Hello everyone! 🌿
After a lot of work with the programming and design team, we have finished what we consider to be the final major update for the demo of The Voynich Project before fully moving into development of the complete game. ✨
The biggest addition in this update is the Character Diary, a new section inside the Gallery.
The Gallery is now divided into two tabs:
Scenes
Characters
In the Diary, you can collect and check the characters you meet throughout the story. At first, unknown characters will appear as mysterious silhouettes with “????” instead of their names. Their identities will only be revealed when the protagonist actually learns them in the story. 👀
Once a character is unlocked, you can open their individual profile, view their full illustration, and read different notes about them. These details are discovered as you progress, explore routes, and make important choices.
Not everything can be unlocked in a single playthrough. This update is designed to reward replayability, since some notes depend on your decisions, and your progress is saved permanently between playthroughs. 🎮
We also added an interaction bar for each character. In the demo, it is not meant to be fully completed, because there is still much more to discover in the full game. Basically, if the bar refuses to fill up, the mystery is doing its job. 👀✨
A new Steam achievement has also been added, related to completing the Character Diary content available in the demo. 🏆
Another important addition: Debby, the game’s tarot reader, finally has her furry version. 🐾🔮
Although Debby does not appear in the main story yet, you can already see her new version in the tarot minigame, available from the main menu. 🃏
And there is more: the Character Gallery now includes new hidden characters, who will become available when the full game is released. For now, they remain as small hints of what is coming next. 🌙
The Diary is fully compatible with both human mode and furry mode, so each character will appear according to the mode you have enabled.
All new content is prepared for the game’s six languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, Italian, and French. 🌎
Thank you so much for playing the demo, sharing feedback, and following the development of The Voynich Project. This update marks an important closing point for the demo, but also the beginning of a much bigger stage for the project. 🌿✨
