The Hayseed Knight — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Nature Hike, available now! | 2026-09-23 | You had no idea Tendou had feelings for you, and you barely knew you had feelings for Tendou... but you're looking forward to finding out where the trail leads!After two months giving my all to complete the wonderful project JEIBON started back in 2021, Nature Hike is finally out for Bisexual Visibility Day! But... But I actually didn't mention any of that here, so let me walk back a little:Hi! It's ya boy Maxi! I've been making a new visual novel! This was actually the first project I ever got to write for professionally outside of The Hayseed Knight. I loved it so much in fact that I also decided to direct the voice acting as well! Alas, th |
| Last call to get YOUR OWN ADER PLUSHIE! | 2026-04-02 | Hey everyone! Very straight-forward post today!The Ader plushie campaign on Gimme Swag that ran all through March is almost done! We're down to the last 8 hours to get your own Ader to hug!THE SITE TO BUY IT: https://www.gimmeswag.com/products/ader-plushieTHE PREVIEW OF ME MAKING NOISES WHILE FLYING AN ADER PLUSHIE AROUND: |
| The Hayseed Knight: FULLY available in Spanish and French!! | 2026-02-28 | Hey everyone! How have you been these last few months? My life's been going through a whole bunch of changes ever since I came back to Spain from Japan. Chief among them are that I've accidentally become a film producer; I'm attending evening classes to learn how to install solar panels; and of course… Sire Red and I worked tirelessly over these past 6 months to finish the French and Spanish translations respectively! I would truly say that The Hayseed Knight is over at last for the time being… unless something catches fire or there's a bad enough typo that I need to come back and update it. That's why I wanted to take a moment to truly look |
| Chapter 4: AVAILABLE IN SPANISH AND FRENCH AT LAST! | 2025-11-07 | Hey everyone!How have you been these last couple of months? I've finally moved back to Spain and I'm doing my best to get used to small town life after a year in Tokyo! With any luck, I'll be out on another adventure soon enough.If I've not managed to break anything, this update won't be very significant to English players (I've mostly just updated credits, fixed a little thing at the end and changed some links)... but thanks to Bedeschi Mathieu doing the first pass in French, Alex García Cutillas doing the first pass in Spanish, SireRed editing and rewriting in French, and everyone's support on The Hayseed Knight's patreon, the translations |
| OFFICIAL ADER PLUSHIE CAMPAIGN LIVE!!! | 2025-09-03 | The title says it all!You've been asking for it for years, and it finally has a chance to become real: the official Ader Plushie campaign is now live on Gimme Swag!! I designed the plushie myself back in 2023 and I've been waiting for a chance to get the design out there! AND HERE IT IS NOW!!Here's how this works: for the plushie to go into production, we need 100 pledges in 10 days (Sept 2nd - Sept 12th). If you pledge to the campaign, you'll be initially charged $2. You will only pay the full price of $34.99 if the campaign becomes successful, otherwise you'll be refunded!If the campaign is successful, we could do new campaigns for other ch |
| Last 3 days of Summer Sales! + General Updates | 2025-07-07 | Hey everyone!How have all of you been doing? It's been half a year since the last update! First off, I wanted to let you know that we're on the last 3 days of the steam Summer Sale! It's one of the best chances to get The Hayseed Knight in the year, provided I remember to set the discount (I did, I super did, it's 30% off). Tell your friends, tell your foes. Tell literally anyone because THK finally got to 4,000 sales two days ago after 4 years and a half since chapter 3 was first published on Steam. I'm not going to lie, that is a tiny number in comparison with what games reach is and the 7 years of development that making The Hayseed Knight |
| 2025: Localization Plans vs Problems | 2025-01-08 | Hey everyone! Happy New Year, first of all! How have you been these last few months? I moved to Japan back in October, and I've been having a lovely time over here in the big city (when my good ol' brain has been letting me do so). I've been touching up on python again lately, improving my Japanese fluency by talking to every person over 50 in the neighborhood, and squishing my brains dry trying to conceptualize the plot for the sequel. It's getting there, but also, I realize that after 11 years in the industry I'm burned out on making games like you wouldn't believe. I'm still unemployed, and every day I feel like creative work is something |
| 1.8.1 aka FULL STEAM DECK, CONTROLLER AND KEYBOARD COMPATIBILITY! | 2024-07-13 | Hey everyone! How have you been this last month? After a fairly nice start, summer is getting hot as hell in Spain. Instead of resting as one ought to, I've been working hard on this update, and I hope it'll be one that helps a lot of people get to experience the story comfortably! Introducing 1.8.1 aka FULL STEAM DECK, CONTROLLER AND KEYBOARD COMPATIBILITY! I had to ditch the original plan of upgrading to Ren'py 8 as my game depends on a whole lot of stuff that is specific to the version 7.5.3 and doesn't play nice with python 3, so I rolled up my sleeves and started scouring the internet for fixes that could make this version steam deck and |
