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The coming Great War threatens the surety of the Empire only less than the death of Emperor Franz Josef-and to protect Austria from that inevitable fallout, Prinz Friedrich von Tegen plots to install doppelganger on the empty throne. Two, even though we do consider the release timeframe reasonable, we wanted to give ourselves that extra motivating kick in the ass.Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria erupts into political chaos. One, we’ve had enough of the whispers claiming this game does not exist, even if they were in jest. If you wonder why we did not keep on being coy about the release date, then, it’s for two reasons. It’s not like it never happened to anybody before *cough* Or we just may have underestimated the amount of work needed for the EA release. Investors, platform holders, distributors or publishers may change our plans. It’s as solid as game development allows. Okay, but that fourth quarter is solid, right? Of course, we won’t keep it a secret forever, but hey, it’s only January.

So even though this timeframe does look reasonable to us, we don’t want to make fools of ourselves and commit to a particular day and month.

And we’re not 100% certain it’s achievable. After the countless delays of countless games, we don’t think it makes a lick of sense to name a day unless you’re 100% certain it’s achievable. We feel like being more specific than a quarter is pointless at this moment. We need to make sure we deliver on both fronts.īut why say the quarter and not the month? Players no longer tolerate bugs, and they expect many, many joyous hours of play.

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We’re looking to how Hades or Dead Cells or Risk of Rain 2 or other notable roguelites did it, and will most likely combine elements of these paths to reach the full release.ĭespite releasing in EA first, it’s still a big challenge for a team like ours. A game with world-building and lore, but heavily focused on the roguelite gameplay loop. How exactly would EA work for a game like Bulletstorm or The Vanishing of Ethan Carter?īut it makes total sense for Witchfire. Why Early Access? Well, this is something that never made any sense for basically any games we’ve worked on before. PC, Early Access, fourth quarter of 2022. But, at least for now, we’re totally fine with the latter. Our persistence layer is big enough for us to consider calling the game a dark fantasy RPG shooter instead of dark fantasy roguelite shooter.

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Meanwhile, roguelites are saying: “when you die, we do punish you for it, but we also let you keep some stuff so you can unlock and upgrade cool shit that might help you in the future.” To sum it up, hard-core roguelikes are saying: “when you die, you lose everything, but hopefully you also learn a lesson”. In Dead Cells, you can keep some of the gold instead of losing it all and all the unlocks are persistent. In Returnal, you lose your personal upgrades but not the upgrades on the guns. In human language it means that you don’t lose everything when you die.Ī few examples from some better known roguelites… In Hades, you lose gold but keep gems, keys, and many other things that allow you to upgrade your hero and weapons. No wonder, literally just a letter of difference.įrom our perspective, the best reason we found to call a game a roguelite is a certain level of forgiveness, usually in the form of the so-called persistence layer. The second kind is more or less anything that vaguely resembles a roguelike.īut in real life, we’ve seen roguelites called roguelikes and vice versa. Meaning features like “procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death” are obligatory. Theoretically, the first kind is just like a certain ancient game called Rogue. There are rogue like games, and rogue lite games. For now, let’s focus on why we call Witchfire a “roguelite”. I am using it here as a vague reminder of what the game is.

That is our current logline (a brief summary of the game that shows the main theme, character and conflict). Witchfire is a dark fantasy roguelite shooter from the creators of Painkiller, Bulletstorm, and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. There are some juicy bits of info in that section, indeed.Īrmed with strange weapons and forbidden pagan magic, hunt a powerful witch holding the key to your salvation. And then it’s time for a fat Q&A session, the biggest we’ve ever done. We will discuss the release date, a certain core feature of the game, and the fandom. ' A Date, a Feature, an Indie Drama and the Biggest Q&A Yet!Īlso, images and videos from the yesterday's build

Remember that cryptic teaser from 4 years ago?īesides a few WIP snippets, irregular dev blog posts, as well as appearances at smaller conventions the project went rather quiet since then.