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What Happens Next?

Hello!

Hope everyone is doing well. :^)

I wanted to provide an update in terms of what happens next, as Astral Ascension has been released for a while now and we've patched/updated all the reported issues.

First things first, we are not working on any new titles, and this looks like it won't be changing for the foreseeable future. There is an extensive post about t...

A Spicy Discussion Topic!

Hello friends,

Y'all better hold onto your hats cause we about to embark in the spiciest of spicy conversations! I'm of course talking about AI.

There's been a lot of progression in the AI art generation space, especially when it comes to anime. It is still not 100% however take a look at something like this:

This took like 4 minutes to make after ...

Which PixelFade Waifu For After Story? (Follow-up!)

Hello Friends,

Hope everyone had an amazing weekend! Just wanted to post a little follow-up to our After Story poll!

Y'ALL REALLY LIKE YOUR BLONDE WAIFUS IT WOULD APPEAR. Then we got the pink haired waifus both as a second picks... I'm noticing a trend!

Leanna After Story would be the easiest to do since she was the single romance for Crystalline... I wonder what follow-up would b...

Which PixelFade Waifu For After Story?

Hello Friends,

Just out of curiousity, which PixelFade Waifu needs an After Story the most? Please feel free to vote below! I am interested to see how this waifu war goes. O_O

I've enabled multi-vote so please feel free to select your top 3 picks!

Cheers,

-Dishu

Astral Ascension Released!

Hello Friends,

After almost 5+ years, Astral Ascension has finally released on Steam!:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1529350/Astral_Ascension/

This has been our dream project and we were able to make it thanks to your generous support on Patreon throughout all these years. We hope you will enjoy Astral Ascension as much as we enjoyed making it! Well, assuming ...

Astra - Credit Names Have Been Collected!

Hello Friends,

We've collected all the names for Astra's credit! Please take a look through the attached spreadsheet to make sure you are indeed on the list.

Additionally, if the wrong name / username is being used, please send me a DM!

Also please go ahead and switch to free member guilt free if your intention this month of subscribing was to be added to credits, no judgements here. :P

Cheers!

-Dishu

Astra - Credits Name Collecting on May 10th!

EDIT: You can pledge to the $1 tier and it'll make you an active Patreon member, just make sure your lifetime contribution was at least $5 to be eligible to be added to credits!

Hello Patrons,

Hope everyone had an amazing weekend! Just here to let you know that we will be collecting names of active Patreons for the Astral Ascension credits section this upcoming May 10th!

Please make sure your name is up to date on what you want for the...

ASTRAL ASCENSION GOING GOLD SOON

Hello Patrons,

Hope everyone is having an amazing Friday and are looking forward to the weekend! Just thought I'd post an update that we've been working hard on polishing Astral Ascension and will be going gold soon! That means that a release date is eminent and those waiting for the game to be out of Early Access won't have to wait much longer. O_O

We've done about 120 bug fixes, majority of them being continuity and pathing issues that have been player reported as ...

Astra - Big Patch Dropped on Steam

Hello Patrons,

Hope y'all are doing well! Just here to provide an FYI that a phat patch dropped on Steam today! Here are the highlights:

• Over 50+ continuity adjustments and bug fixes based on feedback you have provided as well as some backend corrections! The story should feel significantly more cohesive now, especially as it relates to your trait and some of the more nuanced choices.

• Found a couple of edge case scenarios in the ending/epilogues that ...

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Astra - Full 4K CG Pack!

Hello Friends,

Hope y'all are doing well! Just here to share the full CG pack for Astral Ascension in glorious 4K resolution which you can find here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bhuZ5c_w63UfJmXwef1FD78Bw86-iAM3/view?usp=sharing

Happy viewing!! :^)

- Dishu

Astra - Monthly Update (February 2024)

Hello hello!

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend so far. :^) Just sliding by to provide a quick monthly update; let's get started!

FIXES

We did a bunch of fixes related to the Helen and Zeke endings (Zeke kept showing up at the beach, this was due to one of his variables transcending almost every ending lol). Along with this, there was a handful of just continuity issues that we fixed up as well.

In terms of the phat bugs that are remai...

Thank You.

Hello Friends,

I just wanted to express my gratitude for all the support you have shown me and PixelFade throughout the years. None of what we accomplished would have been possible without you always cheering us on and supporting us!

PixelFade started back in 2014 (11 years ago!), though my time experimenting with VNs dates back to around mid-2012. I wanted to create the kind of game I’d love to play—one with plenty of choices so I could truly feel immersed in the world, with ...

Astral Ascension Ending Video

Hello Patreons,

Firstly, thank you so much for your patience! We missed the January monthly update (which broke our like years long streak ;_;) as things have been really hectic with the early access launch as well as trying to push forward with the voice work.

With the release around the holiday and all the post-early access launch support, the team was slightly burnt. As a result, we took it a bit easy for January to let people recover and get reinvigorated. There will be...

Here Comes 2025!!

Hello Patreons,

We just wanted to wish all of you a Happy New Year as we go into 2025!!

Astral Ascension finally made it to early access and we should be releasing the full game within a couple months if not weeks. This has only been possible thanks to all your support!!!!!

 With Astral Ascension wrapping up, we are excited for what 2025 holds for PixelFade and will start sharing our future as soon as we can!

Thanks again for all your support ...

Astra - Monthly Update (December 2024)

Hello Patreons,

Last update of the year!!!!!!!!!!!! Lots of phat news to share so let's get started!

ASSETS

One of the final assets of Astral Ascension is the end screen. We wanted something that represents the space theme with the Astra colors. Simple but hopefully effective!

Outside of this, we've done some tweaks to a couple of CGs ...

Astral Ascension - Steam Early Access Release + Voiced E2 Update!

EDIT: There was a few game breaking bugs on the Steam version (get stuck in a loop with certain choices, mission outcomes not going to proper paths, random freezing issue...etc). We made those fixes and will be pushing the build out to Steam. Because we are only supporting one build version to keep things simple, that means they will also be getting episode 2 voiced.

That is to say, if you are waiting for voiced episode 2, you don't need to manually downloa...