'83 News

[h2]Dear community,[/h2]

We're excited to update you on '83's development journey. Our team is working hard on our current primary objective: to get a stable build ready for closed community playtests, with the main hurdle so far being sub-par network performance.

Fortunately, running the game on a powerful bare metal Windows server (as opposed to the standard, more cost effective cloud-powered virtual machine we aim to use) offers acceptable performance and enables us to begin some level of testing – as we proved in a short, closed test earlier this weekend.

Our progress in net code optimization is now driven by a talented duo of experienced programmers, which marks a significant improvement from a few months ago when we solely relied on volunteers. The development ultimately moved from a slow crawl to a steady jog and we are continuously gaining momentum!

Thank you for your ongoing support and patience as we continue to bring '83 to life. Your feedback is invaluable, so stay tuned for more updates!

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At Blue Dot Games, we're excited to let you know that after a long period of downtime, we're officially resuming development of the '83 project!

Some of you may have noticed our earlier announcements (we acquired the rights for '83 back in 2023, and had a short segment at the #PCGamingShow this summer) but we did not have the funds to support an actual professional team of paid developers.

[h3]That changes today![/h3]

After a long series of meetings and negotiations with various investors and publishers, the funding came from the most unexpected place of the games industry: our Discord server! ːsteamthumbsupː

We would like to use this space to express our thanks and gratitude to a fellow Rising Storm 2 fan Kevin Green aka Beer_Brigade who decided to fund 5 months of development of '83!

Learn more about our plans and get to know Kevin in our Dev Talk Q&A video below:

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To sum the Q&A video up: we're a small bunch of experienced game developers who can finally make our favourite game happen.

We've previously worked on Red Orchestra and Rising Storm games (including the OG mods!), as well as have ties to some of the original '83 developers at Antimatter Games.

In fact, Sturt Jeffery, the Lead Designer of '83 at Antimatter Games, has joined us as well!

If you don't remember exactly what '83 was all about, we will let Sturt remind you in another Q&A video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiiDjQRoU48

[h3]Please stay tuned - we'll have more news for you soon-ish![/h3]

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In this episode of 'Through the Gunsights' we take a closer look at the sound design for '83.

Find out more about 83 here - http://www.83thegame.com

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