Greetings Voidcruisers,

How's it going? Here at VoidBound headquarters, work continues at full speed ahead. We've quite the updates dropping this week so lets jump right into it!

Every good story needs good baddies. We're working on new Urtu Elites to fill out the ranks of the Empire. The artist is working on the design from the ground up- well technically from the head down. Additionally, we've got some amazing alien designs to work from and the end result will be featured in the revamped Introduction, including in the new Battle Tutorial.

But!!.. we did promise you some samples last time so, here are some of them in the works:

Beyond the enemies, we have now finished the newly made maps for the Introduction. The area won't be the size of Henosis, but it will certainly offer players some freedom to move around and even learn some new lore from interactables found on the map, similar to the Vas poster from the Embassy.

Speaking of Vas, her special turret is going from concept to final design! It's giving us additional ideas about what kind of gadgets our favorite troublemaker might bring any party she's invited to.

Check this one out going through the process!

Now for some story updates!

The first draft of the new Introduction has been finished. Now it's the stage where we make sure that everything works well with the maps and the mechanics. Part of this has been making new datapads, computer screens and interactables for players to explore. Each will add a bit more flavor to the world. An example will be a datapad that teases new players about the existence of Henosis, well before they get to set foot on our amazing city-planet.

Work on the Curious Case of the Carnegies has also begun. It's a side quest saga still in the early stages, but this is the very same horror/supernatural adventure that we mentioned last week!

And finally, for a word from our coder!

New Event Ideas are being bounced to populate the 5 New maps during the Intro, including the end of it. Every great adventure starts with a Bang. We're going to go for Two Bangs.. whatever that means!

New Puzzles! Who doesn't love puzzles?! ...Please don't answer that. Just to let you know that a new “secret” puzzle is also under testing and we promise that we'll make sure it isn't the irritating kind that makes you want to rip your sanity out.

Additionally, work on specific writing tools for future localization purposes is also underway. Yep, we also indulge ourselves in working on other games now and then[Kiara The Knight of Icicles] as it help us get experience down the line in case we ever decide to pursue VoidBound localization in other languages!

And that’s all folks for this one! Thank you for sticking with us and see you next week with both the last report and the monthly rewards!

Kind Regards,

Cursed-Atelier Team