Hello dear players!
Here's a little update on how things are going.
What has been done in the latest months?
The Early Access, after the latest update, currently stops right before reaching the city of Jeggar on planet Metra. Version 0.9 plans to add the whole chunk of story that takes place on this specific planet. There will be only one additional planet afterward, which will probably be released with version 0.10.
What has been done after the Christmas holidays mainly involved working on building the city of Jeggar. Being a single developer, unfortunately, I had to focus my entire development time on that. Building every single 3D model and placing it in the scene to create the city took almost two months. After that, I proceeded to create all the cutscenes for this section before switching to the next one. I'll place a couple of screenshots at the end of the post.
What's left to do before the release of the update?
In the upcoming part of the game there are a few minigames that still need to be added, along with a couple more levels. Specifically, one of the two levels is an important part of the game for the development of the main character and, despite giving you no more than a few choices, will feature a high number of different combinations of cutscenes, depending on how you built the relationship with your team-mates. So you may skip a couple of parts or encounter a little surprise if you made some specific choices throughout the game. This will unfortunately require time and effort, but is something I really want to add.
Then there will be the usual final boss fight. There won't be many fights overall, but there will be at least two boss fights. You will also be able to use the VR to train if you fled from too many fights and your characters have a low level.
How much time will it take?
Probably quite a lot of time still. I can't make any accurate prediction, but surely not before this summer. Most likely around the end of this year.
Update on Voice Acting.
Unfortunately, a few voice actors have become unreachable or stopped delivering new recordings (I can't blame them, they're currently doing it in their free time). I currently only have two or three active voice actors. This will delay the process even more. It is not guaranteed that there will be voice acting in the final version of the game, because at the moment it is a very long process that is taking even more time than expected. I will probably need to recast a few characters. I will keep you updated on this topic in the future!
Finally... screenshotti.
See ya!
MGUB