Consoles

Do you love The Count Lucanor and you want to play it also in your console? Check this info about the Consoles, Editions and Dates.

(There is a lot of empty holes of information, but we will update this post as soon as we have more accurate information.)

Nintendo SWITCH

Digital (USA/EU)
It's already Available on the Nintendo eShop:
https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/the-count-lucanor-switch

Physical Editions
We have confirmed a Physical Edition on Switch but still not the Edition, and the dates. (Presumably in 2018)

PS4

Digital (USA/EU)
Available Soon.

Physical Editions
Simple (Box + game): For now, only on pre-order on Amazon Spain.
http://amzn.eu/dQ3ajRx

Signature Edition:
(Box, Soundtrack, Artbook. + Coin in preorder)
Coming soon here:
https://signatureeditiongames.com/collections/featured/products/the-count-lucanor-developer-signature-edition?variant=38891830727

Special Edition:
(Box, Soundtrack, Artbook, Sticks, Posters, Blue Kobold Pin)
Coming soon for pre-order on Amazon Spain.

PSVita

Digital (USA/EU)
Available Soon.

Physical Editions
Simple: Not Confirmed.
Signature Edition: (Similar to the ps4 one) Available soon for pre-order here
https://signatureeditiongames.com/collections/signature-editions/products/the-count-lucanor-signature-edition-ps-vita?variant=46897904007

XBOXOne

Digital (USA/EU)
Available Soon.

Physical Editions
No Physical Editions planned.

Yuppie Psycho

We present to you our new game: "Yuppie Psycho," a First Job Survival Horror adventure. Following the style marked by our previous work, "The Count Lucanor," players will travel to a dystopian 90's and help Brian discover the hidden secrets of Sintracorp.

More info:

Website: www.yuppiepsycho.com

Greenlight: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=821410561

Twitter: @baroquedecay

German translation!

Hallo ! Welcome to the Tenebre Castle dear friend, this week you can buy our spooky tale The Count Lucanor with a 25% of discount. We are celebrating that our traveller friend "The-Savage-Nymph-Art" finished the localization to his beloved German language.

We are still working on the Portuguese, Japanese and Polish languages. Also trying to port the game to consoles, those strange machines!

Yours sincerely humble servant.

Buy The Count Lucanor on Steam

The Count Lucanor now supports Mac and Linux.

We are proud to announce that the Mac & Linux versions of The Count Lucanor are now available at 25% of discount during this week. We hope you'll enjoy the game and share with your linux and mac friends this great news.

Also we have two new languages on the game Russian and Hungarian. (Thanks to Tolma4 Team & Richárd Goz).
Pretty soon we will have additionnal new languages : German, Portuguese, Polish, Vietnamese & Japanese.

I hope you enjoy our spooky adventure and would like to thank everyone for the great feedback you gave us during those first months since the release.

Buy The Count Lucanor on Steam

Sales, New Languages, Linux & Mac

Hello my amigos of the Tenebre Castle. Today we have some great news to share with you.
This whole week, there's a 25% discount because the black death just killed a rival kingdom and we just have to celebrate it. Bravo!

We also received the visit of two travelers to our castle, two foreigners from Russia and Hungary. They helped us to translate our story to their mother language.
Thanks a lot, for the great job to:

• Tolma4 Team (Russian)
• Richárd Goz (Magyar)

We have more travelers from around the world interested in the hidden treasure of the Count Lucanor, they are working on several translations that will be available soon: German, Portuguese, Polish, Vietnamese & Japanese.
Last word about translations : we would like to ask for your help on the english translation. Several people noted some unusual words and sentences in the game texts. English is not our native language so we're requesting help from native english speaker to make our game even better. If you're willing to give us a hand, ( for free ), please contact us (n_n)

Last but not least, the Linux and Mac builds will be available during this week, so stay tuned dear travelers!

Lucanor Update #1

Hello dear visitors of the Tenebre Castle, we wanted to share with you some updates about what are we doing during our lonely nights.

First of all, we are working very hard to have the Mac and Linux versions ASAP, we have the game running but the gorgeous cutscenes are the tricky part (>_<)  , hopefully we will beat these issues very soon.

The second plate is translations. We are working with some awesome people to have the game localized to German, Russian, Polish and Portuguese. This way we’’ll be able to see how “Zowie!” is translated to Polish… (O_O)

In addition, there are rumors in the castle about some movements to have the game ported on consoles also released in other online shops, but we can’t say anything official about it, there are only rumors.

Best

The Blue Kobold

Game Release

We will release The Count Lucanor this Thursday 3 of March. It will be for Windows OS only, at 9,99$ , and it will come with the Chiptune Bach OST for free.

Steam web

(We are working really hard to have the Linux and Mac versions ASAP)

Second Trailer

Hi there, we come with some news about The Count Lucanor, but first let’s take a look to our new trailer:

This new trailer is focused on the second part of the game, the Castle Tenebre, which is full of traps and puzzles to finally get the name of the mysterious blue kobold. This part is almost 50% of the whole game.

The development of the game is almost done, we are now working on polish, bug fixes and also translations. We already achieved two private betas and had a pretty nice feedback from users. We had to adjust some puzzles to be sure that no one gets frustrated in the castle Tenebre.

Also we are already doing the legal paperwork for Steam, which seems to have hired Kafka to write its FAQs. We don’t have any publisher yet so we have to do everything by our own. But with a bit of luck we will release the game this March… but I won’t say that too loudly.

