What's this, a new patch for The Eyes of Ara? That's right! Patch 1.5 is now live, and with it comes a few optimizations and improvements:

A new Limit Frame Rate option added to the Display Settings. This will allow you to cap the frame rate to your desired limit (or unlimited), such as when syncing the FPS to your monitor's refresh rate.

The first time you load the game after downloading the patch this will default to 60fps.

The game has been updated to use the latest version of Unity. Visually you shouldn't notice anything different, but this does bring with it a bunch of performance optimizations under the hood, so users running on older PCs may experience improved performance.

• Chapter 1: The six-tile ceiling puzzle has been changed to only require the tiles to be rotated into the correct orientation, and no longer requires this to also be done in the correct order. A small change that should make this early-game puzzle less confusing (and save me from answering emails about this until the end of time).
  
• Chapter 3: The laboratory PC's display has been updated to make it more obvious that two steps are required to unlock the PC.

Darkness falls, a chill wind howls,
From inky shadows come grizzly growls.
A freaky terror creeps and crawls,
There’s something spooky within these halls!

Venture into The Eyes of Ara for a special Halloween experience - the old castle has been decked out with all manner of creepy skeletons, spooky spiders, and terrifying tombstones.

What’s more, the Pumpkin Lord has hidden a collection of eerie blue Jack-o’-lanterns throughout the castle. Only the most steadfast adventurer will extinguish them all and locate the entrance to the Pumpkin Lord’s tomb!

The Eyes of Ara: Haunted Halloween is active in game from October 27 to November 2.

• Halloween themed art decorates the castle.
  
• Bonus Halloween themed puzzles to solve.
  
• Two achievements to unlock.

Darkness falls, a chill wind howls,
From inky shadows come grizzly growls.
A freaky terror creeps and crawls,
There’s something spooky within these halls!

Venture into The Eyes of Ara for a special Halloween experience - the old castle has been decked out with all manner of creepy skeletons, spooky spiders, and terrifying tombstones.

What’s more, the Pumpkin Lord has hidden a collection of eerie blue Jack-o’-lanterns throughout the castle. Only the most steadfast adventurer will extinguish them all and locate the entrance to the Pumpkin Lord’s tomb!

The Eyes of Ara: Haunted Halloween is active in game from October 27 to November 2.

• Halloween themed art decorates the castle.
  
• Bonus Halloween themed puzzles to solve.
  
• Two achievements to unlock.

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to 2019! I hope everyone had a lot of fun playing some great games over the holidays, and to everyone who discovered The Eyes of Ara for the first time over the break: welcome! Please enjoy the puzzle-solving, item-hunting, mystery-unraveling experience :)

2019 is shaping up to be a big year for 100 Stones Interactive, most exciting of all is full-time production ramping up on the studio’s next title! I don’t have any details to announce about it yet, but rest assured The Eyes of Ara was only the first game from 100 Stones. No doubt major news will be posted on Steam when there is major news to share, but if you want to follow along with the moment to moment happenings at 100 Stones give the studio a follow on Facebook [www.facebook.com]or Twitter.

I also continue to check the Steam forums on a regular basis, so don’t be afraid to post over there too. As many of you know 100 Stones is a one-person studio, and building games, running a business, and taking care of my personal life can be an awful lot of work, so forgive me if I don’t get around to replying to every post super promptly - and with that said it has been great to see the community answer many questions people have asked before I even get to them.

So once again, Happy New Year everyone, I hope you will continue to follow myself and 100 Stones into new adventures throughout the year!

Patch 1.4 is now live, and with it comes a handy new and often requested feature - the Explorer's Journal.

Whenever you read a book/note/PC/etc, a copy of it will be stored for easy access at any time in that chapter. Simply click the book icon on the left hand side of the inventory bar to bring up the Journal UI. From here you can look through all the books and notes you have found in the chapter!

