ASTRALODE Freeminers Released! (v0.90 patch notes + roadmap)

Alright, ASTRALODE Freeminers is live! Thanks for taking a look at this asteroid mining puzzle thing, hope you have a bit of fun harvesting ores and generally pummeling the heck out of wild space rocks :D

There are inevitably going to be a number of minor bugs and rough edges to smooth out which I'll be patching up as the week goes on, so please do report anything you find on the forums over here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1273010/discussions/0/2523653167134915687/.

As it stands right now, Freeminers is a stable and self-contained 1/3rd chunk of the full ASTRALODE, but launching as v0.90 leaves a bit of room to grow. Plus, there are a number of cool features in the pipeline for this standalone free version! :)

I've decided to add the rest of the Azimuth Starminers to the roster available in Freeminers, building onto the opening 3-piece of Griff, Lorelei and Tentax. Each of the locked copilots will require certain conditions to be met in order to be unlocked, which you'll be able to sleuth out by visiting the Mellodeck and chatting with the crew.

The Mellodeck is part of Azimuth HQ along with the Garage and Data-Dex, that whole wing of the main menu will become available in future updates. Your $core is being saved along with the rest of your player profile right now in Freeminers, though, so when the Garage is ready to be opened, you'll have cash to spend.

Also, once I've gotten all of ASTRALODE full's achievements planned out, I'll be adding Steam achievements to Freeminers that sync up with everything involving arcade mode. Oh yeah, and the game's soundtrack will be available on the store here hopefully by the end of the week!

Anyhow, cheers for having a peek at ASTRALODE Freeminers! Thanks for playing, and feel free to join this freshly-created Discord if you're into it :) https://discord.gg/EQRNHsq

- Drixxel