Hello Horror Tales players!

Well, today I have a BIG surprise to you all: The Free Demo of Horror Tales The Beggar will release tomorrow 16:00 CET. The demo features parts of the first 3 areas of the game, when some content cut down to make the demo more compact while also leaving some of the lore mistery to be resolved in the final game!

Releasing this demo SO close to the release date (June 17) is a big gamble for me, but the demo had to be released because various reasons.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1343340/HORROR_TALES_The_Beggar/


Horror Tales The Beggar is not Horror Tales The Wine 2.0. It expands in not just the lore, but the gameplay itself too. Let's just say that The Beggar is highly experimental with some game mechanics you've never seen in a Horror Game. For those of you doubting to buy the game or not on release, you can try the Demo and see for yourself if this is your cup of tea!

You can try the Demo on your Steamdeck! The game features a "Steamdeck" mode in the video settings menu, and I'd love for you to try it if you are a steamdeck owner. Lots of hours have been focused into making an amazing steamdeck experience. Now it is time for you to judge if it was worth it!


After you have played the demo, please come to the Steam Discussions of the game and post your feedback! Although the game will be released shortly in June 17, I am a quick worker and if there is some fixing to be done I can DO IT!


If you love what you see in the demo and would like to help me with localizacion of the Demo and The Full game, please let me know here! We are currently looking for localizations to French, Arabic, Korean, German, Italian and Portuguese! Having also Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek and Swidish localizations would be absolutely fantastic too!!! Of course, your name will also be featured in the credits of the game :) The localization is just 2145 words long, so it should not take you longer than 1 hour.

Access to Community Localizations

Why community localizations for those languages? In my previous experience with other released games, including Horror Tales The Wine, economically it is just not worth it to pay for a profesional localization in those languages. That is the simple and crude truth.


To finish this long post. as you may know, the videogame industry is in crisis mode from quite some time. Layoffs everywhere, indie game that sell 0 copies, etc. I have not been inmune to this crisis and the sales of my games have significantly decreased since two years ago. That why I am betting my gamedev future in one big gamble: Go big or go home. That's why I am releasing a Demo so close to release AND also will feature a 40% discount for release. The game will never be as deeply discounted for years.

See you all tomorrow in your youtube and twitch channels playing the demo or in the discussions reading your feedback!

Don't forget to Wishlist the game. Big hug,

Carlos

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1343340/HORROR_TALES_The_Beggar/

Hello there!

As previously stated, I am developing a game with lots of gameplay mechanics that will make MIND: Path to Thalamus players explode with tears of happiness. Similar to MIND, in Horror Tales The Beggar players can change the weather to serve their purpose. Does this brings back memories from MIND?

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1343340/HORROR_TALES_The_Beggar/

Hello you beautiful people,

How has been everything going?

From my dev side, I continued developing games, but instead of focusing on puzzlers, I shifted thowards immersive horror fps. My about to be released soon game Horror Tales The Beggar, second of The Horror Tales Saga shares many design choices with MIND: Path to Thalamus, but 1000 times better.

You will bend the earth, the sky and physics to defeat demons in The Beggar and as you can see in the trailer, it looks amazing thanks to the power of UE5 and nvidia DLSS.

I am sure anyone who loved mind will enjoy The Beggar too!

Watch the trailer in Horror Tales The Beggar Steam page or my twitter.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1343340/HORROR_TALES_The_Beggar/

Big hug,

Carlos.

Hello Wanderers! I am Carlos Coronado, solo game developer of your beloved or hated MIND: Path to Thalamus. I don't want to talk too much. I am making a new horror game called HORROR TALES: The Wine.

You can find it here: https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/1340640/HORROR_TALES_The_Wine/

It is in many many ways similar to MIND, but diferent in many others. You'll have to find for yourself. The surreal environments are there indeed! It will be released in two months.

Here are some screenshots of it. EEENJOY! If you want to know more, visit it's steam page :)

First of all, you deserve some words. The game is not well maintained, you’re right. As we stated some times in the forums, MIND was developed by only one person, and Carlos published 2 more games and is working in his next unannounced title.

That made hard to fit the necessary time to fix some of the issues you reported. MIND is an old game, and some of the features added, specially for VR, were developed when the headsets and the motion controllers did not exist. Some of the systems behind are hard to modify and we needed to wait until Carlos could invest the needed time to avoid new bugs from the fixes.

Today we’re releasing a new patch that addresses some of the known issues with VR movements and some features missing from time ago.

VR movement has been changed. Use the left hand trackpad (Vive) or joystick (Oculus) to move around WASD like. Also, now the character will move in the direction you’re looking, no more head-body disconnection. Finally, you can use your right hand trackpad / joystick to rotate the character, especially useful if you play with only one station and don’t have 360º tracking. Next you can find a full VR controllers reference:

Click for a high resolution version[i.imgur.com]

Last, but not least. We added 2 “new” languages today, Hungarian and Norwegian. Both languages were in the game in the past, but they were missing and we’ve been able to put them again. I want to remind you that the game does not rely anymore in Steam language selection. We had to make a new system because the game has some languages not currently present on Steam like Catalan and Euskara. To change the game language go to Settings > Game.

