Romancelvania

Happy Valentine's Day!!!
about 5 years ago – Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 07:40:09 PM

It’s update o’clock!

January was a busy month and we wanted to share some new content with you! As Grim would say, “Spill that tea!”

Backerkit info:

First off we wanted to communicate to the Backerkit backers super quick (KS people, you don’t need to read this section). We will tentatively be collecting your pledge funds in the next two or three weeks. Moving forward we will charge any Backerkit orders at the time of checkout. We will also communicate this through our social media channels and Discord right before we deduct the funds. Thank you for your support and patience! If anything should change. Keep an eye out here or any of our social media channels.

Confessionals!

We all know the best part of reality tv shows is the juicy drama/secrets that come from the confession booth! Well saddle up and get ready for one hell of a ride, because we have so many secrets to divulge through our confession booth! This is just one of our new narrative tools that we will be introducing in the game and that will empower us to tell a fresh story in a unique way. 

Romancelvania’s confession booth serves as a save room and health replenisher all throughout the world. Once you step in the confessional booth you will hear the outrageous testimony from cast members. 

Combat Updates

We have been spending a bunch of time making our gameplay and combat really pop. This has involved adding TONS of new sounds, adjusting most every animation, rebalancing attacks, and adding new enemies.

One we are currently working on is our Bone Wizards (final name tba). These faceless mages levitate, teleport and summon a variety of ranged attacks. They're going to drive Drac to leverage their ranged toolset - which is also something we are working on (more on new Tricks next update!)

Lots of progress overall and a lot of systems being implemented for real (rather than prototyped). This includes boring things like XP, status effects and other RPG nerdery we love. 

We thought you'd like to hear more about some of our characters, so...

We will get into more details on the character of your choice in our next update and in Discord. 

Hope you all have a LOVELY Valentine's Day! We sure are stoked to be celebrating our new love. :)

Happy holidays to the amazing Romancelvania community!
over 5 years ago – Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 10:43:55 AM

We wanted to take a moment and update you on a few things!

First off we want to welcome all the wonderful BackerKit backers to our community! We are so happy to have you along for the ride! We do want to communicate a few things just to the BackerKit preorder store backers. (Kickstarter backers you can skip ahead***). We at the moment are not collecting funds from your purchases, but we promise your orders are live. We will be collecting funds some time after the holidays. We will send out an update here on Kickstarter and our social media pages to give you a heads up on when we will collect, so make sure to check in :)

We also added the perks name in the credits and access to our private discord channel to anyone who orders the digital or physical copies on the Backerkit pre-order store. We are working to streamline the process with Backerkit on collecting information for fulfillment. We appreciate your patience and assure you we see all your orders. It makes us smile everyday!

***OK now I am talking to our Kickstarter backers. I know some of you may be expecting surveys, but we are going to send those out later in 2021. We know there is time between now and when we release Romancelvania so no need to send those out just yet. We want to make sure everything is perfect!

Ok so now onto the super fun stuff! Our art team has been working a bit on the game’s look. One piece of feedback we got was that the character portraits and the in-game models were inconsistent. This was by design, however, given the feedback, we thought we should revisit it. We wanted to share a shot of our progress and would love to hear your thoughts! Hop on into our Discord and let us know! We want to make the best game possible for you, the fans and would love your feedback!

Before and after; A work-in-progress glimpse at some of the modifications we are playing with.

We have been putting a lot of work into a lot of our core game - the camera, the depth of field, animations, etc. In short, we’re looking for lots of polish as we continue to plan for a big 2021.

As 2020 comes to an end, we know just how challenging the year has been for so many. We truly feel honored that each and everyone of you has supported our dream! We wish you all the most wonderful and healthy holiday season! If you have any questions hit us up here, on social media, on Discord or at [email protected]

Lovers of the Night,

The Deep End Games

Thankful for you all!
over 5 years ago – Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 11:06:23 PM

Hard to believe that it's been almost a week since we all geared up and created such a mind-blowing rally. We have not stopped gushing about what an amazing ride that was. We're elated that we were able to find such a passionate audience.

Over the past week, we have spent a bit of time recovering from that final push (and a month of super hard work!) We have also been planning, organizing feedback, talking with partners to help make the best game possible, and just gearing up again. 

A bit about Fenton

We thought about the spirit of giving thanks and thought it would be a good time to talk a little bit about Fenton, our Were-Human. That's right, though he may appear to be a werewolf, he is actually a wolf who is cursed with a human form. Under the right conditions, Sully, Fenton's alter-ego comes out. And when he does, all hell breaks loose. More on Sully down the road. With all our characters, we like to take the tropes you're used to, add a bit, but also twist a bunch. We're never satisfied with telling the same old story. While we draw from all sorts of inspirations, we do our best to enrich the world and its inhabitants. 

Let's take a look at some of Nat Kay Cochrane's concepts for Fenton's home turf, a place we have called "The Scentual Subterrain".

We will have a lot more on Fenton, Sully, and all our characters down the line.

Backer Kit

Logistically, we have had a few people ask for friends if they can still be part of the campaign. It took us a little bit, but we did create a Backer Kit page to allow for late pledges. We are still working out the kinks in a lot of it, so bear with us. You can take a look here.

And speaking of Backer Kit, we are excited to have them as partners to help with fulfillment. We will work with them to send out all your codes and physical goods. Best of all, should you need to do something like adjust platforms, or add on items, you can do that when our surveys go out down the line.

Our goal is to keep you up-to-date on development. We plan on sending updates once a month, with lots of additional concepts, screens, etc to appear in our Discord server. 

Fan Art!!!!

Speaking of, we have already had a ton of AMAZING feedback, conversations, and even some mindblowing fan-art. I have to say, this is one of the most exciting aspects of working on this game so far. The energy that goes into creating these pieces really inspires us.

We plan on sharing a lot of this art on our social media, updates, etc. For now, take a look at MissInfected's GOURDgeous (apologies for the awful pun) P.S. Elle art.

We cannot believe we did it. It blows our minds how we beat every expectation and overcame every odd. And we could not have done it without you all supporting us, cheering us on, and giving us hope. And for that, Drac is thankful. 

Love, passion, grit, determination, and community
over 5 years ago – Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 01:56:13 PM

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WE DID IT!
over 5 years ago – Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 01:55:07 PM

That's the update. We actually did it and it's all thanks to YOU.

Lots to talk about, plan, celebrate, and create, but for now, know that we will be thanking you all for a long time coming. 

Today you have made dreams come true!