The team has been working hard on improving the game and thanks to your feedback we have a large update to release today. The details are below, but we still have more to come, so stay tuned!
Update Details
- Added Slowdown option
Accessed via the Options, this can be turned on or off. The slowdown is as close as we can get to the original console releases, but will vary depending on your PC. - Added Practice Mode
Accessed via the main menu. New stages are opened once you've reached them in the main game. Each character's practice stages are independent, so unlocking stages for one character will not unlock them for the others. Scores are local only. - Fixed leaderboard issues
Without getting into technical discussions, the problem here is that Shikigami's scores are larger than Steam's leaderboards can cope with, so the approach we took was to divide the scores uploaded to Steam by 10, while leaving the in-game scores faithful to the original game. - Changed Extend scores to match original game
- Very Easy: First 100,000,000 and every further 100,000,000 points
- Easy: First 100,000,000 and every further 200,000,000 points
- Normal: First 150,000,000 and every further 300,000,000 points
- Hard: First 200,000,000 and every further 400,000,000 points
- Very Hard: First 250,000,000 and every further 400,000,000 points
As always, if you have any issues post-update, please post them here.
Thanks, the Shikigami team.
The scoring contest is described like this:
Score Contest
To celebrate Shikigami's update today, we're having another high score contest and to make sure everyone can take part it's very simple!
Rules:
- Leave difficulty on default setting (Normal)
- Play Practice 1-1 with any character and record a score (you need to complete the stage)
- Take a screenshot with F12 of the Practice screen showing your score
- Post the capture to Twitter during the contest period with the official hashtag #castleofshikigami and a mention to us (@degigames)
- Multiple entries OK, but only one score per user will be accepted.
**If you can't locate the screen captures, open your Steam Library, right click on Castle of Shikigami and select 'View Screenshots' and follow the prompts to navigate to the correct folder.
Contest Dates:
Start: Oct 4, 2017 7:00pm (Thursday)
Finish: Oct 9, 2017 7:00pm (Sunday)
Prizes:
1st place: A signed Shikigami poster
2nd place: A Shikigami poster
3rd place: The soundtrack (Steam key)
**We'll also be picking two random winners and awarding them a prize too.
Small Print
In order to deliver physical prizes, we will need to be able to contact you by email, so please check back at the end of the contest.
In order to send the posters, we will need a postal address and name.
