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End of Development
Unfortunately, due to personal and financial reasons, we have made the difficult decision to cease development of Anew: The Distant Light and close our studio. Should this situation change in the future, and development…
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Update 2 Change List and Dev Notes
Huge thanks to the Beta testers and Early Access players! Your feedback and bug reports are crucial for driving improvements to the game. We are a tiny team, with 1 to 3 people working on the game any given week. We hav…
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Update 1
Fixed bug with shield pickup not persisting Fixed bug with sun damage VFX playing while disabled
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End-of-Year Dev Update
Happy New Year! We hope you are having a nice break and finding opportunity to spend time with friends and family. It's been a long and hard road, but we are pleased to announce that we are confident in a 2021 delivery…
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Developer demo livestream - Steam Autumn Game Festival
Hi folks! There was a bit of a technical hiccup in Steam's system during our original livestream yesterday, and our stream wasn't promoted at all in the Autumn Festival. So, we're going to give it another go on Tuesday,…
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PAX Online 2020!
We are honored and excited to announce that Anew has been selected for the PAX Online 2020 Indie Showcase! Several hundred games on Steam were considered for the event, and a short list of 20 games were selected by the…
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Demo updated with tons of improvements and fixes!
We are very happy to announce that our free playable demo, which is available to download on our Steam store page, has been updated with a long list of improvements and fixes. Steve Copeland, our wizard-like game direct…
Store2 changesFixGameplay - Anew: The Distant Light
Stop by our Developer Q&A Next Week!
Hi folks! We've got one more announcement related to the Steam Summer Game Festival, which runs next week from June 16 - 22. In addition to the free downloadable demo and the developer livestream event we've got schedul…
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Free Playable ANEW Demo and Dev Livestream!
We are excited to announce that Anew: The Distant Light will be taking part in the Steam Summer Game Festival from June 16th - 22nd! During the festival, you will be able to play our alpha demo, which was previously ava…
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World Map Reveal!
We are thrilled to reveal the game world map for Anew: The Distant Light! Click here for full res version of image! Each of the ten zones in the game are hand-crafted and feature unique enemies, challenges, puzzles, and…
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New Characters, Better FPS, Approaching Beta!
Hi folks! Thanks for stopping by to keep an eye on our game. We've been working super hard on Anew since our last update. Our new round of enemies is coming along really well and we are also improving the original enemi…
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We're going to DreamHack in LA!
We're pleased to announce that Anew: The Distant Light was selected for showcasing at DreamHack! We'll be at the Anaheim Convention Center in CA on February 21-23 in the Indie Playground section. Stop by to play the gam…
Announcement - Anew: The Distant Light
December Update: What Have We Been Up To?
Greetings! We wanted to pass along a quick update on the development of Anew: The Distant Light for the month of December. Our small team of two full-time developers continues to work around the clock on content for the…
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October Dev Update
We've been pretty quiet on the updates front lately, and that's entirely due to our focus on making Anew as awesome as it can be! Since we're a small team of two full time developers (plus freelance composer), staying l…
Announcement - Anew: The Distant Light
New Boss Battle Art Reveal - "Mother"
We proudly present one of our brand new bosses, "Mother." She will be a force to reckon with - a massive fixed creature with a variety of nasty attacks. Anyone care to guess what these attacks may be? Leave a comment! D…
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Anew @ E3 2019
We had a fantastic showing at this year's E3 convention in Los Angeles. Our game was selected to demo at The MIX indie games showcase on 6/12. We had a great showing, met lots of excellent developers and business folks,…
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