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What Happens Next?
Hello!Hope everyone is doing well. :^)I wanted to provide an update in terms of what happens next, as Astral Ascension has been released for a while now and we've patched/updated all the reported issues.First things first, we are not working on any new titles, and this looks like it won't be changing for the foreseeable future. There is an extensive post about this here. However, the TL;DR is that PixelFade projects have always been passion projects, and we were all hobbyists/freelancers...
A Spicy Discussion Topic!
Hello friends,Y'all better hold onto your hats cause we about to embark in the spiciest of spicy conversations! I'm of course talking about AI.There's been a lot of progression in the AI art generation space, especially when it comes to anime. It is still not 100% however take a look at something like this: This took like 4 minutes to make after trying about 7 prompts. It's actually crazy how good AI has gotten, though it's not perfect (you can see the fingers don't quite...
Which PixelFade Waifu For After Story? (Follow-up!)
Hello Friends,Hope everyone had an amazing weekend! Just wanted to post a little follow-up to our After Story poll! Y'ALL REALLY LIKE YOUR BLONDE WAIFUS IT WOULD APPEAR. Then we got the pink haired waifus both as a second picks... I'm noticing a trend!Leanna After Story would be the easiest to do since she was the single romance for Crystalline... I wonder what follow-up would be most fun? Some ideas:1) Inverse fish out of water story with Leanna coming to MC's world2) MC graduating ...
Which PixelFade Waifu For After Story?
Hello Friends,Just out of curiousity, which PixelFade Waifu needs an After Story the most? Please feel free to vote below! I am interested to see how this waifu war goes. O_OI've enabled multi-vote so please feel free to select your top 3 picks!Cheers,-Dishu
Astral Ascension Released!
Hello Friends,After almost 5+ years, Astral Ascension has finally released on Steam!:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1529350/Astral_Ascension/This has been our dream project and we were able to make it thanks to your generous support on Patreon throughout all these years. We hope you will enjoy Astral Ascension as much as we enjoyed making it! Well, assuming of course you are one of the patient ones that hasn't played through it already, haha. :)Seriously though, these projects have been ...
Astra - Credit Names Have Been Collected!
Hello Friends,We've collected all the names for Astra's credit! Please take a look through the attached spreadsheet to make sure you are indeed on the list.Additionally, if the wrong name / username is being used, please send me a DM!Also please go ahead and switch to free member guilt free if your intention this month of subscribing was to be added to credits, no judgements here. :PCheers!-Dishu
Astra - Credits Name Collecting on May 10th!
EDIT: You can pledge to the $1 tier and it'll make you an active Patreon member, just make sure your lifetime contribution was at least $5 to be eligible to be added to credits!Hello Patrons,Hope everyone had an amazing weekend! Just here to let you know that we will be collecting names of active Patreons for the Astral Ascension credits section this upcoming May 10th!Please make sure your name is up to date on what you want for the credit section!!Thank you,-Dishu
ASTRAL ASCENSION GOING GOLD SOON
Hello Patrons,Hope everyone is having an amazing Friday and are looking forward to the weekend! Just thought I'd post an update that we've been working hard on polishing Astral Ascension and will be going gold soon! That means that a release date is eminent and those waiting for the game to be out of Early Access won't have to wait much longer. O_OWe've done about 120 bug fixes, majority of them being continuity and pathing issues that have been player reported as well as from ou...
Astra - Big Patch Dropped on Steam
Hello Patrons,Hope y'all are doing well! Just here to provide an FYI that a phat patch dropped on Steam today! Here are the highlights:Over 50+ continuity adjustments and bug fixes based on feedback you have provided as well as some backend corrections! The story should feel significantly more cohesive now, especially as it relates to your trait and some of the more nuanced choices.Found a couple of edge case scenarios in the ending/epilogues that would have shown scenes that don't make ...
Astra - Full 4K CG Pack!
Hello Friends,Hope y'all are doing well! Just here to share the full CG pack for Astral Ascension in glorious 4K resolution which you can find here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bhuZ5c_w63UfJmXwef1FD78Bw86-iAM3/view?usp=sharingHappy viewing!! :^)- Dishu
Astra - Monthly Update (February 2024)
Hello hello!Hope you are all having a lovely weekend so far. :^) Just sliding by to provide a quick monthly update; let's get started!FIXESWe did a bunch of fixes related to the Helen and Zeke endings (Zeke kept showing up at the beach, this was due to one of his variables transcending almost every ending lol). Along with this, there was a handful of just continuity issues that we fixed up as well.In terms of the phat bugs that are remaining, we have done a Nova Sky and Norbert fish fix that...
