Aten7

Deep world, co-op party RPG adventure | CRPG & TTRPG | built for players and artists | #UpAndAten

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Hey everyone! 🖖

Time for our monthly dev update!

Gateway Guardians (GG) .. We have moved back to the earlier build we mentioned while we improve the crowd system, that has all gone smoothly, so we will update you all with some clips of that build as soon as those are ready. We are also completing some environment updates which help the look, as well as some fps improvements. There have also been updates to the build system and some pipeline tools, all of which help speed development which is what we love to see!

A⁷ Tabletop .. We have finalised the designs for our custom dice based on order and chaos, we think they look pretty great! Like everything in A⁷, a lot of thought and attention has gone into making these, we like to make sure that everything we do is imbued with meaning, it’s what being an artist is all about.

We are sharing some ‘making of’ clips shortly to show the design process, and why it makes a difference between doing things this way, and using AI. That way you always know that things we make are made from a process that comes from passion and dedication.

So those high resolution dice models are off to have the positives made for casting at very high resolution, and we’re looking forward to seeing those!

We have also been powering through the final page layouts for the Players Guide and GM’s Guide. We are looking forward to sharing a bunch more of that in the upcoming guides!

We are filming the first guides for A⁷ over the next week, as well as a tabletop play session in around two weeks time. Once those are finished and edited you’ll be able to catch everything on our YouTube channel, so don’t forget to subscribe if you’re not already!

That’s it for now , we hope you‘ve all had an amazing start to the year, and bring on February! 🔥

The image of the dice is a 3d render created from the exact models we are using for the resin casting, we’ve tuned the look to be as close as possible to the final.

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Hey everyone! 🖖

Time for our monthly update!

We decided it was best to pause production this last month for Sylvan to deal with some unfortunate family business, so there is not much to report, but we would like to thank everyone for their kind words, very much appreciated 🫶

We are back to full production as of today, and looking forward to a few nice things this month. We will keep you posted as the dice moulds and book prints come through, and we have another AMA coming up soon on YouTube!

For Gateway Guardians we are continuing with the UI and menu updates, along with some environmental improvements, more updates to follow over the next couple of weeks!

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Hey everyone 🖖

Our full monthly update will be coming later this week, Sylvan the creator of A⁷ has a family member passing away and is helping attend to their needs. Thank you for your patience and we hope you are having a wonderful start to the month.

In brief, everything is progressing well, some books are ready to go to printers, dice designs are complete and almost ready for casting, gateway guardians is having some menu updates completed so we can start distributing builds.

We will update in detail on socials and kickstarter toward the end of the week, thanks!

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Hey everyone! 🖖

Our Kickstarter is over 100% funded, it’s the last 24 hours to secure your rewards, don’t miss out!

A thorough breakdown of the tabletop system has been added to the main page 👏

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@jonobtc This is one of the ads so you’re not wrong! 😆

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Hey Everyone! 🖖

We hope you’re having a wonderful start to the year!

We had a bit of a break over New Years and we’re back and eager to smash 2026!

Our Kickstarter sale for the tabletop books is going well, and we’re almost at our goal 🤘

Check it out if you’re interested, or simply want to find out more about Aten7.. remember that the Steam game and the Tabletop game are the same A⁷ game system and world.

We’ll do a catch-up post about Gateway Guardians tomorrow, hope you all had a smashing weekend 🫶

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Tabletop guides and other Kickstarter rewards ship in March, there is another sale on in April, after those ship, for the Menagerie and Encyclopaedia (those are larger volumes that need more formatting and art completed).

We will be showing some gameplay videos soon so people can get an idea of the mechanics.

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@EgorikNFT This is about a tabletop game, there are no nfts in tabletop 😄

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Hey everyone! 🖖

Looks like 43.8% of you voted “WTH is a GM Guide?” which is fair enough 😄 considering many of you are following for Gateway Guardians, our game on Steam!

A GM Guide (Game Master’s Guide) is basically the handbook for the esteemed individual running a table top game. It covers everything you need…lore, rules, worldbuilding, encounters, and how to keep the story moving.

A⁷ has been designed from the ground up to work as both a tabletop system and a video game. Similar to how D&D works on the table and how BG3 brings that experience to life digitally, except ours specifically built for both play styles 🫡

That way you can play A⁷ whichever way you like!

Here are our current mockups of the print editions we have for sale on Kickstarter.

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Happy Monday folks!

TTRPG crew, here’s one for you 🎲

We’re curious, when you open a new GM guide, what do you read first?

#Aten7 #A7 #ttrpg

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@Lightisyourpath Public playtesting will be early next year, we will have more refined date in Jan. We want this improved crowd model integrated and tested before then as it well worth it. There will be a number of gameplay videos before then so you can have a good look at what it’s like 👌

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Hey everyone! 🖖

Happy Friday! Hope you’ve all had a great week ✨

As we roll into the weekend, we’d love to hear from you!

1.⁠ ⁠What games have you been playing lately?
2.⁠ ⁠⁠And besides A⁷, which upcoming game are you most excited for?

We’re obsessed gamers ourselves, so it’s always fun to see what the community is diving into and looking forward to! 💬🎮

#Aten7 #A7 #rpg #ttrpg #UpAndAten

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@BalboaBenny Classic! 🤘 right up there with Lemmings and Earthworm Jim

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@render6699 Ha Lode Runner! Amazing 🤩.. we have a little nod to Paradroid in Gateway Guardians 😄

Looking forward to GTA 6 in 2042!

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@MrSarveshAmre God Slayer and Wolverine look great, love the classics, an excellent CoD artist designed some of our weapons 🤘

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@TheShauktukas UpAndAten! 🖖

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Hey everyone! 🖖

Slightly past the end of the month, but we get there eventually, we’ve had a busy month and have a couple of updates!

For Gateway Guardians we last mentioned we made some good progress on our crowds with one of our development branches, while that solution is better it’s still not performing well enough that we’re happy with it. We’ve decided to keep working on that and put some clips together from an earlier build (it still looks great). That way everyone can see how things are looking and we can put some clips up on Steam that we are happy with, while we continue optimising.

Our crowds are a little bit more complicated than a regular army with attack/defence/formation mechanics, these are effectively large crowds of NPCs with personality types, emotional states, and some other elements that bring emergent behaviour into gameplay. It makes things a bit more complicated, but very worth it, as emergent behaviour is a big part of our gameplay experience.

We have someone joining us from today who will be looking after posting and socials at long last, huzzah! We are now switching to multiple posts a week, which I’m sure you’re all pleased to hear 😄

And finally, we are very pleased to announce the launch of our book sales for the tabletop role-playing version of A⁷! 🥳

We are doing this through Kickstarter so we can get exact numbers for book orders and avoid unnecessary print costs, which we think is sensible. You can also get both regular hardcover and luxury hardcover editions, as well as the exclusive custom luxury dice, GM screens and artbooks and prints. As we mentioned before the game itself is free (under a non-commercial license), you can grab the PDFs of the books when they are out!

Our tabletop development is funded separately to the video game development, so we want to be clear we are not using this Kickstarter to raise funds, it is for TTRPG sales for the physical bits. If we do raise extra money from it, it will be used for expanding the tabletop game. Our video game funding is doing well on its own and we are happy with the progress there.

A big update, lots to read! Bring on December! 💪

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