After a week of work travel, I am back with a minor update for Astrodle. This update is in line with previous updates, with small changes aimed at addressing issues reported in the discussions forum, here on Steam.

This update includes the following modifications:

• Travel: I wasn't able to reproduce the bug where sometimes upgrades won't unlock after the first travel unless one saves and restarts the game. I have added more fail-safes in the code to hopefully reduce the chances of this happening.
  
• Empty space (mission): the game is now better at tracking the number of blobs remaining when they are all destroyed at the same frame by the Detonator. This mission is still hard to do with this drone because of Duplicity and the fact that respawning blobs are invulnerable. A note has been added in the mission's description to highlight this constraint.
  
• Annihilation (mission): in Quest mode, the mission now displays the current capacity to hint at the fact that you don't have to complete this mission with 200 blobs (which is hard for the same reasons as Empty space).
  
• Orbiter: the tooltip now correctly show the Orbiter and not the Chaser.
  
• Settings: when accessed from the main menu, the tooltips now have an icon instead of a white square.

Thanks for reading this patch notes.
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Robin

The last few days have been awesome for Astrodle but there are still a few things that needed immediate attention before the weekend.

A big thank you for all the players who have taken the time to report these issues in the discussion forum.

This patch includes the following modifications:

• Bullets: now limited to 300 bullets at any time to avoid feedback loops frying your computers. Additional bullets will simply not be generated. This should not affect the game in most situations.
  
• Becoming a god: the game will now hint at what to do at the end of the story. This should prevent players from thinking the game has frozen and should be shut down.
  
• Typos: several texts containing typos have been corrected.
  
• Drones: the cockpit monitors now display the correct drone designations in the background (ex: G07 instead of A07 for the Gunner).
  
• Settings: the "Mute" button is now called "Toggle all sound" to better reflect it's function.
  
• How did we get here?: this mission will now display a warning in its description when its undoable because the current start doesn't have relevant stellar bonus.

This patch fixes the following issue:

• Libra blobs: are no longer immortal.

This patch fixes several issues:

• Gunner: bullets are not automatically destroyed when loading the second game mode, after having traveled to another star in the first game mode in the same session.
  
• Hello?: the mission is no longer undoable after On the way has been completed.
  
• Aquarius blobs: the essence obtained when destroying Aquarius blobs is now correctly overridden by the Chaser's Blade and Critical bullets.
  
• Dialogue: when the game loads a save. It will considered dialogues that have been started but not "skipped" nor "finished" as "skipped". This will prevent issues that may arise when closing the game during a dialogue. Old messages can always be replayed from the phone interface.

This patch fixes two issues with missions:

• On the way: fixed an issue where the internal memory of the Target wasn't properly reset when withdrawn, only after it had travelled more than one orbit.
  
• Annihilation: changed the wording of the mission to better explain the task at hand.
  
  • From: Detonate the Detonator and destroy all the Blobs in orbit at once.
    
  • To: Detonate the Detonator and destroy as many Blobs as the current Orbital Capacity.

So you have played the demo and have been waiting to resume your quest? Today is your lucky day because Astrodle is out and you can play it right now!

Astrodle is finally in your hands and I couldn't be more happier and anxious at the same time. I have enjoyed playing so many idle and clicker games in my life and now it's my time to contribute. I hope that Astrodle, with its unique approach, will bring you some of that same joy.

To all the excited early buyers out there, I have set a 10% discount as a thank you. Your support and reviews help a ton!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/2853130/Astrodle/

Can't wait for y'all to play.
Here's a cookie 🍪

Robin

It's live streaming time!

During Next Fest, a live feed of the first hour of Astrodle is streaming in a loop to give you all a better idea of how the game plays.

Enjoy the show! And if you like what you see, play the demo and add Astrodle to your wishlist!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3003440/Astrodle_Demo

It's live streaming time!

During Next Fest, a live feed of the first hour of Astrodle is streaming in a loop to give you all a better idea of how the game plays.

Enjoy the show! And if you like what you see, play the demo and add Astrodle to your wishlist!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3003440/Astrodle_Demo

It's official: Astrodle will release on June the 19th.

Everybody mark the date and be sure to wishlist the game if you haven't already:

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/2853130/Astrodle/

Not that it really matters, but this will make Astrodle a Gemini! That will make all the other signs jealous I'm sure. Unfortunately, you won't get another Astrodle every time you play (go play the demo to understand that joke!).

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To celebrate this Astronomical announcement, let me share some new screenshots from the second mode:

This is the first ever screenshot of the Drones Only mode! Yes, these are five gunners!


In Drones Only, Aquarius Bullets are a thing. This combination of Stellar bonuses will put your GPU to the test, that's for sure!


This beautiful assortment of pink Star bullets hints at how Libra essences are obtained in this game mode. Also don't mind the glimmer, it's not for mortals.

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Want to see more? Be sure to stick around for the upcoming release and add the game to your wishlist to be notify on release day (that's in 9 days!).

And here's a cookie 🍪
Robin