v1.2.1 Notes : Next Steps


Version 1.2.1 will be submitted for review tomorrow March 30, that means new patch notes today! A little bit of here and there additions and fixes, some beefier than others... New pickups and things to do, lots of new themes and backgrounds, new audio and art, and lots of cleanup and triple checking things. Looking ahead, next round might have a more directed plan, if we can make enough work out of it...

Heal The Survivors Patch Notes

App Version 1.2.1 : Next Steps

2025-03-17 - 2025-03-29


Gameplay

  • Vacuum pickup items created for the end of non Career games... since we seem to have the technology right!
  • Supply Crates now appearing in all modes and difficulties, stay near them for a few seconds for some bonus rewards!
  • added even more patients running around not paying attention to you in new patterns
  • adjusted so Sun heals even during invulnerability frames

Customization

  • added new backgrounds for Patients and Devices
  • added 15 new Themes including a bunch of 2-color options

Audio

  • added sounds for Player taking Sleepiness (ow! hey!) and added to Jukebox
  • added new category for all major icons

UI

  • improved achievement popup visuals all over, then again
  • fixed career mode / map select title discrepancy
  • shadows/outlines added to fonts on main menu, start game, career mode, game over, stats, buttons
  • arrow button icons higher res to fix pixelation, main menu title lower res to fix scaling artifacts
  • fixed centering on options menu
  • increased width of scroll bar handle on long select lists like Customization Themes

Backend

  • main.gd cleanup, main nodes linked better, unlock and achievement functions moved out of main

Bugfixes

  • fixed final scene time not adding to stats in Career Mode

v1.2.0 Notes : Career Mode


Version 1.2.0 will be submitted for review tomorrow March 16, patch notes are here! As promised, four weeks of work has brought us Career Mode, a whole new way to play Heal The Survivors! Level and unlock each crew separately, same for maps, with 30 new in-game only Achievements to work on. New features like Room Effects, end-of-scene Vacuum All, and Special Patients are only found in Career Mode, so far...

Heal The Survivors Patch Notes

App Version 1.2.0 : Career Mode

2025-02-21 - 2025-03-15


Career Mode

  • new main menu item opening a huge new game mode! :O
  • level up each crewmember through a new gameplay experience
  • upgrade with coins, levels, and even other crew's levels!
  • new healing scenes detailed across the maps you know and love
  • a new set of Unlocks, new Stats per crew and map, and 30 new in-game challenges to achieve!
  • new Special patients, bigger and faster than anything you've seen before!

Tools

  • buffed Oxygen base min heal 1->2

Maps

  • fixed transparent bricks on School (pay no attention to the default crash screen back there)

Backend

  • updated engine to Godot v4.4-stable

v1.1.4 Notes : Jukebox


Version 1.1.4 will be submitted for release tomorrow March 2nd, patch notes today! This smaller patch brings a whole new Main Menu item, the Jukebox! Now you can listen to every "song" and sound in the game, with controls to repeat and pitch shift it! Yeah Boy!

Progress on the Next Big Thing is coming along well, hopefully ready in a couple more weeks, there are a few more mechanical things to set up before I start playtesting and balancing... as long as I can keep HoH2 and DRG at bay ;) It has definitely been "interesting" having 2 active branches, 1.1.4 got merged into 1.2.0 branch twice this cycle... /gitflex/

Heal The Survivors Patch Notes

App Version 1.1.4 : Jukebox

2025-02-17 - 2025-02-26


Jukebox

  • new main menu item where you can listen to the "soundtrack" as much as you please! :D
  • all sound files available, categorized, named, iconned, and described
  • super familiar controls just like Gallery works for the art files
  • hi-fi audio player including repeat and pitch shifter controls

UI

  • Upgrades main menu item moved into Work A Shift / Find-A-Medic since it only applies in there

Bugfixes

  • found past changes for Stipends were visual and stats only T_T fixed to actually give the bonus coins as expected

v1.1.3 Notes : Changing Seasons


Version 1.1.3 will be submitted for release tomorrow 2/16, patch notes right meow! This round of changes includes 2 powerful new pickups, some new art, and audio / UI fixes and improvements.

