The End of the Sun News

Hello folks!
We have for You new and full of images and information game dev diary!

[h2]What exactly you will find in this update? [/h2]

• Today we would like to share with You some amazing drawings from great artists that we started to cooperate with!
• We also would like to talk a little bit about what we have been doing for the last 3 months and what is game development progress. :)
  
• We’ll share with you also few NEW environmental screenshots from The End of The Sun!
• What’s more, we prepared for You -15% FOR ALL SUPPORT TIERS AND REWARDS on our webpage until The end of the Autumn!
  

We established cooperation with 2 Artists (painters). Both of them create amazing art and specialize in paintings with Slavic myths, legends and creatures themes. You will be able to find these paintings in the game world, take a closer look at them and sometimes listen to “Ashter”(Zhrets) comments.
What will be even more interesting is that some of the paintings will be connected to The End of The Sun game story!

In The Update, we also show how Your comments influence the game design! It's really worth reading.





[h2]Almost 8000 players wishlisted The End of The Sun.[/h2]

We are very happy that many players add our game to their Steam Wishlist every day !

For now, 7747 people added The End of The Sun to their Wishlists. Keep in mind that we even didn’t start proper game promotion so these are great numbers for the indie game like ours. (We are making whole our marketing on our own)

Wishlists are very important for the game release and We are aiming to get a minimum of about 15 000 – 20 000 wishlists before the game Release. So please if you haven’t added Our Game to your Wishlist yet You could do it below:

[h3]ADD The End of The Sun to Steam WISHLIST HERE. [/h3]
Please also share that update with Your friends
[h3]THANK YOU for your support![/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/912840/The_End_of_the_Sun/
Collecting wishlists is very important for small indie teams like ours. More people wishlist the game = more people will get single notification about game full Release. If You would like to help us even more You could click FOLLOW so You will get a steam notification about the most important updates about our game.


[h2]The new teaser that You may not have seen yet[/h2]
In the last update, we shared New short Teaser of the game. If You haven’t seen it yet. You could check it out below. Remember to leave THUMB UP and comment :) It will help us with promoting our game a lot. Thanks!
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]



[h2]SPECIAL OFFER until the end of the Autumn![/h2]
Use code “SLAVICMYTHS2021” to get -15% for all support Tiers! :)
The End of The Sun Kickstarter has ended Successfully! Now, as the campaign is over, we can offer you to pledge via Paypal and still grab some of the special Kickstarter rewards! :)

It's a great time to support us and get for example T-Shirt (that will be delivered in 2-3 weeks) or an additional copy of the game for Your friend! :)

[h3]If You have any questions ask us in the comments section or Join our Discord.[/h3]



[h2]Game from our friends is now Released on Steam Store![/h2]
The Gamedec - a game made by our friends (They supported us a lot with their updates during the Kickstarter campaign) is now Released on Steam Store! :)

Remember to leave Steam Review if You will like the game :) It's important for devs to hear Your opinion. They put a lot of effort to polish and release Gamedec. :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/917720/Gamedec/



[h3]If You like our update Rate it up. It's just one second of Your Time, and Huge help for our indie team :)[/h3]

Hello Folks!

We would like to share with You new teaser that presents part of the game-play. It's focused on fantasy creature called "Child of Water"
In addition, we prepared making of blog post how this creature was designed and created. :)

We also moved the release date of the game from June 2021 to 2021/2022. More detailed info about release date and teaser You could read on our blog post.

[h2]NEW TEASER![/h2]
[h3]You could watch Teaser on Youtube here or below.

Don’t forget to leave a comment and THUMB UP on Youtube if You like it.[/h3]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]


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[h2]GAMEDEV DIARY:[/h2]

This blog post diary is about one of the fantasy creatures (connected to Slavic legends) that You will meet at The End of The Sun – a monster called “Child of water”.

READ WHOLE ARTICLE HERE








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[h3]JOIN TO OUR DISCORD CHANNEL[/h3]



[h3]Please encourage Your Friend to The End of The Sun Game To Wishlist on Steam.[/h3]

This is very important for Indie Developers to have a lot of Wishlists before game release.
Until now over 7300 players added The end of the Sun to Wishlists!

Thank You for Your Support!



[h2]Click THUMB UP if You like our updates :)[/h2]

Hello folks!

Cause It's been 3 months since the last update and many of You requested another one... it's here! :) Before we will start We would like to invite You to our DISCORD server where You will have more direct contact With us and You could also chat with other supporters and players. :)

[h3]The End Of The Sun DISCORD CHANNEL[/h3]

Please also don't forget to tell Your friends about wishlisting The End of The Sun :) We are really close to 7000 wishlists!
It Is Really Important for better steam positioning for a small indie team like ours to have as much as possible wishlists before Release.

SHORT ABOUT UPDATE:
We are writing what we have achieved in the last 3 months. We Show some new Scanned 3d assets as well as improvements to cutscenes system, characters, walking system and more.

[h3]TECH INFO:Unfortunateley Steam don't support GIFs larger than 3 MB this is why We posted the whole article on our Official Webpage[/h3]

[h2]READ THE DEVELOPER UPDATE HERE[/h2]










[h3]LEAVE THUMB UP if You like our Updates! :)[/h3]

Hello!

