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Hi explorers. ScifunGames and Abylight Studios want to thank you for playing Exographer and your positive reviews. Have you discovered the Natitan legacy yet? An exciting journey awaits. We are back to announce our third Exographer patch, version number 58, with bug fixes: Genera
Developing a metroidvania inevitably brings speedrunning into the picture. While we were building Exographer, we knew some players would be tempted to speedrun it. We even left a few “design flaws” here and there for them, especially regarding the gluonic boots. Our next game, st
It’s summer — the perfect time to load up some games on our Steam Decks and Switches. Good news: Exographer is fully verified for both devices. But what does it really take for a game to run well on small screens and modest processors? Not much, at least for a 2D game, if you've
Hi explorers. ScifunGames and Abylight Studios want to thank you for playing Exographer and your positive reviews. We are overwhelmed by the great reception of the game, and these help us to reach new players. Have you discovered the Natitan legacy yet? An exciting journey awaits
Exographer is primarily focused on its gameplay mechanics ( see devlog #6 ), and its storyline emerged after all the design was essentially complete. Most of the text is used to solve puzzles, and it is revealed through the pages of a notebook to be decoded. To contextualize the
Hi explorers. ScifunGames and Abylight Studios want to thank you for playing Exographer and your positive reviews. Have you discovered the Natitan legacy yet? An exciting journey awaits. We are back to announce our latest Exographer patch, version number 56, with general improvem
In Exographer, two types of character were to be distinguished: the Natitans, repositories of knowledge and inspired by real scientists who discovered elementary particles ( see devlog #4 ), and Ini, the player character, an exographer sent to investigate a mysterious distress si
Exographer’s music was scored by Yann van der Cruyssen , author of the Stray and Seasons after Fall soundtracks, among others. Yann confesses that producing a soundtrack for a game with retro graphics is always a tricky business. The sound has to be neither too old school nor too
We have good news for all those users of Valve's handheld consoles, Steam Deck or Steam Deck OLED, who want to play Exographer. This 2D exploration adventure game is fully compatible with the Steam device. Enjoy Ini's adventure on an alien planet and discover all the secrets that
In Exographer, you'll spend a (small) part of your time searching for new elementary particles in images closely resembling those manipulated by physicists at CERN or elsewhere. And you don't even need any prior knowledge! The game is designed to help you gradually get to grips w
To repair the giant machines of the Exographer world, you'll have to solve puzzles. To design them, our game designer Pierre-Alban Ferrer had to meet various design objectives: simple or advanced learning of a power ( see devlog #3 ), checking players' skills, using the camera, i
In Exographer, your enemies are four materials with strange properties. One of our challenges was to represent these so-called "absurd" materials. Inherent to the gameplay, they block progress, and some are even deadly! Progressive mastery of the powers (see Devlog #3) enables yo
In Exographer, you follow in the footsteps of nine enigmatic academics from a forgotten civilisation. These ‘Natitans’ once built colossal machines to discover the inner structure of matter... But they all seem to have disappeared, leaving a kind of testament behind. Like absolut
Watch developers play Exographer , an exploration adventure based on science with beautiful pixel art. Steam Next Fest demo includes the first levels of the game; arriving to an alien planet, discovering new particle physics based powers and solving puzzles to access new areas. W
Watch developers play Exographer , an exploration adventure based on science with beautiful pixel art. Steam Next Fest demo includes the first levels of the game; arriving to an alien planet, discovering new particle physics based powers and solving puzzles to access new areas. W
In Exographer, the character acquires powers that are directly inspired by the interactions between elementary particles. This key element of the game is also a major design challenge, which can be summed up as follows: How do you create a fun experience while staying true to the
In Exographer, taking pictures reveals many clues and you can do it in any situation. That includes in the middle of an animation or while using a power, or when you’re on a moving in mid-air or in an elevator. You can take as many pictures as you like, and the last picture you t
In Exographer, the player's progress is punctuated by the discovery of elementary particles. Most of Exographer's levels are graphically inspired by the actual scientific locations where these particles were discovered. We thought this was all the more appropriate given that thes