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

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

TheAspen

Yet another HUGE announcement!

Demo will be available on Steam next Friday!
Check out the new demo announcement trailer in the meantime!

I hope you'll manage to give it a try!

Cheers,
TheAspen

TheAspen

October's blog post is published!

Go and check out September's progress!

Blog post

Also the Beta (demo) is available on Steam if you have not yet tried it out!
Remember to provide feedback, and wishlist the game if you like it! 🙂

Steam

TheAspen

TheAspen

Hello!

Enfora Star's release is just a bit over a week away!

I think I'll publish November's blog post after the release, and tell more about my thoughts on the project.

However, there is a small update of the development on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3552750/view/592913031862683207?l=english

The grand finale is soon here! 🙂

Meanwhile, check out the new trailer:

Cheers!

TheAspen

TheAspen

Hello!

For two years I have been updating this devlog on this forum, but I think this might be the last.

Enfora Star was released on last Monday 24th!

So I finally got from here:

To here:

I’ll tell more about the release week feelings and wrap up the project on my blog:
https://www.theaspen.blog/posts/23/

Big thanks to all who supported me here on this journey! I’ll of course going to visit here by time to time, and maybe tell about my future projects too! 😉

If you like retro-ish space defender shoot’em ups – check out Enfora Star on Steam!

Thank you, and take care!

TheAspen

xyz

TheAspen Congratulations on finishing and releasing the game! It's not an easy feat.

Time to start planning the sequel 😉

MikeCL

TheAspen Big congrats! And really cool of you to share your thoughts and journey on your blog, just had a read. Btw, maybe it's just me, but the images, besides the two first ones, are broken, only shows white squares for me.

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