- Development Log #63 - 14 August 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.Lionhearts: Melee is only one week away from its release on August 21st! We cant wait to play it with you all. The last week was spent on the final improvements and preparations for this release.Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #62 - 7 August 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.This week massive improvements, fixes and changes were made as we prep the release of Lionhearts: Melee!Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #61 - 31 July 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.This week some significant progress towards release was made.Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #60 - 24 July 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5. Last week we announce our release date for Lionhearts: Melee, as well as launched our Gameplay Trailer! Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #59 - 11 July 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5. This week continuous progress was made on preparing for the release of Lionhearts: Melee to Kickstarter backers. Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #58 - 3 July 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5. This week our first Kickstarter backer played Lionhearts: Melee! Watch on Patreon to see how he fared! Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #57 - 20 June 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.This week we have a awesome surprise in store for everyone, in particular our Kickstarter Backers and Patreon Supporters....Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #56 - 12 June 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5. This week we had by far our most successful playtest of Lionhearts: Melee. This log will overview the changes and findings from the playtest, as we move forward towards finalizing the release build of Lionhearts: Melee! Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #55 - 6 June 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5. Lionhearts: Melee playtests continue as we are rounding out polish, continued bug fixes and quality of life improvements over the upcoming weeks leading to release for our backers.Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #54 - 30 May 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.Lionhearts: Melee playtests continue as we are rounding out polish, continued bug fixes and quality of life improvements over the upcoming weeks leading to release for our backers.Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #53 - 22 May 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.Lionhearts: Melee progress continues to excel as we crush the remaining bugs before release.As a reminder, our devlogs are now a benefit of our awesome Patreon backers. Please support us on Patreon to read more.Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #52 - 15 May 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.Fortunately, our development has sped back up as the lead programmer has returned from his honeymoon! A sincere congratulations are in order, and a lot of progress on Lionhearts: Melee is available to report!As a reminder, our devlogs are now a benefit of our awesome Patreon backers. Please support us on Patreon to read more.Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #51 - 8 May 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.As a reminder, our devlogs are now a benefit of our awesome Patreon backers. Please support us on Patreon to read more.Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #50 - 1 May 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.This week there was limited programming progress on Lionhearts: Melee due to staffing limitations from our lead programmer enjoying his honeymoon. However, there were significant other updates and changes, specifically to Lionhearts: Crusade and the planning progress as we start to shift from Lionhearts: Melee to our Pre-Alpha FPP (First Playable Prototype) As a reminder, our devlogs are now a benefit of our awesome Patreon backers. Please support us on Patreon to read more. Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #49 - 24 April 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.This week development progress was slightly stalled due to a virus that was spreading around the office. Despite this, the team was still able to make some progress in different areas. Rest assured, the team has mostly recovered by this point!Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life to read the rest of this development log!
- Development Log #48 (Now on Patreon) - 17 April 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.This week a massive update and reveal on Lionhearts: Melee was given!This will be the first development log to be officially available to our Patreon backers, as we have moved all development logs over to patreon to help encourage continued support of Lionhearts as we continue development beyond Melee into Pre-Alpha! Patreon will also allow our dev logs to be higher quality, as Steam has limitations on uploads for videos and very compressed GIF sizes.Please consider supporting us on Patreon as we continue to bring Lionhearts to life!
- Development Log #47 - 10 April 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.This week, we did the first large stress test for Lionhearts: Melee. Fortunately, no major optimization or performance concerns were found! A few outstanding bugs and issues were identified, and are already in the process of being fixed or have been fixed. Alongside this, the team made major progress and improvements to many other areas.Camera zooming has been vastly improved. We have also streamlined switching between normal, mouse lock, and tab target camera modes. Additionally, we made Push-to-Talk a toggle and added a HUD element to notify when you are unmuted and created a more reliable Loadout UI.Character-to-character collisions and combat hitboxes has been greatly improved. Parrying while at low block defense will now result in a Guard Break instead of…
- Development Log #45 - 27 March 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5. Lionhearts: Melee is closer than ever to being released to our Kickstarter Backers as we prep the final pieces of polish, optimization and cleanup for release. Firstly, NPC behavior has been improved. NPCs will no longer continue attacking an opponent once they are dead. NPCs now also move onto new targets if they are not targeting anyone. Bow combat has also been significantly polished. We have fixed arrow fire direction being affected by the player character. Hitboxes to allow for shield to block arrows - this has worsened hit boxes in relation to melee combat, so a new solution is needed. The bow crosshair has been polished and we also smoothed out the shrink animation when charging. Lastly for the bow, we've provided a color change feedback for when an ar…
- A Lionhearts: Melee Review by Pixelated Apollo! - 20 March 2026
This week we have something new in store for you all. Pixelated Apollo has requested to write a review in place of this week's Dev Log to tell you more about his experience getting an early access chance to play Lionhearts: Melee!After successfully launching a Kickstarter campaign for Lionhearts, Credenzio Studios has been hard at work bringing this ambitious historical medieval simulator to life. While diplomacy and the RPG elements of the game will be important, the big question is, how will the combat feel? Lionheart is set in the Crusades after all, and if the combat is wanting, everything else will fall flat. Well, the good news is that the upcoming playable demo "Lionhearts: Melee" releasing soon will focus on exactly that, combat. Credenzio Studios has graciously given me the opportunity to play the demo early, and after a few hours of trying it out, I wanted to share my honest o…
- Development Log #45 - 13 March 2026
Welcome once again to the weekly Development Log for Lionhearts, an up-and-coming project on Steam created using Unreal Engine 5.This week, Lionhearts: Melee demo development continued into the polish phase, as core development has mostly been completed.A number of improvements were made this week by our team. Some of these are quality of life, bug fixes as well as general improvements.Regarding combat, we have increased round time limit to 4 minutes from 3 to allow for longer duels. Tab targeting has been vastly improved and no longer slows down sprinting speed or stutters. Block defense regeneration speed has also been increased. We've also fixed issue where block regen would not reset to exactly 0 after a Guard Break. On the music and SFX front, the base volume of music tracks has been decreased to be more balanced. We also fixed weapon SFX not working for NPCs. Adjusting audio setti…
