FADE DEMO UPDATE AND SPEED RUN COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT

HEY EVERYONE,

Taking a break from working on the Whisper Update to present an announcement. To celebrate FADE's last 10 days of it's Kickstarter we released a brand new Early Access Demo that includes a series of quality of life improvements, better performance, and shorter loading screens. New Features are as follows:

• Bloom Slider

• Game Music Slider

• Changes to Blunt moveset to remove double swing attack

• Changes to Twinsword moveset to remove wide swing attack

• Changes to map loading: Now the main menu is apart of the world map, drastically getting rid of some long load times.

• Changes to NPC Dialogue Settings

• NPC Dialogues now de-aggro enemies to remove combat music

Additionally fixes some gripes with combat. To scour it and make sure there aren't any pesky bugs lying in wait, we're launching a Speed Run Competition from 2/19-3/1/25.

DEMO SPEED RUN EVENT

As it may be news to some, a lot of my continued passion for Souls-likes came from watching Speed Runs on the Games Done Quick twitch streams. It enthuses my passion for developing games, seeing how players play them, and seeing the impact the gaming community has on the world. TIMEFRAME: 2/19/25 - 3/1/25, FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT 3/8/25 Head to https://www.fade-rpg-official.com/speed-run to learn more if you're interested in getting involved.

WHATS NEXT?

As for what's next on the horizon. Lot's and lot's of work. We've reached 29,000 in funding at this current juncture and it's only gonna go further leading into our last 10 days. Additionally be on the look out for a gameplay stream by DansGaming 2/20 at 12 PM PST. He's gonna be doing a key giveaway and providing more information.

We're gonna keep it pushing. We've definitely got enough to make new content and finish the game. It'll take more if we plan on working on it full time. I.E I make this post from my day job lol. To give you some expectations, the following will be included in the Whisper Update:

• New Intro Cinematic

• New tutorial changes

• Changes to the first story events after the tutorial

• Enemy spawn changes

• Access to methods to reach the first Story boss in Whisper

• Access to a new questline to get into Baltane Capital

• New NPCs

• New Dialogues

• New Equipment

• New Bosses and Side enemies

• Lastly New Side quests that unlock new NPCS

We've come along way and we're not stopping.

Anyway, looking forward to all the bugs you all uncover, keep posting in the forums (I'm watching them avidly day and night) and be safe out there.

Here's some links to our newest devlog series and a video by content creator Beelz who gave the game a try.