Greetings Terrarians,
We are excited to announce several upcoming Halloween themed Terraria events where you can win prizes. Full details regarding the Halloween events and exclusive Terraria prize shop can be found in the official Terraria Discord server. In addition, Congratulations to the Terraria Discord server for being one of the largest Discord communities in the world and crossing the 200k online benchmark!

Join the live Terraria community at https://discord.gg/terraria

That said, let's open this creaky door and head into this haunted house of scares!


Attention Terrarians, skeletons, ghosts, and other creatures that lurk within this server! Halloween is quickly approaching and we are hosting some special spooky contests this month that could potentially give you a massive boost in Prize Points.

What are Prize Points / Special Prize Points?
Prize Points are used to purchase game codes, signed Terraria merchandise, and server roles from our Prize Merchant Bot! You can view the Prize Points shop in the bot-commands channel by using the shp!viewshop command. Special Prize Points only apply towards the @Zenith and @Ultra Instinct roles.

Terraria Prize Shop
The exclusive Terraria Prize Shop features many incredible prizes including signed t-shirts, hoodies, pins, Steam games, and much more. You can redeem prizes with the prize points earned from events. In addition to these Halloween events there are daily activities in our communities ranging from Trivia to art creation and you can earn prize points from all these activities. Come by the Discord server located at https://discord.gg/terraria to check out this incredible feature.


The first contest will be an in-real life pumpkin carving contest! This is a tradition in the community that has taken place many times over the years, since the first iteration in 2013. Think you got what it takes to enter that hall of fame? Check out the images below for examples of past winners!








How do you enter?
Create a spooky piece of Terraria-related art on a pumpkin, put a candle in it, and photograph it in the dark for the best look!

Please DM your photo submissions to @Submission Bot on our Discord to enter the contest. The first photo should be of the entry by itself, and then send a second photo which has your Discord username on a piece of paper in front of your entry, so we can verify that it is original. Entries without this second image for verification will not be accepted.

The rewards for this contest are as follows:
🥇 1st Place: 25,000 Prize Points or 250,000 Special Prize Points
🥈 2nd Place: 15,000 Prize Points or 150,000 Special Prize Points
🥉 3rd Place: 10,000 Prize Points or 100,000 Special Prize Points
🏅 4th Place: 5,000 Prize Points or 50,000 Special Prize Points
🏅 5th Place: 5,000 Prize Points or 50,000 Special Prize Points

Everyone who submits valid, original entries for this contest will receive 2,000 Prize Points!




The second contest will be an in-game Halloween Costume-themed Vanity contest so let your imagination and creativity go wild and create some real spooky costumes that would even scare the Moon Lord! Of course, if you have an amazing in real life Terraria costume that you want to show off, we won't turn that down either.

Terraria Halloween Costume Contest Rules
- Characters should be submitted with a Gemspark block background of your choosing, the Gemspark must consist of one solid color. Example entry below!



- Editing using image editing software is not allowed (direct, in-game screenshots only!).
- Try to avoid submitting your character wearing a normal full set of undyed armor.
- Modded content is not allowed.
- Include a name for your costume when submitting!
- Your character's costume should stand out on its own, without the help of any additional effects (including, but not limited to: summons, pets, particles, mounts, or environmental features).
- Only one submission per user.
- Submission must follow all server rules.
When you feel your submission is ready, DM @Submission Bot Bot on our Discord with your submission. Any submissions which do not comply with the rules or are not within the submission period will not be considered.

The rewards for this contest are as follows:
🥇 1st Place: 15,000 Prize Points or 150,000 Special Prize Points
🥈 2nd Place: 10,000 Prize Points or 100,000 Special Prize Points
🥉 3rd Place: 5,000 Prize Points or 50,000 Special Prize Points
🏅 4th Place: 3,000 Prize Points or 30,000 Special Prize Points
🏅 5th Place: 2,000 Prize Points or 20,000 Special Prize Points

You can submit entries for these contests up until November 1st at 11:59 PM EDT and winners will be announced soon after in the following days.

Hey!

I’m Yakov Butuzov and I’d like to present to you the game I’m working on — Loretta. It’s a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes and leads her through a self-crafted nightmare.

And there’s a new demo available on Steam!



You could have already read my posts about the plot and the main inspirations for the game, so now it’s time to update you on the progress I made. I’m mostly making Loretta alone, so trying to understand the expectations of the audience is quite difficult, as well as corresponding to them. But I’d like to know what people want to get from the game like this and, hopefully, make it happen.

Loretta is a story-driven adventure game. Its gameplay focuses on choosing dialogue options, interacting with objects, and making decisions: planning the murder(s) and getting rid of the evidence.



There are several endings, too. You shouldn’t expect tremendous variability in such a game, but the most important thing for me is to give the player the possibility to either lead events into a thin web of dodgy lies or a series of murders that will push the heroine into the abyss of madness.

It’s the year 1947. Loretta and Walter Harris are moving to a farm. Into his parent’s house. Walter is a writer, Lora is a housewife. Both are quite unsuccessful. Moreover, Walter’s cheating.

Loretta starts to understand that she gave up her dreams, her job and her life for a failure of a husband she doesn’t even love. She finds herself in an empty cold house without a livelihood. And as she struggles to make loan payments, she finds out that Walter’s publishing house has insured his life. In case of his death or disappearance, the bank will pay out 30.000$. A plan is born in Lora’s mind.
So let me confess, I am in love with this era. Everything about it makes me love it passionately: the car design, interiors, clothes, "streamline" elements, culture, music (Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, Al Bowlly, The Ink Spots, Vera Lynn and others.)

