• Tuesday, October 15 @ 1PM EDT: Chapter 2 Livestream - Get a glimpse of the second chapter of the story, learn about the second spell in the game, Force Missile, and see some of the puzzles you can solve with it!
  
• Thursday, October 17 @ 7PM EDT: Chapter 3 Livestream - Watch the story start to come to a head as we show off the third and final magical spell in the game - but that one you'll have to come and see for yourself!
  

• Complete graphical overhaul of the opening scene
  
• 5 completely new puzzles, bringing the total in the demo up to 34 (large & small)
  
• Add a few hidden previews of future puzzle mechanics to the Light Temple
  
• Remove speed slowdowns from the opening scene
  

• Floppies can no longer get stuck on the screen. This would happen if you shot a floppy statue and then quickly exited the room; the room you just left would be destroyed, taking the statue's script with it, and that's the script that controlled the floppy! To fix this, the coroutine has been attached to another gameobject that sticks around, instead of the statue.
  
• Fix missile pathfinding in the final puzzle. I don't have a good excuse here; the pathfinding nodes (we use A*) were just not set up correctly. This was mostly due to the rapid iterating of that room I did when putting it together.
  
• Missiles can no longer be shot at a moving block. Our system currently doesn't handle moving pathfinding nodes, because it doesn't need to in 99% of cases. A moving block was outside of that 99%. So rather than implement any entire moving-node system, you just can't shoot missiles at moving blocks anymore.
  
• Blocks now move the player out of the way if they are standing in its path. This was already the case for the majority of blocks, but some of them used older prefabs that I missed when I implemented the push-player-out-of-the-way logic.
  

New Features & Changes

• You can now cancel your spell cast! If you've already placed a perfectly-positioned Light, and you accidentally right-click, press escape to cancel the cast (while right-click is still held down).
  
• New "Real Memory" post-processing effect for when certain scenes play out, such as the Pup-Pup scene on the back porch.
  
• You can no longer jump in the Home. We decided to remove it because it didn't add anything interesting to the scenes, and only served to uncover & exploit collision bugs.
  
• Add Poetry Plaques to the Temple. Written entirely in the rune language, deciphering these plaques adds an extra layer of depth to the story.
  
• Diskettes now move to the bottom corner of the screen to dissolve. This doesn't have a major impact on the Demo, but has been put in place for future content starting in Chapter 2.
  
• The staff animates out of the way when inspecting something. This is really just a workaround for some weird transparency issue with VHS tapes.
  
• In-game menu now shows your current framerate.
  

Improvements

• The beginning of the demo has been completely polished, with a better-looking UI and therapy hallway.
  
• Cover up many imperfections in the Temple, primarily where snow mounds intersect with other objects. The intersections should be much less noticeable now.
  
• "Song of Innocence" is now more obvious and dissolves when inspected. This is a relatively important aspect of the story that a lot of players were missing.
  
• Footstep System has been entirely rewritten, and it should bug out less often. The new system requires significantly less manual setup compared to the old system.
  
• Player breath now looks more realistic.
  
• Game posters stick to the wall more believably, and are anchored by their scotch tape now. Previously they were anchored semi-randomly, and looked a bit wonky as a result.
  
• VHS tapes now slide into a sleeve before they dissolve. Similar to the staff animation issue above, this is also to get around a weird transparency issue with the tapes themselves.
  
• Improve performance in Home scenes. Many thanks to the latest version of Unity for newly-added terrain features that made these improvements possible!
  
• Slightly shrink the default reticle. It was just ever so slightly too big for our liking.
  

Bug Fixes

• Shadow Creatures now properly render on top of (and underneath) other transparent things.
  
• Objects that dissolve look much more realistic now; they were previously not correctly normal-mapped.
  
• The Subtitle setting actually does something now, and defaults to Off.
  
• Fix bug that caused Quality to show as "Low" even though it wasn't.
  
• Fix bug that caused therapy door to sometimes not close.
  
• Fix animation bug when staff un-hides (after teleporting to each next floor in the Temple)
  

Seeking Testers

New Features

• Level Select - You can now return to any puzzle room you've already completed, straight from the main menu! Simply hit escape to open the menu and click "Level Select", then select the puzzle room you want to return to.
  
• Menu Facelift - The main menu has gotten a bit of a facelift. It now has more compelling animations and sound effects!
  

Bug FIxes

• Fix a bug that prevented floppies from being discovered and picked up if you ever quit and then re-started the game.
  
• Movement speed slowdown during voiceovers should now always recover.
  

New Features

• Cloud Save: We've enabled Steam Cloud Save, so your saves should now transfer between computers! Not a big deal for the demo necessarily, but it is a pretty big deal for the final game.
  
• New visual and sound effects for casting spells into stationary crystals, and removing them!
  
• Improve the range of the sensitivity slider; it can now reach smaller values and has more granular control over the specific value.
  
• The staff now moves as the player moves, rather than remaining completely static
  

Bug Fixes

• Playing the game in a different language will now actually play the voiceovers (though they will still be in English - localized subtitles hopefully coming later)
  
• Add ice to a few walls & stairs that were missing them
  
• The game now continues to run even when not focused on
  
• Loading screen now fades out more smoothly
  

• Enhance visual effects of narrative scenes at the end of each level.
  
• Staff now glows brighter when in a room with a VHS tape in it.
  
• Light Tutorial puzzle is no longer failable (you can't stand so close to the statue that it blocks your light).
  
• The pool in the home scene can no longer be jumped into (Sorry!)
  

• A complete story overhaul, including all-new voiceovers!
  
• An extra, never-before-seen narrative scene between levels 3 & 4 of the Temple.
  
• Restructuring of several puzzles to make the difficulty curve smoother
  
• The Light orb stands out a lot more now.
  
• Several minor bugfixes that were discovered during MAGFest.