I want to be as honest as I can here... As a single developer working on, at the moment, all aspects of the series, I really am doing the absolute best I can with the limited resources that I have available to me. It's very VERY difficult being alone and working alone, but it can be enjoyable, even at the times when I've set deadlines for myself and things are stressful. It's been my dream since I was very young to create my own anime/cartoon series, to write my own tv show and be a showrunner. I've been practicing as much as I can at this for as long as I could remember...and thanks to the technologies and tools available today, from Unity to Respeecher, I've finally been able to start to achieve this I'm hoping... Futher Improvements... Firstly, I'm doing the best I can to improve Season 1. One of the things I'm trying is to further balance out the gameplay to the story. This isn't easy. I'm considering adding some more mini-games throughout. I added 2 mini-games to the recent update in Episode 5 and Episode 6 as I felt they didn't have enough gameplay to story. Episode 5 and 6 were literally one long cutscene with a single battle at the end. This is to a degree the intention of the series, as the battles get more difficult and become multi-part and have more strategy, but there was something about these two episodes, whether it was just that the ending battles were relatively short in length, that didn't feel quite complete to me. Other than that, there are parts that could use some work here and there. Mainly, there are a handful of voice acting lines that could use being redone. Visually, it could use every now and again some butterflies flying around or even birds in the background. The lighting could be improved in some scenes, etc... In particular, Episode 1 I believe is the weakest one of the series, while I like how Episode 7 came out the most, as Episode 7 conveys what the series is about. In fact, if there was a single episode out of the 7 that I would choose for a pilot, it would be Episode 7, as it shows what the series is really about in a broader sense. I'm looking forward to getting a handful of second opinions on this moving forward, but the general idea is that it's important that one is honest with oneself and understands their weakest link. Episode 1 is, after all, the first episode that players/viewers will see, and it wouldn't hurt to target this episode for vast improvement... The Future... With that said, there is something I do want people to understand at this time.... I want people to understand that first, before I make any further improvements to Season 1, unless it's a game breaking bug, I'm going to finish Season 2. Everything about Season 2 improves upon the series as a whole. More characters are introduced, more drama starts to unfold, more mysteries are unveiled, and there are even more multi-part battles, as well as the battles generally being more difficult, and I want to even add more skill bars if I have the time. In particular there's a climactic part in Episode 12 that I really want people to see as well. Season 1 is like an introductory to the series, while in Season 2 more of a main arc starts to unfold, and I want to get the 2nd OP and ED of the series and the whole Season 2 OST out there as well. Voice Acting and Music for Season 2 as of right now is nearly finished... With Season 2 out there, I sincerely feel that people will start to understand what my intention is with this series, as it hits on key dramatic parts, while maintaining a relaxed pace throughout other episodes, staying fun and light-hearted but sticking to the idea of creating a series that is balanced out with dramatic, emotional and even darker parts as well, and as far as battles go, having new mechanics introduced that keep each battle fresh and new feeling. What It Is And What It Isn't... A key important thing to me now, is that I don't want people to have expectations that this is something other than it is. This is important...It's a narrative game series that plays out like a tv show, I would put it more in the category of a visual novel but with ATB battles if I were to choose a game genre that it most closely would fit on a shelf with... It isn't a game in where you'll run and jump around, it's not an open-world, it doesn't have multiple endings and won't have multiple endings, it doesn't have crafting, item collection, even leveling up, and if people go into it expecting a fast paced action game, I know they'll be disappointed to find something they didn't expect. What it is, in essence, is a shounen anime series with turn-based skill-driven boss battles. Each battle is trailored with a separate strategy from the next battle, and each battle gets more difficult as the series carries on. In Conclusion... I'll do my best to add extra features in the future like a hardcore difficulty level for example, and put more mini-games in, as I know that people do want a longer gameplay time. I may not be the best of all time or anything, but I will always do my best to improve and make it a good series, as good a story as I can, with as good of music as I can, and improve the game or TV Show or whatever this thing is supposed to be as much as possible. Thanks for playing/watching, and I hope you might stick around and enjoy what's coming into the future.
Astralojia: Season 1
Astrah
Astrah
2022-07-22
Indie Strategy Adventure Singleplayer
Game News Posts 26
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support
2 user reviews
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1758480 
The story is about Taku, who'll return to his hometown of Raynwood to try again to pass a tough entrance exam to get into a prestigious academy. It starts with him joining his friends Misha and Juno to try to pass the exam.
Season 1 includes the first 7 episodes of the series. It's very story-heavy, with only key boss battles, no grinding or leveling up, but instead tougher and tougher battles. The genres are: fantasy, slice-of-life, comedy, magic, and martial arts.
- OS: Steam OS
- Processor: Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics:
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- OS: Steam OS
- Processor: Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics:
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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