What's next?

Hello everyone! It's been one day since the launch of our beta prologue, and surprisingly, we already got some feedbacks! Thanks from the bottom of our heart for that! 

From what we gathered, you all have briliant ideas that we plan to develop. So in this post, we'll talk about some suggestions and what comes next in development. Our main focus for now is to improve as much as we can the prologue, to give a satisfying experience for all of you, and begin Chapter 1's story. 

Make a neutral first chapter

Some of you pointed the fact that a mere prologue isn't enough to fully grasp the personalities of our beloved characters, and that we may have a change of heart. At first, we were going to make a bit of Eldridge's route as the official demo. But now we're really considering this option, so tell us your thoughts about it!

Improve prologue's story

It's of course our main concern as we speak: increase the length, details, change some parts of the story to fit our thoughts better. It includes changing how the characters are introduced (nameless at first) (it was already planned that we got splash arts of the characters, kinda as in Danganronpa's characters introductions, if you know what I mean.), how the MC reacts to what's happening, some rework on characters' traits.

Music

Obviously our game lacks a LOT of music. We want Eeris Hotel to be as enjoyable as possible, but also unique. That's why we're waiting to have 100% original OST, composed by one of our friend, who's working on it. I really look forward to add her masterpieces to accompany your experience!

Minors adjustments

-Testing new sprites's outline, to make them stand out more.

-Adding a decent main menu (with your suggestions!)

-Shorten the length of the running sound

-Darken the screen when the MC is talking to themselves

What will be new in Chap. 1?

-More outfits

-More illustrations

-More infos about Crowliea!

-Exclusive moments with our characters

- Hotel tour!

Outside from the game/still thinking about it

We want our monsters to be loved from every platform! That's why we plan to add the following:

-Characters sheets with all their basic info! They will be available soon in a devlog here, but also on our other social medias

-Opening a Discord to chat with all Eeris Hotel enjoyers

-Also a Bluesky and Twitter are in the works

While all your ideas are wonderful, those following aren't planned to come out soon, and we explain why:

-Pronouns choice: By default, our character is they/them and most of the time they're called by gender neutral terms. However, we fully understand the need to be refered as other pronouns throughout the game. As a beginner, Onyx (the developper, me hehe) prefer to focus on other parts of the game, but as soon as I gain experience, I want to let my players as comfy as I can!

-Special episodes: we're thrilled to know you already want Valentine's/Halloween/Christmas/etc.. events! We're all hyped to it too, but it won't come until much later in development, hope you understand!

-Add french support: As french ourselves, we would loooove the idea to translate it! However, it takes a lot of work, and it will come, but only when the first chapter is out I think, so we can have a full complete demo at that time!

-Point and click: some of you suggested that we make some interactions with the setting, to find out secrets and other fun things to interact with. It's a wonderful idea! We may try to do it for the chapter 1, but don't get your hopes up because it looks very tedious to make!

Conclusion

Thanks for your support! It's a really big step in our lives to launch our first game, we have so much passion to transmit and characters to be loved, we really hope we could live from game dev one day, and Eeris Hotel plays a big part into it.

We're so moved that you took your time to suggest us some beautiful ideas that WILL get used for the majority, and we love to know your favourite character :)

Later this week or last week, we'll release a little "about us" to let you know the team a little, our relationship to the game, how we came this far, and of course our favs!
Regularly we'll try to post some news about how it's going, our character infos, and aaaall you can think of! When we announce  our discord (later this day or week) don't hesitate to come and talk with us and the others members!

See you soon!!