Thank You.
Hello Friends,I just wanted to express my gratitude for all the support you have shown me and PixelFade throughout the years. None of what we accomplished would have been possible without you always cheering us on and supporting us!PixelFade started back in 2014 (11 years ago!), though my time experimenting with VNs dates back to around mid-2012. I wanted to create the kind of game I’d love to play—one with plenty of choices so I could truly feel immersed in the world, with realistic and lik...
Astral Ascension Ending Video
Hello Patreons,Firstly, thank you so much for your patience! We missed the January monthly update (which broke our like years long streak ;_;) as things have been really hectic with the early access launch as well as trying to push forward with the voice work.With the release around the holiday and all the post-early access launch support, the team was slightly burnt. As a result, we took it a bit easy for January to let people recover and get reinvigorated. There will be a February update later...
Here Comes 2025!!
Hello Patreons,We just wanted to wish all of you a Happy New Year as we go into 2025!!Astral Ascension finally made it to early access and we should be releasing the full game within a couple months if not weeks. This has only been possible thanks to all your support!!!!!With Astral Ascension wrapping up, we are excited for what 2025 holds for PixelFade and will start sharing our future as soon as we can!Thanks again for all your support and trust in us. Let's look forward to an amazing 2025...
Astra - Monthly Update (December 2024)
Hello Patreons,Last update of the year!!!!!!!!!!!! Lots of phat news to share so let's get started!ASSETSOne of the final assets of Astral Ascension is the end screen. We wanted something that represents the space theme with the Astra colors. Simple but hopefully effective!Outside of this, we've done some tweaks to a couple of CGs (bloom, contrast tweaking...etc) just to polish things up.The last outstanding asset is the ending video. We have the song ready that was ready last update so ...
Astral Ascension - Steam Early Access Release + Voiced E2 Update!
EDIT: There was a few game breaking bugs on the Steam version (get stuck in a loop with certain choices, mission outcomes not going to proper paths, random freezing issue...etc). We made those fixes and will be pushing the build out to Steam. Because we are only supporting one build version to keep things simple, that means they will also be getting episode 2 voiced.That is to say, if you are waiting for voiced episode 2, you don't need to manually download a separate client from the Google ...
Astral Ascension (Early Access - Episode 1)
Hello Patrons,Hope everyone is having a great weekend so far! So we were intending to release into Early Access this weekend but ran into a little situation, hopefully it will be wrapped up in the next couple of days.In the meantime, here is the Early Access build that we are intending to go to early access with!:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ANMRjXnR-Co5O6g1v7eeaKlOSGLwR_J/view?usp=sharingit contains all the bug fixes we have reported so far (excluding voice mismatch since those are still g...
Astra - Monthly Update (November 2024)
Hello Patreons,Hope everyone is having a great weekend! To kick things off, let's first start with me asking you to stop gibbing the monies once again!! >:ODetails as to why are here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/important-update-111055840With that out of the way, let's proceed forward with the monthly update. We have a special section about our release plans below so please feel free to take a look at that as well!ASSETSFirstly, the updated UI is in full force! You will be able to chec...
Astra - Epilogue Music (Type B)
Note: Duplicate Message from Type A post!Hello Patreons,Hope everyone is having a great weekend so far! Just here to share the last two music tracks that will be in Astral Ascension. To avoid spoilers, I have marked the song as Type A and Type B since their 'vibe' can potentially give some hints as to what happens in those endings!Type A post is available here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/astra-epilogue-116612822
Astra - Epilogue Music (Type A)
Hello Patreons,Hope everyone is having a great weekend so far! Just here to share the last two music tracks that will be in Astral Ascension. To avoid spoilers, I have marked the song as Type A and Type B since their 'vibe' can potentially give some hints as to what happens in those endings!Type B post is available here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/astra-epilogue-b-116612901
Astra - Monthly Update (October 2024)
Hello Patrons,First, I will just mention this idea of swapping to a free membership again (stop gibbing me your hard earned dollars >_>):https://www.patreon.com/posts/important-update-111055840Regarding access to the full game on release if membership is changed to free: I will provide ample notice beforehand to make sure you don't miss out when the time comes!Now let's get back to our regular scheduled update! We are going to be changing things around a bit since some of the categories ...
