work, love and three shoutouts
about 3 years ago
– Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 02:49:55 AM
Hello friends!
We hope all of you are doing well.
We are very busy at the moment, working to reach a big milestone at the end of May. We're looking forward to tell you all about it and share some cool new stuff with you when the time comes. 😏
Also our composer Michel Barengo is working on our soundtrack! We are really lucky to collaborate with such a professionally and personally awesome guy!
He also did some fun bits like the Russian tower song aka the Kalinka:
You can check him out here:
https://www.michelbarengo.com/
or here:
https://michelbarengo.bandcamp.com/
While tinkering with the credits, we thought back to all the wonderful people that are supporting us on this adventure (first and foremost you of course 😘) and we see time and time again that making games is truly a collaborative effort.
Not just the team is involved, but also all the people we poked for game dev or business advice, all the mentors, teachers, collegues and speakers we learned from, all the organizations and generous people that believed in our team and our game and helped us financially, all the kind words and feedback we got from players and testers... It's truly amazing! ❤️
Without ALL of you, Letters would have never been the game that it is now and we feel so lucky to be on this journey with you.
Shout out number 1
Today we want to show you a game that you will surely LOVE!
Our friend Mark and his awesome team have released Lost Words: Beyond the Page on Steam!
It's an atmospheric narrative adventure written by Rhianna Pratchett. Set between the pages of a diary and a fantasy story where you run on words and use them to interact with the world around you.
You can get it here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/599610/Lost_Words_Beyond_the_Page/
(Optional: If you get the game, say hi to Mark in the steam comments! 😉)
Shout out Number 2
Two Swiss games have just been released! 🎈
First we have Mundaun, a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of the alps.
Explore the mysterious mountain world, survive hostile encounters and solve a variety of hand-crafted puzzles.
It's also 25% off until April 27th so go get it now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/720350/Mundaun/
(Martina* agrees that this is the TRUE Swiss mountain experience!)
(*She is very biased because she hates mountains...)
Shout out number 3
The other Swiss game is very colorful, very fast and a lot of fun.
Bämeräng is a fast paced boomerang fighting game for two to four players. Fight for the favor of the goddess in an outlandish, colorful world in this local multiplayer game.
It will be released in just a couple of hours so go get it while it's fresh:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1236490/Bamerang/
If you're interested in more news about Letters' development follow us on social media, join our Discord and don't forget to wishlist the game on Steam!
All the best,
Aleksandra, Martina & Selina
Mind-blowing levels and huge monsters!
about 3 years ago
– Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 03:18:13 AM
Hi pals!
Spring is slowly coming to Switzerland and we got to enjoy a couple of very sunny and warm weeks here. How is the weather on your side?
We're currently working on the very last level of Letters, an epilogue-level. It's a bit mind-blowing to connect all of the decisions and predict how they affected Sarah's life and the people around her. Remember we decided to expand the decision tree? Huh, now one small part of the level has over 15 possible variants, not very common for a short narrative game. We're very happy we did it and hope you will enjoy the replayability of Letters!
We made a lot of progress in the last month. Selina got to draw and animate huge monsters for one of the levels. There are a number of them, actually! But don't worry about Sarah too much, the monsters in Letters are more needy than scary.
The pun contest on our Discord server is going well. We're very exited how much love and wit people put in their puns. Here are couple of the last ones:
Shout out!
Look what we found on Kickstarter 😍 Beacon Pines is a very cute, but also a bit spooky game, where words matter!
They are in the last 5 hours on Kickstarter, so hurry up to check them out.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103234672/beacon-pines
If you're interested in more news about Letters' development follow us on social media, join our Discord and don't forget to wishlist the game on Steam!
All the best,
Aleksandra, Martina & Selina
Some news
about 3 years ago
– Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 02:11:34 AM
Hi pals!
We hope you all had a good start into the new year and are safe and sound.
This will be a bittersweet update. Remember these two natural enemies of indie devs, we wrote you about in the “Risks and challenges” part of our campaign description? The first one was money, and we managed to handle this one so far, but the second one - time - was trickier than we thought.
We’re sorry to inform you that the Letters release is postponed till late 2021. The main reason is our...creativity? We decided to go out of our initial scope and add more soul, story and depth to Sarah’s letters. It’s indeed very sad that we’re not busy with the release preparation madness right now as it was initially planned. But Letters is so much better now and we truly can’t wait for you to finally experience the game!
We promise to deliver you a beautiful, polished and fun game. It will just take a bit longer than expected. We’re open to all of your questions, so please contact us if you’re worried about the project’s progress or your reward status. But don't worry, you will get what you paid for eventually! As usual we will continue to post monthly updates and show you some of the latest features we’re working on.
Here is a “we’re very sorry that we’re not ready” gif
Soo, to the development news!
All of the characters using the chat in the adolescence levels can really express themselves now! They can be angry, sad, surprised, cheeky and many more.
Here are a couple of examples:
There is a whole bunch of new assets and drawings, which we don’t want to spoil too much. From tiny birds to giant Pufferfishes 🐡
But please enjoy this ehh…a spiritual leader with wind in his hair:
Talking about the wind...We now indeed have wind in Letters! You will need to play the game till the last level to find out why it suddenly became so windy. 💨
We’re also working on refining some effects. It’s a lot of fun! This is the updated effect for words, that fly out of range:
If you're interested in more news about Letters' development follow us on social media, join our Discord and don't forget to wishlist the game on Steam!
All the best,
Aleksandra, Martina & Selina
Happy Winter Holidays!
over 3 years ago
– Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 02:50:56 AM
Hi, friends!
This is no secret 2020 was pretty challenging for literally everyone in the world, we hope you're doing well and the next year will be a bit less of a challenge. And one good thing is that the Letters release is happening next year 😉
Our Discord community came up with a great Xmas pun, we hope this brightens your day a bit.
Our team is about to take some days off to be fit and ready for the development in the new year.
We wish you and your loved ones safe and happy holidays!
All the best,
Aleksandra, Martina & Selina
Happy Kickstarterversary!
over 3 years ago
– Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 02:10:20 PM
Hi, pals!
Can you believe it's already been a year since our Kickstarter campaign was funded? And what a year it was, huh. You're the best backers in the world and we hope you're all doing well 😀
Development news
Over the last weeks we've been working on the "chat" system in the Adolescence chapter. The goal was to make the interaction with the chat more dynamic and fun, it also helps players to stay more engaged with the story. So, now the portraits in the chat have emotions!
Here is a closer look at Sarah's profile image:
And this is how it looks in-game:
We hope players will better understand who is speaking and what they feel than before. What do you think? 🙃
Discord news
Back in September we started to hold pun contests in our Discord server and our little community came up with some really nice puns. Small gifs with winning puns were created and posted on social media.
We're starting the next round today and the theme is "Christmas". So, hurry up, join our Discord and blow us away with your Christmas puns. We will include the winning pun in the next Kickstarter Update 😉
But for now, take a look at a couple of our favorite puns:
If you're interested in more news about Letters' development follow us on social media, join our Discord and don't forget to wishlist the game on Steam!
All the best,
Aleksandra, Martina & Selina
