- Marie's Room Supporter Package - OUT NOW! - 13 May 2022
Hello Roomies, It’s been some time since our last update. If you weren’t aware, we’ve been busy pouring our souls into Ghost on the Shore, our new game that expands on the format of Marie’s Room, combining thoughtful, exploratory gameplay alongside choices-matter narrative, all set against the backdrop of atmospheric Atlantic islands. But we’ve got very exciting Marie’s Room news too! Today, we’re thrilled to reveal the Marie’s Room Supporter Package. Marie’s Room has always been - and will always remain - free to play. We created the game as a short, standalone experience and have been overwhelmed with the critical praise it has achieved over its lifespan. After now nearly 500k downloads, we wanted to create a special edition for those of you who want to support the development team directly, and contribute towards an industry with space for short innovative and emotionally driven expe…
- Update notes for update of the 13th of April 2022 - 13 April 2022
Fixed issue where the game would crash after an arbitrary amount of time Fixed rare, blocking issue where the player would sometimes spawn into the floor
- Our next game, Ghost on the Shore, launches: Feb 24th! - 9 February 2022
Hey everyone! It’s been a while since we last shared an update with you. As you can imagine, this is because we’ve been very busy working on our next game, Ghost on the Shore. If you haven’t heard of Ghost on the Shore before, it’s very much a thematic sequel to Marie’s Room; gameplay is pensive, and exploratory; the story is told through voiceover; there are items to pick up and from which you will learn about the world and discover the story. This time, however you have a whole island to explore! 🏕Visit the Ghost on the Shore Steam page. You play as Riley, a young woman looking for a fresh start, who arrives on a small archipelago after being forced to ground in a storm. Joining with you on your adventure is Josh, a headstrong ghost, whose voice becomes known to Riley as soon as she sets foot on the islands. Expanding on the format of Marie’s Room, you will speak with Josh as you lea…
- AMA Starting on Discord in 1 hr - 4 February 2021
Who doesn't love great pizza, good company and a chill talk about games! Order your favorite pizza and join us on our Discord server for a quick Ask Me Anything Session. We'll be showing new in-game areas in Ghost on the Shore - The Little Rogue and The Dark Rogue. And as always, any questions about Marie's Room are welcome. See you on Discord!
- Join us on Discord - 29 January 2021
We'd love to meet you! Join our Discord server to meet fellow explorers, participate in contests and contribute to our future games.
- Live Development & AMA - 28 August 2020
Creative Director Kenny Guillaume will be doing Ghost on the Shore art live and answering your questions about the game and its art. The first session of two will focus on character creation and you´ll be able to witness never-before-seen characters come to life. The second session will focus on environmental design and how we make the game´s atmosphere pop. AMA schedule: SATURDAY 12:00 CET "Live Character Creation & AMA" SUNDAY 13:00 CET "Live Environment Design & AMA" Join our Discord to get a notification and attend the events.
- Developer Interview and Behind the Scenes - 19 June 2020
Hello adventurer! You´ve survived several days of Steam Game Festival and no doubt you´ve played all your favorite demos a few times over. We hope Ghost on the Shore is one of these games! And if not, we hope that after you´ve taken a look at our Behind the Scenes stream, you´ll be won over. Our special treat for the last few days of the festival is an interview between the developers and Volker Ritzhaupt from Application Systems Heidelberg. We´ll be covering everything from the unusual origin story of the company, the stunning behind the scenes footage and story details you didn´t know about. After Steam Game Festival the video will be available on our website. Please take a look at our stream on our Steam page and join our Discord server.