| 1.8.0.2, fixes, and the future of The Hayseed Knight! | 2024-06-01 | Hey everyone! How have you been these last few months? Me, I've been enjoying my new-found freedom after 7 years obsessing over my project. I quit a 5-year-long job that had caused me massive burnout, and I've been trying to just learn how to exist again. I spent some time in USA with friends, I've been practicing different painting styles, I've been streaming a lot of fun games on twitch, and I've taken up singing lessons again. The Hayseed Knight was born in therapy, in a space between jobs and finding a new life, and it's in this moment between calm and uncertainty that I find the most fertile breeding grounds for creativity. I'm not the k |
| The Hayseed Knight, FULL GAME OUT! | 2024-02-29 | IT'S OUT! THE FULL VERSION OF THE HAYSEED KNIGHT IS FINALLY OUT! Welcome to The Hayseed Knight v1.8, or what would have been v1.0 if I had known anything about versioning when I started!! Heck, given that there's essentially nothing left unchanged since the start, this may as well be v2.0. Short of anything failing catastrophically and needing patches, this should be the last big update. The main game is finally finished, and I don't even know what to say. I've been frozen solid for the last couple of weeks, just trying to process the fact that 7 years of work were finally coming to an end. What started in late 2016 as a picaresque novel in S |
| Dev Stream Announcement + Small price increase for full release! | 2024-01-30 | Now that The Storyteller's festival has started, it's time to make a couple more announcements yet! First off: To celebrate the announcement of the full release date (29th February, don't forget!), I'll be holding a Steam live broadcast playing through the as-of-yet unreleased full game demo! including lots of cool new visuals, voice acting, and the all-new rewritten meeting scene in chapter 1. I'll be answering questions and hanging out with the chat, so come join us on the THK discord, and click on the event to get a reminder! The schedule for the broadcast is: PST - 9 AM, Friday 2nd of February CDT - 11 AM, Friday 2nd of February GMT - 5 P |
| CHAPTER 5 ahead! FULL GAME release date! | 2024-01-29 | Hey everyone! How have you been these last few months? I've been working a lot (and I mean a LOT) to bring you the full version of THK. In fact, as I write this my 9 year old cintiq 13HD has just died and I'm waiting to get a new tablet because I wanted to update a lot of backgrounds to bring them up to speed with my latest ones. Just my usual luck, but I really think you'll love them. Sep thinks so too. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEeAzFdXsAADwp2?format=jpg&name=large ...I think. So! On to the matter at hand! The Hayseed Knight Chapter 5 and therefore the full game will release on FEBRUARY 29TH, 2024 If you're thinking "Maxi, did you see it |
| Deadlines, or the art of never meeting them | 2023-11-20 | Hey everyone! How are you all doing? I've had a few really chaotic months. I spent all of October working on an amazing project for a client that I can't yet reveal, and then my PC which had been malfunctioning for a while kindly broke down and I had to wait a few weeks for it to be repaired. Chapter 5 progresses quickly, but I'm afraid there's still a lot to be done and I can't give you the 8th December deadline I was hoping for. I can give you, in exchange, a preview of a little something that is very close to my heart: A preview of the animated intro trailer for the full game! My friend Piti Yindee and I have been working for four months t |
| Chapter 5 delayed until December, and progress so far! | 2023-09-01 | Hi everyone! How were you these last few months? I had to endure a hellish July and a muggy August, but it's been going alright overall other than some health hijinks as usual. My original plan was to release chapter 5 in September. That might have been optimistic, but nothing could have prepared me for how incredibly cursed the recording for chapter 5 would be. I'm not talking cursed as in painful memes and laughing. I'm talking car accidents, near-death events, general sickness, people quitting voice acting, a hurricane, having to rerecord several parts because of recording mishaps... to the point that it still is not yet complete (there is |
| The Hayseed Knight 1.7.1: 翻訳総改訂 / Complete Japanese revision! | 2023-06-21 | Hey everyone! How are you doing this fine June? Summer begins today here in Spain, but I've been melting under the Sun for a couple of weeks now. In my town, Alicante, we celebrate the night of summer solstice by going to the beach and jumping over bonfires where we burn stuff we want to cleanse ourselves of. Like notes and exams. Some people really just never want to look at their grades ever again in their lives. Me, I celebrate by bringing you all a new update while working tirelessly on chapter 5 to hopefully have it ready by September! The 1.7.1 update will be fairly minor to English, Spanish and French speakers (some typo fixes, updated |
