Steam News · Sep 30
I'm excited to announce that Shards of the Past will launch into Early Access on Steam on Friday, October 16!This has been a long road as a solo developer, and I want to thank everyone who has wishlisted the game, played the demo, reported bugs, and followed along with the development updates. Your support is the reason this release is happening.Price & Launch DiscountShards of the Past will be $9...
Steam News · Jun 19
Much of the work lately has revolved around the last couple remaining scenes needed to complete the game for the next release. Most of these are part of the Branson path and are tied to a special ending for this next update. Depending on your choices in Castle Helmsworth, there is the chance you will end up in a confrontation. This event plays out similar to the tavern fight from the beginning of ...
Steam News · Dec 16, 2025
I have to apologize for the lack of recent updates. I had written up a development update a few months back, but it never got published. So I am combining it with what was planned as the next development update to create a longer post. Weekly updates are linked in the game's Discord Announcement channel, but I need to make sure I stay up on these public facing updates as we are nearing the end of ...
Steam News · Mar 29, 2025
I was planning on waiting until release for the next development update post, but I didn't want too much time to go by without sharing all the work that has been done. Much of the recent work has been dealing with the rescue at Castle Helmsworth and some of the confrontation and conflict that can arise there. there are a few choices you will make that can alter the playthrough as well as one which...
Steam News · Dec 17, 2024
All of the recent development work has been focused on some of the combat scenes that you might encounter during this update. Based on some of your choices, past and present, you will have a number of possibly violent interactions. I have been working on posing and rendering these scenes, which are a little more involved than the standard dialogue images. Using a combination of action images and n...
Steam News · Oct 13, 2024
I have been busy working on many different areas of the game to get it ready for the Steam Launch with the next update. Much of the recent development work has centered around Castle Helmsworth. Building the environments, various characters, posing scenes and rendering. These scenes will provide a climatic end to the next release as you will be hopefully rescuing Branson’s family that is being hel...
Steam News · Aug 2, 2024
The different paths in the upcoming release will offer very different scenes and each will introduce us to multiple new characters. These new characters will all have a part to play now and well into the future with some causing a hard split in certain paths. If you have Branson in your group from the 0.3.0 release, then his past and choices you made for him will play a major part in the direction...
Steam News · Jun 27, 2024
Here is another high-level update so those of you that want to follow along with the development can read through some of the recent progress. Story wise I have been working on using my notes and outline to write all the scenes and dialogue for the next update. There has been lots of work to create all the needed environments as well as new characters. There is a large scene in a village outside o...
Steam News · May 5, 2024
I wanted to post an update to share some details for the next content release 0.4.0. I am working on finishing the renders as well as dialogue and some code for the campsite scenes. These are various scenes that you will see if you decide to skip the random encounters. I am making sure the dialogue works for when you choose to avoid an encounter and also for if you are kicked out such as case with...
Steam News · Apr 15, 2024
Set out on the road and play two paths with either Damerek or Branson as you head towards Castle Helmsworth. Explore some of your own character's past and get answers to some questions while prompting many more. Conflict between elves and humans spills over as you learn of a new antagonist as well as get a brief introduction to a possible future companion. Discussion with Qinara and Damerek will a...
