2020-01-28 16:04:26 (edited by Wanderword 2020-04-09 14:12:56)

Wanderword just announced the launch of their brand-new interactive audio RPG demo ‘Cursed Painting’.

Cursed Painting combines the best elements of tabletop gaming, audiobooks, and open world exploration to deliver a uniquely vivid and interactive experience. Whether you’re delving deep into the mysteries of a strange medieval village, or exploring the depths of an eerie dungeon, your path is completely up to you!

As you explore you will be immersed by layers of meticulously crafted audio paired with an original fantasy score that will suck you right into the world.

We on The Cursed Painting team are huge RPG fans ourselves. Our team is made up of fantasy authors, tabletop experts, programmers, audio engineers and orchestral composers who take immersion, mechanics, and story seriously.

The Cursed Painting is a must for anyone with an affinity for exploration, adventure, and fantasy…and the demo is free! So, go and try it!

And if you had fun, consider leaving a review, it helps us immensely.
https://www.amazon.com/Wanderword-Curse … B0833DJ4TD

Open by saying: “Alexa, open Cursed Painting!”
And, if you don't own an Alexa Device, you can play it by using either the Windows 10 Amazon Alexa app or download the Amazon Alexa app on your iOS or Android device.

Also, we just published our trailer, please check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT9Pi29q8EY

We also have a Facebook page and website for Cursed Painting where we will post news and updates.
https://www.facebook.com/CursedPainting/
http://cursedpainting.com/

Best,
The Cursed Painting team

EDIT: The post has now been updated to include the release trailer for the full version as well as the official website for The Cursed Painting.

2020-01-28 16:06:05

I'm looking forward to trying this. Are you all familiar with Starfinder. It's another totally awesome dramatized skill. Glad to see more and more companies getting in to this arena smile

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2020-01-28 16:13:56

Liam wrote:

I'm looking forward to trying this. Are you all familiar with Starfinder. It's another totally awesome dramatized skill. Glad to see more and more companies getting in to this arena smile

Glad to hear that Liam! We are super excited for this announcement!

We are thrilled that this way of gaming is gaining more attention.

Stay tuned for the full release with it's planned launch mid February.

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2020-01-28 16:17:39

If you have a demo out now, I'll make sure to stream that on YouTube. Now an dthen I like to stream various skills.

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2020-01-28 16:21:55

Liam wrote:

If you have a demo out now, I'll make sure to stream that on YouTube. Now an dthen I like to stream various skills.

Yes, the demo is out now!

That sounds great! Could you link us your YouTube channel?

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2020-01-28 16:23:18

Hi,
I've just listened to the trailer, and it blew my mind!
Can't wait to see what you guys make of all this next, and obviously to play myself!
Probably just get a amazon echo to play this it sounds so amazing.
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2020-01-28 16:30:38

grryfindore wrote:

Hi,
I've just listened to the trailer, and it blew my mind!
Can't wait to see what you guys make of all this next, and obviously to play myself!
Probably just get a amazon echo to play this it sounds so amazing.
Grryf

Thank you for your kind words, Grryf!

You don't need to buy an Echo device in order to try the demo. You can simply enable the skill and play it through your mobile phone using the Amazon Alexa app.

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2020-01-28 16:31:22

No problem.
http://youtube.com/user/liamerven
I'm planning on streaming it at some point later today.

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2020-01-28 16:36:18

aw, sounds very amazing! is there no way to play it without alexa?

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2020-01-28 16:48:22

So sad I don't have Alexa device. I hope this type of games will be open for more platforms and not limited to Alexa only. I am mostly playing on PC (steam, other platforms) and consoles or IOS devices.

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2020-01-28 16:52:15

Congrats on this anyway! If the game sounds exactly like that as on the trailer I am more sad I can't try it out.

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2020-01-28 17:08:35

if you have windows 10, grab the alexa app.

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2020-01-28 17:18:02

Hi,
any chance it comes out for google too someday ?
If not I'll probably install the Alexa app in the futur and give it a try !

Best regard,
Simon

2020-01-28 17:20:57

Thanks Liam! It actually worked for my Alexa app on IOS. Wow! This experience was great! My questions:
1. Why this is in mono?
2. Why the sound is resampled to something like 22 KHZ?


Besides that this is just AVESOME! Do you know anything like that with that great complex mechanics and sound design?
I think I want to go deeper in to things like that but this audio quality is not that high as I expected sadly.

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2020-01-28 17:32:33

Starfinder was also in mono. I think all skills do that, though I'm not 100 percent sure.

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2020-01-28 17:35:19

Liam wrote:

No problem.
http://youtube.com/user/liamerven
I'm planning on streaming it at some point later today.

Awesome! Thanks!

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2020-01-28 17:37:20 (edited by Wanderword 2020-01-31 11:45:29)

togira ikonoka wrote:

aw, sounds very amazing! is there no way to play it without alexa?

Thank you so much!

Actually, there are a few ways to play this without owning an Alexa device. You can install the Amazon Alexa app on Windows 10 or on your mobile phone.

Just make sure to enable the skill beforehand at:
https://www.amazon.com/Wanderword-Curse … B0833DJ4TD

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2020-01-28 17:37:27

Sadly the Alexa app for windows is not available in Poland. I am happy the IOS version works great!
Guys, when you wants to relase that fully? You've got me on the list as I am so interested in it as a huge fan of RPGs!

I just wish the quality of the audio could be the same as on the trailer.

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2020-01-28 17:38:24

Thanks Liam! I am gonna check that out!

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2020-01-28 17:41:03 (edited by Wanderword 2020-01-28 17:48:39)

Lirin wrote:

Thanks Liam! It actually worked for my Alexa app on IOS. Wow! This experience was great! My questions:
1. Why this is in mono?
2. Why the sound is resampled to something like 22 KHZ?


Besides that this is just AVESOME! Do you know anything like that with that great complex mechanics and sound design?
I think I want to go deeper in to things like that but this audio quality is not that high as I expected sadly.

Awesome that you got it running!
The sound quality is limited by Alexa's hardware. Alexa devices are limited to 48kbps stereo files, therefore are all audio files played at 48kbps regardless of your device. We chose to sacrifice the second channel in order to make the experience a little bit better.

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2020-01-28 17:45:09

@20 thank you for your reply! I didn't know about that limitation!
Anyway this sounds just amazing and I am waiting for more adventures!

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2020-01-28 17:50:04 (edited by Wanderword 2020-01-28 22:01:32)

Arkandias wrote:

Hi,
any chance it comes out for google too someday ?
If not I'll probably install the Alexa app in the futur and give it a try !

Best regard,
Simon

Hi Simon!

Right now it's only available at Amazon Alexa, but in the future it might be avaliable on other plattforms such as Android and iOS.

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2020-01-28 17:51:16

Lirin wrote:

@20 thank you for your reply! I didn't know about that limitation!
Anyway this sounds just amazing and I am waiting for more adventures!

Thank you!
The full experience has a planned launch in mid February!

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2020-01-28 19:39:58

Awesome trailer!
Will try the demo asap.

2020-01-28 19:42:19

it’s a pity that this game will not be released to the computer. sad I would love to play this game.