Enfora Star (Released) - Welcome to read the project's devlog

TheAspen

MikeCL
Thanks for the comment!

That hexagon really seems to divide people. You are not the first one who said it is a bit distracting. Maybe I could add more opacity to it and see how it plays then. The hexagon is also optional, so you can disable it from settings if you do not like it.

I also think the asteroids are too static right now. Let's see how it works out if I add more speed to the parallax layer.

TheAspen

Yo!

More updates of Alpha! See the newest blog post here:
https://www.theaspen.blog/posts/15/

Nevertheless, the devlog almost has a birthday! One year ago I published the very first post. Some thoughts about that in the blog too!

Thanks!

TheAspen

TheAspen

Hi once again!

Yet another blog post regarding the upcoming Alpha gametest! Nothing huge this time, but some thoughts about the Steam and feature progress list.

Link to the post: https://www.theaspen.blog/posts/16/

Until next time!

TheAspen

TheAspen

Yo! A huge announcement!

Steam pages are finally here:

Go check it out and give your opinion!

Back in 2024, I would never believe this day could actually come.
Playable Alpha is under review by Steam, so it should be there in a couple of days.

TheAspen

TheAspen

The Alpha Gametest is now live!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3552750/view/501694389554249894?l=english

Go and give it a shot! You can also provide feedback here if you want! 🙂

TheAspen

MikeCL

Nice! Just tried it! Landed on a score of 420. Game feels super smooth 👍

Some feedback.

Would be nice with some background music just to get into the mood a bit more.
The big rocks in the background feel a bit static, perhaps make them move a bit more with the paralax. Then you have some pretty good depth. Like the stars/suns in the far background, the rocks closer, then the smaller rocks even closer etc.
The smaller sun to the left feels low resolution compared to the rest.
Feels a bit strange to need to manually trigger next wave. Perhaps just start next wave automatically to keep the pace up.
I have a superwide monitor, feels like the background is stretched.

TheAspen

MikeCL

Nice to hear that you give this a shot! 🙂

Background music was on the list, but I had not enough time to finish that so I had to cut it out from the Alpha. Overall, it isn't that crucial for the game testing. But I agree, it definitely needs some music on the background.
Good to hear that background get stretched with superwide monitors, I think I need to do some resolution settings or such.

Thanks for the feedback! Good points there! 🙂

kuligs2

where the penguin?

Also, in your company web page it sounds like the company consist of many people team.. how many people worked on this project?

TheAspen

kuligs2
This works on Linux. I have used Manjaro for the development by time to time, so the overall support for Linux should be a relative easy to achieve. But, because this was (and still is) my very first game on Steam, I decided to go with ease and officially support only Windows, at least for the start. 😉

This is a solo-development process, so only I have worked on with this. It just sounded funny to use "Me" instead of "We" on the company's homepage.

TheAspen

Hi all!

I just published a new blog post!

Some thoughts about the Steam pages and such, and of course some future plans! 🙂

Remember to test the game on Steam if you have not already!

TheAspen

TheAspen

Yo! A new devlog post is published on my blog!
Check out the new enemies there!

Gametest is still ongoing on Steam, so feel free to try out Enfora Star!
And of course, if you have already joined the game test, go and give it another try ! 🙂

On X and Bluesky you can find related content too!

Cheers!
TheAspen

Toxe

TheAspen That has a nice look.

TheAspen

Hello!

And once again there is a new blog post on my devlog!

https://www.theaspen.blog/posts/19/

There are some information of Steam Achievements and new enemy droids!

Here is something for preview:

Also check my Youtube channel for gameplay clips:

Cheers!
TheAspen

TheAspen

Hello!

A new blog post has been published!

Check out the new gameplay updates! You can now upgrade your weapon’s damage and collect armor. Also, the enemies can attack from multiple directions.

Cheers, until next time!

TheAspen

TheAspen

Yo!

Once again, a new blogpost has been published!

Introducing AI allies and a new HUD/UI!

Because of the upcoming beta, I will not publish a blog post next month (September).
I’ll focus fully on the beta build and getting things ready.

Thanks, until next time!

TheAspen

xyz

TheAspen Image links in the blogpost appear to be broken.

ArDanZ11

TheAspen Allies! I like that idea.

TheAspen

xyz

They seems to work fine with Chrome and Edge browsers at least. Have you tried to remove history/application data from your browser and then refresh?

Let me know if the problem continues.

EDIT: I noticed the larger pictures paths were incorrected. So I re-deployed the pages and they seems to work now.

xyz

TheAspen Works fine now. The game is shaping up really nicely.

TheAspen

Heya!

A couple of days ago, I published the announcement trailer.

The project is getting ready for its release. 🙂

TheAspen

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