Gods of the Twilight News

We're continuing to add hand-drawn background art to replace the Unreal-rendered backgrounds we initially used!

We're working mostly chronologically through the game, so you can see updated intro dream visuals for Farkas, and updated visuals for Althea's home.

On the development side, we just completed the beta version of Chapter 6 and are moving forward with getting the rest of the next episodic release into beta as well.

A few updates, including:

Autosaves!
- The game will automatically save at each story choice and at the beginning of each chapter.
- There is a page on the Save and Load menus dedicated to autosaves.

New background art!
- We are gradually replacing our 3D-rendered environment art with hand-drawn art.
- The first background image replaced is your bedroom when playing as Althea. It's now much more specific to her as a character.

A collection of updates and fixes, including:

• The ability to set custom names for save files, making it easier to explore story branches
  
• Greater sound effect diversity (footstep sounds depend on terrain type)
  
• Typo fixes
  

As always, if you run into any issues, we love to receive feedback via:
Discord: https://discord.gg/cWRmscgemr

Twitter: https://twitter.com/godsoftwilight

email: [email protected]

We rooted out the remaining causes of a rare bug where unexpected character portraits would flash in the lower left corner of the screen during the transitions between lines of dialog or narration.

As mentioned in the previous hotfix, this bug became more and more rare as we took more precautions, but it was hard to be sure if it was gone because it was inconsistent, rare, and difficult to reproduce. But now, thanks to a save file that a player sent us where the bug had appeared, we were able to do extensive troubleshooting and come up with a fix that should eliminate the bug from existing bugged saves as well as prevent it from appearing again.

As a heads up, if you load a save file and find that it rolls you back to the beginning of the current chapter, this is a known issue with a recent update that had a (hopefully mild) effect on save compatibility if you open a save from before the update. Hopefully using Skip will quickly fast-forward you back to where you were, but apologies for the inconvenience! Updates going forward shouldn't cause this.

As always, if you run into any issues, we love to receive feedback via:
Discord: https://discord.gg/cWRmscgemr

Twitter: https://twitter.com/godsoftwilight

email: [email protected]

The glitch we mentioned in this previous announcement appears to be very rare but may still occur! It appears to be a long-standing issue with the game engine we use, which happens so rarely that it's been difficult to root out since we can't reliably reproduce it. We have an issue open with the engine's devs to resolve it, so all bug reports from users will help with that!

In the meantime, we've found that the glitch is gone if you start a new game and fast-forward using Skip back to where you left off. Apologies for the inconvenience--We'll update with announcements here as we continue to troubleshoot.

There was another bug reported where loading a save file would roll the game back to the beginning of the chapter. This can happen after Chapter 0 with saves made before a recent update to the game, when they are opened after that update. This shouldn't happen with saves made from now on.

If anyone runs into issues, we love to receive feedback via:
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email: [email protected]