November Updates!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 05:51:39 AM

Hi everyone! We’re back again this month to show off some more of our progress as we work towards our big EA launch next year. This month we’re showing off some of our character portrait upgrades as well as a look at some of our expansive fish catalog 👀 For our alpha tier backers, you should have already received your monthly build update last week. We are also sending you all an appendix explaining the various new things in the build that you can try out this month. Now onto the updates!

Of course, as always, things are still work in progress and subject to change between now and Early Access.

Character Portrait Updates

We’ve been working on some portrait updates, giving our characters a bit of a refreshed look. Here you can see Aaron’s before…

And his after.

One character update has changed a bit more than that though. I wonder who this could be 🤔

Dirk’s lander

In the past couple of updates, we’ve shown you some of our NPC landers. Today is Dirk’s turn! For some quick background, Dirk is our outpost veterinarian. They are educated, trained, and experienced in dealing with both biological and robo-animals, as well as a firm advocate of robo-animals as a humane alternative to slaughtering biological livestock.

Here’s a look at their lander both outside…

And in!

Fishing

Like any good farming sim nowadays, you gotta have your fishing! We’ve been working on including some pretty unique looking species for your catching pleasure. Take a look at some of the species we’ve created!

Discord AMA

As per our new monthly tradition, we did an AMA with our game director, Manu Floret, in our community Discord. Our curious community over there asked all kinds of questions about the game and we want to showcase some of those questions and answers as you may have those same questions!

Q: Are DLC’s planned?

A: Potentially! We want to see how things go during EA and our full launch first and then look at what we could make for DLCs. We do have some ideas rolling around though!

Q: How long will gameplay be in EA?

A: Currently to complete the first Act, which is what we will be launching into EA with, it’ll take around 10 hours to complete that section of the story. After that you can of course keep playing indefinitely. TBD the acts after that.

Q:Will there be pets?

A: Yes! There will be some little pets that will follow you around the planet. Though we may have them do more as EA goes along.

Q: Will you be able to customize your lander?

A: As of right now, no. This may change throughout EA or be something we do for DLC.

Q: Any big feasts or famine type events?

A: Not yet. Definitely a neat idea that we’d like to include but don’t have plans for it currently.

If you want to join in our next AMA, it will be occurring on Dec 23rd at 4pm ET. It’ll be our end of the year OLO Christmas present to you all 😄

October Alpha Build!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 09:51:06 AM

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October Updates
over 1 year ago – Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 05:42:19 PM

Hi everyone! Happy (almost) Halloween! 👻We’re back again this month to show off some more of our progress as we work towards our big EA launch next year. The main things we’ll be showing off this month are some more of our NPC lander progress, as well as some extremely adorable animals. 👀Definitely stay until the end to see these cuties!

Of course, as always, things are still work in progress and subject to change between now and Early Access.

Sally’s Lander

Sally has just landed at your outpost and is ready to become a part of the colony. Upon her landing, you’ll need to welcome her and have a couple of conversations to help build your relationship with her. She’s always looking to learn about others, so you might get some odd questions, like this one:

Now to her lander! As you can see, it's a little cramped in there, but it’s just enough to keep Sally feeling right at home.

Leeloo’s Lander

Leeloo is actually one of our Kickstarter backers' creations. While we don’t have Leeloo ready to show off just yet, we do have her lander! Leeloo is a botanist, which you can definitely see from her natural themed decor throughout her lander.

Colony Center

Our colony center has a beautiful rock formation surrounding it. It's all coming together for our beautiful desert planet. This, of course, won't be the exact angle that you see it from in the game, but we had to give you all a nice look at it! 

Cute Animals!

You may have seen some of these cuties on our social media previously, but they’re getting some new animations. They can now show off their emotions a bit more and really let you know if you’ve hurt their feelings. Hopefully once you’re in the game, you won’t see these very often.

Discord AMA

Earlier this month, we did an AMA with our game director, Manu Floret, in our community Discord. Our amazing community asked all kinds of questions about the game and we want to showcase some of those questions and answers as you may have those same questions! We're planning to do these monthly so if you have some questions you would like to contribute to the conversation, join our Discord or comment them here and we'll get those answers back to you!

