The Obsessive Shadow News

[h2]Hey all!

Some small changes were made to the demo!

- Implemented a Remade and Improved Enemy Character Model by Toby Davis
- Added a light indicating more clearly where the lights go out
- Implemented new animations by Toby Davis
- Replaced the old ending with a new improved Ending cutscene starring a special guest star 👀🧁

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Additionally, our studio website has been redone! Check it out at https://sleepydogstudios.net

Here's a behind the scenes look at the stalker!



And as always, here's our discord server if you wanna stay informed on the game:
https://discord.gg/Px6y39KkH4

Hope you all enjoy and thank you for your support!

Best,

Pablo Heckman
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Hello and Happy Halloween!

Spooky month is here; as promised, we have a big surprise! Today, we are finally able to say what that surprise is!

We have a new Halloween Demo with some spooky surprises available NOW on Meta Quest and Steam!

We also whipped up this cool teaser video to prepare you all!

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Here are the patch notes, but do be warned this does contain some SPOILERS for the new demo, so please read after playing if you want to avoid any sort of spoilers!

Halloween:
- Added Halloween decorations to the Menu Area
- Added a new Halloween variant of the Main Menu theme

Gameplay:
- The Flashlight no longer has to be shaken! Now you have to recharge it by keeping it off (you can toggle it on and off with the index trigger)
- Added battery percentage counter to flashlight to monitor your battery level.
- Added a new extended Intro Cutscene
- Reworked Ending Cutscene and added new music!

Visuals/Other:
- Updated Enemy Character look and gave it new animations
- Made the Flashlight a grabbable object you can pick up instead of locking it to the player's hand
- Made grabbable objects highlight green when in grabbing range to make it clear that they are grabbable
- Lights now flicker out instead of turning off instantly during the intro sequence
- Added a new 'quote' splash screen after hitting start before the level loads.
- Added player voice lines!
- Added Native 90hz Support, so the game now, by default, runs at 90fps!
- Rebaked lighting at a higher resolution so that it looks even better!
- Added doors to the door frames because why wouldn't a bedroom or bathroom have doors on them? (That's just weird).
- Updated Credits


We believe this demo reflects more of what we have been doing in the main game, but there is so much new content you will only be able to experience in the full game.

As always, thank you so much for your continued support, and we can't WAIT to deliver the full game as soon as it is ready for you all to play! Happy Halloween, and be sure to keep an eye on those windows :wink:

Hey everyone! It’s been a little bit since you’ve heard from us, but behind the scenes, the team is working very hard to give you guys the full release of The Obsessive Shadow!

I recently got to attend Meta Connect and got some good feedback on some new content you’ll see in the full release, it was a great time and everyone was super nice! We do have a big surprise this October however, so keep your eyes peeled and your flashlights on to look out for big news later this month ;)

We also have some really cool Fanart by
my good friend Kam that we wanted to share here!
You can support her art here!



If you want to stay up to date with the game and everything happening, Join our community on discord here!

Thank you for the continued support and we are very excited to share more soon!

Pablo H, Sleepy Dog Studios

The second Steam Next fest stream takes place Friday at 7:30pm EST (4:30pm PST).

Tune in to The Obsessive Shadow Steam page to watch the Stream, chat with us, and ask questions!

Join the Discord server here to join our community!

This one will also be live on our YouTube Channel!

Hope to see you there!