Howdy! TJ here,

We are on the cusp of PAX AUS, our first giant games exhibition ever, while not lovingly crafted by yours truly (or the overlords called university) we are still utterly ecstatic that we get to be at pax with Ecliptic.

Now that I’ve gotten my gooey gushing out of the system. The facts. 

Since PAX is so monumental to us (duh it’s one of Australia’s biggest gaming conventions of the year), we have got quite a few things up our sleeves for the weekend. Namely… button badges and stickers all for the low price of visiting us and playing a level. We also will have a proper demo for Ecliptic up on steam, we love our itch.io demo and it will be staying the same for now but Steam deserves a bit of our love too! 

It is also really cool to mention that we are a part of the MIGW steam festival, never thought we would be featured in a steam festival. I am still utterly shocked that we even got into PAX, I was preparing the team and I for a no, a very unfortunate sad no but I guess that goes to show you have to be in it to win it… and win it we have! Same goes for steam festivals, it will always be a no if we don’t put ourselves out there.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/migw2024

PAX will have a special demo, almost exclusive to in person events probably. We have split the demo up in a way that you get the full game loop experience of Ecliptic in a bite sized chunk, we have split the rooms into their elements so you can play your star sign element’s room and have the intro, room, outro experience without having to play the entire demo! (Which is what steam having our demo is for of course 😉)

What’s the demo?

Elements:

FIRE - ARIES

EARTH - TAURUS

AIR - GEMINI

WATER - CANCER

We have got some fun quality of life updates for Aries, Taurus and Cancer that help bring the cohesion of the game together and give more context for players. Gemini is our new baby that is fresh to the world, while we have lots of rooms behind the scenes that function near on completely, very few people outside of the dev team have played Gemini! 

It pleases me a lot that we have a full demo soon that shows ACT 1 in its entirety and how we want it. Also having the deadline of PAX looming over our shoulders has definitely helped kick the development into hyperdrive.

I have also started streaming on twitch yay! I used to do streaming many years ago while I was taking art commissions (wow what a throwback) but I’ve overhauled my twitch channel entirely and now I stream Ecliptic development. I’ve posted a few VOD’s on my youtube channel. ♥️

https://www.twitch.tv/pntherart

www.youtube.com/@PntherArt

Anyways, that’s news! Come check us out at Indie Rising Booth #36 Fri 11 to Sun 13 of October, the whole team will be around during the weekend so if you see any of us say hi!

Don’t forget to wishlist Ecliptic on steam ahead of our demo release!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3025870/Ecliptic/

- TJ 🐸