Aloft
🍀💚 Happy Saint Patrick's Day from all of us at Astrolabe Interactive 💚🍀
ALOFT FASHION WEEK 📸
Straight from Fashion Week and onto the Aloft runway, watch these new outfits come to life! ✨
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En direct de Fashion Week et du défilé d'Aloft, regardez ces nouvelles tenues prendre vie ! ✨
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Happy Valentine's Day, from all of us at Astrolabe Interactive! đź’™
VERYALI GAMING INTERVIEW WITH ASTROLABE INTERACTIVE CEO, MANUEL!
⚜️ QUEBEC GAMES CELEBRATION ⚜️
Aloft is participating in the Quebec Games Celebration! Many great games from QC are partaking in the event and will be offering generous discounts. Check out the celebration on Steam from January 29th to February 5th! #QGC2024
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Aloft participe à la Célébration des Jeux du Québec ! Plusieurs de jeux excellents du Québec participent à l'événement et offriront de généreux rabais. Visitez la célébration sur Steam du 29 janvier au 5 février ! #QGC2024
DEVLOG - FIRST DEVLOG OF 2024 - PREMIER DEVLOG DE 2024
The melodic sound of a crackling fire and the delightful aroma of hot chocolate filled the air. Devs and their families cozied up around the warm fireplace, bathed in the soothing glow cast by the flames. As some embarked on long journeys, travelling homeward to reunite with family, a collective spirit of joy and celebration embraced them. Together and around the world, they exchanged gifts and shared heartfelt moments with their loved ones.
As the old year bid its final farewell, the anticipation of a new beginning was felt among the devs. While ringing in the new year, the frost-kissed winter breezes gently whispered, carrying with them the promise of creativity and secrets of Aloft’s past and future.
Well-rested and recharged, the devs are now ready to get back to work. Let’s see what they’ve been up to.
Welcome to the first Devlog of the year.
Our familiar furry friends are getting an animation update! HOW CUTE???
“Good soup”… NOT! Yucky! Stinky! We don’t recommend consuming the swamp water.
Take in the variety of colours from these new textures! Who doesn’t love yeeting themselves into a pile of crunchy leaves?
The corruption nodes are getting a challenging upgrade that only the bravest of explorers would dare to cleanse… watch out for those tentacles! (Note: the 3D model is a work in progress, the complete textures can be seen in the 2D concept art)
Kyle is busy working on some ambient music for upcoming biomes that we can’t reveal just yet. However, there is lots of work also being done on existing biome sounds, like the cave acoustics! Put on your headphones and have a good listen.
Check out the addition of customizable POI elements in the island editor (including ruins modelled by MJ!). Improvements to the editor also include the ability to snap multiple building pieces together, and move them around as a grouped object.
Simon has been working hard on optimising the game’s performance. Check out these huge increases in FPS!
Aloft is set to release as Early Access in 2024 (more info on that soon!) so the team is focusing on refining and optimising the gameplay experience, integrating assets, and bug-fixing. In the meantime, we want to shout out to the community for your continued support. Thanks to you, Aloft has been nominated for the Most Anticipated Award at The Debug Indie Game Awards! Now we need your help to win, so please use this link to cast a vote for Aloft!
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Le son mélodieux d'un feu crépitant et l'arôme délicieux du chocolat chaud embaumaient l'air. Les développeurs et leurs familles se sont installés autour de la cheminée, baignés par la lueur apaisante des flammes. Alors que d’autres embarquaient dans un long voyage afin de rendre visite à leurs proches, un esprit collectif de joie et de célébration les a enveloppés. Ensemble et à travers le monde, ils ont échangé des cadeaux et partagé des moments chaleureux.
Alors que l'année précédente fait ses adieux, l’excitation d'un nouveau départ se fit sentir parmi les développeurs. Tandis que la nouvelle année sonne, les brises hivernales chuchotent doucement, apportant avec elles la promesse de créativité et les secrets du passé et du futur d'Aloft.
Bien reposés et rechargés, les développeurs sont maintenant prêts à se remettre au travail. Voyons ce qu'ils font.
Bienvenue au premier Devlog de l'année.
Nos familiers amis à fourrure reçoivent de nouvelles animations ! A-DO-RABLE !
AVERTISSEMENT: Il est déconseillé de consommer l'eau des marais. Dégueulasse ! Puante !
Admirez la variété de couleurs de ces nouvelles textures ! Qui n'aime pas se jeter dans un tas de feuilles croustillantes ?
Les nodules de corruption deviennent de plus en plus difficiles, seuls les explorateurs les plus courageux oseraient l’attaquer… Attention aux tentacules ! (Remarque : le modèle 3D est un travail en cours, les textures complètes sont visibles dans l'art conceptuel 2D)
Kyle est occupé à travailler sur des musiques d'ambiance pour les biomes à venir, que nous ne pouvons pas encore révéler. Cependant, il y a aussi beaucoup de travail en cours sur les sons des biomes existants, comme l'acoustique des grottes ! Mettez vos écouteurs et écoutez bien.