| Chapter 5 Casting Call (and a small delay to the updated Japanese version) | 2023-04-07 | Hi everyone! How are you all doing this April? I'm a little freaked out because I'm off to Japan tomorrow. It's my first time there, and it's going to be 30 hours of a journey. I'm very excited all the same!! すーごく緊張してますよ！ On the matter of Japanese, in fact: the next significant update, 1.7.1, has sadly been postponed until May. The update itself contained small fixes in English to typos and such, but the major update was on revising the current Japanese translation. Localization QA is still ongoing and the Japanese editor, Chisato-san, really wanted to make sure it was in perfect condition before it was released. 日本人読者の皆様へ:お待ちいただいてありがとうございます。 |
| Chapter 5 tentative release date, and other bits! | 2023-03-22 | Hey everyone! Welcome once more to: episodic releases and the fear they instill within my very soul. If you've ever had a project that ran on updates, you know what that's like — the fear of keeping people waiting. The "oh no, what if I run out of energy", "this writing sucks, what am I even doing" and who can forget the eternal "am I allowed to take so much as a break?" To everyone's surprise, and mine's first of all... Chapter 5 is pretty nearly written by now! Far, FAR faster than I expected. You may have realized that, perhaps, slicing the original plan for chapter 4 in half and having nearly 20k words written by your past self would help |
| CHAPTER 4, out at last!! | 2023-02-01 | Welcome, everyone, to v 1.7.0 AKA CHAPTER 4 RELEASE! After two years of work, it's finally here. Finally done! 6 hours of all new gameplay! Picture the Frodo LOTR meme gif here. Originally, it was going to be just the one chapter to rule them all, but it grew so large I had to slice it in two! You can see it's still pretty large. Among other things, Spanish and French translations are up to Chapter 3 now! And there's an update to the Japanese translation for chapters 1 and 2 on the way! Exciting stuff!! And now for the full update list: Updated to Ren'py 7.5.3 Switched to GL renderer, so now there are tints, blurs, and all sorts of cool new v |
| Chapter 4: Coming out February 1st 2023! | 2023-01-20 | Hey everyone! How is 2023 treating you? Mine has been: BUSY. I've spent many hours working on my computer and taken up boxing again, to help my back a bit. I've also organized a trip to Japan for spring! I'm very excited to see it for the first time, even though I've been directing voice actors in Japanese for a while now! (Maybe one day I'll have the funds to actually have a Japanese dub of THK) Chapter 4 will be coming out for real, at last, this February 1st. That's just about 12 days, I can hardly believe it. It's the result of two years of work, and I truly feel it's the best (an already excellent) voice acting has ever been. I've been s |
| Chapter 4 to be released in 2023! | 2022-12-03 | Hi everyone! I hope November was a kind month to you! I spent practically all of it developing chapter 4, working day after day to get all the audio edited before sending it off to THK's lovely audio engineer, Natalie van Sistine, for levelling! All the audio for chapter 4 is in the game now, but being that this is a Visual Novel, I still have a lot of art assets left to make, press to reach out to, old and new typos to crush in Spanish... Just the usual, really. And after 3 months of intense work since I first started recording with the voice actors, my back has really taken a toll. If I continue working at this rhythm, I'm going to open up |
| Recordings Finished! CHAPTER 4: FULL SPEED AHEAD! | 2022-10-25 | Hi everyone! I hope you've had a lovely October! Mine has been a bit hectic (my own particular damage RNG has been so kind as to grant me heart issues), but other than that it's been fun and busy! On to the meat of the announcement: tomorrow, all of the audio for chapter 4 will be completed at last! That means that all that's left is tons and tons of editing (I'm only about halfway through that), art (I can barely count the tasks anymore) and scripting (the bane of my existence). That means I can tentatively say at last that I should be on time to make the release date I chose for chapter 4... DECEMBER 8TH That's my birthday! And all I'd love |
| Casting Call for The Hayseed Knight Chapter 4! | 2022-09-01 | Hey everyone! How are you all doing? I just came back from Gamescom a couple of days ago and it was a lot of fun! Exhausting, but fun that's for sure. So as I previously mentioned: Chapter 4's script is now complete! It's time to move on to my favorite part... RECORDING! But there are a few characters missing for that! This is where you all come in! If you are interested in auditioning for any of the characters that will appear in chapter 4, here's the link to the Voice Acting Boards! You'll find all the necessary info there. I'm looking forward to hearing your auditions! And if you don't get cast this time, no worries: there'll be other oppo |