- Join the developers for a cozy chat: June 16, 18, 20 - 8 June 2020
Welcome adventurer! We love narrative rich games as much as you do! That´s why we´re making one - Ghost on the Shore. We welcome you to our Discord to have a chat about indie games, good stories and the adventures of life. We have specific topics prepared for Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. We´d also love to hear your questions and stories any other day! June 16, 6-8 pm UTC “Life as an Indie Dev” Dagmar Blommaert - Narrative Designer & Founder Kenny Guillaume - Art Director & Founder June 18, 6-8 pm UTC “Game Design for Narrative-Driven experiences” Dagmar Blommaert - Narrative Designer & Founder Kenny Guillaume - Art Director & Founder Steven Simoens - Gameplay Designer, Project Manager June 20, 6-8 pm UTC “The Art and Sound of Ghost on the Shore” Kenny Guillaume - Art Director & Founder Dries Vienne - Sound Designer Ward Snauwert - Sound Designer Don´t forget to wishlist Ghost on the…
- Ghost on the Shore teaser video by creators of Marie´s Room - 15 January 2020
We´re happy to announce our next exploration game Ghost on the Shore! You welcomed Marie´s Room with open arms and showed us incredible support. Thanks to you we´re here today and able to work on our next game. We´re proud to reveal the first footage of Ghost on the Shore. View the teaser in Youtube: Teaser Wishlist the game in Steam: Ghost on the Shore GHOST ON THE SHORE Ghost on the Shore is a story and relationship exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. You play as Riley, a young woman who finds herself stranded on a desolate island with a headstrong ghost, dead for as long as he can remember. As you explore the crumbling homes of the gone islanders and discover the remnants, you get to know the ghost Josh. Making irrevocable choices in dialogue you shape the bond with him, which ultimately influences the outcome of the game. As Riley puts it all together, s…
- Have You Played Marie's Room? - 9 April 2019
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Marie s Room is perhaps one of the shortest games I ve ever played. Intentionally short, anyway. There are plenty of games that have made me want to stop playing and so have been “short” for the wrong reasons, but Marie s Room is a short game I wish was longer. Although I understand entirely why it had to be the length it was. There are no save points, no sense of being rushed (until the ending, but I won’t spoil that) and it’s a game that causes you to reflect on your past. (more…)
- News update - Brand new gamestudio! - 25 September 2018
Hi all! There is a very good reason why it's been so quiet from our end. And we're about to tell you all about it. When Marie’s Room was Greenlit almost two years ago, we never dreamed the release of it more than a year later would be met with so much love. We were blown away by the number of instant players. We loved the positive feedback and praised ourselves lucky that we’d found all of you. Soon we realized that if we ever wanted to start our own studio, this was the time to do it. So, that's what we did. We started a game studio - like Charlie. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F31078683%2F4faf3a049fc8510870f73701ed5e3060c158005a.png There is a website: www.likeCharlie.com. And we’d love for you to sign up for our newsletter, so we can tell you all about our games and other crazy adventures. And we're on Twitter, of course - @LCharlieGames: https://twi…
- Blog and news update - 30 July 2018
Hello everyone! It's been a while! First of all, I'd like to thank you all for all the support you've given us, and the game. Thank you so much! I'm aware that a few people have crashes when a video is supposed to play. I've looked into this problem, a few times now, and have spent countless hours to get it reproduced or fixed. But without success. I'm really sorry for this. All I can recommend is you make sure you have all the latest drivers installed of your video card. This was helpful for a handful of people. 'Marie's Room' has been a great ride, and has enabled me, and the team to think about what's next. So stay tuned for that, some great news coming up! One last thing, for those who are interested, I started a blog on my new website. The first post deals with the early days of developing Marie's Room. You can find it here: https://www.kennyguillaume.com/blog https://steamcdn-a.ak…
- Marie's Room Soundtrack released! - 30 April 2018
