Fortune Fragments news & patch notes

Thank you so much for supporting us during Fortune Fragments' first days!!

We have our first post-launch hot fix for you all before the weekend:

• Leo+Investigator level in the late game is now beatable

• Breakable tile obstacles now don't float over and obscure normal fragment tiles

• UI: better quality character portraits and text boxes during level gameplay

Another Patch is scheduled for Friday, July 3rd, with more QOL and bug fixes. Stay tuned!

-The Wizards of Runoi

At 15.00 EET the full version of Fortune Fragments will be available to all! Please enjoy our carefully crafted 40+ fortune-telling levels and 12 client characters. Into what kind of ending will your choices lead the fair folk of Clearcastle?

A post-launch patch is planned to occur, with minor quality of life additions and possible bugfixes. We have tested the game relentlessly, but there are always a few hiccups when going live, so stay with us! If you encounter any bugs, report them in the Steam forums or in the [email protected].

Also, share your feedback by reviewing the game! And if you want to share your thoughts or chat with our wizards around a bonfire, we have just launched a Discord server for that! https://discord.gg/GegJYq9RpG

Thank you to all supporters during this magical journey!!

-The Wizards of Runoi

The Prophet plays Fortune Fragments in the light of midsummer midnight sun.

After months of intense brewing and crafting, the full story of Fortune Fragments sees daylight on June 24th! Runoi Games has been actively building the world of FF for over a year. Get ready to meet all of the citizens of Clearcastle, serve the Guild of Foretellers, and embrace the world of soul power!

The Full release of Fortune Fragments includes:

• 40 levels of rune puzzles of increasing difficulty

• 12 hand-drawn customer characters with intertwined storylines

• Multiple endings for the player and customer, hundreds of unique ending combinations

Will you do everything for your troubled customers or strictly follow the orders of your higher-ups? Do you keep the secrets you're shared or report them as your duty tells you? Or do you balance between and hope the best for everyone?

Before the launch, Fortune Fragments is also participating in Steam Next Fest! Test the polished demo and the beginning steps of your task as the friendly neighborhood foreteller of Clearcastle! Also, check out our store page, wishlist the game, and share it in your circles :D

Link to FF Store page

Fortune Fragments has received another demo update!

This update includes many quality of life and story content improvements to better reflect the final game.

Update notes:

• You now have different graphics settings to choose from to improve performance.

• Keybinds can now be rebound.

• You can find each character’s story relevant status on their Client page.

• Story choices tell you which choice will affect the character’s status and how.

• The player now receives and sends letters to the Foretellers' Guild after readings.

• New dialogue plays during the readings.

• Bigger, easier to read Journal visuals

• Character stats and soul stones visualized on the Clients page.

• The Quests -page summarizes events in the long running story threads and keeps track of what the player can do next to progress.

• A new fancier tile trey, which portrays the number of Discards left in the reading.

• A new animation for showing the new soul stones in dialogue and placing them on the board.

• New animations for changing board elements.

• New character animations to Julian.

• New soul stone shaders and visual improvements.

• Blurry windows and people walking by

• Doorbell sounds for clients entering and leaving the Foreteller’s Parlour.

• Voice acting for the crow.

Please consider also participating in our Beta Playtest! Nearing launch, we'd love to hear your feedback and experience with our game!

After months of tedious spellcraft, Runoi is proudly unveiling the Fortune Fragments Beta-Playtest!

You’ll get a deeper glimpse into the puzzling lives of Clearcastle’s inhabitants and the obstacles their souls present to you: their trusted Foreteller.

• 21 levels (playtime 2-4 hours)

• 11 characters

• NEW: board mechanics improved

• New: Quest system in the journal

Besides notes on bugs, missing elements, and other technical issues, we’d appreciate feedback on the progression and difficulty level of the game and story elements. We have scribbled a short survey form for gathering feedback, but you are also free to give your feedback in Steam Discussions or in our Discord (link at the end).

Greetings!

After serious discussion between fellow wizards, we have decided to keep Fortune Fragments Steam demo available and not take it down as we announced a few weeks earlier. We ended up revisiting this decision after further studying the holy Steam Documentation. We realized this would mean a permanent purge of our Steam demo page with all your lovely feedback. We also got some similar advice, so the decision was clear.

As the leader of Runoi Circle, I was the main force behind the first drastic change in approach. We are nearing the final vision of FF, and it has clouded my vision for a moment. Just be assured that the whole scheme was not devious in intention, but to change the pace of how we’d work and how we gather feedback for the game.

Even if we aren’t taking down the demo for now, the next update will take some time. We encourage you to try the current version and leave feedback for it! It gives our game development wizards better tools to fulfill the promise of Fortune Fragments!

-Prophet Runoi

Hello Fellow wanderer!

In the recent update, you’ll find a few new characters and levels that you haven’t encountered before! There are also more sparkles and flair for your eyes to enjoy.

Besides general user experience improvements, we have strived to make the game more accessible by offering friendlier colors for those with color vision deficiencies. The full list of changes is listed at the bottom of this missive.

