AiD: Hearts and Diamonds FAQ

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Remaster or Remake?

Hearts and Diamonds will be a REMAKE. A Remaster would involved scaling up the game, including some light polish, and shipping it off.

This is a from scratch remake. Every single thing is being redrawn, reprogrammed, and recreated. We are excited to take this opportunity to expand the characters, world, puzzles, and lore - making the series larger and more engaging than ever before!

Episode 4?

Our current commitment is to releasing remakes of the original 3 games. But it is our dream to carry this story forward after being left on a cliff-hanger for over a decade!

We have pages and pages of notes and ideas dating back to that time. If this remake is well received, we absolutely would want to continue forward to tell the untold next Episode of this story and beyond.

Discord?

You can follow Alice is Dead and more in the Lorestrome Discord server[discord.gg]

Release?

We originally planned to release Episodically. We came to feel that would be underwhelming for a series of games many of you have already played (though not quite like this!)

Instead, Episodes 1-3 are being remade simultaneously, and will have a singular release as a fully finished collection. We are aiming for sometime in 2025 - but please keep in mind everyone is still making this in their spare time!

How much will it cost?

No price is currently set. You can expect somewhere in the $10-20 range (although this may be prone to changes as development progresses).

We promise we'll communicate the final price loud and clear ahead of launch!

Will free versions remain available?

With the end of Flash support, being able to play these game reliably is becoming increasingly difficult. The current best option would be through BlueMaxima's Flashpoint. But with Ruffle in-browser emulation improving every day, they should also continue working on Newgrounds!

Why isn't this free?

Flash games were free because sponsors would pay to advertise, and sell ad space in/around the game. Mobiles games still do this! Unfortunately that is not the economy of desktop games. They can easily take 1000s of hours to make, and developers deserve to be compensated for that.

Localization?

While it may not be available from day 1, we would love to see this series properly localized! Alice is Dead has always had an international fanbase, and it would make us so happy to natively support as many languages as we can afford as a small studio.

[Frankenstein's Raven]

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It may be a little difficult to include, as it would essentially need to remade entirely to run in the new engine. But if we can find a way to include it, we'd love to provide that option!

Yeah, it's a shame how complicated engines are with this kind of stuff. Which makes sense why many remasters/remakes don't include options for old graphics.

I have seen a couple different ways that games have implemented old versions into remakes/remasters. There's the obvious one of having a toggle setting, but that's difficult with the engine stuff. I mentioned Rebuild 3 earlier, when buying Rebuild 3 on Steam, it also adds the old Rebuild and Rebuild 2 to your Steam library as separate playable games. Which I thought was a clever way to do it. And Neversong added their old game Coma as a DLC.

[PunyMortal]

I loved the flash versions of these games. An issue I have with this demo is that there's something wrong with the text to the point that it's almost illegible. I hope this will be addressed, otherwise I have no interest in purchasing the full game.

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Автор сообщения: PunyMortal

I loved the flash versions of these games. An issue I have with this demo is that there's something wrong with the text to the point that it's almost illegible. I hope this will be addressed, otherwise I have no interest in purchasing the full game.

We can certainly looking into expanding the range of text options! Depending on limitations, maybe we'll have to simply pick a different font. But ideally we'll allow the player to adjust this in the settings to best meet individual needs :)

[kaza12345678]

What measures have you took so make sure no other alice owners for example Disney won't risk trying a c&d or sue under infringement (as ownership of public domain characters has lead to problems like winnie the poohs shirt and no shirt versions) tho lucky people like American mcgee don't mind if people use his version as tribute

[Tammie ☾]

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Автор сообщения: Ratatoskr

Was the team able to request/obtain the original song by Hania Lee? It holds a lot of nostalgia for me, so I'd love to hear it in the full release(s), if possible.

Ideally, yes! But it wasn't used until Episode 3, so we haven't quite crossed that bridge yet. But believe me, we'd be heartbroken if we were unable to have that song properly featured as well

I don't think Hania will have a problem with that 🥰 I can't wait

[Tammie ☾]

When is it going to be released? 2022 it's almost finished and there are no news yet

[2 Left Thumbs]

Автор сообщения: Hoffman

When is it going to be released? 2022 it's almost finished and there are no news yet

We decided to scale back production. It's still being worked on! But we were initially going FULL FORCE into things with a very ambitious development schedule. But it became apparent that that was flying in the face of the development conditions that first spawned this wonderful series!
Everyone has taken on other jobs, and is working on AiD part time. It's slower going, and may be a minute still before we have more to share. But the more relaxed schedule has already led us down some interesting new paths, and I'm confident that will reflect positively in the final product!

[graypilgrim25]

Any chance that this will be available for Mac?