After another month of work and many bug fixed and new features added, I can finally announce the alpha version 0.7 of my upcoming sci-fi RPG game Planet Stronghold! 🙂

First of all, the download links:
http://www.didone.com/testing/PSAlpha07.exe (Pc)
http://www.didone.com/testing/PSAlpha07.zip (Mac)
http://www.didone.com/testing/PSAlpha07.tar.bz2 (Linux)

The new version has many improvements and most importantly provides you more hours of fun. The story plays until the end of chapter 4, titled “The Choice” (I don’t want to spoil the fun, so you’ll have to play it to understand what is the choice about).

The game also now behaves like a demo: you can get the game now for only $9.99 instead of waiting the official release (which is scheduled for January 2011). Why I am doing this? For several reasons:

• because this way people who are eager to play can get the game at half price (once it’s officially released, it will be priced $19.99 if not more, depending how long the game is after I finish writing the whole story).
• player can send me their feedback through the game official forums. Not talking just about bug reports (that’s what pre-orders are usually for) but I encourage people to share their thoughts also on the gameplay, interface, and so on. I won’t rewrite the game from scratch, but I’ll read and listen to any suggestion (I’ve already changed the game quite a lot based on users feedback)
• lastly, because pre-orders are trendy and cool 😀

In the next weeks/months I’ll keep working on it, writing more story and adding new enemies, weapons and armors. The current plan is to finish the version 0.8 for the end of November, the 0.9 for the end of December and as I said the official 1.0 release in January 2011.

So, if you want to support the development of this game, please visit the official site and download the demo or pre-order the game. The game right now for practical reasons uses a simple one-time activation, but the final version will likely use a simple fullversion no-DRM download.