Quick Update: Birthday Blackout and Platform Troubles
Hello everyone!
Yesterday I could not finish the programming side of Ilreth’s quest because I was without power. And of course, it had to be on my birthday in the 4th of August!
Anyway, some of you might already know about Itch.io’s recent delisting of adult content and how Visa and Mastercard have been putting pressure on platforms, making things increasingly difficult for adult content creators. Even though Kalyskah is pretty tame when it comes to erotic content, these changes still affected us.
We had to remove the “pay what you want” option from our free demo on Itch.io just as we were preparing the public release of version 0.28 there. So for now, our only sources of funding are Patreon and Subscribestar. And eventually, Steam.
Hopefully things will shift, but until then, as we move closer to our Early Access launch, it would really help if some of you on the free tier considered supporting us as patrons.
The past two months have been crucial to the project. We finally wrapped up the most complex code refactoring we had to do. Now, the only major systems left are the save and load system and the NPC World Manager. We added new activities to explore in the open world, including erotic scenes with cutscenes. And we are now adding a brand new quest where Kalyskah and Ilreth must work together to solve puzzles and push through a cave using mechanics the game has never had before.
As time goes on, the tendency is for the project to only grow.
With that in mind, I want to ask: what else could we offer that would make it worth your while to support us here? And for those already supporting, what improvements would you like to see in the higher tiers that might encourage you to upgrade?
We want to take a moment to listen to you. This vampire game is a dream coming true for us. We are building a story that takes itself seriously, creating mechanics that we hope make the game worth playing even without the adult content. And for the adult content, we are aiming to make it as immersive as possible with the kink system, and the way you control Kalyskah rather than the NPCs interacting with her during encounters.
With all that in mind, what would you like to see in the game, and what would you like to see improved on our page?
Comments (11)
Speaking of Itch, probably a good idea to tell everyone where to find you if Patreon gets hit by the same shit. Since its the payment processors that are being pressured and Patreon has a history of just fucking everyone over and straight deleting a page.
We have the link to our patreon in the main menu of itch version
Jus a question on gameplay.. I truly miss the 1st person style aspect of playing the open world of the game, is that coming back?
It will!
Happy Birthday! It's been a while since I found a good adult RPG game so I hope you will continue supporting it for some time. I just had to say that the game reminds me a little bit of Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines. Not sure why (could be the lip-sync method), but that is the vibe I've been getting from it, but that's a good thing! Second, there are some game-breaking things in the playable version right now: For example there was a point where in the prologue I reached a world event (some dudes harassing a woman) and when the cutscene started I was thrown back to a previous world event where the vampire woman was caged and I had to save her. It was kinda ping ponging between the 2 scenes and I ended up dying. Aside from that there is a particular view angle in the prologue that completely destroys my FPS. It could be something related to the underground area not getting properly occluded by the terrain? Finally during the bath scene the characters are misaligned (I assume that's because the cutscenes are in alpha version?). Aside from that I am really enjoying the demo so far and hope to see new content.
Thank you! We were not aware that this issue was happening on the scene that Kalyskah rescue Jeniffer, I'll take a look at this now. The massage scene is a problem with how the animations were exported. We'll have to manually fix them in the engine and that would take days since we don't have someone to do specific this type of thing, so basically we are waiting for the early access to begin so we can hire a new animator to tweak things in engine. About the angle that breaks your game, there's a high possibility that it is indeed the occlusion with the underground temple. But in any case, can you create a bug report on our discord with a screenshot of this exact angle so we can investigate? Thank you for the kind words! =D
Happy Birthday. My birthday was on 4th of August as well. I've been playing the demo of Kalyskah, and so far, I love it. There were problems while playing it, but I hope it'll get better soon on steam. Aside from spicy scenes, I'm more looking forward on the story, and of course, more sex scenes. Again, Happy Birthday and many more.
Happy Birthday, and I hope for many more. As much as I would love to upgrade to another tier, I have bills and rent to pay, and I support other games. You're not the only game I want to see have a good development. As far as the credit card thing goes, it's another storm to weather while things get sorted out. I do think that a gaggle of Christian fundamentalists in Australia should keep their views on censorship on their own continent and not force them on the rest of the world. I've already brought up my own desire to see Kalyskah be more submissive, or able to be subjugated/captured/weakened in Discord, but it seems like that's not a direction you want for the character, unless I've missed some updates on that very subject in Discord or any other platform. I want this game to succeed despite what my wishes are, even if they don't line up with yours.
There's a whole storyline about her being submissive that will be on the Puppeteers questline after the prologue. But we'll bring that content back into the game only next year!
First I have to say: Happy Birthday! :D Then I am very happy to read there is a new quest where Kaly and Ilreth work together. I hope for a lot of cute moments between those two. Maybe Ilreth is able to soften the good old vampire lady ;) Third, I know the financial situation may be hard for you these days, because of the payment processors. But to be honest, after a year of development that was necessary to get everything working in UE5, the game barely walking on these new basis. I think it's not a good idea to flood it with ideas from high tier patrons, because this could hurt the development again. The game has to get in a stable status and hopefully this will be the next update. If the next release is stable and bug free enough to make the majority happy, then it could be the point to evaluate new ideas.
That is a very reasonable take, thank you! But when I mention improvements to the page, I am mostly thinking about things like whether people would be interested in wallpapers from time to time, maybe some audio samples from quests, NSFW loops rendered in Blender, and so on. In general, things we can prepare outside the game engine so they would not distract us from development, but could still be a nice way to give something back to the community. New gameplay features will take longer to develop, but we can realistically put together a to-do list and start planning ahead to gradually add them throughout next year.