Hushberry Games released a new game called For One Year and the version is 2024-09-09. The game’s story is about There’s an ancient tradition: a rite of passage where a young adult leaves their home, travels the country for a year, and returns ready to start a family. It’s a custom from a bygone era, seldom practiced in modern times due to its dangers and hardships. But seeking to break free from the confines of your small town, and yearning for a cough deeper connection with the world and its inhabitants, you set out to follow this old path to discover the world, and its people 😉 Travel the countryside (in a style reminiscent of old-timey trail expeditions), and delve into the depths of mysterious caves… just don’t get lost, and starve! From fleeting encounters to lasting relationships, experience not only the beauty of nature, but of human (and elf) kind 😉 With each ♥exciting♥ encounter you earn skill points to unlock new abilities. Heat, rain, butterflies, bears, eclipses, and more – each season brings new opportunities and challenges. Whether you’re hunting with a bow, fishing in rivers, or playing tavern card games, your skill and wit will be tested!
Developer
Hushberry
Version
2024-09-09
File Size
138.1 MB
Language
English
Platforms
Windows
Game Version ChangelogLatest
2024-09-09
This was one of the largest updates of For One Year! Adding three new characters was perhaps a bit overly-ambitious, and definitely caused the release to take longer than previous releases! And it wasn’t just three new characters: a lot of changes and additions went into this update – For One Year is much closer to coming out of Early Access with this release!
Thank you for your patience, and please enjoy this update
Quick warning before getting to the full list of changes: if you have an existing save, it may not load properly, and if it does load, it’s likely to be confused on which scenes you have and have not completed. (Sorry! This has been improved for future releases!)
Characters
Three new characters to meet: Anika (the Ghost), Effie (the Historian), and Gris (the Thief)
Oinoie, Chapter 5, now includes a couple full-screen graphics (more to come in future updates!)
Oinoie now has a Chapter 6
Corrected Oinoie’s skin color in one of the Chapter 3 background images
A couple new “random hookup” scenarios are available; one was removed
Various dialog tweaks across many chapters and other scenes, including weather-aware changes (for example, the Hot Springs will be closed if it’s raining or snowing)
Updated some of the really-old/wonky fullscreen art for the Faefolk encounter, and a couple villager encounters
When speaking with Kitka, her earlobe no longer vanishes in certain poses/emotes
Tweaked Robin’s hair, so it no longer looks like she’s mad in certain poses/emotes
Carrying Capacity
The traveler now has a carrying capacity with this update!
You can now throw treasures out (if you want to make room for more) – there’s a confirmation dialog when doing this
Some treasures which were not sellable are now sellable
Your starting bow and fishing rod… CAN be thrown out!
Some scenes may play out differently if you’re full of items (for example, Kitka and Cillian won’t give you a cooking pot if you can’t carry one)
Mini-games
At the start of the cooking minigame, a graphic to let you know that your goal is to make 2×2 squares of ingredients
Scoring larger groups of ingredients is recognized, and grants a permanent increase to your food carrying capacity
You will no longer find arrows in caves
You can now find Gold and Silver Coins in caves
A couple new bird types can be encountered when hunting
Birds now audibly rustle in their bushes when taking off
Skills
Two skills have been added, allowing you to increase your carrying capacity
“Crossing rivers is free” skill has been moved under the fishing skills
The “Half the number of logs” skill has been removed
The skill that replaces Silver Chalices with Gold Chalices in caves now ALSO replaces Silver Coins with Gold Coins
There are four new “secret” skills, not seen on the skill tree unless/until you learn them
Visuals, Sounds, and Effects
Added “title cards” at the start of a scene with a recurring character, to let you know what chapter you’re on, and that “this is different from the random villagers you meet in town”
Character dialog windows have received a visual update, including character-specific colors to make it easier to tell when the current speaker has changed
A new song
Several new sounds
Several new season-aware fullscreen graphics across the game
The HUD (top-left and top-right status info) has received some little changes, mainly to accommodate inventory capacity
The CRT filter no longer looks awful at certain zoom levels
The “parallax backgrounds” that move with your mouse are now less-jumpy when the background image changes
Meta
There are several new achievements
Backwards compatibility with old saves is improved… for future versions of the game. If you have an existing save, it may not load properly
Updated many underlying libraries, including those for Intiface Central, adding support for even more bluetooth-enabled toys
You can now click with the right mouse button, in addition to the left, to interact with the game
