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CONTINUE TELLING EVERYONE YOU KNOW THAT AI IS THE STUPIDEST SHIT EVER

IT IS WORKING

CONTINUE TO MAKE ART YOURSELF

CONTINUE TO WRITE THINGS THAT INSPIRE YOU

THE WHOLE POINT OF BEING ALIVE IS TO CREATE COOL SHIT

AI STRIPS US OF THE POINT OF BEING HUMAN

20.01.2026 22:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4125    ๐Ÿ” 1860    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
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Steam :: Chronicon :: Major Update 1.54: Isolation & Anomalies Hey everyone! This update is a larger one - featuring a brand new Isolation mode (SSF) and many changes, improvements, and additions to Anomalies, among many other things! I also took a look at improv...

#Cronicon Major Update 1.54.0 is now live!

steamcommunity.com/games/375480...

24.11.2025 10:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, it was updated today!

20.11.2025 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Close Combat Collection Pay what you want for dynamic hack-and-slash titles with the Close Combat Collectionโ€”featuring Dwarven Realms, Ghostlore, and more!

#chronicon is featured in the Close Combat Collection Humble Bundle!

www.humblebundle.com/games/close-...

04.10.2025 10:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chronicon - Update 1.53.0 is live! - Steam News First of the Revival updates

#Chronicon: Revival update 1.53.0 is now live!

store.steampowered.com/news/app/375...

27.08.2025 12:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chronicon - Chronicon 5th release anniversary & Revival - Steam News We're back!

We're back! #Chronicon

store.steampowered.com/news/app/375...

21.08.2025 09:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Chronicon's 5th release anniversary is coming up soon, which I'll be celebrating with an announcement... keep your peepers peeled

11.08.2025 08:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looks like I may not have any more old screenshots... I've taken and saved a bunch but everywhere I look, it's the same 2014-2015 batch.. very strange. Will keep looking, they are here *somewhere*

11.08.2025 07:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's all for now! I'll continue this as soon as I can dig up screenshots for 2016.

04.08.2025 08:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In September, the first major content update went out as 0.30 - "The Elven War". It featured Act 2, and the first Set items. My girlfriend's younger brother also debuted his voice acting with this update, adding the first voices to the game (Elf bosses)! He later returned to voice Weyrick in Act 3.

04.08.2025 08:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here's version 2 of the Character select and the first Difficulty select screen. Also looking at an updated main menu with the original pixelart game logo, made by a friends wife, after they stepped in to help me get art done for the first big update.

04.08.2025 08:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Inventory etc looked like this for a long time, before I had the card popups when you hovered stuff. It was bad.

04.08.2025 08:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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After a release (version 0.20) I got to work on fixing some stuff based on feedback, and working on the next Act of the game - yep the game launched on EA with only Act 1! And it was about half the size of what it is today.

04.08.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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About halfway through 2015 I had settled for the scope of the world and the overall design of the Chronicon. It's very similar today! And now a Steam release is just around the corner. Exciting times!

04.08.2025 08:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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And the first proper character select screen. Still really pushing for that local co-op experience here.

04.08.2025 08:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here's what The Chronicon (main hub) used to look like around the same time as that... simpler times, for sure.

04.08.2025 08:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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About 3 months into 2015, I had the first skill trees working. They looked like this for quite a while. Most of these skills are still in the game too! The Warden actually has a fire skill here, Explosive Shot I think it was called, which is the only fire skill she ever had.

04.08.2025 08:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Enter 2015 and I am speeding towards a Steam Early Access (then Steam Greenlight) release. I got enemies with random modifiers, lighting, quests, and some decent UI going by now. Also note the shape of the area... it's still the same!

04.08.2025 08:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I quickly realized I needed to hire an artist and here is the result of that. Some proper character art, details, items, etc. Also note the fancy shadows, which I ended up scrapping. Though I think they might still technically be in the game, and might be able to enable via the config file...

04.08.2025 08:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is probably the earliest screenshot I have of post-gamejam and the first steps into Chronicon. Already have the urns there, and got local co-op going. The inventory etc that's in the final version of the game looks the way it does because I was initially developing it as a local co-op game.

04.08.2025 08:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here's some old screenshots of the development of #Chronicon! Starting off with a gamejam game in 2014 that would eventually turn into Chronicon

04.08.2025 08:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have an archive of old screenshots from early development - somewhere. I'll see if I can dig it up and post some:)

28.07.2025 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Today marks 10 years since the first version of #Chronicon was made available via Steam Early Access!

Can't believe how long it's been, and how far we've come since.

It's almost also 5 years since 1.0 and leaving EA, and about 2ยฝ years since the final post-release update.

28.07.2025 13:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm seeing the same and I don't even do youtube ๐Ÿคท

19.06.2025 11:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Getting instant feedback on updates and such is great, and I've missed working like this a lot. Working in quiet secrecy for years without showing anything is agonizing!

13.05.2025 09:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Steam :: Chronicon: Survivors :: Update 1.310 is live with tweaks & fixes Hey Everyone! Thank you for your feedback and bug reports! This update has a big batch of fixes, as well as some small changes to the Shrine upgrade costs and some misc. UI texts. Other than more fixe...

Been churning out small updates like mad. 1.310 is now live with fixes + some changes to Shrine gold costs.

steamcommunity.com/games/281561...

12.05.2025 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Steam :: Chronicon: Survivors :: Update 1.301 - fixes Hey Everyone! Thanks for the quick feedback & reports - I have now updated the game with some fixes. Please let me know if any of the issues persist, or if you have any new ones, and I'll get righ...

A quick bugfix (1.301) is now live for #Chronicon: Survivors!

steamcommunity.com/games/281561...

08.05.2025 09:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Chronicon: Survivors 1.3
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Chronicon: Survivors 1.3 trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dzB...

07.05.2025 12:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chronicon: Survivors - Major Content Update 1.3 is live! - Steam News Hey Everyone! This update adds a whole lot of new stuff, improves on existing stuff, and fixes some issues. The focus for this one was the new Shrines & Boons system, which is another layer of met...

Major Content Update 1.3 for #Chronicon: Survivors is now live!

Some very long notes; have a look!

store.steampowered.com/news/app/281...

07.05.2025 10:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Scryer Tree updates coming in 1.3 of #Chronicon: Survivors as well :)

04.04.2025 07:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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