Developer posts and news about this game.
– 26/03/2025 Comment: Hello everyone! Adding the automatic crash reporter in the last patch seems to have already paid off! A user triggered a crash last weekend, and I managed to find a second one yesterday. Getting an automatic detailed report of crashes helped a ton with findi
– 11/03/2025 Comment: Hey! :D New Features: Integrated a crash reporter intended to catch any issues players could potentially have while playing the game. Adjustments: Added an inner monologue text prompt at the beginning of the game to let players know what the level objective
– 01/03/2025 Comment: Hello everyone! :D I hope you been having a blast playing my demo during NextFest, here’s a list of changes that I’ve been working on during this week to address issues that I noticed players were having with the game, most notably the game’s combat difficul
– 21/02/2025 Comment: Hello everyone! To celebrate the game’s participation on the NextFest: February 2025 edition, I’ve been working on putting together a new update that brings to the demo many of the improvements that I’m working on for the game’s next major update. Below are
– 14/10/2024 Comment: Hello everyone! This new update is mostly aimed to improve the experience of new players with the game, I took in all of the feedback regarding the “normal” puzzle difficulty and came up with a list of improvements that should make the game less overwhelming
– 24/09/2023 Comment: Hello everyone! I’ve been looking at how players have been enjoying the game so far and I came up with a list of improvements that could help with most of the common issues I’ve noticed players have been experiencing. The most notable issue being the game st
–01/05/2023 Comment: Hello everyone! This is the largest update so far since the game has been made public and it also converts the demo into what can be considered a feature complete build of the first level of the game. It took a while but I can now start mainly focusing on the
– 24/10/2023 Comment: Extra round of polishing for the demo! New Features: URL Launch buttons have been added to the main menu for accessing the game’s steam store, joining the game’s discord server or opening the X/Twitter game’s profile. Adjustments: Bug Fixes: Fixed an issue w
– 17/10/2023 Comment: This patch is focused on improving the stability of the game & adding quality of life improvements rather than introducing new features. The project has been migrated from Unreal Engine 4 to UE5 (version 5.2.1 to be specific), this caused tons of bugs th
– 28/09/2023 Comment: - This patch is almost all about animations!: . The entire animations system for the main character has been reworked from the ground-up, until now everything relied on raw animation data, that meant that I had to manually create all the variations for every
– 30/08/2023 Comment: - This new patch is focused on difficulty balancing and UI ease of use: . I’ve been experimenting with improving the game interfaces for Steam Deck users and any players looking to play the game with smaller screen resolutions, this patch includes scaling im
– 18/08/2023 Comment: - I hope you’ve enjoyed what the demo brings thus far! I’ve been working on a patch to solve some of the minor grievances I’ve seen players have with the game so far, below you will find the patch notes organized based on category. - All new demo related ver
The first release of the demo for "THE KING IN THE SHADES" is now available for everyone to play! Once I am satisfied with the state of the demo and ready to move on to the next level and the comercial release of the game, the demo will likely be removed after a period of 1 week