Greetings, Kind Spirits! Here's another matches to lit the candle, to journey on to the next darkness.
First of all, Eid Mubarak and Happy Ascension Day for those who celebrate them, may blessings and peace come to us all. We posted the greetings three days ago on our Twitter, Facebook page, and Instagram, which could be checked on either one, if not all of them.
It's been a month and a half, and to be quite honest, developing an early access game is a new experience for us. We're still finding out on what usually developers do while they are developing early access game. One of it will be the development log, which will be posted once in two weeks, to let people know we're not dead from the bloody footprint monster.
Have you tried to reach the ending on the last update we released? What do you think about that ending? We're currently working on the explanation for that ending, on why that ending happened to be. Here are some sneak-peeks of that.
What do you think of the sprite's animation so far? The artists are trying their best to make them all. Sprite's animation is one of our polishing steps, along with putting background music and sounds. This one is recently made, and will be put into the game on the next update, will you be able to see them?
We also made a comic about the girl's adventure through the mansion, which could be checked on our Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook page. It's about her own playthrough, journeying inside the mansion. Please check them out, links are down below.
Lastly, we're planning to make featured content post, where we any feature arts or videos about Cursed Mansion made by all the great content creators out there. If you have any suggestions about this or want a certain content creator to be featured, let us know on the comment below or on our Discord, which can be joined on the link below!
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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Greetings, Kind Spirits! Here's another matches to lit the candle, to journey on to the next darkness.
We're very glad that Cursed Mansion community is growing better than before. We cherish all the reviews, feedbacks, and suggestions sent to us, since those are all signs that lot of people care for our game and want it to grow and improve. Some people even made videos and did streams of them playing our game, which means a lot to us. We also got a great fanart of our girl! The cover art for this news was made by a talented artist named Sihanjir, please check them out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sihanjir/
(Oh, it could fit as a wallpaper! Would you look at that)
On the recent update, we've delivered 2 endings to the game, so there should be something to achieve and not just a cliffhanger on the end of the game. But of course, there's lot more to come, especially more endings and stories to explore. We have big things to be implemented to the game, and it takes quite some times to polish. Also, if there's any old or new bugs that we missed on a patch, please let us know through Steam discussion or our Discord (we always check both first thing in the morning).
Another thing to address is the energy restoratives system. We've got suggestion to add restoratives to the game. We've also seen players struggle on the last part of the game with a slither of energy. We're now discussing on how to integrate restoratives to the game and the story, since you've probably seen the state of food they serve in the mansion (spoiler alert: it's not great). But, hopefully, it will come sooner or later.
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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Greetings, Kind Spirits We've been checking around for suggestions and critiques. And there's a comment that appeared quite often, the ending. The game's ending, which was a cliffhanger, was deemed not quite satisfying for some players, and we listened. We spent quite some times to polish the ending, so it won't be a dull experience for everyone. Now, all of you could finally lead the girl escape the mansion, good luck!
Another update that we want to share is the save system. You should now be able to check what you've done on a save from the save screen, and the log should contain everything from the start.
Thank you for your patience, and stay tune.
------------------------------ Version 0.5.1 ------------------------------ - Bugfix: Fix a bug where ritual can be started only by lighting 4 candles. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where player can skip the library event and move straight to phase 3. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where player can met with ghost piano before certain part of the story. - Remove save log list maximum restriction from 5 to certain huge number. - Add numbering system on the save log list. - Make the save log display scrolled to the bottom of the list upon initialized. - Add scrolling system on save log. - Change the scene where player meet with will-o-wisp. - Remove a game over that happen due to entering middle door without meeting the requirement. - Add QTE back on dance scene. - Remove certain game over on phase 2 except for certain areas. - Adjust some scenes. - Adjust stair and fence on library. - Add more scenes for ghost boy and ghost girl. - Add additional scenes on the ritual. - Add 2 new endings.
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------------------------------ Version 0.5.0.6 ------------------------------ - Bugfix: Fix a bug on guest route where the player can't advance to the next section of the dream realm.
[EARLY ACCESS] v5.0.5
Bug submitted by our Discord member Join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/E9rJQeT
------------------------------ Version 0.5.0.5 ------------------------------ - Bugfix: Fix a bug that happen when player go to library through the dining room, the player end up somewhere else and can't control the character. - Bugfix: Fix a bug where the ritual can start without having all items.
[EARLY ACCESS] v5.04
Keep the bug reports coming!
------------------------------ Version 0.5.0.4 ------------------------------ - Bugfix: Fix a bug where player can't access game menu upon wandering to wrong way before chased by bloody footprint in Phase 2. Add a fix for affected save file by saving the game on the foyer.
[EARLY ACCESS] v5.03
We've rolled back to 'F12 for reset' because it caused a number of players to crash at the start. Another reason is because we couldn't enable Steam Overlay on the present game engine yet.
------------------------------ Version 0.5.0.3 ------------------------------ - Bugfix: Remove F1AltEnterF12.dll to avoid crash upon game start. - Change the reset button from ALT + R back to F12.
[EARLY ACCESS] v5.02
We're still fixing the groundworks for Steam overlay later It seems difficult to disable after we've enabled it.
------------------------------ Version 0.5.0.2 ------------------------------ - Bugfix: Correct the path used to locate F1AltEnterF12.dll to avoid crash upon game start. - Achievements now have pictures
[EARLY ACCESS] v5.01
Unfortunately, It seems RPG Maker VX Ace doesn't support Steam Overlay
------------------------------ Version 0.5.0.1 ------------------------------ - Bugfix: Modify certain codes that suspected to cause crash upon game start.
[EARLY ACCESS] v5
We're trying to enable steam overlay with our game so it's easy to screenshot important stuffs from the game. We're still figuring this out, so there might be more update on the game, we're very sorry for the inconvenience.
------------------------------ Version 0.5 ------------------------------ - Bugfix: Fix a bug where player can escape from big room when chased by bloody footprints. - Ritual scene on the big room are adjusted. - Some scene bustup are adjusted. - Disable F12 from reseting the game. - Set CTRL + CTR button combination for resetting the game.
