Hello Gloomizens,

What a journey it’s been! From the launch and success of our Kickstarter campaign, to partnering with Asmodee: Digital, to today - This has been one heck of a ride. While there’s still work to do, we’re happy to announce that the finish line is in sight and that Gloom: Digital Edition will be releasing on Steam for Windows and Mac on Halloween -- October 31st!

Your access to the closed beta will continue up until launch, but we will begin to open it up to a larger audience over time.  Supporters from the Asmodee: Digital and Atlas Games communities will join us for what we’re calling our ‘Less Closed Beta’. We’re looking forward to growing our community of testers and hearing their feedback.

So, that’s all for now. ONLY TWO MONTHS TO GO!

We can’t thank you all enough for your amazing support and patience on this project. We know it’s been a long wait, but come Halloween we’ll finally all be able to spread the Gloom. We hope you are as excited as we are.

Sincerely

• The Sky Ship Crew

Hello Gloomizens, 

Our Gloom: Digital Edition closed beta is live and in full effect. We've had a ton of great feedback from our Kickstarter supporters and thought we'd give everyone and update on the team's progress as we roll toward launch. 

The closed beta has given us a great opportunity to connect with all of our Kickstarter backers and get some great insight on their thoughts on the Gloom: Digital Edition experience as a whole. The feedback has been tremendous and we've used it to add some much requested features in the game. Cheif amonst them is the ability to now see your hand even during the opponents' turn. This was a much requested feature so that you can now strategize your next play while your opponents are making their moves.

We've also been able to tackle various bugs whether it be card effects that wern't working properly or just small visual cues in the UI that didn't correctly display. 

Stick with us as we'll have more news on the closed beta and a few maore changes in store! 

We're excited to share more with you in the coming weeks. 

Until then - stay Gloomy! 

Hello Gloomizens!

A LOT has happened since our last post and we wanted to give everyone a quick update on everything the team has been up to!

We've been doing a ton of work on the overall UI for Gloom. After a lot of QA, the team looked at what we could do to improve the overall feel and experience of Gloom and implemented a few changes that have us feeling some serious positive modifier points!  

Among some of the changes is the movement of each players overall score to the right side of the UI. During gameplay, the player will be able to click on the score box and reveal an “Overview” page which will give them a complete view of all families and their current statuses. Accompanying this “Overview” page will be a color-coded text log that will also recap all the latest cards played. This should make it easier for the player to quickly survey that overall situation and create a strategy for what moves they want to make next. 

We’ve also added pop-up messages during each turn change and additional color cues to help users better recognize whose turn it is. 

On the multiplayer front we’ve added a player clock allowing a custom amounts of play time for each player. This clock will count down on the player’s turn, giving them a set amount of actual play time to decide their moves and progress the game along. This feature should be familiar to those who have played other Asmodee titles as it’s incorporated into their other multiplayer games as well. 

That's all for now! We'll have some very big news for everyone in the coming weeks. So keep it tuned here for everything Gloom: Digital Edition!