Astral Avarice - 1.1 Release

To the Greater Gaming Community:

It has been 178 days since the release of version 1 of Astral Avarice. Today, we add a 1 to that version number; but, not like in addition. It’s not Astral Avarice 2, it’s Astral Avarice 1.1!

We’ve already gone over some of the contents of this update in previous dev logs, but here is a quick summary:

• Spherical planet visuals.
• New tutorials.
• Ranks based on mission completion time.
• View toggles.
  • Grid Group View (shows grid statistics).
• Refurbished UI.
• Moving celestial body warnings.
• Optimizations.
• How to menu.
• New victory / failure screen.
• Minimap.
• New missions.
• Move tool.
• Minor “Story” and “Lore” (this may change later).
• Balance changes.

We know players will dedicate their lives getting the S rank on every level, and use all their savings on pre-pre-orders of merch that doesn’t exist yet.

Construct, Destroy, and Profit.

Love,

Archibald Faugno and William Erignac

P.S. If you wish to relive the days of 1.0, there’s now a Windows build of that legacy version. Note that it does not have an exit button in keeping with how it was submitted to the jam.