- ARISEN new game update, OST release and ARISEN purchase - 12 September 2022
Hello everyone! Here’s Ben from Homecoming Studio: You may remember me as I worked with Maratus on the marketing and producing side, from the Kickstarter to the end. Today I’m writing on the Homecoming Studio behalf: We’re happy to share that we have bought back ARISEN since the bankruptcy of Maratus! A good way to keep the game in the hands of people that worked on the production. :) I’m sure your next question is: What will be the future for ARISEN? So far here’s our roadmap: This week: - We will release a new game update! It will contains a few bugfixes that improve stability and the overall game visual experience. It’s the last patch made by the Maratus team. You will find the patch note after. - We’re ready to publish the Original Soundtrack composed by Yann Rayon, we will send it to the Kickstarter Backers this week. By the end of the month, the soundractk will be available on oth…
- ARISEN Early Access is now available! - 21 September 2021
Hello! ❤️ After years of development and support from the community, we are excited to announce that ARISEN is finally AVAILABLE right now in early access! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1101670/ARISEN__Chronicles_of_VarNagal/ We can’t thank you enough for supporting us. For the release, we offer a discount so if you don’t have the game right now, it’s the best time to buy it! As you get our game, your feedback and support will allow us to improve and offer you more content for ARISEN. Seeing more and more of you talking and enjoying the game makes us incredibly proud of our progress: we can’t be more grateful! 💖🃏 In the following weeks, we will communicate with you the next addition of content. and updates, so stay tuned. And don’t forget to review the game and give us feedback about the first act! Thanks, the ARISEN Team ❤️
- Release date reveal + beta info - 16 September 2021
Once again, we’re here to give you thrilling news: ARISEN will be released on Early Access on 21st September! We can’t wait to be finally here and have your feedback about the game. If you want to support us again, feel free to share the news! Also for every backer who had pledged for the game reward, you will be able to play the beta tomorrow (yes, you read that well), 4 days before the big day. So the whole first act, excluding the epilogue for now, shall be available for you to play this week-end! It’s a gift from us for the release in early access and the game being delayed several times. Below you will find more information about the beta and some various facts about the project. 📜 About the beta: Tomorrow you will receive a Steam key by mail from us! If you think you don't receive it, wait a couple of hours or please check your spam folder. If you still don't have it, contact us…
- ARISEN Cinematic Trailer & new Key Art 💖 - 10 September 2021
Hello everyone! Today we have a big surprise for you: we’re excited to show you the ARISEN’s cinematic trailer! Here you can have an overview of the journey you’re going to live when the game is released! Deep relationships, meaningful choices, beautiful landscapes… We can’t wait to allow you to begin your own story. It’s also what you will have as a cinematic introduction when you launch the game. As things always come in pairs, please enjoy our new game key art made by the great Lowenael, the artist that worked on the in game cards: We hope you like all these new things and feel free to give us your feedback, we would be pleased to hear from you! See you soon for the Early Access release date (this September yes!). ;) The ARISEN Team.
- It's time to play the new demo! - 16 June 2021
Hello everyone! 💖 Here it’s, our new demo is now available! We’re very happy to allow you to play more of our game and get a glimpse of what’s ahead. 📜 But before you play, some words about the demo: Your progress in this demo won’t be kept for the full game (so maybe try something different that you want for your story) Your progress is automatically saved, so feel free to quit and come back later if needed The game is still in an early alpha state, so if you notice something weird, press F8 to send feedback, a bug or something else. Make sure to give us as much information as you can and if you can join us on Discord or on the Steam forum to discuss it! Please enjoy this new content! And if you want to stream this new demo, you can! Just let us know when, so we can come in the chat or share your live on our social media! 📜Check out our new gameplay trailer: And that’s it! We hope y…
- New demo for the Steam Next Fest! - 9 June 2021
Hello everyone! 💖 Surprise! For the June Steam Next Fest, we will release a limited time demo! During the event, you will have an opportunity to go further in the story. Isn’t it terrific? Let us know what you think about it! 📜 So what will you discover? We will release around 15 to 30 minutes (and more) of a new gameplay sequence, continuing the story right after the Prologue. So right after your first meeting with Baeli & Igweneil, you’ll be chosen by one of them to begin your journey. And we won’t tell you more at the moment! Discover it in game, and remember to keep other spoiler-free! 📜Check out our new gameplay trailer if you can’t wait any longer! Be ready and see you at the Next Fest June from 16 to 22! Also a quick reminder that we’re looking for playtesters, complete this form here: https://bit.ly/ARISENplaytest Hope you will enjoy our new demo! The Maratus Team. 💖
- State of production: ARISEN playtest schedule & roadmap - 7 June 2021
