January in Review (Patreon)

Evening all, it's time for another monthly State of the Game! And, of course, another update to the free release, now up on the blog page!

So, last month we finished off the last Director scenes, which is also more or less the last ramp-up material to the game's ending. The ending itself will come in the form of a special mission, which I expect to be pretty much my sole focus for the next release. After the mission there will be a number of branching end scenes, depending on the decisions you made with the Directors, and I plan to have at least some of them in for the second release of the month.

There will be a short message waiting for you from Hellfire when it's time to embark on the final mission, but in case you'd like to know ahead of time what it will be about: the Directors and their control of the station's self-destruct are only one of the keys to control of the Expedition. An important one, to be sure, but once it's time to drop the charade, there will be a number of key targets you have to take control of from loyalist Union citizens before they have a chance to interrupt your takeover. After all, what fun is an endgame sequence without a little race against the clock, right? (Developer note: there will not be a clock.)

Of course, on top of story content we also have several CGs in progress, focusing on Vessian Citizen encounters as I've mentioned previously. Hope you're in the mood for some violet curves! February is a slightly short month, but we'll be fitting in as much as we can!

In summary:

January Accomplishments:

• 4 Director Text Scenes
• 1 Citizen Encounter CG, from artist TDK!

February Forecast:

• 1 Special Endgame Mission
• 1-3 Citizen Encounter CGs
• 1-2 Ending Scenes

Hope you're looking forward to seeing how it ends! Though of course, the epilogues may be even more fun...