Greetings, Kind Spirits! Here are other matches to light the candle, to journey on to the next darkness.
What a month had it been. How was your August went by? The 'Temporary Restrictions', which closed down the working space we usually use, is still going. And we already assume it will be extended till the end of the year. Fear not, we're still working on this game.
It's been a slow month. August was us back and forth with the QA. But there's also a revision on the final scene for the true ending. Here're some sneak peeks
Also, if you've played the game on 1st April this year, the mansion got a new visitor back then named Lucifer. And Lucifer is back again! Check out our other social media account for more info about Lucifer and their cronies.
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Greetings, Kind Spirits! Here's another matches to lit the candle, to journey on to the next darkness.
First of, we would like to apologize with the lack of devlog and content from us on July. There were only 2 patches and nothing else.
The pandemic in our area gone worse and 2 of our devs went sick for around 2 weeks, and one of them is the lead designer. Thankfully, everyone is now already healthy after weeks of rest. Also, we learned a big flaw in our process, which we were too dependent of the lead designer.
But, we've all worked some new things, and is now being quality checked by external party. Here are some sneak peek screenshots (Spoiler free!) "Another weird place, the mansion feels like transferring us to strange places. Oh, what is that on the ground?" "A crossroad? A village? or a town? No way, this must be another illusion given by the mansion." "You can't fool me, this is just another trick of the mansion, isn't it? We're not actually outside"
Other screenshots might contain spoiler. So, if you want to know more, ask us on our Discord which can be accessed down below. We'd be glad to help or to tell things more personally there.
Thank you for taking your time reading this devlog and staying with us until now. Hopefully, you will still be with us until the end of the journey. Once again, thank you, and stay tune!
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------------------------------ Version 0.5.2.5 ------------------------------ - Bugfix: Fix a bug where the Ghost Piano scene appears when exiting the piano even thought plaher hasn't met her yet. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where the inventory is disabled after playing the piano. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where the inventory is immediately opened after playing the piano. - Activating Steam DRM
[EARLY ACCESS] v5.2.4
------------------------------ Version 0.5.2.4 ------------------------------ - Bugfix: Fix a crash that caused by missing file. (Thank you blue on Discord!) - Bugfix: Fix a bug where if player remove the maid outfit, the game can't progress due to game over always happening inside the kitchen even if they already put Maid Clothes on. - Add core's idle and rage sprite animation. - Add core's attacking sprite animation. - Add The Explorer achievement and its tracker.
The Wind Blows Hard, Light Another Candles [Development Log 27/06/2021]
Greetings, Kind Spirits! Here's another matches to lit the candle, to journey on to the next darkness.
It's the end of June. Hope everyone is doing okay and feeling well. These two weeks has been rough for the team. Our meeting place is closed down with the bad virus cases rising. In our area, the weather is unpredictable, sometimes it's hot, other times it's very cold. We don't know how bad the case or the weather in your area, but we hope everyone stay safe and healthy.
We're still expanding the last part of the game, so there would be more stuffs to see before getting to the end of the game. There aren't much to show for now since it's still unplayable even for beta test.
The piano is now playable after you finished with the quest related to it. If you're trying something on the piano, please send us a video of it!
There are also lot of bugfixes and changes on the recent update, be sure to check it out!
Thank you for taking your time reading this devlog and staying with us until now. Hopefully, you will still be with us until the end of the journey. Once again, thank you, and stay tune!
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------------------------------ Version 0.5.2 ------------------------------ - Bugfix: Remove Girl NPC that appears on 2F main hall on blue dress route. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where stepping sound didn't play on some maps. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where the red ghost that chase player immediately disappears after it appears. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where the red ghost didn't chase player when it appears. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where the red ghost can appears outside of the map. - Bugfix: Fix a bug on button mash event where any key can be substituted as enter key. For now, the usable key for the mash button event are Enter, Space, and Z; which corresponds to interact button. However, the in-game display will still just Enter. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where the red ghost on dream realm can catch the player immediately if it previously engage player in the road with 2 tiles wide and both player and the ghost are occupying both tiles. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where the player can be positioned above the stair fence in the foyer. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where no step sound is played when player move to certain tiles. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where the bloody footstep that chase player stop moving when it goes outside of the screen. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where the text on the save file can goes past the visual width. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where there are times when player can goes through tables on the ball room. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where player can't goes through some ghosts in the ball room. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where player can access maid quarter 1 before entering the labyrinth. - Adjust stair from B1 to 1F left hallway. - Adjust stair from 1F left hallway to B1. - Adjust key sprite on the foyer. - Adjust some scenes. - Add animation of red ghost catching the player. - Renamed "Ritual Book" item into "Books for Amber" and remove its description. - Remove tutorial menu from title screen. - Add license menu on title screen. - Add save log for certain events. - Adjust red ghost spawn timer so it rarely appears immediately after a cutscene. - Revise end scene on the MC consciousness when she possessed. - Add animation of player pushing the red ghost upon successful button mash. - Add correct ghost piano sprite. - Make the piano able to be played after the quest is completed. - Block the right hallway that leads to Big Room upon pre-ritual. - Simplify candle placement on ritual. - Add the bloodprint effect for the 'core' when it walks. - Bugfix: Add missing sprite to avoid crash. ----- Phase 4 ----- - Bugfix: Fix a bug where the goblets are not reset when player leave the area through certain method.