Découvrez l'ajout d'éléments de points d'intérêt personnalisables dans l'éditeur d'île (y compris des ruines modélisées par MJ !). Les améliorations apportées à l'éditeur incluent également la possibilité d'assembler plusieurs pièces de construction avec des points d'ancrage, et de les déplacer en tant qu'objet groupé.
Simon travaille fort pour optimiser les performances du jeu. Regardez ces Ă©normes augmentations de FPS!
Aloft sortira en 2024 en Early Access (plus d'informations à ce sujet bientôt !), l'équipe se concentre donc sur l'affinage et l'optimisation de l'expérience de jeu, l'intégration des ressources et la correction des bugs. En attendant, nous tenons à remercier la communauté pour votre soutien continu. Grâce à vous, Aloft a été nominé pour le prix du jeu le plus attendu (Most Anticipated Award) aux Debug Indie Game Awards ! Nous avons maintenant besoin de votre aide pour gagner, donc veuillez utiliser ce lien pour voter pour Aloft !
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PATCH NOTES / CHANGELOG 0.1.34V
Gameplay
- Added decoration and furniture
- Rearranged the unlock order of the knowledge stone
- Removed the option to coat the bow
- Fixed bug where the player could get stuck in the special fungi prop
- Fixed bug where the player couldn't pick up seedlings
- Increased the rain cooldown
- Increased slot sizes to reduce inventory management
- Granary and compost can now accept more inputs
- The Gnocchi recipe now correctly requires potatoes instead of tomatoes
- All beams are now variants of each other, and triangle walls too
Visuals
- Changed the mining VFX colour of the coal to match the darker tint
- Fixed bug where the animals had the wrong gendered texture
Audio
- Fixed bug where the hammer wouldn't always play sound on hit
Quality of Life / UI
- Fixed bug where the player couldn't scroll in the pause menu with a controller
- Reorganized some elements in the building menu
- Added instructions on how to use the bandage
- Removed the combat stats on the shears
- Display the containers' name when looking at them
Network - Multiplayer Playtest
- Sleep sequence should be more consistent
- Sleep animations should be more consistent
- A series of changes to the network settings could fix or at least log a lot of problems related to the network state (Infinite loading, player positions desync, etc.)
- Objects will now be unlocked when a player leaves the game
MULTIPLAYER PLAYTEST ⚒️
We're thrilled to announce our first exclusive multiplayer playtest that will take your Aloft experience to a whole new level! Get ready to embark on an exciting journey sailing through the clouds with your buddies. The playtest will be held from November 24th to December 3rd! If you’re interested in participating, please fill out the following registration form: https://forms.gle/H2mtkc9Rk8G2c8xm9 📝
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Nous sommes ravis d'annoncer notre premier playtest multijouer qui portera votre expérience Aloft à un tout autre niveau ! Préparez-vous à embarquer pour un voyage incroyable à travers les nuages ​​avec vos amis. Le playtest aura lieu du 24 novembre au 3 décembre ! Si vous souhaitez participer, veuillez remplir le formulaire d'inscription suivant : https://forms.gle/z8vXqeCHidc7smr8A 📝
NEW DEMO 0.1.34
PATCH NOTES / CHANGELOG 0.1.34
Gameplay
- New unlockable combat manoeuvres (ground pound, upslash, leap, heavy attack)
- Improved combo system
- New weapon: bow and arrow (stone, bone)
- Bandages (leaf, linen, wool) and healing system
- New island editor
- Trinkets (5 unique trinkets)
- New corruption feature: fungi bombs
- New tree system (plant, spread, grow)
Visuals
- New trees (chestnut, oak, fir, and floating trees)
- New clouds system
- Visual post-processing
- Animal colour variations
- New VFX
- Visual cues when stamina and health are low
- New corruption colours & assets
- 2 more storage assets (wool, rope)
Audio
- New sounds
- Procedural music (15+ original tracks)
Quality of Life
- Key bindings in the options
- 3rd person view
- Autoswing options
- Dodge input options
- Improved English and French localization
Miscellaneous
- Weapon damage & attack speed balancing
- Animal system fixes (fixed trough, slower manure)
- Cotton cloth stockpile removed from creative menu
- Minor texture fixes
As usual for all demo updates, previous saves will not be usable with the new version of the game. Additionally, players can access older versions of the game by going to Properties -> Betas -> Select the Beta you would like to opt into.
Bear in mind that those versions will no longer be supported and that you might encounter bugs, unbalanced and missing features as those older versions do not accurately represent the latest progress.