VirtualNovel

Reward Changes

Hey everyone,

We’ve updated the Patreon rewards a little. Nothing too much has changed, but the $3 entry access has been reduced to $2.

We thought we’d try out lowering the entry to encour...

NPC Benchmark

Hey Patrons!

The NPC performance test is ready to roll, we'll start emailing out links shortly.

Thank you for taking part in this test, please note that we haven't yet finalized nav...

Some fun stuff!

Hey Patrons,

We've been polishing the NPC performance test, we're still on track to release it to Patrons at end of month. Thanks to everyone who's emailed saying they'd like to take part...

Old School Building Enviro

Hey Patrons!

As you might have read last month, we're moving from our newsletter format to a more casual blog style thing. We're going to be using Patreon more as a way to share our progr...

Happy New Year!

Hey everyone,

We hope you guys had a good break over the holidays,

December's Newsletter went out to our Patrons' email accounds on the 31st of last month, we showed off some exclusive screens...

November Newsletter

Hey everyone,

We sent out Nov's newsletter on the 30th, covering our progress with the rural scenery of Virtual Novel, and teasing an environment which we've commissioned from a freelance 3D artist ...

Virtual Novel's first Fan Art!

Courtesy of The Bomblord on Twitter, Virtual Novel gets its first fan art; a cute pixel-art rendition of one of the yet-to-be intr...

October Newsletter + Some other stuff

Hey Patrons!

In case you missed it, October's newsletter went out on Halloween, and covered our train system and the journey to Takayama.

2016-11-06 20:58:38 +0000 UTC View Post

September Newsletter

Hey Patrons!

Our September newsletter should be in your inboxes! You can read a little about how we're handling locomotion with regards to vertical features, like staircases and our elevator, an...

Performance Test #2 Sign Up!

Hey Patreons,

We hope you guys had a great weekend!

We're still on track to release a new test build of Virtual Novel, either this month or early next month, where you'll be able to ex...

Performance / Demo Build #2 + Some other stuff

Hey Patrons,

Sorry for the few-and-far-between posts lately, we've been quite busy with various things, but we definitely haven't forgotten about you guys!

We were recently given the ...

August Newsletter coming up!

Hey Patrons,

We've been working hard on building a really nice, 2016-08-27 17:13:26 +0000 UTC View Post

We've relaunched our website!

Hey Patrons,

Quick message - we've overhauled http://virtualnovelgame.com/ with a new design, new screenshots and access to p...

Thanks Patrons!

Hey everyone,

You should have received July's newsletter yesterday, where we talk in depth about character customization and animation -

July Newsletter

Hey everyone,

Look out for this month's newsletter in the next couple of days! We've made  a lot of progress with our modular character creator, and we'll have a bit of news about how you c...

Performance Test #1

Hey Patrons!

Edit: Regarding screenshots and videos, while we're still in early testing, please don't post stuff publicly yet! This will probably change soon, and we'll let you know w...

June Newsletter + Performance test build #1

Hey everyone!

We're pretty excited about this month. Around tonight some time, you can expect to see June's newsletter in your inboxes. The subject is something which we're quite passionate ...

Hey Everyone

To all our new Patrons (and old!) thanks for supporting Virtual Novel! It means a lot to us that people believe in our project.

This is a reminder that this month we're hoping to dist...

May Newsletter

Hey Everyone,

We just sent out the newsletters so keep an eye on your inboxes!

Thanks to everyone who has volunteered to help us out with the performance testing of our demo...

VR Performance Testers

We are looking for Patrons to help us get our demo scene running and stable  on a range of hardware configurations around June.

If you would like to help us out (and get to experience a bit of ...

Virtual Novel is getting Oculus Rift + Touch

Hey everyone,

Last week we got in contact with Oculus about the possibility of developing for the yet unreleased Touch, so that we could add better native support for the two major headsets ...

A teaser of our Vive progress...

Hey everyone, hope you're all enjoying the weekend!

We've talked quite a bit about how we plan to implement VR features into Virtual Novel. About the in-game phone, the movable VR-ADV text syst...

Past Newsletters for New Patrons

Hey everyone,

We're up to 4 newsletters now, and our number of Patrons have been slowly increasing (thank you!) which means some of you may not have read newsletters from previous mo...

Virtual Novel is getting an HTC Vive Pre!

Hey everyone,

Last week in our Patrons-only post, we mentioned we might have some good news to share. That news was that we have become eligible for an HTC Vive Pre.

We applied...

March Newsletter + Screenshots

Thanks again to everyone supporting us, check your inboxes for the March newsletter! Here's some of the media that features in this month's release, in hi-res  =)

2016-04-01 00:28:16 +0000 UTC View Post

March Newsletter

Yo,

We're pretty excited about this month's newsletter - we cover some topics that are really integral to Virtual Novel, and important to you as players.

You can read about how ...

Thank you!

To our recent new Patrons (and old!), thanks for joining us on this ride, it's getting pretty real, and you guys bumped us over our first funding milestone. That means we're no longer paying for softw...

February Newsletter

A reminder to check your inboxes tomorrow evening on the 29th, as we'll be sending out our February Newsletter!

This month, you can read up on the challenges we faced with Virtual Novels user in...

January Newsletter Released

Hey everyone, check your inboxes for the January Newsletter! Feel free to reply to it with thoughts, questions on any of the topics we talked about, or suggestions for what you'd like to hear about in...

1st Newsletter Coming Up

To all our current Patrons, thanks so much for supporting Virtual Novel. The January newsletter should be rolling out on the 28th January for anyone donating $3, here's a teaser thumbnail of what you ...