Razer x Masquerada
almost 8 years ago – Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:57:14 AM

Heya all, Ian here and I am quite excited to share that Razer dropped by the office on Tuesday and brought some goodies! Thanks, Joy and Mark! (Don't worry, Joy, I won't talk about your alcoholic tendencies on such a public platform!)

There's a good reason for all this, though! We will be working with Razer to implement Chroma support in Masquerada! Cooldowns, character swapping, pausing, the whole wazoo! Now in pretty lights! =D

Thank you so much for reaching out to us, Razer -- we really appreciate the support you guys are giving to local indies! Mmmm.. pretty lights.

Bonus:

So while we're working on everything in the game, I thought I'd share our sophisticated method of measurement we use to gauge size and scale in Masquerada.

 We're chugging along! I think Brian should have a dev post for you guys soon! Laters!

Paying it forward
almost 8 years ago – Tue, May 24, 2016 at 08:44:48 PM

Heya all, Ian here. I know I said it would be a while before you heard from me in my last update as I hand things over to Brian and Gareth, but I just found out that Arcadian Atlas is two days away from the end of their campaign but they haven't reached their funding goal yet. (Yes, I know, I live under a rock.) With Masquerada funded, I thought we should pay it forward and help however we can. I hope this little shout out does the trick!

I have personally backed this project. I'd love to see this funded.

If you grew up playing Final Fantasy: Tactics and Tactics Ogre, you'll love this!

Arcadian Atlas

Please help us spread the word and carry forward the good juju!

A final word before the end of the campaign
almost 8 years ago – Sun, May 22, 2016 at 06:34:20 PM

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There are many more people who made this campaign possible and I have every intention of thanking them properly!

Taking the reins
about 8 years ago – Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:51:57 AM

Hey everyone, 

Brian here, I'm Masquerada's executive producer (fancy name for the janitor) taking over the torch from Ian on dutiful Kickstarter updates, because heaven knows Ian and our team need to get this game done! The promise from Gareth and myself is to drop a nice parcel of interesting updates from the development floor at least once every two weeks. 

What do I do, besides doing the mundane back-of-house stuff like accounting and legal for Witching Hour? A ton of my time goes to getting Masquerada promoted on the international games convention circuit. Last year we presented the game to journalists and consumers at PAX East, E3, Gamescom, PAX Prime, Tokyo Game Show, Eurogamer Expo, and the PlayStation Experience. (For the Singaporeans in our audience, we also did home-ground shows at Casual Connect Asia and GameStart Asia.) 

This translates to piles of paperwork and wading through logistics to have booth equipment ordered and/or ensure the electricity in the booth works just so, hundreds of hours crammed into an economy class seat doing repeated 10,000 mile trips to the US, hauling around bargain-bin Craigslist armchairs and oversized suitcases filled with laptops and decorations across bumpy cobblestoned roads to avoid awful freight fees... Fun stuff!

Anyway, Gareth and I want to hear from our kickass backer community: Are there any particular types of updates YOU wanna hear about? I could regale you with tales from our marketing behind-the-scenes, but if you want to hear more about the Masquerada lore, or shoutouts from our voice actors, or anything else… Please, shout out in the comments! 

Last thing: the folks at our publishing label Ysbryd Games will soon be launching a Twitch channel to stream content from Masquerada and their other portfolio games, in addition to other cool stuff they find on Kickstarter and the interwebs. I'll probably be showing up on the stream to wax lyrical and I'll see if we can't get Ian to show up too! We’ll post more deets once this is all set up, and we’d love it if you tuned in.

Till next time!

PS: Heartiest of congratulations to the Arcadian Atlas team for meeting their Kickstarter goal!! A well deserved, if nail-biting finish. To all our backers who helped out with their campaign, thank you so much for helping pay it forward!!

MyRepublic x Masquerada
about 8 years ago – Sun, May 08, 2016 at 06:30:19 PM

Heya all, Ian here. Um. Where do I start. Did you guys notice that the pledged amount had a huge jump about half a day ago? I saw this on my phone and I thought it was some joker trying to be funny.

For those of you outside of Singapore - MyRepublic is an Internet Service Provider that's really shaking things up here locally. They're disrupting the status quo of what an ISP should be and kinda schooling the more established ISPs. So when I got this, I honestly thought someone was messing with us... until I got this in the mail.

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So yeah. Wow. Guys. MyRepublic Gamer -- this is amazing! Thank you so much in believing in us and committing to creative work here in Singapore!

With that said, you'll notice this update is going up a lot later than when the pledge came in. Mostly because the team has been chatting over whatsapp on how we could commemorate this huge show of support!

So..

We're going to add a whole new dungeon level!

The Whispering Streets is a section of the game we had cut out due to time constraints, mostly out of prudence. We're big on being responsible and shipping. With a show of support like this, we think it's worth pushing ourselves a little bit. A level costs a lot more to finish, but it's now bigger than that!

So thanks to MyRepublic, everyone's getting a little extra!

Thank you MyRepublic! =D

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Also, we've been receiving requests on a tier to be able to be featured in the game. We've found something that feels natural and we thought we'd also tune it to help the community reach stretch goals!

So if any of you good souls would like your portrait to be hung on the walls of the White Spire, heart of the city, here's your chance!

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Oooo! So while I was drafting this.. guess what happened? WE REACHED OUR FIRST STRETCH GOAL!!

Cicero and his party thanks you all for giving them more options as they delve into the darker parts of Ombre. Aw hell, you guys are amazing!