- Winter Sale & Yearly Recap - 19 December 2024
As the end of 2024 is approaching, it's been a tradition to write a short wrap-up of what has happened in Overhead Games. ePic Character Generator Sale But first thing first, I want to say thank you to all of you who have been part of ePic Character Generator's journey in 2024, marking 10 years of generating awesome character images together. We wouldn't be anywhere without you. To celebrate this year's holiday season, we are offering all packs and bundles at 50% off between 19 December and 2 January, so make sure to take advantage of this deal while it lasts! Temporal Shore progress This year started strongly with lots of work put into Temporal Shore. While we had most design decisions figured out by the end of last year, we still had a good amount of discussion going on. By spring, we managed to implement a new layout and reshoot the trailer & screenshots so we could update the store…
- Announcing our new game: Balanced - 18 October 2024
Hello everyone, We’d like to introduce our new game to you. Balanced is a cozy deckbuilder about balancing the forces of nature: sit back, relax, and enjoy this zen game of life and harmony. How long can you keep the scale Balanced? To get a quick glimpse of what the game is about, watch the announcement trailer below. While the game is still in development, you can already play the demo on Steam right now! We understand that the game won't be everyone's cup of tea, but if you are into cozy, relaxing math games, we’d love to hear how you liked it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/689760/Balanced
- Buy 1, get 1 free! - 27 June 2024
The Summer has finally arrived, and so has our Summer Sale! With the heat, comes the desire to either chill outside under the cozy shadows or to spend some more time inside, enjoying the cooler temperature. Either way, the time is still the best, to team with friends & family on epic role-playing nights! To help engage in your adventures, we are hosting a Summer Sale between 27 June and 11 July, offering our BIGGEST discount to date, a whopping 50% off on most of our packs and bundles. Buy 1, get 1 free! https://store.steampowered.com/app/408930 The work on Temporal Shore is still going strong. We have finalized a good bunch of cards (around 400 so far, but still growing) that we intend to feature in our initial release, and are doing our best to enhance the current visuals to better match the intended feel of the game. We expect to showcase this with new screenshots, a trailer, and a p…
- Spring Sale has Started! - 14 March 2024
To the lovely people who read this: Spring is finally around for us who live in the northern hemisphere! This means the weather is starting to warm up, and after many dark months spent inside, we can finally go out to touch some grass! However, staying inside still has its benefits, as we can still role-play, write, or create our own games. In all of which ePic Character Generator can be a great aid! So dusting off your wishlists and snagging a few of our packages that hang in there at a 35% discount sounds like the best deal you will get in March! On a slightly related note, it's been a year since we announced our new game, Temporal Shore (we know, time flies!). After hitting this milestone we felt it was needed to polish up our Steam page a bit and showcase all the new systems and mechanics we've added to the game during this period. So if you like roguelike deckbuiling and survival s…
- Winter sale & 2023 Recap - 21 December 2023
As the holiday season approaches and the end of the year draws near, we at Overhead Games are excited to announce our Winter Sale! From 21 December to 4 January, most of our packs and bundles will be available at a whopping 35% discount. This is the perfect opportunity to stock up on all the character-creation resources you need to bring your storytelling to life! This year was difficult for ePic Character Generator. With the sudden spread of generative AI platforms, usage of the software has declined compared to previous years. While we wait and see where this new technology goes, we decided to focus our time on other projects, and spent most of the year working on a new game, Temporal Shore! I just posted a detailed wrap-up of how the game started as a simple idea, what were the main challenges I faced early, and what changes I've made so far, resulting in the pieces finally falling i…
- Summer sale begins with our BIGGEST discount to date! - 29 June 2023
The Summer has finally arrived, and so has our Summer Sale! With the heat, comes the desire to either chill outside under the cozy shadows or to spend some more time inside, enjoying the cooler temperature. Either way, the time is still the best, to team with friends & family on epic role-playing nights! To help engage in your adventures, we are hosting a Summer Sale between 29 June and 13 July, offering our BIGGEST discount to date, a whopping 35% off on most of our packs and bundles. Taking advantage of any of the Season Bundle offers meaning most contained packs can now be snagged at almost half price! A bargain if you’ve been waiting to get them for a while. https://store.steampowered.com/app/408930 In the background, we’ve also been hard at work to bring Temporal Shore to life as a unique and exciting experience. A 3D artist also joined our team to realize a fully interactive map w…
- Spring Sale begins + Postwork tips & tricks - 16 March 2023
Today we are starting our first-ever Spring Sale, which will run until the 23rd of March. As usual, most of our packs and bundles are offered at a 25% discount. If you only recently discovered the software coming from one of our new platforms, this is the perfect opportunity to expand your collection! Melissa K. Vassar-Belloso has been an active member of our community for a long-time, especially since we launched our discord server. Recently she published an excellent guide on how to do postwork on the characters to make the most of what they offer! If you are interested in taking your avatars to the next level, make sure to check out her guide! It's been a week since we announced Temporal Shore, a unique blend of roguelike deckbuilding and survival strategy where you lead a team on a mysterious island trapped in a time loop. This is a new game we've been working on recently, and the r…
- Winter Sale + 2022 Recap - 22 December 2022
As the holiday season approaches and the end of the year draws near, we at Overhead Games are excited to announce our Winter Sale! From 22 December to 5 January, most of our packs and bundles will be available at a whopping 25% discount. This is the perfect opportunity to stock up on all the character-creation resources you need to bring your storytelling to life. This year has been a busy one for us, finally marking the release of our software on all major platforms and operating systems, including the App Store for both Mac OS and iOS. The process of porting our software to the App Store was no small feat, but we were determined to make it happen. We worked tirelessly to ensure that everything was up to Apple's strict standards and that the user experience was seamless. It was a lot of hard work, but we're confident that it will be worth it for our users. We're also excited to announc…
- Autumn Sale kick off + iOS version now available - 22 November 2022
We are super happy to announce that after more than a year of development, ePic Character Generator is finally available in the App Store for iOS devices! If you've been waiting for support for iPhones and iPads, now the wait is finally over and you can get to enjoy generating characters on your Apple devices, using all the packages purchased on Steam! While we expect most of the functionalities to work correctly, you might encounter bugs or crashes that we would love to fix. So if this is the case, please let us know, so we can look into the issue and fix it ASAP! Also, starting today, we are holding our annual Autumn Sale lasting until 29 November. If you missed out on our Halloween Sale, you can now grab most of our packs and bundles for a 25% discount! We have also recently celebrated crossing 1000 reviews on Steam, with an 83% Positive rating! We are very pleased to see so many peo…
- Join our Halloween sale, and loot the Halloween pack for free! - 24 October 2022
It's that time of the year again, spookiness revolves around every corner! By taking part in our Halloween Sale, starting today until the 31 of October, you will automatically get a 25% discount on most packages and bundles on all platforms! As a gift of our gratitude for the long-time support, we'll add the Season #2: Female Halloween pack to each account that holds at least one pack at the end of the sale. So if you don't already have the Halloween pack and have been waiting for an opportunity to purchase your very first pack, now would be the best time to do so! All packs will be credited to accounts after the sale is finished. https://store.steampowered.com/app/488993/ePic_Character_Generator__Season_2_Female_Halloween/ By registering an account you get access to your Profile page, where you can complete Achievements and unlock additional packs for free: https://overheadgames.com/ep…
- Summer Sale 2022 - 23 June 2022
The Summer has finally arrived, and with the heat, comes the desire to either chill outside under the cozy shadows or to spend some more time inside, enjoying the cooler temperature. Either way, the time is still the best, as always, to team with friends & family on epic role-playing nights! To help engage in your adventures, we are hosting a Summer Sale between 23 June and 7 July, offering a whopping 25% discount on most of our packs and bundles. Taking advantage of any of the Season Bundle offers meaning most contained packs can now be snagged at almost half price! A bargain if you've been waiting to get them for a while. In other news, I've personally been mad busy in the past few months, even to an extent where I was unable to host our yearly Birthday celebration! To make up for this unfortunate event, a free pack has just been sent out to all newsletter subscribers! So head into yo…
- Mac version is now available! - 27 January 2022
We are happy to announce that after several months of hard work, we’ve finally reached a state where we can release the Mac version of ePic Character Generator! We’ve been getting messages about a Mac version for years, but we never were at a stage where we could’ve considered porting it, so being able to roll it out now makes me really happy! A huge thanks to arby for doing the heavy-lifting of porting the software and David for providing us constant feedback on the builds so we could fix issues early and hopefully provide a smooth experience! We don’t expect the port to be perfect, so if you face any issues, make sure to let us know so we can look into it! If you’ve been waiting for the Mac version for a while, you can now get your hands on the software! https://store.steampowered.com/app/408930 In order to take advantage of Steam's data-sharing system, I had to reconfigure the depots…
- Winter sale + 2021 Overview - 22 December 2021
Christmas is approaching fast this year, so as usual, we are hosting a Winter Sale during the next two weeks, where most of our packs and bundles are available at a 25% discount. This is the first time the Female Rider is available on sale, so if you wanted to create your very own riders for a while, now could be the time to do it! As the year-end is also approaching, I'll be taking some time to recap what has happened at Overhead Games this year, and a small glimpse on what's coming in 2022. Discord: It's been exactly a year ago when we launched our official discord server! Right now we have a bit over 600 members on the server, and it is a great honor to have all who are around there! While the public rooms are mostly quiet, we have a lot of chatter in our team areas where we work on our new project, as well as having some convos in our early access channel. I believe once we can shar…
- Autumn sale is here! - 24 November 2021
