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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut News
More Demo Optimizations
Hey folks!
We just patched the Slay the Princess demo with another round of significant performance optimizations. It's worth noting that these optimizations required us to refactor the demo's file structure, so the patch for this requires you to effectively redownload the entire package.
High level notes:
In non-patch news, both Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow are going to be participating in several excited Steam events over the next week, and Scarlet Hollow is going to be 20% off starting tomorrow at 1pm EST. So if you've been waiting on a sale to pick it up, this'll be the sale to jump on.
Development work of Episode 4 of Scarlet Hollow is trucking along, and we're still hoping to have it finished and released by Halloween, after which our focus will be on Slay the Princess until the game is ready to launch next summer.
Thank you so much for the support!
~Tony and Abby
We just patched the Slay the Princess demo with another round of significant performance optimizations. It's worth noting that these optimizations required us to refactor the demo's file structure, so the patch for this requires you to effectively redownload the entire package.
High level notes:
- Changed animation file container from .webm to .ogg, making CPU usage more fficient.
- Did away with a file archiving structure that caused significant framerate drops on windows machines.
In non-patch news, both Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow are going to be participating in several excited Steam events over the next week, and Scarlet Hollow is going to be 20% off starting tomorrow at 1pm EST. So if you've been waiting on a sale to pick it up, this'll be the sale to jump on.
Development work of Episode 4 of Scarlet Hollow is trucking along, and we're still hoping to have it finished and released by Halloween, after which our focus will be on Slay the Princess until the game is ready to launch next summer.
Thank you so much for the support!
~Tony and Abby
Slay the Princess Q&A Live Stream!
Hi everyone!
We're going to be doing a special Q&A livestream tomorrow, August 28th, at 6pm EST on our Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/black_tabby_games
We'll be playing Phasmophobia while taking your questions, and we'll be joined by Nichole Goodnight (Princess VA) and Brandon Boone (composer)
Here's the details:
Hope to see you there!
We're going to be doing a special Q&A livestream tomorrow, August 28th, at 6pm EST on our Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/black_tabby_games
We'll be playing Phasmophobia while taking your questions, and we'll be joined by Nichole Goodnight (Princess VA) and Brandon Boone (composer)
Here's the details:
Hope to see you there!
Slay the Princess Demo Survey
Hey folks!
It's been about a week since the demo came out, so we wanted to put out a survey to get a sense of how players progressed through the story and what they're most excited to see in the full version of the game!
You can fill it out here: https://forms.gle/p8CWgbRMZCX5muN86
Thank you so much! We're excited to share more with you in the coming months!
~Tony and Abby
ps Scarlet Hollow, our other project is also 20% off until Monday, which is as cheap as it'll get before it leaves early access!
It's been about a week since the demo came out, so we wanted to put out a survey to get a sense of how players progressed through the story and what they're most excited to see in the full version of the game!
You can fill it out here: https://forms.gle/p8CWgbRMZCX5muN86
Thank you so much! We're excited to share more with you in the coming months!
~Tony and Abby
ps Scarlet Hollow, our other project is also 20% off until Monday, which is as cheap as it'll get before it leaves early access!
8/5 Demo Update - Performance Optimizations
Hi everyone!
Apologies for the new download - we've just just finished re-rendering every animation in the demo to help make the game more CPU efficient, which means every animation needs to be re-downloaded for this new patch. At least on the machine we've used for development, this update should reduce CPU usage from between 50% to 2/3 with minimal loss of visual quality.
It's possible that some older machines might still struggle with the load of layered HD animations, but as of yesterday's patch, the game now also has a toggle to turn those animations off in the options menu, at which point it should be no more resource intensive than any other visual novel.
Cheers,
Tony and Abby
Apologies for the new download - we've just just finished re-rendering every animation in the demo to help make the game more CPU efficient, which means every animation needs to be re-downloaded for this new patch. At least on the machine we've used for development, this update should reduce CPU usage from between 50% to 2/3 with minimal loss of visual quality.
It's possible that some older machines might still struggle with the load of layered HD animations, but as of yesterday's patch, the game now also has a toggle to turn those animations off in the options menu, at which point it should be no more resource intensive than any other visual novel.
Cheers,
Tony and Abby