The year is 1936.

Ancient, bewildering artefacts are materializing on black markets around the world. Rumours of a new element, which German researchers allude to as Valkyrium-500, are spreading. Hushed voices speak of an elusive “Projekt Walhalla” – the meaning of which remains obscure. Meanwhile, agents of the Reich are reportedly conducting frantic excavations around the globe.

However, these puzzling artefacts also managed to draw the attention of wealthy private collectors. As the owner of Lankford & Co, a specialised business known for recovering unique items quickly and discreetly, you welcome this.

Your responsibility is to uncover the remains of a lost civilisation, before the Germans get to it. How exactly you go about this, is up to you and your thrown-together band of eccentric adventurers!

Today we are beyond excited to announce our next project “Pathway: In Search of The Lost Element”. Inheriting the best parts of Halfway and mixing it with lots of new elements, Pathway is a tactical RPG set in a 1930s pulp adventure scenario:

FIGHT deep and demanding turn-based strategy battles.
GUIDE a cast of eccentric characters on a journey into the unknown.
EXPLORE lost temples, haunted tombs and Wehrmacht strongholds in ever-changing levels.
DISCOVER mysterious artefacts – powerful remnants of an ancient civilisation.
LISTEN to an original soundtrack by Gavin Harrison of Halfway fame.
IMMERSE yourself in a gorgeous 16-bit world built upon a novel pixel/voxel hybrid technology.

We are aiming to release the game in 2017 on Windows, Mac and Linux. If you’d like to know more about the game and keep in touch with the latest development, head over to the project’s website:

www.pathway-game.com

Hey everyone,

Good news for our Spanish speakers out there:
One of our players, metalwar, made a complete translation of Halfway from English to Spanish.
He used our mod tools so it is even easier for you Spanish speakers to install and switch the language.

If you use the Steam version, the installation is dead easy:
Subscribe to this mod and activate it in the options menu in Halfway.
Steam Workshop.

If you are running a DRM version of Halfway you can download the mod zip file from this thread and just copy the zip file in the mods folder of Halfway. (Do not extract it) Then activate the mod in the options menu.

Forum Thread.

Thanks metalwar, for this crazy cool work of yours. <3

Until next time,

Daniel, Simon and Stephan

Hey everyone,

Today is a good day for OSX users, Modders and Steam Trading Card fans:

By popular request we are releasing Steam Trading Cards today. Happy collecting and trading!

We’ve also pushed a small patch. This update contains a number of bug fixes.

Changes:

OS X: added work-around to avoid system prompt insisting to install Java 6 runtime from Apple.
Editor: fixed crash when loading maps which contain enemies with no AI type assigned.
Fixed crash on startup when no internet connection is available.
Fixed deadlock on startup when trying to sync Steam user-generated content with no internet connection available.

Thanks everyone for playing our game and have fun with this new update.

PS: This update (minus the Steam Trading Cards of course) will be published on all other stores very soon too.

Cheers

Simon, Daniel and Stephan

Hey everyone and welcome to another update!

One year ago, on July 22nd, we released Halfway to the public on Steam and the Humble Store, followed up by GoG a bit later.

We want to celebrate this anniversary with the following specials:

The Anniversary Sale:

The game will be on a 66% discount on all three stores for one whole week. So, if you’ve been waiting for a sale to check out Halfway, here’s your chance!

Head over here to buy it on your favorite store or directly from us!

The Post Mortem:

This anniversary is a nice opportunity to present a “Halfway in Numbers” feature, which shows you some interesting numbers of Halfway’s development and how the game has performed over the course of the last 12 months. Please head over to our development blog and enjoy:

The one Year Post Mortem of Halfway:

Thanks for reading and until next time,

Daniel, Stephan and Simon

Hey everyone,

What a great year 2014 was for us at Robotality and this is thanks to you, the players. (Read a bit more about what is going on at the Robotality HQ over here: Christmas Update)

We got tons of great emails from all over the world from people who played bingo games for money as well as played and enjoyed playing Halfway, and furthermore gave us valuable feedback about what we should and could improve on. Thanks for that!