The next scheduled update might be small, or posts only, as work on the next "minor" version 1.2 is about to commence! I may have some small updates/fixes, but most efforts will be going into something that might take more than 2 weeks to finish. :D

Heal The Survivors Patch Notes

App Version 1.1.3

2025-02-03 - 2025-02-15


Gameplay

  • new pickup : Snow, rare to find, but it will freeze all patients in their tracks for a few seconds!
  • new pickup : Sun, rare to find, but it will give all nearby patients a big heal!
  • patients-near-player area increased 25->35 for improved autotargeting and Sun reach
  • pickups 10% bigger art/collision

Customization

  • added 2 new seasonal backgrounds
  • added 5 new player trail colors

Audio

  • fixed double menu sound on start game button
  • reworked all menu ui buttons to make the menu sounds properly

UI

  • improved visibility for all skills and tools icons
  • updated tutorial screen with the new pickups
  • further adjusted button focus/hover colors to be more visible
  • improved location and size of patient hp bar and floating text
  • fixed gameover arrows still had theme overrides not obeying color changes
  • reworked gameover achievements / unlocks into proper layer nodes
  • added header styling to gameover stats

v1.1.2 Notes : More Things


Version 1.1.2 will be submitted for release tomorrow 2/2, patch notes today! This round of changes includes a couple Gameplay additions, some new art, a bunch more UI improvements continuing from last patch, and a ton of backend reworks and cleanups.

Heal The Survivors Patch Notes

App Version 1.1.2

2025-01-20 - 2025-02-01


Gameplay

  • once you get past the Pharmacy for the first time, random patients will leave sickness on the floor, that slows down anyone who stands in it!
  • once you get past the Doctor's Office for the first time, random patients will stop following you and go where they please!

Customization

  • added 2 new seasonal backgrounds

UI

  • reworked a dupe button theme into the main one
  • added theme colors to progress bars in Upgrades / UMM menus
  • applied theme colors to new main menu highlights for text/icons, removed old static image
  • created proper greyback theme, dark not light this time, applied to all greybacks
  • fixed upgrades/UMM having png for a greyback derp
  • removed a dot from backpack description
  • fixed tutorial titles being hardcoded image
  • fixed gameover subtitles behind their greybacks
  • updated upgrades/umm progress bars to show words when maxxed
  • similar words applied to levelup/pause, with improved progress bars

Backend

  • finally fully fixed patient pushback, node is an area not physics body now, i swear for real this time
  • updated more RigidBody2D to Area2D : xp, coins, coffee, ambulance
  • upgrades progress bar updating code greatly improved and optimized with proper label settings
  • reorganized all code files by theme/scene/script still with subs for menus and tools

v1.1.1 Notes : UI : Upgrade Imminent


Version 1.1.1 will be submitted for release tomorrow 1/19, patch notes coming then! Guess what I updated this time... considering HoH2 came out this week, and D3/D4 seasons about to restart, we're lucky I got anything done at all, much less another feature update like this! This version will go live as soon as all stores are reviewed and ready (expected Monday 1/20).

Heal The Survivors Patch Notes

App Version 1.1.1

2025-01-06 - 2025-01-18


Customization : Themes

  • added Themes option to Customization menu, no unlock required
  • added 7 new Theme color choices besides boring old Blue
  • applied Theme standardization to most menu screen elements : titles, buttons, popups

UI

  • fixed missing title on Upgrades screen
  • increased font size for unlock hints on Customize
  • added search icon to all hints
  • added Crew Fit selector to Gallery menu, unlocked if the same selector in Customize is unlocked
  • added highlighting on focus to main menu icons to match text highlight
  • improved tool/skill display at bottom of Level Up and Pause menus
  • improved popup dialogs visuals
  • improved all menu screen titles
  • improved all buttons hover/focus to act like arrow buttons do
  • reworked Upgrades/UMM popups to be standard themed panels not static images

Gameplay

  • added 0.5 seconds extra wait when unpausing so you can be moving when patients unpause

Backend

  • reworked story and tutorial screens out of start-game into their own objects
  • fixed poor theme setups and overrides, especially on arrow buttons
  • cleaned out unused resources after theme updates, old menu backgrounds, other unused images

Bugfixes

  • fixed alarm clock and pause menu not playing nice together
  • fixed new levelup progressbar blocking clicks

v1.1.0 Notes : Umm...


