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Posted February 24, 2016
The free <span class="bold">Shadwen Demo</span>, where you can try out your silent killing techniques in a bleak medieval environment, is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, DRM-free on GOG.com.



Time stands still, as Shadwen lurks behind a dark corner, wishing that the little girl cowering beside her didn't have to witness the brutal scene that is about to unfold. But maybe she won't. Perhaps there is another way to get past these guards, climb on that scaffold and continue on her mission to assassinate the king. Before you take any action time stands still, allowing you to change plans on the spot and even rewind failed attempts. Killing might not be necessary, as long as Shadwen manages to stay hidden.

In anticipation of the stealth-action game, where you move freely among the shadows of a gritty medieval setting, developers Frozenbyte are releasing the <span class="bold">Shadwen Demo</span> and GOG.com is jumping in on the action! You will have the opportunity to sample Shadwen's light-footed scaling and stealth-assassination mechanics in a fully-playable area of the game and win awesome prizes in the process. The demo will be available on our store between February 24th and February 29th but, once added, you will be able to access it from your GOG.com library forever. All individual scores of those playing the demo will contribute to a global community score; the higher the global tally, the lower Shadwen's launch price will be. Head <span class="bold">here</span> for more details.


GOG.com CONTEST
We decided to do something extra for all the GOGers out there who want to try the free demo, so we are launching our own parallel contest where you must lunge #fromtheshadows for a chance to win awesome Shadwen swag!

The basics:
—Grab the <span class="bold">Shadwen Demo</span> and reach the end of the level without raising alarms, suspicions, or your blade against the guards. Staying hidden earns you more points.
—Screenshot the stat screen: Complete the demo level scoring as many points as you can, then post the image(s) below or tweet them at <span class="bold">twitter/GOGcom</span> with the "#fromtheshadows @GOGcom" tags.
—Grab sweet swag: The 10 highest-scoring assassins will get a Shadwen t-shirt and a free copy of Shadwen, courtesy of Frozenbyte. In case more than 10 entries are tied for the top spots, their submissions will enter a raffle.



So put on your soft leather gloves, don your darkness-colored robes, and exercise your rope-throwing: unsung glory and awesome prizes await!
The event will last until February 29th. Winners will be announced in the forums soon afterwards.



Contest Winners Announced!
The winners are in!

Due to an in-game bug making it impossible to do an undetected + no kill run worth 1600 points, there was a bit of confusion about eligible entries. To make things fair, we considered both the never-detected runs (1100 points) and kill-everyone runs (1110 points) to be eligible for the grand prizes — but with no more than one entry per person.

Since there were more than 10 eligible entries, we ran a raffle powered by the random number generator at random.org

And the winners are:
RabidGears
Goatbrush
w0lf1k
LiefLayer
Sablelune
Aningan
Aceso
Pixelion
GothaBlutauge
@Asaldar_


Thanks for playing Shadwen on GOG! We'll be reaching out to the winners individually to get your T-Shirt sizes and addresses. In the meantime... stay hidden, friends.
Posted February 26, 2016
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Loger13: My results:
shadwen_DNKA.jpg - for CONTEST.
shadwen_DNKAND.jpg - OFF-THE-CONTEST (just for those, who interested): WHAT IF Didn't kill anyone + Never detected.

