DARK CONCORDANCE 1.2.0

A graphics round: lighter on the Steam Deck, and the places look more like hand-lit Dark Alliance levels - outdoors and indoors.

• Lighter renderer: each surface is lit only by the lamps that reach it, a depth pre-pass, the volumetric haze at half resolution, cached sun shadows, FXAA, and dynamic resolution on the Low and Frugal settings. A frame costs about half the GPU time it did.
• Outdoors: baked shade at the foot of walls and in corners, ground materials blended softly, rock walls that slope and break up into scree, trodden paths, drifting cloud shadows, wind in grass, leaves and firs, trees with real leaf crowns, ponds and shallow water to wade through, and air particles per world (pollen, dust, snow, haze).
• Indoors: lamps light their own room and no longer shine through walls; wet floors with puddles, polished floors that reflect; sunken grates with pipes below, cable ducts and gutters; visible lamp fittings with soft light cones in the haze.
• Floors that follow the rooms: halls, corridors and side rooms of every world have floors of their own, with borders along the walls, sills in the doorways, emblems in the large halls and painted walkway lines in the concrete halls.
• Effects: dust, smoke and gas no longer show as glowing boxes or balls cut by the floor.
• Fixed: two faults when moving from one place to the next - a possible crash, and wrong culling or lighting depending on the order of places.
• Camera: pipes over a corridor no longer hide the hero.

Download

• Windows 10 and 11: DarkConcordance-1.2.0-windows-x64.zip - unpack it anywhere and start DarkConcordance.exe, nothing to install. The program is not code-signed: SmartScreen may warn once ("More info", "Run anyway").
• Linux and the Steam Deck: DarkConcordance-1.2.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz - runs on any x86-64 distribution with glibc 2.35 or newer, SteamOS included; on the Deck add DarkConcordance to Steam as a non-Steam game.

Both archives carry the player's readme, the credits and the licence (AGPL-3.0). SHA256SUMS.txt holds the archives' checksums. Also on itch.io: https://reneweller-coding.itch.io/dark-concordance

DARK CONCORDANCE 1.1.0

The outdoor places reworked after Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, a steadier camera, lower walls and a fix for The Dying Gardens.

• Fixed: in The Dying Gardens the ring habitat's land stood inside the level and covered the picture with blurred colour; the ring is now a thin arch rising out of the haze at the horizon.
• Gardens: the parks' box hedges are gone. Their edges are boulders and thickets now, with gardens of the Concordance's bred plants behind them and forest beyond; trees and bushes end in leaves, firs among them; the lawn lies in patches with tufts of grass, paths of trodden earth fade into it, and the ground darkens at the foot of what stands on it.
• Organic layouts: the open places (The Dying Gardens, Halden, Brannt, Wanderer, Dorra's tale) and the Depths' shafts are no longer rectangles: ragged clearings, winding ways, raw rock with sloped corners.
• Camera: instead of cutting a circle round the hero, the camera rises towards looking down when something stands in the way, as Dark Alliance's does.
• Walls of 3.2 m in every level (they were up to 6.5 m): more of a room is seen from above.
• Light: the figures get a fill light and a soft shadow spot on the ground; warm lamps breathe a little.

Download

• Windows 10 and 11: DarkConcordance-1.1.0-windows-x64.zip - unpack it anywhere and start DarkConcordance.exe, nothing to install. The program is not code-signed: SmartScreen may warn once ("More info", "Run anyway").
• Linux and the Steam Deck: DarkConcordance-1.1.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz - runs on any x86-64 distribution with glibc 2.35 or newer, SteamOS included; on the Deck add DarkConcordance to Steam as a non-Steam game.

Both archives carry the player's readme, the credits and the licence (AGPL-3.0). SHA256SUMS.txt holds the archives' checksums. Also on itch.io: https://reneweller-coding.itch.io/dark-concordance

DARK CONCORDANCE 1.0.0

The first public release of DARK CONCORDANCE, a dark space opera action role-playing game for Windows, Linux and the Steam Deck. English and German: menus, subtitles and voices.

• Three heroes: Dorra Vask (melee), Corvin Aske (ranged) and Ione Sarrath (drones).
• A prologue and four acts, three endings; stations between the missions with people to talk to, traders, a workshop and jobs.
• Places put together anew on most visits: vacuum on the outer hull, a drowned quarter, a world that does not turn, a centrifuge that flings you outward.
• After the credits: the endless Depths, New Game+ and Nightmare.
• Two players on one screen, one life (hardcore), a daily challenge, four save slots and a photo mode.
• The manual (English and German PDF) comes in the archives.

Download

• Windows 10 and 11: DarkConcordance-1.0.0-windows-x64.zip - unpack it anywhere and start DarkConcordance.exe, nothing to install. The program is not code-signed: SmartScreen may warn once ("More info", "Run anyway").
• Linux and the Steam Deck: DarkConcordance-1.0.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz - runs on any x86-64 distribution with glibc 2.35 or newer, SteamOS included; on the Deck add DarkConcordance to Steam as a non-Steam game.

Both carry the player's readme, the credits and the licence (AGPL-3.0). SHA256SUMS.txt holds the archives' checksums. Also on itch.io: https://reneweller-coding.itch.io/dark-concordance