Matters of Shadow and Substance
Author: Arabella Dusk,
published 1 year ago,
Some fun announcements below, but first -
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If you like [i]BOOK OF HOURS[/i], vote for us in this year's Steam Awards! We're a husband and wife team making extremely niche, weird indie games, so we're very much an underdog here. But if you like weird, warped indie gems, please cast your vote for us. Thank you! ♥
[h1]Trading cards and Steam Points Shop[/h1]
We released Steam trading cards for [i]BOOK OF HOURS[/i] along with badges, backgrounds and emoticons! Check 'em out in the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/app/1028310]Points Shop[/url], and a gigantic pitcher of eigengrau to the first person who crafts the 'Librarian of Hush House' foil badge.
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[h1]Soundtrack coming soon[/h1]
I'm listening to it now! Mickymar Production's haunting soundtrack will be coming to Steam, GOG, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music and... probably some other places before the end of the year. It's a rich, lustrous OST and the perfect accompaniment to cold winter days, studying ancient grimoires and/or trying to get your pet snake to stop gnawing up the furniture. Good luck with that.
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[h1]Next up: DAYMARE[/h1]
[i]BOOK OF HOURS'[/i] next update will be DAYMARE. It's already on the beta branch and will be coming to main next week. Here are the confirmed headline features so far - there may be more but these are definite!
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[*] [b]Mail ordering some items[/b] (from Cater & Hero, and from TRN Ltd). Ordering from a catalogue will be a baroque and leisurely process. It'll reinforce Brancrug's remoteness, and it won't be trivial to top up supplies. But it'll fill some gaps and it'll add some flavour.
[*] [b]In-game shelf labels![/b] The Skolekosophy section? The Possibly Contaminated section? Unconfirmed Crafting Recipes? Useful Memories (though the book/Memory system may be coming up for a change)? Notes to yourself about who Janus is and who Hendrick was?
[*] [b]Some UI refresh stuff[/b] - e.g. what Lottie refers to as 'spiffing timers' to make workstations a bit prettier
[*] [b]Some more zoom tuning[/b] (restoring simultaneous arrow key movement and zoom-to, and I'll look at the zoom levels again)
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[i](WIP! Please do not take as the Final Thing.)[/i]
Once DAYMARE is live, we'll focus on [i]BOOK OF HOURS'[/i] first content expansion. (To confirm, this will be paid DLC, but [b]free to anyone with Perpetual Edition[/b].) You may still see some updates while we're working on that, and before the year is out we should have more details on what exactly will be included in this first new content update.
And finally - did we mention we love Christmas? Look out for something festive, starting 1st December. More from us then!
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