🚀🔥 Absolutely fantastic feedback, and thank you so much for taking the time to share it! 💙

You’ve hit on something we’ve been passionate about from the beginning — the journey itself should feel like an adventure, not just a transition between scenes! 🌌🛸

Walking through the CAPPS spacecraft, experiencing that atmospheric descent and finally stepping onto Aurelia is one of the moments we really want players to remember.

And you’re absolutely right about making that our opening hook! A short GIF showcasing the sequence is a brilliant suggestion, and we’ll be looking at bringing that moment front and centre as we prepare for Steam. 🎬🔥

But here’s where things get even more exciting…

Aurelia is undergoing our biggest expansion yet! 👽🌍 We’re developing deeper alien ecosystems, companion bonding, enormous adventures, cinematic discoveries, nighttime survival and a whole lot more!

We’re determined to make this first planet something truly special before moving beyond it.

The Steam Direct milestone is just one step in a much bigger journey, and genuine feedback like yours is exactly what makes sharing our development worthwhile.

Thank you for being part of the adventure this early! 💙🚀

The stars were never the limit… they were only the beginning! 🌌🔥

— CAPPS Studios

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🚨🌌 AURELIA IS AWAKENING! 🚀🔥

ATOMIC & ASTRA: THE NINTH HORIZON

ONE PLANET. TWO EXPLORERS. AN ENTIRE ALIEN UNIVERSE WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED.

Hello, itch.io community! 👋💙

I’m the independent developer behind CAPPS Studios, and I’m excited to introduce our original sci-fi survival adventure, Atomic & Astra: The Ninth Horizon, created using the Godot Engine.

We’ve been working on an ambitious science-fiction world filled with extraordinary creatures, mysterious alien civilisations, exploration, survival and adventure.

And now we’re preparing our biggest expansion yet!

WE’RE TURNING AURELIA INTO A MASSIVE, LIVING ALIEN WORLD! 🌍👽

Rather than rushing across multiple planets, we’ve decided to focus on completing one extraordinary world at a time.

And our first world is AURELIA.

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🛸 YOUR ADVENTURE BEGINS ABOARD THE CAPPS SPACECRAFT

Meet Atomic and Astra, two original robotic explorers preparing to discover the mysteries of an unfamiliar alien planet.

Before landing, explore the CAPPS spacecraft and its interactive systems.

Our early development preview introduces:

🛸 A walkable spacecraft with nine interactive computer terminals

🥚 An onboard nursery for mysterious Terrabloom eggs

🐾 Original alien wildlife and Echo Hound companions

🌌 Cinematic space-to-surface planetary arrival

🌲 Alien wilderness exploration

🔥 Campfires and survival mechanics

🎣 Fishing, foraging and resource gathering

👽 Established extraterrestrial cultures and fascinating discoveries

But the real adventure is only beginning.

Something mysterious is awakening beneath Aurelia’s surface…

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🔥 OUR BIGGEST EXPANSION IS IN DEVELOPMENT!

We’re taking the foundations of the current game and expanding them into a much deeper adventure.

👾 24 PLANNED ALIEN ENEMY TYPES

From fast-moving nocturnal hunters to enormous alien predators, flying creatures and formidable bosses.

We’re developing distinctive enemy behaviours, movements, attacks and survival challenges.

And when night falls…

KEEP YOUR CAMPFIRE BURNING! 🌙🔥

Because the creatures gathering beyond the light won’t stay away if your fire goes out.

❤️ COMPANIONS THAT FEEL ALIVE

We’re expanding our original alien animals with deeper personality and companionship systems.

🐾 Discover unique creature traits

💙 Build trust and lasting bonds

🥚 Rescue, nurture and hatch alien creatures

🎯 Train companions and teach commands

🌲 Explore, gather and survive together

🛡️ Help companions protect and support one another

Our original animal designs are being preserved. We’re expanding their behaviours and abilities, not replacing them.

🏙️ EPIC ALIEN CITIES AND CINEMATICS

Imagine approaching an enormous alien settlement for the first time.

The camera rises.

The music builds.

Magnificent extraterrestrial architecture appears through the clouds.

Creatures move across the landscape.

An entire alien civilisation comes alive before your eyes.

THIS IS THE EXPERIENCE WE’RE WORKING TOWARDS! 🎬

We’re planning cinematic city introductions, major story sequences, cultural encounters, quests, trading and settlement reputation systems.

🎯 150 MISSION BLUEPRINTS

Our expansion design includes an extensive collection of planned adventures:

⚔️ Main story missions

👽 Alien civilisation questlines

🐾 Companion rescue adventures

💎 Hidden treasure hunts

🌲 Wilderness expeditions

🔎 Ancient ruins and mysteries

🏙️ Settlement missions

🛸 Spacecraft restoration challenges

We want every corner of Aurelia to offer something worth discovering.

