Hello Pseudoregalia enjoyers! It's been a whole year since the game came out! I wish i had something more substantial for ya'll...but alas, this is it(and honestly it just kinda worked out that it would be ready around the anniversary)

I will say at least I am working on a new adventure. It is still fairly early i admit, it's probably quite a ways off, but hopefully it will be something worth waiting for. I'm not even sure if I'm I'll be showing it off this year, there's a part of me that gets more reluctant to share early looks the more eyes it feels like i have on me...

Anyway, if you're interested in havin a little goat freak of your own, you can pick him up here for a limited time! [www.makeship.com]

If you are very specifically only interested in Sybil merch, something else will be coming down the line! We may also do an alternate run of the plushie or something, although it is not guaranteed right now!

I wrote a big thing about it last time, but I still cannot thank you all enough for making the Pseudoregalia the success that it is. We've nearly hit 10,000 steam reviews! What the heck!!!!!!!

Hope you're all having a good summer!

-rittz

Hey everyone! The Map Update is finally here, plus a little extra. Let's go into the full patch notes:

• Added Credits!!! Please check out and support the other wonderful people who helped make this game real
  
• Added the "Memento" power up, letting the player access a minimap. It can be found in the beginning of Castle Sansa, near the entrance from the Dungeon.
  
• Added Time Trials to each major area. Each one has an outfit reward for completing the bronze time. The Professional outfit has also been retrofitted into a small time trial in the same place- if you complete the time trial in the Castle Sansa area and don't get anything, thats why
  
• The Lock-On camera has been reworked and is much more effective at keeping enemies on screen.
  
• The camera will try to more aggressively follow the character when Wall Riding and not controlling it. The timing is the same as the "follow activate delay" setting.
  
• Added an option to have the lock on button recenter the camera when no valid targets are nearby.
  
• Added Keybindings
  
• Sybil has a new animation for bunny hopping
  
• You can now Air Kick again after kicking the breaker
  
• The game should be a bit more performant now, as some internal settings that didnt have an effect on visuals were still affecting performance have been reduced/disabled. Should also increase battery life on Steamdeck and similar devices.
  
• The song for Castle Sansa has been extended
  
• There is now a sound when parrying projectiles
  
• The dungeon has an added switch gate near the exit to ensure players find the path forward more easily.
  
• A guidestone has been placed near the main dungeon exit that states the text that used to only be outside the Tower.
  
• Strong Eyes will now briefly stagger to signify the second half of his health.
  
• The Princess's Big Dark Orb Bomb Thing will properly explode
  
• Modified and moved the entrance to the Underbelly key slightly to be more visible
  
• Modified geometry on the broken pillar in front of the tower
  
• Skid jumps now have a lower cap when you don't have Solar Wind, indicated by the blue after image and alternative sound effect.
  
• Fixed bug where Sybil could not move in all angles when camera was point down
  
• Sybil no longer gets displaced when climbing tall poles
  
• Probably some other small fixes I forgot to write down sorry

And that's just about it! You may also notice the shiny new cover/key art i made! It doesn't make me made when I see it and actually matches her post-jam design, woo!

Thank you so much to everyone, especially those who may have been waiting so patiently for the map specifically. I'm sorry there's not more major content, though I've already started production on my next game so it's been hard to find the time/energy to work on Pseudo in such a capacity, but even if it took a little long I did wanna get this update out. As well, you never know what might change, but for the time being this will be the only major update Pseudo will be getting.

I do still have a few more QoL or other minor tweaks i might polish off over the next week or two, though.
And while I don't think there should be any major ones, feel free to report any bugs found on here, the steam forums, the support email, or on the discord and i'll try to fix them up ASAP.

Localization into other languages may happen down the line as well.



Before I end this, a couple points!

The OST is now on sale on steam! You've been able to buy it on bandcamp for a while now, but if you'd like to grab it on steam that is an option too now.

If you liked Pseudoregalia, then Matt, our texture artist and other major level designer, has been brought on board a little game some of you might know called The Big Catch! He does great work and I'm super excited to see him on a project with a little more breathing room. Be sure to keep an eye on that game!

As well, you should all check out his previous game, Vernal Edge! It too is a lovely metroidvania with a unique take on the genre, and a big character action type combat focus- great if you thought Pseudo's was lacking!


And finally....I just wanted to say, thank you all, so, so much for playing. The game, as of last month, broke 100k sales, and that's something I'm honestly still having trouble processing. I really didn't imagine our dinky little jam game would connect with so many people and I'm SO happy that I can now work on games full time because of it. The feedback, the streams, the fanart, it's all just been crazyl!!
That said, I almost certainly won't be making Pseudoregalia 2, as there's many other games in different tones and genre's I'd like to get to, but I will at least make a spiritual successor to this game at some point, don't you worry about that!

