Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti sneaked out of Early Access last month:

Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti

Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti is a single-player, retro-style Action-RPG with unique real-time combat system and fantasy world to explore
A long time ago at the peak of the High Kingdom of Aerovan, a group of seers looked into legends of a powerful force believed to be the origin of life; this they called 'Gan', though modern peoples know it as 'Divinia'. The ancients sought to utilize Gan as a weapon; in doing so, their perverse intentions spawned the malignant 'Gan-Ti', or 'anti-life'. Infusing Gan-Ti into artifacts, the godlike High Kings ruled the Aerovan peninsula with an iron fist.

Eventually, rebellion arose and the Order of Archkeepers was formed of the most noble warriors to free the people. They managed to capture the relics of Gan-Ti and cast them into the fiery pits of Mt. Suvius near the shores of Orio island.
With the evil power of the relics suppressed, the monsters that terrorized the countryside were slain and the old Kings overthrown. Peace had come. As of late, however, rumblings have been heard from Mt. Suvius, and the wise have come to fear an eruption.

With a reckless young King having just assumed the throne of Oria, will the powers of Gan-Ti again fall into the hands of the most powerful, or can a new force arise to combat the inevitable?
Have faith my friend and let my voice guide you. Find the legendary elemental god fairies and increase their magical powers to wield powerful magic spells in combat. Solve puzzles and master challenging dungeons. Explore Orio Island to find strange artefacts and meet wonderful new friends. Use these artefacts to upgrade your weapons and gear and unlock new combat abilities.
Leave now young hero, for as the fate of this world rests upon your shoulders.

Features:

• Story driven Indie Action-RPG
• Explore a rich and detailed “mini” 3D open world
• Fast-paced 3rd person combat and magic system
• Challenging dungeons and puzzles to solve
• Find rare artifact shards to craft new weapons and gear
• Original soundtrack
• Full game-pad support
• NO always-online, NO micro-transactions

The release date of Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti has been postponed:

Release date postponed: Upcoming Update

Hi everyone,

I must be honest with you guys it was not easy to make today’s announcement, seeing your own deadline approaching day by day while perfectly knowing you are not going to make it. It’s really a bad feeling I can tell you 

Despite all of the teams efforts, we are sad to announce that we cannot complete the game by the 1st of December this year. This comes as we say in German with a “crying eye” and a “laughing eye”: We are disappointed as we have feel like we have let you guys down, not making the deadline we sincerely thought we would. But on the other hand we are glad that we were able to push the game to a new level, knowing we have the possibility to include features which we never thought we could.

Whats next?
The team has been busy working on the next 2 chapters of the game which will take Cyrus and his companions to the mysterious great desert. We don’t want to spoil too much but please rest assured that the next chapters will truly expand the world, adding great new flavors both in terms of scenery and gameplay. By the time we ship the next chapters, the game will be about 70% content complete, so it will be another big step for us towards final release. Aside from content we will continue to add depth to the gameplay including: Spell level-system, un-lockables, in-game store with items, money system and much more.

Next, we have a team of wonderful people working to localize the game and we will start to ship early stage translations with the next update including Spanish, French, German and Mandarin. But not only that, our voice director Indra and her team from the Netherlands started to record voice-overs, meaning Divinia Chronicles will be fully vocalized in English. We will ship the voice-over for the intro already with the next update and I can already tell you this will change the gaming experience drastically.

Again I am sorry to let you guys down on the original release date, but we will be hard working to complete the game as soon as we can. 

Warm regards,
Martin

Update and Roadmap for Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti:

V.092e and roadmap to chapter 4 & 5

Hi folks,

Thanks guys for your faith and support in the development of Divinia Chronicles, we wouldn’t be here without you!

Let’s get rolling with the good news!

In the past months the team has been working hard on the upcoming chapters of Divinia Chronicles, however we realized that it’s better to ship the next two chapters together as a unit; we believe both chapters are tied well together in terms of storytelling and pacing and thus should be experienced in one / two game sessions.

While we are still a couple of weeks away from unlocking the new chapters, today we want to start off with a major update of first three chapters and lay out road map for the next month:

1.) Version 0.92e update
As of today we updated the early access build to v0.92e, which includes completely re-written dialogues, added treasure chests & collectables, refined environments / animations / combat and balancing. For the full change list click here. The focus of this update is to polish the existing content for new players. For existing players, you are welcome to try out the new version, however we do recommend to hold on for some weeks and start over once the big update is out.

2.) Chapter 4 & 5
We plan to ship the next two chapters within the next weeks. This update will increase the scope of the game dramatically; You may wander around the island freely, befriend the elemental spirit of earth, make use of its destructive magic and face fierce adversaries and powerful creatures from the deep forests and the ancient crystal mine. Not afraid of spoilers?


3.) New trailer
After the two chapters are released we plan to update the store profile and release a new trailer; we don’t want to spend time on that prior release, so please bear with the old trailer until then.

