Dear Agents:
"Spirit Detective" has been successfully developed, so we decided to open the beta version for everyone to play. During the public beta version, we will continue to update the content of the version to improve the quality of the game.
If you encounter a bug during the game or you have some suggestions for our game, you can leave us a message through the steam discussion area or email, and we will reply to your message as soon as possible.

Mail：gkdgamestudio@gmail.com
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The filthy rich Black Cloud Merchant Jakunerk is putting on a game for the Daevas where they have to show what they’ve got. Naturally, he named the game after himself: welcome to the Jakunerk Game!

Up to 48 Daevas can take part in this nerve-racking game. They have to transform into a Shugo and master three game areas – and they’ve got just 10 whole minutes to do it! You can earn items like the [Event] Improved Experience Crystal, [Event] Nabaru’s Giant Fruit, [Event] Magnificent Skull Mask and lots more!



Running: 16th March to 30th March


The Jakunerk Game only takes place on certain days and you need the [Event] Jakunerk Game Ticket to take part:
1st game day: 18/3 from 8 PM to 10 PM
2nd game day: 19/3 from 4 PM to 6 PM
3rd game day: 25/3 from 8 PM to 10 PM
4th game day: 26/3 from 4 PM to 6 PM



Participating

The game administrators Kanurerk and Karunerk will help you take part: you can also only get the [Event] Jakunerk Game Ticket at certain times. You can get a total of 10 tickets from the in-game survey:

You can get 5 tickets between 18th March (7 PM) and 19th March (9:59 PM). You can get another 5 tickets between 25th March (7 PM) and 26th March (9:59 PM). You can also buy additional tickets from Kanurerk for 1,000,000 Kinah (taxes not included).

As the start of the game draws near, you’ll be shown a message here if you’re in Inggison or Gelkmaros. The entrance to the game area is also located here.



Collect Jakunerk Insignias

You can get a quest from Karunerk if you bring him 5x [Event] Jakunerk Insignia. Among other things, the insignias are also issued as a reward for the Jakunerk Game. In order to complete the quest you receiver 1 of 6 Skull Masks – including the Magnificent Skull Mask! You can repeat the quest to grab all 6 masks!


Once you’ve activated the Jakunerk Game Entrance, you’ll be teleported to the waiting area. From here, you can access the game area. The entry to the waiting area is closed after a certain amount of time so the game can begin. The game area consists of three sections; you must master all of them to receive your reward.

• Section 1 ‘Chain Rope’: Balance on the rope and try not to look down!
• Section 2 ‘Invisible Path’: Follow the Pathfinder Qooqoo – only he can show you the way.
• Section 3 ‘Moving Platforms’: Try to predict the movements of the platforms to reach the target.
• Extra section: Complete this area to receive the [Event] Bravest Reward too. It contains 1x [Event] Little Jakunerk Reward Bundle and 1x [Event] Jakunerk Game Ticket.

If you die in one of the sections, you’ll wake up back in the waiting area. From here you can try again or leave the game area.


Once you’ve successfully completed all of the sections (not including the extra section), you can enter the reward room. This room contains 48 Jakunerk Boxes of different levels that are only available to a limited number of players. The players who finish first will have the most to choose from:

• The Large Jakunerk Box is only available for 1 player. It contains 10x [Event] Improved Experience Crystal, 5x [Event] Nabaru’s Giant Fruit, 50x [Event] Transparency Transformation Scroll and 5x [Event] Lodas’ Greater Golden Star.
• The Good Jakunerk Box is available for 3 players. It contains 5x [Event] Improved Experience Crystal, 3x [Event] Nabaru’s Giant Fruit and 100x Transformation Scroll.
• The Normal Jakunerk Box is available for 6 players. It contains 3x [Event] Improved Experience Crystal and 1x [Event] Nabaru’s Giant Fruit.
• The Small Jakunerk Box is available for 38 players. It contains 1x [Event] Improved Experience Crystal.

Each of these boxes also contains 1x [Event] Jakunerk Insignia. You need 5 of these for the collection quest mentioned above.