And for Sybil...I think you'll meet her again, one day.


Thanks for reading, until next time!

-rittz

Hey guys! 2023 was honestly crazy, it went better than I ever could've imagined for a first game release!
Thank you so much everyone for playing, enjoying, and sharing around Pseudoregalia. It seriously means so much to me that so many people want to play what I want to make!! Anytime I go through and read the recent steam reviews it's just really nice, and I super appreciate all of them!

With the success of the game Makeship reached out to me, and I'm happy to share with you all that we've partnered to bring you guys a delightful little Sybil plushie!

You can check out more details and order it here!

https://www.makeship.com/products/sybil-plush

It's already smashed through the basic funding goal to get made, which is honestly just insane.



I'm sure some of you are wondering what the status is of the game's small update with the map, outfits, keybinds, etc
While progress has been made on it, simply put I am back to being completely solo for the time being and just would really like to work on other stuff for a while. At the end of the day, i still have a lot to figure out on my gamedev journey, but I think whatever I end up making next will be something most of you still enjoy!

The update is not canned and I would still like to get back to it, but I don't know when it'll happen! I thank you all for being patient with me with me though

Happy New Years!

-rittz

EDIT: Small update, if you had saves during my previous attempt an enabling cloud saves, you may want to back them up in the event thats steam syncs the old saves over your current ones. I'm afraid there's not much else i can do about this at this point though if i am to enable the feature now! Apologies, thanks for sticking with me through these growing pains.

Hey all, it's rittz again, this time with good news.
Cloud saves are enabled and working properly! Do be careful if you have any merge conflicts, although the cloud conflict manager should make it pretty easy to understand what you're doing if it comes up. Also note that saves are handled on a per slot basis, so if you have them in different slots they should actually sync without any issue!

Second thing is the beta patch- there's good performance gains to be had!

My machine has seen fps increases with retro resolution turned off and much less gpu utilization, and lower end hardware have gotten boosts too. The deck goes from ~15w, 90% gpu utilization with a projected battery life of 2.5 hours to ~9w, 40% gpu, and a 4 hour battery, and the numbers get a little better still with retro res on, so that's nice!

The beta patch is also currently being used to test the map and some minor changes for speedrunning, so it should not otherwise effect you if you're doing a normal playthrough. If you would like to try it out, the code is "betabetabeta"

I am also currently researching how to get the game running on dx11 and windows 7. I've tried a few things to no avail, but will keep attempting to figure it out.

That's all for now! Expect the full map patch most likely later this month. Maybe with an update to the steam capsule art too....

First things first- an update to make the game shipping build has moved the location the game reads your save data, but your old saves are still intact.

The old saves should be in your %steam\steamapps\common\Pseudoregalia\pseudoregalia\Saved\SaveGames
Access by right clicking the game > properties > installed files> browse, then navigating from there to the savegames folder.
The new location should be in C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\pseudoregalia\Saved\SaveGames (reference USER is your username of PC). You will need to run the game once with the update for the folder to show up. It will be empty there except a settings save, you just need to paste the data from the other folder, and everything should be back as it was.

Terribly sorry for the inconvenience and any scares it might've given you, this is my fault and won't happen again.

On the bright side, the install size should be smaller, performance better, cloud saves are enabled, and modding should be easier as well!

Please let me know if there's any additional problems, thank you.

(this is a duplicate of the other post, just to make sure it shows up in the news feed !)

EDIT: after some further testing cloud saves have been disabled until i can properly test them myself, at risk of messing with everyones saves again. i'll try to acquire a steam deck and get an update on that for you guys asap.

First things first- an update to make the game shipping build has moved the location the game reads your save data, but your old saves are still intact.

The old saves should be in your %steam\steamapps\common\Pseudoregalia\pseudoregalia\Saved\SaveGames
Access by right clicking the game > properties > installed files> browse, then navigating from there to the savegames folder.
The new location should be in C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\pseudoregalia\Saved\SaveGames (reference USER is your username of PC). You will need to run the game once with the update for the folder to show up. It will be empty there except a settings save, you just need to paste the data from the other folder, and everything should be back as it was.

Terribly sorry for the inconvenience and any scares it might've given you, this is my fault and won't happen again.

On the bright side, the install size should be smaller, performance better, cloud saves are enabled, and modding should be easier as well!

Please let me know if there's any additional problems, thank you.