To end this year with something special, we have joined forces with the brilliant team of Humble once again, and put Halfway to their great Humble Weekly Bundle – RPG Edition.

If you pay more than 10$ you not only get Halfway but many more awesome RPG games such as Spiderwebs “Avadon 2” or Bossas Studios “Deep Dungeon of Doom”, to name a few. So what are you waiting for:

Update: The Humble Bundle is over. Thanks everyone for buying it. <3 You can still get Halfway cheap on the Steam Winter Sale over here: Halfway on Steam

Thanks again from the whole Robotality team. We wish you relaxed holidays and a great start into the new year. See you in 2015!

Stephan, Daniel and Simon

You guys asked for it and we heard you: From today you can buy Halfway on GoG. Naturally DRM-Free and as a bonus for you GoG fans it comes with the OST bundled, created by the awesome Gavin Harrison.

As it is a great day for us and Halfway , we decided that the GoG version should have a 25% sale too.

Go get it here: http://www.gog.com/game/halfway

Read the GoG announcement over here: http://www.gog.com/news/release_halfway

We’ve finally finished up the modding tools and have decided to bring them out of beta.

To celebrate this we decided to go for a 25% sale on Steam, Humble and our own Humble-Widget. So get it while this sale lasts! For our existing players, we have added a small “thank you” into this update in the form of a extra hard gameplay mode (game mode ++). Play the extra hard version with tougher enemies and even greater challenges!

From now on, everyone that owns Halfway can also create and play mods. Now all the tools we used to create the game ourselves are available to everyone.
For the Steam version, we integrated Steam Workshop for easy sharing and consuming of mods. (Read here for instructions how to publish on Steam Workshop)

If you have a non-Steam version, fear not, the distribution of a mod is dead simple:

Zip the folder of your mod and upload it to Dropbox or any other website and share the link with your players.
The only thing your players have to do: Copy the zip file in the mods folder, start the game and activate the mod in the options. Done.

Are you interested in starting a mod? Great! Head over to our Wiki and read about everything you need to know:

http://robotality.com/wiki

For help and feedback head over to our modding forum on Steam and on our game website:

Halfway official forum

Halfway Steam modding forum

We are really looking forward to what you are going to create. Please let us know if you have something to show, if you have questions, or if you find bugs and issues.

Hey everyone,

The mod tools are here, sort of. 😉 We decided to lunch the modding tools as a beta for everyone who wants to get his hands dirty right know. This means if you want you can already start making your mods and at the same time help us find some bugs that we may missed.

Currently the whole thing is Steam only, but the full release of the modding tools will be over all other versions too. So you don’t need Steam when we have them properly released.

Also as a bonus we added an extra hard gameplay mode to the game, currently playable in the beta as a mod, but will be added properly as gameplay mode with the full release of the game. I hope you like this. 🙂

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Please note: This is a beta and some features are still missing, like uploading the mods and packing them into zip files etc. They will come soon!

FAQ:

Where do I find some information about the tools?

Well we prepared a wiki with most parts of the modding tools for Halfway covered. You can find it here: http://robotality.com/wiki/

I’ve found a bug, where can I report to?

Please use the modding forum over in our Halfway form here:

Halfway Forum

Or over here in the Halfway Steam Forum.

How do I opt-in for the preview versions?

In your Steam game list, right-click on Halfway and select “Properties”.
Navigate to the “BETAS” tab.
In the field labelled “Enter access code…” enter this code: halfwaypreview. Click on “CHECK CODE”.
In the checkbox above there should now be an item named “preview – Public Release Candidate” available to select.
Steam now should start patching your version, and display the game as “Halfway[preview]” in the Steam library.

How do I go back to the release version?

