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Anuchard is 60% off in the Steam Summer Sale, June 25 to July 9. Grab your copy and check out other great indie games on sale during the Summer Sale to add to your collection.
Anuchard is 60% off in the Steam Summer Sale, June 25 to July 9.
Grab your copy and check out other great indie games on sale during the Summer Sale to add to your collection.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1386620/
Hi everyone - if you were thinking about getting the game, now is a great time to do so. The game will be 70% off from April 15th through the 22nd! Make sure to check out Freedom Games Publisher Sale page to pick up some awesome indie games at great prices. Whether you like to pl
Hi everyone - if you were thinking about getting the game, now is a great time to do so.
Make sure to check out Freedom Games Publisher Sale page to pick up some awesome indie games at great prices. Whether you like to play alone or with friends, there are some great deals you won't want to miss out on!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1386620/Anuchard/
Hi everyone! If you were thinking about getting the game, now is a great time to do so as we are part of the Steam Winter Sale through our publisher Freedom Games! From December 21st until January 4th , the game will be on sale for 35% off! Make sure to check out Freedom Games' W
Hi everyone! If you were thinking about getting the game, now is a great time to do so as we are part of the Steam Winter Sale through our publisher Freedom Games!
From December 21st until January 4th, the game will be on sale for 35% off!
Make sure to check out Freedom Games' Winter Sale 2023 page to pick up some great games to play over the holiday season. Whether you like to play alone or with friends, there are some great deals you won't want to miss out on!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1386620/Anuchard/
Hi everyone! We hope you all have been enjoying Anuchard since our launch last month 😃 We're excited to announce that Anuchard will be showcased at Indie Live Expo this weekend! Check out Indie Live Expo’s stream showing off the game at the following link: If you've been playing
Hi everyone!
We hope you all have been enjoying Anuchard since our launch last month 😃 We're excited to announce that Anuchard will be showcased at Indie Live Expo this weekend! Check out Indie Live Expo’s stream showing off the game at the following link:
https://indie.live-expo.games/en/
If you've been playing Anuchard for sometime now and haven't left a review yet, please consider doing so! We love getting to hear player feedback, plus it really helps us out. If you want to join the community, follow us on Twitter, and join our Discord!
Hey everyone! Today is the day: Anuchard is here, as well as on Xbox and Switch! 🎉 Your time has come to be the Bellweilder! Will you take up the mantle, or turn to stone? Thank you all for your support throughout development. We couldn’t have done this without all of you! As yo
Hey everyone!
Today is the day: Anuchard is here, as well as on Xbox and Switch! 🎉
Your time has come to be the Bellweilder! Will you take up the mantle, or turn to stone?
Thank you all for your support throughout development. We couldn’t have done this without all of you!
As you start playing the game, please remember to leave us a review! It’s awesome getting to hear all of your feedback, and it really helps us out 😃If you encounter any bugs, please report them in our Discord. Otherwise, we hope you all enjoy the world of Anuchard.
Once again, from our team at Stellarnull, thank you!
Hey everyone! We have some very exciting news to share today 👀 That’s right! Anuchard will be launching on Xbox, PC, and Switch on April 21, 2022!! 🎉 Thank you all for your support that has brought us this far. We can’t wait for you all to get into the world of Anuchard and to
Hey everyone!
We have some very exciting news to share today 👀
That’s right! Anuchard will be launching on Xbox, PC, and Switch on April 21, 2022!! 🎉
Thank you all for your support that has brought us this far. We can’t wait for you all to get into the world of Anuchard and to save the lost souls.
While you wait for the launch, make sure to wishlist Anuchard here on Steam, follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, or if you want to talk with the devs and help grow our community, join our Discord!
Hello everyone, I’m Rico Lemba, back again delivering some development updates of Anuchard. Last 10% of the development seems like forever for us, but we’re still working hard to make the game stable and polished. I’m going to share a bit about how we design enemies in this game,
Hello everyone,
I’m Rico Lemba, back again delivering some development updates of Anuchard.
Last 10% of the development seems like forever for us, but we’re still working hard to make the game stable and polished.
I’m going to share a bit about how we design enemies in this game, Anuchard gameplay mostly follows one of our core principles that is behavior driven enemy design. Instead of using different stats, health points, etc. we put emphasis in enemy attack patterns.
Anuchard's most basic enemies, the slime type enemy, only attacks the player in four directions, giving you a lot of options to defeat this enemy, other enemies, for example the wild type, actively pursue the player, serving as constant threat.
Every enemy might be easy if you defeat it in 1vs1, but the challenge really escalates when we combine different enemies in one encounter, combine this with Armor mechanics, light attack, and heavy attack mechanic, and the combat becomes intuitive and engaging for all players!
It’s been a great joy making this game, and we’re super excited that the development is almost complete. We look forward to sharing it with you when we finally launch. Don't forget to wishlist Anuchard here on Steam, follow us on Twitter and join our Discord!
Hello everyone, I’m Rico, back again delivering some development updates for Anuchard! We’re entering the final push of the development, it’s been really tough for the past few months but we’ll make sure to deliver the best experience. In this devlog, I’m going to share about the
Hello everyone,
I’m Rico, back again delivering some development updates for Anuchard!
We’re entering the final push of the development, it’s been really tough for the past few months but we’ll make sure to deliver the best experience.
In this devlog, I’m going to share about the dungeons in the game. Making an adventure/RPG style game has been really challenging, not only do we need to make the gameplay good enough, we also need to make sure that the narrative also drives the player to keep playing. Finding the right balance between those elements has proven very difficult.
We decided to make smaller dungeons, with puzzles, collectibles, and unique gimmicks. Words that keep popping up when we design the dungeon are personalized, gimmick, and floating. Dungeons in Anuchard slowly shift according to the characteristics of the soul of the host, so we put a lot of effort into decorating dungeons based on the personality of the character. You will find a dungeon with books scattered around, a dungeon that looks like a collector’s mansion and many more.
Floating word is mostly inspired by one of our favourite game studios, Supergiant Games. In their game Bastion they had that abstract looking, floating dungeon. That inspired the look of our game a lot, you can say that Bastion is the game that we talk about the most during the development!
It’s been a great joy making this game, and we’re super excited that the development is almost complete. We look forward to sharing it with you when we finally launch.
Hi peeps, it’s Lazcht: Artist, Storywriter, and bits of everything (except coding and audio). Now it’s my turn and first time writing a dev diary on Steam, although I wrote lots back then everywhere else, haha. Last month was a very busy month for us, we’re finalizing all the con
Hi peeps, it’s Lazcht: Artist, Storywriter, and bits of everything (except coding and audio). Now it’s my turn and first time writing a dev diary on Steam, although I wrote lots back then everywhere else, haha.
Last month was a very busy month for us, we’re finalizing all the content.
But before we start on progress, I’ll talk about the narrative vision we had years ago. Rico and I were thinking of making something with similar narrative (not content or overall budget) scope as Enix’s Quintet games, such as Actraiser, Illusion of Gaia, Soul Blazer, and Terranigma. After finishing their games for research (and weeping with Terranigma’s ending :’> ), I thought it’s quite realistic for a small team to achieve.
Back then, I’m the one who was mainly in charge of writing all of the narrative parts, as well as the graphics. I was content with working in a very small team, but as the project went on and off for almost 4 years, we decided that we need to expand our team to speed up the whole development speed, that means finding people to take care of things to prevent bottlenecks from my side (since I have really little experience on story writing, it’s always slowing us down).
Since the team expanded, it’s been 9 productive months, having the eventing system reworked, the whole script written and implemented with major iterations, and suddenly the time for narrative wrap is there! We’re planning to get everything proofread and translated as soon as possible.
What we have done by now:
Draft events for all chapters
Draft of almost all assets
Cinematic trials
Almost all of the dungeons & bosses set
What we haven’t:
Finalized events
Finalized cinematics (including prologue, ending)
Polished assets
What we originally thought is simple to do, is actually not. I thought we probably needed to have stricter limitations so it didn’t end up in over-scoping. While it’s great to have the story enriched, and plot-holes covered, now we have to adjust everything linked to it. We spent last August-Sept mostly iterating and sweeping the main story.
Not long ago, we noticed that we have to limit our word count to reduce time, and that means everything we write needs to be monitored and heavily optimized (because it turned out w had exceeded our target by a lot; we never thought it’d reach 40k++, btw). We regret that this should happen, and in such a late stage of development, lol. But on the positive side, less words--lines--phrases, means less time to polish scenes.
Personally, I was really struggling on jumping between graphics, story writing, and trying to be in control of the project situation, and everyone else is working equally hard! Since Anuchard is our biggest project so far, we’ve been learning so much on how to manage a long term RPG project and managing an indie team that’s more than 3 people.
Hopefully we can pull this off by the launch date and stay sane, haha. Please take care of yourself as well!
Our game designer/programmer, Rico, will be showing off some gameplay and answer any of your questions about the game! We'll be going live October 5th at 1pm ET and hope to see you all there! Make sure to click the reminder button to be notified when the event starts! Also follow
Our game designer/programmer, Rico, will be showing off some gameplay and answer any of your questions about the game! We'll be going live October 5th at 1pm ET and hope to see you all there!
Make sure to click the reminder button to be notified when the event starts!
Also follow us on socials (Twitter, Facebook) and join our Discord!
Hello everyone, I'm back again delivering some updates about Anuchard. This month we spent a lot of time iterating on boss fights, especially Guardian boss fights. in the end of each arc, you will have to fight Guardians of Anuchard in order to convince them back. As a game desig
Hello everyone, I'm back again delivering some updates about Anuchard.
This month we spent a lot of time iterating on boss fights, especially Guardian boss fights. in the end of each arc, you will have to fight Guardians of Anuchard in order to convince them back.