However, Loretta is not a documentary. The name of the state in which the action takes place is not mentioned by design. It is a metaphysical place, refracted through the prism of Loretta's fading consciousness. You will be travelling through the hub of Loretta's memories, and you’ll have to solve a puzzle or a mini-game to unlock new parts of the story.
In the development, the main challenge for me is creating an unusual heroine. Loretta does horrible things during the game, and you can influence the severity of them. Each decision you make will have consequences.

Sooner or later in life, every person faces betrayal, poverty, and other challenges of fate. Everyone tries to settle them in their own way, but what if one goes all-in? Loretta dears to try.
It’s a story of a person fighting with their desires. It’s about frustration, lies, betrayal, relationships between man and woman, creativity, crimes, mysteries and even… love.
I’m not going to lie, the game turns out quite unusual. It has a distinctive style. II myself am slowly falling in love with the heroine, although she behaves like a damn brute. In the entire game, Loretta can kill fewer people than the main character of any shooter on the first level only. And my task here is to make the story feel exciting and interesting.

I invite you to play a free demo of Loretta on Steam and write a review. I read everything and will highly appreciate it as it will help me make the game better!
Thank you!

Greetings!

We had a very difficult release so far but we have been bless with a wonderful Early Access community that helped us going through the challenges.

We have fixed a lot of majors issues on the system but a more sinister treat seem to block the maximum number of player we can handle.

The team will need time to implement fixes so we decided to scale the game with a new game server.

We hoped to do the Early Access with just one server, but it won't be the case. Having many servers will allow more players to test the game right now and will minimize lags and crashes.

Thanks a lot for playing our game!

Virtys

In the 2.0 update I reworked the boss battles so they are more integrated with the story that surrounds the battle.

I also established a loose story-based connection with my two freeware games "The Heart's Fallacy" and "Blessed Relic Chronis", although each game can be enjoyed separately. There is also a side story that is roughly 2 hours long, and I fixed some more bugs within the game.



This side story takes place 1 year before the events of Path of the Martyrs. Machia is going to Trito Town to do her first political interview. However, one day, monsters appear out of nowhere and threaten the livelihood of the people of Trito Town. Can Machia and Saiyato uncover why this town is being targeted?






*Update available for the Windows version only

Added toggle grip setting.
Fish behaviour update.
Locked camera mode is now default.
Bug fixes.

Hello Heroes,

Are you ready for the weekend to start? Let's kick things off with some Rates Increase and go hunting! Starting tomorrow 11:00 AM, until Monday, June 28, we’re offering increases on the following types of gains:

• 3x Experience monster kills
  
• 3x Item Drop rates on all monsters
  
• +1 Contribution Points gains during PvP

Event Duration:
June 25, 2021, 11:00 - June 28, 2021 18:00 PDT (Server Time)

• Fixed corrupted render that was causing error screen
  
• Fixed cases of achievements not triggering on Steam
  
• Fixed bug causing potential softlock at the end of Act 2
  
• Corrected potential wrong transition between scenes
  
• Fixed visual inconsistencies and small typos
  
• Reviewed KCT points

Hiya Folks!!

Things have been hopping over here like a frog in a hot skillet!! Never a dull moment in my life and the past few weeks have been no exception! I always love when I have GOOD news to share, so we might as well have a progress update while we're at it :)

**Chapter 3 new release date!!**

In the whirlwind of getting Chapter 3 polished and refined, something important was brought to my attention. The original release date of October 30th means Chapter 3 will be released on a Saturday. Nothing terribly wrong with that, but to give more flexibility to the people streaming the game (and maximizing our weekends), I have decided to push the date forward and release Chapter 3 on October 29th instead.

At 12am CST, on what is essentially "Thursday night", I'll push out the final update that unlocks Chapter 3 and makes it playable on Steam. I don't know how often this sort of thing happens for others, but I'm excited and hope everyone enjoys it nonetheless!!

**Chapter 3 Progress**

I don't want to jinx myself by speaking too soon, but so far things are on-schedule. My usual process is to get my "firm draft" done, do some troubleshooting playthroughs, tweak the finer details like random encounters/new items/Exp, and then do a final once-over to polish and refine things to my (at the time) satisfaction. For now I'm doing the playthroughs, but will soon rope in a few of my alpha testers to get their thoughts on the final product. Through lots of coffee and a few nights of 4 hours' sleep, we should be on track!

**Chapter 1 and 2 Text Reformats**

As I've stated on many occasions, reformatting 16 hours of content will take a lot of time. As of right now I have completed all of the "cinematics" and progression-dependent dialogue to be in proper widescreen format now. I have not put a dent in the side convos, but that will be my focus after the release of Chapter 3 (along with mapping for Chapter 4). I think everyone will find it makes reading much easier on the eyes to have extra space. I've erred on the side of condensing dialogue as opposed to expanding it, wanting to take advantage of the flexibility more text area gives me. Some dialogue may be different, but overall I feel this is a worthwhile change.



And there we have it! I look forward to everyone's thoughts on the Chapter 3 release and hope it is enjoyable. I hope everyone is looking forward to the next chapter in Deirdre's journey!!


- Andrew (Creator)

Updates:

• Added achievements
  
• Save chosen camera between games
  
• Option to choose screen resolution
  
• Exit from Replay (at Drag Strip or Race Track)
  
• Updated traffic distribution function

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