Kalyskah

Hello everyone! I hope you're enjoying the demo so far! We're bringing the cutscenes to the new architecture, but until the Dungeon is ready to be released, we'll make another Blood Arena update. The next update will also be named Alpha 1.0.0 because it will mark the start of a new era in Kalyskah:

Hello everyone! This weekend, we released our Public Demo, featuring the new combat and playable characters. We'd like to collect some feedback and hear what you think of the combat so far, any ideas you have for powers, and especially anything you miss from the old combat and the old weapon styles,

Hello everyone! Thank you all for the feedback on the last demo. It seems like people are really enjoying it, but we still have more improvements coming! First, we have fixed the difficult settings, made major tweaks to the parry animations and also fixed the way the stats affect damage and armour.

Hello everyone! I just managed to package the game, and we're getting ready to release it for you. There's just an annoying issue that is making the main menu display the wrong version. I fixed it, and I'm repacking it before release!

Hello everyone! First, let's talk about what everyone is waiting for: When will the demo be released? We successfully packaged the game yesterday, and then managed to do it again today, which means that the packaging process for creating the executable is now stable. There are just some final touche

Hello everyone! Most of the animations we needed for the new combat are done we're now playtesting to iron out what's left. For instance, the heavy finisher here will get faster: Now we can set individual attacks to knock enemies back, so part of the balancing that we'll do will include adding this

While experimenting with the new idle for the claw attacks of NPCs, I ended up positioning the forearms too low, and I thought the result was too silly not to post! The final result was fixed, and I'm now reworking the postures for the rapier and the two-handed axe (that one you get at the end of th

Hello everyone! We’re running a little behind schedule with the combat update, so here’s a look at some of the work that has been going into it! There are quite a few changes happening behind the scenes, and some of them are starting to make a noticeable difference in how combat feels and looks! We'

Hello everyone! Just wanted to show you more progress we've been making on the combat and cutscene updates! Animations We're improving the lights and animations on the Forgotten Smith questline, and also have finished Nemesis' Light attacks: The movement of her wings will be improved after I'm done

Hello everyone! I had the flu roughly two weeks ago, to the point that I was coughing so much I could barely hold the mouse and eventually had to go to the hospital. That messed with our schedule, but I started feeling better today, so I'm going after the lost time! I'll keep everyone posted about t

Hello everyone, we’ll be making a video soon where we’ll pick some of the things you’d like to know and answer your questions. Maybe we’ll even do some funny voices! So drop your questions in the comments and tell us what you’d like to know, because we'll probably be dropping a video next week. Afte

Hello everyone! In the past few days, we've talked a lot about the revisions we're doing in combat, but we haven't had the chance to share what we're doing with the cutscenes yet! We aim to bring the game's presentation to a new level, and to that end, we decided to revisit some cutscenes that neede

Hello everyone! Just passing by quickly to share some of the progress we're making on animations and what the idea behind them is. We want to make each playable companion feel unique; if we simply reskinned Kalyskah, it would be very underwhelming. So we decided to make that each character will have

Hello everyone! After restructuring the back end, we have reached the part where we're also improving what you actually get to see in the game. Part of that is adding different idle animations for the more important characters. I admit that seeing how the different companions in Baldur's Gate stand

Hello everyone! Just wanted to share another test showing that Nemesis will also be playable in the Blood Arena! She's without her wings because we're yet to figure out a way to make them look good when she's seen from behind. So it's possible that first we'll release her without them, and once we h

Hello everyone! In between polishing the combat and tweaking the lights of the Blood Arena, I had some time and decided to make another lore video! Kalyskah's world has religions, but not everyone believes in gods. In Thulgatha, people instead study and worship the Seven Storms: the forces believed

Hello everyone! I just realised that I made this video a few days ago, close to the date I posted my last post, but I haven't posted it here yet! Some updates between then and now are that we have successfully rebuilt the player character enough that now we can swap to it; here's a screenshot of Ilr

Hello everyone! We are very close to finishing everything needed to release the next patch! This week, we wrapped up the work of moving the former Blueprint classes to C++. We are now making the necessary repairs to reconnect the UI and inventory systems to the new and improved classes. Combat alrea

Hello everyone! In the past, whenever someone asked us: “Will Kalyskah ever support mods?”, our answer was always “no”. However, now that we are rebuilding the game’s foundations, that answer has changed to a “maybe”. As we mentioned earlier, we are moving the core systems to C++, making different p

Hello everyone! We have brought back the Fledgling tier as a small tip-jar option for anyone who would like to support Kalyskah’s development. In addition to being able to read our news posts that include images we cannot share publicly on Patreon, Fledgling supporters gain access to the Discord cha

Laver is Kalyskah’s right-hand man and one of her oldest surviving allies. He was transformed thousands of years ago, during a great war, when Kalyskah’s Legion appeared on the battlefield and changed the course of the conflict. At that point, Kalyskah was far more ruthless than now. She was still b

Hello everyone! If you are a patron or boost our Discord, you already have access to seeing, in real time, every time we push new work to our GitHub: So, you might already be aware of our little experiments with Unreal 5.8, which will only become our main branch once we are further along with our cu

Hello everyone! While revisiting the game’s architecture, we decided to experiment with some of Unreal Engine’s newer tools, such as Mover. This system should be a huge step towards improving traversal in Kalyskah! The animation shown here is still a placeholder provided by the engine. Kalyskah will

