Merry Christmas!
After an enormous amount of work, I hereby present to you the latest version of Keystone Library.
We now have 3 books! Not complete books, but nonetheless - THREE BOOKS! I've kept a small team of people very busy over the past year. I can't believe how long it's been and how much we put into this. What a journey!
But there's MUCH MUCH more to speak of in this new edition.
We've added an actual "library" to Keystone Library. You can walk through the halls, meet some characters, and do a few new things to keep you busy between your adventures in the stories.
It's fun! And it will be even more fun in the future as we continue to add to the library.
We have 5 chapters of a new cyberpunk themed book. "New Athenia" and 5 chapters of the previously released fantasy themed book "Quest of the Lake". And the original Greek Mythology book which is mostly a typing game, but still lots of fun!
What else?!
Optimization. Despite having more content, we have a REDUCED file size, and everything is running faster and smoother than ever. Enhanced graphics. Improved interface design. More intuitive interface. Better graphic and sound controls in settings. The list goes on...
There are still problems, and I am aware of some bugs and some issues. The most obvious problem is the remaining lack of content, but that's why this release is so important. I'm hoping we can start to get the word out there and generate some excitement for Keystone Library. Once we start to build up the hype, that can help inspire more content.
I believe this release has a "full picture" of what the game is meant to be. It's a good foundation which expresses the flexibility and versatility of the chapter-based system of the Keystone books. So now with that out of the way we just need to...
1 - Keep improving upon existing things.
2 - Content, content, content. More books, more stories, more cool stuff to play with.
That's really the only thing holding us back at this point. Mostly illustration content, because that can be time consuming. We've had a few problems with illustrators over the past couple years, probably my fault due to my inexperience. But I'm getting better at it, and thus, ANOTHER upgrade we have - is an improved workflow to get more content coming out much faster than before. We have a much better system now, very streamlined, and with that I do hope to finish a couple more books at lightning speed!
If all goes well we'll have a few more releases coming up throughout 2025, and then a final release out of EA in 2026.
Full steam ahead!
Oh yeah. We have a website now too!
https://www.keystonelibrary.com
- Brendon
Keystone Library