Marie's Room news & patch notes

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! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31078683/5d6697ecd875dda083bc03622591e851da065eb1.gif

🏕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 learn the tragic tale of what happened to these atmospheric, now abandoned islands. Take care in your dialogue choices! Conversations help shape the game and can dramatically affect the way your story ends. This week, we were really excited to announce that Ghost on the Shore will launch on Steam on 24th February. FEATURES

• Discover the branching narrative and multiple endings.
• Make emotional choices and experience the consequences.
• Immerse yourself into a rich story and atmospheric setting.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31078683/a83355694fb7aac2f118685c4b0271f32a704c4b.gif If you enjoyed Marie’s Room, we’re certainly you’ll love Ghost on the Shore and we hope you will be interested in adding it to your wishlist, and playing when it launches at the end of the month. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31078683/a0f4df297dbf0f635f2dd37fa97d5dc5bcaf964b.gif Until then, “I am not a shadow person” - but I know somebody who is.

👉 Add Ghost on the Shore to your Steam wishlist! 👈

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! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36600567/7256c2792e998739f5cdef5d5869121975dc44dd.gif

We'd love to meet you! Join our Discord server to meet fellow explorers, participate in contests and contribute to our future games. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31078683/5c8478063683af73598ef1ddf02e21dd599dcc4c.png

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.

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. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36600567/6939d6576f2d5119ef22b83b1bb10641210bab14.jpg 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.

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! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31078683/c887ed1eb46c4ba3beaf33b1ce8a1cdf49302868.jpg 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 Shore to get regular updates on our progress. See you in Discord! - Kristi & Ghost on the Shore crew

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, she comes to understand how an island’s history led to Josh’ death. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31078683/080743cb8caf8ceb8175fcaa8522c17f4f2f97bc.png

FEATURES

• Relationship exploration
• Environmental storytelling
• Emotional choices with consequences
• Branching narrative with multiple endings

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THE SECRET INGREDIENTS

Relationship exploration is a unique feature that allows the player to make choices in a subtle immersive way. Often all one has, is the power of words. And it is your choice to reach out or to alienate. Like in real life, you don't always know how your words will affect the other. Or what future they hold. Emotional storytelling is something that we are both passionate and curious about. Players identify deeply with characters of flesh and blood that they can relate to. Through complex characters we´re able to tell stories that trigger a universal set of emotions. Thank you for being with us on this journey! - like Charlie team

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://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31078683/4faf3a049fc8510870f73701ed5e3060c158005a.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://twitter.com/LCharlieGames Please stay in touch. Dagmar & Kenny

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.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31078683/705cf83e7f3b57217dd728b3ebacf9cd36454ed7.jpg Thanks again! See you next time. -Kenny

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://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31078683/63f0652cdf731855e44cb3751b5feac2dfb4739b.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

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

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

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31078683/d947d3496986da7b4a8ba204235dad176573f938.jpg Find out what happened to Marie! Play the game now, for free. Hope you enjoy! -Kenny

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://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31078683/be11d1840ada911df2028f45ae49ce4e12622054.png All the best, -Kenny

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://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31078683/be11d1840ada911df2028f45ae49ce4e12622054.png All the best, -Kenny