40% Release Discount tomorrow. ARE THE DEVS CRAZY?!?!
Tomorrow, Horror Tales The Beggar releases with a ONCE IN A LIFETIME 40% discount. Why would the devs be so crazy to launch with such a DEEP discount??!?!!?!?!?!?
Well, first of all, talking about "The Devs" in plural only works if you count my cats Nina and Nus as devs too. You could argue they are fundamental emotional support for the development, though.
This game has been developed and self published by only me, Carlos Coronado. I've been launching and developing games since 2012 and this is the first time I have been scared with a release. Indie games, specially indie horror games are selling every day less and less copies. If you follow the news in the industry I am sure you are aware of this. The layouts, the studios closing, etc. It is not something happening in the AAA sector. Sales have been decreasing since 2021 for every dev. Average new teenager players just don't want to play indies anymore. Instead they download Fortnite or Roblox and never leave that game. With the passing of the years, this is taking a toll on indie devs.
Ok but, wtf does this has to do with a 40% discount?
Obviously, It is on my own interest to sell as many copies of Horror Tales The Beggar as possible and I want to make a VERY attractive launch offer to compensate for the decline of usual sales. But honestly, it goes beyond that. My games have never sold a shitload of copies, but they have always allowed me to gain enough to develop the next game. That is success to me. This is the first time in my career that I don't know if I will be able to develop the next game. And the next game is about Exterminating fascist robots in a Half-Like style mediterranean dystopia. It will also end the story of The Wine and The Beggar.
And honestly, I want so f***ing hard to develop Iron Reich! That's why the 40% discount on The Beggar. Yes, my games have flaws, they are not for everyone, but each and everyone of them proposes concepts and gameplay that are whatever you want to call them, but they never are generic or dull. My games don't have filler, microtransactions, loot boxes, paywalled dlc content or similar predatory industry techniques. This may be bad marketing and monetization, but I never want to use those tools. I just want to keep developing these weird concepts and a strong release of Horror Tales The Beggar will allow be to do just that. That is again why the 40% discount.
On the other hand, during the next year after the release, the game will never be discounted 40% again. If you want to buy The Beggar, this is the cheapest it will be FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR!
I won't be the first dev to tell you how important day 1 positive reviews are! If you like the game, please come by and leave a review! On the other hand, if you didn't like the game of course you can leave a negative review :( but I always listen to negative feedback and it is way, wayyy less harmful for the game if you leave your negative feedback or problems with the game in the Steam Discussion forums for The Beggar. Using this kind of feedback allowed me to update the demo with better mechanics, controls, and bug fixing. I always listen and I am fast updating the games, it really is the only advantage t of work alone! There is no need to leave negative reviews to gain my attention.
This turned out a little bit more personal than expected. I don't know if tomorrow I am going to regret it but f*** it, I realse the best game I have ever done tomorrow!
Big hug,
Carlos.
Horror Tales The Beggar releases next week! Play the FREE Next Fest Demo now!
Hello Horror Fans! My name is Carlos Coronado and I am the solodev of The Beggar.
Next week, Monday June 17th everybody will be able to enjoy Horror Tales The Beggar. Until then, there is A LOT I need to explain during this week!
Steam Next Fest
For those of you who are seeing Horror Tales The Beggar for the first time during the Steam Next Fest, just know it is the sequel of Horror Tales The Wine and it is a highly high high high horror game. Not your usual horror game at all! Play the free demo if you want to know why, but essentially The Beggar is a weird mix of space-time bending player skills and hardcore sci-fi with of course horror. TONS of horror.
Price and Launch Discount
Monday 17 of June you will be able to play Horror Tales The Beggar and sometime during this week I will announce the price and launch discount. Just a little spoiler: It will be cheap, and the discount will be more than you imagine.
Duration
Horror Tales The Beggar is BY NO MEANS a replayable game. It is a high intensity adventure with no filler or bland moments. Please don't buy the game if you expect it to be replayable. It will be impactful, with everything 100% hand crafted and tailored thowards being a experience that will last in your memories for years. In terms of play time it really depends on your skills, but for a normal first playthough for someone who usually plays games you are going to spend 3 to 5 hours in The Beggar.
Steamdeck compatibility
Although we haven't got the Steamdeck verified tick yet, the game has been optimized to run at 60fps with dedicated steamdeck settings in the video menu! The best part is you can try it by yourself right now, because the free demo is also optimized for steamdeck!
