Celebrating narrative & art in games! 🎨📚
Hello scarabs! ːscarabsignː
It's been a minute since Act Two launched in early August, and we hope you've been enjoying the full game and conclusion of Dalia's descent into her former home. Today, we've got a few neat bits of news for you!
First: we are proud to be part of both Fellow Traveller's LudoNarraCon and ICO Partners' Unmistakable, two festivals dedicated to narrative & art in games, respectively. Both events run through the weekend and feature panels, sales, and games that should interest you if you liked Ambrosia Sky! Be sure to take a look and add a few new games to that ole' wishlist of yours. (I know I did!)
As part of the Unmistakable event, we're sharing a behind-the-scenes look at a scene that should feel familiar to anyone who played Act One or our demo!
Our art director, Adam Volker. will walk through our approach to designing the death rituals in our game, then go step by step, layer by layer, through the working file for the painting Gerald's Last Rites, discussing the art creation process from sketch to final painting.
You can catch the segment over on Twitch, YouTube, and Steam on Saturday at 12:57pm EDT / 5:57pm BST. (It will also repeat every three hours after that!)
Pre-order our OST on CD from iam8bit! 💿
Hey! Did you like our game's soundtrack and want to own it in a flat, circle-shaped format that works because of LASERS? Well, lucky for you, I have the answer!
We've partnered with iam8bit to bring the complete soundtrack to CD, and pre-orders are open now. Here's a preview of what the CD will look like in & and out:
If you want to explore the album fully, check out these links:
💿: Bandcamp
🎼: The Sound of Ambrosia Sky: A live event
We've got a Photoshop design stream next week! 👨🎨
On October 16th, on our Twitch channel from 3-5pm EDT, our community manager Colin (hi, that's me!) will be taking three of the core inspirations for our game (Prey, PowerWash Simulator, and Metroid Prime) and making Ambrosia Sky box art inspired by their designs.
This stream was originally planned for our Act Two launch week, but we got busy, so it is happening next week instead! Come watch us Photoshop some stuff and listen to the Ambrosia Sky OST.
Lesbians in Space! (a Steam bundle!) 🎁
One last bit of news: we've set up some neat bundles for Ambrosia Sky, from System Shock (2023) to our dev pals Hardspace Shipbreaker.
But my personal favourite has to be our Lesbians in Space bundle, featuring the terrific Heaven Will Be Mine, Haven, and I Was A Teenage Exocolonist. We put together this fun bit of art to celebrate the bundle, imagining a world where we were all obscure anime that came together in some sort of VHS box set that lives rent-free in your memory for years.
That about covers it for this update! Keep an eye out, though, as we have some more news on the horizon... ːambrosiaprojectː
Thanks again, folks, for being a rad community. <3 I'll see you next week for our stream!
✨ See you in the stars,
Colin [Community Manager]
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