The End of the Sun News

Hello! folk!

We are surprised at how much positive feedback we get from You on our discussion section! Thank You! Because of your feedback, we could improve the game even more before the full Release!

The Demo has now over 4000 downloads! Thank You for that we are waiting for further remarks and opinions! :) This is just a starting point as we are right before Steam Fest! Hige festival of game demos on Steam.

In the new version of the demo, we improved and fixed some elements basing on Your feedback!

The Demo is now also available On MacOS!


[h3]The End of The Sun Demo ver 30.01.2023. Change list:[/h3]

FIXES:

• Fixed problem with volume light on mac Ventura 13! Because of that, the game was unplayable on that macOS version. Now everything is working correctly. Read more here
  
  
• Fixed the shaky (up and down) player camera movements when using vsync. Read More Here.
  
  
• Fixed problem with clouds taking too much space at a special level when clouds quality was set on high or highest.
  
  
• Fixed problem with the screen resolution option. It wasn't saved between the main menu and the gameplay (That could make confusion about performance.)
  
  
• Fixed the rare problem of locking the character camera in a low position when investigating an object during a mission state change.
  
  
• Fixed the rare problem of the rainbow video effect when using investigate object very often.
  
  

IMPROVEMENTS AND NEW OPTIONS:

• Added an "invert Mouse Y-axis" option - It's now together with the invert gamepad option in the controls menu.
  
  
• Added alternative controls - You could control movements with arrows on the keyboard as an alternative for WSAD (If You would like to see other configurations let us know, we are considering adding the option of key bindings to the full version if there will be more requests about it)
  
  
• Minimum mouse/gamepad sensitivity could be now set to 0.1 (earlier minimum was 0.5)
  
  
• Some localizations and text fixes.
  
  
• Credits list update.
  
  

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[h2]About The Demo:[/h2]
The demo is quite long and should give You over 1 hour of fun! We did everything to make it as best as possible but keep in mind that the whole game is still in development, so We are open for remarks as we will be still improving some elements. Also, we will try to fix any problem You will report.

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
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Hello folks!

We have amazing news for You!
After 5 years of development, we just released a FREE DEMO version of The End of the Sun!
We are extremely happy. We hope You will like it. We are also waiting for Your opinions.

[h2]Demo Teaser:[/h2]
At the same time, we would like to share with You a short Teaser of the demo version! Please leave a thumb up under the video HERE.


[h2]About The Demo:[/h2]
The demo is quite long and should give You over 1 hour of fun! We did everything to make it as best as possible but keep in mind that the whole game is still in development, so We are open for remarks as we will be still improving some elements. Also, we will try to fix any problem You will report.

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

MacOS Version of the demo NOW AVAILABLE:
The game should have a good performance on macs with Intel processors. For M1/M2 processors for now the game is emulated from intel game version processors. (as for many games on Steam) We will try to provide dedicated apple silicon (M1/M2) compilation soon.
Here You could check out our recommendation about playing on Mac.

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If You like our update - Rate it up! It's just one second of Your time, and a huge help to our indie team :)

Hello folks!

We would like to share with You one of the most important pieces of information during our 5-year-long development process.

[h3]Free demo Release![/h3]

We are extremely happy to announce that The End of the Sun free demo version will be released on steam on the 24th of January, 2023! :)

The demo will contain a small part of the full game but as we tested, it still has 50-60 minutes of gameplay. (it's quite long for a demo, some small fully released indie games very often have like 1 hour of gameplay ) The Demo will also be a part of the Steam Next Festival 2023 February edition. The Demo will include English and Polish full audio language versions. The full version of the game will be available in 9 languages of course.



We have been working on the demo the whole last month (12h per day and sometimes even more. / A demo of the open-world game is a hard thing to prepare.) It'll be something really worth checking out. It'll contain an improved mission that You could watch on our gameplay video + another unrevealed mission.

[h3]Do you want to become the Demo tester?[/h3]

The demo is ready, we just make the final closed tests and fixes. After the new year, we will be looking for testers. Contact us at [email protected] if you want to take a part in tests! (We are looking for Linux and mac testers too!)


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Hello folks!
The last update was posted a while ago. Sorry for that but we have been developing a few elements of the game simultaneously. Today we have for you better news than in the earlier update. :)

In that update, we'll be writing mainly about recording Polish language voiceovers to The End of the Sun but also about working on puzzles and missions.

[h2]Recording voiceovers - job harder than you could think[/h2]

Some may think that we just click the record button and then the actor says some words to the mic and it's done. It's much more complicated than that. :) We described the whole process in Update.



In The Update, You could find a lot of final samples of voiceovers, videos from the studio and in-game videos with dialogues. Please If You like it share the update with Your friends! :)


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[h2]READ THE WHOLE LONG UPDATE HERE[/h2]
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[h2]What we have been working on for the last few months?[/h2]

-We recorded almost all Polish voiceovers (only outsourced narration that won't take our time directly is still waiting for records), which took us over 2 weeks. Then we spent 4 weeks choosing proper versions of voiceovers and processing them by mastering and effects.


-We already fully finished the creation of 4 missions - We still have to finish the creation of 15 missions, but don't worry good news here is that preparing a single mission is taking us about 1 week. All systems are ready now and assets are done so basically connecting everything together is ultra-fast comparing it to the whole development process. To be honest, connecting everything (graphics, voiceovers, scripts, systems) into missions/puzzles is like 15% of the whole development. (Of course in our case)



-We created the whole Main menu, Settings Menu and Pause menu - It took us over a month. Seems like something easy to do but it's the opposite way. Basically, we had to code everything from scratch to fit our game. We added options for language settings like choosing subtitles and voiceovers independent way (something you ask us to implement)

We also coded fully gamepad support, and really advanced graphics settings (allowing You to set even Such details as the rate of global illumination refreshing time. We also implemented Save profiles so You could start a new game without losing actual progress. In the menu, You will also find cool "Credits place" with a fire theme. This is where Kickstarters supporter's names will be shown!



-We made many minor fixes and changes and made the gameplay a better experience. Polishing the game is always a lot of work impossible to predict in any way. Also, there are many features that we have been working on, but it's just hard to write about every single one here.



[h2]What do we have to do before release?[/h2]

We have to finish the creation of the rest of the missions as we already mentioned. Test the game and basically, that's it!

Of course, we still have to record English voice actors and translate the game to all languages but outsourcing creators will prepare it so basically, it won't take us our work time. It will be done simultaneously with game tests.

The problem is that we don't know what problems we will be dealing with after testing the game so we still can't say anything about the specific Release date. For now, we still won't change our predictions and aim to Release the game this year, if we decide to move Release we will inform You about it in Update.



[h3]Thank You for Your understanding[/h3]
As We mentioned in Earlier Updates the situation in the world and especially in our country isn't perfect. This is why we are even more thankful for Your understanding, the love and the warm words You are sending to us!

The Summer holidays are coming so... have a great time!
The End of The Sun Team

[h2]READ THE WHOLE LONG UPDATE HERE[/h2]



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