Q: What sort of things will be included in Early Access at launch?

A: Fishing, animals (like the ones you see above), water and power systems, insects, shops, prospecting and maintanence! 

Q: Are there seasons?

A: Yes! Radiant (24 days), Autumnal (16 days), Boreal (24 days), and Vernal (16 days). Weeks on this planet are 8 days long, thus the length of the seasons being multiples of 8. 

Q: Is gene splicing still going to be a thing?

A: Yes! It likely won't be in our Early Access but will be there in our 1.0 launch. 

Q: Will there be character customization?

A: Yes! It will pretty limited, but there will be some customization. 

New Alpha Build!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 10:15:05 AM

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September Updates
over 1 year ago – Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 12:40:01 AM

Hello, everyone! We (Aurorian Studios) have a big announcement to make, but first a little history.

We took Freedom Games as our publisher two years ago because, frankly, they're really cool people with a great passion for games and gave us an awesome deal. While creating the game we’ve hit several hurdles - we had trouble finding programmers on a tight schedule, we initially overscoped, and others. Through this process both we and Freedom Games have worked through it, but ultimately due to several factors (some internal, some external) we failed to hit milestones that would affect the quality of the game and the timeline.

Freedom was great to us. They wanted to keep us on, and continue development because they saw the vision of this game that we’ve spent years of our lives pouring into. As the scope of the game increased beyond what was originally planned and things fell behind, it required more support from Freedom. Through this process we’ve relied more and more on Freedom to invest, staff, and support the production of the game. As complexity increased, it became obvious that simplicity is better. A starship can only have one captain!

Today we are announcing that Freedom Games is officially taking over development of One Lonely Outpost.
 

We can’t wait to see the exciting places they take it! They understand the farming sim appeal, the vision we had for a bright future and bringing a lonely planet to life, and that you all have been so patiently waiting. Freedom Games is putting in additional resources to bring One Lonely Outpost to fruition and plans to fulfill the Kickstarter.

Aurorian Studios, however, is exiting. Trust us, this is not what we had intended. We have loved this game from the start, and feel a duty to you, our fans. At this point, we have come to the conclusion that Freedom Games is the best way to get One Lonely Outpost to you, and that is what matters most of all. Freedom Games is giving us a great exit deal in spite of all the setbacks on our end, and we’ll be excitedly waiting for the release of the game next year.

Thank you to all our fans. You have been patient and loving to this little indie team - most of which is staying on! Brad (lead), Nateo (lead artist) and Laura (writer) are the last members from the Kickstarter era and are leaving, but most of the team is continuing on under Freedom’s leadership.

So, for the exciting bit: One Lonely Outpost is continuing on its way to you, the fans, and will be every bit as exciting as you deserve it to be! Now, as we pass things off to Freedom Games, Kerri, the associate producer that has helped with the community since the beginning of the partnership, will get into some updates about how development is going so far as well as an update on the alpha build for our backers!

Alpha

It’s been quite some time since we last updated the build for our alpha tier backers. We are currently planning to have the build updated for you all next week! This build will be showcasing our updated UI system as well as the new art direction we’ve been working on.

Once that build is ready to go live, we will send out an announcement to you all letting you know it’s live.

Game Dev Updates

We're currently working on getting everyone's landers into the game, all set up and ready for their crew members! Of course, as always, all content you see here is subject to change and may not be a final product. First up, we have Aaron's lander! Back in July, we showed off a bit of the concept art, outside view and a glance at what the inside was going to look like. Now we can show off a bit of what the lander is now looking like actually in game!

From the outside 

To the inside

Next up we have Jim Bob and Elisha's lander! For anyone who doesn't know Jimbob is a single father to Elisha and definitely enjoys his dad jokes 😆 In your lonely outpost, you'll find him to be your water guy, always making sure the outpost has fresh water to drink. 

The outside of his lander

The inside

And upstairs in Elisha's room

We also have a look at some of the power generators that you can use around your outpost ⚡

We have an upclose look at how they glow at night

And even a look at how they will actually look like as you play in game

As always, if you haven't already, feel free to join our Discord (which will be getting some updates) as well as follow us on Twitter.

To the stars!