- Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! - 23 December 2023
Dear Players! ❄️ Our entire team would like to wish you Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! 🎄 It’s been a good year for our game. We’ve released many devlogs and with your feedback moved closer to the release of the full version. 💝 We’d like to thank all of you for being there with us and supporting us throughout the year 2023. 🔥👏 We can’t wait to face what the year 2024 has in store for us and we hope you’ll be a part of our journey. 🤩 As always we’d like to invite you to join our discord community 👇 Have a wonderful Christmas and see you soon ☃️ Dracula's Castle Team
- Castle's Reshaping - 12 December 2023
Hello Players 👋 Welcome back to the new devlog from the Dracula’s Castle! 🧛 Today, we’ve prepared a few different novelties which in our opinion will be much to your liking. Without further ado let’s dig into them! New room type which can be used to shape the castle according to the player's desired look! 🤩🔥 More secrets in store for these rooms… Will you be able to discover them and use their full potential? Notification System The notification system has been completely re"vamped" 🦇. Game conditions will now trigger notification icons with tooltips. If the conditions are resolved, the icons will self-dismiss. Alternatively, the player can also right-click to dismiss them. They will then collapse properly in the UI. 📝 New Exterior Decoration System A new meta-type of room has been added requiring some serious rewiring of the grid system. Now players can place external decorations…
- JOIN OUR PLAYTEST! 🦇 - 9 November 2023
Join our Steam Playtest! 🧛♂️ Dive into the shadows of the night and explore the dark corridors of my majestic castle. This is a special opportunity to be the first to play the game before its official release! 🦇 How to join in? We explain step by step: 1. Login to your Steam account 2. Go to the Steam page 3. Scroll a little lower on the page 4. You will see the banner like below, and click the green button "request access" During the Steam Playtest, your bravery shall be tested, and your gaming prowess shall be honored as you navigate through the spine-chilling halls and face the supernatural challenges that await. 👻 Don't be afraid, for this is an opportunity to become a part of Dracula's Castle. 🏰 Your destiny awaits, brave souls! Join the playtest and let the haunting adventure begin! 🖤 If you have any questions, join our Discord where you can talk to us directly 👾 See you so…
- Dining with New Friends - 3 October 2023
Hello! 👋 Creatures of the night have been really restless recently, hence the lack of the news. Finally, our spy managed to escape and share with us the latest affairs of Dracula's Castle. 🦇 The first abnormal change is enormous amounts of water and food entering the castle. Have the minions of the Count become affected by thirst and hunger? 🤔 Based on this information we’ve created a theory: if the castle runs low on food, its resource production will take a big hit, on top of that Dracula won’t be able to feed on his minions because of their weakened state. If they run out of water, his creatures will suffer even worse! 📝 The castle also undergoes some changes. We’ve discovered some works on decorative rooms 🧱 such as towers,spires etc… They’ve also started building corridors 🔨 and plan to add various traps inside. Are they afraid of vampire hunters’ raid? On top of that doors a…
- Games Incubator Publisher Sale - 12 August 2023
Hello Players! 👋 We are happy to welcome all of you to Games Incubator Publisher Sale! 🔥 The Dracula’s Castle has been spotted at the premises of our publisher sale! 🔭 We wonder what might Dracula be planning… https://store.steampowered.com/app/1502050/Draculas_Castle/ Add the game to your wishlists and watch closely as more and more information unfolds with each single devlog. 📝 For 14 days, from August 12 until August 26, 2023, we have prepared huge discounts on our games and also you can try our demos and prologues! 🎮 https://store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesIncubatorPublisherSale What can you expect from the Games Incubator Publisher Sale? 🤔 Huge discounts! This is the opportunity you've been waiting for! Take advantage of amazing promotions of up to 85% OFF. Don't miss the chance to enrich your game collection with the titles you have been waiting for! Exclusive demo and prol…
- Resource Management! - 17 July 2023
Welcome to Dracula's Castle! 👋 🧛 We are grateful you’ve accepted the invitation of our humble lord, progenitor of the vampires- Dracula. 🦇 Today, we’d like to talk some more about the topic we’ve mentioned last month- the raw resources as well as some of the improvements introduced to the castle! 🤩 On top of the already existing raw resource rooms, we’ve decided to introduce two entirely new! They are connected with each other and undoubtedly worth the materials required for construction. The first of the new raw resource rooms added is The Timber Store! 🪓 It produces the wood material, which is further processed in the second raw resource room - The Sawmill. Speaking of Sawmill, this room will take the wood from the Timber Store and produce lumber out of it. Do not neglect the importance of this resource as it is now a requirement for building certain rooms! 🔨🧱 There is a new, h…
- New Resources - 16 June 2023
Hello Players! 👋 It’s been a while since the last devlog but we’re very excited to share the current progress with you! 🤩 There are lots of changes and the first of them happened in your castles! 🏰 From now on your Peons and Laborers will now wander around the rooms. They no longer just stand still and look into the camera! 🚶 Speaking of your servants… The NPC cards received an update and expansion as well! All the NPCs now have dynamic statistics which are displayed in the mentioned NPC cards. 👍 What’s more, we’ve introduced a new kind of in game resources- Raw Resources. ⛏️ Unlike the dynamic basic resources (namely water, food and power), they aren’t collected by clicking on the icon appearing on the room. They are important because of multiple different uses. Some of the activities will require them, for example: - some buildings will require both blood and wood to be built, -…
- Quests and Improvements - 8 March 2023
