Revita - Newsletter July 2021
Hi everyone!
Here is the second Revita Newsletter! We hope you'll enjoy it and as always feel free to give us any feedback you might have in the comments section! Is there anything in particular you want to know for the August one?
In July, we had to hide many things from the community because we really want to avoid spoilers for the upcoming update. To see all the surprised reactions with each update is one of the best moments of game development, so we wouldn't want to ruin that! However, here is a small overview of what happened in July!
In July, we made a hat design contest on our discord! 52 players suggested their very creative design for the past two weeks. It was super nice for the dev team to see all the suggestions and debates about it!
The winning suggestion of the Hat Design Competition is... the TV based on the Gazing Grove area made by Amari! This design will be implemented into the game in the next big update!
Thank you for your participation. You all did a great job!
In case you missed it, you can now access to the Beta Branch and test the very first beta build! You'll find every detail here.
If you want to, you still can give us your feedback and suggestions on our Discord! 🙏
Hi, hello, Ben here!
July has been a busy, busy month. Between releasing our newest beta which drastically overhauls how relics are selected, to all the new stuff we have been working on for the upcoming [NAME PENDING] Update. :P
Some of those things we have already been teasing on our social medias!
One of the big new features coming to the next Update are the Daily and Weekly Challenges and a whole bunch of stuff surrounding them that I don't want to talk about... yet. But if you have been following our social medias you might have already figured out some of the hidden details
We have also teased that we are trying to add more room variation into the mix by adding very small rooms among other new room generation types, so get scared. :P
With that all out of the way, I hope you are looking forward to whats coming soon. As we get closer and closer to the release of the next update, we'll be teasing more and more new stuff on our social media, so don't forget to follow us there if you wanna stay up to date on whats coming to the game!
Either way, it's time for me to head back to work, we got an update to finish :P
Working on Revita is always a ton of fun. For those of you process junkies out there, Ben and I spend most of every Tuesday brainstorming and breaking story, and then I spend the rest of the week developing material.
That material covers everything from actual in-game dialogue to the underpinning story beats that drive the Child on their journey through Revita. Often, we focus on the specifics of how we want to roll them out to you and the delivery method. Is it an NPC or a Journal entry? Who knows? Sometimes we decide to throw something into the background and hope you all see it…
I could tell you more, but the community team has instructed me to avoid spoilers at all costs.
Hey friends!
This month, I composed quite a few new tracks for Revita, some of which were actually pretty challenging to make. For spoiler reasons I obviously can't go into detail, but let me give you some information at least, what has been going on:
One of the new songs has a live-recorded acoustic guitar in it, something I have been wanting to record and include in a tune for quite a while now! Another track has a bunch of electric guitar tracks in it and oh boy, I can't wait for you all to hear that one once the next update goes live! But perhaps the hardest challenge this month was taking a fairly old Revita tune that both you and I have listened to dozens of times by now, and completely rearranging it into a new song. I have never really done such a thing before but I hope it turned out pretty good and, once you hear it, you will go „Hey, that sounds familiar!“.
You will be able to hear the new songs, once the update drops, both in-game and as the first extension of the original soundtrack, which will extend from 26 songs to at least 30. Thank you all so much for your huge interest not only in the game itself but also the original soundtrack. This motivates me to put even more effort into future songs! =D
The next step is the big upcoming update. BenStar and all the artist are working hard on it! You can follow us on Twitter and join our Discord. We talk about it and we show some sneekpeaks sometimes!
You can also follow our team on Twitter :
We wanted to thank you a lot for you support. All your feedback, ideas, suggestions, comments or likes really help us and encourage us. Thank you for everything.
See you soon!
