5th section beta version. The Cursed Forest v0.7.5.
Finally, we can present to you 5th section beta version!
It’s included first half of the 5th section.
In the current moment 5th section will be available in the beta-branch, after checking and corrections we will put it in the main branch.
In the current version we didn’t saw any critical bugs but:
We didn’t do much work for the optimization yet.
Trail collision is not yet fully configurated, in some places it could be hard to go through so it will need to do little jumping for getting through there.
Maybe there can be some areas that allow player to go out from the game area borders.
Maybe some mistakes in the game-notes. If you found any please write us on the game forum in the Steam or our email: feedback@thecursedforest.ru or feedback@noostyche.ru
Other things should run smoothly.
We still are deciding about release date and we considering to make it in the beginning of the 2019 year. Try make it as faster as possible and Christmas game sales is the things that can affect negatively our successful release.
As an idea we considering about giving access to the final section to the players through email.
Idea is simple: You send us email to our special email address and get instruction how to run newest game version with the final section in a reply. Other people will need to wait for the full release. Yes, we know that early access look like waiting simulator, but game is nearly finished. During this week’s we will decide about release date and how is better to give access to the final section earlier for players that bought the game and would like to see the final section as faster as possible. For now, we keep working to make the final product with a good quality.
Some news. The Cursed Forest v0.7.4.
We have some other news.
Localization on the Hungarian language. Lostprophet finished the main part of the localization on the Hungarian language: https://steamcommunity.com/app/345430/discussions/0/1733210552657076111/
For now, we still didn’t integrated it in the main build, that is why who want to try it now need to change localization files manually.
Localization on the other languages. We wrote a little note about localization on other languages:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1574244119
Important to know, that we will need to have a font with a free license, that will allow us to put it in the proprietor commercial product without any restriction, and also that support all symbols of your language, that will allow us to integrate it in the game and upload update in the Steam.
If you would like to localize our game on your language, you can make topic in the Steam forum:https://steamcommunity.com/app/345430/discussions/ Than we will see it and discuss about further details.
It would be great to localize The Cursed Forest on the German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese. Also, if it possible it would be great to localize it on French, Italian, Polish, Czech and Japanese.
Launching The Cursed Forest on Linux with Steam Proton. When you start a new game on Linux, problem when game crush after the starting video is still not fixed:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/345430/discussions/0/1732090362062681606/
We made a few tries to fix this problem but it appeared that problem is too deeper. We need to seriously change logic in the main menu. For now, we preparing full game release and if say true we little afraid to make a big changing because it can cause unpredictable consequences and break something. That is why we planning to find the solution of this problem after the full release.
For now, if you need to fix it, need to use console command for launching first section:
map horror_kapay01
That all news for now. We will continue to do our job and work hard to make full release faster.
The Cursed Forest and Autumn sales.
Final autumn Steam sales have been started and The Cursed Forest takes part in it! Full release is very soon and released version discount will be less than now so don’t lose this opportunity ;)
About release. In the end of the November we think that we can make a beta-version of the final section that will not have some of the beautiful moments and extra interesting things. Every person that wants to try it will be able to do that. Complete full release will be little bit later. Some parts of the important elements got delayed but the other development progress is going well. The main events are released but they need to be more improved.
Also need to say that final chapter will be the most musical chapter. For this chapter we made seven music tracks and it’s without counting a few additional ones.
We consulted with Valve company about our full release. They advise us to make the release during early December, so we would have more time during New Year sales or as a second option we can release it in the beginning of the 2019 year. The second option look interesting but it will delay release that already took pretty long time… That is why it is uneasy choice to make. If we choose the second option than we will make for the players who already bought our game access to the released version earlier when it will be in prerelease state (early access of the released version), so they will have access to the special beta-branch and other people will need to wait a little bit till the official release date.
Improvements. As usual we made some improvements for the previous sections. For now, our main target is to finish the final section.
Demo version. We want to remind you that The Cursed Forest demo version is available. You can find it on the Steam game page or IndieDB: https://www.indiedb.com/games/the-cursed-forest/downloads/the-cursed-forest-remake-demo
That is all for now. We still have a lot of work to do till the final line (full release). We hope all will goes according our plan.
The Cursed Forest Demo.
Path into The Cursed Forest is now open to everyone! We releasing demo version in which full first section is available. You can check our game project and decide if you interested to buy a full version.
Happy Halloween! The Cursed Forest v0.7.2.
Happy Halloween!
All point to the fact that is the last Halloween that The Cursed Forest will celebrate in the early access. For now, all is going as it was planned. We plan to make release in the second part of November.
Demo version that we promised to make is ready, but still needed to do a few corrections. So, it will take some time.
Demo version will include the first section (fully updated) of The Cursed Forest. We hoping that this demo version will introduce our game to the new players, which will be able to play it and consider about buying the full version.
Also, we made some improvements:
The starting part of the first section is more improved. How you think is it become better?
Small optimization for the all sections
Small game-notes corrections.
