Astronomics is now on Early Access!

Astronomics! It’s out! You can play it! I’ve spoken a bit about this previously but this is my first published Art Direction credit and you can bet it means a lot to me! You should go look at the steam page and see how hecking charming this game turned out:

Astronomics on Steam

Top-down action and space exploration meet asteroid mining automation! Navigate to randomly generated asteroids passing by and start mining. Impress your employer, upgrade your equipment, fight off pirates and save up for that ticket to Earth so you can finally come home… for the very first time.

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Also, you can take a look at the slick announcement trailer they made:

Important note: Hube & the team at Numizmatic have released the game as an early access game on steam, but don’t let that fool you – this is already a big game, with gameplay from start to finish available and an incredible number of possible asteroids to encounter, thanks to the wonderful procedural asteroid design! They’ve published a roadmap for the next updates and more info on how they’re approaching early access on the game’s website.

And in wonderful news, people are really enjoying it! There are MULTIPLE enthusiastic review videos, and folks on steam are really singing its praises!

I definitely want to talk more about the experience of designing this game right at the start of its life, but I’ll save that for a later blog post. Meanwhile, let me leave you with the three main characters, to whom I am disproportionately attached: