DELETE AFTER READING — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| A Mysterious Invitation: Try the New Demo of OUR NEW GAME – YOUR HOUSE! | 2025-03-04 | Hey, Delete After Reading community! If you loved unraveling secrets, playing with text, and immersing yourself in a thrilling interactive mystery, we have something special for you. 🏡🔑 🔎 The new demo is live! Are you ready to play? https://store.steampowered.com/app/3309260/YOUR_HOUSE_Demo/ 👉 YOUR HOUSE - Home Is Where the Secrets Are 👈 A game you can read, a book you can play—YOUR HOUSE is a text-driven puzzle adventure where the walls of a mysterious mansion hold the truth about a rebellious teenager and the mother who abandoned her years ago. Why should you play? ✔ A Unique Narrative Format – Like Delete After Reading, this is more t |
| New Update on the Build weight | 2023-03-20 | Hello there, We heavily optimized the build sizes so it takes less space your disks. Thank you for playing our game, |
| Hotfix | 2023-03-14 | Fixed several non-used folders being downloaded for the game. Fixed Chapter 1 Hole in the wall puzzle |
| DELETE AFTER READING IS NOW AVAILABLE | 2023-03-14 | The wait is over: you can now download and enjoy DELETE AFTER READING is now available on Steam. We are really looking forward (and nervous) for you to live this fun adventure to which we have dedicated so much love during the last months. You know, cute characters, puzzles that make you feel intelligent, fabulous illustrations, and catchy music that give meaning to a story for all ages about the power to change our destiny. We would also like to thank Alber Corberó, for his patience and his charming drawings; Jaime Bermúdez, Adrián G. Ruiz, and Xavier Paradis for providing the sounds and music; to Daniel Rissech for the humor and writing; to |
| Meet the characters: Destiny, the Ethernal | 2022-08-05 | Destiny is one of the Eternals. Son of Night and Time, he is neither evil nor good. Simply capricious. Very much so. He is chained to a book that contains the history of everyone and everything. Sometimes things appear in his book before they happen, and sometimes as they happen, but he keeps it padlocked so that no one can change what he has written. He lives in a castle surrounded by a giant hedge garden in the shape of a maze through which the only one who can walk without getting lost is himself. He always wears a hooded cloak of an indeterminate color between brown, gray and sometimes purple. His face is never visible. They say he is bli |
| Meet the characters: Martin Skrilhex, the hated billionare | 2022-07-29 | Martin Skrilhex is probably the most hated millionaire in the world. This young and despicable villain made his fortune by buying the famous BOOMERR chewing gum brand and introducing an addictive substance to children and teenagers. And although he was caught and arrested by the police, his army of lawyers managed to keep him out of jail. Now Skrilhex lives with his pink poodle in a giant mansion, protected by security cameras, alarms, two bodyguards (Ortega and Gasset) and a squad of dangerous dogs ready to bite you without asking. He usually dresses like a store clerk, easily recognizable by his polo shirt and pegged pants. Despite his good |
| Meet the characters: Tomate, the witty rabbit | 2022-07-22 | Tomate is a rabbit. Well, not exactly. Tomate is actually John Belushi reincarnated as a rabbit. We all know that some people are reincarnated as other people, but John Belushi was born again in the body of a rabbit. Do you know who had the brilliant idea? That's right: it was Fate. Well, you also know why Tomato hates him with all his might. Tomate is still funny, sarcastic and impulsive. Always ready for action. He says what he thinks but doesn't think what he says. No filters. He doesn't like to get up early, has a bad temper and unusual strength for a rabbit. Hates dogs. Wears a hat, tie and sunglasses. Nothing else. But he always denies |
| Meet the characters: Cinco, the scriptwriter of everybody's dreams | 2022-07-15 | Cinco is an elf scriptwriter of dreams. And one of the best. Some of the most popular dreams in the world have come out from his pencil, such as "Leaving the house with my slippers on", "My teeth are falling out" or "Jumping into the void". Despite the success of his works, Cinco is still a normal elf who lives a normal life. He lives with his parents and meets every Saturday with other elves to play role-playing games. It's hard to guess that he is a leprechaun. His long hair covers his pointed ears. And the way he dresses also doesn't help, he's a mix between Tom Sawyer and Eminem. He usually wears a cap, baggy pants, suspenders and a singl |