Creatures of the night, 🧛 In today’s devlog we’ve got plenty of news straight from Dracula's Castle 🏰, Transylvania. The main being the creation of Tavern 🍻. The place is to become essential in your future adventures as it’s the first quest hub in our production. 🤩 Speaking of quests - we’ve added 2️⃣ new quests as well as a new mechanic being the time limited quests. To make sure you’ll enjoy interacting with the in game characters 🧍 we’ve been working on the new dialogue system 💬 which now supports branching dialogue! 😍 We know that from time to time even the most committed vampire needs a break from the blood 🩸, that’s why the water was changed and now is a collectible resource. 💧 Not only have we improved the dialogue system but also worked on the fighting mechanics! ⚔️ Your upcoming battles are to become more challenging ⚠️ as from now on, you can be fought by multiple ene…
- Game Mechanics, New Units and Locations 📖 - 1 December 2022
Evening Vampires!🦇 Creatures of the Night, tonight we will be talking about the ongoing development of Dracula’s Castle. We’ll go over some new mechanics, new unit types and leveling them up and new locations. 🌃 Let’s get into it! 😈 Draining Your Victims! 🩸 You can no longer feast upon your victims indefinitely. Townspeople will become increasingly wary 😱 after each of your attacks, and thus the chance of your failure will increase. 📈 If that wasn't enough, it will be very easy to exaggerate the amount of blood you drink from a person - there is a chance of their death, and this will make Dracula’s time in town more difficult. ☠ On the positive blood type side (heh, get it?) victory in battle will result in a modest blood gain. ⚔ UI Improvements 🤓 Hovering over UI Buttons now highlights them! We also cleaned up non-decorative game text fonts. All this to make the game easier and…
- Dracula in the Throne Room - 26 October 2022
👋 Hello Players! 👋 We are getting closer and closer to the holiday that is Halloween, and in connection with this, Dracula has arrived in his castle throne room! 🧛🏻♂️ Are you curious to find out what spooky novelties have arrived in the game, along with the king of darkness? 👀 We invite you to read the next devlog 👇 Dracula in the Throne Room 👑 As befits a throne room, it will be a kind of "command center" for our castle. What can we do from here exactly, you ask? Behold: 🌳 From the throne room you will be able to access Dracula’s tech tree 💰 See your inventory and manage your equipment 🌃 And send Dracula to scour the areas around Transylvania! Another amazing thing we managed to implement into the game is a task system! 🔍 This is a fully working quest system that replaces the old static log page! You will not only be able to track the progress of the main quest, but also bu…
- Castle Chambers - 12 September 2022
🦇 Hello Players! 🦇 The production of our game has been going on for some time and you can see the first entries about it HERE Over several posts, we share some of the development journey and explain some of the core concepts and design choices behind Dracula’s Castle. From now on, we will also regularly publish devlogs here - on Steam - so you can follow the development of our game together with us! The updates will appear every month, and we really hope you will like them 🔥 Today’s theme is castle chambers. Here’s a preview of two room types that we will be able to build in our castle! 🏰 How many rooms you build will determine how many workers and minions you can have. These rooms will be divided into two types: Tombs Bedrooms How quickly you get to travel to England on the Demeter will depend on their number, so manage your resources and build appropriate rooms to develop your str…
- Dracula's Castle - Official Teaser - 27 October 2021
The new teaser trailer is done! We're happy to announce that the Dracula's Castle now has a teaser. :)= And just in time for Halloween too! It hints at some of the mechanics in the game. If you have a close look you should be able to spot some of the milestones from the previous updates, plus a few extra goodies: - Improved graphics on the rooms, with post-processing effects enabled. - The map travel system, with Dracula's arrival to one of the local towns. - The feeding mechanic with its fully physical dice and NPC biometrics. - The combat system! An early peek at the combat arena and turn-based combat. Finally a glimpse at Dracula's throne room! This is where you'll decide on Dracula's particulars and strategy. We really hope you like it and please feel free to provide feedback and ask any questions! Best Regards, Astirian-Rae Games
- Feeding System v1.0 Implemented - 21 July 2021
Greetings Children of the Night! The first pass at the feeding system is now complete. One of the ways Dracula can replenish his blood supply is to visit the nearby towns and hunt for a victim. Each NPC will have their own dynamic vitals that will affect the difficulty and outcome of the feed. Be sure to check out our Discord for the very latest developments: https://discord.gg/DWUWJy9VTw In future updates feeding will impact, and be impacted by, different variables depending on the player's previous activities. The feeding results themselves will also vary, sometimes resulting in some unexpected outcomes for Dracula. This is only one of the planned activities that players will be able to engage in within the various towns of Transylvania, more updates to come as development continues! Best Regards, Astirian-Rae Games
- Map System v1.0 Implemented - 6 May 2021
Hello Dracula's Castle fans! The travel system component has been fully implemented meaning that a whole new world of possibility is now open outside of the gates of Castle Dracula. You'll be able to select a town for Dracula to travel to, this will then open up options such as feeding for blood and other vampiric activities used to empower the dark vampire lord. This is the first step in expanding the game beyond the building management activities, more news on the feeding dynamic to follow! Best Regards, Astirian-Rae Games
- Unlock Van Helsing Mode! - 8 April 2021
Hello Dracula's Castle fans! Dracula's Castle will have a secret mode upon release which will allow you to play a special game type as the one and only Van Helsing himself. Hit up our website here and sign up to the newsletter to get access to the mysterious Van Helsing Mode when the game releases! Best regards, Astirian-Rae Games
