Shutter Story demo v0.2 update

Hi everyone!

Excited to share that the new v0.2 demo is live now on Steam! Thank you for your patience :)

This patch includes a lot of exciting improvements based on your feedback, including hugely improved performance, a "summarize" toggle to make the guide less overwhelming/ text heavy, slider/filter controls when in fullscreen mode in SpectralAware, feedback for incorrect answers, completely rewritten dialogues and more!

Here's a full list of the improvements in the new demo -

Performance

• Improved load times.

• Improved framerate.

• Reduced GPU load.

• Reduced build size.

SpectralAware gameplay

• Introduced a new "summarize" toggle for the guide to make reading it less overwhelming.

• Added fullscreen mode UI.

• Added short feedback after each wrong photo submission/answer.

• Added reset all sliders button.

• Reduced category ambiguity/overlap in guide.

• Added false positives section for each category in guidebook.

• Cleaned up photos to reduce false positives and unintended confusing elements.

• Reworked 2b. World Inconsistencies category (now named Reality Glitches).

• Removed redundant category 4b. Figures and Silhouettes.

• Added 0.5x, 2x speed and loop toggle buttons for videos.

Story

• Completely rewrote/polished all dialogues.

Visuals

• Reduced god rays intensity and noise.

• Improved NPC animation transitions.

• Added a reticle for when exploring in first person.

• Improved Eli's room's set dressing.

Sounds

• Updated and added new music.

• Reduced footstep sound effect.

• Removed slider sound in SpectralAware.

Miscellaneous

• Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Also ICYMI, Shutter Story is live now on Kickstarter! Read more about it here.

• Armaan