Hard to Explore in the Darkness [Development Log 13/06/2021]
Greetings, Kind Spirits! Here's another matches to lit the candle, to journey on to the next darkness.
Halfway through June already, time flies so fast, huh. This development log will be a short one. The game is planned to be updated around 1 to 3 days from now, it's currently on internal testing phase, stay tune.
The update will have cut content before the accident in the library, which was quite unstable before update 5.0; New achievement; Playable piano after the piano quest; Minor adjustments; more animations; and lot of bugfixes. We're testing as carefully as possible, we want to deliver our best for you.
Anyway, does the piano need to be more polished and/or immersive? Like, giving it murkier color or not having notes on them? Let us know your suggestion.
Have you checked the comic update? It's up on our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, which all could be accessed on links down below. Please check it out!
If you have a friend that you want to convince to play Cursed Mansion, remember that the demo is still there and playable. Bring more sacrifices for the mansion
Thank you for taking your time reading this devlog and staying with us until now. Hopefully, you will still be with us until the end of the journey. Once again, thank you, and stay tune!
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The Restful, The Cheery, and The Unfazed [Found Footages]
Greetings, Kind Spirits!
Living in this big and dark mansion is not easy. The never-ending hallways, the thumps occasionally heard outside the room, and the lack of lights which make it hard to see what's on the front. In usual life, people come and go. But here, no one ever go, they died and became part of the mansion instead. The thought of escaping the mansion looks more futile as days go.
Sightings found that the mansion got more victims recently, and by more, we meant a whole lot more. Most of them seem to have survived and got out, and the others who failed are trapped inside for eternity.
We came across found footages of people who dared to venture in the mansion. They were lured in because they think they were ready, they think they have seen the mansion before and would be okay. Well, we hope they were right.
All found footages might contain spoilers, while every experiences is different for each person, it is better to not see any spoiler for the full experience.
The first one is Apollo
Found footage:
https://youtu.be/HwCilDTU38g Apollo, an explorer that have traveled on many kind of scary and creepy places. He has outsmarted some beings outside of this planet, killed lot of virus-infected people, and even destroyed beings from memories. He cut his adventure in parts, take some rest, and in the meantime doing some other venturing in other places on his resting time. He already went to the Witch's House and definitely trying to be more careful here, it's really fun to see them wondering around and commenting on lot of things. He explored about a half of the mansion, and pretty sure would be able to get out sooner or later. We hope he'll keep going through.
The second one is Zezuu
Found footage:
https://youtu.be/cOLtbioePcg Zezuu, a veteran, he has been journeying far and wide for about 9 years, from a place where you can destroy a planet with energy stored inside your body to magical place where you have to exile other people to achieve prizes. This found footage is an old one, but we hope he will come back. Because, when he is back, there definitely will be more surprises for him here and there. His commentary is easy to enjoy, and hopefully he was enjoying himself too. The footage is not too long, but not too short, it's just right. Sadly, he left his exploration right after the death door. In our retrospect that ghost definitely is a pesky one, and we've driven them out from there (they were very angry). Hopefully, Zezuu will be back for more exploring.
The third one is FluffeyPanda
Found footage:
https://youtu.be/K7wpvcA3ppA A humble and genuine guy who just want to have fun exploring places, especially if the place was discovered by smaller team. He does lot of commentary and even trying to complete lot of his adventures, definitely someone you should look out. He seems very calm throughout the footage, one that is not easily fazed. We knew this is not his first journey to places of horror, but we didn't know someone will be this undisturbed. We just hope he's enjoying himself behind his calm demeanor. The footage stopped where he was stuck inside the dream, he then promptly told us to help him. Even though the mansion was still below what he considers as satisfying experience, we hope he'll come back when he can achieve the true ending. (which he said in the found footage.)
We're really glad that there are people who dared to challenge the mansion to escape from here. And we know, these are just 3 from who knows how many more the mansion lured in. If any of you have found footages we need to see, please tell us!
Thank you for taking your time to check them out, and see you for more found footages of people challenging the mansion. Stay tune!
