Playable Demo Announcement + Updated Dev Path

Hello everyone!, as most of you already know, the KS campaign wasn't successful regarding reaching the funding goal, but we think it was successful in reaching hundreds of new guys and gals whom never have heard about Initiative and now are following its development, helping with ideas and encouraging us to move on with it. That's very important for us and we are really thankful with all of you. Because we didn't get any funds from KS and we'll continue to self-fund the game, we've been forced to review the announced development path. We think we can achieve the original release dates (Alpha end of 1Q 2018, Beta end of 2Q and game release on the 4Q 2018) by simplifying or reducing some graphic details, while keeping most of the mechanics intact or even enhanced with some of the feedback received. This last month, beside a few days off to recover energy, we've been working full time to update the Game Design Document (GDD) while moving forward with code (the only thing we are doing 100% in-house). The idea is, besides the aforementioned Alpha and Beta tests, to have an internal playable demo with all of the core mechanics ready (from start to launch of the first Space Station module) before the end of the year if possible or in January 2018 at most, aiming for two goals: to try the "Fun" of the game with some of the most enthusiastic followers and start getting coverage by quite a lot streamers and youtubers already interested on Initiative. Player's selection for the first playable demo will be announced shortly. Once that demo is finished we will also analyze the possibility of a new crowdsourcing campaign, either on KS, Fig or on our own website. Soon we will start sharing again weekly screenshots showing the changes to all of the game screens along an explanation of the new and improved features and mechanics. We will also link every new code repository push to our Discord "Development" channel so you can keep track on the development status as we develop. Here is the link to the Initiative's Discord server: https://discord.gg/SyckUR3. Join us for daily chats about the game or anything related to space. There are some great guys there with a lot of knowledge eager to share it. Again thanks to all of you for the amazing support and keep tuned! Nick and Sebastian