Hi Everyone!
We’re excited to share yet another major update to the demo, this time bringing a load of new fixes and improvements across the board 🙂
Check out the changes below!
Overhauled AI Bots
- When playing with bots they will now respond all with completely different personalities making a more complete solo player experience.
- Bots now vote much more accurately and better identify the "Best" sentence possible.
- Bots will now attempt to use word bonuses and player words in their sentences making each experience more dynamic and unique.
Gameplay
- Removed Round Breakdown phase at the end of each round in favor of a small winner announcement to speed up the game.
- At the halfway point of each game, there will be an intermission to give players a breakdown of total points so far as well as some fun game facts.
- Removed points for writing and voting.
- Top Rondel UI has been adjusted to be more compact.
- Made a multitude of other tweaks to the general UI of the writing panel to have less clutter.
- Tweaked the sequencing of all plot point intros to avoid random pauses within the game.
- Reworked the sentence suggestion prompts to look nicer and more intuitive, which will now show up in the story rather than in the top panel.
- Added hotkeys for voting 1-6 so that you don't have to click on them anymore if you don't want to.
- Rescored the audio for the plot point intros of Moonlit Inspiration and Cursed Manuscript.
- Removed Kira and Javier from the game. They will return in a later season with some upgrades.
Menu UI
- Overhauled the Menu UI throughout the game: Lobby menu, Escape menu, Save the Story menu, and more.
- Characters now have unique name titles.
Fixes & Tweaks
- Fixed Copy to Clipboard not working occasionally when saving the story.
- Fixed Ctrl+Backspace not working occasionally.
- Adjusted the spacing in the credits.
- Everyone will now see the same credit titles in story readout
- Updated the story readout music to sound better.
- Effects were optimized across the board.
Thank you for your continued support and feedback! Make sure to share any feedback in the Steam Community Hub or the Discord server.
– Boltz Entertainment