Our entire team would like to wish you Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! 🎄 It’s been a good year for our game. We’ve released many devlogs and with your feedback moved closer to the release of the full version. 💝
We’d like to thank all of you for being there with us and supporting us throughout the year 2023. 🔥👏 We can’t wait to face what the year 2024 has in store for us and we hope you’ll be a part of our journey. 🤩
As always we’d like to invite you to join our discord community 👇
Have a wonderful Christmas and see you soon ☃️ Dracula's Castle Team
Castle's Reshaping
Hello Players 👋
Welcome back to the new devlog from the Dracula’s Castle! 🧛 Today, we’ve prepared a few different novelties which in our opinion will be much to your liking. Without further ado let’s dig into them! New room type which can be used to shape the castle according to the player's desired look! 🤩🔥 More secrets in store for these rooms… Will you be able to discover them and use their full potential?
Notification System
The notification system has been completely re"vamped" 🦇. Game conditions will now trigger notification icons with tooltips. If the conditions are resolved, the icons will self-dismiss. Alternatively, the player can also right-click to dismiss them. They will then collapse properly in the UI. 📝
New Exterior Decoration System
A new meta-type of room has been added requiring some serious rewiring of the grid system. Now players can place external decorations such as towers, spires, gargoyles, etc... The new system can now also handle rooms with multiple levels, for added verticality to the castle builds. 🔨
More Tooltips
Dracula's Castle, now with even more tooltips! Many missing tooltips have been added to the UI which will result in a more pleasant experience throughout the entire gameplay.
That’s it for today! If you enjoyed the contents of today’s devlog please join our discord community 👇 and wishlist the game on Steam! 💪
Join our Steam Playest! Sign-up to Playtest are Now Available on Steam 🧛♂️
Dive into the shadows of the night and explore the dark corridors of my majestic castle. This is a special opportunity to be the first to play the game before its official release! 🦇
How to join them? We explain in step by step:
1. Login to your Steam account 2. Go to the Steam page 3. Scroll a little lower on the page 4. You will see the banner like below, and click the green button "request access"
During the Steam Playtest, your bravery shall be tested, and your gaming prowess shall be honored as you navigate through the spine-chilling halls and face the supernatural challenges that await. 👻
Don't be afraid, for this is an opportunity to become a part of Dracula's Castle. 🏰 Your destiny awaits, brave souls! Join the playtest and let the haunting adventure begin! 🖤
If you have any questions, join our Discord where you can talk to us directly 👾
See you soon, Dracula’s Castle Team
Dining with New Friends
Hello! 👋
Creatures of the night have been really restless recently, hence the lack of the news. Finally, our spy managed to escape and share with us the latest affairs of Dracula's Castle. 🦇
The first abnormal change is enormous amounts of water and food entering the castle. Have the minions of the Count become affected by thirst and hunger? 🤔
Based on this information we’ve created a theory: if the castle runs low on food, its resource production will take a big hit, on top of that Dracula won’t be able to feed on his minions because of their weakened state. If they run out of water, his creatures will suffer even worse! 📝
The castle also undergoes some changes. We’ve discovered some works on decorative rooms 🧱 such as towers,spires etc… They’ve also started building corridors 🔨 and plan to add various traps inside. Are they afraid of vampire hunters’ raid? On top of that doors are now added to the side rooms of the castle so there is no more falling out. 🚪
New room has been built. A spacious dining room appeared inside the castle. 🍽️ Is Dracula planning to seduce victims and kidnap them to the castle where he can do whatever he wants with them? 😨 We’ll do our best to find out his plans in the next report.
We’ve also been notified about new music themes inside the castle. Scary as they are, one cannot deny them adding to the atmosphere of the place. 🎵
As for the final change, a tooltip appeared for each raw resource so managing the production chains became easier!
Thank you for reading the entire report. If you have any opinions on it or ideas what are the following steps of Dracula 🧛 please join discord and let us know! 👇 You can also add the game to your wishlists to support us!
