Howdy settlers! Posey here with another mammoth of an update! We're extra excited about this update as we have really accelerated through some of our development targets and got a ton done for the game. First thing is the Game Start experience adding some warning screens and messaging to help convey to players that we are very early access and constantly working on the game to produce meaningful content as we develop. Next big thing is the Main Menu! We are hooking up all the rad art we have been making and starting to implement it into the game to really start making it look more and more like the game we see it as. On the main menu you will see two prologues that you can select from. Our [b]Alpha Prologue[/b] takes place in a simulator that is used to maintain the safety of the settlers leaving Earth to their new home. This side of the demo is a story-based mechanics driven sandbox used by our team to develop and polish movement, platforming, combat, and more. This allows us to skip the traditional greyboxing stage of development and puts players directly into our world ready to play. Players can enter the simulation as Not Dave, a settler who has been trapped in the simulator and must escape before it is to late. The [b]Beta Prologue[/b] takes place on the world of Planet 7 as the settlement is being built for its arriving settlers from Earth. This is our open-world environment where our cozy mechanics of farming, homestead, and more will be developed and tweaked through player feedback as we go. Players can already hop in and explore the world as r0-b3rt one of the Congobots responsible for the settlements construction and get a glimpse of what’s to come. There is a ton of bugs and little glips in the game as solving those will take lots of time and we will be refining them as we continue to create content for the game. But the demo plays from start to finish and is pretty fun :D [h1]Demo updates: [/h1] -Optimized quest engine and scene manager even more that before! -Optimized the character controller to begin working within our physics engine. -One whole new story with new zones, characters and even more story to find out. -Lots of cool new visual effects and art work to make this game look so pro. -Revamped the main menu system to prepare for our menu update coming down the pipe. [h1]Known Bugs [/h1] - Return to main menu temporarily disabled due to some gremlins. - Mouse controls: there is a disparity between the look sensitivity using the mouse vs using the gamepad. Due to this and a variety of other issues revolving around dynamically switching input devices, we have decided to make it gamepad exclusive and remove mouse/keyboard controls. - Some camera movements not functioning optimally. -Lots of camera collision issues with environment assets, needs a good bit of refining. -Issues with keyboard and gamepad inputs not working, becomes fixed with an alt+tab out and alt+tab back into the game. Isolating that issue currently. -Keyboard and mouse controls are still not optimized currently in the works to fix. Just use a gamepad if its tooo0oooooooo janky. -Bounce pads are a pain in the bum...working on those too. [h1]Works In Progress [/h1] -Character Controller needs months more of work to be perfect -Menu Redesign -In Game Bug/Dev Log -Credits -Bounce Pads as they are dependent on the character controller -Save System -Episode 02 Achievements -Beta Prologue Episode 01 -Audio Manager (To control music and sound volume. Sorry they are blasting atm) -Input Manager -Time Manager -Scene Manager -Render Pipeline Okie Dokie! Now go update the demo and see all the cool things and stay tuned new content is updated almost daily!!! Be sure to follow us on our social media and join our discord to join our communities and stay up-to-date with all the rad things we are doing :D and if you want to support the development be sure to grab your pre-order today and get some super exclusive schwag with it! [url=https://discord.gg/6dhdmduYE3]Discord[/url] [url=https://twitter.com/S7Cyberpunk]Twitter[/url] [url=https://www.twitch.tv/s7cyberpunk]Twitch[/url] [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/s7cyberpunk/seneca-7-a-cozy-cyberpunk-adventure-rpg]Kickstarter[/url] Stay dreaming, ~Posey