Astromeda September Full Game Development Update!

It's time for the monthly full game update!

Progress has been blooming since the last update, with a new area for the game in its early planning stages, along with some more work on Sandlyn.

One of the coolest things about Astromeda is how every character you meet feels unique, each with their own personality and way of interacting with the world.

I won't show any actual interactions to save it for you in the full game.

Upgrade Shard Balancing

Something you’ve brought up during development is how the game will be balanced around item upgrades.

I am here to reassure you that a lot of thought is going into the values picked for each upgrade shard. When the game gets closer to release, we'll be running plenty of playtests to ensure it's balanced well.

Aaand, I'll be testing the numbers out myself thousands of times.

The point of the upgrade shards is to let you create different playstyles by upgrading your favorite items to the max.

The fun thing about upgrade shards is that they also upgrade an item's unique ability instead of only plain stats. This means that if you like a certain item more than others, you'll be able to lean more into its playstyle using the shards!

However, their purpose isn't making the battles easy, but just more fun and varied.

The combat in the game is easily one of the parts we spend the most time on, making sure each attack is fair but has a difficulty that fits the current enemy and stage of the game.

I will point out that it's also of big importance to me not to make the game too easy.

Playtesting a bunch will help get the most well balanced results we can!

And now...

Some more sneak peeks!

(All art and sneak peeks shown are a work in progress and are subject to change.)

• This is a- ah that'll be spoilers...

• Same here hehe

• Pick up the axe. Or no beans.

• Speaking about BEANS...

We have normal beans.

We have mice beans.

And now we have... Maria beans? what-

Back to development! Gonna really try to make a lot of progress till the next dev update.

So, once more...

While the game is definitely taking more time to make than originally expected, I REALLY think it's going to be worth it!

Thank you for supporting Astromeda, and I will see you on the next development update! ❤️