Accessibility
The Beggar also features a VERY robust accessibility menu. You can access it anytime in the main or pause menus. There you will find options for subtitles, controls or even totally disable enemy damage! On the other hand, if you are a hardcore player, activating the "immersive mode" in the accessibility menu will totally disable all interface in the game.
That's all for today! Expect way more news for The Beggar during this week and don't forget to Wishlist! It helps A LOT!
3 Playable levels with puzzles, scary encounters and more!
1 Boss fight encounter
2 Big Puzzles to use the spacetime bending mechanics
Lore to dig in!
The Demo and the game features these languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, Korean, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Turkish and Dutch.
After the demo was releases, I even updated the game with feedback from players. What are you waiting for? Switch off the lights in your room and step into the sequel of Horror Tales The Wine.
You can download the FREE Demo of Horror Tales The Beggar, sequel of Horror Tales The Wine in the steam main page of Horror Tales The Beggar. The Demo features sections of the first four levels of the game. Give it a try, it is free! Don't forget to WISHLIST!
Three years have been put in the making of this game. It is a very beautiful moment for me. The final game will release June 17 with a 40% discount. That means it is also a great time to wishlist Horror Tales The Beggar now!
A HUGE Demo Update
The release of the Free Demo of Horror Tales The BEGGAR was a HUGE success. One of the reasons I launched the Demo was to get feedback and OH BOY, the community did delivered! To everyone that shared feedback: a big thank you. Sometimes I am so focused in the details of the development that some things just slip by.
After a weekend to relax, it was time to get working again and today I give you the first update of the Demo! In this update you will find new features and refined gameplay. All implemented thanks to your suggestions :)
Important new features:
The overall brightness of the night battle against Morvin has been increased so players can read the combat more clearly.
While changing the time of the day, now the current option appears, so there are always three options (Miday, Sunset and Night). Players got confused with only two options showed so I decided to also include the current option. If you change to that option, simply nothing happens.
Grabbing objets is now way easier and doesn't require you to look exactly in the middle of them.
Grabbed objects now appear lower in the screen so you actually see what is going on in front of you while grabbing and charging them.
Some big objects in the boss fight arena like boxes and barrels have also been scaled 0.9 so they when you grab them they do not obscure your view
The idle and walking animations have been refined so while in those states you don't see two floaty hands.
There is a new ingame cinematic in the desert with the drone after losing him in the canyon. If will fly thowards your objective.
The "change time" tutorial now indicates you need to move the mouse up and down to change between day states.
The small fires now emit true light.
The reespawn system has been improved. Now you won't be stuck in some rocks after falling and then reespawning.
The intro cinematic text have been changed to indicate the drone spent 32 years looking for you more clearly.
NEW LANGUAGES!
Thanks to the community localizations, we now have support to Turkish AND Korean! Thanks a lot to the community members Gökhan KOCAMAN and 손승호 for the amazing work! With Portuguese, Dutch and German, we now have 5 of the 11 languages localized by the community! You are awesome. Of course, now you have ingame easter eggs and also appear in the credits. Only French, Arabic, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Greek and Swidish localizations remain to be done! Do you want to help? Take a look here!
So, that's it for now. This week I'll try to implement support for SFR and aditional DLSS config settings. Now it is your time to play the demo and give me feedback! What do you think about these new features? Anything you think should be fixed?
A big hug,
Carlos.
DEMO RELEASED! Feedback and Wishlists wanted!
Hello Horror Tales fans!
The Demo of Horror Tales The Beggar just got released for everyone to enjoy! You can download it in the steam main page of Horror Tales The Beggar. The Demo features sections of the first four levels of the game. Give it a try, it is free!
Release June 17 2024 with a 40% discount.
Three years have been put in the making of this game. It is a very beautiful moment for me. The final game will release June 17 with a 40% discount. That means it is also a great time to wishlist Horror Tales The Beggar now!
If you liked the game or you have some suggestions on how to improve it, please step in the Steam Discussion forums of The Beggar! I would love to hear your feedback.
But hey, I even have MORE good news! Yesterday I set up community localizations to get aditional languages inside The Beggar. In just ONE day, two community members localized the game to Brazilian Portuguese and German! Please cheer for them! Awesome, beautiful people indeed. These are their Steam profiles in case you want to add friends!
I've hidden two easter eggs for them in the demo too. Will they find them?
You may be tempted to think your Steamdeck, potato or semi-potato computer could never run Horror Tales The Beggar because of the quality of Unreal Engine 5, Nanite and Lumen used in the game. Well, you are WRONG! Although high end computers will for sure enjoy the graphical fidelity of the game, the game has a very robust video settings menu! There you can downgrade everything to even ultra-low or totally disable some effects. There is even a dedicated steamdeck settings button to make the game run almost 60fps flawlessly on the Steamdeck!
