Pro or con, depending on your personal preference: This game is both fairly deep and complex. I'm also getting occasional choppiness with animations and when opening up menus - nothing serious, just enough to be noticeable (and slightly annoying). Being able to move screens/menus around via click-drag would be helpful (which I've already suggested in the game's Discord). Some of the colors feel like they should be toned down a hair. Character interactions feel fairly authentic, and characters in general feel like actual people for the most part.Ĭons: While it's well-designed, the UI could use more work, especially QoL improvements. It definitely gives off a Dune and/or Crusader Kings "IN SPACE!" vibe, which I'm digging. The tutorials do a decent job of walking you through the basics. Pros: It looks good, sounds good (the music is awesome), and the UI makes it pretty easy to find stuff. Obviously, I could only glean so much from a ten-turn demo, but overall I'm liking what I'm seeing so far. We will make you proud of your support, and you will be pleased with the world we can bring to you. We are very excited and grateful for this opportunity to bring the full vision of Alliance to the gaming community. ![]() Signup for the Beta will be available at our website for 30 days. So all of our backers, regardless of pledge amount, will receive free access to the Beta when it launches towards the end of 2021 as a thank you for your pledge and your support! With over 350 backers, many of you wanted to see Alliance succeed, and we don’t want to forget about those who were willing to help in our time of need. Hooded Horse is also the publisher of Terra Invicta, another upcoming space strategy game, and we are over the moon about having the funding and resources to make Alliance reflect the vision we had for the project so long ago.Īs we will need additional time to develop the project at our new expanded scale, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the Kickstarter campaign. I am excited to announce that Alliance of the Sacred Suns will be published by Hooded Horse Inc., with guaranteed funding of $300,000, 10x our Kickstarter goal. Wishlisting Alliance signals Steam to show our game to more players, and is a huge help! While it's not a bad system, it had room for improvement.Quote UPDATE: We have some incredible news to share about Alliance, and what it means for the Kickstarter going forward.Īlliance of the Sacred Suns can be wishlisted on Steam and will release in 2021. Currently, you can either send a probe to the system that you want more information on as a Project, or a scout Force, and a scout probe will increase the intel level of the system by 25%, while a Force will increase the intel level by the Scouting value of the Force every turn. Specifically, scouting systems and planets. Next, I wanted to talk about a concept of the game that is getting a polish - Scouting. ![]() Of course we'll let you know when that happens! We haven't finalized an EA release yet, but it would be at the earliest in August or September. We'd like to do our next Closed Alpha II sometime in April, and our Closed Beta in late July. If you're on our Discord (and if you're not, why not?!) I have posted a preview of the main theme there. Also, AotSS will now have a custom music score, done by Cody Still, who has composed for Hollywood trailers and movies for years and has already composed some amazing music for the game, including the main theme. We hope to announce their addition in early Feburary. ![]() I want to have a new development diary go out about every 2 weeks, as those are the lengths of the development sprints we are working on in the studio.įirst off, with the funding provided by HH, we'll be able to add another programmer to the staff to work on things like UI scripting and data conversion, which will free me up to do a lot more with the AI, optimization, and game mechanics. We wanted to touch on our timelines for the year, and our plans for the next few open alphas, as what we're working on now. Hello everyone! Hope everyone had a good holiday season, a happy New Year, and that 2021 is off to a better foot than 2020 for you! We have certainly kicked off the new year running, and that's what we want to talk about today! Development Blog - 1.19.21: Scouting System and what's new for 2021!
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