First Dwarf News

Hello, Dwarves!

The date of the First Dwarf Early Access release has been revealed! Watch our completely NEW trailer announcing the exact day that you should RUN to our Steam page!

[previewyoutube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uvdR-pXNHA[/previewyoutube]

It’s JUNE 19th 2024!

[h3]How much will it cost?[/h3]

The price of Early Access is going to be 24,99$ / 24,99 Euro / 89,99 PLN / 20,99 GBP

We are a Polish studio and that’s why we have a very special offer for our Polish gamers! The price in Polish złoty is lower. 😁 If you want to know the price of our game in your country, let us know in the comments!

Along with the announcement of our prices, we prepared a challenge for you, which you can check out below!

[h3]Download the DEMO[/h3]

While we wait for Early Access, our Demo is already available to try for FREE! Did you play it? We’d love to hear your thoughts!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2712830/First_Dwarf/

[h2]Community Challenge! May the whole world hear about First Dwarf![/h2]

TA-DA! We have a BIG SURPRISE for you! 🎉

To make things even more exciting, we decided to announce a challenge for all of you! Yes, ALL of you can take part and it’s super easy!

We want to celebrate the Early Access release of First Dwarf with our awesome community. You can earn a launch discount, if our Community Steam Group will get a high enough number.

[h2]Here are the 3 goals we established:[/h2]



Deadline for meeting the goals is June 19th, the date of First Dwarf Early Access release.

[h3]Tell everyone about First Dwarf[/h3]

By wishlisting First Dwarf you’re not only heightening your chances for the bigger discount during our Early Access launch, but also helps us A TON. For a small indie studio like us, it’s really a big deal. Adding games to your wishlist, helps us with visibility. That means a bigger possibility for success and spreading the love for tough dwarves and dragons!

Do you know the game “Tomato”? Yeah, that’s what you can do now, but change tomato to…

May all your friends, all your family and the WHOLE WORLD know about First Dwarf!

[h3]Other ways to help us[/h3]

Adding First Dwarf to your wishlist will really help us a lot, but we’d be extremely happy if you’d follow us on our social media:

• TikTok
• Twitter/X
• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• GameJolt

And MOST importantly, join our Discord server! During the launch there will be plenty of things to discuss and we can’t wait to meet you!!



[h2]We are ready!![/h2]



Thank you for your support, Dwarves!
Star Drifters Team 🌟🚀

Now that I think about it, dwarves are a perfect match for mechs. They mine the sturdiest metals, which you need if you're gonna build a mech. They're brilliant engineers, capable of building fantastic mechanical devices, so why not one they can ride around in? And they craft huge honkin' weapons like hammers and axes—exactly the kind of thing a giant robot would excel at swinging around...
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[h2]Watch our live stream with devs![/h2]

Hello, Dwarves! Steam Next Fest is just around the corner! We’ll be there, of course, with our First Dwarf Demo!

On June 10th at 10 PM CEST our 💕 dear team members 💗💗 will showcase our First Dwarf Demo 💖💖💞💞 Huh? 💞💞💞💞 Where are those hearts coming from?? I-



[h2]💗 Watch our livestream! 💗[/h2]

Hello, everyone! 😄✨ It’s Oliwia and Anastasiia here! You may already know us, if you’re active on our Discord server (Join NOW!), as Honeykonfetti and EngleDit. We’d like to invite you for our special Next Fest Livestream! Please join us on June 10th, let’s play together and have a great time! 🎉

Feel free to ask us any questions in the comments! We can’t wait to meet all of you! 💞

[h2]Add FIRST DWARF to your WISHLIST! ☝[/h2]



Remember that the First Dwarf Demo will already be available TOMORROW on June 8th at 9PM CEST! Take on the role of a dwarven scouting engineer yourself! It's fun to watch the gameplay, but obviously it's even MORE fun to play!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2712830/First_Dwarf/

Look, even Tru turned pink from all of that!



See you at the livestream! 😄✨😄
Anastasiia and Oliwia

Hi, Dwarves! 🧔‍♂️

Are you ready to play the First Dwarf DEMO on June 8th? We just can’t wait to share our work with you. Everyone will finally be able to become the 🛠 FIRST DWARF 🛠 and build your own colony!

[h3]Watch our new Demo Release Date Teaser! 🎥[/h3]
[previewyoutube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vFkAe3B9rU[/previewyoutube]
Hopefully you’re just excited as we are! We prepared for this day for quite a long time, because we wanted to make sure that we’ll give you the demo that you’ll love to play.



Download our completely 🎉 FREE DEMO 🎉from First Dwarf’s Steam page on June 8th and let the fun begin!

[h3]What’s in the DEMO[/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2712830/First_Dwarf/

In First Dwarf Demo you take on the role of Dwarf Tru and go fulfill the mission given to you by your Clan of the Northern Dwarves. Find the new and safe home for the settlers, after making sure that the uncharted lands of Driftland are ready to inhabit.

On this amazing journey you’re accompanied by a sassy Dragon, Ragna. She can help you with her fire breath and ability to fly to the various places that are out of Mech’s and Tru’s reach. Change freely through characters and use their different skills!

Fight dangerous monsters and build the greatest colony that will endure the attacks of your enemies! Build defensive walls and turrets that will help you destroy your opponents. 💥

It’s an introduction to our game, where you’ll get to know our dear characters, learn the main mechanics, like building, combat and crafting and have a great time!



[h3]Single and co-op mode 🙋🙋[/h3]

You can play our Demo with a friend! Free Demo version supports local multiplayer with splitscreen as well as online multiplayer through Steam. Please keep in mind that we’re still working on it!