Very soon we will start to contact Youtubers and press for coverage. Are you a Youtuber? We’d like to hear from you !

Pre-beta feedback

After a year of development we just finished our pre-beta tests with several friends. We order those friends from less target customer to the most potential target. But from all of them we get really awesome feedback and very important conclusions:

• The player don't want to wait, maybe it's because the anxiety of this world we live, but none of the testers wanted to wait. Any puzzle built to make the player wait was a problem. All of them tend to do the things fast, push the button faster, take the most dangerous path or choice because it's shorter… they prefer to die a hundred times than wait. So if you are going to do a stealth game, be prepared for that.

• The average player doesn't have fear of death. They are pretty used to die in any kind of game and if they have a near autosave, they are really headstrong with some dangerous paths they take. They explore a lot, but never stop for a second to choose, or investigate the differences between paths. They only choose one and focus on beating it. Over and over. They can die like twenty times until they realize that, maybe they should choose the other path nearby. So, if you have autosave and different ways, or wrong ways to do it, be careful to highlight very well the wrong aspect of them.

• The player loves to explore. Sometimes they don’t want to be guided by the game, they reject the game narrative to explore in the way they want. Even with the main goal reached they still want to continue exploring. They don't usual stop for a second to think what are they exploring or how they could explore better, they just get lost several times even with tools designed to prevent that. So they love to explore, but they are not very focused. They can find a very secret item, and leave others that they have in front of his eyes. So be sure yo put several items.

• The average player reads too fast. Most of the players read so fast that even if you put something very clear in the text, they tend to forget it in the next text line. So you have to highlight a lot the important things, not only saying them but also creating a dialogue and a narrative situation for them. Also if you want to put two messages in the same conversation, be very careful, because it's really hard to put those two things in the player mind.

• Also one of the more important things is the look you have in the game, your style. For us, our top-down pixel style, reminds a lot to Zelda, so the people want that, they try to do that, and play the game as it was a Zelda. It’s really hard break that concept in his mind.

So after all this feedback we are now doing some corrections, adjustments, and adding new material to the game. After that we will start to do a beta test with some real customers.

Please follow us on Twitter and Steam to get news of The Count Lucanor.

The Count Lucanor has been greenlit.

Hi, we would like to thank everyone which voted for our game in Greenlight. The game has been greenlit in just a week and we wanted to share some info about it.

Here are some data provided by that Steam to follow our progress. As you can see we have almost the same amount of YES and NO votes. I was really worried at first, but then i saw this page: http://iygamestudio.com/greendb/
In it you can see the stats of every game on Greenlight. I realized that most games have more negative than positive votes, and even in that case they were greenlit too.

Another mistake we made was to underestimate the Steam community. At first I thought that Greenlight was a place full of developers but empty of players, so the only way to have votes was by doing a big buzz outside steam. But no, that’s not the reality. The fact is the place is full of people viewing, voting and commenting your work. 90% of our traffic came from inside Steam.

We were greenlit after seven days, and our best position was #18 in the top 100 ranking ( at the time they were around 1800 games in Greenlight ). Who knows how this ranking actually works, I think is a mix of visits, votes, and time. The fact is you have to be on it to be greenlit… I guess.

The Count Lucanor Announcement.

We at Baroque Decay are proud to announce our new game. The Count Lucanor is a pixelated exploration adventure packed with horror and mystery, where characters and story aim to take players to a fairytale world.

About

With a retro, halfway-between-8-and-16-bit style and inspired by classic games like The Legend of Zelda, Yume Nikki, Silent Hill or Dark Souls, among others, The Count Lucanor is an amazing mystery and horror adventure set in a fairytale world. The game features important choices, alternative endings, secrets and different ways to solve puzzles. The title is in development for PC, Mac and Linux.

Gameplay

• Exploration: Walk the Tenebre Castle and place candles on the ground to light up your path.
• Conversation: Talk to NPCs to get important clues and unravel the mystery of the Count Lucanor.
• Stealth: Hide under tables and behind curtains to go undetected.
• Puzzles: Use the items you found wisely in order to progress.
• Skill: Avoid traps and enemies in the castle by anticipating them.

OST

We’ve hired the greatest composer of all time - Johann Sebastian Bach - to create a soundtrack that will remain etched in your mind forever. Using chiptune tools, we’ve transformed a series of hidden gems of the author to create unique soundscapes for our tale.

Synopsis

Once upon a time, there was a poor boy named Hans who lived with his mother near the woods. On his birthday, the boy had no presents nor sweets. He got so upset he decided to leave home for good. Before he left, his mother gave him his grandfather's cane, some cheese and three pieces of gold. Hans walked into the forest in search of adventure. Soon it was night and the boy was really scared, so he tried to go back. But then, a quaint kobold happened to cross his path and Hans decided to follow him to a castle. The kobold told him he would inherit great wealth if he passed a simple trial... guessing his name. Trapped in the castle, Hans will live a spooky mystery, fantasy and horror adventure to become the new Count Lucanor.

FAQs

When is the release date?

We don’t have a scheduled date yet, but we hope to complete the game in the first quarter of 2016.

When can I test a beta?

As we come close to the end of the Alpha development stage, we will look for Beta testers very soon. Stay tuned!

Will the game be released for other platforms?

Our target platforms are PC, Mac & Linux. Depending on the success of the game, we might consider others platforms.

Are you planning to localize the game in different languages?

The game will be available in English, French & Spanish from day one. Most likely more languages will follow later.

Which controllers are supported?

The game can be played with keyboard or gamepads.

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