Creatures of the night have been really restless recently, hence the lack of the news. Finally, our spy managed to escape and share with us the latest affairs of Dracula's Castle. 🦇
The first abnormal change is enormous amounts of water and food entering the castle. Have the minions of the Count become affected by thirst and hunger? 🤔
Based on this information we’ve created a theory: if the castle runs low on food, its resource production will take a big hit, on top of that Dracula won’t be able to feed on his minions because of their weakened state. If they run out of water, his creatures will suffer even worse! 📝
The castle also undergoes some changes. We’ve discovered some works on decorative rooms 🧱 such as towers,spires etc… They’ve also started building corridors 🔨 and plan to add various traps inside. Are they afraid of vampire hunters’ raid? On top of that doors are now added to the side rooms of the castle so there is no more falling out. 🚪
New room has been built. A spacious dining room appeared inside the castle. 🍽️ Is Dracula planning to seduce victims and kidnap them to the castle where he can do whatever he wants with them? 😨 We’ll do our best to find out his plans in the next report.
We’ve also been notified about new music themes inside the castle. Scary as they are, one cannot deny them adding to the atmosphere of the place. 🎵
As for the final change, a tooltip appeared for each raw resource so managing the production chains became easier!
Thank you for reading the entire report. If you have any opinions on it or ideas what are the following steps of Dracula 🧛 please join discord and let us know! 👇 You can also add the game to your wishlists to support us!
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Resource Management!
Welcome to Dracula's Castle! 👋 🧛
We are grateful you’ve accepted the invitation of our humble lord, progenitor of the vampires- Dracula. 🦇
Today, we’d like to talk some more about the topic we’ve mentioned last month- the raw resources as well as some of the improvements introduced to the castle! 🤩
On top of the already existing raw resource rooms, we’ve decided to introduce two entirely new! They are connected with each other and undoubtedly worth the materials required for construction.
The first of the new raw resource rooms added is The Timber Store! 🪓 It produces the wood material, which is further processed in the second raw resource room - The Sawmill.
Speaking of Sawmill, this room will take the wood from the Timber Store and produce lumber out of it. Do not neglect the importance of this resource as it is now a requirement for building certain rooms! 🔨🧱
There is a new, huge change introduced to the game also connected with the resources- Power Management. Most rooms require dark power acquired from the Blood Crystals. 🩸 If the power level drops below the required threshold, rooms will stop the production until the power issues are resolved. We’ve got a suggestive red lighting to indicate the rooms affected by the power loss. 💡
The last novelty we’ve prepared for today is a quality of life improvement- a multiple active quests support! 👏 The quests are no longer limited to a linear sequence, below we’d like to showcase that functionality. The player is told they must produce new sails in the appropriately named quest “Sails”. However, in order to build the required rooms they must also construct the Timber Store and Sawmill, which is a task given in the quest “Industry”. 👍
That’s it for today! What do you think about the contents of this month’s devlog? Join our discord 👇 and let us know!
Don’t forget to add our game to your wishlists 👇 as more information is just around the corner and trust us, you don’t want to miss it!
We are grateful you’ve accepted the invitation of our humble lord, progenitor of the vampires- Dracula. 🦇
Today, we’d like to talk some more about the topic we’ve mentioned last month- the raw resources as well as some of the improvements introduced to the castle! 🤩
On top of the already existing raw resource rooms, we’ve decided to introduce two entirely new! They are connected with each other and undoubtedly worth the materials required for construction.
The first of the new raw resource rooms added is The Timber Store! 🪓 It produces the wood material, which is further processed in the second raw resource room - The Sawmill.