Astra - Ending Theme (WIP)
EDIT 2: Can't delete the drop post directly (interface non-response) so I had to click edit and then manually delete.SAME GUY WHO DESIGNED THEIR UX ALSO DID QA APPARENTLYEDIT: Patreon has a new feature called "Drop" where it releases the content at a future time. That's fun and all except:1) WHY IS IT ON BY DEFAULT FOR THE POST?2) WHY CAN'T YOU EDIT AND MANUALLY DROP?Who designed this UX? jebus.Anyways, reposting so you can have immediate access.Hello PixelFaders,Finally a Pa...
Astra - Monthly Update (September 2024)
Hello Patrons,Hope everyone had a great weekend! It is time for the monthly update. :^)Please note that the update will be fairly light as the work being done is mostly backend and process-heavy (not particularly "shareable" like post-production on voice over line for instance).I also urge you to please take a look at this post and consider the idea of swapping to a free membership:https://www.patreon.com/posts/important-update-111055840I did get a couple of messages regarding access to ...
Important Update for our Patreons!
Hello friends, happy Friday! I like to hope that we are always as transparent as possible with this amazing community and in the interest of that, I'd like to provide an important update!Astral Ascensionis fully funded and we are all set on budget to completion. I know some of our Patreons are here to support us financially to give us the means to create these games and we are eternally grateful for that! As of right now, we are completely focused on Astral Ascension so we haven't though...
Astra - Monthly Update (August 2024)
Hello Patrons,It's Wednesday my d00ds, hope everyone is having a great week so far! Thank you for your patience regarding the August update, we've been swarmed with a bunch of unexpected work (explained below) which are actively being worked on.So without any further delay, let's get started!WRITINGMainly just fixing line inconsistency between voice and text. All the reported continuity bugs have been addressed so writing updates will be fairly small in these updates!CHARACTER ARTCha...
Astral Ascension - Release Date Update (Everyone)
Hello Fans, PixelFaders, and Patreons,Today we'll be sharing an updating regarding the release date of Astral Ascension. I think a good majority of people are expecting a release for August 22nd as that has been our historical date for past games:ACE - August 22, 2016Crystalline - August 22, 2018Ethereal Enigma - August 22, 2020I will confirm that August 22, 2024 was our original targeted release date however we didn't share it for the exact reason of where we are today - it would have b...
Astra - Full Game (Episode 1 Voiced)
Hello Patrons,Hope everyone is having a fantastic weekends so far! Just here to share the latest build with you all which is Astral Ascension fully completedwith episode 1 voicedby the main cast! You can check it out here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/17J0_e4UIv68-8drd2TEC937hjukePPzT/view?usp=sharingPlease note that this was our first implementation of voice over so far so it will be a bit janky. The biggest known issues right now are:1) Lip sync randomly stops working (you will hear the voic...
Astra - UI Upgrade In Progress!
Hello Patrons,Hope everyone is having a great weekend so far! Just thought I'd pop in and mention that we are currently working on the Astra - UI Upgrade! This will be an update to most of the screens to make it a bit more modern/sci-fi as well as replace some of the older placeholders that we have.So without further delay, let's look at the two screens that are done so far!ORIGINALUPGRADEName SelectionA lot of the feedback we got from you is that you'd like to see your character as ...
Astra - Monthly Update (July 2024)
Hello Patrons,Hope everyone is having a fantastic week so far!! Just here to share the July update with you all. :^)First order of business, we do have a new build up which has a bunch of bug fixes, NPC portrait added, continuity adjustments, and full controller/steam deck support (it is still slightly janky as we are polishing but a controller will work right now!). You can download that build here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/16yHfPuv0nCH8bfRTZQOi6xwYfAc0a33m/view?usp=sharingWith that being...
Super Trait (Vote Your Preference!)
Hello Patrons,Hope everyone is having an amazing week so far! Just wanted to get your thoughts and feedback on a fun idea we were thinking about.Right now, the game has the three character traits that you pick for MC:ATHLETICINTUITIVETACTICALWhat we were thinking is what if we added a FOURTH trait that is called like Super mode or something, where you actually get the benefits of all of the other three traits! Basically, it will give you every single advantage of the traits, as well as extra dia...