⛏️ MINING, CRAFTING, COOKING AND EXPLORATION

Our planned systems include:

💎 Rare minerals and valuable resources

⛏️ Mining professions

🔨 Crafting and equipment upgrades

🍓 Alien food and cooking recipes

🎁 Hidden treasure chests and rare discoveries

⚡ 45 trainable abilities across five specialisations

🏗️ Survival construction and machinery

There’s far more to Aurelia than simply travelling from one location to another.

🛸 REBUILD THE CAPPS SPACECRAFT!

A major part of our planned storyline involves restoring the ship after a mysterious power failure.

Explore Aurelia.

Collect resources.

Discover forgotten technology.

Repair damaged systems.

Restore communications, power, navigation and propulsion.

Every repair brings Atomic and Astra closer to discovering what happened and what lies beyond the horizon.

🤝 COOPERATIVE MULTIPLAYER — PLANNED

We’re also exploring cooperative multiplayer for the future.

Imagine joining friends to gather resources, complete missions, build settlements, train companions and defend your camp against dangerous nighttime creatures.

Multiplayer remains part of our development roadmap and is not currently advertised as a playable feature.

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💙 ORIGINAL CHARACTERS. ORIGINAL ALIEN LIFE. ORIGINAL ADVENTURE.

Atomic and Astra remain exactly as originally designed.

Our established alien races, cultures, animals and companions are being preserved.

NO HUMAN CHARACTERS.

Just original robotic explorers, extraterrestrial civilisations, extraordinary creatures and an alien world full of imagination.

We’re building upon what we’ve already created.

NOT REPLACING IT. BRINGING IT TO LIFE.

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🎮 EXPERIENCE THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW!

Our current early development preview is available on itch.io.

💙 PAY WHAT YOU WANT — EXPLORE THE BEGINNING OF THE ADVENTURE!

👇 PLAY ATOMIC & ASTRA: THE NINTH HORIZON

https://capps-studios.itch.io/atomic-astra-the-ninth-horizon

The larger Aurelia features described above are development plans and are not all available in the current playable preview.

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📺 FOLLOW THE EVOLUTION ON YOUTUBE!

We’re sharing our journey as CAPPS Studios continues developing Aurelia.

🚀 OFFICIAL CAPPS STUDIOS YOUTUBE CHANNEL

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt_Uok-sk3v1Xb6mUSNwf7A

🔥 YOUTUBE COMMUNITY POSTS AND UPDATES

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt_Uok-sk3v1Xb6mUSNwf7A/posts

Follow along for development news, expansion announcements, behind-the-scenes progress and future gameplay reveals.

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💬 WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!

We’re passionate about creating a memorable alien adventure, and we’d genuinely appreciate thoughts and feedback from other developers and players.

If you could add ONE feature to a living alien world, what would it be?

🐾 Deeper creature companionship?

🌙 More challenging survival?

🏙️ Enormous alien cities?

💎 Hidden treasures and underground mysteries?

⚔️ Epic boss encounters?

🛸 Repairing and upgrading a spacecraft?

🤝 Exploring alien worlds with friends?

Tell us in the comments!

We’d love to hear your ideas as we continue building Aurelia.

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🌌 THE STARS WERE NEVER THE LIMIT…

THEY WERE ONLY THE BEGINNING! 🚀

🔥 AURELIA IS AWAKENING.

👽 ALIEN CIVILISATIONS ARE WAITING.

🐾 EXTRAORDINARY COMPANIONS ARE CALLING.

🌙 THE DARKNESS IS COMING.

🛸 THE CAPPS SHIP MUST RISE AGAIN.

ONE WORLD. ENDLESS DISCOVERIES.

Thank you for taking a look and supporting independent game development.

💙 CAPPS STUDIOS

Built with Godot. Driven by imagination. Evolving one planet at a time.

Hey everyone, Lee here from Capps-Studios. If you are landing on this page after seeing our recent gameplay showcases or vertical Shorts over on YouTube—welcome aboard the CAPPS! [^0.1.9] It has been absolutely incredible seeing fresh faces checking out the project over the last 24 hours. Atomic & Astra: The Ninth Horizon is a massive labor of love built natively in the Godot Engine [^0.1.9]. This 1-hour playable alpha preview is our foundational vertical slice, focused entirely on our first persistent world: Aurelia [^0.1.9].

