Dracula meets The Bachelor! Hot as Hades, funny as Hell. Team members from BioShock, Saint's Row, & Perception. PS4/PS5/Switch/PC/XBS
Note: Funds will be collected at the time of checkout. Orders are estimated to arrive down the road. We will keep posting updates to keep you informed.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Steam Next Fest AMA live stream with The Deep End Games tonight!
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 10:48:04 PM
Hey hey Romancelvania fans!
Tonight we’re going LIVE to talk all things Romancelvania & our lil demo! We’d love to meet you and answer your questions about our quirky little romp of a dating/platforming/action/parody game. If you have any burning questions you want answered make sure to drop a comment below and we will make sure to chat about it!
We wanted to thank all of you who have played and provided us feedback on the demo. This is a HUGE help to us, and we encourage you to send us any and all feedback. Much of your feedback has already been implemented and is already making for a better game! You can shoot us an email at [email protected] or hit up our Demo-Feedback channel on Discord.
Also, make sure to join our Discord backers only channel to get more insights and details on all things Romancelvania! Discord: https://discord.gg/ytPd3vp
If you forgot the secret password just ping Lindsay Gardner#0876 and she will get you all set!
As always, this little indie studio is grateful for your support!
Lindsay, Bill and Amanda.
P.S. In the coming weeks we will be sending out emails to those who have pledged to tiers that require collaboration with the Deep End Games. Keep an eye out for it! I will be coming from [email protected]
Happy Friday!!!!!!!!!!
Ready, Set, Action! Steam Next Fest Romancelvania Demo + New Teaser Trailer OUT NOW 🦇🧛🏻
over 1 year ago
– Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 04:11:11 AM
WOW, we are absolutely thrilled to announce that our demo will be LIVE at 1pm EST for the Steam NextFest. It’s not farfetched to say that we are so thankful for all the support and understanding patience we received from everyone to get to this moment. And now, we are one step closer to bringing Romancelvania to you!
Check out our official Romancelvania teaser trailer:
In our demo, you will be able to play the first chapter of Romancelvania for a “bite-sized” version of the experience we strive to deliver to you. To set the scene, you will play as a lovelorn, brooding Drac who, after a century of moping around, is thrown into a supernatural reality-dating show, hosted by the Grim Reaper (aka Grim) himself! Explore Drac’s castle, flirt with early dateable monsters, and fight against some of our outlandish baddies. With this demo, we hope you get a taste of the game’s concepts and mechanics that we have been lovingly brewing up.
Needless to say, Romancelvania is still in the "mist" of development and we’re actively polishing nearly every piece of the experience, and we welcome your feedback.
We’d love to have you help shape that experience, and share your feedback in a brief survey after your playthrough: https://bit.ly/RVBetaSurvey
And if after playing you find yourself hungry for more:
🖤 Please consider wishlisting if you haven't already. It really helps us spread the word and grows our community which ensures we can make the best game!
One more time, we want to express our appreciation to every single person who has supported us throughout the development of Romancelvania. We hope you enjoy playing the demo as much as we enjoyed crafting it.
If you have not yet, please follow our social media channels so you can stay up to date all things Romancelvania.
P.S. We will be doing a live stream here at The Deep End Games later this week so make sure to check it out! Details to come on our social media channels :)
You're gonna love what's coming...
over 1 year ago
– Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 03:30:46 AM
Monday.
Where Does the Time Go?
almost 2 years ago
– Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 07:23:35 PM
Wowowow. Can't believe it's been three months since we last updated. Profuse apologies! Lindsay will post stuff in the Discord channel from time-to-time, but we are TERRIBLE at updating our Kickstarter and for that I'm sorry. I imagine that when a project goes months without updates some of you get spooked. In our case, things are going AMAZINGINGLY well. Part of the reason we are slow on updates is that a) there is always a million things to do and b) I will often collect stuff for an update and get distracted - SQUIRREL! One of the drawbacks of being a small team taking on such a HUGE project. But despite hitting well outside of our weight class, this baby is really coming together!
I saw a few recent comments and realized I had to share some of the absurd number of updates, improvements, and breakthroughs we've had.
Here are a few key things to get hyped about:
Voice Talent!
Last week, we did our "final" recording of all our talent. We will most likely do some pickups down the line as we discover things that are unclear or could use some punching up. However, the voices in this game are far beyond anything I could have dreamed. First off, we haven't gotten an accurate count since we structured our scripts by the character, and it's all a bit interconnected, but we are looking at around 500 pages of script. There is soooooooo much dialogue in Romancelvania. And it's all voiced. I can't express how Herculean an effort this was. All throughout the process, we constantly asked: are we really going to try and pull this off? This many characters? This many dates? Yes!
After hearing it all, I can safely say this is the best cast I've ever worked with. We'll go through the full roster soon, but we are working with some talent we've worked with in the past (Nick Grava, Angela Morris!) and a bunch of new faces. You've all heard Zach Webber's sublime performance for (male) Drac. You're not going to believe our (female) Drac! We'll show that performance off in the near future.