Hello everyone! It’s been a while since we didn’t talk here. But it’s because we have a lot coming in the next few weeks! So let’s see together what’s on the menu in today's update? A piece of big news to share and more info about our playtest & release schedule. First of all, we want to wish to congratulate Anaïs, our narrative designer and her husband Davy. They just started a new book to write. Can't wait to see what kind of cards he will play! Much love from all the team! Playtesting ARISEN and game roadmap As promised it’s now the time to talk about our plan to release the game. For now, the production is going well. As we said before, our partners are working on the English version of the first Act and we have completed the integration of the second Act in the game. About the second Act, the proofread is almost complete for the french version and we are getting ready to send it to…
- 110% FUNDED!!! First Stretch Goal announced! 🙏🎉🎉🎉 - 14 October 2020
YOU DID IT :D 🎉🥳 ARISEN is now 110% funded!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH. 🙏 You’re all awesome, breathtaking, amazing, stunning, … ! We love you! And thanks to your help we will work and achieve a best vision for our game. We aim to give you a better game. And now? The campaign will continue for a few hours and it’s time for… the stretch goals. DUN-DUN-DUUUUN!!! Let’s reach even higher with the stretch goals we prepared for you, with onions and fines herbs! About the first one: The backgrounds as you saw them in the Prologue were animated to give you a taste of what they could all be like. If we reach this goal, we'll be able to do the same for ALL the 50+ backgrounds in the full game! We will unveil more about our process soon. And there is more to come! The Higher, the Better! Link to the Kickstarter Campaign One more things: Do you remember the giveaways on Twitter and Facebook? Well, for…
- Woo hoo 50%! Half the Kickstarter campaign done! 🥳🎉🎉 - 29 September 2020
Hello travelers, We just wanted to share an update about our Kickstarter campaign: we reached the 50% goal!🎉 It’s awesome and we want to thank you all for your support. 🙏 We still have more than 2 weeks to go, so we hope we can count on your support for the next 50% or less to succeed in the campaign. If you miss the latest update on the Kickstarter page, we revealed more about our Cards mechanics. As you know ARISEN is a narrative card game with a strong focus on Emotions.💖 Soon in the development, we had the idea to use 5 “family” of emotions and we were thinking about ways to do it in-game. That’s at this moment while brainstorming we thought about cards; it seemed a good way to represent emotions and add some cool gameplay twists with the possibility to unlock and collect a new one. Plus, we love how some games used this idea, such as in Dragon Age: Inquisition from BioWare. So w…
- Kickstarter campaign + Prologue new patch change log - 15 September 2020
Hello travellers! Today is an important day for the team: our Kickstarter campaign is live and you now have the possibility to help us! You can support us here: Arisen Kickstarter But why Kickstarter and why do you need our support? 70% of our development budget is already funded. Your support here on Kickstarter enables us to finance the full development of ARISEN! We want to have the chance to add the missing features and illustrations, to offer more and more story content, and of course to give ARISEN the best English translation. We also want to work with our community to get as much feedback as early as possible to make our game the visual novel the gamers actually want. Don’t be shy! Tell us what you like in the alpha demo, share your opinion with us. We love interacting with players, whether it be on Discord or social media! We can make the dark fantasy narrative game you are wai…
- Dev's News #3 - 1 September 2020
Hello, travellers! We made a video for you to announce the date of the crowdfunding campaign that will arrive on September 15th. We hope you'll like it, we had a good time making it for you! Please already follow the kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maratus/arisen-a-narrative-card-game See you on the 15th!
- Dev's News #2 - 19 August 2020
Hello, travellers! A Kickstarter campaign is on it’s way! https://i.ibb.co/JBgSC0k/Arisen-Title.gif When will it arrive exactly, are you wondering? Stay tuned if you don’t want to miss it! Follow the Kickstarter page to get updates and be among the first of our supporters! Follow the Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maratus/arisen-a-narrative-card-game You can also join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/7U4zr5f
- Patch #1 - 31 July 2020
Hey everyone, We've updated the english translation, fixed some things, and more with suggestions from the community! Localization Improved English translation IU and Effects Improved backgrounds lighting New fade to black animation Content warning screen is easier to consult Improved nudity and languages buttons Performance Improved use of resources by backgrounds Sound New sounds for card interactions
- Dev's News #1 - 25 July 2020
Last Saturday was a wonderful day for the fellowship of Maratus, because we released the free prologue of ARISEN: Chronicles on Var’Nagal on Steam! After more than one year of hard work, we were proud and excited to share it with you! Among the 2250 who added the prologue to their library, 350 of you beautiful people played it until now. Thank you, and thank you for the ones who let us some reviews! Actually we read them carefully and we take good note of what you have to say about the game. Because we always try to do better for you travellers, we are working on these issues: The English translation, even if we hired a professional translator to do it, was pretty bad so we asked to another company to do it again. As soon as we receive the whole text well translated, we will let you know! Some of you were a little disappointed that you couldn’t choose another face or body for your chara…
