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So at long last we are pleased to present, a look inside the A⁷ Player’s Handbook! Explore twelve pages from our science-grounded tabletop RPG, including high-resolution PDFs (so you can see it's not AI). read.alfhe.im/x1012a Standard and luxury editions available. Our Gateway Guardians video game development has continued alongside this and we will update on that separately, thanks to you all for waiting so long! We'd like to thank our talented human artists for their amazing work. No generative AI is used for artwork or writing. Illustration is by @TanoBonfanti and @SoesoeKoetjink 3D art and design is by Daniel Solovev, @edfedorei, @sergioseabra, the team at @onepixelbrush and others Writing, worldbuilding, game design and additional art is by Sylvan @biomimetical

Hey everyone! 🖖 Overdue update time! Things are moving steadily forward across all parts of A⁷, with the immediate focus on casting the dice and shipping the books for the tabletop game, followed by the A⁷ : GG demo. Gateway Guardians development has continued alongside that work. We’ve made good progress on the UI, optimised parts of the codebase, and focused a bit on reducing draw calls to improve performance on lower-end systems. We think it’s important since hardware has been getting so costly it’s all the more important that A⁷ runs well on lower end systems, without sacrificing too much visual fidelity at least. Once the books are out, we’ll post a proper YouTube devlog showing things in more detail. We also solved a fun technical problem with the TTRPG dice casting. We have ultra-fine 20-micron surface detail on our dice (possibly the most detailed ever made), which needed a custom printing process and assembly jig to work, ultra deluxe dive ftw! 💎 There’s a little animation below that shows how the pieces come together to form the master dice. If you’re interested in the process, just check out the Kickstarter updates for detail. The books are also around 80% through reformatting to US Letter from A4, with some design improvements made along the way. Once that is finished, the digital books go out and we move to print, exciting times! 🥳 We also started filming the first A⁷ guide videos, which will go up on Youtube shortly after the books ship. Late pledges for the books and dice will close automatically when shipping begins, so if you’re interested in anything make sure you get it in before it closes. For those of you who have been with us for some time and signed up for our blog or our website, we haven’t forgotten about you! 😄 You are on a special list 🎁 Thanks again for your patience and support! ❤️

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!

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!

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.

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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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 🫶 kickstarter.com/projects/ate…

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.

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

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

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! 💪 kickstarter.com/projects/ate…

Hey everyone! 🖖 Happy Halloween! 🎃 We hope you’re all doing very well, time for a spooky dev update! We’ve had some nice solid development progress in the last month, mainly some general optimisations for improved fps and improved pathfinding for our crowd system in Gateway Guardians (A⁷:GG). This has allowed us to increase the crowd size substantially, which is great for play (and looks suitably epic). With that out of the way we’ve reached a stage with A⁷:GG that we are happy to record some gameplay for our Steam clips in the next week or so, and we are looking forward to that at long last. We are still pre-alpha but things have improved a lot since our last clips in Feb and it’s coming together nicely. Over the next month we are previewing some of the TTRPG books (mainly the GM guide) so everyone can become more familiar with the A⁷ game system, we found a printer we are happy with for our luxury editions and look forward to sharing the results with you! Our regular updates for development are at the end of each month for now, next month onwards includes video so make sure to follow our YouTube channel @Aten7Game

Hey Everyone! 🖖 We hope you're doing very well 😊 We are very pleased to announce the launch of our Steam page for A⁷ : Gateway Guardians! We're happy to get to this phase at last. It's taken a while, and we still have a bit more to do, but we are delighted to have you all along with us as we get closer to release ♥️ We are moving to a regular posting schedule again. We have also launched our other social channels, so don't forget to follow, and we'll see you there! You'll find them all here : linktr.ee/aten7 X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Discord Join us on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3…

A note on Phyles🖖 By 2126, humanity had sorted itself into Phyles—Cyberpunks clinging stubbornly to chrome, Vamps forever hunting their digital prey, techno-dissenter Luddies, retro-loving Two Wavers, the armoured clade Bonies, or Das Metal goblins redefining ugly. Everyone finds their niche — unity sold separately. You can choose from over 33 Phyles and Clades in A⁷, each with their benefits and costs. A Phyle is like your social group got a little hardcore, a Clade is when you tweak your genetic line. What Phyle do you think these standup folks belong to? #Aten7 #A7 #rpg #ttrpg #UpAndAten