| Chapter 4 Script: DONE! See you on Gamescom! | 2022-08-21 | Hey everyone! How are you all doing today? Me, I'm exhausted from making a thousand preparations to take a plane tomorrow, but I come bearing super exciting news! After a year and a half of hardships and many road (writer) blocks, I can unsafely say that chapter 4's script has been completed! I've sent the copy to my proofreaders, and I'm expecting to start recording early in September! I AM 100% NOT READY FOR THIS BUT WE'LL MAKE DO LIKE WE ALWAYS DO. In other news, you can find me running around on Gamescom this week! I'll be manning a booth for my day job as co-creative director at Mars Vice in Devcom, and then just ambling from meeting to |
| Proudly in Season of Pride 2022! | 2022-07-11 | Hey everyone! How are you all doing? I don't have much to update you on this time (haven't heard of any new bugs lately, thankfully!) Development of chapter 4 continues at a steady rhythm (steady as in, I'm currently a bit blocked on how to move forward even though like 70% of the writing is done), and I hope to have the Spanish translation of chapter 3 ready by the end of summer. I just wanted a moment of your time to let you know THK is part of Season of Pride 2022! Hope you'll find a lot of new awesome games by queer developers, and that you enjoy the new header I'm trying out for the season! It'll hopefully give everyone a much better ide |
| Patch 1.6.0.2 but more importantly: STEAM TRADING CARDS | 2022-06-24 | Hey everyone! Hope you're all having fun with the Summer Sales! I actually posted a bit about this yesterday, but I'm not 100% sure how Steam announcements work so I wanted to have a dedicated announcement to the current patch... AND the fact that Steam Cards have arrived! Of course Sep is the rarest card and everyone is fighting for her. Of course. ...Meanwhile I'm here stuck with 3 Aders. Thanks RNG. So other than that, if you've noticed the recent update it's because 1.6.0.2 brings a couple bug fixes! - Fixed a Diary bug where skipping from a specific child Sep memory to an adult Sep memory where she's drinking caused a game crash. This wa |
| Summer Sales! | 2022-06-23 | It's Summer Time! Here in Spain at least. Or winter, if you live in the southern hemisphere. Dawnsoon, as it were in Acazhor. It's hot, is what it is where I live. As you may or may not know, The Hayseed Knight was already discounted at 20% off for LudoNarraCon, so I normally wouldn't put two discounts together quite so soon... but given I was super sick and couldn't make it in time to have 1.6 ready for LNC, I thought! HEY! WHAT THE HECK! So here! Discounts! Discounts for you! Cut me and I won't bleed! (To be fair, I'm from Alicante, so you're just going to get horchata at this point.) And not only that! Steam Trading Cards are just around t |
| Patch v1.6.0.1: FIXING ACTUAL MAJOR STUFF | 2022-06-11 | Turns out there WAS some stuff worth fixing after all! Enough to make me stop my vacations for a little bit, at least. - Fixed a game-crashing bug that occurred exclusively in the Diary in chapter 3 when going from teen Sep memories to adult Sep memories (because you're not supposed to do a character makeover 4 hours before a major release) Hopefully that'll be all! Please, update the game to the latest version, and do let me know if you find anything else! Have a wonderful weekend! |
| v1.6 Day 1 Patch (not even an actual patch) | 2022-06-07 | Messed up a little folder thing because I was tired yesterday and accidentally made it so the .exe for the full game couldn't be opened through the launcher directly. It should be fixed now with the update, but if it doesn't immediately work, please, restart steam and try again! Thank you for your patience!! |
| ようこそ to The Hayseed Knight 1.6! | 2022-06-06 | Welcome, everyone, to The Hayseed Knight v 1.6! It's been a long time of radio silence (longer yet if you don't follow me on twitter or patreon), trying to find time to work little by little on a million different bits and pieces - all while fighting my failing health. This update is the product of a year and a half of work, and it is a TON! The game has never looked or sounded as amazing as it does now. 1.6 is a huge update that brings: - New designs for every other character, and makeovers for the rest! I wanted their sprites to shine. No more crusty old raggy "Merchant" - it's Mr. Pertok, now! - Updated CGs to reflect the changes! - 100% r |
| 1.5.0.1 aka Diary Page Bug: Fixed | 2020-12-14 | Hey everyone! Hope you're enjoying THK— I'm having a blast watching you all post about it and share streams and screenshots! I've been bedridden since I released the game for my birthday because my back gave up on me, so I haven't been able to reach out to press yet. It's all baby steps from here. Literally, I can't walk with my back straight. ANYWAY! Here's the tiny list of bug fixes for THK 1.5.0.1: Fixed the annoying freaking Diary Page Bug where the entry's page wouldn't be reset when jumping from one memory to another. Fixed a rare encyclopaedia bug where clicking an hyperlink on an entry before having unlocked the target entry would mak |