-It’s been a week since we released a free demo for our game. Did you know that you can download a free demo of Lightstep Chronicles? You can! It’s quite short, but it showcases what the game is about quite nicely.

-The demo will walk you through the first chapter of Lightstep Chronicles. The average playtime is half an hour. The final release will contain over 5 hours of intergalactic mind-games with increasingly manic AI. You’ll also get to meet this guy:

-Because of some of the innovative mechanics we’ve used in Lightstep Chronicles, we’ve had some trouble pinning the game down to a genre. With the combined forces of your comments on Game Jolt, a Reddit think group, and months of moody pondering, we’ve come up with a new description - Lightstep Chronicles is a story-driven adventure game.

Devlog

As promised, this is what we did in the past week:

• updated the Save Game system

• worked on the audio and music, started implementing a new sound controller

• added more post-process optimization and lighting

• polished end scene graphics

• added more in-game effects (particles and animations)

We didn’t fully implement the new sound controller, it’ll be a task for this week, too. We did manage to add more debugging options, so that we can test the game more thoroughly.

Next week, we will work on

• activating optional text within zoom zones

• additional cutscenes in the control room

• updating the Star Map with edited text

• updating animations of Cain Phoenix in the chair

• optimizing scene loading

• polishing end scene graphics

‘Til next Wednesday,
Take care!