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Flight of the Athena V1.1 live - Achievements are in!
This V1.1 update to Flight of the Athena adds Steam achievements to the game - 9 campaign achievements have been added, and can be earned from various boss victories and game wins. A small note: The Ultra 1CC Omega achi…
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Going Rogue, achievements incoming in V1.1
Flight of the Athena is currently 50% off as part of the Going Rogue: A Festival of Persistence event - being a fan of roguelikes / roguelites, I will definitely be having a good look through what's there! I'm also work…
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Flight of the Athena V1.05
V1.05 is the first update for Flight of the Athena post release - it contains a few updates based on player feedback, as well as a new Key Event (Orbital Strike). Patch details below: Flight of the Athena V1.05 Changelo…
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Flight of the Athena, Full Release
Flight of the Athena, a twin-stick shooter + roguelite has left Early Access today! It has been a pretty tricky dev journey trying to meld together shmup & roguelite elements; I'll put together a dev retrospective cover…
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Flight of the Athena, V1.0
This is the V1.0 build for Flight of the Athena, in readiness for leaving Early Access tomorrow! Only a few minor changes so as not to risk breaking anything before launch, but contains: Level updates - Some of the leve…
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Flight of the Athena, V0.95
This update has revamped the campaign map - instead of a static image, it now uses the node grid to draw the region, the route the player takes, the area mission being targeted, etc. The demo has also been brought inlin…
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Minor patch update (V0.91)
Location descriptors - these have been added to the campaign map describing what happens at node locations (when the location POI is known). Takes some of the opacity out, allows for better route planning. Updated the c…
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Flight of the Athena V0.9 is now live in Early Access
The latest build for Flight of the Athena is now live - it brings a host of quality of life updates, as well as some additional content with the additional Onslaught and Airstrike events. Full changelog below: Flight of…
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New release for Flight of the Athena (V0.8) - now playable from start to finish!
This release is a significant milestone for Flight of the Athena - final chapter + final boss content has been added, so the game is now playable all the way through! V0.8 brings: -Final boss integration - The final bos…
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Flight of the Athena release date, new Early Access version
The full release out of Early Access for Flight of the Athena now has a date - October 26th, 2021. The major remaining components to go in are the final Act and the final boss, but both are progressing nicely. The remai…
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New Early Access build for Flight of the Athena is out now (V0.65)
This mid-sized update has been mainly focused on fixes and quality of life, but all are helping to bring the game close to V1.0. The title and logo updates have been on the todo list for a while, and the ability of enem…
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Homing missiles & more - new Early Access build (V0.62) for Flight of the Athena
One of the main appeals of building a shmup + roguelite hybrid is the ability to add new content, be it weapons, craft, events etc, and "feed" it into the procedural generation engine, where it can be incorporated into…
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Flight of the Athena V0.6 Early Access is now live!
The V0.6 Update for Flight of the Athena is now live! This is a fairly substantial update over the previous version - key updates include: Act IV content - Campaigns can now be generated up to the penultimate act, bring…
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Flight of the Athena V0.6, hitting Early Access mid-August
The next version of Flight of the Athena, V0.6, will go into Early Access in a couple of weeks, including content generation up to Act 4, some balance updates and fixes also. The enemy formations and attacks at this sta…
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Flight of the Athena V0.5, now out in Early Access
Flight of the Athena V0.5 is now out in Early Access! The biggest addition with this update is scoring; harder difficulties and game modes both increase the campaign score multiplier. So a brutal difficulty rogue run ha…
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Flight of the Athena V0.48 Early Access is out!
Flight of the Athena V0.48 has been released! Originally these changes were being saved for a more substantial update with V0.5, but there is some good stuff that has gone in so it made sense to get it out. The change l…
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