The 2023 Rewind!

Hello, Introverts!

We are here today to let you know about our work during 2023! It was a crazy year for us, we have made a lot of changes and additions. We hope you will have a lot of fun reviewing all of them with us!

Let's jump into it!

Overall State

We have made significant progress in all of the game aspects, we have listed the most important ones!

• Completed all the features for the game

• Completed a bunch of extroverts, gimmicks, and levels for the game

• Created a host of accessibility features, with more planned

Extroverts

The Extroverst are the main antagonists in our game, and we are taking great care of creating them. They not only have a unique look but also special abilities! Always be ready with a good strategy when facing those people!

• We’ve created 18 new extroverts for you, and counting!!

• Each extrovert has their own special abilities, usually triggered by eye contact or by breaking eye contact!

• Here we put a few that we like to show off

Game Developer’s Conference

This year, we were able to go to our very first Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco! We had a blast, met lots of awesome people, and we were able to show off the game at various events around town. Thanks so much to everyone who let us show the game, and thank you to everyone who played it, gave feedback, and reiterated that yes, this IS literally their life!

Room Customization

Being an introvert means your room is your sanctuary, so we wanted to make sure you can customize it to your heart’s content!

• This year, we put the finishing touches on our room customization feature.

• We created a whole list of different room themes, and can’t wait to see how you’ll mix and match them!

Character Customization

We want to give you the ability to express yourself through your clothes as well!

• We completed our character customization feature, and created a whole host of hoodies, trousers, skirts, boots, backpacks, and more for you!

Accessibility

It’s important for us that anyone can play Don’t Stare, so, we’ve added a bunch of accessibility features:

• Adjustable values for magnet zones, damage values, etc.

• Auto health recovery

• Bouncy pits, so if you’re about to fall out of the level, you’ll simply bounce back up again!

• Fully remappable controls!

• Color blind mode

• Dyslexia font

• Font size

• Adjustable brightness, contrast, and saturation values!

Teasing for the Future

In the following year, we would like to move forward with our game development, implementing the following content:

• More extroverts!

• More gimmicks!

• More levels!

• We also have some fun features to show off soon - two new additions that make the extroverts even scarier than before!

• Release? 👀

We want to thank you all for your support during the development phase. If you would like to know more about the game, feel free to join our Discord Server!

~Ascended Team