Yomi Alliance is about to hit the shelves of Steam's Early Access in a few days, on February 10, as scheduled.
While the game is in its very first steps of development - the current release version is 0.0.3 - it already goes with a lot of content, mostly story-related, with the first differences between professions and species that will come out while playing.
The final release is scheduled in 2021. Game features will be added month after month and the released game already has different paths to explore. Still, the full potential of the game will be unleashed in a matter of months.
Supporting the Early Access game will allow me to keep producing more exciting content for you, as of course my studio is very (very) small and developing a videogame certainly costs a lot. That's why Early Accesses are released, and that's why supporting them helps all developers - but especially indie ones - a lot.
What is the current state of the Early Access version?
- Command School Training is complete
- Science School Training is complete
- Each training lasts 20 weeks (in-game time)
- Lectures at the Academy with skills improvement
- About 10 hours of gameplay including different paths to explore for each career
- Steam Achievements
- Different Serena Conversations in her quarters
- Soundtrack fully implemented and working
- Animations, where present, are fully implemented
- Working animate multitask console to access Academy's systems
- User interface is 75% complete
- Administration classes
- Athletics classes with challenges
- Computer Use classes
- Armed Combat classes with simulated fights against different enemies
- Inquire classes with sub-plot
- Negotiate classes with sub-plot
- Persuasion classes
- Psychology classes for Counselor Career
- 10 different conversations with Serena
- 4 different dates with Serena with sex animations
- Each profession unlocked (classes for each skill are still under development)
- 10 different "Academy Storyline" events
- 1215 static Full-HD images, 7 FULL-HD animations
- 18 different upbringings to customize your character and starting skills
Grabbing the Early Access also has another advantage, as the final release will be priced about 50% higher than the current one, being it filled with a lot of new content. Early Access price could also increase in time for the same reason.
Grabbing the game at Early Access launch (with a launch discount too!) will ensure you'll get all the updates as soon as they're released, so it's the best deal if you like our games and want something different.
Will this be much like General Practitioner?
The level of complexity for the choice/consequence and different playthrough will be as high as GP, but there won't be any repetitive tasks in Yomi Alliance. It's more a RPG while GP was more of a simulator kind of game.
You will be asked to choose your weekly schedule, but besides that you'll be free to live your own story.
Thank you for following the game's development, I hope you'll enjoy Yomi Alliance. It's a bold project, as it was GP when I started developing it, but with your support every challenge is worth facing!
Be safe and healthy, see you out there!