Its that time again.

I want to start off by saying that I plan to release that Alpha build style release for 0.6 later this week, probably Saturday. The reason being that I am trying to squeeze in a few more renders so that it doesn't end in the middle of a conversation for dialogue on a branch.

On that same note, I am planning to only make that release available for $10 month, Captain tier, supporters. This is for two reasons, one this isn't a feature complete release so I am not planning on it being made publicly available on certain sites. Nor is it a release that I would necessarily encourage people to play unless they really want to, in which case I would appreciate the additional support if someone decides they are one of those.

Now onto the meat and bones of these updates.

This month I was able to spend a fair bit more time working on renders, though admittedly most of them this month were for a branch that probably isn't super popular, so in April I may revert back to a focus on the more important branch and main story line renders before looping back to these later on.

As I have mentioned in the past the script is basically done, so any work there at this point is really just editing which I don't do a great job of tracking.

On an unrelated note, I have somewhat thought about doing a short story set in this same universe, but I haven't made a decision on that. This idea came about because of an event that took place during an ongoing campaign of a certain sci-fi 4x spreadsheet simulator. This event focuses on defending an important choke point leading into Terran space against a hive like alien species similar to how I in-vision the Zuk'ats. But that battle is still ongoing in that campaign and I am not sure yet if it would be worth the delay it would cause for development of Andromeda.

As I mentioned in the Discord server (link) towards the end of February I started having issues with the breaker for the room my computer is in randomly tripping again, which is annoying because it had been a few months since the last time it happened so I was hopeful that whatever was causing it had fixed itself. As a result of this issue I wasn't able to get all the renders I needed done so that we wouldn't be in the middle of a conversation. As evidenced by nothing having come out this past Friday, or thereabouts, I ended up making the decision to hold off because I really don't want a release to end in the middle of a conversation.

Linked below are also two extra renders I ended up doing when I had to create a scene to use on a prop for one of the scenes for this update.
Proton Drive