Hello, everyone.
It's been a while.
But we are finally back with a huge dump of info. You'd be surprised how much has been changed, as even I'm still trying to catch up on everything.
This isn't Raymes writing today, but actually, his Co-Director, Sally, and this is actually my first time writing a devlog. You may have not seen me around before, ever, and that's probably because of my long absence from the project, so I'm excited to finally get involved again.

As I said before, we have a huge dump of info for today's devlog. I'll just start by mentioning one of the biggest changes, the new names for Alex, Phil, and Courtney, as there will be quite some confusion here. I'll explain why these changes were made later on, but these are their new names, and this is how they're going to be referred to as throughout the devlog.

Alex - Maia
Phil - Nash
Courtney - Cordelia

Anyways, without further ado, let's get into it.

(P.S. This Devlog won't look as flashy because gamejolt decided it'd be funny to remove markdown 😡)

New Progress (That we can show)

Maia's Apartment got a sick new look!

The Apartment is still a WIP but here's an example of what we've been up to 👀

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These lads got themselves new walking sprites!

Who's the new guy??

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A new song to jam to!

(Check out Intro Story in the GJ soundtrack above)

Intro Story? Does that mean Together Alone begins with a tale????

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What about the battles?

Well, good news and bad news. Good news is, the battles are currently playable. The bad news is, there's still a lot of bugs we want to squash and features we want to add before showing it off. You can view concepts on the gamejolt but we don't want to show any footage of the battle system until it's ready. We don't want to have a repeat of last time when you saw multiple vastly different iterations in a short time. When it's done, we'll definitely show it off!

Story Update!

So, why were Alex, Phil and Courtney changed?
Because it'd be weird to have children from a foregin planet have normal English names.
That's right, TA exists on Earth no longer, as it takes place on a new, fictional planet named "Heart".

Heartians are like us humans. They evolved similarly to how we did, and their enviorment is not much different than our's, the main difference being that it's much much colder in Heart than it would be on Earth, due to its higher altitude, so their main distinction from us, is that they grew to adapt to the harsh cold, having paler skin, thicker hair, and being able to hear higher frequencies.

On top of these story changes, we have an even bigger addition to introduce. Together Alone will now be told in chapters! Now, before you freak out, the game won't act as a Telltale project where chapters release separately. It'll be more like MOTHER 3 or Deltarune, the entire game is available at once but key moments will transition to the next part of the story, the next "chapter". What are those key moments? Well, I've got news for you :).

We get to go to OTHER PLANETS. Taking the space theme Together Alone was aiming for to the next step. Why do we travel to different planets in Together Alone? Why to find it's Mother of course. There are 6 planets in Together Alone, that makes 6 Mothers you need to meet. Think Sages from Legend of Zelda, each Mother is protecting an item needed to save Heart. What are the items? What are we saving Heart from? Well, we can't give everything away. I will only talk about TWO of those planets, the rest you won't ever hear about. Until the game's release of course. Those planets are HEART and ORAZ. We already know about Heart.. but what's Oraz? Oraz is a water planet located far away from Heart. It's full of intelligent sea creatures known as Orazians. Soon maybe you'll get a glimpse of one 👀. Back to mothers, each planet containing intelligent life has one. As the legend tells, each mother infinitely reincarnates on their planet as someone new. Your goal is to find these mothers, but how will you be able to tell? Is the legend even true?

• MOTHER HEART

• MOTHER ORAZ

Character Descriptions

Maia

Maia is a young boy of 13. He lives in the populated city of Sarun! The first person to acquire POP, a mysterious new power that seemed to have arises from nowhere.. Maia is a natural leader who's quick to find a solution in any given problem. He loves guitar and causing mischief with his older brother Mirach. Although he'd never dare admit it, he strives to be like his older brother who always puts on a brave face when danger comes his way. Maia has always been seen as naive, but when things take a turn for the worst he does his darn hardest to care for his friends and ensure everyone's safety even if it puts himself in danger.

