Sierra Ops [Space Opera][Sci-fi][Romance] Episode 2 out of 4

[Jason]

Last Updated: July 2, 2021

Latest news:
- Sierra Ops Episode 2 has been released! More details here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app ... 6536226869



"Woefully ill-prepared, play as Junius as he struggles to uncover long-lost secrets new and old while fighting an impossible war."
Episode 1 is available on Steam for free!



Story Description:
After nearly decimating all of mankind over three centuries ago, humanity looked to the stars to rebuild their past glory. With the invention of terraforming technology, self-sustaining, man-made ecosystems and reliable space travel, large off-planet colonies and mining posts were soon established to feed the ever-growing human population. The power of the human race grew. However, with power comes corruption. With corruption comes imbalance. With imbalance comes unrest. With unrest comes war.

Play as Captain Junius Fahrenheit, a soldier of the United Terran Vanguard onboard the state-of-the-art ship, the Sierra, as him and his crew are thrown into humanity’s first interplanetary war. Tasked to protect Earth and free its colonies from under the Ares Confederacy of Mars’ grasp, there’s no question that he must fight to protect everything he stands for…

But what exactly is it he stands for? Who is right? Who is wrong? Does it even matter?

Perhaps there’s more to this than meets the eye.

Game Features:

• Real-time strategic gameplay
• Ship and loadout customization
• 1080p visuals
• Over 500,000 words split over four episodes, ten main story chapters, and twenty side quests
• You only have so much time to act! Your decision of which missions to pursue and combat performance determine the state of the war and its survivors. Taking one opportunity is closing another!
• Six characters to befriend one on one... maybe it’ll lead to romance?
• Elaborate relationship system where your actions impact how deep your friendship runs
• Wibbly wobbly weird stuff! (Not guaranteed)

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[Jason]

6/22 Update!
We've updated the Steam build and here's also a direct link for non-Steam users (Windows only for now).
main : http://innomenpro.com/downloads/sierra- ... psdemo.zip
alt : https://www.dropbox.com/s/s37efh0gbrleh ... o.zip?dl=0

[P_Nova]

Seems good ! You may have gameplay screenshot of the rts thing ? Remind me a little from FTL !

P.S. : I saw the gameplay screen shot on steam, I'll give it a try !!

[Jason]

Thank you! As for the battle system, we're still working on the overworld scenarios this week,
so what's there right now is the tutorial and some demo battles after the credits which may be
just good enough to show what we're trying to do. Still, I hope you enjoy it!

[Jason]

We now have OSX/Linux builds for the demo at Steam.
Feel free to test it and please kindly let us know if there are any problems! *Cheers*

[Reikun]

I know this defeats the purpose of making a RTS hybrid game... but do you currently have any plans to make the gameplay sections either extremely easy or skippable? Asking mostly out of curiosity (also I am usually very bad at RTS games;;; HAHA) but I'm sure I could soldier through the gameplay parts if I had enough free time and willpower =w=)``

[Jason]

I know this defeats the purpose of making a RTS hybrid game... but do you currently have any plans to make the gameplay sections either extremely easy or skippable? Asking mostly out of curiosity (also I am usually very bad at RTS games;;; HAHA) but I'm sure I could soldier through the gameplay parts if I had enough free time and willpower =w=)``

...I bet you saw my tweet! lolol, anyway seems like I'll have a slice of pizza this Friday. xD

As for the game, it will be generally easy, we do offer challenges at critical points of the story though (mid/final boss and final mission). I'll ensure people will have no problems with it, since I also dislike grinding for differently named yet functionally the same items. It's more of a puzzle-like approach than stat based.

[P_Nova]

I've tried the demo... The cg are beautiful and animation are genuine. The sprites looks very lively. I'm very jealous , I want the same for my game ! I'm gonna make my artist work harder ! XD

I hope you'll find the perfect balance between VN and RTS.

[Jason]

I've tried the demo... The cg are beautiful and animation are genuine. The sprites looks very lively. I'm very jealous , I want the same for my game ! I'm gonna make my artist work harder ! XD

I hope you'll find the perfect balance between VN and RTS.

The animating Live2D sprites system is just my luck with the software loving me back, otherwise it's only static sprites with 2 poses at most... xD

We have to make up with the lack of resources somehow, as our character artist's availability is limited.

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Here are some clips in game for anyone who's curious:
http://imgur.com/gallery/oH4Nit7
http://imgur.com/gallery/ydMbmDS

[Lesleigh63]

It looks lovely. Good luck with it. I'm not an rpg player - too old for it I think [need to get my nephews and niece to help me out everytime I try to play one or I just get stuck ]

[Jason]

It looks lovely. Good luck with it. I'm not an rpg player - too old for it I think [need to get my nephews and niece to help me out everytime I try to play one or I just get stuck ]

We can probably provide a hack/easy mode, but we won't add it to the main product as a readily available option in game. It will just be a code which can be taken from the site instead (So it doesn't hurt my battle programmer too much haha. xD)

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Also, does everyone agree w/our decision below, or do you prefer the other versions?

[Googaboga]

Things have come together really nicely C:. Though did you change one of the character's design/remove a character? I could have sworn one of the girls had long greenish-blue hair.

As for your decisions on the CGs, I think it's fine. Though I can't really tell the difference between the three ':D.

Anyways good luck finishing :>.

[P_Nova]

Though I can't really tell the difference between the three

Quickly, color tone (luminotisty), nose, mouth size, the collar, the shortened lower jacket, additionnal shadings, some linings of the clothes, lion wrinkle ...

But it was easy to notice much if you try hard a little ^^

[Jason]

So this week, we were trying to fix some bugs, and trying to balance out the speed of the animation.
but failed horribly - http://imgur.com/gallery/UR5S244

Then our composer is making a new OST for casual events. What do you think?
Here's the link - http://puu.sh/iD7rR/4c090a0b49.ogg

The game has three main paths and a short linear true ending, and our writer, Youkonos' about to finish Claine's route but had to go to vacation this week.

I think we'll be working on the artworks for now and coding...

Things have come together really nicely C:. Though did you change one of the character's design/remove a character? I could have sworn one of the girls had long greenish-blue hair.

No.No.Nononononono.No.No!.No!.No!NONONOONONONO!

Seriously though, I thought nobody remembers her or any of our characters so I took the liberty to improve/redesign the most of them. xD

[Jason]

In addendum to my post so everyone knows who Googaboga is talking about, it's Jean Brookes.
Here are how our character designs evolved over time. I did not look for any artist outside my team to
design the characters, and the consequence...? It took more than a year to finalise xD. It was a very,
very rocky road...

Rutherford:

Ashton:

Claine:

Jean Brookes:

Freija:

Junius: