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You'd be correct! Vicissitude will be available for the Tzimisce thin-blood. We are hoping to implement systems to make these feel unique. We do still have some work to do on making these more visually complex, but I do agree a Discipline video would be a good idea! Where we are right now, we're working on preparing the demo of the game to the best of our abilities, I do think after that, we can give some effort to showing off how it works. Thank you again for the comments!

For disciplines, our game will have 19 different disciplines. For our game, we learned that using the amalgam format was not going to work for us, so we split certain disciplines back into their own category. (For instance, Lasombra Obtenebration, and Hecata Necromancy both fall under "Oblivion" in V5. For the sake of the game however, they will both be listed as Obtenebration, and Necromancy.) Of these 19 different disciplines, your thin-blood can only have ONE discipline affinity, meaning you will have to choose only one at the beginning. You really have to pick your favorite Discipline

Each Discipline will have 5 total levels. Like you mentioned, you will be given the ability to use specific skills in a discipline, instead of a general usage. For example, level 1 Animalism will be Bond Famulus, while level 2 will be Animal Messenger.

Here is the more complicated part. As a thin-blood, your character can only use disciplines up to level three, despite our game having a total of five levels for each discipline. There are two ways to solve this gap, one is to use Thin-blood alchemy to boost your abilities. The other, is to simply stop being a thin-blood. Obviously, easier said than done! However, if you manage to stop being a thin-blood, you will go from having ONE discipline that maxed out at level 3, to having THREE Disciplines to choose from, all of which can perform up to level 5.

This is, of course, a late game option, and it won't be easy. We do however, hope people have a lot of fun trying to reach for it!

Apologies for the lengthy explanation, as we know this is a bit complicated, but we decided that this would be the best way to make these powers feel unique, and to also bring thin-blood alchemy to relevance, should people be willing to use it!

I'm happy you heard about our game! Yes, the game will be downloadable, and we intend for it to be released on Windows, MacOS, and Linux! The game will be downloadable here on the itch.io page, and our demo game will be free. We'll keep working on our game, and feel free to ask any questions!

For the game, there will be three factions, the Camarilla, the Anarchs, and the Sabbat, and another faction that we'll leave the players to discover. Aside from that, you will always maintain the ability to be independent from all factions, if you prefer. As for the adventure, there will always be kindred around, but it will definitely be a solo adventure, we have nothing akin to a party member in game, although there is a home base for your character to return to for sleep, and it will gain and lose members over time.

As of right now, we have no discord server, and we currently have no plans to make one. If other people want to make a fan discord server for our game, they are more than welcome to!

Wow! The art style is beautiful! I really like the choice to go for CMYK comic book color printing, and I think it nails it perfectly! Excited to see what you're working on over there!

Thank you! We're so excited to show this game to everyone! If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Yes indeed! Although that will be a difficult thing in it of itself, if you're brave enough, your kindred will gain all Three Disciplines of their Clan (instead of just having 1) and they will be able to level all Disciplines to level 5 (instead of being maxed out at 3)

We love the Tzimisce clan as well, and we hope we can do them justice in our game, as well as all the other clans, of course.

The rat king was a worthy foe. The sprites of the smalls kept giving me a good laugh too, hehe.

The combat was challenging but in a fun way, I don't think I was able to make it through the door of the room with the zombie asking how his twin is doing -- but I liked all the fights up to that point!

The setting of this is a lot of fun, I know others have already said so but I think that dynamic audio is really neat.  I tried my best but I couldn't escape the monster, still a really fun time!

Didn't expect to be jumpscared by the bus sfx, hehe, I guess my volume was up too high. I like the sci-fi+magical setting of the world!

Love the little contrasts of color on the black and white, it stands out a lot, and the little art portraits too.

Really love the look of the 3D effect on the sprite work in this, and voice acting too!!

The music is super fun, and the art style really stands out.

The description on the download page really made me smile. I definitely haven't gotten all the endings yet, I do enjoy the nice chunky pixels and atmosphere.

The art style is super cute! I love the little main character sprites and that little :3 face they make. I really enjoyed the music in it too, very Genesis-style.