4.) Divinia Chronicles - OST
Around the same time, we will be also offering the official Divinia Chronicles OST via Steam. It will be designed to be a “buy soundtrack or buy us a coffee” option for everyone who wishes to give us extra support in the upcoming development progress. As we want to reward our early buyers, we want to give the sound track free of charge to all existing users. For this, please stay tuned for further announcements as we need to check out how to actually do this technically ;-)

Any ideas or comments? As usually please post your feedback in the steam discussion board or stalk us on social media :-D

We love you!
Martin
TeamMonkey

TeamMonkey wishes you and your families a happy holidays.  They're giving a 33% discount on Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti, until the Steam Sale ends on January 4.

Hi guys,

The end of 2015 is near and its time to be among our loved ones. With the STEAM early access launch in October we have reached a lot, but there is still much work ahead - We cannot wait to continue development in January and ship the next chapter of Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti.

To our awesome followers from around the world: USA, Russia, Italy, UK, Germany, Malaysia, Brazil - no matter where you are from, we love to have you with us ^_^. We will continue working hard to deliver the game you deserve!

As you have noticed we have slashed the price of the game by 33%, this is our small Christmas present to everyone – So if you would like to join the early access community make sure to grab your copy before 4th of January.

Greetings of the season to you and your families,
Best wishes for 2016!
TeamMonkey

More information.

Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti is now available as Early Access game at Steam.

Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti is a single-player, classic-style Action-RPG. With influences ranging from Ocarina of Time to Final Fantasy, this action-oriented title seeks to revive the vintage flavor and vibe of the classics in an original world with a new tale to be told. Explore the island of Oria, solve puzzles and fight a variety of creatures as Cyrus, Kira and Dyani work to destroy the relics of Gan-Ti and restore order to the land.

• Indie Action-RPG with a story driven campaign, inspired by SNES classics
• Explore a rich and detailed 3d fantasy world
• Fast-paced 3rd person combat and magic system
• Challenging dungeons and puzzles to solve
• Full game-pad support
• Original soundtrack
• Unique, vibrant art-style
• NO always-online, NO micro-transactions

The developers of Divinia Chronicles posted a progress update for their game on Steam , and wised everyone a happy new year, So if you follow the game read on.

You may have been eagerly waiting for these days since our aim was to get the Steam Early Access version of “Divinia Chronicles- Relics of Gan-Ti” ready by the end of this year. Now the time has come and it’s difficult for me to say, but I must announce that unfortunately we could not reach this goal in time. Still I want to take the time to make a small round-up of where we are standing right now:

What we have achieved already:
1. Porting the game to a new engine including improved graphics
2. The game is up & running on Steam
3. Extended & refined environments & dungeons
4. Refined combat and controls

What still needs to be done for the EA (Early Access) version:
1. The first monster in the game, the “nocturne squirrel”
2. The first elemental spirit, which will be your guide for the first chapters
3. Final animations & play testing

I am very sorry to let you guys down by not keeping our schedule. But I hope you can see that we are almost there; for the next months we will be putting all energy into getting the last pieces together so that we have a complete and refined EA version which we think the game deserves. As soon as we are reaching the play testing phase we will be announcing the exact release date.

In the mean time, I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas, quality time with your friends and loved ones and successful and healthy New Year!

Developer Dieblein posted a new update for his RPG game called Divinia Chronicles on Steam. The updates talks about the game being ported into a new engine.

Today we have some good news to share with you :-)

We have successfully ported our game to the SDK2013

What does this mean? The SDK2013 is the newest version of the Source engine, released in 2013. It brings some advantages to our previous engine branch such as better motion blur, virtual reality (Oculus Rift) and native support for MAC and LINUX; a release which however we cannot confirm at this point as it depends on our success on PC.

But what has been really great about the new engine is that it allowed us to implement a set of custom shaders (Thanks to Biohazard), which will add dynamic sunrays and dynamic self-shadowing to the engine, a tech similar to what you can see in CS:GO or Titanfall. We are quite excited about these additions and what they will bring to our small game :-)

CSM shadows - ON
CSM shadows - OFF

At the same time we stay focused to optimize the game performance. All above features are completely optional, so if you have a low-end rig you can switch them off anytime.

So that’s it for my small tech update today; please expect new material from our upcoming early access version soon.

Divinia Chronicles is a new game from a studio called Team Monkey. You can find more information on the games website, and Steam if your curious.

In the meantime here is a trailer, and a short game description.

Divinia Chronicles: Relics of Gan-Ti is a single-player, classic-style Action-RPG. With influences ranging from Ocarina of Time to Final Fantasy, this action-oriented title seeks to revive the vintage flavor and vibe of the classics in an original world with a new tale to be told. Explore the island of Pandoria, solve puzzles and fight a variety of creatures as Cyrus, Kira and Dyani work to destroy the relics of Gan-Ti and restore order to the land.