Hey everyone! Slay the Princess is going to be taking part in Steam Next Fest starting on Monday, and we wanted to celebrate by putting together a new trailer and teasing more art for the full release! Check it out here: [previewyoutube=ux1WogFXF8o;leftthumb][/previewyoutube] The trailer.
The Fury.
The Nightmare.
The Beast. In preparation for Next Fest, we've also spent the past couple of days working with the talented folks at Team Dogpit to put together a shader to handle Slay the Princess' animations on the GPU, rather than pre-rendering them as video files. The result should be a massive jump in performance on most machines. We're still keeping the animation toggle as an option in the preferences, in case players would prefer an animation-free experience. On top of dramatically improving performance, this update should significantly speed up development of the full game, since we no longer have to manually render each art asset; reduce file size, since all of our art assets can be stored as pngs; and allow for a faster turnaround on bug fixes. There's also a handful of compression artifacts that should no longer be present, specifically with a couple of more detailed assets losing some color information. We have two streams planned for Next Fest on October 3rd at 8pm EST, and on October 4th and 11pm EST. We'll be joined by Nichole Goodnight, the Princess' VA, and will be playing through the demo and taking your questions! If you'd like to help us reach even more Heroes before Next Fest, replaying the demo and sharing the game over the next two days can go a long way for extra visibility! Thanks so much! Tony and Abby