What if the only way to protect the light is to embrace the darkness?
Wicked Willow is a visual novel experience that will make you question everything. What is right and wrong? Who can you trust? What are you willing to sacrifice to achieve your aims? Your friends? Your true love?
Head on over to the Kickstarter or the game’s FAQ page to learn more about this new visual novel experience.
-T.F. Wright
Special Note: Volkenfox, the artist for The Pirate’s Fate, will be doing his own separate visual novel project later this year. So stay tuned for his game, State of Flux!
Update: New Content Added to Prisoner of Destiny!
Hi,
We’ve just added a big content update to our expansion, Prisoner of Destiny! This update includes a new epilogue path, new romances, a new transformation, and more. We have used some of the suggestions from the discussion forums in creating this content. Thanks so much for your support and your patience.
Also, stay tuned for a special announcement next week!
Update Feature List (Spoilers Below!):
Content:
One new epilogue path
Two new romance pictures (1 at the end of the new path, 1 at the end of the Darious path)
One new transformation, included in the new path
One new mini scene (at the end of the Brock path)
Bug Fixes:
Fixed an issue where Mila vanished during skip mode
Fixed an issue where two music tracks would sometimes overlap during skip mode
Fixed a few typos
Our Expansion, Prisoner of Destiny, is Live!
The wait is over! Prisoner of Destiny, our expansion to The Pirate's Fate, is available on Steam now. We are having a launch discount of 25%, so now is the time to explore this all new path to the story.
What would have happened if Mila had volunteered to stay behind at the Cursed Coast instead of Darious? Find out in this all-new path in The Pirate’s Fate - Prisoner of Destiny. It’s an adventure that pushes Mila and the crew into uncharted waters. What price will you pay for escaping the dungeon? Will your long-lost friends remember who you really are?
This 20,000 word expansion includes new friends and enemies, more transformations, unique romances, and two new epilogue paths!
The Pirate's Fate is a GDWC Finalist! Vote Link Inside!
We're excited to announced that The Pirate's Fate is a finalist for the Game Development World Championship's fan favorite award!
They hold a public voting, which means it is up to you to help us win.
If you'd like to show your support please vote for The Pirate's Fate in the link below, and share this with as many people as possible.
We are honored and humbled by both the nomination and the amazing support we've received from you, our fans. Thanks for making this possible!
VOTE HERE: https://thegdwc.com/fanfav/
PS: The expansion entering the programming phase of development, so stay tuned for more news over the coming weeks!
Epilogue #4 is live!
By popular demand, we decided to add in new epilogues to help expand the endings. We've just added a new one, bringing the total number of epilogues up to four.
Check the steam forums for a spoiler on how to find it. And let me know if you enjoy the epilogue!
Another New Epilogue!
As announced last week, we're going to create extended epilogues thanks to popular demand. We are adding these epilogues into the game every week, for free, just as a way to say thanks to the community. The second of these brand new extended epilogues has just gone live, and it is the most complex and interactive epilogue yet. (You can find the spoiler-laden instructions on how to arrive at it via the forums.)
Please let us know if you enjoy the epilogue, and let us know what you'd like to see next.
Also included in this patch: correcting a few typos and a fixing a small issue with how tints were being processed.
Epilogues Incoming!
You asked for it, and we’re delivering: here come extended epilogues!
Before we get into the details about what this means, let me first say how honored and humbled we are by the overwhelmingly positive response that The Pirate’s Fate has received. To each and every one of you who has supported and praised this project, we want to say thank you.
We also want to thank those who suggested how we can make the game better! This was our first game, so we knew that there’d be room for improvement. And the single most common suggestion was expanding the endings (spoilers follow below.)
All of the endings, save one, end with an interesting thought experiment, then the credits roll. Many of you said you wanted to have a longer, more emotionally satisfying ending experience, especially honoring the bond you’ve built with the characters.
At first, we thought about doing a little mini-wrap up for each ending. Then we thought about how many of you specified the one post-ending epilogue (the pie ending) as especially fun. So instead of doing 20+ tiny wrap ups, why not do a smaller number of scenes like that one? Most endings will still be brief, but a few will feature extended epilogues which explore life in the new world you have created, with a focus on interacting with the crew that you know and love.
We didn’t want to make you wait for these epilogues, nor did we want to put them behind a paywall. So we decided to start making them right now, and make them totally free. It’s just one way we can say thanks to the community which has shown us so much support.
The first new epilogue is already live! It’s relatively short, but we’ll be adding one or two new ones every week. Best of all, we’ll both be in the Steam forum, ready to chat with you about your ideas and thoughts on these new epilogues.
Please let us know what you think of them as we roll them out! We’re listening.
Lastly, we want to also say that we have been reading your feedback and we are trying to improve the game in other ways as well. We have been in talks with the developers of the engine we used to go over some of the overarching glitches some of you have encountered, and are working to fix everything that pops up as soon as we’re made aware of it. (Most of the glitches identified on day 1 have already been fixed.)
We thank you so much for your patience and support, and for sharing your experience and thoughts for ways we can make the game even better.
Thanks again,
T.F. Wright & Volkenfox
P.S. - if you want the exact location of the new epilogue, head on over to our forum!
P.P.S. - the game will patch automatically, as long as it is closed and Steam is connected to the internet. (restart steam if it does not update.) Your saves should still work just fine.
Release Date Announced: March 27th!
We're excited to announce that The Pirate's Fate will be available to purchase on Tuesday, March 27, 2018!
We will also be launching the game's soundtrack, the prequel comic, and the 400+ page art book at the same time. Take a look in the DLC section if you'd like to check it out!
It's been a long journey, as some of you might have noticed, but thanks so much for giving us the support to make this possible, and for having patience so we could do things right. It means the world to us, and we can't wait to hear what you think of the game.
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