Every role is nailed perfectly. We cast the absolutely brilliantly talented Ines Del Castillo as Medusa, who takes the role in a blissfully wild direction. Not to spoil anything, but we were originally not going to voice Dolce, our candycorn, but we liked Ines' performance so much, that we had her give Dolce a shot. After hearing her read 2 lines, we HAD to have her voice Dolce. I cannot wait for you to hear how delightfully weird Dolce is.
Just to give a taste of how supremely creative and talented Ines is, here is Ines doing complete improv. She had this idea that Medusa would talk to her snakes while alone. We loved the idea so much we had to run with it.
We are also doing all we can to get the game as awesome as possible on every platform. Recently, we got the game cranking on PS5 and it never ceases to amaze how magical it is to see your baby make its way to other platforms.
IT'S ALIIIIIIIVE!!!
Environments
We are at the exciting stage now where we are making further beautification passes on our levels. We have been focusing a lot on highlighting things like loot, key narrative points, and date locations. Note that screenshots are often a reason I don't push KS updates as much. I spend too long trying to find the right shots and then never being happy. So, here are a few super raw screens of some environments in progress.
Drac's castle is currently going through a "Gothification Pass"
First look at Thundercrack Hollow. Why is it called that? Hmmmmm....
Take in a mountain-side view on this date!
Narrative
While there's still no shortage of things to do, we are fortunate enough to have the resources to create tons of narrative assets to punch up the world. Recently, Jamie built the mysterious "Sloppy Jalopy". What's that? We'd love for you to guess!
What purpose does this pumpkin car serve? So weird.
Romancelvania has a lot of environments. We've talked about the Smashmounds and The Real Booty Bay a bit. But why would we need signs like these?
How in the heck does this all fit in?
Attacks
We haven't talked much about the Crystal system in RV. One cool thing you can do is you find these elemental Crystals in the world. You can slot them into your weapons to spice up combat. While equipped, these add various effects to your weapons. In the case of the Miasma Crystal, for example, you can poison enemies. And every time you swing, you'll leave a cool poison trail behind. Here's a quick look:
Mmmmmm...miasma-y!
2124+ Salem
Recently, our publishing partner 2124 came out to do some interviews about the game. More details on that stuff soon, but we spent the day shooting in Salem at a very appropriately themed location. We're still in the "about to get loud" phase of development. However, 2124 has some fantastic plans on the horizon to help get the word out about this game. We are extremely fortunate to have them as partners on this project. They get what we are trying to do, have supported us every step of the way, and continue to make the game better every day. We will be shouting their praise quite a bit in the future. Thank you for everything 2124!
We have a shot of the team (first time together for some of us!) but I suspect we may be at our update limit because it won't let me upload. :(
Magic Time
We are at the stage of development where the game speaks to us. Creative questions are usually easily resolved because of it. Things are clicking into place and every day, every check-in, the game improves by leaps and bounds. We have much left to do, but you could pierce the energy here with The Impaler (Drac's signature weapon).
We are actually doing this. When we Kickstarted this, we couldn't believe it was going to be reality. As the pieces click into place (some of them need a gentle bashing :P) we become increasingly convinced that this game is something special that the gaming world has no idea what is coming.
Surveys,Etc
We are still not ready to send out surveys yet. Still a number of logistics to figure out. We promise we'll be real loud when it's time and do what we can to make you all aware when it's time. Lindsay may be contacting some of you very soon for some specifics (if you had a Reward Tier that included content in-game). Hang tight on this, but don't worry if you haven't seen any surveys yet!
- Bill
Happy Valentines Day!
about 2 years ago
– Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 10:23:02 PM
Hey all!
We are loooong overdue for an update. Sorry for that, we just always seem to be doing something new and exciting and are always saying "wouldn't it be awesome to show this thing once we get this one last element." We couldn't let Valentine's Day pass without saying hello, here's where we're at, and how grateful we are.
We are a few weeks away from our Alpha milestone, which is HUGE. We pretty much have all the game's features done and will be able to focus on bug fixing, polish, and finding areas to improve to make this as special as it needs to be.
The past few weeks we have been putting the finishing touches on every character's arc, getting every weapon, pickup, power, and level to the feature complete state. Needless to say, it has been a wild ride. Wildest of all is the reality that this is really about to round third so we can head home. We have SO MUCH to do, but we are finally at the stage where it is enormously rewarding to come in every day and figure out the timing, the tuning, and the heart of things.
It's hard for us to process that every character is rigged and has animation and that everything we wanted to do is there in some form, whether it's near shipping quality or it needs a lot of work. It's pretty much all there and now we need to chisel the heck out of this thing.
Long story short, we owe you a series of big updates. I'm hoping to start in March, once we have this milestone behind us.
We would love to remind you to join our Discord channel if you are not a part of that community. We tend to get little updates out in the Romancelvania Backers channel. The link is: https://discord.gg/ytPd3vp If you don't remember the secret password you can always message a mod and they will get you in.
As always thank you for your support! We hope you all are having as great a Valentines day as Drac is with PS Elle!
