Jonathan

Jonathan


26 Jan

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Hello! Welcome to Hopoo Games Dev Thoughts 29



Before we get into the main topic of today's Dev Thoughts, I'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone for the amazing reception and reaction to the announcement of Risk of Rain Returns - the entire development team has loved reading all your comments and sharing in the excitement of the reveal of our latest game.

To keep discussing Risk of Rain Returns you can join me and the rest of Hopoo Games right on our ... Read more

20 Dec

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Hello and welcome once again to the Hopoo games Dev Thoughts!



I'm Jonathan the Hopoo Games community manager and it's my pleasure to introduce you to our latest game:

Risk of Rain Returns.

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26 May

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Risk of Rain 2: Survivors of the Void PC Patch v1.2.4 (Build ID #8796679)


Changes with the ‘🌧’ icon in front of them are changes or additions suggested by the community. As always, if you want to stay up to date on the game or give us feedback feel free to join the discord at https://discord.gg/riskofrain2



The goal of this patch is to address lower-level bugs, while also taking a look at some content changes and more long-standing bugs that have existed in RoR2. In addition to that, you can now sign up for our mailing list in game to stay updated on our late... Read more

04 May

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Hello again everyone! It’s been a while since our pre-release Dev Thoughts and we’ve got a few new thoughts to share with you!

I strongly recommend watching the video version of the Dev Thoughts this month as it includes all the below content as well as a lengthy Community Q&A Interview with the co-founders of Hopoo Games - Duncan and Paul.
  • Where did the name “Hopoo” come from?

  • Who is to blame for Captain’s abilities not being available in hidden realms?

  • DEADBOLT 2 WHEN?
Find out the answers to these questions and many more by watching the below video!



Expansion Reception
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19 Apr

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Risk of Rain 2: Survivors of the Void PC Patch v1.2.3 (Build ID #8537997)


Changes with the ‘🌧’ icon in front of them are changes or additions suggested by the community. As always, if you want to stay up to date on the game or give us feedback feel free to join the discord at https://discord.gg/riskofrain2



The goal of this patch is to address lower-level bugs, while also taking a look at some content changes and more long-standing bugs that have existed in RoR2.

Read up!

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11 Mar

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Risk of Rain 2: Survivors of the Void PC Patch v1.2.2.0 (Build ID #8331485)


Changes with the ‘🌧’ icon in front of them are changes or additions suggested by the community. As always, if you want to stay up to date on the game or give us feedback feel free to join the discord at https://discord.gg/riskofrain2



The goal of this patch is to address bugs from the release of Survivors of the Void, alongside community-driven balance and design changes. Read up! For some context, check out our previous Dev Thoughts:

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10 Mar

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    Jonathan on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
This is one of the changes we're making in the upcoming patch (infestors no longer infect mechanical allies)

03 Mar

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Hello everyone!


Before we get started today a HUGE thank you from everyone here at Hopoo Games for jumping in and trying Survivors of the Void - we have had an absolute blast watching your streams and tweets and Discord posts about your brand new Risk of Rain 2 experiences! For us as a team, SotV was definitely the most ambitious thing we’ve done to date and we’re thrilled with the reception!

We’re currently working on a patch that should fix most of the issues you have reported to us, along with some balance/gameplay changes. Please note that these are only some of the changes we’re working on, and we will provide full patch notes for these changes on release!

Oh yea… patch notes. We’ve learned from our mistake on not releasing patch notes for the expansion’s release -... Read more

01 Mar

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1607890/Risk_of_Rain_2_Survivors_of_the_Void/

The first expansion to Risk of Rain 2: Survivors of the Void has arrived and is now available to purchase right here on Steam right NOW!

its got

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15 Feb

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Dev Thoughts #26 - The Void Invades


Hey everyone!

This will be the last Dev Thoughts before the release of Survivors of the Void on PC on the 1st March! I can’t explain how excited we all are at Hopoo Games for you all to get your hands on the expansion - We’re very proud of the final product and we hope you all enjoy it - be sure to let us know what you think!