Hey everyone! We noticed a lot of you really enjoyed the soundtrack of Marie's Room. So we decided to release it in a bundle as free DLC here on Steam! We hope you like it and enjoy! https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F31078683%2F63f0652cdf731855e44cb3751b5feac2dfb4739b.png Huge shout out to both Dries Vienne and Simon Alexander. Without their music, the game wouldn't have been the same. Support them all you can on Twitter (Dries - Simon), Facebook, YouTube, Spotify,... Thank you for your continuing support! -Kenny
- update on the game - fixes - 21 April 2018
Hey everyone! First of all, thank you so much for the continuing support. We love it! The last couple of days I've been working on a few fixes. The spawning bug in the beginning of the game. Since I can't reproduce this, I'm not entirely sure if this update fixes it. In any case, let me know with a reply to this post if you still experience the issue. (again, just restarting the game does fix this problem). The game doesn't start in fullscreen anymore. Since a few people had problems with menu not reacting to the mouse, flickering,.. and so on. Hope this is a fix for those people. Please make sure to delete your Settings.sav file first, located here: C:\Users\(user)\AppData\Local\MariesRoom\Saved\SaveGames before you try again. That's all for now. Again, for everyone who already played, thank you so much! -Kenny
- Free exploration game Marie's Room is like a bite of Edith Finch - 16 April 2018
Marie's Room released on Steam last Friday and has garnered nearly 600 collectively 'overwhelmingly positive' reviews since. It's a free, first-person narrative game where you play as a woman named Kelsey and—you may have guessed—explore Marie's room. The goal is to find Marie's old high school journal, and also to fill in its entries by interacting with various odds and ends around the room, from clothes to pictures to posters. Not all items have journal entries tied to them, but they all yield some sort of memory, not to mention some top-shelf voice acting from Lauren Hendler. As a game about memories, it may remind you a little of the stellar What Remains of Edith Finch , but Marie's Room tells a very different story.  "Join Kelsey in her trip down memory lane and uncover Marie and Kelsey’s past by exploring Marie’s…
- Marie s Room is a free and splendid little exploration game - 16 April 2018
Exploring an old room, putting memories together, trying to piece together a narrative – it’s a theme we’ve seen a few times of late, and it’s one that has to be handled carefully and meticulously. So it’s rather a pleasure to report that’s exactly the case for the entirely free Marie’s Room, a short exploration game set primarily in a single bedroom. (more…)
- The first 24 hours of 'Marie's Room' - 14 April 2018
Hey everyone! 'Marie's Room' has been out for roughly 24 hours and so far, we've been overwhelmed by the response. Thank you so much, to each and everyone of you, for making this an incredible release! We know about the few bugs, luckily, they aren't really blocking. There's a super small chance that, when you start the game. You spawn into a position, from which you can't move. The easiest fix for this at the moment is to restart the game and try again. But I'm investigating the issue. The journal audio that keeps on playing is another one. Also, looking into it. Trying to get these fixed ASAP. But again, thank you so much for the positive response. We appreciate it! -Kenny
- 'Marie's Room' is released! - 13 April 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F31078683%2Fd947d3496986da7b4a8ba204235dad176573f938.jpg Find out what happened to Marie! Play the game now, for free. Hope you enjoy! -Kenny
- The wait is almost over! - 9 April 2018
Hello everyone! It won't be long until you'll be able to play 'Marie's Room'! With our incredibly small team, we've been hard at work to get the game finished and this Friday (yes, Friday the 13th) you'll be able to delve into Marie and Kelsey's world. Please, do spread the word about our game to family and friends. We can use all the help we can get! Don't hesitate to follow the game on Facebook. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F31078683%2Fbe11d1840ada911df2028f45ae49ce4e12622054.png All the best, -Kenny
- The wait is almost over! - 9 April 2018
Hello everyone! It won't be long until you'll be able to play 'Marie's Room'! With our incredibly small team, we've been hard at work to get the game finished and this Friday (yes, Friday the 13th) you'll be able to delve into Marie and Kelsey's world. Please, do spread the word about our game to family and friends. We can use all the help we can get! Don't hesitate to follow the game on Facebook. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F31078683%2Fbe11d1840ada911df2028f45ae49ce4e12622054.png All the best, -Kenny
