13 - Endlight FINALLY RELEASES Friday July 28, 2023!!!
You knew this day would come.
But this isn't about you.
It's about Friday July 28, 2023.
The day Endlight, after several false starts, finally releases.
You're incredibly self centered.
I think we all know you're going to buy Endlight.
Proof: You're reading this.
The problem isn't you.
The problem is all of your friends who don't know about Endlight,
and are upset with you for not telling them.
[hr][/hr]What's new? Only EVERYTHING
Forget the Endlight you knew and loved, it's dead.
It's been replaced by Endlight.
- Real time lighting - check out those annoying GIFs!
- Volumetric fog
- Optimized for SteamDeck (it's SWEET)
- 16 FREE DLC Seasons (400+ levels)
- Improved post-processing colour (LUTs)
- Improved framerate, somehow still 60fps+ in 4K (120fps+ at 1080p)
- Improved collisions
- More particles, plus more particles, and some more particles
- More user controlled configurations
- Extra spectacular Outside levels
- Redesigned the "Yearly Challenge", now titled "Earn The Right To Replay"
This is great news for you! But for me... FOR ME it means redoing the video and screenshots for both the Steam page and the website. The trailer also needs to be recreated, but since it confused people perhaps god is telling me something.
"What about the demo? Do you need to build a new one?"
Yes and No.
Yes I need to build a new one.
No because I removed it.
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Anything else? Only EVERYTHING
Steam Keys
You want one? I've got 400 for people who can spread the word.
aka. reviewers, press, streamers, influencers, people of great moral fibre
Are you that people? E-mail [email protected] before we e-mail you
(and you know we'll find you). Note: No natzis.
Day Of The Devs - 10th Anniversary
After years of submitting, in Nov. 2022 Endlight made the DOTD cut (and that version had no real time lighting!). On Nov. 5 2022 DOTD displayed Endlight at the San Francisco midway! A day before flying out I got sick and couldn't attend. They wouldn't cancel my hotel, but they did give me a credit. So looks like I'll be visiting the midway this year to ... I'm not sure.
Tik Tok
Last year, in a desperate effort to reach the kids, I created 30 hilarious TikTok videos.
I consider the experiment a success.
If you don't find them hilarious, don't worry ....
I only did most of the work on Endlight.
Steam Deck
Did I mention we optimized Endlight for the Steam deck? It's a lovely device. I was shocked at how user friendly it is, and how good Endlight looked and played on the small screen. Tiny Endlight is a different experience, yet somehow still awesome. I tip my hat to those Steam goofballs. Worth noting we've created a native Linux build for Steam Deck. Proton is for fools.
Amazing Let's Play
ZeroFrameGaming plays the now-outdated Endlight demo and it's my FAVOURITE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y_a9P6A6gI
Real Time Lighting and Volumetric Fog Learnings
After a lot of work to enable these, It turns out that some Endlight levels look TERRIBLE with real time lighting and volumetric fog. So we needed to let each level decide whether to turn them on or off. Dynamically swapping between Endlight's original ultra-optimized shaders and Unity's PBR surface shaders was hard, but ensuring the two sets of shaders produced the same overall look (lighting, lit textures, colouring, bloom) was even harder. And we're charging what, 15 bucks?!
Hidden Machine
Hidden Machine says "You need to check this game out!"
finalspiral replies "looks cool"
Post Processing Colour
Endlight's secret has always been post processed colour via look-up textures (LUTs). Last year we bought 200 more, tweaked them, and sprinkled them liberally across the levels. If you like your dish without salt, Endlight is not for you.
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Remember when you said we'd never make it?
You're looking pretty stupid right now.
I wish I was a mirror so you could see the look on your beautiful face.
WASN'T ENDLIGHT SUPPOSED TO RELEASE JULY 2022
Wasn't it Miyamoto who said, "a great game never releases."
