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| In-game event | Patch v1.0.4 live on Steam! Hi all! We've been chipping away at a bunch more fixes that players have been finding post-launch, and have bundled them into Patch 1.0.4 ; this includes a few issues that have been found by some diligent achievement hunters on our Discord - thanks to community members unbrokenodds and andre. in particular for the help! Speaking of the Discord, if you wanted to chat with us and other players ab… | 9727185 | |
| Game update | Patch v1.0.3 now available on Steam Hey everyone - first, thanks so much for all the kind words about Wayward Strand so far! It's wonderful to hear you all connecting with it and discovering so much within the game. We have prepared our first post-launch patch, and it's now live on Steam! This is mainly just a few key fixes for issues that players have found in the live version, along with a small quality-of-life feature. Oh, a q… | 9549541 | |
| News | Wayward Strand is Out Now! Wayward Strand is now available on Steam - the ship is in flight! You can get it right now, and for the next few days, at the introductory price of 10% off . We've been floored by the early reviews that have been coming out about the game - here are a few quotes: "Masterful writing and voice-acting make Wayward Strand a great work of interactive fiction." - LadiesGamers - Two Thumbs Up "The com… | — | |
| Community | Wayward Strand: Best Narrative at the Australian Game Design Awards nomination! Hi everyone! IT IS LAUNCH WEEK First up, check out this short and sweet video which shows some emotional content from the team Second up, It's AGDAs time, baby! We are incredibly honoured to have been nominated in a few categories - as well as given an honourable mention for another. We are nominated for Best Narrative , along with friends You Will (Not) Remain and Wylde Flowers We are also nom… | — | |
| Community | Cast Announcement for Wayward Strand G'day! As per usual, let's get right down to the meat and potatoes of this post: our cast! Here's the announcement in video form We want to start off with a huge shout-out to our four studios - Original Score in Melbourne, ZigZag Post in Sydney, Innenhof in Vienna and Voiceover Soho in London. Making people on three continents sound like they’re in one room is *hard*, but our audio director Mai… | — | |
| Announcement | Wayward Strand - Launch Delay Announcement Hi everyone! There’s been some news, which is a bit of a relief for us. I’ll cut to the chase: we’re delaying the release of Wayward Strand. We will now release on September 15! It was a difficult decision to make, because this project has gone on a long time already - some of you will have been waiting for it since we were in the showcase at PAX Melbourne in 2019, some will have been waiting s… | — | |
| Community | LAST CHANCE to play the ‘old’ demo! @ Steam NEXT Hello, It’s Goldie here! Just a short post today, to let you all know that we’re part of Steam NEXT this week. Thank you for having us, Steam! During Steam NEXT, our lovely demo will be live - This will be the last time that this demo is available. Bon voyage little demo! You have been a stable friend~ The strangest part about playing this demo, for us, is just how far we’ve come since making i… | — | |
| In-game event | Wayward Strand announces a July 21st, 2022 release date! You’re here! Welcome! It’s thrilling for our little team to see so many of you coming to visit our Steam page. We’ve just announced our launch date, and we can’t wait to finally be able to share the game with you. I’m Georgia, one of the lead writers for Wayward Strand. First things first: The game will launch here on Steam, on Thursday 21st July, 2022! For any newcomers, Wayward Strand is a he… | — | |
| Esports | Wayward Strand featured in the Big Adventure Event! Live-stream, demo, and more Hi everyone! We're chuffed to announce that we're being featured, along with a bunch of other really exciting games, in the upcoming Steam Big Adventure Event , organised by Hitcents! As part of the event, we'll be doing a live-stream to our Steam page and to Twitch - we'll hopefully be doing something a bit different, being interviewed by a lovely person (yet to be announced), as well as playi… | — | |
| Esports | Melbourne International Games Week - NEW DEMO! First of all: We have a new demo, available to play right now! Wayward Strand is a part of the Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) showcase, which is starting now - Sep 30th, 10am PDT / Oct 1st, 3am AEST . We'd love to invite you to check out our demo, which is available from the start of the event. Here's a handy widget thingie that you can use to go to our page to download it: It's been… | — | |
| Community | Directing Virtual Characters in Wayward Strand, Part 1 After my last post , on how we’ve integrated ink and Timeline, there was some interest in how we use Unity’s Timeline tool to do things like trigger animations on characters. Over the course of making Wayward Strand, we've developed a solution for this that we're pretty happy with. Put simply, we use Timeline to set parameters on our characters' Animator Controllers - but we've developed quite… | — | |
| Community | Using ink and Unity's Timeline to make Wayward Strand Hi there - I’m Jason, a member of the team making Wayward Strand. Now that we’re getting closer to finishing and releasing Wayward Strand, we thought we’d start sharing a bit more of our development process as it happens. As we’ve been developing Wayward Strand for a few years now, this post is a mix of what we’re focusing on right now, and catching you up to where our team is at with our tech… | — | |
| Esports | Live-stream: Accessibility in Indie Games May 20th is the 10th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day ! To celebrate, we're announcing that the wonderful Cameron Hopkinson (they/them) is providing accessibility consultation and advice for Wayward Strand, and that we will be hosting a live-stream where Cameron and Maize Wallin (they/them) discuss accessibility in Wayward Strand, and in indie games generally. The stream will begin at… | — | |
