Welcome to the fourth entry of Frozenbyte Yuletide Calendar! 🎅 During December we have already talked about Nine Parchments, Has-Been Heroes and how to become a game designer (with Shadwen pictures). So, what about our Trine heroes, what have they been up to after the release of Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power? They have been busy making cameos to our other games, and Zoya already did a quick visit to the second Yuletide entry. More about the heroes, and also about Astral Academy below! Whole trio indeed appears in the free expansion we released for the Has-Been Heroes last […]
Time for another Yuletide Calendar entry, and remember to comment! This week’s theme comes with a small story: In the beginning of year 2017 we received an actual letter from one lovely fan from Russia (thanks a lot!). In the letter there were three questions on game design and how to become a designer. Four of our designers answered these questions and in this third Yuletide entry we are going to share half of these secrets with you as well. Enjoy. 😁 The pictures are from our stealth game, Shadwen! What should I learn for now, that could be useful […]
Nine Parchments is out now on PS4 in North America and Europe! Store page: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP4029-CUSA05984_00-NINEPARCHMENTS00 The price will be $19.99 in the US and 19.99 € in Europe, with slight variations in other currencies. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to comment below or join us on our official Nine Parchments Discord channel! The join link is here. It is also a good place to search for people to play online with. Happy spellcasting, young wizards!
Nine Parchments has sparked a lot of activity on our different social media channels and we’re grateful for all the comments and feedback we’ve received. Our Support team will continue replying to the messages, but other teams are also busy working on improving the game based on said feedback. Some fixes will be available sooner, some later. Here is a quick update on the major issues we’re tackling right now. Multiple Save Files This feature is asked for the most and we’re working on it as fast as we can. We expect it to be done early next week and […]
Time for the second entry of Frozenbyte Yuletide Calendar 2017! A lot happened during this week. Nine Parchments was released, Finland celebrated its 100th birthday (grats!), and Frozenbyte turned 16 years old! Unfortunately we are going to keep it short this time due to Nine Parchments launch hustle. Not talking about Nine Parchments’ this time, but I want to quickly thank you all for your nice feedback and support. If you need any help with the game, don’t hesitate to contact us. You can find our contact information here. Today’s topic is Has-Been Heroes. I wanted to show you concept […]
The quest for Nine Parchments begins today! The game is now out on Nintendo Switch in Europe, and in couple hours available for Switch in USA and on Steam as well! Japanese Switch Release will be on December 7th. This also means we have a release video which you can check below. 😊 PlayStation 4 and Xbox One releases are still pending. So there is no release date for them, but we’ll let you know when we know more! About Nine Parchments Nine Parchments is a co-operative blast ’em up game of magical mayhem which we gladly present you! It […]
This is a story about the development of Nine Parchments, a multiplayer video game about young wizard students collecting spells and sometimes blowing themselves up accidentally while learning them. For your amusement, this story is illustrated with images and outtakes from across the development period. The Journey Begins In the autumn of 2015, Frozenbyte published the third installment of the Trine series. Trine 3: The Artefacts of Power was an ambitious project, which near broke our hearts as we were forced to release a game with only a partly finished story. As we labored in the smoldering ruins of our […]
Nine Parchments will be out tomorrow, December 5th on Nintendo Switch eShop in North America and Europe, and on December 7th in Japan. Nintendo Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/nine-parchments-switch The PC (Windows) version will be available tomorrow as well from Steam, GOG and Humble Store: Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/471550/Nine_Parchments/ GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/nine_parchments Humble Store: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/nine-parchments The PS4 and Xbox One release dates will be confirmed as soon as we have the information. If you’re a content creator or reviewer and would like to try out Nine Parchments, you can email [email protected] and request a review key. We are also taking in requests via keymailer: https://www.keymailer.co/g/games/28765 We don’t have all the different […]
It’s December already! Time really flies when you’re having fun, or if you just have a million things to do… anyway let’s go to the point! We know how much you guys loved our Christmas Calendar last year (or at least the chance to win codes for our games). Unfortunately at the moment the Support team, or make it the whole Frozenbyte company, is super busy with getting Nine Parchments ready. This is why we decided to go with quality over quantity this year, meaning that during December we will have a weekly Yuletide calendar instead. Our version will be […]
Nine Parchments is a very fast-paced game about a group of ragtag truant wizarding students going out into the world to look for some missing spell parchments, and while they encounter terrible foes and breath-taking vistas, any dramatic moments of confronting difficult narrative choices (other than, should I throw a fireball at my friend or not) are less than featured in the game’s short, sweet and few cutscenes. Party Banters To match the game’s lively speed and our intention that you would like to experience the action more than just once, we wrote you some Party Banters. You may have […]
We have some good news for Nintendo Switch fans! Nine Parchments just got a demo added onto Nintendo eShop in Europe and US. The demo will have three playable levels: The tutorial at the Astral Academy A beautiful beach level A Boss Fight against the gigantic Treasure Mantis Some features such as getting additional spells, the skill/leveling system, as well as online co-op have been disabled in the demo but will be made available in the full game. You can, however, play this demo with up to four players in local co-op, and try out the one Joy-Con mode. I […]
It’s time for a monthly report! As you may have guessed we have been quite busy with Nine Parchments and other projects. And no, we still don’t have news about the release date. So hang in there, we’ll tell you the date as soon as we have one! Meanwhile it’s good to check what we have been up to! 😊 Firstly we do have smaller news about Nine Parchments: Redonkulous Gaming released an interview that they had with our marketing lead. The interview is in two parts, so remember to read both. First part is about Frozenbyte in general, and […]
