Is this an Alpha?

Hi All,

With the latest 0.4.0.0 build of Astra Protocol Remake, it might be possible that we have something that could be considered an Alpha build of the game. The terminology differs depending on who you ask, but in our case we have something which should be feature complete.

That's not to say that the game is complete, far from it, it just means that it contains all components of the game, just not in its final state. It will also contain a lot of bugs too.

What's changed in the latest build?

• The game scoring lines up to your actions (and in an improvement over Astra Protocol 2, we now log ships that you've destroyed, not just all ships destroyed).
• Overheating your ship knocks out your shields and movement.
• You now have a finite supply of missiles.
• The game spawns more enemies.
• The enemies have been tweaked a little so they don't all immediately come for you (though most still will).
• The compass track and heading values display properly.
• Terminal error messages are a bit more accurate.
• The map view clips objects to fit within the grid.

That means that when you fire up Astra Protocol Remake now, you should be able to play the game more or less as intended, just lacking a lot of polish. Its quite simple, but remember, this is also a tech demo for the next Astra Protocol title...

Please let us know what you think, and any bugs you come across as it will help us improve this and future games.