P.S.
Sorry for my bad English - not my native.
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LiefLayer: How did you do that?
Didn't kill anyone + Never detected.
No magic here.
I see many guys here interested in Didn't kill anyone + Never detected results (score).
So, I beat my laziness and make second playthrough specially for curious ones.
In the second run (shadwen_DNKAND.jpg) I cheated the game.
I think about myself as expirienced stealth player so personally I'm pretty sure , it is impossible to reach the end of the level without raising alarms/suspicions AND without killing. There is some places with "double guards", that cannot be passed without killing or cautious/alams guards. Maybe 99% sure :)
Anyway these second playthrough can't participate in CONTEST (Obv. because cheating). So these second screenshot just for fun. To satisfy the curiosity of people. Only first screnshot for CONTEST.
Posted February 26, 2016
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Loger13: No magic here.
I see many guys here interested in Didn't kill anyone + Never detected results (score).
So, I beat my laziness and make second playthrough specially for curious ones.
In the second run (shadwen_DNKAND.jpg) I cheated the game.
I think about myself as expirienced stealth player so personally I'm pretty sure , it is impossible to reach the end of the level without raising alarms/suspicions AND without killing. There is some places with "double guards", that cannot be passed without killing or cautious/alams guards. Maybe 99% sure :)
Anyway these second playthrough can't participate in CONTEST (Obv. because cheating). So these second screenshot just for fun. To satisfy the curiosity of people. Only first screnshot for CONTEST.
how you cheated?
anyway now we know that max point could be 1600.
Posted February 26, 2016
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huan: I got the impression that she doesn't run randomly in front of guards. She starts running if her cover is not sufficient and she would be detected anyway, or if there is safe way (and she has pretty good idea what guards can see). If you tell her to stay inside straw heap she will pretty much stay there crouched until you allow her to move. Conversely, she will refuse order to move if it would expose her.
For me it happens that I point her to a straw heap, and then, while I'm dealing with guards, I turn around and find her standing in front of one of them.. WTF lol!
I often have to keep telling her to stay, so she doesn't run amidst guards.
Post edited February 26, 2016 by phaolo
Posted February 26, 2016
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Loger13: No magic here.
I see many guys here interested in Didn't kill anyone + Never detected results (score).
So, I beat my laziness and make second playthrough specially for curious ones.
In the second run (shadwen_DNKAND.jpg) I cheated the game.
I think about myself as expirienced stealth player so personally I'm pretty sure , it is impossible to reach the end of the level without raising alarms/suspicions AND without killing. There is some places with "double guards", that cannot be passed without killing or cautious/alams guards. Maybe 99% sure :)
Anyway these second playthrough can't participate in CONTEST (Obv. because cheating). So these second screenshot just for fun. To satisfy the curiosity of people. Only first screnshot for CONTEST.
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LiefLayer: how you cheated?
anyway now we know that max point could be 1600.
1. It's hard to explain with my bad english. No internal cheats used. Some hacking game. Anyway, I think there is no difference how exactly it's done.
2. Exactly! I do it for getting knowledge about max score and share with curious ones.
Posted February 26, 2016
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LiefLayer: how you cheated?
anyway now we know that max point could be 1600.
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Loger13: 1. It's hard to explain with my bad english. No internal cheats used. Some hacking game. Anyway, I think there is no difference how exactly it's done.
2. Exactly! I do it for getting knowledge about max score and share with curious ones.
Nice, but please don't explain how you hacked the game (before the end of the contest), otherwise all the scammers' alts will show up with 1600 points..
Posted February 26, 2016
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Loger13: 1. It's hard to explain with my bad english. No internal cheats used. Some hacking game. Anyway, I think there is no difference how exactly it's done.
2. Exactly! I do it for getting knowledge about max score and share with curious ones.
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phaolo: Nice, but please don't explain how you hacked the game (before the end of the contest), otherwise all the scammers' alts will show up with 1600 points..
No problem here.
Anyway, I think it's impossible without cheating (still 99% sure :) ), and I'm sure developers EXACTLY KNOW about that, so cheaters just exposed themselves with 1600 score.
Post edited February 26, 2016 by Loger13
Posted February 26, 2016
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RabidGears: What actually counts as a cautious guard? Is it any guard that turns yellow, if only a second, before they die? I'm still getting 6 cautious guards, and I think that they're the ones that I've had to kill by dropping barrels or boxes on.

Also can the heavily armored guards be killed by stabbing?
As far as I understand yes, any guard that turns yellow, even for a fraction of a second before killed, he counts as cautious.

And yes, kinda, to the second one. They can't be stabbed from behind but rather you have to jump from above and execute them. They also can die from the silent dart trap, and the other traps as well.
Posted February 26, 2016
From the official Reddit Ask Me Anything that is going on right now, or was a few hours ago. I asked what the max score is:

Dev 1

I think the highest possible score is 1110 (kill all + never detected). I don't think a non-kill-non-detection combination is possible in the demo - if you do manage it, I think you're officially better than our QA. :)
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I designed the system and honestly I have no idea what is the maximum score ;)
I think the no kills no detection is impossible to achieve in the demo, as you need to lure the guards at least at some points and the luring is incorrectly breaking the detection. (physics and sounds should not be calculated as detections)
We'll fix this for the final game for sure :)
So yeah 1600 points is definately a cheat or hack.

Source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/47pm9l/we_are_the_developers_of_trine_and_we_failed_our/d0er3iw
Posted February 26, 2016
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Loger13: 1. It's hard to explain with my bad english. No internal cheats used. Some hacking game. Anyway, I think there is no difference how exactly it's done.
2. Exactly! I do it for getting knowledge about max score and share with curious ones.
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Senteria: From the official Reddit Ask Me Anything that is going on right now, or was a few hours ago. I asked what the max score is:

Dev 1 Dev 2 So yeah 1600 points is definately a cheat or hack.

Source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/47pm9l/we_are_the_developers_of_trine_and_we_failed_our/d0er3iw
thank you
Posted February 26, 2016
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gamescanbe.850: Hi, anyone knows how the controls are mapped to the controller? I can't find a way to select and place traps with it...
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Tallima: Not 100% sure b/c I used a keyboard, but there is a bindings and controller section in the options. Not sure if it has bindings though.

If you can't find them, the keyboard numbers on the top of the letters are weapon selectors.
Thanks! I ended up used keyboard and mouse, since I couldn't find a way to select traps with the controller.
Posted February 26, 2016
I can't play anymore this weekend, but man am I glad I got a chance. I really like this game. Well done Frozenbyte! (that said, I think I've liked all your games -- so no real big surprise :D)
Posted February 26, 2016
400 points, need to learn...
Posted February 26, 2016
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Vatt.ghern: you have to jump from above and execute them..
Damn, neither boxes nor jumping on heads leave guards alive :(
I didn't use a single item, but there's no bonus.
Also, I'm not sure how I was detected.. O_o

P.s: the all-time score sums the previous ones, instead of stating the max.. bug?
Post edited February 26, 2016 by phaolo
Posted February 26, 2016
My modest first attempt.

This game rocks!
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Posted February 27, 2016
Raising caution won't affect your score, doesn't it?

I also had a 1100 run with no kills and 60 cautious guards. Somebody here didn't get the caution of so many, still has 1100.


Awesome game and awesome promotion, btw. :3 Little girl rarely messes things up (which is uncommon for steath companions) and only the rope physics look funny sometimes.

Is it normal that moving time with shift will also bring you out of stealth mode?
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