Version 1.1.0 will be submitted for release this coming weekend, with the major feature of a New Game Mode, initial tests and balancing are done! Details and patch notes will follow shortly, for now I leave you a few clues around this post... (see the Steam News images)

Sunday 1/5 : uploaded to all stores and awaiting reviews, v1.1.0 Ultra Mega Mode will go live this week!

Heal The Survivors Patch Notes

App Version 1.1.0

2024-12-16 - 2025-01-04


Ultra Mega Mode

  • added a new mode to start game menu, unlocked after Hospital @ BLS
  • added 12 upgrade extensions that only apply to this mode
  • added 5 new tracked challenges in-game only
  • added rewards : trail, background, crew fit

Customization

  • new item Crew Fit, play new mode to unlock the first new player look
  • new options for Player Trail and Background

UI

  • added progress bar behind level up choices that are already taken

Tools

Stethoscope

  • nerfed max range from offscreen to better length
  • fixed evolution nerfing range

Bugfixes

  • found and fixed the cause of the unpause : AlarmClockTimer not stopping after one iteration
  • reworked pause game functions to send a direction instead of just toggling
  • fixed decimals appearing on sleepiness bar values
  • fixed Reset Save to clear all unlocks and customizations

v1.0.1 Notes : I'm Not Done With You Yet


Now with even more actual sound fixes /eyerollself/ this version is now uploaded and awaiting approvals!

Heal The Survivors Patch Notes

App Version 1.0.1

2024-12-02 - 2024-12-14


Unlocks

  • added Red and Purple options to Player Trail
  • added unlock award for Triage Patients on gameover after finishing Concert @ Transport

Audio

  • added subtle siren reminder when your shift is over
  • fixed effects volume not being applied to xp, coins, menus, ambulance sounds
  • fixed intended decibel normalizations being overriden by audio sliders
  • fixed ivbag and oxygen not using their intended sounds

UI

  • added a few new messages to each random message set
  • added map fade-to-black on lose game
  • updated ivbag-splat to visually complete its lifecycle after it has used all its heals

Backend

  • reorganized random message blocks that were spread all over
  • reorganized all static data out of main script into data nodes
  • reorganized all timers and audio into folder nodes
  • alarm-clock and game-over main-thread-waits changed to proper timers

Fri 12/13 : I finally beat the other game and turned it off I promise... I should have lots of time to prepare v1.0.1 and get it out the door this weekend, I have a new branch for the first major new feature started too... I am guessing v1.1.0 will include that some time after new years.

Sat 12/7 : 1.0.1 is in progress, I may allow 2 weeks for this update, as I am at Aquilo trying to get a base started... productivity might return if I ever finish this playthrough rofl. Updates so far are minor, but at least one bug fix, so I won't let it lie for long... they are also leaning towards backend changes and setup for future plans, code cleanup that won't have any immediate effect on app functionality (we hope right!).

I said no roadmap, and yet I am low on "little things", so it may be time for larger additions, which may not fit in 2-week sprints or whatever this process is... I started working on more complex git processes than I was using until now. If I start a JIRA system for this, we may have to reconsider how "fun" this project is rofl.... ;)

I have specific notes for a couple of major new features, a gameplay mode and a customization, both with potentially much work/content to create... more to come soon!

v1.0.0 Notes : Official Release


This version will be posted on Steam as soon as Mobile Reviews are passed. Now even more official than ever, this is 1.0.0, this is everything I imagined the game would be at release, and more. I still have lots more ideas to work on in the coming months, no preset roadmaps or anything, I will add and improve as I feel necessary... I know my main save game has a lot of coins I'd like to find an extended use for. There's also still a lot of room on the Customize menu...

More updates to come soon as time and Factorio allow!

Heal The Survivors Patch Notes

App Version 1.0.0

2024-11-25 - 2024-12-01


Visual

  • improved key store art, app icons, and splash screen
  • added Rays background, made it default if none saved
  • added Player Trail option in Customize menu, unlocked after finishing Hospital @ Transport
  • updated xp icon to be lighter and have a light border
  • updated coin icon to be higher resolution so it matches other choices on level up
  • adjusted scaling on crew icon in unlock on gameover screen

Audio

  • randomized sound tone slightly for xp, coin, tools
  • added new original unique audio for each tool
  • moved tool sounds from spawn time to heal time, duh
  • added enter/exit sounds for major menu changes

Gameplay

  • when sleepiness taken, increased red border, increased seen time until end of post-hit invulnerability, to be more obvious
  • added red border to player sleepiness bar during invulnerability, you don't want that bar to fill up



v0.9.8 Notes : Slow Rolling Release


v0.9.8 Now LIVE on Android and iOS! 48hr or less until STEAM goes live on v0.9.8! New key art being deployed all over, coming to the app for 1.0 soon!

