- Supporter's Pack DLC Available Now - 23 October 2024
It's here, and fixed after a small backend issue. User error ftw. After purchasing the DLC, you have to navigate to The Bounty V2 in your library, then Manage-Browse local files. Everything is in the BountySupporterPackV2 folder. If you want to, you can even manually add the separate playable games to your Steam library. Thanks again! -Dave The paid DLC pack features content such as archive documents, a retrospective, and additional playable versions; an alpha build, a 2018 Deluxe Edition demo, and an additional special course. Please note, that this DLC will not effect your copy of The Bounty V2 in any way, and is a completely optional way to show support. It will consist of a .zip file that contains everything for you to peruse in whatever manner you wish.
- Supporter's Pack DLC Releases Soon - 15 October 2024
Hello again, friends! It's finally coming. The paid DLC pack features content such as archive documents, a retrospective, and additional playable versions; an alpha build, a 2018 Deluxe Edition demo, and an additional special course. Please note, that this DLC will not effect your copy of The Bounty V2 in any way, and is a completely optional way to show support. It will consist of a .zip file that contains everything for you to peruse in whatever manner you wish. The Bounty V2 has a broad international audience; and while the original game is still only in English, the DLC's PDFs have been translated into the following languages, in no particular order; Chinese German Spanish French Italian Japanese Polish Brazilian Portuguese Turkish Russian I had planned on additional languages, but limitations of the service I hired and cost to do so forced me to limit to those with the largest play…
- Supporter's Pack DLC Coming Soon - 12 August 2024
Hello, friends! I'd like to announce that a paid DLC pack featuring content such as archive documents, a retrospective, and additional playable versions; an alpha build, a 2018 Deluxe Edition demo, and an extra special course. Please note, that this DLC will not effect your copy of The Bounty V2 in any way, and is a completely optional way to show support. It will consist of a .zip file that contains everything for you to peruse in whatever manner you wish. While most everything has already been compiled, The Bounty V2 has a broad international audience; this means translating all of this content into the following languages, in no particular order: French Arabic Spanish Portuguese German Russian Italian Standard Chinese Turkish Korean Japanese Polish Filipino Persian This will take a little time, as well as getting all of the storefront and backend stuff done, and promotion.
- The Bounty V2 is going free to play - 8 February 2024
The Bounty V2 is becoming a free download, with an optional paid DLC supporter's pack coming soon to show, well, support that has no effect on the game content. I just need to gather all the documentarian sort of goodies to zip up, but things take time. You can keep up with new stuff from DLV Games at all the following; www.dlvgames.com Patreon Twitch X Frankly, pretty much anywhere if you look hard enough! Thanks for playing my games, and I hope you check out everything that comes next. -Dave Vogt
- The Bounty V2.2 Final Update is Live! - 19 July 2022
The final update (barring emergency bugfixes) has been uploaded and is now available on Steam. I'll be doing some reaching out and rounds of promo and everything as time allows, but there's a lot going on between this, work going forward, life, and MO Gamecon coming up... so as the story has been during this entire rebuild/refresh, I can only devote so much time to this game. A few changes- Updated resolution to fit Steam Deck requirements Tweaked code on spike traps Updated monster sprites Updated some character/event sprites Updated font Updated dog- you name them, they follow you on the map screen, and you can pet them! Approximately 23423432 bugs found/created and fixed Audio tweaks Store page has been updated with a brand new trailer, and several new screenshots. You can find more complete lists in other updates. I'm extremely proud of , and hope people enjoy playing it as much as…
