Since the middle of December last year, I came back to Journey Galaxis to give it one more makeover. I didn't realise just how much needed to be improved and it's been a huge effort and even though I am now up to the end of what I could do with this game, I have tried to squeeze out as much juice as possible so it can be played and enjoyed more comfortably than before and offer a better game overall than what it was. Here are some of the key changes which will appear in the update for Jounrey galaxis+2 Edition which will still be free to play and download and only on Itch.io.

Main challenges so far:

• Quality testing: A Majority of the time spent is on quality testing and making sure every new feature makes sense and works without any error or issue that could make the game unplayable, seem unfair, or just make it feel annoying. The story for Journey Galaxis is 8 hours long *speedrun* and I have gone over many parts over and over again and so there's been at least 4-6 hours a day doing this on average.  Total is at least 188+ hours. :(

Mapping.

• Paralax Mapping: There's over 100 maps of different sizes and paralax mapping involves using Photoshop and each map can take around 5-10 minutes each and then depending on the size of each map it then can take 10-15 minutes to make sure each part looks right when exploring the map. So, that's a good 30+ hours.

Battle System.

• Improving battle system: The battle system as been hugely updated thanks to the Yanfly Plug-ins. I've been as articulate as possible to reformat the skills. I really enjoy the new features I added in to the battle system compared to before. I have made sure each skill is balanced and then some. All enemies now have their own types of skills. Everything has a chance to counter, each weapon has a different type of animation and certain weapons even of the same weapon type could attack more than one target or have it's own attack effect. All in all, I wanted to make battling as fun as possible compared to before. I've made many sets of new groups of enemies and hardcore areas where the toughest sets of those types of monsters roam if you want a fierce challenge with the most reward while you are playing through the adveture. Bare in mind at the end of the story you can freely travel back to any island visited. 100+ hours.

Stance system.

• Many of the characters who are in the party will be able to change in to a new Stance. In this stance the graphic of the member changes and they enhance in stats. New skills become available which can only be used in the Stance and the Stance will last a nunber of turns and if the Stance is in effect in the last battle it will be carried over. Stances offer incredible skills which wduring the toughest battle can really help. I've tested and made sure the skills may only be used during those times. All characters with a stance have special boosts and strengths. It's an exciting new system which I hope you will love!

Tradeskills.

• Tradeskills Upgrades. Fishing, Cooking, Mining and Crafting have had new updates too. 
• All the trade skills systems were made by myself and not by other developers or script makers.
• Fishing: More fish can be caught at low levels and through the mini game. Fishing now doesn't cost 3 gold each time it is done. After the new update the Fishing Rod will need to be repaired using fishing repair kit as the durability of the Fishing Rod wares out. If the durability hits 0 then Fishing won't begin when trying to Fish, however it will ask if you want to repair the Fishing Rod to continue as long as there is a repair kit in the inventory. 

• Mining: As mining level increases and improves the mining will becoming greater in one spot and so instead of mining once you'll be able to mine multiple times in one spot. Mining now doesn't cost 3 gold each time it is done. After the new update the Pick Axe will need to be repaired using repair stones as the durability of the Pick Axe wares out. If the durability hits 0 then mining won't begin when trying to mine however it will ask if you want to repair the pick axe to continue mining as long as there is a durability stone in the inventory. 

Cooking: Brand New. *This feature was orginially made and does not use any scripts from other developers*

• Cooking has been updated in to it's very own activity and I'm not sure why I did this other than the fact I really enjoyed watching Culinery Class wars!  There are many places in the world which will allow you to cook there for a small fee. You may buy the ingredients from the stores and cook Grilled food or Fried food. There are customers who will sit at the tables and you can sell your food to make some money! The customers might be happy with what you made and won't always buy the food you have and may want to eat something you don't have which means you shgould make a variey of foods to sell. :D I've tested the prices of foods and ingredients to make sure that there is a profit. If you fish or fight monsters you can pick up the ingredients without having to buy them, however, the ingredients are of a good price and will allow you to enjoy this trade. As cooking skill level improves you'll have access to better locations to cook where there are more customers and there may be one more surprise to top this tradeskill off. Hours spent 40+.

Quest Markers.

• Quest markers can be disabled in the new update as well, this is for those who don't want to be guided on where to go. There are already notice boards scattered all throughout the game which can guide you on the current location and where you are in the story and so I made sure all the help was there in the past and maybe I over did this by putting the arrows there out of fear. It's an option now.

The full list of work completed will be given on the day of upgrade release and show the full extent of changes. I made sure to note everything down so that I could demonstrate I did my very best to upgrade the game and make it shine.

Thanks and sorry for the delay. It's been tough work and I want this game to be a proud piece of work which many people can enjoy more so than ever. I'm not the best dev and it took a huge effort to make this better, I hope it will be enjoyed when the upgrade has been completed!