Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty - Prologue 1939 News

Hello

It is Oleksandr from Starni Games. Ukraine War Stories' full version is finally available on Steam, and our whole team is very excited to hear your feedback on the full version of the game. It is a fully free charity project about the ongoing war in Ukraine we did to let the world know what was happening in our country, near our city.

Many computer games turn a blind eye to the fate of civilians in the war and prefer to show some heroic aspects of it. In the Strategic Mind series, we often raised the issue of civilians suffering during a war. Now, we took that a step further with the Ukraine War Stories.

We encourage you to give it a try and let us know what you think:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1985510/Ukraine_War_Stories/

And do not worry, the work on our key projects - Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty and Headquarters: World War II continues at full speed. There will be more news about them soon.

With Best Regards from Kyiv
Oleksandr and the Starni Games team

Hello

We are here today with an urgent report about the massive missile attack against cities all over Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv, where our team is located. This is how the day started for us:


Part of the team was already in the office, while other were getting ready to go to work or en route, when the first missiles hit Kyiv in the morning of October 10th. That was followed with several more rounds of attack. Overall, it was reported that 83 missiles of different types (43 shot down by AA defenses) and some kamikaze drones (some say 9 out of 10 destroyed by AA) were deployed in this attack.

We decided that everyone could work from home, although some people were already at the office. That came in handy, as subway stopped for a few hours.

As a person who lives in Kyiv my whole life and knows the city quite well, I can tell you that most places of the reported attacks does not make any sense in terms of military logic - its just some parks, squares or cars in the middle of the street, some tourist places as well. Nothing like an important military target, or even government building… The only explanation to that could be that the aim of these attacks is terror of civilians and an attempt to sow panic and chaos.

Yet, some strikes did hit some power plants across the country, causing power shortages in several large cities (but not in Kyiv). Right now, I am writing this news update in my apartments in Kyiv, not knowing where the next Russian missiles would land…

Ukraine War Stories tells the story of the first month of the war. It would take more than one game to tell the story of this entire war… Still, if you want to know how everything started for the civilian people of Ukraine back in February - join us for the full release of our free title on 18 October 2022.

The story of this war is far from over. Stand united, support Ukraine!

With Best Regards from Kyiv
Oleksandr and the Starni Games team

Hello guys!

Recently we are having even more good news from the frontlines, raising everyone’s morale in Ukraine and across the world.

Despite difficult times for our country, our team keeps growing, surpassing the 20 people mark, which is also very inspiring and allows us to produce even more high quality content for you.


Ukraine War Stories at Steam NEXT Fest

We are really happy that our free charity project - Ukraine War Stories - is presented at Steam NEXT Fest 3-10 October.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1985510/Ukraine_War_Stories/

If you have not done so yet - feel free to check out lots of free demos of the upcoming games at the festival. There are still a few days left.

We already see some first results, and the number of new wishlist additions fills us with hope that the project will be well-received on Steam. That is very important for us - we will not earn any money from it, but we will know that our work of passion was not in vain and that many people across the world indeed played the game and learned the real-time story of the people of Ukraine.

If you are interested in our project - please join us on 18th October for the full release.

We are also learning how to best present our projects at such events and will try do our best with the Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty as well at future festivals.

Stay tuned for future despatches.

With Best Regards from Kyiv
Starni Games team

Hello guys!

First of all, news from the front. As I write this, Russia has just officially annexed 4 large Ukraine regions (on top of Crimea), even though they do not fully control them and their troops are now on the back foot - some of them being encircled by the UAF as we speak. That does not change anything though - Ukraine will keep its struggle to restore all territories and kick RF forces out.

Dev Q&A #2 is available

The Dev Q&A video is now available. I did my best to answer your questions guys. The video is split into sections about every project, team as a whole, and future plans.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1381850/view/3309606136431202505

Discounts for all Strategic Mind titles - two days left

There are nice discounts for all Strategic Mind titles until the end of the week, so if you were thinking about grabbing the next SM game - it is a good opportunity to do just that.

Save up an additional 20% on top of the discounts above if you get Strategic Mind Complete Collection bundle:
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16499/Strategic_Mind_Complete_Collection/

Ukraine War Stories release date is announced

We are finally ready to reveal the release date for the Ukraine War Stories full free game. It will become available on 18th October 2022 on Steam.

We are extremely happy that many people from across the world have volunteered to help us with translation and right now we expect over 12 languages available at release. We will announce new languages as we progress towards the release date. That is especially exciting since our key goal for is project is to inform people across the world about the events in Ukraine.

We are also very thankful to everyone who helps us to share the information about the project and allow more people across the world to learn about Ukraine War Stories.



Stay tuned for future despatches.

With Best Regards from Kyiv
Starni Games team

Hello

The Dev Q&A video is now available. I did my best to answer your questions guys. The video is split into sections about every project, team as a whole, and future plans. Please, let me know what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz3mHR97bMU

I must say that, unfortunately, a couple of google forms had empty slots with answers, so we will take steps to prevent that from happening in future Dev Q&As - will ask for your email and send you a copy of your answers so that you can review and resubmit if necessary.

The next Dev Q&A will be held in December, so you have plenty of time to prepare more questions. Yet, if you already have some new questions - feel free to ask them here:
https://forms.gle/A7LCVU93y8mQnFUXA

Please, give us your feedback on the Dev Q&A format overall. Would you suggest any changes?

Looking forward to your feedback

With Best Regards from Kyiv
Oleksandr and Starni Games team