New Features and Content

• Improved gameplay effects and visuals (sparkles)

• Three new characters and two new levels (meet Matheus, Julian & Amelia)

• Save system

• Connect-to-tile type of level quest

• “Reading Complete” -phase after the reading

Changes

• Overall improvements to UI readability

• Better colorblind friendly visuals for different aspects

• Alternative texts for tutorial when using a controller

• New items in the 3D background

Fixes

• Fixed some UI related issues

• Fixed some bugs that happen when placing, drawing or discarding tiles

• Improving performance while game is minimized

Other

• New character sprites

• New soul stone assets

• Journal tweaks

• Grammar fixes

Please enjoy this newest version of theFortune Fragments Demo!

A hub of trade, history, and opportunity! Clearcastle stands in the idyllic crossing where the great River Mane meets the sea. Its iconic castle has housed the nation’s royalty– the Fate chosen rulers of the kingdom for centuries– and lies now in the hands of the young King Alec, who has yet to earn his people’s favor. 

The people of Clearcastle put their faith in the grand Temple of Fate, who preaches to the citizens that all things are as they should be and that the future’s course has already been written. The grand plan of Fate cannot, and should not, be interfered with.

But there is another group working in the shadows who think differently…. 

The secret guild of Foretellers possesses the ancient knowledge of fortune telling, and believes that the people of the world need guidance in the endless chaos of life’s choices. They are sending you, a newly-trained foreteller, to a fortune telling shop located at the heart of Clearcastle’s city center. The Foreteller’s Parlour on Marketstreet has always housed a “Teller” and now it’s your turn to scry into the souls and hearts of the people of Clearcastle. But are the guild’s gifts worth leaving everything behind for?

In Clearcastle, everyone (Well, almost. We’ll get to that.) owns a soul stone, a magical trinket tied to their innate soul energy. The stones are used to power new world machines that bring great opportunities of the future to the citizens and ease their everyday lives. The capabilities of each stone differ, mirroring the will and strengths of their owners. More than anything, the material of your stone is tied to your class. As the Temple says, the Fate is set in stone. But you, a foreteller, can use your client’s stone to see into their possible futures as well as their tangled past.

The different futures you see cannot be changed, but the road in between is still branching, and it’s your duty to advise your clients toward their fates. Do you choose what’s best for them, for your guild, or for yourself?

“Good fortunes to you!”

The wizards of Runoi have been working hard to conjure up a Demo Update for you all! Thank you kindly for all the wishlists and feedback so far!

• New soundtracks and audio clips.

• Added option to toggle typewriter effects in dialogue.

• Options for screen resolution and windowed mode.

• New control schemes for mouse, keyboard and controller.

  • Mouse: Click or drag to move tiles. Right click to select. Scroll wheel to rotate.

  • Keyboard: Shift to cancel tile placement.

• Improvements to the journal UI.

• Adjusted UI elements for better readability and to fit different aspect ratios.

• Game menu can be opened during dialogue.

• Limited aspect ratios to 16:9, 16:10 and 21:9. The game will automatically stretch or add black bars to accomodate for screens with a different aspect ratio.

• Added a confirmation popup when restarting a level.

• Added a highlight for the crystall ball when hovered during gameplay.

• Tiles placed on the current turn can be browsed with keyboard and controller.

• Fixed some visual issues with dialogue navigation.

• Fixed some UI navigation issues with keyboard and controller.

• Fixed an issue where using the skip key in the level would restart the tutorial in tutorial levels.

• Control layouts in the game menu and some tooltips for gameplay actions.

• A hand tile is automatically hovered when placing a tile on the board with keyboard or controller.

We will continue to listen to feedback and improve the playing experience until release. Thank you for wandering with us!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrLrT_njAhVRan-md23rO9Azl3-la3iwRsTsp79FdhIYCiqw/viewform

Welcome, fellow cultists.

Fortune Fragments was born from our collective love of narrative games and our desire to take the concept of story puzzle games to the next level, more seamlessly combining gameplay and story with both treated with equal importance. 

Introducing the fantastic team of wizards and their skills:

The Artisan - Co founder, artist, and writer

• Tiny and devious, pulling strings from the shadows when The Prophet is turning a blind eye. A master of arts of old and new, seeing the hidden paths and blends the five senses with illusions.

The Prophet - Co founder and idea guy

• Poetic and pragmatic, overseeing the grand plan and adventuring in strange lands. The archivist of forbidden manuscripts, calculating the great secret numbers.

The Herald - Co founder, artist, and marketer

• Precise and kind-hearted, curating and carrying messages from one realm to the next. A master of runecraft, divine inspiration, and fine lines

The Architect - Game designer

• Steady and observant, in pursuit of final truth asks the questions others dare not utter. A scribe and scholar of forgotten lore, know the founding words and how to craft them anew

The Weaver - Tech lead

• Calm and resourceful, knows the fabric of electric realities' time and space. Weaver of forbidden words, builds the new dimensions and their twisted rules.

The Radiant - Technical artist

• Adventurous and bright-eyed, bringing light to hearts and minds with colourful illusions. A master of magic, leylines and the weave.