End-of-September progress update

Greetings alien lovers!

Do you want to hear a funny story? We discovered that last month, Thailand Vtuber Taiyo Bouken streamed a pirated beta build of The Symbiant on Youtube. Needless to say, we were absolutely thrilled by the prospect of Thai alien enthusiasts enjoying our game, so we posted an announcement on Twitter about looking for a Thai translator. We also messaged Taiyo, who spread the word and kindly helped us review the applications we received (read: checked the quality of their translation) and choose our new Thai translator and editor duo.

We are now happy to announce that The Symbiant will soon be available in Thai!

Writing and Editing

Irlana finished writing the first DLC, which ended-up quite longer than originally planned...! The script was sent to Ende, our editor, for correction and polish. We also started outlining the second DLC!

Art

700HASH finished more sprite work and started working on the first CG of the DLC. We won't show them here for... uh... spoiler reasons!

Voice acting

Our audio engineer performed minor fixes for the voice clips, and Fable inserted all the voice acting into the game.

Programming

• As previously mentioned, Fable is done with the voice acting aspect of programming.
• Additionally, we worked on separating the adult dialogue and scenes from the main scripts,  and into separate folders. This is an important but time-consuming process, as Steam, Google Play and other platforms may check for NSFW text or images inside the game builds even if these assets do NOT appear in the game at all.
• We are now working on the CG gallery and other extra menu features that we have yet to implement.
• Irlana will also start going over the game build for the first round of quality check.

UI

We're also adding a bunch of handy features in the Symbiant Interface. Above you can see the Scene Selection screen. This will give players a chance to:

• See all of the game outlined per scene
• See their progress in the game
• See the different branches
• Easily find and select a scene of their choice to replay

You're welcome :D And stay tuned for the Music Room in the next update!

Beta: version 0.6.3

The beta currently covers 71% of the whole game, with 25 scenes available! You can get it in this Patreon post or at the usual place if you're a $160 CAD KS backer.