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AC releases in 5 days, Developer Broadcast #1



Hey Colonizers!
It's only 5 days left until EA release NOVEMBER 7!

I would love to invite you for the short Early Access celebration stream!

When?
Tomorrow (Thursday) at 8PM CET TIME!

Where?
You can watch it both on Steam & Twitch!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1614550/Astro_Colony/
https://www.twitch.tv/Tefel

It's a perfect opportunity to ask me anything before the game is released in just 5 days!
Please wish me good luck and don't forget to come over to say hello!

See you tomorrow!

Upcoming release, demo available until end of the month!

Hello STEAM friends!

We are getting closer to the Early Access release (7 November)!

Everyone who supported the project with Steam Key is going to receive it soon. You will be able to activate the key on Steam, but the game won't let you download it until 7 November, when the game is released!

[h2]The BETA version[/h2]

If you have access to the current beta version, it will remain how it is, but won't be anymore updated in the future.

[h2]The DEMO version[/h2]

The demo which is still available on the Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1614550/Astro_Colony/

is going to be removed end of the month. If you still haven't tried the game, you have time until 31st of October!

[h2]Is the release date safe?[/h2]

Yes, there is no risk of postponing the release date. The game is in the late polishing and optimization stage and multiplayer is very stable as well.

Please check Astro Colony refreshed trailer prepared for the game release!
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Don't forget to tell your friends about upcoming Astro Colony release. Invite them, so you will have someone to play with! ;)

Join our Discord community

See you soon colonizer!

Astro Colony receives Epic MegaGrant!

Hello Colonists! We are extremely happy to announce that Astro Colony was awarded by Epic Mega Grant! It's a great honor to us! We would like to thank Epic Games for this award!



This additional help gives us extra confidence for our Early Access release in just about three weeks!
Save the date: November 7th!

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Add Astro Colony to your wishlist, so you will get reminded about upcoming release!

Join our Discord community

Get ready to explore the Universe in less than a month!

ASTRO COLONY RELEASE DATE!

Hello Colonists! We are extremely happy to announce that Astro Colony is going to be released in about a month! It took our small team a year from the Kickstarter to get where we are now.

[h2]7 November 2022[/h2]
EA release is scheduled for 7th of November. There is already a counter on the website and Steam page shows it too! Let's look closer into additional features we squeezed before the game release!





Animated Cinematic is Our way to tell you the story about first colonists exploring the universe!





A voxel exploration game could not exist without a variety of biomes and hundreds of plants!





Play the game in the co-op mode with your friends or join other hosted lobbies.





There are currently cosmic events available. They will surprise you! Use the new redar system to detect them!





Browse, install and uninstall mods directly from the game via CurseForge!



New astronauts are joining the crew! We managed to add all faces sent to us by Our Kickstarter supporters.





We found very talented music composer (Casper) who is helping us to create best matching sci-fi music for Astro Colony! There is about 10 min of unique soundtrack composed and more is still coming!

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Optimization was always a strong Astro Colony point, especially now just before the game release!

CPU - many small systems got converted into very performant global systems, like asteroid catchers into one global catcher system. Number of components created got reduced to absolute minimum. Important change for empty (not visited by player) planets.

GPU - although plenty of new models got added to the game like trees, plants, rocks etc, they all got greatly optimized with many level of details.

Other expensive effect are disabled automatically based on CPU / GPU benchmark scores. This allows to reduce significantly minimum specs.

MEMORY - Loading times got greatly improved due to memory cleanup. There are fewer references (elements loaded) into the memory and 90% of assets are loaded in the background!



There are obviously more things to come. We have a Roadmap which we would love to share soon. So you know what is going to happen with the game after the release on Steam November 7.

For example, we want to add controller support and versions for Linux/Mac before end of 2022.

Expect plenty of interesting updates like terraforming, new devices and tools, architecture, single player and multiplayer mods!

Add Astro Colony to your wishlist, so you will get reminded about upcoming release!

Join our Discord community

See you soon colonizer!

Astro Colony Steam Next Developer Broadcast #2



Hey Astro Colonists!
It's time to announce a second Developer stream during the ongoing Steam Festival!

This Saturday 15 CET (6:00am PDT) I will be streaming live Astro Colony demo!
It's a great opportunity to find out more about this base building game, where you need to automate your colony while exploring an endless procedurally generated voxel Universe!

Don't forget to try the demo, as long as it's available during the Festival!

This time I will be playing the game longer, trying two different approaches:
  • First - starting again from the tutorial and explaining game mechanics
  • Second - speedrunning it, focusing on automation part and growing colony as fast as possible


Please wish me good luck and don't forget to come over to say hello!

Thanks guys so much for support!
Terad Games