We decided to dedicate a new dev diary to this topic.
In cars abandoned by their owners, you can find a lot of useful things.
So feel free to break into them – it is unlikely that the owners of the cars will ever return and file a complaint. Therefore, it is necessary to collect medicine, leftover food, look for clues, and somehow get out of this place. Just be sure that you can fight back if the alarm goes off and you have drawn unwanted attention to yourself.
Most likely, the owners of the cars are already dead, and for them, this whole nightmare is over. But not for you: you will return again and again. Giving up is not an option.
New faction
Strange noises and desperate screams are heard in the unlit streets of the world of DarKnot.
You will definitely hear them, but only in the darkness. And if you move silently, you can pass by without seeing the appearance of the creatures that make these sounds. But as soon as you make your presence known with an awkward step or the slightest rustle, these strange, sometimes pathetic, frightening creatures will appear from all the cracks.
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They are fast and attack in a pack. Fight or flight, it's up to you. The damage from their blows is not critical, but extremely unpleasant. These creatures run up to you with a wild scream, which, combined with pitch darkness, is quite creepy. After dealing or taking damage, there is a high chance that they will run away, but will soon return to repeat their futile attempts to take out their anger from their powerlessness on you.
Clothing
In the streets, we threw heaps of clothes on the dusty roads.
Wearing these clothes is not a pleasure for everyone. But this is better than running around the city in shorts, freezing and shocking your enemies with outrageous behavior. All found items of clothing are now transferred to the locker next to the chair, where you are resurrected after each death. After the resurrection, you may have a question: what stinks more - the clothes found in the street or the main character? We will have time to find out if you lived more than once.
Screen brightness
Our team watched more than a hundred streams of the closed DarKnot demo and found out that very few people discovered a little secret. It is hidden in the screen brightness bar.
In situations where pitch darkness comes suddenly, when the fuses are blown by the thunderstorm, and there are no light sources nearby, remember the brightness settings. They can help you, but we cannot fully guarantee that.
Add DarKnot to your wishlist to be the first to know when the game enters Early Access:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371560/DarKnot/?beta=1
Now we are struggling to get DarKnot ready for early access and are working on new locations. We are also optimizing the game, fixing the voice acting, and eliminating all possible bugs.
If you encounter bugs, please send them to Feedback and Bugs in the discussions on Steam.
By finding bugs and reporting them, you help us a lot!
We would like to express our deep gratitude to the voice actor Brian Watts. He recorded the voice over of one of our MPCs for the Rituals part of DarKnot, and we cannot recommend him more. Not only does Brian make the effort to breathe life into the character, he does so with great passion. We received a lot of positive feedback on his voice acting. You can hear his part in the free demo available on Steam.
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If any of our colleagues from other gamedev studios need his services, here is his web site with a demo reel and portfolio.
Infected by Nightmare
DarKnot Team