[h3]💌Message for our Community Playtesters💌[/h3]

Below is a summary Changelog of things that have changed since our 1st and 2nd Playtests.
We want to emphasize that lots of these changes and fixes were made thanks to your feedback!!
Thank you all SO MUCH!

New:

• New voice overs for Tru & Ragna
  
• New economy system
  
  
  1. Maintenance costs added for the buildings
     
  2. Better communication of unpowered buildings (we hope :) )
     
  3. Updated UI to show resource production and shortage
     
  4. When you don't have enough resources, building furthest from the mana well will become unpowered, watch out for that :o
     
• New building added: Research Center - in full game this is the place where you will be rising technology level of specific guild and also be able to unlock new blueprints.
  
• New animations for the settlers
  
• Side quest “Eskoim Secret Weapon”
  
• Better dash/dodge system
  

Quality of life improvements:

• Camera shake slider - some of you felt discomfort when camera shakes were present, so we made sure that now everyone can enjoy the game with our option of turning them off or minimizing them!
  
• Doubled speed of repairing and mana extraction
  
• Added popup tutorials for:
  
  
  1. High Jump
     
  2. Rising Settlement
     
  3. Switching Characters
     
  4. Assigning Skills
     
• Buttons for building/destroying separated (it’s important to us to finish key binding options for the Early access)
  
• Mech high jump and glide improved
  
• Progress of the development tree
  
• Improved clarity of workshop quest
  
• Option to turn on/off Defensive Towers reach radius
  
• New loading screen
  
• Map scrolls faster
  
• Adjusted audio in intro cutscene
  
• Fixes for online and local co-op
  
• Tru’s animation updated
  
• Fixed blocking of character actions in split screen
  
• and many more other bigger and smaller fixes:)!
  

[h3]New voices of Tru and Ragna ❓❗[/h3]

YES! Hold on tight, because that's a BIG NEWS!



For the first time you can hear the brand new voices of our main characters! We heard your opinions and made that change one of our main priorities for the demo release.

Soon we’ll give you more info about our voice actors. We’re very curious about your thoughts after hearing them!

[h3]JUNE 8TH is a date to remember![/h3]

To celebrate our Demo release and also due to the start of Future Games Show (also June 8th, where we’ll reveal our Early Access release date), our team members, Anastasiia and Oliwia, will be playing the First Dwarf Demo live on Steam!



Please join us or we’ll be SAD! >:(( - Anastasiia and Oliwia

[h3]How to support us? Join our Discord! ✨[/h3]

We’re eagerly waiting for your feedback after you throw yourself into our fantasy world of Driftland! Tell us EVERYTHING you want about your experiences with our game on First Dwarf’s Discord server!

We’re waiting for you! 🤩

Join the adventure on JUNE 8TH!

Take care!
Star Drifters Team 🌟🚀

Hi, everyone! ✨

How are you? Hopefully great, because we’re just OVER THE MOON! There is so much going on recently, that we don’t know how we found the time to write this announcement! (Jk we always have time to update our dear community
[h3]☀🌴 Best Indie Games Summer Showcase 2024 🌴☀[/h3]

We doubt that anyone could be not convinced yet to try our game, but IF there is someone like that… Check out our new trailer on Best Indie Games Summer Showcase and see what’s waiting for you in our colony survival with tower defense, base building and action RPG elements!

See there our official trailer with the DEMO date release!

The date is set, soon everyone can have a taste of the product of our fruit of hard work! Let yourself dive into the fantasy world of floating islands of Driftland.

The event begins TODAY on June 4th at 8AM PDT | 5PM CEST. Check out ClemmyGames Youtube channel and see a whole catalog of awesome games!

[previewyoutube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acKDyXtGFA0&ab_channel=BestIndieGames[/previewyoutube]
It's the BIG Summer Showcase so as the name implies, that's a BIG event for us! Tune in and check out all the amazing titles submitted! 🎮

There will also be a Steam Sale that will go live after the conclusion of the showcase, so it’s definitely worth checking out, too!

Link to the Steam Event Page

[h3]Anthro Festival 2024 🐉[/h3]

Along the way, we’ll be taking part in a Steam sale Anthro Festival starting June 6 and ending June 10th. Yes, you guessed it, it’s thanks to our beloved Ragna 😉

[h3]Future Games Show[/h3]

We’re getting closer and closer to the Future Games Show! Join us on June 8th! It’s a very important date for us, as we’ll REVEAL…

Our EARLY ACCESS RELEASE DATE! Are you ready?

We’ll be livestreaming on that day on Steam! Join us as we’ll be playing First Dwarf and chatting with our two team members, Anastasiia/EngleDit on Discord (you could have already met her on our recent Pixel Pitch with Asmongold) and Oliwia/Honeykonfetti on Discord. We can’t wait to see you! ⭐

It’s a wonderful occasion to get to know us and see our game in action!


[h3]STEAM NEXT FESTIVAL! 👈[/h3]

Save ANOTHER date in your calendar! Steam Next Fest is a HUGE event for every developer and we want to make it even more special.

Tune in on June 10th at 10 AM Pacific Time and let the magic happen!



Also! ☝️

Due to the very positive reaction to the news of our upcoming “let’s play” during FGS, we decided to make another one for the Steam Next Fest! Join our Level and Quest Designer and Community Manager once again and let’s have a lot of fun! 🌟✨



[h3]PHEW! That's a LOT 😱[/h3]

So as you can see, we have plenty of events planned for all of you! And we just CAN'T wait for every single one of them!

Thank you for your support and remember, your feedback is always very important for us! Best place to share your thoughts with us, or just chat and have fun, is our Discord server!

Join us! 🐉🛠



See ya!
Star Drifters Team 🌟🚀