Genre: Point-and-click, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure, Indie, Visual NovelSlay the Princess
The Art of Slay the Princess Shipping Aug 15th! Take a look... it's in a book!
We're so excited to announce that the official Slay the Princess art book is about to go off to the printer! We've got over 290 pages of analogue, choice-driven gameplay in hardcover, complete with concept art and thorough developer commentary!
Abby personally laid out every page of this book, so it should have the same heart and soul as the game.
You can pre-order your copy from Serenity Forge's store (and if you pick it up with a physical edition of the game you should be able to save on shipping...) The size of the print run is going to depend on how many pre-orders we get, so now's a good time to buy a copy!
To our fans in the EU, we're currently looking into a separate distribution option so shipping is less brutal. Stay tuned!
With that out of the way... take a look... if you dare... [/p][p]
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And I'm realizing that we don't have any photos of pages with concept art on them, so here's a screenshot of what those pages'll look like with the Eye of the Needle!
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To folks who want a cheaper alternative, we'll be releasing a digital copy of the art book on Steam just in time for the game's 2 year anniversary for $14.99 USD (with regional pricing!) :]
(That'll be October 20th, if you want a date to mark on your calendar.)
All the best, and thank you, as always, for everything you've done for us.
~ Tony and Abby[/p]
Slay the Princess Physicals and Art Book Releasing August 15th
Some long work is finally coming to an end, and we're thrilled to share that the physical editions AND the art book for Slay the Princess will be releasing on August 15th.
It took longer than anticipated to finalize mould and painting for the statue, but it's finally at the point where it's entering mass production.
PS5 and Nintendo Switch cartridges will be fully up-to-date with fixes, including the skeptic-paranoid changes, performance improvements for the Switch, and functioning text to speech for visually-impaired console players.
Check it out!
And we've got some brand new previews of the artbook while you're here.
You can pre-order both the physical editions and art book through Serenity Forge's store: https://store.serenityforge.com/collections/slay-the-princess
Thank you all so much!
Tony
Slay the Princess is a finalist in this year's Nebula Awards
We're extremely happy to share that Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut is a finalist for this year's Nebula Awards (Best Game Writing.) It's a huge honor for our work to be acknowledged this way, and we wouldn't be here without each and every one of you supporting us all the way.
So thank you all so much. We have a lot more work to share with the world, and we can't wait to see you on the next steps of our journey, from the rest of Scarlet Hollow to what lies beyond the horizon.
All the best,
Tony and Abby
March 5th small fix
Fixed a rare logic error in spectre where a player who triggered the "harsh" spectre variant would unintentionally be pushed to the "friendly" spectre menu.
Small (Final?) Content Update
A small (and probably final) content update for Slay the Princess just went live — The Voice of the Skeptic now accompanies you on the Deconstructed side of Happily Ever After instead of Voice of the Paranoid.
I’m not sure why I originally settled on Paranoid for that branch of the story. Maybe it was because Skeptic already felt overrepresented in The Pristine Cut between his presence in the Den, and his major role in The Cage split across three routes. The Cage in particular was a very emotionally taxing chapter to work on, so maybe I was tired of writing him.
But post release, it’s felt like:
1. Paranoid’s in HEA was just kind of there. At least, none of the things he does in the chapter felt important for his character.
2. Every voice gets an opportunity to truly shine somewhere except Skeptic. In fact, to push players to the cage, we wound up taking away one of his weirdest moments to shine from the base game (pushing you to take The Prisoner’s head with you.)
Localizing the game means that redoing any dialogue is very burdensome, since I’d have to have it retranslated in all 12 of our supported languages, but upon looking more closely at the script for Happily Ever After, I realized that all but one or two lines felt more like they belonged to skeptic rather than the paranoid anyways.