🎮 What You Can Play Right Now

When you download the Windows or Linux build today, you can dive straight into the mechanics you saw in the videos [^0.1.9]: • Starship Operations: Walk the interior of the CAPPS cabin and execute our loading-screen-free atmospheric entry sequence [^0.1.9]. • The Survival Loop: Test the 3-strike resource harvesting rule with your field axe and build defensive campfires [^0.1.9]. • Companion UI & Taming: Meet the native Echo Hound and preview the ship’s egg incubation nursery menu [^0.1.9]. • Narrative Quests: Play through early-stage story content like “The Sleeping Signal” and interact with the Bloomara native population in Dawnreach [^0.1.9].

🛑 Important Note on This Build

Please remember this is an early production preview [^0.1.9]. While the core coding loop is locked down, elements like remote settlements, audio mixing, full character animations, and deep performance optimizations are continuously being worked on [^0.1.9].

🚀 Help Us Reach Our Next Milestone

Right now, our immediate focus is raising the US$100 Steam Direct platform onboarding fee so we can set up our official “Coming Soon” store presence [^0.1.9]. If you download the game via the “Name Your Own Price” option, any donation you choose to leave goes 100% directly toward covering this entry fee [^0.1.9]. If you can’t donate, don’t worry at all! Playing the build, leaving a comment below with your feedback, or sharing the project link is completely free and helps us just as much [^0.1.9]. Thank you so much for the early support. Drop a comment below to let me know what you think of the survival loop or companion menus! See you on the horizon, Lee Evans / Capps-Studios

Meet Atomic & Astra — two robot adventurers taking their first steps into the mysterious world of Aurelia. 🌌

Beyond the woodland lies a buried signal. Strange wildlife wanders through the grass. Settlements hold stories waiting to be uncovered.

Now it’s your turn to explore.

✨ Inside this early demo:

• Explore Aurelia with Atomic and Astra.
• Discover 15 integrated quests, meet residents and follow their stories.
• Scan wildlife, uncover treasures and investigate the planet’s secrets.
• Follow the adventure or explore at your own pace.
• Save your discoveries and return for more.
• Download builds for Windows and Linux.

This is an early look at a much bigger adventure. The world is still growing, and there are rough edges — but I’m excited to finally put it in your hands.

I’d love to hear what you discover. What made you smile? Where did you get lost? What would make you want to keep exploring?

If you encounter a bug or a pause, please share what happened and your computer specs. Windows testing feedback is especially welcome.

Your feedback can help shape what comes next. If you choose to support development with a donation, thank you — it means a lot. 💚

🪐 Your first steps on Aurelia start here:

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uploading the game files in the next 2 hours hope you all enjoy

Hello everyone! Capps-Studios here. We have just opened up the public project page for our upcoming sci-fi survival sandbox game built natively in the Godot Engine: Atomic & Astra: The Ninth Horizon. Below, you can view our official project summary layout alongside our active development milestone trailers:

🎬 Official Trailer Showcase

Please note: You can use the forum editor’s video embedding tool to insert these links directly as playable clips:

• Main Feature — Aurelia Planet Gameplay Showcase: https://studio.youtube.com/video/8GKDfC8REK4/

• Starship Systems — CAPPS Arrival Atmospheric Entry: https://studio.youtube.com/video/J7GhjxtIJRs/

• Mechanics Log — Companions, Riding & Starship Interiors: https://studio.youtube.com/video/DN-TRhrpZzE/

🪐 Quick Game Summary

The project follows two non-human pioneers exploring a network of 9 culturally rich alien planets aboard their upgradeable starship, CAPPS. We have focused heavily on building a robust, high-fidelity technical framework, and our current development preview focuses entirely on our first authored world: Aurelia.

🛠️ Working Features Implemented:

• Walking Starship Command: Explore a fully walkable CAPPS cabin equipped with 9 interactive computer terminals. • Cinematic Atmospheric Handoff: A native 146-second continuous space travel and landing sequence. • Emergent Wilderness Survival: Dynamic logging loops with a field axe, resource foraging, fishing, and protective refuelable campfires. • Ecosystem & Companions: Hatch and track Terrabloom eggs, or bond with and ride native Echo Hounds across the terrain. • Persistent Grid Economy: A modular backpack inventory hosting 6 distinct weapon types and regional trader markets.

🚀 Playable Launch Window:

We are currently wrapping up our publishing portal and standalone export checks. The initial development preview prototype build will be fully uploaded and ready to download and play right here on itch.io within the next 7 days! We are currently paving our flight path toward Steam and are utilizing itch.io to build our foundational grassroots community. Our goal is to cover our US$100 Steam Direct onboarding fee entirely through voluntary platform tips! Check out our active project logs and links below:

• 🚀 Official Project Page: https://capps-studios.itch.io/atomic-astra-the-ninth-horizon

• 🎬 YouTube Channel Hub: https://www.youtube.com/@AtomicAstra-AlphaPreviewGame

We would love to hear your thoughts, technical feedback, and overall impressions. See you starside!