Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder News

The achievement "I choose violence" was not triggering, now it should be.
If you do not have it, even though you fulfilled the conditions, try starting a fresh run and it should trigger.

Dyslexic font was causing a few pieces of text to go out of screen bounds. We gave it a good talking to. It understands the errors of its ways.

The guide has been updated. Now the way is open for "I choose violence", "smug-face", and "lover". Use the guide at your own peril. What has been seen cannot be unseen.

-Ze

We did it, people!

The Expanded Edition finally out!

New art, new sounds, new edit, new text, we touched up basically everything in the original game. As it is now, the game is as close to our vision as we're physically capable of manifesting.

Here is a teaser of a few thing we worked on:



The demo of the game is updated as well. We hope everything works. It should work, but if you have any issues, do let us know.

Note: do not use the saves from the old version. It is a bad idea. Bad. Baaaaaaaaad. If you have some progress saved from earlier, you should go to options and wipe it with a button at bottom right corner.

We also launched a collection of artworks for the aficionados among you, as well as an updated soundtrack with new music from the Expanded Edition, all in lossless FLAC format for the best listening experience.

Later we will be editing Story and Tea with Ilar so it's up to par with the Expanded Edition, and updating this pack with it. If you like the artworks in the game, then this is the best way to see them in ultra high resolution, all the while supporting us in our spirited but misguided adventures in game development.

Speaking of support, we will also be revamping the way we put out content for our patreon and ko-fi backers, so that they get more exclusive content than they have been.

Now go and play the new version— have fun, lick salts, listen to eyed daggers, or what have you.

-Ze

We're aware that some players are experiencing an issue where steam doesn't actually download the game but says it has, and obviously won't run the game either. (Steam, why you gotta be like this)

We are working on the issue. Please bear with us.
(Image credit: National Park & Preserve Alaska)

You should be able to play the expanded edition now.
While we were putting the game out, we had a few issues related to how much content was changed. Renpy and steam don't seem to play nice together(?)

We recommend you take these steps before playing to have the best experience:

1. Completely reinstall the game:

1. Right click the game in your steam library > manage > browser local files > Delete "The Remainder" folder
   
2. Uninstall the game from steam
   
3. Install the game again
   

2. Reset any save and progress data from previous versions
In the game, go to options screen, on the bottom right, click "delete save games", and "reset progress".
The game will reset after each of these actions.

Nov 7th is the date, mark it.

Do you know what we said to ourselves when we started the kickstarter for the Expanded Edition? We were building some gameplay systems for The Hunger — the next big game in the Taldun universe, and it was hard work. We said: "Boy, this thing is gonna take years, and it's already burning us out. We should do a ‘small thing, quick-like’, as a break. What if we made a definitive/director's cut of The Remainder? Shouldn't take us long, right? Four months should do it? Six tops?"

Fast forward to fourteen months later, we're finally going to launch it. I recently learned about a rule of production planning: Take what you think a project will need, and multiply it by pi, and you'll get the actual time you'll spend.

The math checks out.

Let's see just exactly how much we expanded the game, shall we?

It started at around 145,000 words, now it is 171,000.

Some of this is new deaths, some are new ending variations, and some just generally fleshing out things that were too thin or adding more flavour and interest in what we found to be bland. Now it should be a feast through and through.

On top of that, we pretty much re-wrote the entire thing over via several editing passes.
We added five new artworks, revised around twenty —a few of which significantly, composed four more ambient tracks, and added 467 unique sound effects.

Because of how much we feel the experience has been improved, we're raising the price to us$27.99. This will not affect those who already own the game.

Once the digital release is out, we will start producing the physical art, the prints, linocuts, CDs, and original artworks. It will likely be another few months before all those are done and shipped out.

After that we're onto the next story: Chronicles of Taldun - The Longing.

If you liked The Remainder, you should, probably, wish-list that.