapped to XBox/Playstation standards instead of the Nintendo configuration! Alongside, other mappings changed, and all of them are reflected in the button prompts. De…
- Haunted Arcade - EA3.01 Patch - 14 August 2024
Bugfixes: The Ghost could jiggle in place for a significant amount of time - no more! The scrolling speed of the camera in phase 2 was depending on your FPS no more! The highscore screen was the same as in Drama Llama - no more! Several other issues!
- Haunted Arcade - It's Robot Time! - 13 August 2024
Heyo, it's finally here - another Arcade Game! It is only one week until we are exhibiting at Gamescom in Cologne this year! That's right, we have a spot in Hall 10.2, Booth 19 from August 21st until August 25th thanks to the Hessen's country delegation! You can read about it in a (German) interview here: https://www.feelslikehessen.de/blog/haunted-arcade If you haven't seen our last post, we will be releasing the game the day before Gamescom. :) We have also exhibited at the GermanDevDays last week on August 7th and August 8th, and it went very well. Here's a picture from that :D Headlines: Robot Time: Set in the blue machinery warehouses of a robot facility, climb ladders, hit robots, run away from rising issues and beat the Ghost one more time! Quality of Life: The lighting is overhauled - there is lighting now! The 3D hub no longer feels chronically unlit. The Arcade Games prior to…
- Transitioning out of Early Access on August 20th! - 13 August 2024
Heyo, it's finally time - there will be only a hand full of Updates this week, and then we will transition out of Early Access and onto Release 1.0. This means the game will cost 3,49$ / 3,49€, but do not fret! First of all, anyone who has claimed the Early Access gets to keep the Full Game for free, so be sure to claim it as soon as possible. :) Second of all, there will be a FREE DEMO containing all Arcade Games that are currently available, and some additional features that you'll be able to see. Overall, this has been a wild ride. As you might know, we are a few students that came together with not a dollar to their name to create this, and while it sure still is a buggy, glitchy mess, it is a mostly stable experience that we have somehow been able to make with a negative budget. And not only that, we have been able to exhibit the game twice at our local Semester Exhibition, once at…
- Haunted Arcade - EA2.94 Patch - 2 August 2024
Bugfixes: Several important nullrefcheckers went missing - no more! Additional Features: Jumping Witch now has an ending cutscene! There is now a texture for the bricks in phase 2 of Jumping Witch and their amount has been rebalanced.
- Haunted Arcade - EA2.93 Patch - 1 August 2024
Bugfixes: Several achievements stayed locked even after reaching the criteria for them - no more!
- Haunted Arcade - EA2.92 Patch - 29 July 2024
Bugfixes: The activity status of a new Arcade Machine was incorrectly set - no more! After finishing the Cleaning Quest, the shop and Arcade Machines became locked - no more!
- Haunted Arcade - EA2.91 Patch - 28 July 2024
Bugfixes: The Cleaning Quest would not end, making the achievement unable to unlock - no more! Spraycans were locked in the shop - no more! Drama Llama stopped spawning tickets - no more!