| Community | LudoNarraCon is Back - Come and Play our Demo! April 23-26 Hi, it’s Goldie, from Ghost Pattern! #LudoNarraCon is nearly here for another year, and we are very pleased to announce that we’re once again going to be taking part. It’s happening April 23rd-26th! We’ll have a bunch of different streams during the festival which I will outline below, and of course… OUR DEMO WILL BE LIVE!!! You can get it between April 23rd and 26th! Last year, we had such a g… | — | |
| Esports | Researching Wayward Strand #LudoNarraCon Stream Our research channel on Slack dates all the way back to 2016 and is chock-a-block with interesting tidbits and influences on the game. Join the Ghost Pattern team as they do some real-time project archeology! Light spoiler warning, even we don’t know what we’re going to find in there. If you’re fascinated by the little things which make a big impact, this stream is for you. | — | |
| Esports | Music & Narrative Stream #LudoNarraCon Maize will noodle about in their home recording studio, making new music for Wayward Strand. This stream will uncover Maize’s process of composing works on the guitar, through to the next steps towards a finished track. They’ll also be chatting about all things music and narrative! | — | |
| Esports | Narrative and Set Design: Painting Props with Goldie. #LudoNarraCon Set design and dressing is a key part of the narrative experience. Join art director Goldie as she updates and creates new textures for some of the lovely props in Wayward Strand, and talks about the various influences on our gentle, ‘ligne claire’ art style. | — | |
| Esports | Down Under Brekkie! / Ghost Pattern Q&A #LudoNarraCon Join the team behind Wayward Strand bright and early for breakfast. They'll be chatting all things Wayward Strand, LudoNarraCon and answering some Q&A live. Hop along to the Fellow Traveller Discord to join in on the Q&A channel , assuming they've all woken up, cause it’s at 7:30am Aussie time! This is a direct link to the channel that we'll be answering questions from! | — | |
| Community | Development Continues! Hi, again! We haven't spoken too much about development recently, so we just wanted to answer some questions about what's been happening, and where we’re at on the road to getting Wayward Strand into your Steam library. When will Wayward Strand be released? Our current plan is to release in the second half of 2021 - while there are some elements of that plan to fall into place, we feel that we’… | — | |
| Esports | Wayward Strand @ Tiny Teams - Music-making live-stream! Wayward Strand is being featured by Yogscast in the Tiny Teams festival all throughout this week, and to celebrate we're doing some live-streams! This event is for the second live-stream - add a reminder for this event and you'll be notified when we go live! We'll be doing this stream about halfway through the festival - it'll happen on Wednesday the 12th at 7:00pm PST / Thursday the 13th, 12:0… | — | |
| Esports | Wayward Strand @ Tiny Teams - Developer live-stream! Wayward Strand is being featured by Yogscast in the Tiny Teams festival , and to celebrate we're doing some live-streams! This event is for the first live-stream - add a reminder for this event and you'll be notified when we go live! This live-stream will be happening on Monday the 10th of August at 11:30 AM BST / 9:30 PM AEST - we'll be streaming a slightly fuller version of the game, where we… | — | |
| Community | Wayward Strand @ the Tiny Teams Festival! We have some really exciting news - Wayward Strand is being featured by Yogscast in the Tiny Teams Festival , which starts today ! If you're here because of Tiny Teams: welcome <3 Say hi in the comments! If you've never heard of Wayward Strand before: well, it's very lovely to meet you! Wayward Strand is our heartfelt interactive story set on board an airborne hospital. You play as Casey, a sli… | — | |
| Esports | Wayward Strand Music-making Stream! Bonus stream!! We're going to do a third live-stream for the Steam Game Festival! So far we've played the game, and shown you how we direct our scenes - next up, we'll be doing a Stream where Maize shows their process for putting a song together for the game! Remember to set a reminder for this event, and you'll be notified when we go live! The process of creating Wayward Strand has been a wond… | — | |
| Community | Welcome to the Wayward Strand booth! Hi, and thanks for coming to check out Wayward Strand at the Steam Summer Festival! Wayward Strand is our experimental and heartfelt story game, in which you play as Casey, a teenager who explores an airborne hospital and gets to know the patients and staff inside. Our latest demo is available to try, we'd love you to check it out, and then let us know what you think of it - you can do this on… | — | |
| News | Q&A, plus development live-stream! Welcome to another live-stream for Wayward Strand - this time, we'll be going behind the scenes and showing you how we put a scene together, using Unity, as well as the custom toolset we've put together. On this stream we'll be taking a scene that hasn't had the 'scene direction' process done yet, and together we'll direct it, getting the characters to move around, react, improving the timing o… | — | |
| Esports | Live-streaming Wayward Strand for the Steam Game Festival! Hey there! We're really excited to have been invited to be a part of the Steam Game Festival - taking place on June 16th to 22nd - and to get to show you the game we've been spending the past few years putting together. Wayward Strand is our heartfelt interactive narrative game, with a curious real-time twist. In it, you play as Casey, a teenage girl, and a budding journalist, who explores an a… | — | |
| Community | Wayward Strand #LudoNarraCon Demo - FAQ! We are making our most recent playable demo downloadable for #LudoNarraCon 2020, which means you can play it at home! When we’ve shown it at real-life events, there are some common questions that we are asked, so we decided it’s probably convenient to have a lil’ post with some of our most Frequently Asked Questions... Answered. (Note: We’re putting this up a few hours before the demo goes live… | — |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.