Aeterna Noctis
1 day left for the Aeterna Noctis demo!
There is 1 day left until you can enjoy the new demo forAeterna Noctis, which also includes exclusive content taken directly from the upcoming DLC "Pit of the Damned"
Tomorrow, March 14, the demo of Aeterna Noctis will be available to download via Steam.
Get ready for an adventure that will allow you to experience the first steps of the main adventure of the game, as well as take a first look at the new stuff that the DLC will feature, including a new area, and the possibility of trying one of the "time trials" and put your reflexes to the limit.
Are you prepared for what is coming your way?
Aeterna Noctis will receive a demo on March 14!
From Aeternum Game Studios we have decided to make public a demo of our Metroidvania, the game that started the Aeterna Universe.
Aeterna Noctis will receive a demo next March 14 that will allow players to enjoy some of the new content included in the upcoming "Pit of the Damned" DLC. Among the novelties that the demo will bring, it includes the possibility of visiting one of the new areas, as well as participating in one of the timed tests, where players will have to compete online to achieve the best world time.
As a final surprise, we wanted to have a detail that those players who download the Summum Aeterna demo and play at least one seed will get an exclusive gift. We are also going to reward those players who are loyal to the Aeterna Universe by granting an exclusive skin in Summum Aeterna to players who have Aeterna Noctis in their Steam library
It only remains to wait until March 14 to be able to enjoy an adventure that leaves no one indifferent who has had it in their hands. Get ready for the ultimate Metroidvania experience!
Thank you very much for playing and supporting our work :)
Summary of the Aeternum Game Studios showcase
Summary of the Aeternum Game Studios showcase
DLC for Aeterna Noctis
"Pit of the Damned" is the first playable DLC for Aeterna Noctis, and it will take us to explore a new area full of new challenges, new enemies, and, of course, a new and fearsome final boss. The images show the King of Darkness making his way through some catacombs featuring our classic puzzle and level design. Apparently, an ancient evil claims the monarch's presence in that crypt... The visuals speak for themselves, and the DLC feels more Aeterna Noctis than ever! Its launch is scheduled for early 2023.
Summum Aeterna Launch
Summum Aeterna will end its Early Access period at the end of 2023, with a simultaneous release on PC and PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo consoles. Our Roguelite title will continue to receive new updates such as new worlds, more weapons, and even more challenges over the next few months until its final release at the end of 2023. Check out the roadmap for the next year:
Aeterna Lucis
Our fandom had been theorizing for a while about a possible sequel to their favorite Metroidvania. The jewel in the crown during the showcase was a brief, but long-awaited announcement… The confirmation that Aeterna Lucis, the sequel to Aeterna Noctis, is currently under development. We haven't revealed more details for now except 2024 as the launch window. Are you excited?
In conclusion, 2023 is full of surprises for lovers of the Aeterna Universe. A DLC for Aeterna Noctis at the beginning of the year, the multiplatform and simultaneous release of Summum Aeterna at the end of 2023, and the highly anticipated sequel Aeterna Lucis for 2024.
Remember that all this is possible thanks to your support!
The Steam Awards are coming! Let's nominate Aeterna Noctis for Best Soundtrack
The Steam Awards 2022 are coming, and many cool games can be nominated for multiple categories: Game of the Year, Most innovative Gameplay... and Best Soundtrack!
Aeterna Noctis was released on December 15 of 2021. Our Metroidvania is an ideal candidate for this year's awards, and we've decided to submit our game to the "Best Soundtrack" category.
Although you can vote for us in any other one, we really encourage you to nominate us for "Best Soundtrack". The 43 unique music tracks included in the OST are amazing, and represent one of the main highlights of our game.
Thanks a lot for your love and constant support! Aeterna Noctis is what it is thanks to you.
