Hello, friends!
As you know, we are preparing a new demo for Steam Next Fest, and you can already play it on Monday. Apart from balance corrections, we have removed the restriction of 30 FPS, and that made our game way more smooth and pleasing to the eye. We've also considerably changed battlefields and made them more vivid, placing a lot of new animated objects—they look way more classy than Redemption’s.
We have also added a new redesigned intro (it's not a final version though), the choice of difficulty level, free cards animation, an improved screen of card replacement before the start of a fight and a lot more.
What we haven't added but we will for sure: we'll add a new screen for the main menu—it still demands some work with animations and music. We also plan to partially rewrite dialogues to make the story of the first tournament more complete and interesting. And of course, we'll bring back voice acting when all the texts are ready.
And for now follow us in Discord, add the game to the wishlist and check for updates—we'll inform you as soon as the demo will be available.
CATS & MEMES
Working on a demo is a hard and tiring process, but we always work as a team, and that's why we chat a lot and try to cheer each other up—sometimes with absolute nonsense. And today we want to share some with you.
For example, we couldn’t go past the telling expression of Finn’s face in one of the new cinematics. Originally this meme was in Russian, but we managed to find an English alternative—a phrase of Daniel Day-Lewis from the ”Gangs of New York” movie.
Sometimes, after a hard working day our artists join the Dark Side of the Force. I blame Disney and the new trilogy for all of this.
Here, the artist who works with battlefields took the condition “In this battle your opponent will get an unexpected reinforcement” a bit too literally…
And our art-director, while testing animations, turned a poor guardian into a dirty swine, putting flies on him, because “there were no corpses nearby”.
Also he says that he’s added a scroll to a Frisian version of Kleta to punish Finn for bad fights in the tournament.
And he claims that he didn’t try to draw a young revolutionnaire—just wanted to attach the girl to the mother. Of course, we don’t believe him.
But sometimes the game creates memes itself. For example, a ghost of a Hammerer appeared in the deck of Berkana’s champion. Spooky!
By the way, our team is quite young. Some of us are old enough, though, to remember a very ancient meme about Techno Viking…
Anyway, we all are millennials, so the memes are usually pretty classic:
And not always funny (but quite honest!)...
We also share photos of our favourite pets with each other. And it seems, all of us are crazy cat lovers (the image is clickable).
It’s quite weird, but none of us has a dog. We would gladly accept them into our company though. But we have other pets too.
We hope that our pets and our stupid sense of humour have lifted your spirits. At least, just a tad.
Regretfully, we won’t likely post regular updates and tell you about our game in detail anymore. We’ve always tried to create interesting quality content, but it takes a lot of time and effort—and for now these efforts don’t pay off and don’t bring enough wishlists.
Nevertheless, if you like our updates and you’d like to keep reading them, it’s high time to add Ash of Gods: The Way into your wishlist and subscribe to the game to receive important updates. Unfortunately, Steam doesn't let us to put a direct link here but you can find a clickable GIF above the description on Redemption's store page.
Comments, likes and reposts of this post are also very welcome—thanks a lot for your support, anything like that is very precious for us. Besides, you can join our Discord channel—we are always glad to talk to the players and answer any questions.
That’s all for now. We remind you that on Monday, with the start of the festival, our new demo will be available for everyone—and we are waiting for your feedback. Be sure to tell your friends about us!
And, of course, have a nice weekend!
