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 I did creating it.

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
-rewrite accompanying text
Add Exceed Skills
Import all new GFX for events, characters monsters
Clean up map perimeters- E1, E2, E3, endless, adventure complete
audio replay- e1 orb and indyball
Orc Sprite cleanup
why is turbo in E1?!
Implement Continue Feature
Force fullscreen
Fix Endless map repeat
Resize Fire Golem sprite
Resize wraith sprite
New Manik Sprite
Fix Ancient battle text, music
Adjust enemy troop battle placement
Levels w/ spike trap
Rewrite tutorial

STORY MODE
Parallel events
Spike events
1-10sub
1-11
1-12

3-2a
3-2b
3-5 a-h
3-escape

NewMap B-C

ENDLESS MODES

E4 clear bg
e4 random level lighting
nerf all e4 enemies by 3-5 pts

Thanks for reading.

-Dave Vogt

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

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

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[www.mogamecon.com].

See you soon,
Dave

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 support.

-Dave

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!

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 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 Save
Steam Remote Play
Official Title Re-Listing
Adventure Mode Balancing
Assorted Bug Squishing