- Nascent Prophecy - Chapter 1 available! - 19 December 2020
Hi All, Great news, it's here, Chapter 1 is now available for you to download for free! Released as a concept demo it will provide the full game play of the first chapter. Even though I've worked hard to stamp out as many bugs as possible, there may well be others present but I hope that this wont get in the way of the overall experience. Download it on itch here! I'm releasing this to gather feedback, so please do share your thoughts here or in the Nascent Prophecy Itch forum. Thanks for the support and I hope you enjoy playing!
- Nascent Prophecy - 30 July 2020
Nascent Prophecy (Working title) is an isometric adventure game, set in the same universe of ICARUS.1, set topside with it's event's pre-ICARUS.1 you will need to piece together the mystery of what happened to the outpost. Set in a third person view and moving from location to location, players must solve environmental puzzles and tasks slowly unfolding the history of the transformers and ultimately their fate. You're not alone in your quest, your companion is there not only for the ride but to help out when the need arises. You must also manage your inventory and there is additionally light crafting. Combine items together to create tools which help solve puzzles in your way. This has been in development for over a year now and has been a visual experiment which has developed into a full experience. The goal will be to release a free complete chapter and gauge interest in the project t…
- DLC & FOV - 7 May 2017
A free DLC is arriving allowing you to play the original Prototype version of ICARUS.1, created for the 2015 Edge get into games contest. This full game was put together in under 3 months and provided the main drive for the final ICARUS.1 game. Faster paced and at times punishing, this rogue like game will put you through your paces. Loot, lazers and crushing rooms await. It's an interesting play to visually see how thing began with the most insane walking bob ever encountered in a game :D In other news patch (1.1.1) was released today allowing you to finally change the FOV of the camera. You can now select between a range of 40, 50, 60 and the default 70 Field of View. Above shows the original default designed for 70 FOV Above shows possibly a more happier FOV of 40 Keep an eye out for the DLC release arriving soon, Happy exploring! Jon
- DLC & FOV - 7 May 2017
A free DLC is arriving allowing you to play the original Prototype version of ICARUS.1, created for the 2015 Edge get into games contest. This full game was put together in under 3 months and provided the main drive for the final ICARUS.1 game. Faster paced and at times punishing, this rogue like game will put you through your paces. Loot, lazers and crushing rooms await. It's an interesting play to visually see how thing began with the most insane walking bob ever encountered in a game :D In other news patch (1.1.1) was released today allowing you to finally change the FOV of the camera. You can now select between a range of 40, 50, 60 and the default 70 Field of View. Above shows the original default designed for 70 FOV Above shows possibly a more happier FOV of 40 Keep an eye out for the DLC release arriving soon, Happy exploring! Jon
- Ahoy there Patch! - 2 January 2017
Hi there! ICARUS.1 was released over a month ago now and I've been super pleased with the response. There is always that big worry releasing something that you've worked so close too for over a year with how it's going to be received. Thank you all for your feedback. As with any release there is always going to be bugs and it's the Steam achievements that have caused the biggest problem. It appears that you could not trigger more than one achievement unlock per gaming session (epic face palm) After some digging around and help from the community I'm happy to say a new patch has been released which solves this problem, it also contains other small tweaks and adjustments. Thank you all for your patience, it's been a real balancing act as a sole developer getting time between work and being a Father of two. Trust you all had a good Christmas and Happy New Year! :D
- Ahoy there Patch! - 2 January 2017
Hi there! ICARUS.1 was released over a month ago now and I've been super pleased with the response. There is always that big worry releasing something that you've worked so close too for over a year with how it's going to be received. Thank you all for your feedback. As with any release there is always going to be bugs and it's the Steam achievements that have caused the biggest problem. It appears that you could not trigger more than one achievement unlock per gaming session (epic face palm) After some digging around and help from the community I'm happy to say a new patch has been released which solves this problem, it also contains other small tweaks and adjustments. Thank you all for your patience, it's been a real balancing act as a sole developer getting time between work and being a Father of two. Trust you all had a good Christmas and Happy New Year! :D
- Time for an exciting update - 2 November 2016
Things have been a bit quiet as I didn't want to post until things were definite. I've been hard at working putting the finishing touches to ICARUS.1 and making it content complete. Also in this period lots of external events have taken place that almost threatened the completion of the game. I am pleased to say that ICARUS.1 will be live next week! It's been a year and a half but the end is in sight. Thank you all for your patience and support over this time. Almost there (insert party popper here). To celebrate check out the new launch trailer and the bunch of new screen shots on the ICARUS.1 game page. As always you can follow @16bitsperpx for fresh updates! Jon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg8QqzCPepc
