Heart of the Woods Voice Beta

Meowdy! It's minute here with some amazing news!

Today we're releasing the voice acting patch and beta access for Heart of the Woods to all of you, our awesome patrons. We're so excited to see and hear your reactions to the voice cast! They all did an amazing job and we couldn't be happier. Make sure to give them all a follow, a compliment, a nice fanmail, or just a like! In case you need a refresher, our cast is:

• Maddie Raines - Allie Goodell (@AllieGoodellVA)
• Abigail - Heidi Tabing (@AderuMoro)
• Tara Bryck - Stephanie Arata (@TeffiniWynn)
• Morgan - Kira Buckland (@KiraBuckland)
• Evelyn - Tara Langella (@TaraLangellaVO)
• Fairy Queen - Emaline Tuck (@EmalineTuck)
• Fairies - Lisa Reimold (@LisaReimold); Pickle131 (@SayuriMaebara); Anairis Quinones (@Anairis_q)

A special shoutout goes to Lisa Reimold (@lisareimold) and Varien (@variendarkgirl), our audio engineers, and Wyatt Abernathie (@studiocoattails), the casting director. Thanks for all you've done to make sure Heart of the Woods sounds as best it can!

I'm sure you're all rip-roaring-ready-to-go, but I have a couple requests and guidelines for all of you.

• Redistribution: Please don't distribute this patch. It is for patreons (you!) only.
• Streaming Policy: Yes, you may stream Heart of the Woods with voice acting. However, ensure your title/overlay/or video description states that this is the "Voice Acting Beta Patch"or otherwise a PREVIEW BUILD, and not the final product.
• Upload Policy: You may upload stream archives of yourself playing Heart of the Woods with the voice acting patch, but you may not upload commentary-free versions of the game this way.

Providing Beta Feedback

We've included Ren'Edit in the VA patch. Press "e" on your keyboard at any time to bring up the feedback UI. You can report missing or incorrect voice lines, leave us notes, and then send the renedit/EditingLog.txt file to us directly at melanie@vnstudioelan.com . This will help us fix mistakes as fast as possible, so it's highly recommended you use it.

We're particularly interested in knowing any of these issues, so keep an ear out!

• Missing voice lines
• Lines with noticeable issues (noise, cut-offs, pops, etc)
• Lines where the audio is different from the text (Contractions like audio says "would've" and text says "would have" are fine. If they say "would've" and the text says "would'nt have", that's an issue.)

Installation

Please note you must own Heart of the Woods to participate. This is only a patch/access to beta, not the full game. The current version of the game is 1.7.0, so please update your game if needed.

For Steam

Right-Click Heart of the Woods in your Steam library and select Properties. Open the beta tab and enter password "4252020vabeta" to access the beta branch. Enable the branch and enjoy!

For Itch.io

Download the VoiceActingBeta.zip attached to this post. Extract into your Heart of the Woods/game/ folder.

For other markets

We're working on updating other platforms (GOG, Denpasoft, etc), but for now the patch won't work on these versions of the game. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thank you all so, so, so much for your tireless support and kindness. We hope you can all experience Heart of the Woods in a new, beautiful way! Stay safe, healthy, and warm.