Astalon: Tears of the Earth News

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The Power of Community:

Behind every epic adventure lies an even more incredible community. Your support has made Astalon : Tears of the Earth an amazing experience, and we're grateful for each and every one of you. So we made this poster as kind of a thank you to everyone ! Don't forget to share your excitement for the game, the poster, and the community that makes Astalon truly special!

Happy gaming!

Hey everyone! This month was something special! "Astalon: Tears of the Earth" turned 2 years old ! Part of the celebrations included new digital goods and some new contests and giveaways!

First, we're having a fanart contest! Drawings, music, stories- anything counts! Share your creation, tag @LABSworks on twitter or instagram, and use the hashtag #astalonfanartcontest ! We have some awesome prizes to give away. Full rules at the link below:

https://astalonart.dangenentertainment.com/




Next thing, we have released the artbook "Art and Creation" on Steam as well! This is over 100 pages that include every piece of official Astalon art, and a ton of behind the scenes info, lore, and interviews that will greatly interest fans of the game! You can buy it at the link below

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2452360/Astalon_Tears_of_the_Earth__Art_and_Creation/



And finally, we have released a 3rd soundtrack album, which compiles all the bonus tracks from the Limited Run Games collector's edition soundtrack release! This album has 6 chiptunes that were cut from the game, as well as 6 new super arrange tracks by Matt Kap! You can buy it now on Steam or bandcamp, or listen on your favorite music streaming service!



Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2455450/Astalon_Tears_of_the_Earth__Bonus_Tracks/


Bandcamp: https://mattkap.bandcamp.com/album/astalon-tears-of-the-earth-bonus-tracks


Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7zjmUMb3RpYGf7pHEUSVEj?si=x7-CVwLOR9KfDOlVabj21g&nd=1


We're grateful to every player who helped this game achieve everything that it was able to achieve. We're almost done with the anniversary celebrations, but keep an eye on our twitter and instagram in the near future for the last few tidbits ! Thanks again, ruins explorers!

http://www.twitter.com/labsworks
http://www.instagram.com/labsworks

-LABS team

Hey everyone! Today we're releasing the Steam trading cards, badges, and emoticons for Astalon! All you have to do is play the game to start to earn cards!

Another important note: It has been brought to our attention that the New Game + update for the Linux version has a bug that doesn't allow the game to start. For now, the Linux version has been set back to the previous version until we fix that. Thanks to everyone who has played Astalon, we're gonna continue to do our best!

Thank you everyone for your continued support and your great feedback, we're humbled and couldn't have wished for a nicer community! As a thank you we wanted to something a tiny bit special and we hope that you'll enjoy this update as much as we enjoyed designing it!


GAME UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS

For all the peeps that can't get enough of Astalon, we've added a whole new mode! Please welcome a real NEW GAME + mode! Not only you'll now be able to dive back into the tower with your power ups after the end of the normal game, but you'll now be able to discover a cool new take on the tower itself! New visuals, new room layouts, new secrets, new challenges await you in the Tower of Serpents!

PHYSICAL EDITION

For those of you who haven't heard, we're working with the awesome people at Limited Run Games to bring "Astalon: Tears of the Earth" to real Switch cartridges and PS4 discs! There will be 2 editions. First up is the standard game case (with brand new Ryusuke Mita cover art, and a retro-style manual). And second- the COLLECTORS EDITION BOX! The CE box features a 3-disc deluxe soundtrack with a whole album worth of unreleased music, a huge development art book with tons of behind-the-scenes info, sketches, art, lore and trivia, and more! Pre-orders are open now at the URL below:

https://limitedrungames.com/collections/astalon-tears-of-the-earth

Remember, it's a limited release, so you have to pre-order a copy before Feb 20th. So, what are you waiting for :D?

COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS

We also have some very good new to share! The amazing speedrunning community of Astalon did a tremendous job at running the game, finding routes and doing friendly competitions with one another, and as a result to their hard work, @strizer86 did a great, very suspenseful live run of the game during AGDQ 2022 in January! Congratulations to him, to Colt for managing Astalon's speedrunning community and for his awesome work as a commentator during the run! And thank you to the whole speedrunning community, we couldn't be more proud!

Make sure to check out the run below!

PATCH HIGHLIGHTS

• Added New Game Plus mode with a modified and tweaked map! (start a new game from a normal save file with a "cleared" tag on it)
  
• Made numerous fixes to the main map
  
• Added a copy/paste feature for save files in the saves menu
  
• Fixed Void Portals not appearing on the map
  
• Fixed orbs not spawning anymore after playing the game for a while
  
• Changed the Bestiary achievements to trigger the previous ones too as a safety
  
• Ukrainian translation fixes with the help of SBT Localization Team
  
• Added Russian translation credits
  
• Fixed Gate not registering as opened when you hit a teleporter at the exact same time
  
• Added more screen resolutions between 1280 and 1680
  
• Added the option to keep a button pressed to skip dialogues faster (no more button mashing! Keeping the Jump button pressed with now auto-complete dialogues)
  
• Added potential fix for characters moving on their own after a character swap
  
• Added a potential fix for characters blinking through platforms on some occasions
  
• Various small fixes
  

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