Just select “NONE – Opt out of all beta programs” in the “Properties / BETAS” tab. If you want to be really safe, you can follow up with selecting the “Properties / LOCAL FILES / VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME CACHE …” option.

How to setup an new Mod.

Take a look at the game folder and navigate to the ./mods/ folder. There you should find a ./game-mode-plus/ folder which contains the new extra hard game mode. To setup a new mod just make a new folder in the mod folder and copy over the files from the main game you want to change and create the same folder structure as the main game has.

Want some good music to make your first mod? We have something for you:

The Halfway OST is released and you can grab it over here: Gavins Bootcamp

Hey everyone, I’ve got some great news for all the music lovers out there:

Gavin Harrison, our super talented composer of the music for Halfway, finished working on the Halfway OST!

Go grab it here: https://gavinharrisonsounds.bandcamp.com/album/halfway-original-soundtrack for only £3.99/$6.49

It’s not just a simple copy & paste release of the music of Halfway– all songs got a touch up and plenty of love. Additionally, it includes 4 unreleased bonus tracks that never made it into the game itself, but were too beautiful to just let them rot on Gavin’s hard drive. So what are you waiting for? 😉

In other news:

I have some other great news for you: Halfway is currently part of the “End of Summer Sale” until the 22nd of September over at Humble Store and on our own website:

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/halfway_storefront

https://halfwaygame.com/?page_id=100

So go get it while it is cheap 🙂

What a crazy month it was. 🙂

We released Halfway, got a lot of good and valuable feedback from player and tons of love from all over the place. Released several patches that changed some of the things players didn’t like and improved on all aspects of the game.

We were really happy that on the technical side most things went smooth and now it seems that mostly everyone can actually play the game. (For the last few guys who still have some issues: We are working on it.)

Now we are super busy finishing up the modding tools for everyone and hope we can release them very soon.
The plan is to have an open-beta for the first set of tools soon over the Steam beta channel so we can collect feedback and fix all the bugs you guys may find.

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Anyway, to show you a bit more in detail what you can expect from our map editor, we did a 3 part preview of the tools with me making a level from scratch.
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Tutorial part I: Basic tile brushes and collision:

Tutorial part II: Objects and enemies:

Tutorial part III: Triggers, lights and polish:

We hope this gives you a good overview of what you will get with the map editor. There are more tools for adding new art or for changing other parts of the game, but this will be part of another video tutorial series.
Here is a small overview of some of the more recent articles about Halfway:

Kotaku: “Hope You’ve Got Room For More Turn-Based Strategy, PC Gamers”

Indiegames: “Halfway is essentially the indie XCOM”

PC Games (German): “Mein Taktik-Geheimtipp für diesen Sommer!”

RPS: “[…]Halfway has some considerable charm. I so love its mood and its detail. The heft of a critical sniper shot that smears an enemy into dust.”

Finally a presskit:

We finally finished our presskit! You can find it over here: Halfway presskit

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Didn’t get around to playing Halfway yet?

It is available now from the following places:

Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/253150/
Humble Store: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/halfway_storefront
Direct: https://halfwaygame.com/?page_id=100

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Halfway

Announcing Pathway: In Search of the Lost Element

Halfway in Spanish done by metalwar

Steam Trading Cards and update to version 1.2.6

Changes:

One Year of Halfway

The Anniversary Sale:

The Post Mortem:

Humble Bundle – RPG Edition

Halfway on GoG.com

Modding Tools Released: Tell your own stories

Halfway Modding Tools Beta

FAQ:

Where do I find some information about the tools?

I’ve found a bug, where can I report to?

How do I opt-in for the preview versions?

How do I go back to the release version?

How to setup an new Mod.

Want some good music to make your first mod? We have something for you:

Halfway OST released and “End of Summer Sale”

Halfway Mod Tool Preview

Tutorial part I: Basic tile brushes and collision:

Tutorial part II: Objects and enemies:

Tutorial part III: Triggers, lights and polish:

Finally a presskit:

It is available now from the following places: