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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

Astro Colony Steam Next Developer Broadcast #1



Hey Astro Colonists!

I have some wildly exciting news to share with you today.

During Steam Next Fest (Wednesday 20 CET) I will be showcasing livestream Astro Colony demo!

If you want to check it out, make sure to set a reminder for June 15 at 11:00am PDT.
I will be playing the game (Tefel) showing everything from start to finish!

If you’re as pumped as we are, then please, tell your friends! Tell your foes! Tell every stranger who crosses your path!

And as always, thank you so much for your continued support. We love you SO HARD!!!

Terad Games

Astro Colony playable during Next Fest!

Hello, Astro Colony explorers!

We are happy to announce that we are participating in the Summer Next Fest on Steam starting on the 13th of June!

Everybody will have access to the demo, available on our Steam Page, and will be playable throughout the event.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1614550/Astro_Colony/

Check our official Summer Next Fest Teaser!
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We hope you will join our Discord community to share your feedback!
https://discord.com/invite/EFzAA3w

State of Astro Colony (April 2022)

Hello, Astro Colony friends.
These are strange and challenging times we’re all living through. I hope that our game brings you happiness and some kind of healthy distraction.

[h2]BETA[/h2]
December last year, we’ve been able to successfully launch Astro Colony Beta on Steam. We sent personalized keys to all our Kickstarter supporters. We approached closed beta tests, which will allow us to focus entirely on the Early Access release Q3 this year!

[h2]Astronauts[/h2]
Our Astronauts recognize both genders and generates additional visuals for hair, eyebrows, eyelashes and beard!

[h2]MODS[/h2]
The game supports mods. We are planing to make mod-kit publicly available, so our Astro Colony community can help us creating interesting mods for the game!
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[h2]Architecture[/h2]
There are many new construction blocks in the game. In addition there is a new generation system which creates floor edges.


[h2]Localization[/h2]
Thanks to our fantastic community we are almost 100% complete in the localization process.
If you would like to help us improving existing translations and adding missing, please check our community localization website: https://astrocolony1.vps.webdock.io/projects/astro-colony

[h2]Find out more[/h2]
Check more interesting facts on the Kickstarter page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/teradgames/astrocolony/posts/3477193