Early Access Alpha 1 released — Smugglers of Cygnus: Alpha System Steam update #781929

The major milestone you’ve all been waiting a very long time for. The first 2 missions involving “Bad Luck” Bart are now included. The long awaited and unexpectedly complex mission system is now in place. Alpha 1 marks a major milestone - and at this point the ‘core gameplay loop’ is complete. The core gameplay loop for Smugglers of Cygnus is: Customize your ship Find and complete jobs Engage with NPCs and the environment to find and complete missions Earn money and faction by completing missions and jobs Explore the environment in 1st and 3rd person This obviously is not to say the game is done, or even that these are in a fully finished implementation (far from it) - just that the core gameplay loop is complete for the first time. Now that Alpha 1 has landed on Itch and Steam, we’ll be switching to feature enhancement and content creation mode. That means a LOT more missions, jobs, NPC...