This is it. The Next Fest is right around the corner and the demo of Pale Night is finally available on Steam for free! And with it, the first major update, adding storyline elements, dialogues, cutscenes, character controller quality of life, French translation and more!
What are you waiting for? Go play the demo and tell me what you think! I'd love to get your feedback, so make sure to tell me how was the game in the community hub. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1631550/

Update Changelog

Improvements

• Add storyline cutscenes (wake up scene, Pook escape, forest cutscene, boss defeated cutscene)
• Add a flexible dialogue system with custom tags to pace the typewrite effect, special text effects, dialogue sounds
• Add localization system
• Add French language translation
• UI: Fit selection arrows to the text (helps with localization)
• Made the "elevator" level easier (more time to jump onboard)

Changes

• Improved character controller game feel
  • coyote jump
  • jump buffering
  • walljump doable a few pixels from the wall
  • analog movement with gamepad sticks
  • halved gravity jump peak
  • heavier fall
  • fine-tuned wallstick frames
• Increase fall height necessary for screenshake
• Add more tree layers and parallax effect to forest scene
• Slight changes to boss fight to fit the new character controller game feel
• Improve indoor tree entrance and exit to blend better with the background

Bug fix

• Fix debug menu options
• Fix continue button when there is no save files
• Fix crystal hitbox bug on tree bossfight
• Fix visual bug with guard monkey duplicating
• Fix dashing while falling down a wall and getting stuck
• Fix elevators jitters