Category: Hashtag Everest Changelog

#Everest 1.4.0 Changelog

Posted on by Manuela Malasaña

Dangerous Jetstreams? What is that, an 80s punk band?

Climbing season may be over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t reach the summit. Get the latest #Everest build and disregard all notions of personal safety and reasonable behavior!

Changelog

  • Moved app buttons to the phone menu
  • Made gameplay flow more user friendly and intuitive
  • Minor bugfixes and stability improvements
  • Some new inventory art assets by Noyemi K
  • Paper doll box background color is now different based on who is being viewed
  • Added big obvious Continue, Rest, and Stop buttons to map window
  • Replaced item hover tooltips with phone menu descriptions
  • Updated credits text to have new photo credits url

#Everest v.1.3.0 Changelog

Posted on by Manuela Malasaña
‘Sup homies, it’s Manuela, your dev-in-residence here in the Dogpit, with your #Everest v.1.3.0 Changelog
  • Added logging for debug purposes
  • NPC Climbers have water in inventory by default
  • Removed screenshake (was causing janky z-buffer issues)
  • Oxygen now consumed at lower rate
  • Game speed increased
  • Mature content mode! Mature content can now be toggled on or off via the options menu. I believe that means that #Everest now falls under the category of “Games for Grandma”
  • “Unread” indicators added to inventory shop pages and to teammate climber inventories
  • Added many new inventory item art assets
  • In prep shop window, item descriptions now display on phone screen rather than in a separate tooltip window
  • Added headphones advisory to pretitle screens
  • Improved exception handling
  • Fixed bug where game occasionally crashed in Talk mode due to unhandled unicode-related exceptions
  • Fixed bug that caused teammate death to persist into new playthroughs in same session
  • Fixed bug: prep menu hover windows visible in main game phase right after embarking
  • Fixed bug: alpha blending sometimes not working right when phone drops in main game phase
  • Fixed bug: clicking during pixel shader transition caused crash
  • Fixed bug: hallucinatory landmark not disappearing in subsequent playthroughs in same session
  • Fixed bug: teammate death persisting in subsequent playthroughs in same session
Have fun takin’ selfies, and don’t forget to try not to die!

#Everest v.1.2.0 Is Here!

Posted on by Manuela Malasaña

Get the latest version of the most chill game!

Hey everyone! I’m thrilled to announce that #Everest won “Best Use of Theme” in the 2016 Little Awful Jam! The contest isn’t over yet, though, as we’re up for the Community Choice award. Please help us win by voting for “Hashtag Everest” here, then see how we can make a good thing even better by downloading the latest release! You’re all in for a treat with this one because we made a HUGE number of updates to the game and now the game that won an award for being chill is even more chill than before! See how we pulled that off by getting #Everest v.1.2.0 right here!

1.2.0 Changes

  • Player can now adjust music, voice, and sound effect volume individually from the pause menu
  • Implemented “Talk” feature, which includes some gameplay hints, Everest trivia, and some dumb bullshit
  • Added morale system – if the player character’s photo gets a lot of likes, they’re happy and regenerate health and stamina twice as fast. If their photo gets snubbed, they’re sad and regenerate health and stamina at half the normal rate.
  • Game now warns you if you attempt to embark without many “junk” items (with accompanying narration)
  • Fixed issue where Tori’s death narration audio was mismapped in several places
  • Changed several in-game windows to look like messages on the player character’s phone
  • Implemented social media notification narration
  • Implemented additional Death Zone dialogues
  • Unique narration now occurs when character dies due to fall
  • Main game window now shows player’s total score at all times
  • Improved exception handling
  • Modified point values of some items
  • narration for the first time a character’s encumbrance goes over 150lbs
  • Visual notification on theft event
  • Added GBS 2016 Everest death pool predictions as possible hallucinatory text messages
  • Little climber sprites now show the color of the clothing worn in the portrait of the character they represent, including the player character
  • Sara’s little climber sprite is now female
  • The player character’s little climber sprite is female if the player character is Tori
  • Added more item sprites
  • Item descriptions now show on hover rather than right click
  • Added more textual explanations of gameplay
  • Shop window now has pagination rather than “show more” button
  • Fixed various typos in item descriptions
  • Changed hover window logic to prevent window from getting in the way of stuff
  • Added new font for various menus and prompts
  • Character’s encumbrance now shows in red if 150lbs or higher
  • Increased volume of Tori’s VO to match that of Troy’s
  • Replaced playcrafting logo with Little Awful Jam logo
  • General code clean-up
  • Misc bugfixes