Dear subscribers, watching the development of the "Crown"!
We realized once again that we don’t have enough time to finish the game by the scheduled date (we postponed the release for March the last time). Fortunately, our enthusiasm has not gone anywhere, but, on the contrary, has only intensified, and thanks to our subscribers and patrons, we are increasingly devoting more time to working on the "Crown".
Characters are becoming more detailed and elaborated, the game world is developing, new concepts and secrets are being added, and the plot is branching in the most unexpected ways even for us. Sometimes we have to rewrite the dialogues, and the part of the plot, which was finishes some months ago, disappears, and we are thrown back for a few steps. But now we understand more what we are doing and what is the exact story we write, so the end of the first chapter is just around the corner. Not in March, of course. But not in ten years.
Of course, we could accelerate, and finish the game "as is", to make a re-release after. But the loose, hastily-written plot will surely cause your discontent, and we will immediately have a great desire to correct something and rewrite it, and this usually does not end well with anything. In the end, players become confused with the story.
We decided to get rid of puzzles (this isn’t our strong side, and we don’t know why we even started this). Instead, we will concentrate on in-game riddles and simple ciphers, the solution of which will depend solely on your attentiveness. There will be plot riddles - they can be missed if you are completely focused on the main story and the lore - and there will be side and optional riddles that open the ways to secret branches.
(For us, it was a big surprise that many people did not find cookie in the game. We can only advise you to look more closely at locations and do not forget to go back to where you were already – something may suddenly change! In the full version of the game, we plan to revitalize the environment, so it will react to your actions and change during the plot, so don’t miss it :>)
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Of course, there is a great risk to raise the bar once again and improve the game ONCE AGAIN - for example, to make more background animations and etc, etc, but then the game will be done in many years only. We are grateful to people for their feedback on the new demo, as well as their wishes, which help the game to develop. Unfortunately, we can not fulfil all the wishes, so we are only working with things people mention the most, like: mark the scanned tags in the locations, loop the background music, increase the speed of scrolling in the panoramas.
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The next approximate release date is October 2018.
Also we were going to shorten the first episode a little to speed up the work. Accordingly, the price for it, too, will be less, and it will cost somewhere around 200 rubles (4-5 dollars).
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Keep following the Crown! To celebrate the new release date, we will soon share new concepts, backgrounds and sprites with you.