Blood Bond: Into the Shroud
Blood Bond Enhanced Edition: Features Comparison
The Enhanced Edition delayed till Nov 1 - to make room for Kickstarter
The UK Games Industry national trade body and Barclays collaborate on a UK Games Demo Day (https://labs.uk.barclays/gamestech/demo-day). Only 8 games are selected out of the 40+ games that were published in the UK this year and .... Blood Bond - Into the Shroud was one of the 8.
So that was awesome news for us.
Additionally, due to what we perceive might be a demand for a collectors edition, we will be launching a Kickstarter in late September for a limited edition collectors boxed set of the Enhanced Edition of Blood Bond. This Kickstarter will run from end of Sep to end of Oct - and as such we will be delaying the launch of the digital version of Blood Bond - Into the Shroud (Enhanced) until then. This will be a retail boxed set with unique skins for Astrid, that will only be available during the Kickstarter.
However, on Nov 1st, everyone here on the Steam community that has already purchased the current regular version of the game will be getting the Enhanced Edition as a completely free upgrade and the game will default to the Enhanced Edition for purchase for new gamers from Nov 1st onwards.
I will be showcasing screenshots and videos from next week onwards here to get you all hyped up for what is a massive upgrade yet again for the game.
best regards
Kosala
Content Roadmap Accelaration
Just a note that I decided not to make you all wait till December for our content updates to finish this :) On September 3rd we will be releasing all the content originally planned in our Post Launch Roadmap.
As a reminder this was the original plan:
Now instead, all the above content is coming on September 3rd. We will also be doing a small visual refresh to the comic style look and including some bugs and issues the community picked up since launch.
The only exception will be the console launch. We are going to be working on a console port with a publishing partner and that will come out in early 2022 as planned.
Enjoy!
Our largest discount ever is afoot!
Patch 5.1
A small patch to add additional localisations to the game for the non-English speaking fanbase. New languages added:
French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese.
Enjoy!
best regards
Kosala
Welcome to our Discord
I hope you are all enjoying your Mayday holidays around the world if you are in a country that celebrates it! This is a general shout to say that now we have gotten things going with Blood Bond - Into the Shroud finishing up - we have lots more cooking under the tin.
The best way to stay up to date on what we are doing and what is brewing is to join us on our friendly Discord community. To give you just a snapshot:
The Blood Bond series
This year will bring two new small content expansions to Into the Shroud for free. These are due in August and December.
We have begun early prototyping on the second game in the Blood Bond series - Jarl of Guillon. A mission-based city builder and strategy game where Frostpunk meets Civilisation as Astrid returns to her village to rebuild it and turn into a center of trade and leadership in the Vallentuna region.
Our Second Universe
We have announced our second universe, Katana-Ra. A feudal Japanese and Cyberpunk fused universe where we will be building PC and tabletop games that are very action and combat-oriented. See the announcement teaser here.
Meet the Team
This journey started as me and two other people 4 years ago. We have grown a bit since then. Meet the team on our website.
Come Join the Community
We look forward to welcoming you to our Discord community where we will be doing regular giveaways and challenges as well general hanging out and community shennaninganry the way we do this at WRKS.
Blood Bond is 25% off during the Open World game sale
We have been approved for the currently running Open World sale event on Steam - so there is a 25% discount afoot as we speak for three days only.
Hotfix 5.1 - On languages, mouse movements and other such things
A small Hotfix today to deal with some post-launch issues:
New Features
- Added a setting to the Bindings page that allows for inverting the Y-axis. Thank you to community member Redbearded for the request on this one.
- Added controls for managing Motion Blur
Bugfixes
- Fixed the localization bug that stopped the selected language from working correctly.
- Fixed the zombie NPC bug, NPCs now spawn correctly as well functioning individual NPCs, rather than intermittently fusing together as a zombie NPC pile
- Fixed the deer spawning bug that intermittently spawned deer stacked on top of each other
- Fixed the bug that occasionally caused dialogues to happen twice
Post Launch Roadmap 2021-2022
Here is our post-launch roadmap for the coming year, all completely free of course:
Localisation Bug Detected
A quick note to say that we have detected that the Russian and Japanese localization is bugged and switching language in the main menu is not switching language in the game. We will be releasing localization for several additional languages in June and will rectify the bug along with that update. We apologize for the short-term inconvenience to our non-English speaking fans.
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Добрый вечер всем!
Небольшая заметка о том, что мы обнаружили, что в русской и японской локализации есть ошибка, и переключение языка в главном меню не переключает язык в игре. Мы выпустим локализацию для нескольких дополнительных языков в июне и исправим ошибку вместе с этим обновлением. Мы приносим извинения за кратковременные неудобства нашим неанглоязычным поклонникам.
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皆さん、こんばんは。
ロシア語と日本語のローカライズにバグがあり、メインメニューで言語を切り替えても、ゲーム内の言語が切り替わらないことが判明しましたのでお知らせします。6月中にいくつかの言語へのローカライズを行う予定で、その際にこのバグを修正する予定です。英語圏以外のファンの皆様にはご迷惑をおかけして申し訳ありません。