- Patch time! v1.2 is now live. Major update & more to come... - 20 July 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32271252%2F6bea26afc2a003159154b21c4694894f4e7b267f.jpg Hi everyone! Thanks for your feedback and patience over the past few weeks. We've been working through everyone's comments, bug reports etc, and are happy today to launch an updated version of the game with many of the problems people have reported fixed - including an optimisation sweep! We've also had lots of requests for localisation into different languages. Of course, as a tiny indie developer, we can't commit to all of them. But we HAVE started to work on our localisation system and are pleased to say we hope to have The Piano available in other languages soon! The next patch after this one will resolve a couple of legacy saving issues, improve some graphical problems. We thank you for your patience while we've been sorting this out; it shouldn't be too much lon…
- Patch time! v1.1(fixed) is available now - 12 June 2018
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- Patch time! v1.1 is now live - 8 June 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32271252%2Fc06d4d8a6b365d95e414caa4c8f444f9eab92dd8.jpg Hi everyone! Thanks for your patience while we put this patch together. As promised, we’ve gone through the bug reports people have submitted over the past few days, and pieced together an update that should solve them all. If you find any other issues, please don’t hesitate to let us know at [email protected] and we’ll get them fixed as soon as we can! In the meantime, here are the patch notes for v1.1. Fixed issue that could prevent player from leaving Garden area Fixed issues where John could fall out of the level in certain parts of the game Added ‘invert y-axis’ option Fixed issue where game would occasionally freeze on a black screen Moved ‘red key’ in tutorial to make it easier to find Fixed issue where part of the car puzzle in Dark Alleys could be…
- Thank-yous, bug reports, and upcoming patch - 5 June 2018
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- The Piano is out now! (Plus patch info / notes) - 4 June 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32271252%2F960feb2e9bee1945d8308dadbd64b2357c09b2c6.jpg We’re absolutely delighted to announce that The Piano is now available right here on Steam! This marks the culmination of five years of hard work, by a tiny team in our spare time, and we’re super pleased with what we’ve managed to put together. It’s been an incredible journey, and we really hope you enjoy the game as much as we’ve enjoyed making it. A Favour To Ask If you enjoy The Piano, there are two things you can do that will be a particularly great help. 1) Tell your friends! Tweet about the game, post about it on your Facebook, talk to your friends. Word of mouth is an incredibly powerful tool and it would be utterly brilliant if you could help us out with that. 2) Leave a Steam review! Steam reviews have been shown to measurably impact players’ purchasing deci…
- The Piano gets launch trailer ahead of Monday's release! - 31 May 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32271252%2Fc06d4d8a6b365d95e414caa4c8f444f9eab92dd8.jpg Hi everyone! We're absolutely delighted today to unveil our launch trailer! You can watch it right here on our Steam page, or via that lovely little YouTube link below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52w7jWX3BHk It's been an absolute blast working on The Piano for all this time, and we can't quite believe the big day is almost upon us. The Piano will launch this coming Monday, 4th June, at 8AM PT / 11AM ET / 4PM BST / 5PM CEST. It'll be $9.99, except it won't, because it'll be 25% off during launch week. If you're reading this, it's probably because you've been following The Piano or are interested in it in some way, so we have a favour to ask you. If you know you'll be picking up the game but aren't sure if you'll be playing it just yet, it will really help us if yo…
- Release countdown & new screenshots - 24 May 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32271252%2F6bea26afc2a003159154b21c4694894f4e7b267f.jpg Today's a big day. Why, I hear you ask? Well, it's the day we hit 'Ready For Review' in the Steamworks back-end. That's right: The Piano is finished, uploaded, and being checked over by the guys at Steam as we speak! We're incredibly, astonishingly pleased with what we've managed to build over the past five years. The Piano may have humble origins, but with a budget of essentially zero and a lot of hard work, we've managed to create a 6-10 hour long, fully voiced acted single-player experience, which fuses genres and styles, and tells a deeply personal story. The Piano isn't perfect, but it's beyond anything we could have dreamt of back in 2013. We owe so many thank-yous to those who've supported things along the way. A lot of our recent work has been on polish, so we…
- Release date change - 15 May 2018
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- 8 minutes of gameplay footage! - 12 April 2018
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- Release date & new trailer! - 10 April 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32271252%2F4ef5cc57da607fd68e143488d41bb58d444fd58e.jpg After five years of hard work, we're incredibly delighted today to be able to announce a release date for The Piano! The game will hit Steam on Thursday 24th May 2018. That's a little over six weeks away! The Piano will retail at $9.99 although we'll likely include a small release discount during the first week. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we thought we should treat you to a brand new trailer... https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32271252%2Fa036e1d431ef5c5928678eaa3d9cfaabe17e58db.jpg We're hard at work killing those pesky remaining bugs and working through the last little bits of balancing. This week we're hoping to have our first full start-to-finish holy-crap-the-game-basically-works-all-the-way-through build, which is a very…
- Release date & new trailer! - 10 April 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32271252%2F4ef5cc57da607fd68e143488d41bb58d444fd58e.jpg After five years of hard work, we're incredibly delighted today to be able to announce a release date for The Piano! The game will hit Steam on Thursday 24th May 2018. That's a little over six weeks away! The Piano will retail at $9.99 although we'll likely include a small release discount during the first week. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we thought we should treat you to a brand new trailer... https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32271252%2Fa036e1d431ef5c5928678eaa3d9cfaabe17e58db.jpg We're hard at work killing those pesky remaining bugs and working through the last little bits of balancing. This week we're hoping to have our first full start-to-finish holy-crap-the-game-basically-works-all-the-way-through build, which is a very…
- Listen to some voice acting from The Piano - 21 March 2018
Hi everyone! Our fabulous team of actors is currently hard at work recording their lines for The Piano. We've got some of it back already, and are working on getting it into the game, and it's sounding fantastic! We wanted to share a tiny taste of it with you folks, as a thank you for all your support so far, so we've put together a little audio teaser for you. Let us know what you think! The Piano - VO Audio Teaser Remember to follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook!
- Listen to some voice acting from The Piano - 21 March 2018
Hi everyone! Our fabulous team of actors is currently hard at work recording their lines for The Piano. We've got some of it back already, and are working on getting it into the game, and it's sounding fantastic! We wanted to share a tiny taste of it with you folks, as a thank you for all your support so far, so we've put together a little audio teaser for you. Let us know what you think! The Piano - VO Audio Teaser Remember to follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook!
- Play The Piano this Spring... - 7 March 2018
After five years of hard work, a successful Greenlight campaign in 2016, and the past year spent revising and evolving The Piano based on user testing, we're delighted today to finally get our Steam store page up and running, and to announce that the game will be released this Spring! We're really proud of what we've been able to achieve so far and over the next couple of months we're going to be adding those final layers of polish, including recording a full cast of voice actors! It's all sounding great - we'll try share some samples with you as soon as we have them. In the meantime, please do follow us on Twitter and Facebook and add The Piano to your wishlist!
- Play The Piano this Spring... - 7 March 2018
After five years of hard work, a successful Greenlight campaign in 2016, and the past year spent revising and evolving The Piano based on user testing, we're delighted today to finally get our Steam store page up and running, and to announce that the game will be released this Spring! We're really proud of what we've been able to achieve so far and over the next couple of months we're going to be adding those final layers of polish, including recording a full cast of voice actors! It's all sounding great - we'll try share some samples with you as soon as we have them. In the meantime, please do follow us on Twitter and Facebook and add The Piano to your wishlist!
