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Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne is a 2D platformer / RPG based on Community's Digital Estate Planning episode. The game is open-source and community-run, so we're always looking for help.



Downloads

• OS X
• Windows
• hawkthorne.love

How can I help?

• Code new game features
• Record music and sound effects
• Draw sprites and tile sets
• Create new costumes and characters
• Play test the game and find bugs

Community and Social Media

• Website
• Twitter
• Facebook Page
• GitHub
• Wiki
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Webchat (via IRC)
• Steam Group

Soundtrack

• Listen Online
• Download via Torrent

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Thanks for the tips. All the links have been fixed.

Well.. that was fast. Literally. Took like less than a minute.

It's so great to finally see this in the forums. I'm sure I'm not alone when I feel that this is one of the more ambitious and promising löve projects out there. Great work.

Thanks, I meant to create a thread a long time ago, but never did. I'm now making up for lost time.

I've been watching this for a while, and it's been awesome seeing this project mature.

Great job Conroy!

FROM THE DEVS

It's that time again folks, another new version of Journey to the Center
of Hawkthrone. We've finished the transition to the new sprite sheet
layout, so now all characters use the same layout! A huge thanks to
everyone involved, especially /u/edisonout, for getting this to the
completion line. Now that we have the sprites, digging and crawling are
closer than ever.

We also have two new costumes, Hobbes troy and Ameridean.

We've connected more levels together and also updated the first
cutscene. Since we just changed EVERY costume, please download and
play test.

Enjoy!

PS: While we now have the blacksmith sounds and sprites, he hasn't made
it into the game just yet. Close!

-- Hawkthorne Dev Team

DOWNLOAD

• OS X
• Windows 32-bit
• Windows 64-bit
• hawkthorne.love

CHANGES

• FIX CHEST
• Village-Treeline
• fixed baseball bug
• Update credits.lua
• switches from hashmaps back to tables so drawing is the same as before
• bridge fix
• connect village forest to black caverns
• Initial implementation of the HAWK framework
• fixed blackjack init selection bug
• fixed treasure chest weapon bug
• Update CONTRIBUTING.md
• Welcome to Hawkthorne
• patched projectile bug
• Internationalization
• Redo Gay Island
• increased punching bounding box
• added code templates
• allows fish to survive water
• fixes infinite pickup bug in inventory
• Fixes tween dt = 0 error
• Cats
• can't reproduce dying
• fixed weapon freezing bug
• added 1up token

Hello fellow hawkthronites! Today's release is quite exciting. We now
have savepoints in the game. You'll see statues of Cornelius' head
around the game. Just press UP or INTERACT and you'll be able to save
your game. When you die, you go back to your last save point.

Enjoy! As always, reports bugs in the comments.

-- /r/hawkthorne mods

DOWNLOAD

• OS X
• Windows 32-bit
• Windows 64-bit
• hawkthorne.love

CHANGES

• ignores collider when necessary
• better image for cornelius bust
• Access black caverns from free ferry ride
• Climbing Animation
• puts character in acquire state when they get a treasure or a key
• Black caverns missing floor space
• Spawn Y Proximity
• Trombone sound
• delayed blacksmith speech
• Slower bats
• removes weird 0 in dialog printing
• removed attack skating changed troy's jump back to its original
• Add trombonist enemies to valley
• change player's base health to 20, get rid of all those damage sfx
• Savepoints
• Trombonist
• added gameover song
• makes it easier to jumpkill an enemy
• Add hawthorne wipes enemies to gay island
• Black caverns
• Add pierce pillow man costume
• Bing Bong the Archer
• Enemy pallet swaps
• Change gay guy bounding box, fix dialogues, make levels easier
• FSM mixin
• Gamesaves
• Weapons bounding box follows
• removed ugly hack

It was one year ago that I posted the first version of Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne over in /r/community. Since then, we've released 78 versions of the game, designed 206 costumes (that's more than the Dean himself) and had over 350 people help us with with the game.

This game is truly community powered, and we couldn't be where we are today without all of you. A huge shout out to the mods and developers who've helped take my original idea and make it a reality.

Changes

- Automated error reporting: No more posting images of stack traces in the subreddit. The game will automatically report problems in a central place so we can fix them quickly
- Game save management: Select which game save you'd like to use, and delete old saves
- Redesign HUD: Simpler design and larger health bar.
- Lightning and Arrows: You can finally shoot lightning and arrows. Check the comments for instructions on how this works.
- A more faithful overworld: You can only travel to areas you've seen. Green flags show up when you've completed an area.
- Costumes: 39 new costumes (almost all from one person) I can't even keep track.
- Info boxes now open more than once.
- Platforms should be more consistent across all levels.
- Your visited levels will now be saved (woohoo!).
- Enemies will now flash red when they've been hit, which more closely matches the episodes.

-- /r/hawkthorne mods

DOWNLOAD

• OS X
• Windows 32-bit
• Windows 64-bit
• hawkthorne.love