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In this Horror Story you go on a search to find your friend Sara who went missing in a mysterious area called Crystal Woods which is rumored to be cursed for over 800 years, since a certain incident.

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Version 1.1c

Mar 10, 2022

Changelog

This update got a lot bigger than initially anticipated. There is a wide range of improvements. I tried to incorparate feedback and add quality of life improvements, better guidance and more. Chapter Uncertainty received a lot of adjustments and feels a lot better but in general all chapters were improved.

Added Gameplay Reminder to Prologue since I feel like people expect a different game and don't pay attention to the story, notes or objects to examine and get stuck
Added Objectives to Journal, I thought the hints through voice over would be enough but I kept seeing people stuggle (works with old saves)
Added/Repositioned some lights to give better guidance, also to side areas
Added prompt reminder to open journal when a new note is being added
Added journal notes highlighting for new ones
Added journal notes to Chapter Within, to clarify more of the story.
Added Next Big Update Panel linked to the most recent Steam Post
Tweaked some voice events triggers to give more guidance
Tweaked a lot of events, tighter timings, more audiozones, voice interruption
Adjusted a few important events to make them independent from player movement
Adjusted most notes to trigger voice lines after examine
Smoother movement state transitions
25% higher walk speed (cannot go too much higher otherwise events might overlap), feels a lot better already
Fixed some glitches and bugs
Optimizations Chapter Within

Cheers,
Leon Drace

Awakened: Dark Space

Cannot obtain key in box under floorboards in building

In the building with the crystal deer in one of the rooms, I cannot remove the floorboards to obtain the stashed box with the key. In a walkthrough by someone else online, there is a prompt that says the floorboards are uneven, which would allow me to remove the floorboards. The text prompt does not generate for me, however. Thus, I cannot remove the boards. I have reloaded the last autosave three times, but still no success in this prompt/action....

lcutler

Mar 6, 2022 @ 4:15am

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Dark Space #2 - Plans For v1.2

Mar 7, 2022

My Plans for v.1.2

View On The State Of The Game

Version 1.1 already added quite some improvements to the game but still..

So far the game is not doing too well in terms of people being interested in it and from what I saw, I think quite a few people had other expectations and not that this game is about story. I saw them just trying to "run" through and then not knowing what to do. Not reading a single note or anything.

My conclusion is that a horror story like this doesn't work too well and is hard to market too, atleast for me with limited reach and capabilities. The expectation seems always to be favored towards just hardcore jumpscares or a flashy killer which the main story isn't really tailored towards.

Idea

I already expressed the idea of a more horror oriented game mode but I feel like I have to push it further than my initial idea, Martin's Story, to generate any kind of interest for this game.

So I'm focussing for this game mode on Horror, Survival and some extend of Puzzles, similar to Resident Evil. You have to find a bunch of stuff to progress further.

If this has some kind of success I would still like to add Martin's Story as well at some point. If you don't know who that is, he is the guy who was running the Tours through Crystal Woods and disappeared and well he did a lot of fucked up stuff there too.

Backstory

The story won't be the major part of the new game mode but it is still relevant, atleast for me, to create an interesting setting.
It is based on the Guardian Concept where people who are caught by him are stuck in a suppressed consciousness. Things first seem real but aren't. At the same time you are not alone, it is like a web of memories of people who were caught which can lead to an interesting concept of alterting the environment through this little device.

And maybe with the help of this little guy.

Gameplay/Feeling

I want to create a feeling of constant pressure of being hunted or thinking there is something.
I'm still arguing whether you die instantly or if your consciousness is slowly crumbling away, changing vision and hearing.
The goal is basically to find a way to escape, break out of it.

Also this will play a role in it.

Tech

To accomplish this I started working on a new AI System which is way more capable than anything I have right now.
The concept is to have a Meta AI System which makes it possible to seperate game world and AI to some extend. More to that in one of the next posts.

Making It Flashy

More scary scenes and deaths. Something that is easier to catch people's attention with.

Cheers,
Leon Drace

Awakened: Dark Space

Version 1.1b

Mar 6, 2022

Based on the first feedback I got.

I increased the voice over volume by a fair bit, should be a lot better now.

If you have anything, let me know. I will try to further improve the game.

Cheers,
Leon Drace

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Awakened: Dark Space Gameplay - First Impressions

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Game play

Before purchasing I would like to know if I will be chased or killed. I am not a fan of either outcome. Games looks very interesting and I especially like the environments.

sgriphen

Mar 20, 2022 @ 10:14am

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