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Be Careful, Long Dark Road Ahead [Development Log 30/05/2021]
Greetings, Kind Spirits! Here's another matches to lit the candle, to journey on to the next darkness.
Another two weeks passed by so fast, or is it just us? Did you see the super blood moon on last Wednesday? Did you see it directly? Or did you see a livestream of it? It was a full eclipse on around New Zealand and half eclipse on America and Eastern Asia. It's hard to see from our place, so we watched the livestream of it. It looked really cool.
We're making a comic of the girl's adventure, do you know about it? You can follow it through our Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, links are down below! Any share will be helpful!
We've read the review, we've watched lot of gameplay, thank you very much for all of your commentaries, suggestions, and advices. We are very grateful. Honestly, they're very important because now we know what's lacking from our game from players' perspective, because the target of our game is, of course, the players.
One of the most needed content was restoratives. We've discussed it and the most suitable restoratives that we could put in the game is, BERRY! Do you have any more suggestion? We have more that can be put for variety, but berry is definitely confirmed for smash bros. the next update.
Next one is candle that you can bring around. We've discussed about that too and will definitely put the mechanic in the game. But we're still deciding on places that need to be darken so the candle would be necessary to have. Portable candle is not confirmed yet, but stay tune for more info.
We're also polishing our monster, giving them more animation and maybe other things. Here's a sneak peek so far.
Next step, we'll be going back to the start of the mansion. We realized (with the reviews' help too) that each part of the game is still 'empty'. We'll be adding more stories, and more puzzles. We'll also be using mechanics which are only used once, such as picking up mechanic. We're still brainstorming about this, so please stay tune.
Thank you for taking your time to read this devlog and staying with us until now. Hopefully, you will still be with us until the end of the journey. Once again, thank you, and stay tune!
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FOUND FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE SURVIVING INSIDE THE MANSION
Greetings, Kind Spirits!
Living in this big and dark mansion is not easy. The never-ending hallways, the thumps occasionally heard outside the room, and the lack of lights which make it hard to see what's on the front. In usual life, people come and go. But here, no one ever go, they died and became part of the mansion instead. The thought of escaping the mansion looks more futile as days go.
Sightings found that the mansion got more victims recently, and by more, we meant a whole lot more. Most of them seem to have survived and got out, and the others who failed are trapped inside for eternity.
We came across found footages of people who dared to venture in the mansion. The 3 of them entered the mansion at the same time, and while 2 of them got out, the last one is still struggling to survive inside.
All found footages might contain spoilers, while every experiences is different for each person, it is better to not see any spoiler for the full experience.
The first one is Biyori
Found footage:
https://youtu.be/N0FDxOgFMdg A singer who could be seen venturing out in the wilds or even the space when he is not singing. Seems like he could be a good bard. He survived the mansion's ordeal and even defeated the bloody footsteps with only a sliver of energy left, quite an impressive feat we might add. His commentary and his experience on the footage helped us a lot for the improvement around the mansion. Although he didn't really get outside, he still pulled through to the end. Hopefully, he will come back for more exploring. Check him out for his songs cover, he's really great at it.
The second one is Kynara
Found footage:
https://youtu.be/3CJ59upPXQ8 An adventurer who ventured to lot of places, mostly to places where he could shoot some kind of weapons. Too bad there is no weapon he could shoot in here, it would have been easier for all of us. He uses mostly local languages, but his commentary is fun to be followed if you understand. His adventures inside the mansion was very rough, he kept going back to his diary a lot, but he still had quite lot of energy when he confronted the bloody footsteps. While he entered at the same time as Biyori, he held out until he could actually escape the mansion. He escaped, only to realize something is not right. Hopefully, he will come back, to fix what happened to him. Check him out if you are interested about shooting and looting.
The third one is Ryoki
Found footage:
https://youtu.be/yRfmjIBIfsU A vampire who really loves being an adventurer, killing dragons, and hanging out in a tavern to play cards. Even though she's a vampire, she's not good with horror even though it's not her first time, it's fun to see her reactions though. Her journey hasn't seen an end yet, but we know she'll definitely escape successfully, because she really doesn't want to be here. Her commentary revolved around the obvious, which led to fun reaction. Although, if it's really that obvious, none of us would be stuck here for eternity now, wouldn't we? She already met Amber, and halfway on helping her for the ritual, so the next found footage should have her escape the mansion safely, hopefully. Check her out if you are interested in adventuring to fight dragons.
We're really glad that there are people who dared to challenge the mansion to escape from here. And we know, these are just 3 from who knows how many more the mansion lured in. If any of you have found footages we need to see, tell us!
Thank you for taking your time to check them out, and see you for more found footages of people challenging the mansion. Stay tune!
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