State of the Game: Down to Business (Patreon)

Evening all, it's new update time! v0.19.0 is now up on the usual public page, and v0.20.0 is now available for patrons!

Content-wise, this update features two more scenes to kick off new Happee Co plotlines in the Joi system. I'm also halfway through another scene in the 'Leader' plotline, which I'll be finishing off for the next update. I did take a break from writing for a bit though to add in a new Quality-of-Life improvement - new scene map markers! As you'll see in the patch notes, there's a few rules for when a scene marker will appear or not. I'll note that I haven't been able to personally test every scene in the game or even close, so if you notice a map marker when there shouldn't be one, or there isn't one when there should be, feel free to let me know with a bug report.

For the next update, aside from the in-progress Happee scene, I just today got portrait art assets for one of our new Schen characters, so you can expect that to go in soon. We may be due for another HD Art Pack update this month, as well. Once that's done though I'm thinking of returning to the Harians - the main plotlines for them are nearly done, so it may be good to wrap it up so that I can start on the process for 'completing' a system. This is a game of espionage, not conquest, so you won't exactly be taking over the star system, but you can expect new goodies to be unlocked when that happens.

I'll let you know how far I get in the next update, until then, the patch notes are below and game links will follow. Thanks for playing!

v0.20.0 Change Log

Game Functions:

• Scene Alert markers have been added to System and Galaxy Maps:

  • Markers will appear next to a System Map location if a new scene in an ongoing plotline is available at that location.

  • Markers will appear next to a System location on the Galaxy Map if any location in that system has an available scene.

  • Markers will not appear for: tutorial scenes, plotlines which have not yet been started, or one-off repeatable scenes.

Scene Content:

• Happee Civilian scene added to Megastructure Mall. Added to replay mode.

• First Happee Leader scene added to Mining Platform, unlocked after the first Specialist scene. Added to replay mode.

Art Content:

• None

Codex Entries:

• None

Bug Fixes:

• Background image on the first Happee Specialist scene corrected to the Mall background.

Known Issues:

• None