What a month! We’re safely back home from Gamescom and have finally beat the Gamescom bug (🤧), so it’s about time we slide in here to say another big THANK YOU for the support and help with Ritual of Raven these past few weeks, and also to give you a little update on where this game and our studio is heading next! ✨

August 7th. The day that will go down in the history of cozy games. And Ritual of Raven was part of it! 🔮

For our release Malin (Social Media & Community Management) even flew all the way from Germany to Scotland to join Kathrin & Kasimir (Programming) for a little release party! And then once it was time for the game to actually go live, Sophie (Game Art) and Zoë (Game Design) joined via Discord call and our amazing soundtrack artist Marie also stopped by. 🥂 (More on the soundtrack later! 🤫)

We also went to Glasgow Indie Games Fest around the same time and only two weeks later you could find us walking around Gamescom. Lots of amazing conversations with people who are as enthusiastic about games as we are, we’re definitely looking forward to the next convention! 🥰

(This was actually the first time the 5 of us got together “IRL”!)

Now THIS is why we make games at the end of the day. You! 💜

Working on a project for such a long time and only sharing small snippets here and there can sometimes make you feel almost isolated and make you really lose sight of the bigger picture - but seeing how you guys play this game and decorate the world has never once failed to put a huge smile on our faces! So we can’t not share some of the beautiful snippets with you:

Also seeing the amount of hours you guys have already poured into exploring Ritual of Raven and the multiple 100% achievement screenshots we’ve gotten blow us away every time!

Ok, ok, we hear you! You want to know what’s next for Ritual of Raven or even Spellgarden Games in general. 👀

First of all a massive Thank You once again to everyone who has written a review, reported a bug or helped work on the upcoming Wiki. Yes, you’ve heard that right: A Ritual of Raven Wiki! 😮

Some amazing people on our Discord have been putting together all kinds of knowledge on Ritual of Raven and are currently working on an actual Ritual of Raven Wiki - how cool is that? 😍

If you’d like to help along (or just generally chat about Ritual of Raven), our Discord server awaits! 🫶

Stay tuned, we’ll definitely share the wiki on our socials when it’s here! 🔖

And what about updates for Ritual of Raven itself? 👀

We definitely have loved to hear all your feedback and ideas and have been diligently taking note of them to chat about which changes would be at all feasible to build into the game! We’re equally keeping track of the bugs that are still being reported and going forward will definitely make sure to fix bugs and add some more improvements.

But also our fingers are really itching to bring the next vision to life (and to your screens)! 🎮 We started working on a really cool concept that we’re sure you’ll be excited about once we share more!

So while we won’t just abandon the magical world of Nevar, we are already thinking of the next steps for our small studio. And not to forget we do have another little game that every once in a while demands our attention (🐸). So wherever it is we go next, we hope you’ll be on board for our next shenanigans! 🔮

Now before we let you go, we wanted to share one last thing! If you ever need your own witchy soundtrack as you go about your day, Marie (our amazing soundtrack artist) has shared the Ritual of Raven OST on YouTube! Featuring some incredibly adorable art & animation by Sophie by the way, so definitely worth checking out! 🎶

And for that extra bit of support for Marie, you can also purchase the soundtrack on Bandcamp[mariehavemann.bandcamp.com]! 💜

Once again thank you so much for going on this magical journey with us and helping us make it better! We’ll see you somewhere soon!

-Spellgarden Games 🔮

• Fixed a bug that would lead to loosing the ability to interact with anything after moving chests or fields
  
• Fixed a bug that would lead to players being stuck after certain cutscenes
  
• Fixed a bug where characters could be missing from cutscenes
  
• Fixed the crystal charger to not remove the crystal after closing it with the ESC button
  
• Improved the tutorial to be more flexible with players’ card choices
  
• Added some highlights to indicate where to find certain items in friendship quests
  
• Fixed a bug where items could go missing when harvesting or extracting them with a full construct inventory
  
• Fixed a possible blocked state after loosing extracted items in the second portal keeper quest
  
• Fixed infinite field glitch in puzzles
  
• Improved item stacking in the inventory
  
• Fixed Judgement puzzle to require 4 instead of 1 Poppy Fruit
  
• Fixed Raven disappearing after the end of the main story
  
• Fixed Raven appearing in the wrong position after teleporting
  
• Fixed pointer disappearing after placing a decoration using controller
  
• Fixed a friendship item reappearing after it was already collected
  
• Improved collision in the shortcut of the final area
  
• Improved construct navigation in the second area
  
• Fixed some spelling errors
  
• Some more minor and visual bugfixes