Relics of Wayne: Greymoor

v0.1.0

• We hired voice actors to bring Greymoor’s characters to life, with high-quality recordings and much more attention given to how voices sound within each environment (for example: Added reverb to sounds to simulate proper ambience and locations).
• Gave a visual overhaul to both Mina and Riley. Their original design didn’t fit the fantasy and concept of the game’s narrative. Also, why not make them sexier?
• Day One has been greatly expanded, especially its finale. Alex’s late-night visit now has multiple paths, choices, consequences, and a much more complete transition into the following morning.
• A huge amount of dialogue has been rewritten and polished across Greymoor’s cast, making conversations feel more natural and giving choices more personality.
• Characters now move their mouths to their actual dialogue, alongside many improved speaking animations and expressions.
• Dozens of new character animations have been added, making conversations, exploration, puzzles, and story scenes feel much more alive and less static.
• The opening cinematic has been polished, with new visuals, flashbacks, sound, atmosphere, and a brand-new Blackroot Games studio intro.
• Greymoor itself has received a major visual upgrade, including Wayne Manor, the town streets, town square, bar, bookstore, and basically all scenes in the game.
• Lighting, weather, skies, shadows, storms, and atmosphere have all been improved, helping each location feel much more distinct depending on the time of day and what’s happening in the story.
• The world now sounds much more alive, with new environmental sounds throughout Greymoor, from footsteps and fountains to storms, doors, old recordings, and other little details.
• The entire game’s interface has been redesigned, including the Main Menu, Pause Menu, Options, Load screen, Credits, dialogue choices, subtitles, inventory, gallery, and HUD.
• Dialogue presentation has been upgraded, with new close-ups, clearer speaker colours, and visual feedback when characters react positively or negatively to your choices.
• New accessibility and quality-of-life options have been added, including spacebar dialogue progression, number-key dialogue choices and auto-hiding the interface.
• Interacting with the world now feels much smoother, with an improved cursor, clearer hotspot feedback, better inventory interactions, and more responsive scene exits.
• Saving and loading has been significantly improved, with a redesigned Load screen and a number of fixes to make continuing your game much more reliable.
• The Gallery has been improved, alongside updated Credits and a new Thank You screen celebrating everyone who helped make the demo possible.
• A large number of story and progression bugs have been fixed, including issues that could previously interrupt quests, conversations, puzzles, scene transitions, and certain character encounters.
• Character movement has received a major polish pass, fixing sliding, awkward positioning, collision issues, incorrect facing directions, and other immersion-breaking problems.
• Greymoor now has updated branding and presentation, including a new application icon, cleaner startup experience, and plenty of smaller touches throughout the demo.
• Added tutorial for interacting with the inventory. Hope it makes your item interactions much easier!