Our Content Creator Program launched!
Hi all, we’re excited to announce that the official Soulven Content Creator Program is live now! 🎉 The Content Creator Program is designed to be more than just a role or label. It will remain exclusive, completely free of charge, and built around a proper sign-up process with mu
Hi all,
we’re excited to announce that the official Soulven Content Creator Program is live now! 🎉
The Content Creator Program is designed to be more than just a role or label. It will remain exclusive, completely free of charge, and built around a proper sign-up process with mutual expectations.
Selected creators will receive access to exclusive opportunities, unique insights into our projects and development process, and additional creator-focused benefits over time. 🎮✨
You can sign up here:
https://www.soulven.com/creators
If you’re not a content creator yourself but know someone who creates gaming content, we’d truly appreciate it if you shared this with them. And if they apply, they can mention your username in their application. 🌱
Thank you so much for your support! 💛
It was a great journey and pleasure to work on Absinth together with you, our community. We laughed a lot together in 2017 when we started with the Live Streaming Events for the Pre-Alpha. After one year working part-time on Absinth (just us both founders) we released at the end not a releasable EA product. Today we know that this was a typical developer mistake: You want to do everything big and great until you realize that you have limited ressources&time available. So we changed mistakenly the whole concept constantly while developing so it became bigger and bigger. Today we understand that this is something that many studios face. Fos us it was a big lesson to understand how much you can actually do "great" with limited ressources&time.
So we learned a lot of how Early Access titles should be released. Also we got a lot of angry responses of disappointed players and to be honest we totally felt what they meant. After that we continued to work on Absinth by delivering various content updates to improve performance and quality. Yay, we´re happy that today a stable version is available for everyone where almost all pain points are not existing anymore!
Then 2020 came into the lands and Corona, you probably heart about this piece of Banana, also reached us as a small indie studio and to be honest we thought that´s it this time, Absinth is going to line up to one of those thousands of dead titles no one cares about anymore.
BUT! Good for us, that we never worked 100% only on our own games. So you maybe heard about... as an indie you have usually always some kind of work for hire in parallel to pay your rent and buy some food :=) That was exactly what saved us at the end and few months later we were able to continue again.
In summary we can say that our promise to the community in 2017 was one of the most important things, what made us working on Absinth so long and continuously. Without that promise back then, we probably would never have continued the development of Absinth, as no one where paying us for it. So taking response for what you have promised even when it´s a financial disaster, is something what was really important to us. Of course we enjoy also the videos of people playing Absinth.
Hello everyone!
We hope everyone had happy Easter holidays! Today we are very happy to announce you our 3rd patch for Absinth.
This April patch includes performance improvements, 4k Support and general improvements to revamp your experience in Absinth.
Also we'd like to thank everyone for your continual support and for the awesome feedback we got from you here on Steam and on our Discord Server!
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Summary:
Section 1: Main Menu / In-game Menu
Section 2: Act I - Police Dept.
Section 3: Act II - Redwoods
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Section 1: Main Menu / In-game Menu
- Added 4k resolution support.
- Added Community Invite Link for Discord
- Deleted "Credits" section and added "Support" section instead
- Added a label to show the current game version
- Added 40 FPS limit without Vsync to reducde hardware workload
- Fixed issue where 2k resolution has set 1080px of height and not 1440px.
- Updated at the very end of the game the credits scene
- Deleted some of the Intro where the official Unity and blackHound Logo were showing up for few seconds.
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Section 2: Act I - Police Dept.
- Reduced difficulty of very first riddle
- Deleted Laptops which were playing creepy videos but also producing too much cpu performance.
- Changed position of the car key to a visible spot
- Changed position of Zane file
- Changed position and size of Chief Inspector note (number part)
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Section 3: Act II - Redwoods
-Optimized general performance within the level by reducing the amount of rendered objects at the same time
- Replanced blue sky with dark sky and a decent fog.
Hello everyone!
Happy belated new year 2019 to everyone! We are very happy to bring you our 2nd patch, which is now live.
This January patch includes mainly bug-fixes, improvements on our quests and other general improvements to revamp your experience in Absinth.
As usual, we'd like to thank everyone for your continual support!
Have a great day,
Your blackHound Studios team
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Hello everyone!
We've been working very hard this past month and are delighted to bring you a new patch, live now.
This Christmas patch includes many bug-fixes, improvements in performance issues and in our puzzles as well as other general aspects of the game.
We'd like to thank everyone for your support and for providing us with your valuable feedback! We truly appreciate it!
Happy Holidays,
Your blackHound Studios team
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