Announced the official store for Aeterna Noctis and Summum Aeterna products
The list of products includes merchandising with the logos of the studio and our two games, as well as character designs and stained glass-style prints of the King of Darkness and the Queen of Light. There are t-shirts and sweatshirts of all sizes and colours for men and women, breakfast cups, bags, backpacks, mobile phone cases, children's clothing... Even baby bodysuits! All of them with an incredible finish. You will also find wall pictures featuring memorable scenes of both monarchs fighting to the death. Without a doubt, the best way to decorate the walls of your set-up!
The value for money of the official Aeterna Noctis and Summum Aeterna products is unbeatable, and on top of that, our store allows international shipments, including the United States and Mexico. This is catalogue of products that will delight our community of players. Don't wait any longer and visit our official store at laTostadora. In addition, you can take advantage of the 25% discount that the portal has on Black Friday. Do you need more reasons?
These are the links to the available countries:
Spain: https://www.latostadora.com/shop/aeterna
UK: https://www.tostadora.co.uk/shop/aeterna/
France: https://www.tostadora.fr/shop/aeterna/
Italy: https://www.tostadora.it/shop/aeterna/
USA: https://www.tostadora.com/shop/aeterna/
Mexico: https://mx.latostadora.com/shop/aeterna/
Aeterna Noctis Patch Notes v1.1.001 (HotFix)
- Fixed a bug where the "Guardian Angel" icon would not properly disappear from the HUD in cut-scenes
- Fixed a bug where the "Loading" Logo would not animate correctly between cutscenes
- Fixed a bug where "Robot Slugs" would not die properly during the battle against the "AI"
- Fixed a bug that caused lag spikes when putting the pause menu the first time per scene
- Fixed a bug where the King would sometimes lose his movement speed when attacking with the Instant Scythe
New update with accessibility options and improvements to combat and movement!
Aeterna Noctis Patch Notes v1.1.000
Gameplay:
- Improved collision calculation for sword and scythe attacks
- Added a new combat assist system to improve the attack rate of the sword and scythe
- Increased the jump assist window time when falling from a platform by 50% to improve the King of Darkness reaction time
- Improved the ground jump assist window to prevent it from consuming the double jump if the King is too close to a platform
- A new assistance system has been included to improve the calculation of side collisions when hitting platforms
- Balanced the life of some Bosses in "Aeterna" Mode
- Balanced the health of the four doomsday dragons from 1200 to 800 health
- Slugs will now not explode instantly if the damage they take exceeds 100% of their health
Weapons:
- The cost of the following weapons has been adjusted:
- Ax: 30 -> 20 blood points
Spear: 30 -> 20 blood points
Katana Slash: 35 -> 20 blood points
Katana Feint: 35 -> 25 blood points - The damage done by the blood arrow has been doubled
Gems:
- The effect of the "Time Sapphire" gem has been improved, including a reduction in the fall speed of the King of Darkness for the duration of its effect.
- "Whetstone" gem effect increased from 10% to 25% damage
- "Light Alloy" gem effect increased from 5% to 10% critical chance
- Increased the effect of the "Minor Enhancer" gem from 20% to 35% critical damage
- Increased the effect of the "Philosopher's Stone" gem from double to triple
- "Imperator" gem effect increased from 50% to 100%
- Increased the effect of the "Sagittarius Eye" gem from 50% to 100%
- Increased the effect of the "Thirsty Ruby" gem from 25% to 50%
Upgrade Tree:
- The "Guardian Angel" skill node has been redesigned:
- Grants 100% revive on death, and heals the King of Darkness for 100% health. Recharges each time you are defeated. Does not work against spikes or traps.
