The day as arrived to let Solaroids: Prologue out into the wild. Early Access began today at approximately 2:40pm PST. I hope your as excited as I am -- this is a big step for me as a solo/part-time indie developer. Many thanks to all those that helped with play testing and localization. Most of my goals for hitting this milestone have been met, but there are a few stragglers.

Known issues

• Japanese translation is currently rough and incomplete both in game and missing from the store page. I expect this to be resolved over the coming weeks.
• The planned Turkish translation had to be put on hold.
• The game credit screen has not been translated yet, and some of the high score text. This should also be resolved in the coming weeks.
• Due to current steam limitations, only player 1 can submit to Leaderboards using a steam ID. All players only qualify for local high score tables even if you enter your steam ID as the name.
• No mouse support for menus.
• If you reconfigure the keyboard or controller controllers, they are not saved between games.

Issues / Feature Requests

Early Access Tips

• LeftShift+F1 - Toggles the bloom compositing effect on/off. If you happen to have a system with an extremely weak GPU, turning this off can remove some burden at the expense of some visual ambiance.
• LeftShift+F2 - Changes the music to a random selection within the Soundtrack.
• LeftShift+F3 - Cycles between system supported resolutions. This can also be useful for systems with weak GPUs. Solaroids defaults to the highest resolution supported.
• LeftShift+F4 - Toggles between fullscreen and windowed mode. There are some known cosmetic issues with windowed mode scaling on Linux/OS X at the moment.
• LeftShift+L - Cycles between supported languages. Currently this is the only way to access languages that steam doesn't support. For the current build this is Catalan and Serbian.
• LeftShift+Minus - Lowers music volume.
• LeftShift+Plus - Raises music volume

• Pressing the Enter key or Start/Select/Options on a controller brings up the pause screen.
• From the Pause screen you can change the controller type by quickly pressing the left/right bumper/shoulder buttons.
• Playing the game starting at level 1 without continuing qualifies you for the "First Credit" Highscores/Leaderboards.
• Joining the game after level 1 or continuing qualifies you for the "Any Credit" Highscores/Leaderboards.
• Currently Solaroids supports levels 1-10 officially, though level 10 will "repeat" at that point allowing continued play indefinitely.
• Local Highscores are mirrored via Steam Cloud between your machines.
• I'm planning many other features, some of which are listed in the Early Access description in the store page.
• I'm planning to include Trading Cards, they just aren't ready yet.

Features

• Classic Asteroids® game play
  
• Huge wrapping arena
  
• Power-ups and new threats unlocked throughout the levels
  
• Various bosses
  
• Customize player ship colors
  
• Damage system
  
• Forward and reverse thrusters
  
• Progressive difficulty
  
• Continuous leveling
  
• Up to 4 local players
  
  • Join at any time
    
  • Unlimited credits
    
  • Cooperative or not - you decide
    
• Supports common controllers:
  
  • Xbox 360/One
    
  • Dualshock 3/4
    

• OS: glibc 2.15. 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz or equivalentMemory: 3 GB RAM
• Memory: 3 GB RAM
• Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatible
• Storage: 150 MB available space