- Home stretch! - 31 May 2022
It's almost done. This has been a busy month with mine and my wife's marriage (!!!), honeymoon, family, and of course the day gig; but I got the hours in here, and the game is all but ready to send off for Steam Deck compatibility verification, and a final send off including a new trailer and the whole nine yards. 3rd party verification could take a bit, but I'm shooting for July for a full release. I'll post an update two weeks prior, though. So, I thought it might be fun to share the worklist. I typically use a kanban board for overall project management and these for smaller day-to-day tasks but as this was supposed to be a relatively minor (surprise, it wasn't) update, I just ran with this. These dynamically grow as new sub-issues are found, and can be chaotic, but still. Fun to share. V2 Final Update To-Do List Resize all parallax images to 1280x800 Add intro skip Add dog follower…
- Final Update Incoming - 1 May 2022
The Bounty V2 is getting it's final update soon, so I thought I'd mention it with the whole "Going Rogue" event going on! I'll expand on this in the coming days, along with a ton of other news, but for now I'll just list the highlights. Updated resolution to fit Steam Deck requirements Tweaked code on spike traps Updated monster sprites Updated some character/event sprites Updated font I'll post more about this update and more, but for now enjoy the sale, and I hope you're looking forward to the update! -Dave
- Halloween Celebration and Sale - 31 October 2021
It's Halloween again, and The Bounty V2 is in on the festivites! All of these optional, permanent additions are as follows: New Graphics mode option, which includes not only a new Halloween color palette, but new background props. New Music- Haunting themes from Richard Tulk's fantastic "Gods and Monsters" E.P Achievement Event- Find all ten zombies throughout Story Mode to unlock a brand new achievement Here's a quick look at a couple of screenshots: I hope you enjoy these additions celebrating the best (imo) time of the year! -Dave
- New content showcasing at MO GameCon 21 - 13 August 2021
The Bounty V2 has another game mode coming, with the first scenario debuting in live competition at MO GameCon 2021. These EX Courses (as they're called at the moment) are small sets of new levels, clearable in well under 10 minutes (closer to 5); perfect for head to head competition. The goal is, of course, to save Walter Day and score as many points as possible; but also as quickly as possible, as you are rewarded a time bonus that ticks away with every second spent. This first course will be coming as an update to your Steam copy of The Bounty V2 shortly after MO Gamecon's September 18th event date. You can learn more about MO GameCon here. See you soon, Dave
- Game On! - 6 July 2021
The final V2 build is finally on it's way! I didn't think this would happen; my backups were all lost- the only thing that survived anywhere after catastrophic data loss across multiple drives (it's a long story), was the packaged release. Or so I thought. I recently came across a partial mobile build that I had been working on last year, that OneDrive had taken upon itself to start uploading before the connection was severed. Fortunately, all of the code survived. So! The past couple of weeks I've spent a lot of time re-importing and fixing assets from the Steam game, as well as rebuilding lost scripting; the stuff that had been changed to facilitate the mobile game. Thank whatever gods there may be that I left all of the level data! Bottom line, this journey is finally coming to a close. There's a lot of work to do, but it's progressing very quickly. Stay tuned, and thank you for your…
- Launch Birthday Discount! - 7 January 2021
The Bounty V2 is officially three years old as of 1/8, and to celebrate, it's on sale! Save 80% (biggest discount yet) for the next five days. Enjoy, and may your scores be high!
- Halloween Update! - 26 October 2020
This Halloween brings some cool new content to The Bounty V2. All of these new optional, permanent additions are as follows: New Graphics mode option, which includes not only a new Halloween color palette, but new background props. New Music- Haunting themes from Richard Tulk's fantastic "Gods and Monsters" E.P Achievement Event- Find all ten zombies throughout Story Mode to unlock a brand new achievement Here's a quick look at a couple of screenshots: I hope you enjoy these additions celebrating the best (imo) time of the year! -Dave
- The Bounty V2 is live! - 3 September 2020
The Bounty V2 is finally here! After a million setbacks, delays, and life changes, The Bounty V2 (free update for Deluxe Edition owners, of course) is ready to go- in a slightly unconventional way. Here's what this looks like. The game has been released now as V2.0, in an early access state. This is a free update, and new players can purchase it at the existing price. During this time I will be reaching out to press/streamers/YT folks/etc. Also during this time, I will be listening to player feedback and implementing any reasonable QOL (quality of life) changes over a brief period time. Probably about a month or so? At any rate, this will mark the end of the early access period. At this point, the game will be updated to the (probably) final version of V2.1, and the price will increase to $10. Here are some of the changes to be implemented during this "early access" round. Steam Cloud S…
- The Bounty V2 is coming! - 26 August 2020
The Bounty V2 is finally coming! After a million setbacks, delays, and life changes, The Bounty V2 (free update for Deluxe Edition owners, of course) is ready to go- in a slightly unconventional way. Here's what this looks like. The game will be released in full in the next week or so as V2.0, in an early access state. This is a free update, and new players can purchase it at the existing price. During this time I will be reaching out to press/streamers/YT folks/etc. Also during this time, I will be listening to player feedback and implementing any reasonable QOL (quality of life) changes over a brief period time. Probably about a month or so? At any rate, this will mark the end of the early access period. At this point, the game will be updated to the (probably) final version of V2.1, and the price will increase to $10. I hope you look forward to playing it as much as I do releasing it…
- June 2019 V2 Progress Report - 15 June 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F31169794%2F30bdee65b8249b7b152d94f3bc627334c501636f.png I figured it was a good time to provide a quick update on my work on the big V2 update and relaunch. Available work time has been reduced to a couple of days a week (at best), so progress has been very slow, though steady. The good news is the actual development is, as of this past weekend, finished. All of the graphics are working, Adventure Mode is complete sans a couple of small bugs, the additions to Story and Endless... all set. Performance was beginning to suffer, but that's been cleaned up. All that remains is some further testing and possible performance tweaks. Outside of that is getting the rest of the achievements in and popping correctly, but that's a weekend's work at best. The real challenge then comes in the form of saving enough money to pay for a new…
- V2 Progress Report - 10 February 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F31169794%2F30bdee65b8249b7b152d94f3bc627334c501636f.png What's up, players? I'm still plugging away at this overhaul when time allows; the launch (relaunch?) is looking like around June-ish. There isn't too much actual dev work remaining; just balancing, bug squishing, and the like for the most part. As before the main hurdle is promotion and funding- so at some point between now and getting somebody in to handle the press sort of stuff, I'll put together some videos outlining the new game mode, graphics & sound, extras, and quality of life improvements. For now, a quick summary of the goodies thus far. ADVENTURE MODE- https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F31169794%2F206b15018ccf74dad5925e042b99625810a77427.png In Adventure Mode, you're tasked with piecing together the Blade of Legends so you can…
- Birthday Sale! - 8 January 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F31169794%2Ff1ba5ccdda9aa58f5380140b94f7bf7b11081917.jpg The Bounty: Deluxe Edition is a whole year old already... where does the time go? Well, to celebrate, I'm knocking off 65% of the price for a brief sale! Not a better time yet to jump in or gift to a friend. I would have liked to have the free V2 update/relaunch/whatever up by now of course, but scheduling and funding and all that have other ideas. Still coming and totally massive, but just a bit longer. Thanks for your support and patience. Enjoy. -Dave
- V2 Update Delayed - 1 November 2018
Due to a severe lack of funding, conflicting work scheduling, and family matters- The Bounty: Deluxe Edition's V2 update is delayed until further notice. Work is virtually finished on the development side; but more testing is needed, and I lack the means to properly promote a relaunch such as this. I'm sorry to everyone that has been looking forward to this, and hope to have updates on a release as soon as possible. Thanks for your support. -Dave
- V2 handmade graphics option teaser! - 5 September 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F31169794%2Fcbb1e21ab071e8b3d7bc404704c2f439f740b367.png I just wanted to pop up a quick image of the game running with the new option turned on. I'll have another for y'all once I have a couple more things ready to show, like your playable character. Hope you're looking forward to it! -Dave
- Version 2.0 is nearly here! - 28 August 2018
The massive free content update and soft relaunch of The Bounty: Deluxe Edition will be coming in October! In addition to the expandable Adventure Mode and new graphics options, both Story and Adventure Modes are more speedrun friendly, built to track your playtime during and upon game clear. Stay tuned for a first look at the new graphics style, game mode, and more in the following weeks. -Dave Vogt