As a game designer and programmer of this game, the direction for Guardian Boss fight is that we want to utilize knockback mechanic and other gimmick as much as we could. We took a lot of inspiration from Zelda, where every bosses has different pattern and unique way to defeat them. We’re also working hard to make every Guardian fight unique and memorable, for example Green Guardian is designed around Food as main gimmick.
Here's a look at their Salt and Pepper attack pattern!
We also spent a lot of time in polishing cutscenes and main plot, also polishing some assets in dungeon and town as well! Basically until early next year it’s all about polishing and testing, making sure everything works and feels great.
Just want to say a quick thank you to everyone for your support throughout development thus far! We can't wait to show you more and eventually have you all playing Anuchard! Until then, if you want to be apart of our community and see some pretty regular updates, make sure to follow us on Twitter and join our Discord!
Hello everyone, I’m Rico Game Designer and Programmer of Anuchard, back again to deliver some updates about the game. As I’ve mentioned last month, we’ve finished the draft for all the game content and we’re entering polishing and bugfixing phase until the end of this year. We’ve
Hello everyone, I’m Rico Game Designer and Programmer of Anuchard, back again to deliver some updates about the game.
As I’ve mentioned last month, we’ve finished the draft for all the game content and we’re entering polishing and bugfixing phase until the end of this year.
We’ve been working hard to populate the world with some sidequests last month, this sidequests are optional, narrative driven, and have interesting reward to make your room prettier.
Make sure to talk to every villagers on each chapter!
Our artists also work very hard to make the graphics look better, for example here’s the mountain area, definitely looks a lot better than before right?
Before vs after
Other than sidequest, we’ve also been iterating dungeons and boss battles. Having extra time to iterate the level design, coming back to levels i’ve worked before, gave me fresh perspective and new ideas in improving the level.
For example one of the dungeons in the game revolves around the dice mechanic
In this iteration, we’ve realized that the dice mechanic can also be used for puzzles, so we added dice puzzles!
We also plan the puzzle to be as natural as possible so expect no tutorial for specific puzzles, just by looking at this screenshot, can you guess how this puzzle works?
We also have iterated final boss fight a bit, but I don’t think I should post that one here, since that would be a spoiler lol
We are excited to finally announce that Anuchard will be coming to both Xbox and PC in Q1 of 2022 ! In case you missed our awesome announcement during E3, here is a look at the new trailer we put our along with the announcement:
We are excited to finally announce that Anuchard will be coming to both Xbox and PC in Q1 of 2022!
In case you missed our awesome announcement during E3, here is a look at the new trailer we put our along with the announcement:
Anuchard's coming to E3! Hello everyone, I'm Rico, Game designer and programmer of Anuchard! It’s been a little while since we last put out a dev diary. We’ve been working hard on Anuchard over the past couple months. We’ve also been preparing to make some announcements that you’
Hello everyone, I'm Rico, Game designer and programmer of Anuchard! It’s been a little while since we last put out a dev diary. We’ve been working hard on Anuchard over the past couple months.
We’ve also been preparing to make some announcements that you’ll be able to catch during E3 2021! Tune in on June 14th at 12:30pm PT so that you can catch this awesome announcement!
Now to the past couple months:
We've been working hard to finish the game content, right now we've managed to finish the draft up to the final boss. After this it'll be endless iteration, testing and bugfixing to make the game even better.
Right now we're also working on adding more side-quests to the game. Side-quests will be narrative driven and will enrich the characters as well as the world of Anuchard. Definitely make sure to talk to every npc and check every nook and cranny! You never know what all you might find!
In case you don't follow us on socials, which you totally should if you don't already (links below), here's a look at some of the cool art we've been showing off:
We appreciate all of the support you’ve all given us so far! If you’re looking forward to playing Anuchard, don’t forget to wishlist and follow! If you want to see more behind the scenes stuff, follow us on socials (Twitter and Facebook) or join our Discord.
Dev Diary Update #1 Hello everyone! We just wanted to put together a quick overview of how development has been going since the New Year began! Overall, development has been going pretty good. Basically what we have been working on over the past month is that we are trying to mak
Dev Diary Update #1
Hello everyone! We just wanted to put together a quick overview of how development has been going since the New Year began!
Overall, development has been going pretty good. Basically what we have been working on over the past month is that we are trying to make a draft from the beginning to the end of the game.
Currently in the demo, you get to experience arc 1 of the game. We are trying to finish the draft of arc 2, and beginning to tackle arc 3. We already had some discussion about what will be in arc 3, and the concept art for it is in progress.
For the dungeon, we are still in arc 2, and we will finish the draft of this dungeon soon.
For the narrative and events, our writer has had a bit on his plate. He's been writing the general idea of the whole story so the story will make sense from the beginning to the end of the game. This will be used to create the concept art for arc 3. Minor details from arc 2 still need fleshing out as well.
So in short, the current progress is:
If you've played our demo, or just want to be apart of the community, you should definitely join our Discord. There you can hang out with our team and other fellow fans of the game!