- Time for an exciting update - 2 November 2016
Things have been a bit quiet as I didn't want to post until things were definite. I've been hard at working putting the finishing touches to ICARUS.1 and making it content complete. Also in this period lots of external events have taken place that almost threatened the completion of the game. I am pleased to say that ICARUS.1 will be live next week! It's been a year and a half but the end is in sight. Thank you all for your patience and support over this time. Almost there (insert party popper here). To celebrate check out the new launch trailer and the bunch of new screen shots on the ICARUS.1 game page. As always you can follow @16bitsperpx for fresh updates! Jon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg8QqzCPepc
- Dev Update - Demo - 25 July 2016
Hi there! Wow, time fly's and a lot has been happening. I'll cut to the chase, the Demo has been updated with the new deferred lighting and a cheeky new additional 'bit' that's been needed for Chapter 5. As always please let me know if there are any problems. You will need a graphics card that supports the new rendering pipeline but anything that's say 5 years old or so should be fine. (see last update post for more information about the new lighting) Other updates in the demo have been the addition of the journal log viewer. This collects the terminal stories that you discover and saves them - persistently - in one place for you to read. This will be fleshed out eventually. An example shot of the new journal logger The UI canvas scale has been tweaked so it should scale correctly with different screen resolutions (in game) Also Flares have been added! I've dialed down the ambient light…
- Dev Update - Demo - 25 July 2016
Hi there! Wow, time fly's and a lot has been happening. I'll cut to the chase, the Demo has been updated with the new deferred lighting and a cheeky new additional 'bit' that's been needed for Chapter 5. As always please let me know if there are any problems. You will need a graphics card that supports the new rendering pipeline but anything that's say 5 years old or so should be fine. (see last update post for more information about the new lighting) Other updates in the demo have been the addition of the journal log viewer. This collects the terminal stories that you discover and saves them - persistently - in one place for you to read. This will be fleshed out eventually. An example shot of the new journal logger The UI canvas scale has been tweaked so it should scale correctly with different screen resolutions (in game) Also Flares have been added! I've dialed down the ambient light…
- Dev Update - Lights - 22 June 2016
Hi there, Time for another quick update. So development was progressing slowly due to the constant need to light bake all the shadows. This meant my PC was locked up for hours for things to render and then test. It also meant that everything I moved I'd need to think long and hard about summing up if it was worth the hours spent light baking. As you can imagine, this was a slow process and has been for many months. Recently I discovered the 'deferred rendering pipeline'. The what?? With newer graphics cards, within the last 6 years , the deferred rendering mode can be taken advantage of and eliminate the need for light baking, instead all lighting is done in real time! (insert party popper here) There is also a slight increase hit on the CPU but I think will hopefully be nominal. After some consideration I've decided to go down this route as I (and I'm sure many of you) would like to ge…
- Dev Update - Lights - 22 June 2016
Hi there, Time for another quick update. So development was progressing slowly due to the constant need to light bake all the shadows. This meant my PC was locked up for hours for things to render and then test. It also meant that everything I moved I'd need to think long and hard about summing up if it was worth the hours spent light baking. As you can imagine, this was a slow process and has been for many months. Recently I discovered the 'deferred rendering pipeline'. The what?? With newer graphics cards, within the last 6 years , the deferred rendering mode can be taken advantage of and eliminate the need for light baking, instead all lighting is done in real time! (insert party popper here) There is also a slight increase hit on the CPU but I think will hopefully be nominal. After some consideration I've decided to go down this route as I (and I'm sure many of you) would like to ge…
- Dev Update - Pockets - 23 May 2016
Hey there! It's been a while since the last post but much has been happening behind the scenes as I've slowly been chipping away at the remaining chapters. Chapter 3 was finished (shot above is taken from there) and then I've turned my attention back to a few of the core game play elements, namely Journal log systems and how you pick items up. A good point was mentioned that if you can only carry one item then puzzles will become very linear (which they are at present) A solution is to introduce a back pack / pocket. You will now be able to pick up and store items. If you are interacting with an item that needs something you are holding, it will automatically be taken out of your pocket and shown as the item you are carrying. This seems to be working well and I'm slowly rolling it out across all the chapters. I'll be updating the demo with this addition. Another request was a log system…
