Slice Bar

Indie Game Developer.
Responsible for the Astra Protocol series
Currently working on a few other ideas...

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🚨Astra Protocol 2 is now available on #Steam!🚨

Experience #space like its the #1980s in this cassette futuristic #scifi adventure

Available now https://t.co/sWom7l0FT9

#outnow #justreleased #indiegamedev #cassettefuturism #retrofuturism #gamedev #indie #indiegame #videogame

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Its taken a while, but we've finally got some user reviews for Astra Protocol 2 on Metacritic.

Currently sitting at Generally Favorable!

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Progress continues with the Astra Protocol 2 multiplayer beta.

Support for multiple terminals allows you to have a full crew when exploring the stars

We've also added in real-time diagnostic support.

For more info, and to jump on the beta, check out:

https://t.co/MzhH60Zl3l

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Today marks six years since the launch of Astra Protocol. To celebrate, we’re sharing six facts about the game and the series’ history and development.
#indiegame #spacesim #scifi

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Thank you for being with us for the past six years, here’s to many more.
#videogame #retro #gaming

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If you haven’t checked out the games already, Astra Protocol, and its remake are available for free on https://t.co/HhpD8AVxP2 alongside Astra Protocol 2. As for the third game in the series…keep watching the skies.

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Some Statistics for the Astra Protocol Series

294 KB - the initial size of the game that started it all
Nearly 4000 downloads / purchases
Over 48 days of playtime
Nine dogs fostered during development
Two podcast appearances
One magazine appearance
Five gaming show attendances

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Countless self destruct protocols initiated
Zero players uncovering the mystery behind the Astra Protocol

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These new engine features were so effective that we even backported them into Astra Protocol 2 as part of its third-anniversary celebration.

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When development began on the third game, we used the original Astra Protocol as a testbed for the new engine - which eventually became Astra Protocol Remake, entering open beta in 2025.

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Since then however we’ve discovered some with the same or similar titles, and even a crypto currency using it. Adding the “Astra Protocol” to the game was done quite late into development and we’ve still not revealed what the “Astra Protocol” is - yet.

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What’s in a Name?
The name, Astra Protocol, didn’t take long to come up with. We wanted something that sounded “futuristic” and we were happy with it once we found no other games that had a matching title.

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Most of this engine was ported over to Astra Protocol 2, which came in at less than 1 MB at launch, though it was later down the line that this would cause performance issues on high screen resolutions…

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This was achieved through utilising a lot of the Windows operating system features rather than using a modern game engine, such as Unity or Unreal.