Hi once again!
Yet another blog post regarding the upcoming Alpha gametest! Nothing huge this time, but some thoughts about the Steam and feature progress list.
Link to the post: https://www.theaspen.blog/posts/16/
Cheers!
TheAspen
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Yo! A huge announcement!
Steam pages are finally here:
Go check it out and give your opinion!
Cheers!
TheAspen
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The Alpha Gametest is now live!
Go and give it a shot! You can also provide feedback here if you want! 
TheAspen
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Hi folks!
I just published a new blog post!
Some thoughts about the Steam pages and such, and of course some future plans! 
Remember to test the game on Steam if you have not already!
TheAspen
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I must say, this is quite the creative name
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Is that a bad thing? 
First, the name was Star Defender, but there are a “few” existing games with the same name already.
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No! Not at all! I didn’t want to add irony to my reply! I adore this name!
Only a “few”, “very few”…
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A new devlog post is published on my blog!
Check out the new enemies there!
Gametest is still ongoing on Steam, so feel free to try out Enfora Star!
And of course, if you have already joined the game test, go and give it another try ! 
On X and Bluesky you can find related content too!
Cheers!
TheAspen
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Hi everyone!
And once again there is a new blog post on my devlog!
https://www.theaspen.blog/posts/19/
There are some information of Steam Achievements and new enemy droids!
Here is something for preview:
Also check my Youtube channel for gameplay clips:
Cheers!
TheAspen
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This looks insane! I love it.
On the side note, the music is fantastic too, did you compose it? One of them reminded me of Xenon II game.
Will gave a look on steam.
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Thanks, and it’s nice to hear you like the project and the music! The songs are 100% self-made with FL Studio. There is an Alpha game test available on Steam if you want to give it a shot.
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Excellent, will have a look.
Have you published the music on streaming platform? Would add it to playlist.
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Unfortunately, no. Right now YouTube is the only place where you can hear some samples. Maybe I should make soundtracks available on Steam? 
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A new blog post has been published!
Check out the new gameplay updates! You can now upgrade your weapon’s damage and collect armor. Also, the enemies can attack from multiple directions.
Cheers, until next time!
TheAspen
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Hi all!
Once again, a new blogpost has been published!
Introducing AI allies and a new HUD/UI!
Because of the upcoming beta, I will not publish a blog post next month (September).
I’ll focus fully on the beta build and getting things ready.
Thanks, until next time!
TheAspen
Hello again!
A couple of days ago, I published the announcement trailer.
The project is getting ready for its release.
TheAspen
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Yet another HUGE announcement!
Demo will be available on Steam next Friday!
Check out the new demo announcement trailer in the meantime!
I hope you’ll manage to give it a try!
Cheers,
TheAspen
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What a journey ! Very interesting to follow the progression of your project. What were the pain point ? What did you enjoy the most ? I also saw your created a website for your game, does it worth the investment or better to post only on forums ?
Yeah, it hasn’t been the easiest journey for sure, and not the shortest 
Drawing was at least one pain point at the start, and I had to redraw
many assets again just because I learned some basic skills during this project.
Today I know “my style” for doing things, and for this level of detail, it is kind of fast.
I have played with Fl Studio (music software) in the past, so creating music was not the hardest thing to start, but I don’t know if I’m a good “musician”.
Of course, I could have taken better music even from royalty-free, but this whole idea of this project was to create everything myself.
How did that go? More about in the blog post after this game is released.
But the biggest pain is to scheduling everything, and finding time to do blogposts, programming, music/sounds etc. And I also have a day job. 
I actually had to think about what I enjoyed the most, and for a second I thought “did I enjoy anything”
But yes, the whole journey itself.
This has been a huge dream of mine to release an actual game, and now it is very close. So one milestone of my life has almost been completed.
The website I created to practice my day job skills which is web development. So it was a portfolio of sort at first. Not sure was it worthy for this project though. It’s not such a huge thing to keep update, but maybe there are better alternatives?
Thanks for asking! I hope you enjoy the game!
TheAspen
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