Astra - Monthly Update (September 2024)

Hello Patrons,

Hope everyone had a great weekend! It is time for the monthly update. :^)

Please note that the update will be fairly light as the work being done is mostly backend and process-heavy (not particularly "shareable" like post-production on voice over line for instance).

I also urge you to please take a look at this post and consider the idea of swapping to a free membership:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/important-update-111055840

I did get a couple of messages regarding access to the full game on release if membership is changed to free. For this, even if you go free, I will provide ample notice beforehand to make sure you don't miss out when the time comes!

Now let's get back to our regular scheduled update!

WRITING

There was 2 major route blockers identified as bugs that we are taking a look into. Once these are fixed we'll be making a new build so people can actually finish the Vaela and Luna routes respectively. Iris route works to the end!

CHARACTER ART

Character art is all wrapped up for now! We don't foresee any additional work being added but that may change based on feedback. [SAME NOTE AS LAST MONTH]

BACKGROUND ART

Backgrounds are completed! We'll keep an eye out if there is any scenes that could benefit from a dedicated artwork.

ANIMATION

We are still working on the UI upgrade however the UX designer that we are working with had some personal matters come up in September. They will be getting back into it for October and we'll share things as it gets completed!

PROGRAMMING

As you know, we ran into a major setback last month regarding backend system. We got it taken care of for the most part and are in the testing phase to make sure nothing sneaky is happening. If all continues to be good, that will be all the functionality needed (voice being what threw us for a loop) which also means we shouldn't have to worry about any other engine-related upgrades.

AUDIO

The ED track just finished up vocals and Eric is putting the track together. We are also doing 2 specific epilogue tracks as well so there is a total of 3 new musical pieces incoming! Will share as it completes.

VOICE

2500+ voice lines down, another 7500 to go. I ended up getting pre-occupied with fixing the engine so things did slow down a bit however I should be able to get back into a nice groove assuming nothing else throws a wrench (which I don't foresee so far! Fingers crossed and hopefully I didn't jinx it lol).

That is all the updates for now! As always, please feel free to share your thoughts below.

Thanks again for your continued support. :^)

- Dishu