Ctesiphon

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• Community & Events·30 Jul 2026Official

  Cyberpunk Fest + Bundle With Zortch

  Announcing that Ctesiphon will be in Cyberpunk Fest!The game hasn't gotten much attention for the last month beyond some new artwork, my focus as always is on the next project. So consider a 60% discount an apology for not having a more substantive update.And speaking of new artwork, check out the banner I made for the new bundle with Zortch!
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• Announcements·16 Jun 2026Official

  Ctesiphon will be at AVCon 2026!

  Version 1.04e Patch NotesAnother small update:Removed v3Expo's Squilchan dialogue from the secret spot in the Outskirts. I've moved the portrait into the fanart room instead.That central building in the Multiport will be the death of me, I've modified it yet again to make it harder to break the level as there was still a way to get right on top of it if you were good with blast-jumps. This isn't the only place you can sequence break this level but it's the one that's been constantly bothering me.AVCon 2026Ctesiphon is going to be at AVCon 2026! If you happen to be in Adelaide, South Australia during the weekend of July 4th-5th come on down to the Showground to hang out! I'll have a lightly customized debug build at the Indie Games Room with some altered dialogue and all the dev cheats available.
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• Announcements·6 Jun 2026Official

  Version 1.04d + Future Plans

  First of all, go check out the v3Expo showcase for 2026. It should be airing a few hours after this update goes live. Ctesiphon has only short spot in a montage but if you look carefully there's a hint on how to get to a new secret being added in this update. The game will also be 50% off for a week after the showcase starts!ChangelogLet's get version 1.04d's additions out of the way first:The Railgun and the Gyrobuster have had their projectile damage greatly increased. Should make them much more useful against the big mechs. Rockets are still the workhorse anti-mech weapon but you should no longer be completely screwed if you run out.A couple of extra secrets have been added to the Outskirts levelSome of the buildings in the Multiport level have been made taller to prevent sequence breaking. Several spots where this used to be really easy have been converted to secrets instead.The player now gets push velocity even if not taking any damage. This whole time I was testing blast jumping while I had invulnerability cheat on so I missed a bunch of really obvious sequence breaks and really good spots for secrets.Personal UpdateCtesiphon hasn't really had a lot of major updates since launch which was semi-intentional. Launching the game was a big learning experience and the major goal of the project in itself. The plan is (and has always been) that I would focus immediately on making the next game with the knowledge gained from making this one. With limited free time available I pretty much expected that I wouldn't make any serious changes to Ctesiphon for some time if at all.I had always really wanted to take game dev full time, but I figured I would wait to commit to it until I felt ready. I really liked my job and although games are my passion, I had a great relationship with my coworkers and was really conflicted about the thought of leaving to take the long shot of making a living off games. Well two weeks ago the conflict was resolved for me because due to a downtu...
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• Patch Notes·11 Mar 2026Official

  Version 1.04c

  Really tiny patch this one. A commenter on itch pointed out you can jump way higher if you bind jump to the scroll wheel. I have a little timer for extra coyote time and it wasn't clearing on jumping which meant it could applied multiple times in quick succession. Sorry anyone who was exploiting this to do sick jumps but I don't want it to be as easy as rebinding to a different key!
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• Patch Notes·4 Jan 2026Official

  Version 1.04b

  Steam Auto-Cloud has now been enabled, so saves should sync between devices (even cross-platform).Version 1.04b itself is only for Linux builds as it fixes a major performance problem. I'd gotten the report a few times but had no idea what was going on as I primarily develop on Linux and wasn't having any issues.It turns out that when you're not using a controller, I was accidentally polling evdev for new controllers to detect every single frame. On my Manjaro setup this wasn't a problem but after switching to Arch I forgot to bring over a configuration patch for my keyboard (it's a long story) and so that device would now seemingly time out when polled, making each frame take 20-30ms!!Now the check will only happen if the timestamp on /dev/input indicates there's actually been some sort of device change, or if you manually press the button to detect controllers in options. It's still possible the game might lag for a bit if you plug/unplug a controller while playing but it should just be one little hitch instead of tanking the framerate outright. In the future I'll need to just do the check on another thread so it doesn't block like this.This was also happening on Steam Deck running the native build. While this patch should fix performance on the Deck, I still don't have proper gamepad support set up with it and likely won't anytime soon so for the moment I still recommend sticking with the default Proton configuration.
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