Hello everyone! We're so caught up in the work that, once again, we missed posting here about the progress on what we've been cooking! Most of the cutscenes for the dungeon are done. Now we only have some tweaks left for the side ones, such as Nemesis and perhaps the scene where Kalyskah meets the g

Hello everyone! I made a video talking a little about books I've read that have inspired me to create Kalyskah, and you can also get a hint of where the story is going, judging by some of the things I mention in the video. Also, the animator has already reworked most of the dungeon cutscenes, and I

Hello everyone! We managed to fix the crash I mentioned in our last post, but then we realised that the combat in this transitional version was missing a lot of effects, such as particles when an attack lands, blood effects, animations, and other things that already work in our current branch. So we

Hello everyone! A follow-up on the post I did a few hours ago: I managed to find a workaround for the boss fight to work correctly, but the issue I'm having is that there's a crash during the Dialogue between Kalyskah and Amara. I spent the afternoon trying to find out what the issue was, but I ran

Hello everyone! As I mentioned in my last post, we'll be releasing a new patch to our Patreons this week. The combat will be unfinished, and some other mechanics will still be unstable, but the important parts we wanted to show are ready: the progress we've made on the prologue story, including a ne

Hello everyone! Here’s another lore video, this time about Nemesis! We also have some news about our plans for the next patch. We’ll be releasing an interim update within the next few days, featuring the new quest and enhanced cutscenes in the dungeon. However, this patch won’t include the complete

Hello everyone! Those who checked the book Michael was reading in the Fallen Temple, or explored the prologue and found it themselves, might already know some of this. But for those who missed it, or just want a more straightforward way to learn about vampire bloodlines, here’s a short video talking

Hello everyone! As we push forward with the Combat and NPC rework, the writing hasn’t stopped! We have concluded the Cargo at Bay quest, and we moved on to writing the following quest a while ago. But to offer you a sneak peek, here are some things you can expect: Previous choices in the Black Rain

Hello everyone! We made a new video talking about the lore of elves in Kalyskah! I can’t wait until we reach the point where different blood types have unique effects on Kalyskah. It will be fun to play around with what happens when she gets drunk on elven blood! Different Types of Elves in Kalyskah

Hello everyone! There's a lot we've been doing lately, and we wanted to present to you the work of our new animator, who will be working on our cutscenes for the foreseeable future! This was the test of the cutscene he did that got him the role. I hope you like it! Also, did you notice the song? Tha

Hello everyone, as part of our series about the lore, here's a bit on where elves came from. If you paid attention to the dialogue between Kalyskah and Ilreth, and also a book that we have in the game, you probably already know the answer. This will be relevant in the future when we introduce differ

Hello everyone! In the series of videos I am making about the game, here is a bit more about Kalyskah’s two eras. Also, as a reminder: once the prologue is done, we will build a bridge so that playing from the prologue, continuing through the current Dungeon Demo, and then moving into the Millhaven

Hello everyone! While the programmers are still reworking the combat, and the newly hired cinematic artist works on the new quests, I have made another lore video talking about Kalyskah. This time, it is about what vampire myths are true and what stories inspired us, so make sure to take a look! I a

Hello everyone, Corintio here! Today, we want to show you a new hairstyle we developed for a character designed by our patron, Tara. This hairstyle will belong to an elf mage-warrior called Ilmyna, whom you will find after the Prologue is complete. I hope you like it!

Hello everyone, as part of our series explaining some concepts about the game, here's a video on how Blood Thirst affects Kalyskah! Our goal is to expand the special interactions she'll have when she's bloodthirsty as the development progresses! How blood works in the vampire game Kalyskah! #gaming

Hello everyone! As part of the series we started, talking about the game's lore, here's a little about Ilreth. Which will be one of our first playable companions once we get to the point of implementing that feature! Ilreth, the foul-mouthed elf of Kalyskah! (YouTube)

Hello everyone! Firstly, I'd like to say that we collected a lot of feedback about writing on my last post, and we happily included an option for Kalyskah to hurl someone into the sea because... well.. do not anger the ANCIENT vampire, maybe? There's a lot of nuance in how she handles authority, and

Hello everyone! Following up on my last post, I'm using the small downtime I have from the engine while the combat and NPCs get rearranged, to take a look at the dialogues we haven't sent to voice acting yet. I noticed that in some cases, since we don't want to extend the prologue too much, there ar

Hello everyone! We finished working on the new Male Peasant clothes! These are the clothes from the men from the medium\working class that will be populating Tupelo! I'm tempted to maybe ask the character artist to try and make a version where it fits Kalyskah's body, but I don't know, what do you t

Hello everyone! Just wanted to give an update on what I said in the last post about hiring a new Cinematic Artist for the game. We've already interviewed roughly 4 people, with two more to be interviewed by Friday. Some did tests, and I'm really excited about how things are coming along. There might

Hello everyone! I just wanted to pass by because this restructuring of the combat + the beginning of the new NPC system, is taking much longer than we expected. I wanted to release a demo this week since the new quest is done, but due to other parts that need improvement, we can't do so yet. So I'd

Hello everyone! As we reshuffle things around for the new combat and prepare the game for the patch... that has been delayed, but I believe once you see the new boost in FPS, you'll realise that the wait was worth it! We have finally decided to embrace modernity and opened a TikTok. Mostly just to p