Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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Check out the trailer here. About the Game:
Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars is a point & click adventure horror game told through the eyes of a family that has recently moved to an isolated town in the frozen lands to the north. Explore, research, uncover mysteries, solve puzzles, and interact with a large cast of characters in this rich and layered story.
Michael, Lily, and Gabrielle have recently moved to the frigid town of Haven under tragic circumstances. As they begin to rebuild their lives in this new home and meet the townsfolk of Haven, they quickly discover that not everything is what it appears to be. Michael struggles with dreams of dark waters and an unknown ancient evil resting beneath the cold waves. Are these simply dreams or are they a premonition of things to come?
Key Features:
3D Point & Click-style adventure game Play as two different characters throughout the game Deep narrative with abundant lore to discover and absorb Large cast of characters to speak and interact with Cinematic musical score by Chad Seiter (chadseiter.com) Direct tie-in to the tabletop game, Arkhangel: The Great Nameless – also by Winter Night Games (winternightgames.com)
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TBD – Currently in production Happy Gaming! Ana
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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Thanks for the post, Ana! I don’t want to waste everyone’s time with a ton of self-promotion on this site; because I’d rather just chat about adventure games themselves, so I’ll do this one thread and periodically update with big news from time to time but I’ll keep most of that to our blog, newsletter, and social media feeds. Anyway, “Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars” is a point & click built in Unity3D with the Adventure Creator system and it’s based off of a short story that I was plunking around with over 10 years ago. I would work on it for awhile, realize that I didn’t really know how to tell that narrative, and put it away. It was in 2012 when I was playing through a bunch of old Sierra games that it finally clicked. I COULD tell the story the way I wanted to in an adventure game setting. I gave my brother a ring, I hashed out the story outline and the design doc in a couple of months and began prototyping. I had a bunch of my own systems in place but they were all rudimentary and…to be frank…not all that great. Once Adventure Creator was released, all bets were off. I’ve been in active production on this thing in my off-hours for a couple of years. This involved building out locations, creating levels, tweaking systems, building shaders, texturing, modeling, animating, etc, etc, etc… While I still have a long way to go, I’m at a point now that I feel comfortable showing it off and talking about it a bit more. Thanks for the read! -Zack
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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Hi Zack The game looks fantastic. I'm looking forward to it. Keep up the excellent work. Cathy
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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I must be missing it but I don't see any info on whether this is a First Person or Third Person game. Maybe I have over looked it somewhere.
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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Hey GreyFuss! It's Third Person. Some puzzles take a first person perspective, but it's primarily fixed camera with the player moving around in scene. Once you hit the scene's edge, it'll either shift to a new camera perspective or track the player's movement. I actually just updated the game info on the page to make sure people knew that it's Third Person. Thanks for that! -z
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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Going to keep my eye on this one... thanks for the info
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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to GameBoomers, Zack Continued success with the game, it seems like a must buy for me.
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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*snorts awake* AHHH!! So...Um...I've been quiet lately...a little *too* quiet, if you ask me. Just wanted to ping everyone about Arkhangel. It's still going strong and we are looking to (hopefully) release at the end of this year. I'm past alpha and pretty much at a "beta" stage. I'm working with the composer now to finalize musicians and recording sessions, doing some finalizing tweaks to puzzles and gameflow (although, you can play the game all the way through now), starting work on cinematics (eesh...that's going to be the time consuming one at this point), and crushing bugs. We recently overhauled our webpage: www.winternightgames.comWe also released the official artwork for the game: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/59...Art_Full_v2.pngWe're getting there!
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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Hey all! I put together a quick gameplay teaser for Arkhangel. Check it out if you get the chance! This is already using some old footage but I got to the point where I was updating things so rapidly, that I needed to say "ENOUGH" and go through what I had and put something together. Plus, it was just good to take a step back from development and do something linear. Gameplay Teaser - https://vimeo.com/226576976Official Page - https://winternightgames.com/arkhangel/Hope you all are doing well! -Zack
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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Will it play on Windows 7? Hi! It's a Unity game, so it should work fine on Win7. Looking at the min specs for Unity 2018 (which is a newer version than what Arkhangel is built on) and it can go all the way back to Vista. It might not perform as well, but it should run. I'll do some testing!
