Screenshot of Enigma Heart. Zalia is in the house of an old woman. A calico cat is sitting behind the old woman. Zalia is sitting on a crate. Zalia's dialogue box reads, "Cute cat. What's its name?"
"Annoying customer."
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I tried to write a preview for Enigma Heart by @hadrosaurus.net but Steam said I had to wait. So I'll post it here:
Have you played Zelda II and Arzette only to wonder why MetroidVania took off, but not Zelda II clones? Maybe you like sword lesbians.
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Just speedran Enigma Heart 0.0.67.01 Any% in 20:58
I probably could have done it faster, but I had auto-skip cutscenes turned off, so I had to manually skip them, which loses 2 seconds each time.
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I think before pushing today's update of Enigma Heart to playtesters, I'm going to add a changelog feature to the main title menu. Shouldn't take too long to implement, just a simple text file display.
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Zalia standing front of a save crystal. A text box reads "Save Crystal: Access the menu by pressing btn: menu. Then select Save to save your game. Except, the string has not been parsed correctly, meaning all the escape sequences, color codes, and other formatting instructions have been left in, leaving the message reading as garbage.
I don't think that string got parsed correctly.
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"Why didn't Nintendo ever revisit the design of Zelda II??"
Because they were waiting for a cool-af transbian furry to do it for them:
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1,000 wishlists on #Steam for Enigma Heart is nothing to sneeze at! Thank you so much for the support!
(And tell your friends! 😜🦕)
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Fight monsters, explore the world, protect your village, take on an evil king, and fall lesbianly in love in ENIGMA HEART! 💜
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Exploration has many forms.
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In ENIGMA HEART, you'll roam the countryside, meet an ice queen, a cow, a cute girl -- and you may even fight a monster or two!
Wishlist today! 💜
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Screenshot of Enigma Heart, a pixel art side-scrolling game reminiscent of Zelda II. The player character, Zalia, is kneeling down to talk to a young girl, named Shalina. Shalina says: "Did you hear about the king? He's real mean!"
Shalina: "He said girls can't like girls and boys can't like boys."
Shalina: "That's stupid!"
👑 👎
🏳️🌈 👍
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A screenshot of Enigma Heart: a pixel art scene of a room in a medieval-style house with timber framing an walls that are gray brick at the base before transitioning to lavender plaster. There is a table with a sword and shield on it, a bookshelf, a bed flanked by two nightstands, a fireplace, and a table with a bowl of fruit on it, along with firewood in piles near the fireplace. Zalia, the heroine of the game: a dark-skinned woman with a purple streak in her hair and wearing purple, white, and teal, stands in the middle of the room. On the nightstand is a portrait of Esme, her love interest: a woman with red hair. A status bar at the top of the screenshot shows the player's health, level, mana, and experience.
A screenshot of Enigma Heart: a pixel art scene of the interior of a building made of red wood with light-colored hardwood floors. The room is a boat workshop: filled with workbenches, half-filled boats, sails, and an anchor. There's a brick fireplace against the wall, and a bed in the foreground. In the room are Gage, a man wearing a leather apron and a very bright green hat, and Zalia, the main character, a woman wearing purple and white and teal, and with a purple streak in her hair.
Pixel art scene from Enigma Heart. Zalia and Priscilla are on a dock: Zalia sitting on a crate, Priscilla standing. The long tails of Priscilla's pirate-style headband are blowing in the window. Both have their backs turned to the camera. It's sunset, with the sky in shades of gold, orange, and purple, with gold and orange clouds. The lighting is low, and slightly reddish. The ocean stretches off to the horizon. A text box, indicating Zalia is speaking, reads, "This is nice."
Zalia is climbing a ladder through a thin vertical tunnel deep in a dark cave. The only light in the scene is cast off by glowing mushrooms, giving the entire scene an eerie cyan glow. In the middle of the screen, a horizontal tunnel cuts across Zalia's path. There are two spinning blade discs inside the horizontal tunnel, that presumably move back and forth. Inside, as if shredded by them, is a dead goblin.
Most of the work on Enigma Heart for the past few weeks has been building environments and writing scripts for the end of the first act. We're getting close!
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Pixel art scene from Enigma Heart, showing Zalia taking point as she escorts Remont, his horses, and their wagon full of grain through a forest.
Development of the story and main adventure in Enigma Heart is proceeding! The scripting engine is robust and featureful (is that a word?!) and there's real progression starting to happen from the player's end!
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Screenshot of Enigma Heart, but I've goofed up the camera and we're looking up into the sky (which ends abruptly into black about two thirds of the way up the screen)
Hey, camera guy? Wanna join us down on the ground? We've got three shots to get through today and we're losing light.
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Pixel art scene of a medieval tavern. Esme and Zalia, two main characters of our game Enigma Heart, are standing on opposite sides of the bar. In between them, as if at a place setting, is a pale green square with some very nice dithering. (It's a grass tile)
A little bug in a script: that thing on the bar is supposed to be a bowl of soup. Instead, Esme served Zalia a slice of foothills.
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Gay sapphic Zelda II game.
Wishlist it and boost this. Or else. 👊
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Pixel art scene from Enigma Heart. The edge of the village of Lydaea, outside of Gabi and Marvela's house. Sumala stands at the edge of the town, looking outward. Marvela and Gabi are outside their house, looking on as our heroine Zalia walks into town, leading a black-and-white cow named "Dog" behind her.
Zalia's cow parade.
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A selection of pixel art NPCs of different genders, skin colors, clothing, and occupations. They're all roughly 16 by 32 pixels.
Check out these villagers!
[pixel art by @modernmodron.itch.io and @emszabo.bsky.social]
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Screenshot of Enigma Heart, village of Lydaea. Zalia is speaking to a man, whose dialogue box reads "Test me!"
No, he's not challenging Zalia to a scrap, that's just some placeholder text.
[pixel art by Clarissa, Em, and Rose]
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