Peak Bleak Blues (and other moods)
Walking Simulator A Month Club Volume 3: Peak Bleak Blues (and other moods) is out NOW!
Hiya,
The latest bundled release for the Walking Simulator A Month Club is now available for purchase!
Peak Bleak Blues (and other moods) contains 9 endless worlds to explore. There are no time limits, goals, points, win conditions, or invisible walls. Suggested playtime for each game is 15 minutes, or about 2 hours of total "gameplay", though of course you are more than welcome to spend those 2 hours exploring your favorite of the bunch!
Highlights include a take on Böcklin's Isle of the Dead, and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plan's 'landscape of thorns' meant to last 10,000 years.
They've been made over the course of the past year in the few hours a week I've been able to wrangle from work, commuting, and family/social obligations. Despite the lack of time, I feel this is my strongest and thematically resonant release yet, and I hope you enjoy your time walking in the worlds I've made.
Cheers,
Connor
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hi :) what are the minimum specs?
honestly, higher than they should be. they were built on a computer with a nvidia 1060 graphics card, ryzen 5 processor, and 16GB of RAM. Most of the games in the bundle will run at 30-60fps on this, but 1 or 2 struggle to hit 30. if you can run skyrim then you probably hit the minimum, if you can run no man's sky you probably hit the recommended. sorry to be so vague!
thanks for replying :) i dont have a dedicated gpu so probably wont run so well. hope i get one soon :)
ya probably won't run. here's a demo if you want to give it a go tho https://connor-sherlock.itch.io/this-is-not-a-place-of-honour
Hi there, I got this in the Humble Racial Justice Bundle - just trying to play it now, and sadly none of the games will run. :( Games #2 and #3 give me crash messages and a crash report, and the rest just don't run at all.
Sorry to hear that! The games have pretty high minimum specs unfortunately. I might have to discontinue mac support as well :(
I just wanted to let you know in case you were not aware. When launching Peak Bleak Blues in the itch app, the different sims come up in the order of:
So not only are they out of order, numbers 4, 5, and 9 are simply missing and you have to right click and "open in Explorer" (I am on Windows, btw) in order to get to those.
Good to know, thanks! Because the game includes multiple .exes I didn't think it would work at all via the itch app. I'll poke around and see if i can fix this :/
I wasn't sure how it would work, but when you start it there is a popup:
I have to get the other volumes installed through the app. I had installed them before having the app. (I don't think it even existed back then.) Anyhow, inside the install folder there is another folder named .itch with a receipt.json in it. It's the only extra thing included when downloading via the itch app, so I'd guess that's where the launcher info is.
Hello ! Sorry but The Heat Sinks Without Us [Part 1]notwork for me , the map crashes after the postal introduction , idk if is a particular problem of mine or is a bug .
Several of these crash for me the first time. Try again and see if it works.
Hello! Im having an issue with "a sense of pieces" im on a i7 7770 and GTX 1060 and i get major studering in the maze any way to fix this?
wait maybe its just the "world" rendering in for the first time i think
You are correct. There was a bug where the terrain wouldn't have any textures if I generated any of it beforehand, so everything is generated at runtime when you first launch the game. If you wait a few seconds until its all there it should smooth out. Apologies for the jank!
No problem thank you for being such a cool dev and caring about your projects. Really love your work so far
Hey! Any chance of a soundtrack release on Bandcamp or the like? :)
Probably! I'll see what I can whip up.
awesome, thank you very much!!