Whew. The festival is over. Time to catch our breath!
First things first: thank you! To everyone who found us through the Fall in Love visual novel fest, who downloaded the demo, who spent an evening with Salem iu our way to long demo, who left a review, a comment, or just quietly added us to their wishlist! <3
Welcome to Rottenroots, we're happy you're here:)
A festival like this is a strange thing for a tiny team. You spend weeks polishing, you push the update out at the last possible minute, and then you sit there and watch as strangers play (any hopefully love) your baby for the first time. It's terrifying and wonderful... One streamer wrote me she cried on stream, and I am only 80% certain that it was the love story and not through possible plotholes😳
Also a big thank you to Studio Élan for having us. It was a joy to be part of such a great lineup, and we hope you checked out some of the other games too. We sure did!:))
Now, here's the thing we didn't manage to get done in time... Sorry...
We wanted to run a livestream on our Steam page during the festival. Life had other plans, and the update ate every spare hour we had. But we didn't want to just let it slide, so we're doing it now! Starting with this post, the pre-recorded livestream is up on our store page, and it's going to stay up for a while. Consider it the after-party: Come hang out, watch the game in motion, and see what all the fuss (and the ring of fire) is about. Stream is done by me, Tecumseh writer of the game (aka the person that might have popped up up on your social media feed).
If you played the demo during the festival (or watched my clumsy first attempt at a lets play in the livestream xD), we'd love to hear from you! What did you like? What confused you? Which ending did you get? Every bit of feedback goes straight into the next update (or to the "next" fest👀)!
Thanks for reading! If you read this far: Albrechts sprites almost upon us, hope your into ginger baddies x)
-Andre from Klabautermann Games