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Inspired by classic CRPGs from the ’90s and early 2000s, Passageway of the Ancients transports players to the world of Aieryon – the galaxy’s sole remaining magical planet – where they explore the city of Ithgar to solve their parents’ murder.

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Passageway of the Ancients: Behind the Curtain #2

Apr 17

We are pleased to report significant progress on major enhancements to Passageway of the Ancients as we ready it for launch. In our previous post, we were at the five-yard line in terms of putting finishing touches on the game. Now we feel we are at the two-yard line, with strong forward momentum!

When we last posted, our primary focus was creating the game’s real-time special/particle effects. For example, we were creating a visual cue that indicates when weapons, armor, and shields receive a stat enhancement or elemental magic bonuses. We have successfully achieved these special effects goals and believe they will significantly enhance the game.

We have also upgraded the comparative inventory feature. You can now compare weapons and armor across all party members at the same time, allowing for a more streamlined approach when equipping your characters. New keyboard shortcuts, an updated right-click menu, and quicker methods to sell items in shops also make overall inventory interaction even easier.

The UI has also been significantly improved. We adjusted several aspects for balance and clarity, such as optimizing and consolidating the character window and redesigning travel menus. We also overhauled the combat options window to give players more detail and granular control over spell casting. The quest log has been revised to make it easier for players to track their progress and view helpful quest information.

The new real-time special/particle effects, inventory feature, and UI upgrades have been added to the current Steam demo. Please check it out and tell us what you think!

Sure, this polishing phase has slightly delayed the release of Passageway of the Ancients, but we felt it was a worthwhile endeavor. As stated in our previous post, we are committed to quality in all aspects of the game – from the storyline and graphics to (of course!) the gameplay.

Thank you for your interest in the world of Aieryon. We greatly appreciate it and will continue to update you on our progress towards launch.

– The Team at Passageway Games

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What was your first RPG?

We started with Ultima and Might and Magic . How about you? – The Passageway Games Team

Ben

May 1 @ 10:00pm

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Passageway of the Ancients: Behind the Curtain #1

Feb 20

We’d like to thank all of you who have downloaded the demo version of Passageway of the Ancients. We appreciate your constructive feedback and are hard at work on implementing your suggestions. After nine years of development, our small team is at the five-yard line in terms of putting finishing touches on the game.

Development-wise, our main focus right now is enhancing the real-time special/particle effects. For example, we want a visual cue that indicates when weapons, armor, and shields receive a stat enhancement or elemental magic bonuses.

In today’s isometric CRPG environment, there’s a tendency to increasingly shrink the size of player characters on screen, which makes the implementation of special effects ever more challenging. You want the effect to be eye-catching and believable, but not totally obscure the detailed texture of the underlying surface.

Above all else, we remain passionately committed to quality in all aspects of the game – from the storyline and graphics to (of course!) the gameplay. Passageway of the Ancients is a large game with 34 levels and numerous story branches, shops, quests, and puzzles, so maintaining quality is a major challenge – but it’s one we take very seriously. We have never believed in words like “mediocre” or “good enough”!

As we continue our march toward launch, we promise to update this blog periodically. Again, thank you for your interest in the world of Aieryon. Your response to the demo has been truly gratifying – not to mention helpful! We greatly appreciate it.

– The Team at Passageway Games

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New Updated Demo

Jan 2

Hi Everyone!

We hope you all are having a fantastic holiday season and are ready to bring in the new year! We just wanted to share how much we appreciate everyone who has downloaded the Passageway of the Ancients demo – especially those that shared their feedback. It was a great help – and we took your constructive criticisms to heart.

We’re excited to share that there’s a new version of the demo now on Steam, which incorporates your suggested changes. Please check it out and tell us what you think!

– The Passageway Games team

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Demo Feedback

- Starts in a window, wasting screen space. - Ignores all fullscreen commands. - Not a single legible option. - No fullscreen option available. - Unskippable text info dump as an intro. - Illegible tutorial messages - Illegible dialogue - Illegible inventory - Illegible HUD - Illegible Quest Log What's this, a joke game ? Why is there more effort put into boobs customisation than in GUI fundamentals ?...

corbo

Dec 19, 2023 @ 9:41pm

General Discussions

Abandoned?

Went to the official discord and there is nobody there for over 16 hours. There was nothing in the channels about the devs/moderator taking a break. I'm not sure I'd put any money in this folks. I'm too late. I put all my demo savings into this ;)