And that when given to the skeptic, those lines don’t feel like he’s just kind of there the way it felt like Paranoid was just kind of there. The small wins Paranoid can get in that chapter — deducing the identity of the shadow; pushing you to blow out the torches — they’re big wins for the Skeptic, and the route seemed like it would be much more rounded if he was swapped in.
And beyond that, I couldn’t get the following line from the Shifting Mound’s monologue about the Deconstructed Damsel out of my head:
“Love melted into skepticism, and you pulled back layer after layer after layer until all you were left with was the knowledge that you did not know me.”
We couldn’t just use the word skepticism to describe the route’s entry point and not include our lil’ over-analytical guy. So we took some time this month to re-record those lines with Jonny and make the changes to the game, and now that itching need to fix “just one more thing” is finally gone.
This is probably the final content update for Slay the Princess (though, never say never I suppose.) Ever since we started work on The Pristine Cut, I wanted to end my work on the game with the conclusion of Happily Ever After. I’m grateful for the opportunity for that to finally be the case.
I hope to see you all tomorrow with Scarlet Hollow’s relaunch, but even if I don’t see you there, thank you all for the life-changing support you’ve given us. I hope our game means as much to you as it means to us.
All the best,
Tony
Princess in Balatro
You can now build decks with Slay the Princess-themed playing cards in Balatro! Please enjoy your new Spades as well as probably the most unhinged professional email I've ever sent. :)
Best,
Tony
Slay the Princess x Fangamer first wave now available!
Hey folks!
We're so excited to share the first wave of Slay the Princess merch we're doing with Fangamer. This round is three items:
- A "Heart, Lungs, Liver, Nerves" longsleeve shirt.
- A Shifting Mound T-Shirt.
- A beautiful stained-glass pin of the tower.
You can order these items today, using this link if you're in North America and this link if you're in Europe.
We've really been blown away by the quality of the production here, and we can wait to share more with you in the future, including a very devious plush.
That's all for now, folks! Stay tuned for March 3rd, when we'll be launching a huge overhaul update to the first chapters of Scarlet Hollow, which'll be a great time to pick up our other game for the first time!
Best,
Tony and Abby
January 22 Patch Notes
Fixed reported typos/mistranslations for the Polish translation. (Still working on compiling and fixing these for other languages, more polish fixes to come as well)
Fixed a sprite in PatD where the Princess has two left hands.
Assorted minor fixes.
December 31st Patchnotes
1. Fixed a number of typos or instances where the spoken dialogue didn't sync word-for-word with the written text.
2. Restored a handful of inaccessible dialogue lines that were blocked by broken logic.
3. Changed chapter 1 knife -> betray tower start so that displayed art is more consistent with narrated actions. (Specifically, the Princess now has a more accurate level of battle damage)
4. Adjusted volume for a handful of lines that were too quiet.
5. Fixed a mistranslation in Japanese for first meeting with Her.
6. Switched .wav lossless for the pristine cut soundtrack in the supporter's pack for .flac to save space. Replaced Unknown Together and Apotheosis livetracks in the lossless soundtrack with up-to-date in-game versions.
I'm sure there's other stuff I'm forgetting, but this is what comes to mind.
Happy new year!
Tony
Slay the Princess won the grand prize and more at Indie Live Expo!
Just wanted to share that Slay the Princess won the award for best new characters and the grand prize at this year's Indie Live Expo in Tokyo! To celebrate, both of our games are 20% off for the next week.
Since this is a pretty short update a few other things:
- We've been blown away by the quantity and quality of submissions to the fanart event we've been running. It's still going until the 15th, but the community easily earned an ~art stream.~ It'll be happening on our Twitch channel on December 21st at 1pm Eastern.
- The Collector's Edition for PS5 and Switch is still available for pre-order if you're interested in a physical copy of the game with exclusive merch.
- We've got plenty of other cool stuff you can pick up, including pins, shirts, vinyl, posters, and more. Check it out here.
Thank you again for all of your support. We wouldn't have gotten this far without you!
All the best,
Tony and Abby