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- Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
Now Streaming: Demo Gameplay
Steam post image As part of Steam Next Fest, we're streaming demo gameplay of Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle right here on its Steam store page. Take a look, and try the demo for yourself.
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Interview with Yoshio Nishimura, the Developer of Veritas Tales
Soni Village, Uda District, Nara Prefecture, Japan. In a small village of about 1,200 people, with only a single traffic light, one game craftsman spent six years building a certain indie game. Yoshio Nishimura. Fresh o…
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Production Column: Part 7
Since traditional gamebooks are physical books, the book itself doesn’t play music that captures the game’s world or produce sound effects. However, *Witch of the Dark Castle* features truly wonderful music. The compose…
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We have updated the demo version.
We have fixed a bug that caused the game to become unplayable when using certain items under specific conditions.
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Production Column: Part 6
The illustrations in *The Witch of the Dark Castle* are in full color. To provide some context regarding typical analog gamebooks, their illustrations are usually printed in grayscale or black and white. These illustrat…
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Streaming Policy
We welcome livestreaming and video creation of all kinds. Monetization is also permitted. A small request: at its heart, Veritas Tales is about the choices made by your own hand. While watching someone else play is a pl…
Announcement - Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
Demo Now Available!
We are pleased to announce that a demo for Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle — a "reading-style" fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story — is now available on Steam! In the demo, players can exper…
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Production Column: Part 5
There are many different genres of gamebooks. Fantasy, like *The Witch of the Dark Castle*, science fiction, horror, mystery, and so on—there are probably just as many as there are in regular novels. I think the fantasy…
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New Gameplay Trailer Now Available!
We've released a brand new gameplay trailer for Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle! The two-minute video focuses on gameplay, giving you a taste of the roots of the fantasy we love today — the texture and feel of t…
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Production Column: Part 4
Steam post imageA gamebook is a type of book where the story unfolds differently depending on the reader’s choices. *The Witch of the Dark Castle* also offers many choices. There are even scenes where a single choice ca…
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Production Column: Part 3
Steam post image Anything called a “game” inevitably has “rules” to some extent, and gamebooks are no exception. You might jump to a paragraph (a section of text marked with a number at the top) based on the choice you…
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Production Column: Part 2
Steam post imageIngredients: rice flour, tapioca flour, chestnuts, dates, apricots, raisins, cacao nibs, coconut oil, cinnamon, aluminum-free baking powder, vinegar When it comes to food in gamebooks… for some reason, “…
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Production Column: Part 1
When I was a child, I could not read books at all—not novels, not really anything of that kind. Whenever I looked at rows of text, I would quickly lose track of where I was reading, and it took me a very long time to un…
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Neo-Classic Digital Gamebook RPG Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle Coming
Developer Digitalis Publishing and publisher 15 Industry (pronounced "Ichigo Industry") are pleased to announce the upcoming release of the Neo-Classic Digital Gamebook RPG “Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle”, alo…
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