Softened the hover sound on dialogue buttons
Click anywhere to move through story segments, not just the button
First public localization pass
Fewer stutters caused by some unoptimized scripts
Smaller texture sizes
Better drawcall batching
3D characters optimized with smarter materials and distance-based turn-off
We've made a first pass at optimizing the demo, and it should run better now, especially on lower-spec PCs. We're not sure we've caught everything, though - let us know if you noticed a difference, and if there are specific spots still giving you trouble. That'll help us figure out what to prioritize next.
Full text (interface + story subtitles):
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Korean, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
Interface only (story still in English for now):
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Malay, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish
This is a first pass, so some lines might still sound stiff or too literal. A better translation workflow is already in the works - we'll keep you posted as results improve.
In this short teaser trailer, you'll meet Morgana's daughter, Celestine, and get your first glimpse of Skrana - a raven girl who's not part of the main cast, but an extra character you'll be able to meet along the way. Celestine's pretty convinced she's already the scariest thing in the room. Whether that's true is another question. More of both soon.
Vampire Mistress stays our main focus and the center of the Velvet Kingdom. It's an ongoing project - we keep writing and adding to it over time. We're releasing it in chapters here on Steam, while Supporters get a full, continually updated version early. Right now we're deep in writing the rest of the story - follow us for early content.
You may have noticed a few other projects listed on Steam too - we call these the Velvet Chronicles. Vampire Mistress comes first, but sometimes a character concept has enough going on that it works better as its own thing, so we spin it off into a smaller, more focused stand-alone game - usually just one character or a small cast.
All of it - Vampire Mistress and the Velvet Chronicles alike - happens in one shared world, the Velvet Kingdom. Not every character shows up in every game, but crossovers are always possible, and we'd love for this to grow into one big cast whose stories you can keep following.
More on all of this next month.
If you want early previews, behind-the-scenes stuff, and character reveals, you can follow us here.
More soon❤️.