CONTINUE TELLING EVERYONE YOU KNOW THAT AI IS THE STUPIDEST SHIT EVER
IT IS WORKING
CONTINUE TO MAKE ART YOURSELF
CONTINUE TO WRITE THINGS THAT INSPIRE YOU
THE WHOLE POINT OF BEING ALIVE IS TO CREATE COOL SHIT
AI STRIPS US OF THE POINT OF BEING HUMAN
#Cronicon Major Update 1.54.0 is now live!
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Yes, it was updated today!
#chronicon is featured in the Close Combat Collection Humble Bundle!
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#Chronicon: Revival update 1.53.0 is now live!
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We're back! #Chronicon
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Chronicon's 5th release anniversary is coming up soon, which I'll be celebrating with an announcement... keep your peepers peeled
Looks like I may not have any more old screenshots... I've taken and saved a bunch but everywhere I look, it's the same 2014-2015 batch.. very strange. Will keep looking, they are here *somewhere*
That's all for now! I'll continue this as soon as I can dig up screenshots for 2016.
In September, the first major content update went out as 0.30 - "The Elven War". It featured Act 2, and the first Set items. My girlfriend's younger brother also debuted his voice acting with this update, adding the first voices to the game (Elf bosses)! He later returned to voice Weyrick in Act 3.
Here's version 2 of the Character select and the first Difficulty select screen. Also looking at an updated main menu with the original pixelart game logo, made by a friends wife, after they stepped in to help me get art done for the first big update.
The Inventory etc looked like this for a long time, before I had the card popups when you hovered stuff. It was bad.
After a release (version 0.20) I got to work on fixing some stuff based on feedback, and working on the next Act of the game - yep the game launched on EA with only Act 1! And it was about half the size of what it is today.
About halfway through 2015 I had settled for the scope of the world and the overall design of the Chronicon. It's very similar today! And now a Steam release is just around the corner. Exciting times!
And the first proper character select screen. Still really pushing for that local co-op experience here.
Here's what The Chronicon (main hub) used to look like around the same time as that... simpler times, for sure.
About 3 months into 2015, I had the first skill trees working. They looked like this for quite a while. Most of these skills are still in the game too! The Warden actually has a fire skill here, Explosive Shot I think it was called, which is the only fire skill she ever had.
Enter 2015 and I am speeding towards a Steam Early Access (then Steam Greenlight) release. I got enemies with random modifiers, lighting, quests, and some decent UI going by now. Also note the shape of the area... it's still the same!
I quickly realized I needed to hire an artist and here is the result of that. Some proper character art, details, items, etc. Also note the fancy shadows, which I ended up scrapping. Though I think they might still technically be in the game, and might be able to enable via the config file...
This is probably the earliest screenshot I have of post-gamejam and the first steps into Chronicon. Already have the urns there, and got local co-op going. The inventory etc that's in the final version of the game looks the way it does because I was initially developing it as a local co-op game.
Here's some old screenshots of the development of #Chronicon! Starting off with a gamejam game in 2014 that would eventually turn into Chronicon
I have an archive of old screenshots from early development - somewhere. I'll see if I can dig it up and post some:)
Today marks 10 years since the first version of #Chronicon was made available via Steam Early Access!
Can't believe how long it's been, and how far we've come since.
It's almost also 5 years since 1.0 and leaving EA, and about 2½ years since the final post-release update.
I'm seeing the same and I don't even do youtube 🤷
Getting instant feedback on updates and such is great, and I've missed working like this a lot. Working in quiet secrecy for years without showing anything is agonizing!
Been churning out small updates like mad. 1.310 is now live with fixes + some changes to Shrine gold costs.
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A quick bugfix (1.301) is now live for #Chronicon: Survivors!
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Chronicon: Survivors 1.3 trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dzB...
Major Content Update 1.3 for #Chronicon: Survivors is now live!
Some very long notes; have a look!
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Scryer Tree updates coming in 1.3 of #Chronicon: Survivors as well :)