Hello Cosmorists!
This is planned to be monthly updates about the development of Cosmorists, roadmaps, announcements, and creations made by the community!
October was an eventful month for Cosmorists! It started with daily launch countdown videos on YouTube, which teased something new added to the game until launching into early access on the 7th, and has received 2 medium-sized content updates in that single month! There was a peak of 4 concurrent players a few days after launch, and a small community has formed around my game, which is great to see :D
Now let's get into the announcements!
The first major update!
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I'm pleased to announce that work has just started on the first major update to the game, v 0.1!
It's planned to take 2 months instead of 1 week for v 0.0.2, and will likely come out sometime in January 2025. If you've read the patch notes for v 0.0.2.1, I mentioned that I'm working on another update, and this is the update that I'm referring to.
A teaser so far
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The surface of Tierra seemed a little stale, as none of the trees were animated, that is until now! In this update, trees can now sway in the wind, and some will drop their leaves, and those leaves will move in the wind! Here's a rather relaxing YouTube video that teases the new tree animations and leaves in 4 different forested biomes!
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Here's what to expect with the current roadmap so far, mainly focused on building up to the first major update to the game!
November
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This month in terms of updates will consist of only bug fixes reported by the community, but I will occasionally post video teasers on YouTube of what's to come. At the end of the month, another Latest in Cosmorists will be posted to Steam.
The update trailer
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I recently got to work on the update immediately after v 0.0.2.1 a week ago, and have yet to do a trailer at this stage.
It's planned to be about 1 minute long highlighting the new content and features, and keeping other elements of the update a mystery until it comes out, and revealed in the changelog!
v 0.0.3
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This is planned to be a small content update to release a few weeks before Christmas to add some Christmas-themed content like I did for Halloween this year, but also extra content that teases v 0.1. Stay tuned for this in-between update!
The capsule art
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The game mainly uses the same screenshot of a base that I made for the game's capsule art. Right before the update launches, illustration art will replace the screenshot.
Currently, the new art is a work in progress, and here's the progress of what I've made so far after around 5 hours of working on it on and off! Note that the art is scaled down 2x.
The overall style of the art is planned to contain outlines, more glossy textures for nearby subjects, blurring the background slightly to put the foreground in focus, and much more detail than what's currently being shown. The progress will be revealed again for next month!
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If you didn't know, Halloween is currently spooking the land (or should I say solar system?) of Cosmorists! Take advantage of the small amount of content available while you can until November 1st! Slay some spiders in Tierra's arachnid caves, or mine some pumpkins in Temperate forests to gather Jack O' Lanterns to decorate your base!
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Although the community around Cosmorists is small, it still wouldn't be the same game without the feedback received since launch! I'm still eager to listen to feedback or criticism of the game you might have, and you can take part in shaping v 0.1 once it releases in January 2025! With that out of the way, here are some cool creations made by the community!
How it works
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Each time I do Latest in Cosmorists, community made content will be shown here, showing creations such as base screenshots, fanart, memes, and in-game art with 8 available slots. If you make something in one of the mentioned categories on Steam, there's a chance for your creation to be shown off in one of the slots with credit, and a link to it! If you don't want your creation to be featured here, tell me about it, and I'll remove it!
Creations
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Nothing was shared this month as of the 28th, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to see before this!
Fanart
Someone from the community in the alpha days of Cosmorists, MJgamer1234, made this cool fanart of a Cosmorist a little over a year ago in October 2023, the first in the game's history! Check it out!
Due to a lack of other community made content from either this month, or before in one of the mentioned categories, the rest of the slots are empty.
Even though 7 of the 8 slots were empty this month, this is to be expected. Assuming the game doesn't blow up in popularity next month, competition for these 8 slots will be very low! If you wish to be featured here in one of these slots, share your cool creation on Steam for the community to see :)
Until then, see you for next month's Latest in Cosmorists!