As autumn has returned, so is the time to start staying more inside and dust down our favorite games again. Not much has changed since last year though, as we are still mostly enjoy playing digitally, instead of taking part in big gatherings around huge tables. To spice up any role-playing games with exciting characters, we're hosting our Autumn Sale between 24 November and 1 December. During this period, most of our packs and bundles will be at a 25% discount. Combining this offer with any of the Pro bundles will reduce the overall price of the packages a lot, so if you've been on the fence about letting your creativity flow, this might be the perfect opportunity to unlock endless character streams in your games or projects! We are also hard at work on porting ePic Character Generator to MacOS and iOS! We've been making great progress lately, and we are about to share an early build fo…
- Join our Halloween sale, and loot the Halloween pack for free! - 28 October 2021
It's that time of the year again, spookiness revolves around every corner! By taking part in our Halloween Sale, starting from today until the 1 of November, you will automatically get a 25% discount on most packages and bundles on all platforms! As a gift of our gratitude for the long-time support, we'll add the Season #2: Female Halloween pack to each account that holds at least one pack at the end of the sale. So if you don't already have the Halloween pack and have been waiting for an opportunity to purchase your very first pack, now would be the best time to do so! All packs will be credited to accounts after the sale is finished. https://store.steampowered.com/app/488993/ePic_Character_Generator__Season_2_Female_Halloween/ By registering an account you get access to your Profile page, where you can complete Achievements and unlock additional packs for free. Claim your first free p…
- Digital Tabletop Festival Sale & Season #3 Bundle is here! - 21 October 2021
We are super happy to announce that the Digital Tabletop Festival returns this year! Spice up your games and stories with avatars created with ePic Character Generator! Between 21 and 25 October, most of our packs and bundles are available at a 25% discount! We always found it important to make it as easy as possible to both new users as well as veterans to get the most out of our software. Since we kicked off Season #3, we managed to collaborate with several artists to create packs in various styles and themes, and we felt it's now time to also combine them in a Bundle! So in case, you were still on the sidelines of getting any of the newer packages, grabbing them at a discount could be a good idea right now! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/20440/Season_3_Pro_Bundle/ When ePic Character Generator originally launched in 2013, it was only available as a Standalone build for Windows…
- Summer sale is here - TGT is looking for streamers! - 24 June 2021
The summer has returned, so did our Summer Sale! During the next two weeks, between 24 June and 8 July, most of our packs and bundles are on a 25% discount. This is the first time that the PSD Exporter is included in a sale, so if you've been on the sidelines waiting to unlock this really cool feature, this could be the perfect opportunity to grab it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/781540/ePic_Character_Generator__Psd_Exporter/ If you are on our discord, you already knew about the fundraiser held by The Games Tavern last month, which resulted in collecting $8.215, which translates into 80.000 meals for hungry kids! They did a stellar job in delivering 15 different shows, each lasting for at least 3 hours. Now as you can imagine, running these shows requires a good amount of planning, and of course, the whole thing is built around the people, and without them, it wouldn't be possible…
- 🎉🎂 Female Rider is here + 7th Birthday Sale started! - 29 March 2021
In March 2014, ePic Character Generator has been released, and since that time, it helped thousands of users creating their characters to visualize their role-playing sessions, illustrate their worlds and stories, and provide assets for their adventure, card, and board games. To celebrate the 7th birthday of the software, we're offering a 25% discount on all our packages for the next 7 days. What's more, we wanted to thank everyone for showing support in the past years, and prepared a gift! We sent out a unique link in our Newsletter to everyone, which can be used to claim any of our packs for free! If you haven't received your link, make sure to check your Spam folder, look at your Subscriptions panel in your Account details and make sure you are opted-in to receive news from us, and if all else fails, reach out by e-mail so we can see what might went wrong! We are also happy to introd…
- 🐲Lunar New Year Sale has started + unlock a free pack with discord! - 11 February 2021
We are excited to announce that between 11 - 15 February, we are celebrating the Lunar New Year, and hosting a sale where most of our packs and bundles are available for a 25% discount! This time of the year isn't the most exciting part for most of us, so passing time by some character creation could always be an exciting alternative. We also added a new Achievement in the Profile section. Anyone who joins our Discord server can claim an additional pack of their choice for free! We already crossed 100 members since we launched our server right before Christmas, and we had some good chatter with a few active participants. You can also interact with us directly, talk about anything you'd want, or we can play some games together. The free packs are just a bonus. ;) We hope to meet you there too!
- Winter Sale + 2020 Recap - 22 December 2020
Christmas is around the corner, and as usual, we'll be holding our Winter Sale between 22 December and 5 January. During this period most of our packs and bundles will be available at a 25% discount. As you probably know, the autumn period has frequent sales, but once the new year begins, there usually isn't anything for a while. So if you've been tempted to bag a few packs to play with later, maybe thinking ahead and grabbing them now on a discount would be the best choice for a while. This year was quite extraordinary for all of us, so I wanted to look back and take some time to walk through what happened in the past 12 months at Overhead Games. January has been kicked off with the creation of a new website. The other site was built using older technology and our needs eventually grow over its limitations. A lot of time was spent on building the current, since everything was needed to…