The title may seem redundant but it’s what literally happened with Mind and the language support and the patch we launched today.

Nearly one month ago we launched a patch that fixed the translations of the game. It worked in our internal testing but once merged with a new build with more fixes the translations banished again.

Later we will go deeper in the technical aspects but for those looking for what’s new, next you can find how the new language system works.

In the Settings - Game menu you will find a new option called “Language”. Every time you click on it the game will be translated to a new language, click until you find yours.

Due to some problems with some languages the current supported languages are:

• English
  
• Russian
  
• Português
  
• Korean
  
• Chinese
  
• Italian
  
• French
  
• Euskara
  
• Spanish
  
• Deutsch
  
• Japanese
  
• Català

Later we will update the game to add the missing languages. Also, now the game ignores the language you selected on Steam, we will update the game to detect and configure the game accordingly in the future. On the positive side, Catalan and Basque people will be able to play the game without having to hack it ;)

In the last announcement we talked about how the updates of your tools may cause problems. Well, this is a good confirmation of the theory.

The last update fixed the language problem. We relied on some kind of hack of the Steam’s depot system that allowed us to overwrite the file that corresponds to the english translation of the game. Every time you switched from a language to another, Steam overwrites the english subtitles with a file with the texts on the selected language. And in fact, it was working correctly, the files are updating correctly right now, but for some reason, the texts ingame were in a perfect English.

After some research it seems that the Unreal Engine translation system crashed and the game is not loading that file and it’s showing the default value for the the texts in the game (yes, English).

Luckily Carlos is working in a new game and he developed a new translation system for it and finally we adapted it for Mind.

That’s why we needed some time and that’s why it’s not fully functional, it’s a beta version of the translation system and it lacks some features (like getting the language you selected on Steam).

Thanks for reading,

First of all, we want to apologize for the delay fixing the game. We launched two games this year (Annie Amber and Sky Racer) and maintaining Mind and the other games needs to be done while Pantumaca Barcelona is working in a new title. And Pantumaca is a one developer studio.

Also, it was hard to know what was happening because we have changed nothing in the game, so it was strange to have so many new errors. In fact, all the problems came from updates… but not from Mind, but from Vive and Unreal Engine 4. These updates changed how some low level API work and broke our game.

We are releasing an update today that addresses some of them, next you can find the changelog:

• Fixed player spawn in the 2nd part of the Father chapter
  
• Changing the language in the Steam properties fixed
  
• Fixed Vive controller’s touchpad problems
  
• Achievements can be unlocked again
  
• White borders appearing in Vive

Many thanks for your understanding

“MIND: Path to Thalamus” is here again, with new content to surprise all its regulars and potential new players. We have added an exclusive level, Halloween-based. Be ready to visit the darkest corners of a mind on this new level we’ve prepared for you... NO MIND CAN ESCAPE FEAR ITSELF!

“MIND” is renowned for being a game full of the highest beauty thanks to the expert hand of its creator, Carlos Coronado. Breath-taking environments that are dreamy and poetic. But the same ability to make the game impressive and beautiful can make it spooky and unsettling. Expect a whole new layer to the MIND experience, ready to cause you some good ol’ goosebumps.

Carlos Coronado is a prolific gamedev that have surprised the world with beautiful games such as “MIND”. But since then he has also created the mesmerizing game “Annie Amber”, created to be experienced in VR. And now Sky Racer has been his latest release, also to be played on VR. But good thing is he juggle between creating new hits while also revisiting and improving prior games. This is what has happened with MIND, even if it succeed years ago, the game has been improved constantly, with whole new features such as a VR version. And now we have this, a Halloween level, that adds a whole new layer of experience to the game.

Today we are publishing an small update, in fact, there are only two items in it:

• Fix: Father chapter portal problem
  
• Fix: Clear Night in Uyuni ball not showing

I want to apologize for the delay fixing these two, it was hard to find what was happening, especially in the second one because it was related to a new feature of Unreal Engine we were not aware of.

Every time you post in the forums a bug we start the bugfixing process. It’s starts by reporting it to Carlos and implies prioritizing them. For example, game stoppers are always at the top, because it’s preventing people from ending the game.

Then it comes the tricky part. We need to reproduce a bug to be able to fix it. It could seem easy because it’s failing for you, and it’s clear there is an error, but the variables that may cause an error are overwhelming. Sometimes it’s a problem with the graphics adapter, the operating system or how the engine is made, and even it’s possible that it’s a problem with a single model of graphics card and driver version.

Once a bug is reproducible, it’s possible to start fixing it because you can change something, test how it affects the game and find what’s causing the error. Ironically, it’s usual to spend less time fixing the problem than finding how to reproduce it.

Thanks for reading