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Nash

Nash is a native to Breezeland, a country up north. He stays in a cozy little town on the frozen harbor known as Brie. He's mature for his age, despite this he still has many flaws. He can be blunt in situations where it isn't needed which can often times upset the other person. Nash strives to do what's right, however his priorities aren't always in the right order. Maia and Nash form a rivalry throughout the adventure that stems from arguments on how to run the party. Maybe they'll get over it? Nash's parents are often busy, so he cares for his younger sister Nata. Thankfully, she can take care of herself while he's out on an adventure with a group of strangers. What a lovely sibling!

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Cordelia

Cordelia is a young girl from the town of Phobol. At first the only person to believe Maia about the oncoming invasion, the two quickly form an unbreakable sibling-like relationship. Cordelia is clever and good with words. She has an ability known as Spunk. When using spunk Cordelia will make fun and taunt the enemy, often inflicting a burn status. Cordelia likes to make fun of other members in the party, but it's all in good fun in the end.

Clay & Lacy

Clay and Lacy both take up one spot in the party, being the offensive POP holders. They can manage alone, but nothing can stand in their way once they're paired together, and so you often won't see them apart.

Clay is purposely annoying to his sister, which can accidentally carry over to other characters he interacts with. Due to this, he’s obviously pretty immature. However he's also pretty dang smart, but doesn’t apply himself and is thus lazy. Despite his laziness, he’s quite resourceful with his environment and usually knows what goes on within it. Alongside this, he is also the communicator of the two, not being shy to open his mouth for good or stupid reasons. Lastly, despite annoying the heck out of his sister just for the sake of being a jerk, he’d protect her over anything in the world. Sibling love, y’know?

Lacy is pretty patient with Clay, but often complains about his picking on and teasing of her. While she’s not as smart as her brother, she applies herself well and receives better results than he does, especially in school. She, like her brother, can be very resourceful in certain environments, and the two twins usually look to each other to solve problems together rather than separately. While she lets Clay do most of the talking as said above, she’s usually one that gives him ideas on what they should do and how they should do it, with some of his input of ideas mixed in as well. Another shared trait with Clay is her protective nature over her brother.

Through and through, I believe these two would struggle without each to guide the other, especially with them being twins and knowing each other for as long as they’ve been alive.

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Florence

Florence is a young lad who grew up on a quiet farm in the town of Tarvo. Florence is quick on his feet and quite the potty mouth. Unfortunately, Florence suffers from a very pessimistic view on the world, constantly seeing everyone as guilty until proven innocent. Due to this he has trouble making friends, but he did make one. Florence may not act like it, but he's actually really smart. He has an obsession with fireworks which led to him making his own and other types of explosions out of basically nothing. However, after an accident involving one of his explosives and a misunderstanding Florence has been a man on the run. Who knows.. Maybe a kid with a bright blue hat will accept him in his party?

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Mirach

Mirach is Maia's older brother, and best friend. He isn't a party member, but he's an important character in the story. Mirach is very brave and willing to do anything to help. He enjoys annoying Maia, as all brothers do. Hey, his hat is pretty cool too.

Will

Will is quite the interesting character! That I can't say much about! One of the few things I can say about Will, is that he's a side antagonist during TA! Who knows, he might not be as bad as he looks. He's a big lovable goofball, although he swears he's bad! Ghosts are bad right? (P.S. Don't tell him he's a ghost, ghosts scare him)

Since you'll be going through different planets in the game, they'll be a lot of new alien friends to make! Unfortunately I cannot say much about that yet, and thus concludes this devlog. Now, there will be quite a bit until the next devlog. We currently have some playable builds, but they're still being worked on. The project is still in pre production stages and is constantly changing. Everything will probably be under wraps until we finish a sandbox build including as many features ingame as we can as well as Sarun. We plan on holding a beta stage during that time, and will immediately begin work on the demo. We plan for the demo to include the first 2 towns Sarun and Phobol, as well as Silver Station the first dungeon. Ending off on the way to Mima. This should be enough time to introduce the story and main gameplay mechanics, everything you'll need to know for the full game. Thank you for following the development, and make sure to join the discord for more updates! I as well as the other devs are chillin' there. Seeya gamers.

Discord Link 🔗 https://discord.gg/23qHaxe