Thank you to everyone who has followed along with each of the Dev Thoughts over the last 5 months, it’s been a wild ride and it's been great talking with you all - this won't be the last time you hear from me as we do have some more surprises for you in the not-too-distant future!
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31 Jan

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Dev Thoughts #25 - Don’t Say The “S” Word
Welcome back and Happy New Year!

This is going to be a BIG year for Hopoo Games and I cannot wait to tell you more about what we have in store for you in the future - for today we’ll start with meeting a new friend!

Don’t forget the Dev Thoughts also comes in a super-sweet video format! I’ve done something slightly different this month - let me know what you think in the comments!



Before we meet our new friend… Some big announcements are in order!

The Risk of Rain 2 Expansion - Survivors of the Void - will launch on Steam on March 1st 2022

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16 Dec

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Dev Thoughts #24 - Petrichor V Safari
Greetings Goobo Jr Fan Club!

Dev Thoughts Video
You know the drill by now - Dev Thoughts also comes as a video!



You did smash it didn't you?

And before we crack on, don't forget to visit the Risk of Rain 2: Survivors of the Void Steam Page as it might have changed since your last visit…

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18 Nov

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Dev Thoughts #23 - Survivors of the Void
Hello fellow Survivors! Welcome back!

Dev Thoughts Video
I wanted to start out by thanking everyone who reached out to me following last month’s video version of the Dev thoughts - as requested I got a huge amount of feedback - which was overwhelmingly positive so I went ahead and made another one for this month! Check it out and once again please let me know what you think!

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28 Oct

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Dev Thoughts #22 - Delve Deeper
Hey! I told you I'd be back this month!

Last month’s Dev Thoughts Reaction
A huge thank you to everyone who reached out and let me know what you thought of last month’s Dev Thoughts, we love how excited you are about the upcoming RoR2 expansion! Due to the positive response I decided to try out a video version of this month’s Dev Thoughts:



Please let me know what you think - especially if you would like to see this alternative format more in the future (I will continue with the written Dev Thoughts regardless.) Any ideas for future content/suggestions/critiques very welcome and greatly appreciated!

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30 Sep

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Dev Thoughts #21 - Where did 2021 go?
Hi! It’s been a minute since we shared some of our Dev Thoughts - so let’s get right into it.

Introducing a New Team Member
One thing we pride ourselves on at Hopoo Games is our relationship with our players. We love making the games you want to play, and hearing what you have to say about them. We thought the time was right to bring someone on board to make sure all voices, both in the community and the dev team, are heard.

Introducing…me.

Jonathan Cheetham - Community Manager
Hello everyone! My name is Jonathan and I am your new Community Manager for Hopoo Games. I am a long time fan of Hopoo Games as well as an occasional collaborator (I was a beta tester on DEADBOLT and an alpha tester on RoR2), and as you can imagine I was absolutely thrilled to join Hopo... Read more

28 Sep

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    Jonathan on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Originally posted by MurdaaToes: Add me if you wanna run some

Hey! If you are looking for people to play with I would advise joining our Discord and looking in the #lfg-pc channel

https://discord.gg/riskofrain2

25 Jul

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    Jonathan on Forums - Thread - Direct


3.7.4 Deployment Downtime Incident Report



Today during the deployment of the 3.7.4 patch we encountered some problems that led to an extended amount of downtime for Path of Exile as well as progress loss for any gameplay time played between when we initially deployed 3.7.4 and when we were finally able to deploy the fixed version approximately 2 hours later. I would like to take some time to explain what happened and how we will be preventing it in the future.

Timeline

At 12:00 NZT today we took the realm down to deploy 3.7.4. The downtime took approximately 18 minutes and the realm was back up at 12:18 NZT. At 12:25 NZT we were informed by Kakao Games, our Korean publisher, that Korean users who were logging in were being presented with the Create New Account dialog instead of logging into the existing accounts.

Without knowing what the probl... Read more