Note: the items [Event] Jakunerk Game Ticket, [Event] Jakunerk Insignia, [Event] Bravest Reward and [Event] Little Jakunerk Reward Bundle will be removed from the game after the event is over.

Get ready for some more KARDS Open action as it returns this March with KARDS Open XI!

This time we are making changes to the start time of the first qualifier for KARDS Open XI to better serve different timezones. This is a test in response to feedback we have received during the last KARDS Open, we will closely monitor the effect of the change and based on that decide if this will be a permanent change or a temporary one.

SIGN UP NOW

Last KARDS Open saw a large and competitive pool of players and after three tournament stages we saw the Chinese player Noein5 emerge as the champion after defeating Darkness 3-0 in the grand finals.

In this coming Open tournament, players will have two chances to make it into the top 16 through one of the two Swiss Qualifiers held on March 26th and April 9th.

The KARDS Open is all about gathering together, meeting new people, having fun, and playing KARDS. To that end, we will be doing a random giveaway between all those that sign up and play in the KARDS Open XI qualifiers, where three lucky players will receive 4 officer packs once the qualifiers are complete.

Read on for a detailed breakdown of the different tournament stages.


Starting Saturday, March 26th, with the swiss qualifiers, you will compete in a best of 3 free-for-all deck format. This means you can bring any deck you want and play it as many times as you'd like. No deck submissions and no deck restrictions! If you make the top 8 in this stage, you will advance to stage two.

The second chance qualifier will be Saturday, April 9th. This swiss bracket is open to any player who has not already made the top 8 cuts, so make sure to maximize your chances of making the top 16 by playing in both qualifiers.

This time the qualifiers will have two different start times to better serve different timezones. The first qualifier on March 26th will start at 13:00 GMT and the second qualifier on April 9th will start at our usual start time of 16:00 GMT.


If you finish in the Top 8 from either of the stage one weekends, you will be qualified for the next stage - Saturday, April 3th to compete in the single-elimination best of 3 conquest. You will submit four of your best decks from four different main nations in this stage. (you will only use three of these decks for the first half of this bracket) You will ban one deck from your opponent and play a best of 3.


If you've made it to the Top 4 during stage 2, you've made it to stage 3! In this stage, you will break out your 4th submitted deck and play in a best of 5 single elimination with one ban. These games will be broadcast live on Sunday, May 1st.

For all questions about participating in the Open and all things related to KARDS Tournaments, please join our KARDS competitive Discord: https://discord.gg/288DQexmng

• Compete in one or both qualifier swiss bracket weekends.
  
• Top 8 from each weekend bracket moves on to Top - Cuts weekend
  
• Closed deck lists with no deck restrictions! Play whatever you want, whenever you want!

• Swiss Bracket with 128 player maximum (7 swiss rounds)
  
• Swiss Qualifier Bracket A March 26th @ 1300 GMT
  
• Swiss Qualifier Bracket B April 9th @ 1600 GMT

• Bring three decks from three different main nations
  
• A fourth deck must be submitted, which will only be used if you make it to top 4
  
• Top 16 Conquest format best of 3 with open deck lists and one ban
  
• Top 4 conquest format best of 5 with open deck lists and one ban
  
• Top 16 Bracket April 30th @ 1300 GMT
  
• DECK LIST SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 30th @ 1200 GMT
  
• Top 4 Bracket & Live Stream May 1st @ 1400 GMT

The KARDS Open has a prize pool of $1500 that is split the following way:

• 1st: $600 USD
  
• 2nd: $450 USD
  
• 3rd: $250 USD
  
• 4th: $200 USD
  
• 5th-16th - 100 Gold

Sign ups are open now! - https://smash.gg/tournament/kards-open-xi/details

I am happy to announce that the game is in a state where I think it is ready to be tested by some hopefully enthusiastic individuals.

I am handing out a limited number of Beta keys. If you are interested in participating please send an email to dopeminearena@gmail.com with the subject "Beta Application".

Please include any experience you have with previous betas and an acknowledgment that you understand the game is in a very early state.