A new loading screen is added.
Player TheReaperUK, tried The Cursed Forest through Steam Proton: https://steamcommunity.com/app/345430/discussions/0/1732090362062681606/ He had some small problems but mainly game there is working not bad. If someone else tried to launch The Cursed Forest through Steam Proton, don’t be shy and let us know about your experience in this game forum topic in Steam discussions: https://steamcommunity.com/app/345430/discussions/ It can help us to fix problems that we able to fix.
We still continue working on our game and hope that we can make it as we planned. Not so much things are left to do, stay tuned.
The Cursed Forest v0.7.1c.
Thanks to KillerLex to notice the critical problem that we fixed. Because of this problem it was impossible to finish section 1. Collision didnt work and because of it player fall down under the ground in "infinity". Now all fixed and working.
The Cursed Forest v0.7.1.
Last two weeks we mainly worked at section 5 (final section), except of that we made the following changings:
We improved moment when player appearing in the cave.
We improved optimization of the section 2.
In the section 3 something in the hunter house will take your attention.
Now lamp material in the hunter house switching normally.
Boulder in the 2nd section and door in the 3rd section now shouldn’t disappear (we very hope so).
In the section 4 we left a surprise in the wardrobe.
Small corrections in the Scarecrow animations.
As lostprophet asked (sorry that it took so long) font was modify with the symbol support that used for Hungarian language was integrated. Now for this language is possible to localize all the main elements.
Lately we tried to launch The Cursed Forest on the Steam Proton. Game run pretty well, but there can be some “twitching” when player using mouse, on gamepad there isn’t any problems like that. Also there is a possibility that can be other small problems, but except of that playing on Linux became easier. For better productivity we are recommending video cards that supporting Vulkan.
In October we hope to release a free demo, in which full first section will be possible to play for free. It will allow everyone to check the game before buying and decide if it worth it (we hope it will worth it).
That is all for now, stay tuned!
The Cursed Forest v0.7.0.
In previous news we announced changes for one of the characters… Now it is time to reveal it. We updated – scarecrow! Changing model from old one to new one wasn’t an easy task, and took pretty long time, we hope you will like it.
Also, we added other improvements:
Intro was updated
We improved video playback for the monitors with not standard aspect ratio (21:9)
Now we made more understandable why main antagonist is moving so fast.
Now user brightness and contrast configuration in the 4th section is stable.
We added few small events.
Few small improvements for all sections.
There is also one thing that we want to mention.
It’s been 3 years from our early access release:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/345430/announcements/detail/78040850299605468
At that time we thought that game development will be much faster, but uneasy circumstances changed that plans. Road that seemed like simple walk became like marathon, and finish of this marathon is near.
We want to express gratitude to our community for warm supporting and incredible patience while waiting this finish line. Without your support our way wouldn’t be same as it is now, without you The Cursed Forest would be look totally differently from what we have now. We thank everyone who played, reviewed, and waited our project, thanks to you our project improved and got to the current state.
Without your support game would be weaker in every aspect or even would have only two sections and be much shorter.
So, when we will reach this finish line? It will be in 2018 November. Yes, we changed our plans before and added more sections or just updated previous one, but in this time we don’t plan to add more sections except the final one, it is time to conclude this story.
There is one bad nuance. Current autumn will have a lot of big game releases and it will be hard to be seen in that season. That is why we plan to wait when market situation will be calming down. We think it will be in 2018 December or 2019 February.
Probably, we will give access for the final section to the early access players in the November. And our future players would be able to play it after full release that will be when market will not have many big releases as we mentioned before. Thank you once again for helping us stay tuned, the release is near!
The Cursed Forest v0.6.9.
During last 3 weeks our game development is going well.
In the 5th section we are finishing objects for the final scene, but still there is a lot of job to do – put environment objects on the level and need to set lightings.
Also, we made our creator page, you can find it right here: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/noostyche
As usual we made different improvements for the previous sections:
We changed starting position for the 4th section, now it is more interesting.
New event for the 4th section is added.
4th section optimization is improved.
From now on gamma and brightness configuration in the 4th section will not return to the default settings.
New event for the second section is added.
In some places of the second section too strong shining is decreased.
One of the first section game notes is changed
Few small improvements
We will create small intrigue and say that in the next update we are planning to make a very big changing for the one of the characters, we hope it will not disappoint you.
Stay tuned.
Summer, where are you going? The Cursed Forest v0.6.8.
During July our speed slowed down, but still we reached a good progress.
At the 5th section we worked with the location environment and made some progress, some parts close to their final condition. We can say for sure that 5th section will be most long and beautiful.
As usual we made some small fixes and improvements for the previous sections. Also, we tried again to fix error when the game shut down after first section completion. We thought this problem was already solved. But still it happened rarely, but when it happened autosave loading doesn’t help, which upset some players that having this error. If this shutting down mistake will appear again than we will need to separate cave in the different level, that will fix this problem for sure.
