12/30 Status Update

This week I made a good amount of progress on AtMoF 1.2 and made some big strides in the Netoria Tactics Steam version, let's talk about it.

The new AtMoF update is almost done I'd say, the most time consuming thing left is the voice acting. This one is kind of complex because BFF has both a male and a female version. So I'll need to hire two voice actors and kind of divvy things between them. But I plan to get voice actors hired next week. The writing is pretty much done and I think the game-play is in a good place. It took lots of changes and tweaks to make Sanity feel right but I it's pretty close now. So 1.2 is definitely coming next month, hopefully earlier rather than later.

I think her scenes turned out pretty well. Very wholesome. Sometimes the corrupting force drives you down a spiral of decadence and identity loss, sometimes it turns you into a girl and that turns out to be pretty great. 

This next image is probably the smallest I've ever shared in one of these updates, but a pretty cool one nonetheless.

Netoria Tactics is on the Steam servers and downloadable! You need a key of course and this version is the same as the epilogues update, but it's still a cool step. The Steam launcher really is quite convenient for both the developer and the end user. Being able to upload patches whenever that get auto-downloaded is great. There's always lots of little bugs that have to wait a whole version to be fixed because I don't want to bother creating and uploading an entire new build of the game to fix it.

I talked before about how there's going to be a new title screen for the Steam version. It's also going to be the main piece of marketing art and I just got the sketch in. Let's take a look.

Pretty epic, huh? I think this is going to look great once finished. It'll look so good that it'll make the actual in-game graphics look like shit. But hey, that's marketing for you. 

Since this is the last update of the year, let's have a little recap of what happened in 2023 at Apollo Seven Games:

• There were two games released, Netoria Tactics and At the Mountains of Friendship.
• Four games updated, the above two as well as Naked Ambition and Futa Oasis. 
• And one game finished, Netoria Tactics. Can we call Futa Oasis finished as well? Probably not, it really needs that endings update.

I think it was a pretty productive year. Thanks for sticking by me if you've been around for a while, and thanks for joining if this was your first year of supporting me. There's a lot more to come in 2024. As always, thank you for your continued support.