Hey everyone
This will be the final development update post, as I can now announce the release date for Galactic Mining Corp!
First up, over the last few weeks I have worked on squashing over 200 bugs and issues identified by my amazing team of testers who have spent collectively thousands of hours playing the game through over and over again. In particular, I'd like to thank my good pal RetroSteezy for his incredible dedication to meticulously pulling apart my game over hundreds of hours of playtime - cheers, mate! :D
Alongside all this bug fixing has been more polishing and some late-game balancing, which has been both difficult and time-consuming, but important to the overall experience. In my last update I told you that Lana_Lux had voiced Kira, the tutorial bot. She is now joined by Galactic Mining Corp's character artist, Peet Cooper, as the voice of Hogan the hangar dude. And of course, I am voicing the dodgy market seller slime alien. My thanks go to both Lana and Peet for helping bring those two characters to life.
But anyway, now onto the bit you've been waiting for. As many of you know, one of my gamedev heroes is Shigeru Miyamoto and I think one of his past quotes sums up my feelings on Galactic Mining Corp: A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever. Galactic Mining Corp has been in development for close to two years and represents the largest investment of time I have made in any of my seven games to date. However, as I have said in the Kickstarter and the various updates, I truly believe it has been worth it. Thank you all for your patience with the release date announcement, and so with that...
Galactic Mining Corp officially releases on Tuesday 18th May 2021.
For those of you who pledged in the "New Recruit" or higher Kickstarter reward tiers, details of fulfilment applicable to each tier will be posted prior to release.
I'll finish with another big thank you to everyone for their amazing support and helping me to bring the full Galactic Mining Corp vision into reality.
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Much love,
Anthony (Windybeard)