The New Universes: ~ Eine Neue Reise Beginnt ~ Chapter 1 News

Hello,

I am here with our March update a little early with some good news. We will be releasing our first major release. Along with this release, we will be doing a sale on the game and some marketing to get the word on our game out there. It is still in the form of a kinetic novel as we have only finished chapter one of our story. More patches will be incoming and more interaction with our community will be incoming. Now for a list of what has been accomplished this month:

- Art for Alister and Reko has been added.
- All Chapter 1 key areas have backgrounds.
- All text for Chapter 1 of ENRB: C1 has been reviewed and quality checked.
- Numerous code bug-fixes have been applied.
- Character image spacing has been changed correcting some aspect ratios for characters.
- Second Remi outfit added; more for other characters coming soon.

We will be adding additional music and making more changes in the coming days. With all of these changes there have also been some internal process changes which will allow for faster release of patches, faster editing and more streamlined debugging procedures. We have also been able to call in one of our editors to help with direct development; also helping to increase in the speed of development.

As a final but important note; we are aware of how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the world; as a response to this, we want everyone to know that we are encouraging our staff to stay home. Since this is a remote project all of our team work from home already. This has allowed our team more time to work on this project; hopefully, this gives people access to something to do so that they can enjoy themselves in light of this crisis. Having something entertaining to do helps improve mental health and decrease stress so we hope that you are taking time to have some fun even if it is not with our product.

Thanks,

Josh (Atsumari)
TNU Productions LLC.

Hello,

Welcome to another community update announcement! In this announcement I will be covering what we’ve gotten done so far and also what our plans are. We are hoping to release the first chapter soon. As for the game release we had initially set for full release in August but are unsure if we can hit that goal. I wanted to let you know that now before we moved further along and missed expectations however below is a list of what we have done and where we are as of now.

- The background art for Sumire and Yuki’s room is done. Akane’s is nearly done.
- Art for Alister and Reko is done.
- Editing for the entirety of scene one is mostly done. Just waiting on final checks by our senior editor.
- The android security patch that I mentioned in the previous announcement has been completed.

As we continue through this process we are always looking for feedback so please let us know what you think… As people who have reported problems in the past will notice we respond quickly to feedback especially if there is an error or problem that needs to be resolved. Even though we are a small development team we have dedicated customer service and community staff who are around specifically to respond to your inquiries; so feel free to reach out… If you have an interest in our larger story also feel free to ask questions and chitchat with us on our Discord. We are happy to grow the community and are interested in your input.

Josh (Atsumari)
TNU Productions

Hello everyone,

I wanted to provide some updates on the progress of our release. We last provided an art patch in December midway through the month. We had hoped to release a patch after that but were unable to do so. I wanted to provide some information on our current status.

- First we are planning to release the second quarter of the game by the end of this quarter; the reason for this is we have had to make grammatical and script updates which required us to rebuild parts of the code. This is taking time with our limited editing staff.
- Both of our primary artists do this as a hobby and are not full time so background art is coming slower than initially anticipated.
- We are also knee deep in trying to update a security patch in the Android build. This is currently taking up my time outside of my primary job along with the editing mentioned above.

In short a lot is happening and we are still responsive as can be seen on our Discord. We will be releasing a patch when it is good and polished so that the community can see our best work.

Thanks for reading and for supporting indie development,

Josh (Atsumari)
TNU Productions

Hello,

We have had reports from community members about issues involving IP and testing screenshots that were never meant to be in a public build. I am happy to say that we addressed this in a patch last week immediately after this concerns were brought to our attention. The very next day we also released an art patch to finish through scene 1 of the story. Throughout the week we have been working on PR and released an Android build with the same updates we provided to our Steam and other PC Distribution Partners. It is our hope within the next week to release a grammar patch and additional artwork. We also have had some good input from reviewers and curators over the week. I want to thank the community for their support and input; without which we would not have been able to meet these changes or hit specific metrics that we are proud of; for example hitting 100 members on the game's community group and hitting over 20,000 views on steam. For our first release and only first two weeks of publication these are good milestones to hit. If you have any thoughts, concerns or just want to chat with our story or production team we are always happy to interact with the community as shown by the following review: https://steamcommunity.com/id/MedevacFF20/recommended/1073990/
r which was spurred by our interactions with a curator.

Cheers,

Atsumari
TNU Productions Community Team

Hello,

We have released an emergency patch to correct some items that were meant for internal testing and not for public release. This patch is minor but will change some background images in the game. If you have any issues please contact our support team. We will be releasing another patch with more art later this week. We are sorry for any confusion or concerns this brings forward. We want to ensure the community understands we take all feedback seriously and will address any concern the community brings forward. Thank you for your time and support.

Atsumari
TNU Productions Community Team