[Vampire+ Release] Version 0.20.5b TECH DEMO

Hello everyone, Corintio here!

Today we have another demo for you. If you played the last one, you'll feel the level design improvements and see that we're adding new areas to Kalysakh's temple. Also, there's a new NPC with a dialogue that you can see in the video above.

This might be the last release we'll call a tech demo. The reason why is that in august, we plan to get the voice lines for several of the dialogues already written, in a milestone that we'll call Context.

I'll delve into more details for the Prologue in a later post or a video. But the basics are that we'll be splitting it into milestones: Context, Sandbox, Quest, and Conclusion.

The Context we plan to release in august will have the new intro of the game and some dialogues Kalyskah can have with her allies, helping players understand what is happening around her.

Sandbox will be where we'll start adding some modular events and the new NPC schedule system. Quest is when we'll add consequences to how she approaches the modular events, and finally, the Conclusion will be the final arc of the Prologue that will lead to the game you already know.

With that said, the current release will be called "tech demo", but it will be called Prologue next month forward!

Now for the changelog:

Fixes

• Tweaked the simple spawner so enemies won’t spawn on odd places as often as before.
• Fixed female Hexblades switching to a male body with broken skin when a sex scene started
• FIXED ON VERSION B: Fixed Kalyskah not saving her appearance properly

Enhancements

• Changed the algorithm in the abstraction data of NPCs.
• Setting up level detection for all maps: This makes that when an NPC enters an area of the level that is unloaded, they are disabled until the area is reloaded. Useful since now we’re using world composition.
• Improved the vegetation: Leaves and grass will now move with the wind.
• Added more areas to the University part of Kalyskah’s temple
• Updated materials of assets so they are lighter on the memory
• Integrated data abstraction between what Henri has done and the Boost Component we use.
• Improvements on Merishya’s skin (Especially on the tail) and also removed the pentagram from her armour (It had a really stretched texture). But uh.. her armour can’t be seen yet because she’ll only show up again when we’re done with the prologue story and read the former content.
• Improved vampire teeth of the female Hexblades

Features

• Added Galena to the prologue area with some dialogue lines
• Added a placeholder of Amara. Once we’re done reviewing her face, we’ll make a post showing it here.
• +Tons of other improvements on how we handle AI are too technical for us to add to the changelog.

Download

If you are not a patron, you can download the public demo by following this LINK. But we recommend you to get it through the itch app since it will auto-update the game when you have a new version to download.

Follow these instructions if you are a patron, you can download the game following these instructions:

VAMPIRE and ROYAL BLOOD: Link your account HERE, and download the game HERE.