Witch Hunter Izana Subtexture Update – Soon!
Recently there have been some problems where people were getting out-of-memory crashes. Well, not recently, it’s been going on for a while but it has gotten more pronounced lately, possibly due to a windows update. Whatever the reason, people with tons of RAM still are unable to allocate large blocks of memory.
I did some research and wrote up some new code to block memory on large texture out, so hopefully this will fix things! It may cause a slight increase in loading times, at least until I figure things out. There will be a WHI update, likely this week, once we’ve had a chance to test things a bit more.
Witches of Ravenbrook Stretch Goals!
Oh dear, this means we need to put in some more enemy variants and transformations! In our original draft we had ideas for each realm, and then cut it down to 2 per realm. In the gardens, that meant we had Doll/Vinethrall. Now we’ll have to put in some of those ideas, that means you get more cool enemies and transformations to enjoy!
Other Development Stuff
I’m going to be working on optimizing and testing the subtexture improvements for a little while before I get back to work on chapter 2. The engine improvements will come to RoP during its next update, and also be added to WoR since it’s the same engine (hooray).
Unfortunately Urimas got injured so we’re going to be a bit behind on sprites (again) but he’s good at making up for lost time. We also have some (mostly) complete talk sprites so that will be on this week’s bonus stuff, courtesy of Koops!
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The Pile Containing Links
Where to find us:
Our Patreon and Subscribestar are great places to support development! You can also get cool bonus stuff like concept art and early releases of Pandemonium!
If you want extra pictures of cats, you can follow us on Bluesky.
And there’s always Our Discord. You can shout at Salty *in person*.
You can ask us anonymous question on Whisp.sh. If you’ve ever wanted to get smarmy answers to questions, or just know more lore, that’s the place!
We also have a Wiki! We’d appreciate it greatly if people keep it maintained for us. :3
Bottled Starlight Games:
Runes of Pandemonium, the big adventure TF RPG, always free on Steam and Itch.io.
Witch Hunter Izana, a battle-TF RPG. Available on Steam or Itch.io.
Witches of Ravenbrook, a battle-TF dungeon-crawler. The prototype is out now and free on Itch.io.
WITCHES OF RAVENBROOK KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!!!!
String Tyrant, a survival horror game, is on Steam and Itch.io.
Other Bottled Starlight Stuff
Salty writes a book series, with audiobooks and illustrations, called Tales of Strings.
Instruments is out now on Itch.io.
Passed Hand is now on Itch.io!
Spiderweb Theory is now on Itch.io!
Urban Explorers is now on Itch.io!
Knights of Justice: Varsity Vixens is now on Itch.io!
Mario is currently working on bringing the Pandemonium story series to Itch.
We have some ridiculous merch on Redbubble and Teepublic if you want to be the center of conversation (derogatory / celebratory).
Pandemonium Development 
Honestly, I wish I could help more with the stretch goals for WoR, I would love to see everything you guys have planned to hopefully put in, but all I can offer is moral support.
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