Added a "Guardian Angel" indicator on the HUD - The effect of the initial 6 nodes has been doubled to adjust the player's progress more correctly to the difficulty curve
- The effect of the "Combat Charge" node has been improved from 1 to 2 seconds and from 20% to 30% damage
- "On the Verge of Death" node effect increased from 20% to 50% damage
- "Iron Health" node effect increased from 20% to 30% damage
- Improved the effect of the "Quick Arrow" node by removing the 1 second effect duration time, now the next shot after a fast recovery will have no ammo cost
- Improved the effect of the "Bloody Death" node by increasing the spilt blood from 1 to 2 units
- The effect of the "Doctor" node has been improved, now the effects of the King of Darkness cures are twice as powerful
Achievements:
- Fixed various platform bugs where sometimes achievements/trophies were not being delivered correctly despite having met the requirements. The achievements obtained by the players will be delivered automatically when opening the menu within a game (It is possible that some achievements are not delivered correctly if the platform did not register them as completed internally at the time of obtaining it)
Various improvements:
- Fixed a bug where the "Potions" and "Dark Portal" indicators on the HUD would not properly disappear when the King was approaching
- Fixed a bug where when changing language all texts were not translated correctly until changing scene
- Fixed a bug where the Phoenix could sometimes be defeated in phase 2 preventing the player from getting the reward correctly
- Fixed a bug where progress would sometimes not be saved correctly when beating the last boss
- Fixed a bug where the lost experience was sometimes not correctly refunded when retrieving the soul
- Fixed a bug where the fog of war map save files were sometimes corrupted causing the map to restart
- Fixed a bug that made the King of Darkness "Invincible" when he died via the Eye of the Oracle
- Fixed a bug where some platforms were not displaying correctly in "Royal Stairs" on "Aeterna" difficulty
- Improved performance and memory consumption overall on all platforms
- Fixed various localization bugs
- Fixed a bug where turning off vibration in the options menu would cause some actions to still vibrate
- Fixed a bug where loading game in "Temple of Kings 3" would cause the camera to go out of bounds
- Fixed a bug that allowed the graphics quality to be changed on some consoles
- Fixed a bug where throne indicator arrows on the map would get stuck
- Fixed a bug where "Dark Portal" could be performed in the final boss battle
- Fixed a bug where progress after the final boss battle would sometimes not be saved correctly
- Fixed a bug where the shadow effect of thrones would incorrectly persist after standing up
- Fixed a bug where the soul would sometimes not recover correctly when stolen by enemies in the "Abyss"
- Fixed a bug where sometimes the "Undersea Fortress" Teleporter would not move you to the correct position when going to "A" level
- Fixed a bug where after beating the v1 AI you could go outside the map boundaries
- Fixed a bug where it was sometimes not possible to retrieve your soul when it was stolen from you by an enemy
- Fixed a bug where the graphic for the door on the first floor of the "Wasteland West Tower" would not appear after revisiting the area
NEW BUNDLE: Aeterna Noctis + Summum Aeterna
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/26377/Aeterna_Collection_of_Darkness/
Aeterna Noctis, a true Metrodivania experience
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging 2D hand-drawn action platformer, a Metroidvania with thrilling combat that will keep you on the edge of your seat and heart-stopping platform sections that will put your skills to the test. Become the King of Darkness in an epic journey through 16 connected areas and reclaim the Throne of Aeterna. A pure Metroidvania gaming experience featuring fast-paced combat and wild platforming!
Summum Aeterna, pue Roguelite vibes
Summum Aeterna is a Roguelite game that combines world crawler mechanics never seen before in the genre with a fast-paced combat system and a unique 2D art style. Taking the role of the King of Darkness, you must explore uncharted worlds populated with treasures, traps, hordes of enemies, and powerful bosses. Explore wild territories, descend into the most dangerous deeps of Aeterna, and fight your way to the end of each world... If you can!
Get ready for the ultimate Aeterna experience and make the King of Darkness proud of you!
Summum Aeterna, the new game from Aeternum Game Studios, is now available!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1815230/Summum_Aeterna/
Summum Aeterna is a Roguelite that combines a world generation mechanic never seen before in the genre with a frantic combat system and an art style Very characteristic unique 2D. At the controls of the King of Darkness, you must explore impregnable territories full of treasures, traps, hordes of enemies, and powerful bosses.
