A vampire, a bard and some news


Hello everyone, here we go for the quarterly devlog (with a little delay but it's for a good cause). Indeed, during March I participated to a game jam, the NaNoReno ! Our team created a complete game (about 2h-3h of gameplay). You can play it now on Itchio, I hope you'll like it, it's a romance type enemy to lover with a sassy bard MC and a bored vampire love interest


Coming back to Imperial Grace, here are the progress of the last three months.

- The demo has been updated, Click here to see the full list of changes.
- We participated in a special event on steam dedicated to women's week, it was super fun. The last day I did a stream where I answered questions and showed a little bit of how I code the sprites of the characters in the game. The video is available on Youtube
- We have been accepted on GOG.com which is a great honor because I really like their policy towards DRM. You can wishlist the game on this platform now!
- I worked a lot on the marketing, (I sorted out my billions of notes that had accumulated over time ahah), the biggest news of the moment is the creation of our tiktok account, you can now follow us there!
- Diplomacy has finally been organized in a form that I think is definitive. I think I finally found a good balance between narrative and management and most of the factions within each country have been written and organized.

- We have resume the proofreading of the french scenes

That’s all for this devlog! I still have some busy week because of the game jam (we have an update plan + I accepted a few design commission) but I will soon resume the writing in hardcore mode. I really want to finish the french script for the end of the year, will see <3


Thanks for your support, if you have any questions feel free to answer this mail or to reach me on discord <3

Ayael

Files

ImperialGraceDemo-2.0-mac.zip 181 MB
Apr 06, 2022
ImperialGraceDemo-2.0-pc.zip 215 MB
Apr 06, 2022

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Absolutely adored this demo!! I'm sad the final game won't be out for at least another year, but I can't contain my excitement for the final product! Normally, I would stay away from these types of VNs since most of the choices make me stress out more instead of enjoying the game-play (looking at you Long Live the Queen lol) but this one made me feel like my choices mattered and carry the story. So well done! 

Ah, the trauma of Long Live the Queen, I get it XD I enjoyed this game, but it's true sometime it's more "guess what stat you need to raise in order to survive" than actual choices. If it can appease you, just know that in Imperial Grace, I always warn the player through your advisors if you are about to make a potential bad decision XD Also usually, it's a serie of bad decision not just one who lead to your doom! 

Thank you for you comment, I can't wait to deliver the full game and see how everyone play <3

I've dowloaded the latest demo today and have met two problems: any time I tried to save a file further than the first page, it would give me an exception , which fortunately I could choose to ignore, save and keep playing, but after day 42 anytime I try to save it gives an exception I can't ignore, making me unable to save the game. Please take a look into it. I could send you the exception log in case you need it. 

Oh o_O I double check on my hand and it seems to work, I think the log, screenshots etc. would be helpful, I am sorry I will look into this as soon as I can

thank you, how could I send you the log? I've been looking for a mail contact and I can't find one.

Sorry our mail is contact[at]synstoria.com, can you also send the save folder? (game  > saves) it might help too. 

BTW, if anyone else, has the same problem, don't hesitate to share your logs, screenshot etc. 

Love the Tiktok! What program/how did you make those videos?

All the videos are made on tiktok, some of the stuff are recorded using OBS, but mostly the tiktok app itself!