Hello everyone! Numina will be part of Steam Next Fest! A week-long festival from June 13th to the 20th with the already released Demo!
This is just roughly two weeks before Numina Part 1 finally releases!! Part 1 will be around 24hrs of gameplay (about 2/3 of the full game). Part 2 will conclude the story and release as paid DLC in Q4 2022. Are you excited?!?!? I think I'll sh** my pants. Hopefully it'll improve visibility for Numina and expose it to new people interested to play it :) Also Happy Pride month! Today I wanted to talk a bit about LGBT issues and how I feel they've impacted the game. Since the 2017 demo I knew that the chronicles of the central religious figure in the world of Alterna - Proserpina - would contain the story of her tragic love to her friend Melanie. It was almost like a thought experiment for me to envision a world in which god would be a lesbian woman. How society would view queer people and how they would be integrated into the world. My conclusion was that it would be a world without much prejudice towards them. A world where a gay romance option wouldn't thematize the issue of being gay in this world but instead focus on the romance. To some this might seem like an excuse to steer around talking about issues our own society faces. But to me personally - it was also relieving. Not really distinguishing between how I write the romance options based on the sexual identities involved but rather depicting characters who feel (at least somewhat) comfortable being their true selves. Happy Pride everyone!

Step through the 4th Wall…

Key Features

• Breaking the 4th Wall
  The 4th wall is a concept from theater where the actors on stage directly interact with the audience. In the same fashion, you partake in the story of Numina as a character in the form of a bodiless voice that only Shawn can hear - a guardian spirit. You can interact with Shawn and influence his decisions through dialogue choices in the game.
  
  
• Branching Decisions
  The decisions you make influences the relationship Shawn has with the other characters you'll meet in the game. Having good relationships with your party members unlocks powerful combo-attacks in battle and may open up the opportunity to take your relationship to the next level ♥ Your decisions also influence the overall course of the story to conclude into one of the four possible endings.
  
  
• Battle with the Elements
  Engage in a round-based combat system with action inputs for some attacks that require you to make timed inputs for maximum damage! Each character also has unique elemental abilities to exploit enemy weaknesses. Incorporate this into your strategy to quickly win battles.
  
  
• Explore the World of Alterna
  Most side quests in NUMINA allow you to dive deeper into the backstory and lore of the world. But you can also explore the beautiful scenery with your grappling hook to reach higher places and find new gear, spell scrolls or rare items.

• OS: Ubuntu 14.04 or Steam OS 2.0
• Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or betterMemory: 2 GB RAM
• Memory: 2 GB RAM