Radical Fish Games

Greetings everyball and happy Long Overdue Summertime Blogpost Day!

The sun is shining, birds are singing, the heat makes desk work more annoying and we crawl from our cave to finally deliver another official update on this blog.

However, it is a big one!

Finally: The Official Name of Project Terra

Everyone, we want to let you in on a little secret, known only to parents, pet owners and everyone doing creative work or playing some of those RPG games: Names are hard!

We have been working on Project Terra for quite a few years already and have pushed back the final decision on the title several times. But now we have finally decided and will reveal it. Drumroll please. Project Terra will henceforth be known as:

 

And that’s the name!
Goodbye everyone, see you next year, please clap! 👏

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Alright, THERE IS ALSO A REVEAL TRAILER:

Special thanks to VanAnimation for the opening animation of Juno and to Julian of DigiTales Interactive (also check out their games!) for the trailer editing!

Also, we finally created a Steam Page, where you can wishlist the game, which is something we’d very much appreciate!

Progress made in 2024

So what actually happened in all of 2024? As we mentioned, back in January, our plan was to work on a Vertical Slice aaaand… it’s mostly done! A lot of small, missing features have been implement, lots of maps created and polished, a good bunch of cutscenes scripted, two boss enemies wrapped up, and one dungeon… mostly finished. We’re currently at a point where about the first 1-2 hours of the game are almost fully playable.

It may not sound like much, but getting to that point is a big milestone for us! Having all the relevant systems together should allow us to slowly pick up the pace and develop content faster.

When can I play?!

There is still no public release for now, sorry.

As you might have heard, narrative-focused Action-RPGs are a beast to develop. Still, we’re getting close to something: a public demo, which will be similar to the vertical slice we’re still working on. The current plan is to release that one in Early 2025.

Following that, we might go a similar route as we did with CrossCode: An Early Access release in late 2025.

Early Access is important for us for two reasons:

• We can get continuous feedback from a larger crowd of players, which ultimately allows us to create a better game
• It makes a long development time financially feasible.

In the end, it was to a large part thanks to Early Access that CrossCode ended up being the game it is today. Of course, we hope that Early Access for Alabaster Dawn won’t go on quite as long, as it did for CrossCode.

So that’s when you’ll be able to play Alabaster Dawn! That is, unless you’re at Gamescom this year!

We are visiting Gamescom!

We’ll again be attending Gamescom this year and showcase an up-to-date build of Project Terra Alabaster Dawn!

Our booth will be at Hall 10.2, E020g – D021g and will be shared with other great projects from our region!

Something to mention though: we’ll only have 2 spots to play for a total of 5 developers, so it might become a bit crowded.

But we’ll also be there at the booth for a chat from Wednesday to Friday, so there’s that, too!

Homepage and Social Media

Smol anxious Juno by YuiKannon

With the official name of the game out there, we decided to give it a special homepage with all the relevant links included:

https://www.alabaster-dawn.com

We have become, as you young folks say, “with it” and created some more social media accounts where you can follow us!

TikTok
Instagram
Bluesky

Of course, you can still find us on Twitter, YouTube and our Community Discord.

Followers and Subscribers are always appreciated!

And that’s pretty much it!

Yes, we took our sweet time with this update, but it’s a big one for us.

And we’re really looking forward to what you’re going to say!

Until next time!