Speaking of Sawmill, this room will take the wood from the Timber Store and produce lumber out of it. Do not neglect the importance of this resource as it is now a requirement for building certain rooms! 🔨🧱
There is a new, huge change introduced to the game also connected with the resources- Power Management. Most rooms require dark power acquired from the Blood Crystals. 🩸 If the power level drops below the required threshold, rooms will stop the production until the power issues are resolved. We’ve got a suggestive red lighting to indicate the rooms affected by the power loss. 💡
The last novelty we’ve prepared for today is a quality of life improvement- a multiple active quests support! 👏 The quests are no longer limited to a linear sequence, below we’d like to showcase that functionality. The player is told they must produce new sails in the appropriately named quest “Sails”. However, in order to build the required rooms they must also construct the Timber Store and Sawmill, which is a task given in the quest “Industry”. 👍
That’s it for today! What do you think about the contents of this month’s devlog? Join our discord 👇 and let us know!
Don’t forget to add our game to your wishlists 👇 as more information is just around the corner and trust us, you don’t want to miss it!
It’s been a while since the last devlog but we’re very excited to share the current progress with you!
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There are lots of changes and the first of them happened in your castles! 🏰 From now on your Peons and Laborers will now wander around the rooms. They no longer just stand still and look into the camera! 🚶
Speaking of your servants… The NPC cards received an update and expansion as well! All the NPCs now have dynamic statistics which are displayed in the mentioned NPC cards. 👍
What’s more, we’ve introduced a new kind of in game resources- Raw Resources. ⛏️ Unlike the dynamic basic resources (namely water, food and power), they aren’t collected by clicking on the icon appearing on the room.
They are important because of multiple different uses. Some of the activities will require them, for example: - some buildings will require both blood and wood to be built, - some quests will require a certain production output of a resource, - some rooms will require resources to be able to produce something.
We’ve also upgraded the room detail view. From now on it has a card showing production output if it’s a room producing raw resources.
That’s not the end! We’ve introduced primary and secondary stat affinities in those rooms! 💪
Pay close attention to them as assigning workers with matching affinities will give you a BOOST ⬆️ to production in that room!
In the example below assigning a peon with high Constitution (CON) and Strength (STR) will grant you the best bonus! 📝
That brings us to an end of this devlog but we’ll show you even more novelties next month! Therefore, we invite you to add Dracula’s Castle to your wishlists 👇 and join our discord community 👇 to not miss on any further update!
In today’s devlog we’ve got plenty of news straight from Dracula's Castle 🏰, Transylvania. The main being the creation of Tavern 🍻.
The place is to become essential in your future adventures as it’s the first quest hub in our production. 🤩
Speaking of quests - we’ve added 2️⃣ new quests as well as a new mechanic being the time limited quests.
To make sure you’ll enjoy interacting with the in game characters 🧍 we’ve been working on the new dialogue system 💬 which now supports branching dialogue! 😍
We know that from time to time even the most committed vampire needs a break from the blood 🩸, that’s why the water was changed and now is a collectible resource. 💧
Not only have we improved the dialogue system but also worked on the fighting mechanics! ⚔️
Your upcoming battles are to become more challenging ⚠️ as from now on, you can be fought by multiple enemies simultaneously. 😱 The post processing has also been added for better visuals. You’ll also know exactly what you’ve gained after defeating your opponents thanks to the loot grid added to the victory screen ✌️🥳
We’ve also made sure to let you all track your stats with the Dracula panel. This panel will also feature the talent tree we plan to implement later on.
We are also working on steam achievements with the first one already added on the platform 😀
There are also many smaller but not less significant changes we’ve made to the game. Dracula now heals while staying in the castle and the game tracks his location more consistently - no more teleporting. Expanding the castle upwards is also going to require an ever increasing amount of resources.
Last but not least, technical upgrades! 🤖
More UI and font improvements ✔️
Ultrawide resolution support added ✔️
Performance and loading improvements in the castle scene ✔️
Rebalanced sound throughout the game ✔️
Credits button added to main menu ✔️
We value your opinions and want our production to meet your expectations. Please give us your suggestions in the comments below 👇 this devlog and join our discord to discuss with other members of the community. To make sure you don’t miss on any further updates please add our game to your wishlist. 👇
