Oct 23

Rogue Descent - Chris745

With the release just two weeks away finishing touches are being applied and new content is ready for launch. The two biggest additions are:-

The Hunter: A fragile yet deadly character, available to all on starting the game. Whilst Hunter's defensive stats seem low initially his high Dodge and Crit chance, coupled with the Poison attack that levels with the Hunter mean that all sorts of pain can be dished out.
Ascension Difficulty: Defeated one of the the three Bosses in the depths below? Well done but your job is not complete. Evil rises again and you can tackle it in three unlockable difficulty levels.
As well as this new starting Boons, loot affixes and status effects have also made the cut.

That's all for now but far from all.

Oct 23

The Demo is Live!

The Secret of Weepstone - Talesworth

I am so very stoked to finally launch this public demo. At the last Penny Arcade Expo, we watched people stomp through Weepstone Keep for 4 days straight. After a year of work, it was so rewarding to see the smiles and laughs in person. There’s literally no bigger dopamine generator for a game dev. We left that dream weekend hyper motivated and desperate to get back to creating.

Armed with a notepad full of great suggestions and tweaks, we got to work making changes and further polishing the demo. Now, here we are, ready to face the final boss of being a creative person online: exposing your creation publicly! I considered coming to each and every house to stand behind you as you play, menacingly, but it falls squarely outside the budget.

We still have a ways to go, primarily lots of content for you to delve. More Dungeons, crypts, and abbeys. Lots of weird, desperate, and/or unhinged people. Classic baddies stepping right out of those dungeon crawling ‘80s D&D modules. The town of Weepstone has some issues, and this town ain’t going to save itself.

We would really love to hear your post-demo thoughts via the Talesworth Game Studio Discord. Also, follow on Instagram or Twitter for sneak peaks and art bits as we tell our story in the Kingdom of Talesworth.

\[Quick note regarding the thunderous reverberations from our [url="https://twitter.com/Talesworth/status/1980315161086030294"]10/20 Twitter post[/url]: It really reinforces our belief that this is a game that so many of us want (have wanted) to exist. Thank you for the kind words, the likes, the shares and the encouragement. We read every comment and they've all made a difference.]

- Sean & Hunter

Oct 23

UPDATE 06 - DATAZONES

Of Lies and Rain - CastelloInc

Hi everyone!

Sixth week, sixth update.

We're almost there, the game will release in full the 4th of Novemeber on all platforms and we're superexcited to see what you all think of all the updates, the game is definitely in better shape now and ready for final release.

Dataworlds redesign

Redesigned a part of the last mandatory dataworld, it should be more doable now, Shen long (the big worm) has really been a pain in the arse for many players, hopefully this will help a bit.

Bossfight fixes

Some people found the bossfight too easy, it was because some of the projectiles were't hitting the player, it's now fixed. and a part of the bossfight was just bad game design really, we made the last block more evident so people won't miss jump away, hopefully.

Better Weight on many objects

Many objects just felt like made of cardborad without any weight to them, we fixed most of the game objects, please let us know if something else feels weird, we'll fix it.

Better hand interactions on objects

We also added some more hand poses on object to avoid some junckiness when the procedural grabbing kicks in, this won;t be perfect to make it perfect we would need to rethink and modify the whole system, maybe for the next game, if there will ever be one. :)

Environment fixes

There were some spots in the game where you could see the world outside the level that breaks immersions a lot and shouldn't happen, we fixed those spots. The Exploding oxigen canister fading away out side of the toolshed is now fixed.

Holographic locks

Better puzzle design with better color coding, as someone pointed out there were some puzzle with some really bad design, players struggle to understand how they work end were just bruteforcing them. should be better now. Please let us know.

The game will be exiting early access the 4th of November, if there are any content creators out there who would like to feature Of Lies and Rain on your channels please let us know, we'll be happy to send you a key.

As always thanks a lot to everyone who bought the game in early access! It kept the studio alive, the support we received has been overwhelming, again thanks a lot for everything you're doing for our little company!

Best,

Castello Inc Team.