Developer posts and news about this game.
Anomaly is back in active development It's been a while. The last update was over three years ago now; that's too long, and I know that. Anomaly started as a small horror game built around a LiDAR-scanning gimmick, inspired by Scanner Somber, the LiDAR.EXE mod, and the Backrooms.
Hello everyone! Long time, no see! We're happy to announce that Bleeding Leprechaun Studios (The guys that have helped us with some of the maps) has joined us at Firelight Innovations to help with Anomaly and any future projects! We've been spending these last few months reorgani
Hello everyone! This is our first update to the game in a while and we are sorry about that! We have more in the works and will push out another update sometime next week with some new content and QoL updates. Changelog: Added backroom map Added death screen that shows stats Adde
Hello everyone! The 2023 Steam Summer Sale is now underway and we have decided to give a fat discount to the game! So if you or anyone you know wants to check out Anomaly, now is the time! Join our discord! Subscribe to our YouTube! -Firelight Innovations
Hello everyone! It's summertime in Texas now and the development team is no longer clogged up with schoolwork. We can finally end our hiatus and come back to working on the game. We have some significant changes planned to make Anomaly better and more fun. This includes: New jump
Hello everyone! Happy April fool's day! Sorry for the lack of updates, but we've been swamped! Many of us working on the game are in school and around this time of year, things start to pick up because of tests and other school events. We're still working on updates when we get t
Hello Everyone! In this patch, we're polishing some UI features so that the game is compatible with more resolutions. Now that we have most of the bugs patched out and the game is more polished, we will be working on some new features like jumpscares and we plan on releasing a ne
Hello everyone! We're pushing another larger patch for ya'll. We were playing around with adding new scanning methods such as a vertical scan but had some problems getting it to work. We plan on releasing another smaller patch sometime later before starting work on our jumpscare
Hello everyone! We're just publishing a bug fix for a few issues we found in the game. We will be releasing another minor update involving the scanner in the next few weeks. As for the jumpscares, we will be working on that after the scanner update. Changelog: - Changed tutorial
Hello everyone! This is our first actual update that isn't just fixing a few bugs. We are very excited! Sorry for it taking so long, we've been very busy behind the scenes getting the game ready for some future features and just busy with personal issues. Anyway in this update, w
Hello everyone! We just did some bug fixes on the game to fix some minor issues, we will be releasing a more comprehensive update that includes new UI features and a tutorial to show everyone how to play here later this week! Changelog: - Increased dot density - Fixed scroll wind
Hello everyone! We've had a very smooth and successful launch of Anomaly. We will keep a close eye on the game and everything to ensure things keep going smoothly. We will release a minor bug fixing and polish patch in the next few days. For more major plans, we plan on starting
After 6 months of hard work, we have made it. We're finally releasing onto steam! We plan on releasing new updates within the next few weeks, mainly focusing on gameplay improvements, bug fixes, and some new maps. We will be adding multiplayer in the next few months and possibly
Anomaly will be coming out on Friday, February 3, 2023! We've had some more time due to some events that have happened to get the game wrapped up and ready to ship. We will spend the next few days fixing any bugs or issues with the game so expect some updates after launch. We pla
We are happy to announce that we will be releasing Anomaly onto steam on February 3, 2023! We're taking this as a big learning experience for us here at Firelight Studios so if anything goes wrong now is the time to fix it. We will be releasing 2 official developer-made maps and