| Meet the characters: Nina, the 103-year-old ghost girl | 2022-07-08 | Nina is a 103-year-old ghost girl fascinated by video games. She has discovered them recently (point & click adventures especially fascinate her) and she can't still believe how she has been able to live without them until now. She also likes to draw. She started practicing manga since she discovered Dragon Ball and she keeps her sketches in a notebook. She usually rides his bike or scooter everywhere. She likes to listen to music. All kinds of music. From Arvo Pärt to the Beastie Boys through Talking Heads and The Specials. Nina believes the best invention of the 20th century was chewing gum. She can't live without it. She always carries a p |
| Delete After Reading: is it a book or is it a video game? | 2022-07-01 | Hello everybody! We hope you had an amazing Steam Next Fest! If you were able to play Delete After Reading's demo, let us know how it went! Your feedback is super valuable and will help us polish the game to offer you the best possible experience when the game finally releases. And now, let's face one existential doubt we usually ask ourselves. Who might like Delete After Reading - gamers looking for something different, or avid readers looking for an enriched reading experience? Sigh! That has always been our big question. Probably the first two feelings Delete After Reading arouses in players are curiosity and laziness. Curiosity because it |
| Your feedback is very valuable! (+ the demo is still available) | 2022-06-24 | Hello everybody! This week's entry will be a short, but important, one! After a wonderful Steam Next Fest we wanted to thank all of you. Yes, you. The ones that played Delete After Reading's demo and that have sent us your feedback. We wanted to let you know that we have gathered all of it and we are processing your ideas and suggestions to improve the gaming experience even more. If you missed the opportunity to play Delete After Reading's demo during the Next Fest, don't worry! We have decided to keep our demo available to all of you from now on. So, if you still haven't played our special mix between gaming and literature, we invite you to |
| Balancing plot and puzzles in Delete After Reading | 2022-06-17 | Hello everybody! We hope you are having a blast with all the demos available at the Steam Next Fest (including ours, of course). Let us know if you have already played Delete After Reading, as your feedback is incredibly valuable to us! And now, let us address one question that we get again and again when talking about our games: what comes first, the story or the game? There is probably no universal answer. Maybe it's because it's not easy to separate the two, and when you think about creating a video game it's inevitable to have some mechanics already in your head. We imagine it must be something like composing a song, where the important t |
| Designing Delete After Reading's mechanics | 2022-06-10 | Hello, dear readers! We hope you’ve had a fantastic week. Now that the weekend is ahead of us, we wanted to share some more bits of information about our upcoming game, Delete After Reading. Today, we want to focus on the game’s mechanics. If you played our previous title, Unmemory, you will remember they are very unique. One of the benefits of developing Delete After Reading was to take advantage of everything we learned , game mechanics-wise, from our previous project. We learned with Unmemory that if some puzzles were too complicated, they would end up frustrating and demotivating players causing them to abandon the story, something we don |
| The lessons we learnt with our previous game, Unmemory | 2022-06-03 | Hello, dear readers! Today we want to talk to you about how our first game has had a significant impact on the design of Delete After Reading. One of the lessons learned from our previous project, Unmemory, is that it was a dense game. Not only because of the difficulty of the puzzles, but because of the approach of the story itself. The plot was unstructured and complex in a deliberate way in order to make the reader feel lost and play with his memory. And although the comments and analysis of both the press and the players about Unmemory have been very positive, we began to wonder if the format of a book to be played, a game to be read coul |
| What now? The idea behind Delete After Reading | 2022-05-26 | One of the situations any author faces after releasing their first work is: What now? What's next? On the one hand, as much as we feel tremendously proud of Unmemory, the development and release process took a long time and although we are a little ashamed to admit it, we ended up a little exhausted (I guess everyone does). Thus, it made sense to look forward to doing something new. On the other hand, however, we got a lot of messages from you, the reader-players of Unmemory, asking us to make more games like Unmemory. We consequently think it is definitely an option since a second one wouldn't take so much work and that we could take advanta |