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ARKHANGEL: THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN STARS July 19th, 2018 – Seattle, WA Winter Night Games, LLC has announced that its first game, Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars, will be released on Steam for Windows and Mac platforms on Friday, July 27th, 2018. Michael, Lily, and Gabrielle have recently moved to the frigid town of Haven under tragic circumstances. As they begin to rebuild their lives in this new home and meet the townsfolk of Haven, they quickly discover that not everything is what it appears to be. Michael struggles with dreams of dark waters and an unknown ancient evil resting beneath the cold waves. Are these simply dreams or are they a premonition of things to come? Inspired by the classic point & click adventure games of yesteryear, Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars is a story told through the eyes of a family that has recently moved to an isolated town in the frozen wilderness. Explore, unearth dark mysteries, solve puzzles, engross yourself with deep lore, and interact with a large cast of characters in this rich and layered narrative beautifully underscored by a thematic and emotional musical soundtrack by composer and conductor Chad Seiter (ReCore, Super Lucky's Tale, Star Trek, FRINGE, Lego Jurassic World, The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses). Availability and system requirements: PC - Windows 10 (Windows 7 SP1+ compatible but unsupported); i3 Core @ 2.9 GHz; 4 GB RAM; Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities; 5.2 GB available space. Mac – macOS Sierra; 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7; 8 GB RAM; 5 GB available space. Steam store link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/868580/Arkhangel_The_House_of_the_Seven_Stars/ Winter Night Games is an American independent gaming company founded by two weird brothers, Josh and Zachary Quarles, focusing on horror and narrative driven experiences. Visit us online: https://winternightgames.com/ For press inquiries: https://winternightgames.com/press/ Contact: winternight@winternightgames.com PO Box 31145 Seattle, WA 98103 Follow Winter Night Games on social media: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/winternightgames/Twitter - https://twitter.com/WinterNightGameInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/winternightgames/See you next Friday. :-D
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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THREAD NECROMANCY! Hey everyone. Long time no talk. I've sort of disengaged from all forums but I did at least want to let everyone know that I've released the final major content update for Arkhangel. It's a big one. This finally brings traditional point & click navigation to the game along with a ton of additional updates. There's actually been a number of updates since release. Here's a bullet point list of high level things: + Added traditional point & click navigation - This is now the default and recommended method of navigation. + Multiple direct input updates including faster turning and transitions and allowing the player to continue walking in the direction they are facing after a camera change if input is still active. The direction will update when the user actively changes their input direction. + Added game controller support. + Added a run option. + Added a method of fast travel that unlocks at a certain point of the game. + Interface updates that include opening the inventory on a hotspot interaction. + Updated Menu Flow & Tutorial + Inventory redesign. + Adjusted and revamped a ton of camera angles/transitions + Reconstructed & revamped many areas to better fit point & click navigation (and just general flow improvements) + Steam achievements + Several bug fixes and bits of polish throughout including changes to dialogue and some characters. Here's a video: https://youtu.be/buWxv1F_X5ISteam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/868580/Arkhangel_The_House_of_the_Seven_Stars/itch.io - https://winternightgames.itch.io/arkhangel-the-house-of-the-seven-starsHope everyone is doing well and staying safe. -Zack We also put together a little video showcasing several user reviews: https://youtu.be/CQ_Z4ypZmQII'll be posting another video later today.
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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Hi Zack Great news !! I played Arkhangel when it was originally released and thoroughly enjoyed it. Just didn't like the rather poor navigation mode. So .... Wonderful to hear that that has been fixed Is this new version then a patch or a full replacement ?? Cheers. Mad
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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[quote=Zack] Hey Mad! Thank you so much! It's somewhere in between. quote] Well I burnt the game to disk but I do still have the original files in my Download folder. So does this new download come with instructions as to how to use it ?? [ I am not a techie person ] Also .... Is there a charge for the new files ?? I just visited itch.io but couldn't find a specific "update" download. Of course, if it's a new full game I am willing to pay for it !!
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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[quote=Zack] Hey Mad! Thank you so much! It's somewhere in between. quote] Well I burnt the game to disk but I do still have the original files in my Download folder. So does this new download come with instructions as to how to use it ?? [ I am not a techie person ] Also .... Is there a charge for the new files ?? I just visited itch.io but couldn't find a specific "update" download. Of course, if it's a new full game I am willing to pay for it !! Oh, I see what you mean. So, when you download this, it's a complete replacement. The way Unity handles an update is that it's essentially a new version from top to bottom. I wish that itch.io had a little better communication on updates, but essentially, you just need to download whatever is on the main page for whatever platform you need and run that instead of your old version. If you've already purchased it, there is no additional charge. Just a free update. Thanks Zack. I finally installed the game earlier this year but still haven't gotten around to playing it. I have the game from Steam and I was alerted to the update and did it yesterday. Great! Thank you so much! Would love to hear people's thoughts on it!
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OKAY. Last video from me. Check out this mini-documentary that we put together to wrap up our video series in honor of the version 1.5 update releasing this week! It goes into the history of Arkhangel and Winter Night Games. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/Hgj33WYTsag
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Got the updated version up and running now - with "point & click" working. A fabulous improvement !! Thank you, Zack I won't carry on playing right now as I already have three games on the go. But I will no doubt make this my next "new" one [Still no walkthrough anywhere that I can find, however, so I just know I'll probably get stuck in all the same places I did with the original version once I do get going ]
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Re: Announcing Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
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Hi! At the suggestion of Mad, I have added a full walkthrough for Arkhangel on our site: https://winternightgames.com/arkhangel-walkthroughI tried to keep it as spoiler-free as possible. Just the facts.
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