ADDED - Easter egg to invite players to join the developer curator page
FIXED - It says “Round undefined” on the pause menu for some reason

Hello everyone!

We hope that you and your loved ones feel safe. Because me and other Ukrainians don't. You probably know that there is a war in my homeland.

I was invited to take part in the Ukrainian Indie Games Bundle. This is a bundle of 11 games from 11 Ukrainian developers. Some of them are safe now. Some left their homes and moved to another city. Others are refugees now. But there is no one who wasn't affected by this war. Therefore, all profits from this bundle will go directly to the developers (with the exception of Steam cut).

Most of the developers have already reported that the profits will be directed to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine, humanitarian and volunteer organizations. Here, for example, you can get acquainted with ways to help Ukraine.

In particular, I donate directly to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Glory to Ukraine!

• Level 2-1 is now available for dev-test.
  
• New object detectors.
  
• Reduced amount of shaders.
  
• Changes to the LOD system to smoothly transit between levels.
  
• Changed the rails that lead to the end area at level 1-1.

• Fixed wrong water height causing buoyant objects to freeze on top of water as if it was a flat surface.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing the doors from opening subsequent times after clicking the box's reset button in the 3 boxes puzzle at level 1-3.
  
• Fixed unexpected water splashes from a grass clamp and one bush at the beginning or level 1-4.
  
• Fixed a potential issue with rotating rods suddenly rotating 90 degrees away.
  
• Fixed a potential issue that could occur when all levels are locked.
  
• Fixed level 1-6 boats won’t stop at their destination sometimes.
  
• Fixed wrong golden pickup counts in levels.
  
• Fixed some light objects that won’t take world curvature into account.

Sarmachia is the second-most powerful province of the empire, and as such is ruled by the second-most powerful man in the empire.



The August, governor of Sarmachia is a hereditary title dating back pagan times when the Empire was divided in two, one half ruled from Rephsis and one from Sarmachia. Provinces were successively brought under Rephsian control in a series of civil wars, and as a measure to keep the peace the core of Sarmachia's territory was organised as a new province and its ruler was allowed to keep the title of August.

As a hotbed of paganism and the centre of the Lion Cult and Parmidia-worship, Sarmachia dominated the continent in religious matters, even after being re-subjugated by Rephsis. However, their fortunes changed when Christian emperors outlawed pagan beliefs and wiped out the province's shrines.

Currently, the ruling class of Sarmachia resents their status in the Empire. Despite their huge population and wealth the they are only granted the same Senatorial representation as every other province, and their trade guilds are considered second-rate at best. Many in Rephsis believe that Sarmachia never truly abandoned their pagan ways.



August Julian is the current ruler of Sarmachia. Ascending the throne at the age of 15 after his father's death, Julian is a young but ambitious and opinionated ruler. While outwardly a staunch Christian, he has nonetheless criticised the destruction of the temple of Parmidia, a move that drew condemnation from the Church in Apsodenia.

His main concerns are surviving the deadly politics of his court. Strong factions developed during his five-year regency and his regent, the Count of Sirmona, antagonised what could have been some of his biggest supporters. However, if he's able to overcome these threats and unify the province he may be a dangerous threat to you.

Adjustments/Additions:

1. Optimized the display of UI button ICONS to solve the problem of blurred ICONS in full-screen Windows.



2. West Suburban Private School

① The layout of the red shoes in the studio is 4x4.

② Optimized the interaction of the arrows in the studio. The arrows can be placed on the interactive page at one time.



3. Twilight Middle School

① Added the prompt to click the recorder in the archives in Chapter 9.



4. Chapter of Haiming Apartment

① Portable medicine box style, add a clear time prompt in the morning and afternoon.

② Music box click feedback can be triggered by clicking in the scene instead.



Fixes:

1. Fixed QTE failure when story text was jumping.

2. Fix the text error of fan Yu's father's initiation document in "Twilight Middle School".

3. Fixed an issue where the episode of "Haiming Apartment" where the mirror was smashed played twice in a row.