- Dev Update - Pockets - 23 May 2016
Hey there! It's been a while since the last post but much has been happening behind the scenes as I've slowly been chipping away at the remaining chapters. Chapter 3 was finished (shot above is taken from there) and then I've turned my attention back to a few of the core game play elements, namely Journal log systems and how you pick items up. A good point was mentioned that if you can only carry one item then puzzles will become very linear (which they are at present) A solution is to introduce a back pack / pocket. You will now be able to pick up and store items. If you are interacting with an item that needs something you are holding, it will automatically be taken out of your pocket and shown as the item you are carrying. This seems to be working well and I'm slowly rolling it out across all the chapters. I'll be updating the demo with this addition. Another request was a log system…
- Dev Update - Ouch! - 21 April 2016
http://36.media.tumblr.com/bca5770d7b1b8e27b855981259ce07bb/tumblr_o5zq277Stz1uu8cevo1_1280.jpg Hi there! Here's the latest development progress. Been adding some effects like this cracked visor and something that’s not very visible in this grab, is new atmosphere fog that’s lingering in the air. Its very subtle but effective when it’s all moving. It's not like standard distance fog but a more physical one. I've been looking into and addressing the controller scripts as some players aren't keen on it’s immediate movement when you press a direction. Working on a subtle ease effect which will hopefully help with these issues. I’ll make this tog-gable in a setting as I’ve got quite used to the direct motion. Adding more settings for players, screen resolution, invert Y mouse, etc. Oh and Chapter 2 is finished! Moving onto Chapter 3 …
- Dev Update - Ouch! - 21 April 2016
http://36.media.tumblr.com/bca5770d7b1b8e27b855981259ce07bb/tumblr_o5zq277Stz1uu8cevo1_1280.jpg Hi there! Here's the latest development progress. Been adding some effects like this cracked visor and something that’s not very visible in this grab, is new atmosphere fog that’s lingering in the air. Its very subtle but effective when it’s all moving. It's not like standard distance fog but a more physical one. I've been looking into and addressing the controller scripts as some players aren't keen on it’s immediate movement when you press a direction. Working on a subtle ease effect which will hopefully help with these issues. I’ll make this tog-gable in a setting as I’ve got quite used to the direct motion. Adding more settings for players, screen resolution, invert Y mouse, etc. Oh and Chapter 2 is finished! Moving onto Chapter 3 …
- Demo now available - 14 April 2016
http://41.media.tumblr.com/cbd14eb88b5ae92f2cdeda807cb1c0e4/tumblr_o50tnyhV7u1uu8cevo1_1280.jpg Hi, The Demo is now available for download. Grab it here on Steam, it consists of the first Chapter - which is the shortest of the 5 in the final game. As explained in the demo, it may not be feature complete but it's intended as a slice of the full release. You can keep up with it's progress here on Steam. Also feel free to send me you feedback using the forums provided. Happy exploring!
- Demo now available - 14 April 2016
http://41.media.tumblr.com/cbd14eb88b5ae92f2cdeda807cb1c0e4/tumblr_o50tnyhV7u1uu8cevo1_1280.jpg Hi, The Demo is now available for download. Grab it here on Steam, it consists of the first Chapter - which is the shortest of the 5 in the final game. As explained in the demo, it may not be feature complete but it's intended as a slice of the full release. You can keep up with it's progress here on Steam. Also feel free to send me you feedback using the forums provided. Happy exploring!
- Dev Update - Chapters - 13 April 2016
http://41.media.tumblr.com/43345ed9694561b66c165320528e97a5/tumblr_o5bn5oeQUq1uu8cevo1_1280.jpg Hi there, With the demo launch happening tomorrow, I thought I'd post a quick update on how the rest of the game is coming along. All 5 chapters are now blocked out, chapter 2 is just having it's last finishing touches added and is shaping up nicely. Above is a shot from a lounge in the Habitation area, a section that is unlocked at the end of chapter 1 where the demo ends. It's worth saying that chapter 1 is by far the smallest Chapter in the game. Chapters 3 & 4 have their main puzzles completed and built, their satellite puzzles are just being polished. Chapter 4 expands the story quite a lot so there's plenty of lines to be finished. As the sole developer I'm looking forward to hearing what players think of the demo. It's been a real learning experience with this latest version of ICARUS.…
- Dev Update - Chapters - 13 April 2016
http://41.media.tumblr.com/43345ed9694561b66c165320528e97a5/tumblr_o5bn5oeQUq1uu8cevo1_1280.jpg Hi there, With the demo launch happening tomorrow, I thought I'd post a quick update on how the rest of the game is coming along. All 5 chapters are now blocked out, chapter 2 is just having it's last finishing touches added and is shaping up nicely. Above is a shot from a lounge in the Habitation area, a section that is unlocked at the end of chapter 1 where the demo ends. It's worth saying that chapter 1 is by far the smallest Chapter in the game. Chapters 3 & 4 have their main puzzles completed and built, their satellite puzzles are just being polished. Chapter 4 expands the story quite a lot so there's plenty of lines to be finished. As the sole developer I'm looking forward to hearing what players think of the demo. It's been a real learning experience with this latest version of ICARUS.…