For Halloween We have for You some special Making of material with Veles Tree Model Uploaded to Sketchfab so You could see effect of our work in Full 3d. Also We Would Like to Share with You Making off about that.
[h3]FULL MAKING OF BLOG POST IS AVAILABLE HERE[/h3]

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[h3]Veles Tree 3D model on SketchFab:[/h3]

Veles Tree – 3d Model For You to Look from every angle and play with is Available HERE on Sketchfab (Full Screen Recommended)



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[h3]3d Facebook Photo - Haloween Screenshot:[/h3]



Also We prepared Special 3d Screenshot For Slavic Halloween (Called in Slavic Culture “Dziady") You could Watch it on Depthy HERE (Move Mouse over Image there and You will see the Effect)

We posted it on Facebook So Your friends Could See It directly there. Here is that Post. But If You would like to share it on Your own profile not share from Ours. You could Download That Image and That Depth Map Image and just Drag and drop to Your Facebook. It Will Automatically Create 3d Photo from That.


If You would like to know more how Halloween is connected with The End of The Sun and Slavic Culture Read more on our full blog post HERE


FULL MAKING OF BLOG POST IS AVAILABLE HERE

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Please encourage Your Friend to add Our Game To Wishlist on Steam.

This is very important for Indie Developers to have a lot Wishlistsbefore game Relelase :) There is almost 7000 of us already!

[h3]Thank You for Your Support!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN![/h3]

[h2]Stay Tuned for Next Developer Update Soon![/h2]
[h3]Click THUMB UP if You like our updates :)[/h3]

Hello Players!

First of all Thanks that You Wish-listed Our Game :) Wishlists are very important nowadays for indie games like ours so Please encourage Your friends to add The End of The Sun to Wish-list! [h3]Almost 7 Thousand players Wish-listed The End of The Sun already! :) [/h3]

[h2]What About Progress in game development?[/h2]
We are still working on last 2 locations and We are improving Characters look. We're changing things like Size of eyes (that was not proper for some of characters), skin details, clothes textures, eyes textures and adding clothes details. We added Ambient Occlusion/roughness/specular/skin subsurface textures to Characters.

Last Weeks We are working hard not only on Creating New Characters but also on improving existing ones. We polished Nadimir's Face, changed topology, added skin details, facial hair, fixed clothes bugs and many other tiny elements that Gives overall better look :)  

We also implemented movement of eye Lid that follow eyes of Characters now. Big Thanks to Rogo Digital (Creators of LipSynch System that We are using To handle our characters lips synchronization and facial emotions and now also Eye Lid control) for help in implementing that element. Yes We know it seems strange that We focus on such a small details now but It gave much more natural look to game Characters. The End of The Sun is story based game so high quality Characters are important for us. You could judge results on gif below :)

CLICK TO WATCH GIF HERE (Sorry for low Gif Quality because of compression)

Some of You noticed that facial expression of characters can be improved so We implemented Eye Lid movement of Characters. On that Gif You could notice that now If character is looking down or up, Eyes lids are rotating according to eyes what makes much more natural look. 

Today We fully finished last character 3d Model (Nadimir's Father). We are going to Share Screenshots of that character in the future. We just would like to give some promotional aspect to that new Character. This is Why We won't share It With standard update. We probably share it together with next "Gamedev Diary" Or new Teaser.

But ... We could share something related to that new one character - part of his clothes that We already created :)

Part of clothes that belongs to new not announced yet Character (Nadimir's Father)

(Remember That characters in The End of The Sun have 3-4 version of itself - young - middle age - old) This is why creating One Character could take us even 1 month or more! :) But good news are that We just Finished almost all characters planned in game scenario (Ok ok.. We just need to create "Nadimir" child version and textures to some fantasy creatures (not exactly human characters) :) ) So We are really close to finish work on game heros and focus only on development of cutscenes and gameplay elements :)

In The Same time We are working on making some elements of game world that We are unable to scan by photogrammetry cause it just don't exist in real World, like statues, items and fantasy elements of the world :)

Work In Progress - Small Statue of Weles - god of underworld

Sorry We can't show more for now but many elements of the game is not something That could be simple shown(example improving save system, optimizations, gameplay mechanics) also We don't Want To Reveal story spoilers. When some new location or game play mechanics will be Fully ready We will then prepare some bigger update and blog post To Inform You About it :) (trust us We have to share things very carefully to don't make spoilers, sometimes sharing even one item could reveal too much from the core of game story )



[h2]What About Svarog's wooden figurines?[/h2]
Sculptor who made Svarog's Figurine that we scanned into The End of The Sun game just finished work on all Figurines that were available on Kickstarter:) Below you could see Photo of that Figurines Army! :D



Also We have 1 additional figurine left (We made mistake and ordered too much) So This is Last chance for You to get Last figurine!!! :) Just contact us on [email protected] and let us know that You would like to get last figurine. It will be the same cost as it was on our Kickstarter.

Remember That You could still get Additional T-shirt / box edition / digital version of the Game on Our Webpage HERE



[h2]Stay Tuned for Next Developer Update Soon![/h2]
[h3]Click THUMB UP if You like our updates :)[/h3]