Roller Drama release date: January 26th!! 2023!! :-)
So it's official: Roller Drama will launch on Steam on January 26th, yes this month this year, 2023!!
The game runs on all operating systems, and it's great on the Steam Deck (@Valve's Steam Deck team, please give it a try!). And that is not all: we will also release a DLC soundtrack, composed, played and mixed by Francesco Arcuri, with 32 songs, here is a preview:
Roller Drama localized in 8 languages!
When a game is localized... it is ready to ship! No longer lost in translation: Roller Drama now is ready in English French Italian German Spanish Portuguese Chinese and Japanese.
Making text fit and the fonts look good in the diverse scenes took quite a while and we are not completely done yet.
Only a few weeks left until release... wishlist it to get it ASAP 🥳😎😝
Roller Drama Official Trailer Released!!!
Here is Roller Drama’s official trailer:
Switch and Steam Deck certification are on the way, localization EN IT FR DE ES PT JP CH too; who is so foolish as to release a game right after the coming holidays??? YES IT’S US!
Our atmospheric, story-driven, visual novel / sport manager, Roller Derby like game demo is available for streamers and reviewers. Contact us if you need a demo key for a preview / review ːsteammockingː
Roller Drama at Milan Games Week - and on (almost) every device!
We will be with Roller Drama and its demo at Milan Games Week & Cartoomics, already playable on PC Steamdeck Switch and Ipad (IOS):
We'll have cards and t-shirts!!! You can play on Steam Deck, PC, Nintendo Switch, Ipad!!!
Also chat with the devs: hear your suggestions being openly ridiculed!
So, find us here: November 25-27 at Fiera Milano Rho, Hall 20.
By the way: the demo has been updated & improved...
Endings completed! And more...
Roller Drama's endings are completed:
Yes we do hope you'll get a better one ːsteammockingː
We are hence getting ready to send the English text for translations in IT FR PT-BR DE CHs JP ES!
And more: we have been working on improving performances so to allow 4K play, and we added a parametric tutorial at the end of any jam where we tell you what you could do to improve your coaching during matches.
It's coming soon!!!
Fixes and extensions after Steam Next Fest
So Steam Next Fest is over: thank you to all who played our demo, we are going to keep it available for a while.
Thanks to the feedback received in this forum thread, we did some bug fixes and extensions: if you have the demo in your library, it will update with the following:
A fix on the labels of the trigger and bumper buttons.
A new panel for remapping controller buttons and keyboard keys.
So we hope you have enjoyed the demo, its just a very small part of the gameplay, please add our game to your wishlist, it will be out in the very first months of 2023.
Love, passion, sweat: its drama for the Steam Next Fest
Love stories in Roller Drama intertwine with power struggles and personal issues - it's drama after all!
Our fantastic character designer "@Vic" created a new love scene that will be part of a Roller Drama's cut scene:
So many nice details:
And here more character and scenes from Roller Drama's stories:
So.. download! Try it! Add to wishlist! Give us feedback! THAAANKISSESSS!!!
P.S. Thank you to the 1000 players that already tried Roller Drama during this Steam Next Fest!
Roller Drama's Demo For Steam Next Fest Is Available Now!
In this demo, you will watch the introduction, play the first (easy) quest, and the first match. You will have access to the exploration of the general team mind state, quest story, inventory, and championship standing. Of course, you will need a longer gameplay to experience their application.
We just want to point out a limit of the demo: in this kind of gameplay experience, familiarity with the characters and the progressive immersion in the story is a considerable part of the fun of it, and the limits of the demo will not get you fully into that.
A couple of more things:
This demo also runs on the Steam Deck!
The demo is English only (sorry), but we'll release Roller Drama in eight languages!
Achievements and saves are disabled in the demo, but of course they will be there on release.
If you are a reviewer and need a more extended gameplay or any other material, just write to games@open-lab.com. Please do wishlist and share this game, its coming out really soon!!!
Roller Drama on the Steam Deck!
So we set up Roller Drama in order to make it available and running smoothly on the Steam Deck. We first needed to check system compatibility; given that we didn't get a development kit yet, we followed Steamworks documentation Developing for Steam Deck without a Dev-Kit.
For the input, Roller Drama works fine with a controller, so that was fine. For the display, we developed an adaptive system
so that in the case of a relatively small screen, the main contents are shown larger and with bigger fonts. What if you attach your Steam Deck to a big screen? Just go to settings and turn off the "small screen friendly" option \o/
For system support, Roller Drama is also released for SteamOS / Linux, so we make our builds run on Steam set on Manjaro as suggested by Valve:
For performance, again from Settings as shown above you can pick the level of graphical quality, though in our tests, even on High Roller Drama actually runs quite well (no pun!).
And so, here you can see Roller Drama running on the Steam Deck:
So we hope you are adding it now to your wishlist, Roller Drama will be released very early 2023!!!
Roller Drama's Second Live: Writing And Design
On Friday October 7th at 5 pm (CEST, e.g. 11 am in New York), Verena Kyratzes (the game's writer) and Pietro Polsinelli (as game's narrative director) will live stream gameplay from Roller Drama's demo, commenting on its story and design. This will be our second live stream for Steam's Next Fest!
Roller Drama's dialogues and quest support direction notes in a variety of forms; we'll talk about how we integrated the backstory, the character's bios and the narrative's development flow.
