In order to give more people the opportunity to enjoy Elsinore, we are lowering the price of the game to $10.

With other time loop games coming out, it's a great time to make it easier for people to try ours. Thanks for all of you who have supported us so far!

When you purchase Elsinore in the Summer Sale, 100% of the profits will go to Gameheads, a game dev & tech training program for low-income youth and youth of color.

Systemic racism is a battle we all need to fight. Black lives matter, and inaction is complicity. To that end, we as teammates have been having a lot of hard conversations of our own over last monthabout how we can do more to elevate and support Black and other marginalized voices in the game industry, and about how we can use our own privilege to build a better world. Several of us have been involved with youth education and training initiatives in the past, so when we learned about Gameheads, we were excited to find a way to support them. Gameheads' mission is to train future game devs of color, and they partner with working game developers to mentor students through their programs.

This year, every sale from Elsinore over the Steam Summer Sale is going to support Gameheads' upcoming programs. We're also running our biggest discount on Elsinore yet, 50% off, to help make your decision to support even easier.

You can check out Gameheads and their mission here if you'd like to contribute further.

We also would like to highlight these organizations and fundraisers that support Black devs who are working in the industry now:

Game Devs of Color Expo

I Need Diverse Games

The Galaxy Fund


With love,
The Elsinore Team

We've released version 1.4.1 with a couple improvements to the game's endings, specifically to improve clarity around a particular ending. As always, if you experience any issues, please reach out to us on the forums or through email at hello@goldenglitch.com.

• Added clarity to ending selection.
  
• Added content to one of the endings.
  

A major aspect of Elsinore is changing. Warning: mild spoilers ahead!

Many of you have played and supported the game in the last 10 months, and we're enormously grateful to you all. Throughout that time, one piece of feedback has remained consistent: players don't love the way our ending system works. This is us acknowledging that we hear you, and today we're releasing a new update to Elsinore which will allow you to continue playing after choosing an ending without your save file being destroyed.

Why?

When we set out to build Elsinore's final act, we knew that we wanted to capture the feeling that no matter what fate Ophelia chose for Elsinore, it was the final choice she would make. We believed most players would want to put down the game at that point and move on, so the save deletion was just our way of trying to reinforce "you can move on now."

To our surprise (and, honestly, a bit of delight), many of you have reported that you took your ending choices quite seriously, but still wanted to see more. To peek at what might have been. It's clear that our original structure wasn't hitting our thematic goals for a large number of players. At the same time, we didn't want to abandon the notion that "endings are important decisions" entirely-- and we hope we've managed to accomplish that.

We hope that this new ending flow offers you the opportunity to do that, in its own peculiar way.

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Other Improvements

We've also made some additional improvements and bugfixes to the game.

Additions:
- Added ability to fast-foward through credits.
- Clarified directions near the end of one lead (Irma's Ire).
- Added new expressions and VO to some scenes.

Fixes:
- Prevented a softlock happening in the docks due to a missing scene.
- Fixed various visual bugs in the UI with character portraits.
- Fixed various scene logic bugs.
- Adjusted a few scenes so they couldn't happen at weird/inappropriate times.

A new update has been released that fixes a bug introduced with the controller update:

• Fixed issue where the "Show Buttons" key (shift) did not work on keyboards.
  

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Happy New Year! We have released version 1.3.0 with some new features. We are also incredibly honored and excited to announce that Elsinore has been nominated for the 2020 Independent Games Festival. The game has been nominated for Excellence in Design and Excellence in Narrative, with two additional honorable mentions.

[h3]New Features[/h3]

• Added alternate, modern costumes for 6 characters: Ophelia, Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, and Laertes. These can be activated in the Gameplay Options menu.
  
• Added Steam Trading Cards. Collect them all to unlock Elsinore-themed emoji, Steam backdrops, and profile badges.
  

• Fixed issue where the Great Hall would be in an incorrect visual state for scenes.
  
• Fixed minor issues with various scenes.
  

A few exciting things have been added to Elsinore, and more updates are coming in the next couple months. As with our past updates, when you update to this patch, your game saves will be advanced to the next time loop. All progress made during your most recent loop will be preserved (just as if you hit the reset button). If you experience any issues, please reach out to us on the forums or through email at hello@goldenglitch.com.

Additions

• The game should now fully support controllers across all platforms. We spent a while iterating on our controller support in the hope of giving you a fairly robust, polished experience which makes Elsinore as enjoyable to play on controller as on PC. Please feel free to leave us feedback on the discussion boards letting us know how you feel about it!
  
• We've added some additional conversations with characters for certain pieces of information.
  
• We've fixed a lot of bugs, including making the tutorial more usable and implementing solutions for a few game-breaking issues. We'll spare you the gritty details.
  

We've released version 1.1.0 with some bugfixes and improvements. Due to the number of changes and fixes, game saves will be advanced to the next time loop. All progress made during your most recent loop will be preserved (as if you hit the reset button). If you have any problems our questions, please reach out to us on the forums or through email at hello@goldenglitch.com.
Improvements

• Added button to the timeline that allows players to travel to the location of ongoing or upcoming events.
• Added several additional responses from characters for relevant hearsay.
• Stopped camera moving when present menu is up.
• Expanded scenes with various new dialogue and animation.
• Clarified the text of the timeline tutorial.
• Improved following characters through doorways.

• Fixed issue where player could get stuck between the grounds and the path.
• Made certain objects are now solid and cannot be walked through.
• Fixed so that preferences are no longer erroneously reset after the prologue.
• Prevented events from interrupting certain others in the middle.
• Cleaned up logic around a certain character's presence on the wall.
• Corrected various typographical errors.

Our 1.0.1 hotfix build is live! Thanks to players for reporting some of these issues. If you see anything odd, you can report it to us on the forums or through email at hello@goldenglitch.com.

Improvements

• Changed keyboard movement to better align with castle geometry.
  
• Added more nuanced dialogue to several events and present scenes.
  
• Removed some redundant notifications when invited to events.
  

• Corrected various typographical errors.
  
• Fixed various inconsistencies with events.
  
• Prevented Ophelia from sinking into stairs when talking to people.
  
• Fixed conditions for being kicked out of a certain restricted room.
  
• Prevented characters from crossing oceans to take Ophelia to events.
  
• Prevented a certain funeral from being planned multiple times.
  

Elsinore is released to the world today. We hope you all enjoy it. We can't wait for you to experience this world.

We'll be updating the game regularly and providing patch notes here in the coming weeks. However, if you encounter an issue playing the game, please send us a report at hello@goldenglitch.com -- we'll help you diagnose a fix quickly!

Love,
The Elsinore Team