Trick or Treat?

I think they are working out laying the groundwork for the game and are probably very busy right now. Given development is in it's early stages they are probably producing the map and working on the design of the castle itself. I imagine the first reveals will have to do with the castle design itself, populating it with placeholders and then once that is complete they will start to populate it with more unique enemies and weapons from the design team. The last thing they will likely do is finish the bosses, story and work on special moves and polish the gameplay. This is the order that most developers take when producing this type of game.

There's going to be an Inti Creates panel at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo where they'll talk about current projects (including Bloodstained) this weekend and I think that'll be a good opportunity for something, but I'm not getting my hopes up. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised by new details coming out of the blue than expect something and get disappointed.

There's also a PAX con in Australia going on during Halloween and that'd be a good time for a Bloodstained panel, but there's nothing related to the game or its developers on the con schedule.

Ya know cecil-kain, maybe you've inadvertently dropped an idea for Bloodstained. I hope someone who's creating the game (maybe the great IGA himself) notices this thread and incorporates the Trick or Treat enactment into Bloodstained.

Perhaps a mischievous sprite (like an elf, goblin, witch, etc) could randomly appear in the game to confront Miriam with'Trick or Treat'. Does she trust the little blighter and treat it to something? Will she get a reward of some kind? Would the sprite turn into something nasty and make a full-on attempt to kill her should she refuse its request? Hmmm...  

EXACTLY!  Some 2D purists still need reassurances about the 2.5D approach.  Stunning gothic visuals will reinforce their support and help Igarashi build the brand.  Teaser footage would also be an excellent way to kick off a slacker backer campaign.

There's no fire, but the sooner aesthetic issues are addressed the better.

Isn't the slacker backer campaign already going on because you can buy Bloodstained from Fangamer right now? Or are you talking about a more visible marketing push or some sort of "round 2" of campaigning, but without any stretch goals?

Wasn't DXC 2.5d? I rather liked that one

DXC was pretty bland looking and the animations were bad. I'm hoping this game is a HUGEEEEE step up from that.

Today is the last weekday of the month and the last day before Halloween. I wonder if we'll get an update today.

The Halloween update is going to be a special video message from IGA.

"Hello, Army of the Night. We made a lot of progress this month.

The whole team watched Halloween specials all month as part of pre-production research for Bloodstained. I especially enjoyed the Garfield one where he and Odie trick-or-treat, the Charlie Brown special with Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin and the extended sequence of Snoopy as a WWI pilot, and that Homestar Runner cartoon with the characters visiting your house for trick-or-treat, along with its spiritual sequel where Homestar is gathering ingredients for Marzipan's Halloween Potion by visiting the other characters. I always liked the Homestar Runner Halloween cartoons even though I can never recognize most of the character costumes.

Some of you may be wondering "What about Halloween movies?" Unfortunately, we couldn't watch as many spooky movies as we could due to time restraints, so we mostly just settled on watching James Rolfe's 'Cinemassacre's Monster Madness' videos. I also hoped everyone could watch 'The Nightmare Before Christmas,' but most of the team said that was a Christmas movie instead of a Halloween one, so we compromised and we're saving that movie for Thanksgiving instead. We did, however, manage to watch 'Coraline', 'Corpse Bride', 'Frankenweenie', 'ParaNorman', and the Stephen King classic, 'Maximum Overdrive'.

We were also hoping to fly in the Rifftrax crew to riff the Silent Hill movie that had Sean Bean for us, but we realized that would cut into our David Hayter money and ended up making fun of the movie ourselves. I would like to apologize to all of the fans who hoped I could get to meet Mike, Kevin, and Bill.

This extensive Halloween research for Bloodstained was only made possible due to our Kickstarter backers and would not have been possible under a traditional publisher.

*Ben Judd then whispers in IGA's ear.*

I have to go, apparently there is a new Homestar Runner Halloween cartoon this year."