Developer posts and news about this game.
So this has been a looong time coming, but ASTRALODE's soundtrack is finally out! Some new music has joined the party and an update's gone live to reflect that, making for a total of 6 tunes to swap between at your starmining leisure in this latest build. In addition to checking
Hey there! It's been an awfully long time since this thing's been updated. There are a number of tweaks and changes I've been sitting on for an eternity, some small, some pretty big. They go a little like: Ore upgrading is now significantly more forgiving! Bombs can be safely det
Here's another small patch of mostly minor fixes and tweaks: top-to-bottom (and vice-versa) looping added to navigation of the pause menu frequency of rare ore spawns increased an input bug where use of an XBOX controller (360 + XB1) would set the deadzone to a level that made it
Just a quick patch here to tidy up a handful of things: menu transitions have been sped up floating text, such as during the tutorial, can now be skipped through quicker, so jamming the confirm button will speed through lines of text faster a bug where menu item descriptions in t
Alright, ASTRALODE Freeminers is live! Thanks for taking a look at this asteroid mining puzzle thing, hope you have a bit of fun harvesting ores and generally pummeling the heck out of wild space rocks :D There are inevitably going to be a number of minor bugs and rough edges to
Hello! In this dev update, I'll be going into the details of each of the 10 standard power-ups available in ASTRALODE :) As covered in update #4, power-ups are earned by either harvesting ore or getting long (10+) chains, both of which contribute to your p-meter. Fill the p-meter
Hello! So in this dev update, I'll quickly run through ASTRALODE's chain scoring system and power-up cycle. The two of these are quite closely linked, so let's get into it :) During Arcade mode, the green clock-lookin' thing hanging in space to the right of your mining vessel is
Hello! So I thought it might be useful to go a little into how ore upgrading works in ASTRALODE. It's a major part of playing like a pro in Arcade mode, and anyone who wants to maximize their score is going to want to upgrade as much ore as they can :) There are 4 grades of stand
Hey! Just wanted to quickly run through a little of how ASTRALODE's Arcade mode works, as it's nice to have a more detailed written description of what's going on in screenshots and video :) So an Arcade run starts by selecting your copilot from among those you've unlocked. Only
Hello! Thanks for checking out ASTRALODE Freeminers :) This thing's getting close to release ready, and you might have noted on the store page, the planned launch for ASTRALODE Freeminers is coming up quick. That May 28th release may end up getting pushed back just a smidge, mayb