In addition, certain clues found throughout each chapter will also be automatically added as notes in the Journal after you locate them in game, reducing the amount of hand scribbled notes you need to keep lying around ːsteamhappyː

This update also includes a few other bug fixes and changes (including, you may have noticed, a new logo and desktop icon!) read below for the full patch notes.



UI

• Explorer’s Journal added. After a book/note/etc has been read once it will be accessible via the Journal while within that chapter. Click the book icon on the left side of the UI to open the Journal UI, or use the J hotkey.
  
• Increased texture resolution of inventory item icons.

Gameplay

• Changed the text on the laboratory PC in Chapter 3 to more clearly indicate the two steps necessary to access it.
  
• Added visual markers to the concentric circle puzzle in the sewer to aid with alignment.

Other

• New logo and desktop icon!
  
• Scene file size optimisations
  
• Other minor tweaks and bug fixes

‘Tis the season for merry holiday mysteries! Tinsel hangs from the banisters, fairy lights illuminate the darkened halls, and carefully wrapped gifts await weary travelers. Venture inside the old castle this holiday and experience The Eyes of Ara: Merry Mysteries event.

Investigate the decorated halls and seek out the children’s letters to Santa, then solve a festive puzzle to open a very special gift.

The Eyes of Ara: Merry Mysteries will run from December 22nd to January 5th (you local time) and features unique art, puzzles, and Steam Achievements.

Grab the latest update and enjoy some festive holiday puzzle solving!

Darkness falls, a chill wind howls,
From inky shadows come grizzly growls.
A freaky terror creeps and crawls,
There’s something spooky within these halls!

The Haunted Halloween is upon us again! Venture into The Eyes of Ara between Oct 27 and Nov 2 for a special Halloween experience - featuring unique art, puzzles, and Steam achievements!

What’s more, The Eyes of Ara is currently 35% off during the Steam Halloween Sale, so what better time to go on a pumpkin hunt?

Exciting news: The Eyes of Ara patch 1.3.00 is now live! Along with a few minor fixes, this patch includes support for an additional 7 languages, bringing to the total number to 10!

In addition to the patch, this update also sees the launch of the new Art Book DLC. Previously only available to the game’s Kickstarter backers, the artbook is now available for Steam users to grab a hold of too!

Read all about the latest update below:

Discover the hidden secrets behind the design and development of The Eyes of Ara in this detailed art book. Featuring beautiful high resolution images, development sketches, design notes, developer insights, and behind-the-scenes commentary from the game’s creator.

This 46 page book includes sections focusing on the game’s pre-production, level design, puzzle design, story, collectibles, environments, the Eyes, and more! An excellent companion piece for fans of The Eyes of Ara.

Purchase The Art and Design of The Eyes of Ara separately, or pick it up as part of the Deluxe Edition and get this, the other DLC, and the game all together for a discounted price!


Good news! The Eyes of Ara now supports multiple new languages. Players can now hunt down lost secrets and unravel the mysteries of the old castle in French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. This is in addition to German and Russian support which was introduced in Patch 1.2.00.

Languages can be switched in the Display Settings from the main menu.
The Eyes of Ara Free Demo has also been updated with the new languages.

As an additional bonus, the Castle Maps DLC has also been localised into all supported languages!

Read the full patch notes here.

Patch 1.3.00 is now live! And with it comes support for a whole host of new and often requested languages. Read the full patch notes below:


New Languages Supported
Added support for:

• French
  
• Italian
  
• Spanish
  
• Brazilian-Portuguese
  
• Simplified Chinese
  
• Korean
  
• Japanese

Languages can be switched in the Display Settings from the main menu.

In addition, the Castle Maps DLC is available in all supported languages, including German and Russian which were introduced in patch 1.2.00.


Gameplay changes

• Increased the zoom range of books
  
• Changed the code sheet in the gem room in Chapter 3 to use symbols rather than letters (this should help players playing the game in non-latin based languages)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that was causing the text on some in-game PC screens to not display correctly.
  
• Fixed inconsistent fonts when playing the game in some languages.