Updated Ascension to 0.4.7 today! Fixed some bugs and addressed some confusing with the HUD.
I’ll be writing a rather lengthy post-mortem of the demo soon, look forward to that 3000 word blog post.
Ascension 0.4.7 (10.59 Mb)
See you soon!
-Klassic
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Ascension Public Beta Release!
Hey guys!
The Ascension public beta is out! It’s been a long time coming and we’re all excited as hell. You can check out the game here:
Ascension 0.4.6 (10.59 Mb)
We hope to hear from you all soon! 
-Klassic
Here we go!
One more day.
-Klassic (Shortest blog post ever )
Dat Wallpaper
Woah woah woah, check out that sweet change of background.
Trailer SHOULD be almost complete, and we’ll hopefully have it for you either tomorrow or on release day. Speaking of release day:
(2 more days)
-Klassic
Dat Machinery
Look at that machinery. Look at it. LOOK AT IT.
Image seems to be smaller for some reason. I’m sorry ;-;
Klassic (5 more days)
Ascension Credits
Thank you for taking the time to play our public beta! It took us quite a while to put this demo together, and we want to give credit where credit is due.
If you’re interested in following our progress with Ascension, you can subscribe to our blog (here), like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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Project Management
Klassic
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Programming
Klassic
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Design
Worthington
Klassic
Tangleworm
Cariboo
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Writing
Worthington
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Art
Tangleworm
Chuckles
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Sound / Music
Klassic
Tangleworm
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Engines and Scripting
FoxNL
Shadowrend
J-Factor
tsg1zzn
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Quality Assurance
Cariboo
Our Friendly Neighborhood Beta Testers
Dat locked door
Uploading screenshots all this week at my discretion. Finally, you can see these environments with a bit of life in them!
Exciting news!
Hey guys, I have exciting news!
As of today, the Ascension demo is effectively feature complete, sans a couple small tweaks and additions. It’s been five months coming, and I think you’re going to enjoy what we’ve made.
So what are we doing now, you ask? Well, tomorrow is the first day of our week-long beta testing period, where we’ll fix any and all complaints with the game (or try). I’ll be working on the demo’s sidequest and trailer during that time. I think I’ll post a handful of screenshots over the course of the week. It’s been too long without any real art!
I’ll keep you guys updated!
Klassic
Two weeks and a Facebook event!
It’s nearly midnight so I’ll keep this short:
There are two weeks until Ascension releases.
We created a Facebook event.
Join it: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=290546517625082
I love you.
Klassic
Pressing on
Plugging another song into the post title to shamelessly steal views from Google…
Ohai guys, fancy meeting you here.
As you know, we’re rapidly approaching the end of October (Alright, maybe not that rapidly, but God it feels like it) and with it comes, with a bit of luck and effort, the release of the Ascension demo. We’ve been working our asses off here in an attempt to match our deadline, but so far things are proceeding quite well and I think I speak for everyone when I say that I’m very, very proud of what we’ve accomplished. This game is, without a doubt, the most ambitious game we’ve ever created, and so far our efforts have paid off. It’s hard to say at this point whether people OTHER than ourselves will enjoy it, but come the beta testing period we’ll find out.
When the demo releases, it’ll be in as many places as we can put it without people getting pissed off. Chances are, if you frequent a popular indie development site, you’ll see our game there. We’d really appreciate it if, after playing the demo, you left a comment. Regardless of whether you hated it, loved it, or were relatively untouched by the game, it’d be helpful to us in terms of improving the game and getting exposure.
We also have plans of making a trailer (shiver) and submitting it to some news sites. Hopefully they like it. If not, we wait and try again ;D.
As of right now the game is pretty much complete, except for some tweaking and a lot of artwork. Not all of the artwork will make it into the demo, but we’re going to do our best to make the game complete in terms of demo content. We’ll probably add some things after the initial demo release, but nothing major (unless we find a crippling bug or design flaw, of course).
After the demo releases and we make a couple necessary changes that I’m sure will come up, we’ll probably take a week or two to rest from the crunch period. During that time we may or may not make a little arcade game to give ourselves a change, but I’m not making any promises; we might just feel like resting. After that, it’s back to Ascension as we begin work on the full game. Exciting!
Anyways, that’s it for now! I’ve got no new art to show you right now; most of the game is in the atmosphere and that’s hard to convey through still images. Plus, I don’t want to spoil anything. See you all soon!
-Klassic