I saw Achievements work live for the first time tonight in both Google Play Games, and Steam (Mac)!! iOS Game Center Achievement integration is also in place, once that build is live, it should be 3 of 3 stores working for achievements. 2 weeks ago I didn't even realize the mobiles had them, of course they do....

This feels like a major update getting those done, I absolutely intend to support achievements where doable. Godot is not trivial to make them happen in, but they appear to be working out so far. Other initial balance changes come from friends and family playing it for the first time, I knew I would have to make some things easier. I expect I will start thinking about New Features sooner than not, especially with the long weekend following Steam Release Day November 27! Suggestions and hate mail welcome in our inbox anytime!

edit 11/22 my coworkers know i love edits... after waking up to mass rejection T_T we have adjusted our Privacy Policy, awaiting one approval after that... We had sent a fully crashy version for ios, everyone is well aware of my rush pushes without testing right....... ...... ...... After my 3rd round of godot-ios-plugins compilations, I finally got the plugin started, debugged it properly and got my code functioning, 22 existing earned achievements on the ipad on my account now /flex/ And after 3 rounds of internal TestFlight testing, that is up for review too... dinged again for mentioning one in the other, careful pasting those patch notes /eyeroll/ learning the finer details of app submission for sure...

Game Store versions will release simultaneously when both are ready for Achievements!!

Heal The Survivors Patch Notes

App Version 0.9.8

2024-11-15 - 2024-11-22


General

  • collision updates to pushback less on patients
  • added a little more funk to the main menu music, because that's how Mikey likes it
  • iOS : added achievement integration with Game Center
  • android : added achievement integration with Play Store
  • adjusted initialize to send all achievements earned in game to store, in case some were earned offline

UI

  • added Patch Notes button on Options menu with these notes as first entry
  • replaced missing Find-A-Medic logo on Start Game screen
  • added time limit hints to difficulty text, and faxed speelling
  • added time limit hints to Tutorial screen
  • copied main menu's Quit confirm dialog to the pause menu's Exit To System button

Balance

  • patient health in ALS 10->7 (i could beat it, but still)

Tools

Stethoscope

  • increased base swing distance 3->10
  • visually completes its life cycle even after touching patient

    Crutches

  • power buffed, base maxed 27->34

Skills

  • Stipends was useless without hitting 2x/3x breakpoints, now it gives its % bonus at end of round, separate from base pay (thanks JordanS)



v0.9.5 Notes : Initial Release


Welcome to the Official Release of Heal The Survivors! I hope you have as much fun playing the game as I had making it.

This project began last May, I knew right away I had a good idea when this came to mind, and I have worked on it every single day since then, either a little or a lot depending on mood, time available, and excitement level. What you see in 1.0 is everything I expected it to be. As I write this I have been out of notes for a week or more, still finding small things to add or update, but it is ready to release and then some. The forced wait times imposed by various online app stores have given me lots of time to playtest, find bugs, balance and optimize, to my immediate satisfaction anyways.

I plan to keep working on it for at least a few more months, not just publishing/marketing, but support, bugfixes, and maybe some new features as they come to mind or suggestion. Of course the better the response, the more support I will be happy to supply! I have ideas for the "next game", but I plan to follow through on this one as far as it needs it.

You can imagine here in HTS there could be ample room for improvement, content upgrading, and additions in the future, if warranted... I have some notes and ideas, but we will see how things go first. I am one self-published indie dev doing everything himself for this project, next project could involve outside artists and such, possibly.

You are welcome to contact us with reviews, complaints, and bug reports at dev@goodguydev.net

Hope you enjoy the game, now Get to Healing!

v0.9.5 Patch Notes





* The term "Art" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, fair warning.
** Lifetime Stats can be reset in the Options Menu. Do NOT give your little brother your device, make him get his own.

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