This is a prequel to Aeterna Noctis that introduces us to a King of Darkness in one of the most convulsive and bloody periods of its history. The rhythm of the combat triples the formula seen in Aeterna Noctis, with frenetic action and a variety of weapons being the main components in the combat system of this new title. The game includes significant improvements and assists over the previous title that will make players feel really agile and powerful in combat.
Among the features of Summum Aeterna, stands out a world generation system that has never been seen before in a title of the genre. Worlds are created from seeds (or world generators) that, when germinated, create a new challenge with different environmental characteristics, enemy behavior, special rooms and completely random rewards depending on the genes contained in the seed. The so-called Seed Mechanics will allow players to enjoy a totally different gaming experience every time they venture into a new world.
Day One content
Let's take a look at what is included in the first version of the game currently available on Steam:
- 2 worlds featuring 2 different areas each
- 2 final bosses
- 1 special room… The Death Roulette! Featuring a mechanic that makes your run even more interesting… Would you spin it? Be careful, it could curse your game or make you unstoppable!
- 3 weapon types: swords, scythes, and pistols
- 21 unique weapons, each one with different offensive and passive attributes
- Introduction to the Seed Mechanic, a unique world generator system: Each seed you find generates a unique world with different enemy behaviour, rewards, special rooms, and map size depending on its genes and rareness.
- More than 20 unique world modifiers: The so-called “seed genes” make each seed different from the last, and so will the world generated from them!
- Permanent character upgrade system: No matter how many times you’re defeated, your progression in the skill tree will be saved!
- Permanent world upgrade system: The world improvements you unlocked will last forever, even if you are defeated a hundred times!
- Weapon customization options: Add new attributes and improve the combat performance of your weapons by embedding gems
- More than 15 epic music themes
Everything mentioned above is already included in the current playable version of Summum Aeterna. We rely on the community feedback to improve the gaming experience. We are willing to include new features based on our player base opinions as well. Feel free to send us your suggestions and share your thoughts!
Project timeline
Summum Aeterna is scheduled to be in early access for a year and a half, so the full version will be ready at some point in 2024, but there’s no specific end date. However, all main updates for the next months are already scheduled, and the content for the first half of 2023 is almost planned.
Future content scope
Now that the first version is available, let’s take a look at the future content. Right now we have 4 major upgrades to cover the game progression until the end of 2022. Small patches could also be released between each main update to solve possible bugs or expand the customization possibilities.
This is the roadmap of our first cycle in Early Access:
Major Update 1 - July
- 1 new challenge room that will offer a true combat challenge only recommended for the most skilled players… The Shrines of Idalith!
- 3 minibosses
- 1 new NPC: Rasen Lupine
- 1 new seed type: Worlds of Random
- Much more surprises!
Major Update 2 – August
- 1 new world (2 currently) including 2 different areas (4 currently)
- 1 new final boss (2 currently)
- More genes to modify and alter the worlds
Major Update 3 - September
- 1 new world (3 currently) including 2 different areas (6 currently)
- 1 new final boss (3 currently)
- 1 new weapon type (3 currently)
- 8 unique weapons, each one with different offensive and passive features (24 currently)
Major Update 4 – October / November
- 1 new seed type… Exotics Seeds! They will teleport you to a unique world including exclusive features. Would you survive?
- 1 new type of world including a certain challenge to overcome
- Inclusion of legendary weapons, allowing access to more than 30 unique tools of destruction!
What will come after Major Upgrade 4?
- We will add more types of special rooms, and some of them will include new upgrade mechanics
- Expect more unique variants for each weapon type
- More worlds are also on our radar
- New gems will be added
- More available options in the skill and world tree
- All the good ideas provided by the community to make Summum Aeterna even more fun!
We will update the roadmap and the next content scope in early 2023. Thank you so much for your constant support! We rely on you to make Summum Aeterna an epic experience.