In the beginning, we want to apologize that we haven’t been very active for 2 weeks, but we worked hard to deliver the best content for you! Secondly, we want to thank you so much for your effort in helping to upgrade our game! We’ve received a huge amount of positive comments from you via all communication channels! Also, some of you gave us very valuable feedback about a few problematic issues, which of course have been fixed or changed! Once again, thank you very much!
After long months of hard work, we can finally release the full version of Frankenstein: Beyond the Time! Now the story and is completed and has a really awesome and ass-kicking ending! You really need to get through the whole gameplay and you’ll find out dozens of immersive and mind blown content!
Take a look at how awesome brand new features we have prepared to make the full version even more immersive and complex:
1. Yes, yes yes! Finally, you can play a game without a “To be continued” screen in the end!
Now you can take a chance to defeat the Monster in a final Boss Fight! We don’t want to give away details - we want you to discover this huge feature and experience totally new quality in VR games!
2. There is a new character in the game!
Be prepared to meet Lady Elizabeth! Ekhm, actually, her ghost! The bride of Victor Frankenstein who after learning more about the research and work of her beloved, fell into a frenzy and lost herself mentally. In our beyond the time universe, a stay in a psychiatric hospital led Elizabeth to suicide ... now as a ghost she haunts the Victorian estate and wants to disturb the continuation of Dr. Frankenstein's crazy work! She's very sensitive to sound so try to be quiet. Under no circumstances don't make any noise and don't drop any item on the ground. You will evoke her and she's very grim! She feeds herself with our time!
3. Enhanced side story!
During the whole game, you can come across over 55 letters and notes written by Dr. Frankenstein. You can now fall into the philosophical journey to get to know the thoughts of the doctor, his vision of time control and the creation of life. It’s a journey into the depths of morals, ethics and the problems of scientists and thinkers in the nineteenth century.
4. Interactive items!
You can now easily break glass objects, destroy wooden elements of the environment like barrels or barricades, to get to new places in the Doctor's estate. Besides, every item has been granted with sounds!
5. Eye-gor is now more helpful!
You can use Eye-gor’s mechanic arms as an inventory to store found items! More hands mean more fun!
6. The Slingshot!
Every adventure needs a weapon to defeat yourself, also in our game, you have to use a slingshot to induce a noise and direct Elizabeth’s Ghost to the place you want her to be! You can also shot a bullet to the object to break them. Use it as your advantage!
Of course, we improved efficiency, refined objects’ details, added more environment interactive items, fixed bugs and performance issues.
We hope you’ll enjoy this full version and we’re still open to receive more and more feedback from you! Thank all of you that you actively took part in this project. We won't abandon this project and will support it all time long, so you can for sure expect regularly uploaded patches and updates.
Just play and have fun!
THE DUST TEAM
SECOND PATCH RELEASE!
Here it is!
A brand new patch for Frankenstein: Beyond the Time!
We don't forget about your other issues posted in comments so in this update, you can find awesome and fresh features:
- FREE LOCOMOTION
- SCENERY IMPROVEMENT (you can find some new more interactive objects, the breathtaking view behind huge windows in a greenhouse and overall graphics fixes)
- SUBTITLES IMPROVEMENT (we added a nice background for better impression while reading and font displays much more clearly)
- MINOR BUG FIXES
FOR UPCOMING PATCH:
We have almost prepared a background for a new game's mechanisms and better interactions with the environment and object.
ALSO be prepared for a much bigger feature - soon there will appear a brand new character in the game! More information will be posted this week!
NEW TUTORIAL VIDEO RELEASED!
We’re back with a second video from tutorial series! Lesson Two: The Time Loop
Now you can learn more about an awesome and mysterious feature which is in-game time loop!
Take a look at the video section in our Community Hub and don’t let you get looped again before finishing current stage!
FIRST PATCH HAS BEEN RELEASED!
Hello Adventurers!
Once again thank for all your feedback! You're highly engaged in our project and this is awesome! There is no better way of creating a game, that creating it with players!
We've just released the very first patch that includes:
Also, we don't forget about your other issues posted in comments! We're still working on improving performance and... FREE LOCOMOTION! That second feature will be released within next patch! Stay tuned and let us know what do you think about the latest improvements!
FIRST PATCH RELEASE!
Hi to all of you!
We're glad for receiving a feedback from you - we knew that a good community can really work!
We want to announce that we're working on the first patch to our game. It will be released yet this week!
Stay tuned to be up to date with upcoming patch!
PS. If you have any ideas about how a game should be improved, just write here or contact us via email (help@thedust.pl)
You're the best,
The Dust Team
COMING SOON PRESS RELEASE
After two hundred years, Doctor Frankenstein’s legacy will reach a whole new level!
On the 200th anniversary of the Frankenstein novel written by Mary Shelley, a book-inspired virtual reality game will be published by Polish development studio - The Dust. First information have just appeared, revealing news about upcoming production “Frankenstein: Beyond the Time”.
Soon everyone could be a part of a discovery quest taking place in a victorian mansion, where our task is to solve Dr. Frankenstein's greatest mystery. The game aims at the innovative use of Virtual Reality with a well-known hidden object model combined with the fight against running time. Placing these mechanisms in the world inspired by novels about Dr. Frankenstein provides a unique gameplay in the adventure and dynamic world. The more we learn about mad scientist's experiment, the more frightening and mysterious the story becomes.
“What makes the game so immersive is a very detailed surrounding. From a huge whale skeleton to a tiny vial - everything is highly refined to bring the most realistic experience.” - said Jakub Wolff, CEO of The Dust Studio. “Also, the weather conditions affect lighting and reflection, giving a dynamic environment that changes to more dramatic during further stages of gameplay.” - added Wolff.
Creative Manager, Marcin Marcinowski says that “[...] scenario and main characters are based only on the novel written by Mary Shelley, combined with our own original ideas. Rather than showing the theatrical version of Frankenstein’s story we create our own, beyond the time universum.”
The project is now in the final stage of testing and the official release date is planned in the end of June. Frankenstein: Beyond the Time will be available on Steam, Viveport and Oculus Store. Stay tuned to the game’s social media feeds to receive news and sneak peek from the developers!
Become the time master and continue Dr. Frankenstein’s legacy.