So yep, that's all for now. Please play the demo and leave a wishlist to Horror Tales The Beggar. It does help a lot :)
SURPRISE! THE BEGGAR Demo releases tomorrow + HUGE NEWS!
Hello Horror Tales players!
Well, today I have a BIG surprise to you all: The Free Demo of Horror Tales The Beggar will release tomorrow 16:00 CET. The demo features parts of the first 3 areas of the game, when some content cut down to make the demo more compact while also leaving some of the lore mistery to be resolved in the final game!
Releasing this demo SO close to the release date (June 17) is a big gamble for me, but the demo had to be released because various reasons.
Horror Tales The Beggar is not Horror Tales The Wine 2.0. It expands in not just the lore, but the gameplay itself too. Let's just say that The Beggar is highly experimental with some game mechanics you've never seen in a Horror Game. For those of you doubting to buy the game or not on release, you can try the Demo and see for yourself if this is your cup of tea!
Reason 3: Steamdeck ready!
You can try the Demo on your Steamdeck! The game features a "Steamdeck" mode in the video settings menu, and I'd love for you to try it if you are a steamdeck owner. Lots of hours have been focused into making an amazing steamdeck experience. Now it is time for you to judge if it was worth it!
Reason 4: I want to listen to you!
After you have played the demo, please come to the Steam Discussions of the game and post your feedback! Although the game will be released shortly in June 17, I am a quick worker and if there is some fixing to be done I can DO IT!
5: Community Localizations:
If you love what you see in the demo and would like to help me with localizacion of the Demo and The Full game, please let me know here! We are currently looking for localizations to French, Arabic, Korean, German, Italian and Portuguese! Having also Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek and Swidish localizations would be absolutely fantastic too!!! Of course, your name will also be featured in the credits of the game :) The localization is just 2145 words long, so it should not take you longer than 1 hour.
Why community localizations for those languages? In my previous experience with other released games, including Horror Tales The Wine, economically it is just not worth it to pay for a profesional localization in those languages. That is the simple and crude truth.
A big gamble
To finish this long post. as you may know, the videogame industry is in crisis mode from quite some time. Layoffs everywhere, indie game that sell 0 copies, etc. I have not been inmune to this crisis and the sales of my games have significantly decreased since two years ago. That why I am betting my gamedev future in one big gamble: Go big or go home. That's why I am releasing a Demo so close to release AND also will feature a 40% discount for release. The game will never be as deeply discounted for years.
See you all tomorrow in your youtube and twitch channels playing the demo or in the discussions reading your feedback!
We have finally dealt with the paperwork with Playstation 5 and 4 that was holding the release date back and can FINALLY anounce a release date, just around the corner! June 17!!!!!!
But, will you be able to play The Beggar sooner FOR FREE? When we arrive to 10.000 wishlists, I will release a free demo. We are 85% there! Only 15% more to go. Share the game with your friends and family and let's get there. The demo is totally free!
Well, it has been a long and dificult path but yeah, mark in your calendars: June 17!
Hello everyone! As I am sure you've heard before from other gamedevs, but Wishlists are SUPER important. On the other hand we are not afraid of letting you try The Beggar before it's release. We are confident we've done an awesome game everyone is going to enjoy.
That's why if we get to 10,000 Wishlists, we will release a Preview Demo of The Beggar! The good news is we just need less than 2500 Wishlists you get there, so every one of them counts. Tell your friends about the game and force them to wishlist it if you want to play The Beggar. Threat them or torture them it is necessary!
Obviously we are kidding, please don't threat or torture your friends but the sooner they wishlist The Beggar, the sooner the Demo releases! Wishlist now!
Without spoilers of The Wine and The Beggar... there are some characters from The Wine that return for The Beggar in the lore, but the main connection of both games is still the Banydebosc Wine. The Beggar takes place around 300 years after The Wine, and let's just say the origin of the properties of the banydebosc wine and further investigations about that is what sets in motion the story of The Beggar.
We are still currently waiting for confirmation for console partners but we should announce a release date super suuuuper soon!
I am here to just show you a sneak peak for the next Horror Tales in the saga: Horror Tales The Beggar!
The Beggar is a direct continuation of the events of Horror Tales The Wine, but many years later. You will control someone with lets just say... special powers and imagination wink wink
With those powers you will be able to bend space-time. Why would you want to do that? well, here is a little example!
