Emberlight is on sale on Steam and our other outlets for $2.99! That’s a 70% off savings for the game.
Emberlight is a true roguelite dungeon crawler, set in a world where the Gods have given you a great gift – and a great curse. Explore procedurally generated dungeons as a Knight of the Ember Order. Conquer the quests set out before your party, and uncover the lore of the land.
Quarter Onion Games is celebrating the first anniversary of Emberlight this week.
Emberlight will be on sale with a 67% off discount during our anniversary on all digital storefronts. We invite everyone to support our studio and purchase our game on Steam, Xsolla, and Itch.io.
Emberlight was the first game we released as a company. We are thankful for our supporters who continue to play the game regularly and we appreciate all the fan input we received this past year. Our studio has given out over a million copies of the game in various fundraisers and giveaways to support charities during these tough times.
Join us on our Discord channel to participate in our community and learn what is coming next in Emberlight.
As we continue with areas that we are actively looking to improve in the future. There will always be places where we can do better, both working together as a studio, and each person that is a part of this experience. We fail as a studio when we can’t identify where we failed.
Nobody likes bugs, least of all the developers of your favorite games. As games get more complex, bugs will express themselves in new and “exciting” ways, and the team is always looking to resolve them. We’ve had a few rare bugs that continue to elude us, particularly a rare turn bug, and it’s been a tough one to crack.
For the non-coder type, most of the code of a game tends to interact in some way with everything else. Making changes that may seem benign will suddenly break another system. While some fixed can be straightforward with some elbow grease and focus, others are a lot more complicated, and we’ve built a stronger QA and unit testing process for future projects to help us identify and resolve issues early.
Consistent feedback we received from the community focused on a lack of user feedback within Emberlight. Whether this was confusion within initial menus, or a lack of direction with something as important as navigating the rooms on a level, we needed to do a better job at conveying information to our community. Efforts such as tutorials we’re not enough to properly ease players into the game.
As a team, we have a major focus in the current project to ensure the user feedback is properly designed out at the start. We can’t assume that a new player will simply get it, and therefore the game needs to provide appropriate direction for a player that needs it. At the same time, we cannot force a player down a lengthy tutorial, so it’s a balancing act that we’ll refine with the demo we’re working on.
While this isn’t directly related to the game development itself, getting awareness for future games is crucial to build our community and push us to continue building quality games for everyone. This was a learning experience for us, and we have new tools in the tool belt for our future projects. Particularly both how to get the game in front of more people, and to ensure that our presentation properly represents the game.
We had many great reviewers, streamers, and YouTubers play our game and provide feedback on it, and it was a humbling experience to hear everyone’s views on Emberlight. From the reviews we received, we averaged around a 7 out of 10 which is average to us. Nothing less than a 10 out of 10 is good enough, and we have a blueprint on how to achieve that goal.
If you have purchased the game, please leave a review so the Steam algorithm can index our game properly.
Our final article will focus on our next project. We’re super excited to finally unveil our recent work, and where we’re going in 2020. Stay tuned!
Read the first article here.
As we walk into a new decade, the experience of creating and launching a game has given us a lot of insight into how to move forward confident in our abilities as a studio. We’ve grown this past year with Emberlight and our wonderful community with well over a thousand folks that have given us a chance so far but there’s always room to improve. We strive for a 10 outta 10 with our future games, and it starts with self-critiques which we’ll breakdown in a three-parter leading into our new game in production.
The development team has made the following changes to the game in our October Content Patch Update. This patch is scheduled for release later today.
Please read the changes below.
Any issues with the patch please report them to us on our discord server.
Join us on Friday, October 4th at 9 pm EDT, for an Emberlight Developer Stream with BoyAzazel68, on Twitch at https://twitch.tv/boyazazel68. Our Lead Developer, Vaernus, will be offering his commentary as they play the game together on the stream. We plan on giving away game keys to the lucky winners during the stream. We will also be discussing the new and upcoming changes coming to the game, Dungeon Master Mode, Single Player, Co-op, and Multiplayer Mode.
Emberlight has been nominated for the Fan Favourite Game of the Week at the Game Development World Championships. We need everyone in our community to vote for us. Just click on the Vote button under the game graphic to cast your vote for Emberlight on the GDWC 2019 webpage.
We appreciate everyone in our amazing community that continues to support Emberlight as we work towards the next big update with the inclusion of the story mode, co-op mode, multiplayer mode, and most importantly dungeon master mode. Systems are still being designed and implemented. Look for a post with a preview in the near future.
The development team has made more improvements to the game. Read the updated changes in the patch notes for changeset 1.0831 below.
Join our popular Discord Community Server at www.discord.gg/quarteronion to discuss Emberlight.
We are hosting an Emberlight Game Giveaway! 15 copies of Emberlight for Steam are up for grabs. This giveaway is open worldwide where Steam keys are allowed to be claimed. Rules and information can be found on the widget. Good luck future Ember Knights.
Rounding out two weeks since launch, we’ve made a lot of progress. This last update added Steam Achievements. Players can join the Knights of the Ember Order and collect all 49 milestones ranging in various difficulties. Other additions over the past two weeks include:
Along with this feedback, we have also adjusted our future plans with Emberlight. Originally planned for a December release, Dungeon Master mode has been shifted to a late October, early November launch. 
Dungeon Master mode adds the ability for stories to be created in a simple but feature-rich toolkit within Emberlight. These stories can be shared on a public marketplace or hosted with friends. Players can then access these stories in single player story mode, play these with their friends in the upcoming co-op mode, or join DMs in hosted experiences.
Dungeon Master mode looks to provide a virtual tabletop experience while the simplicity of the story creator means that constructing a story should be equivalent to planning a pen and paper adventure. The hands on (DM controls entire game) and hands off (DM spectates and can make changes) then allow different ways to interact with the party in a story. And with the aimed support of the mobile and Switch platforms, DMs and players alike will be able to bring this experience anywhere.
We’re super excited for Dungeon Master mode as a major milestone not only for development, but something we’ve wanted for a long time ourselves. Some of the team are tabletop players, and have wanted a way to be able to play with friends worldwide in a system closely matching what they’d do on their Friday night sessions. Hopefully we can bridge the gap between the open imagination of a pen and paper game with the story creator and gameplay mechanics emulating that as closely as possible.
Join our popular Discord Community Server at www.discord.gg/quarteronion to discuss Emberlight.