Great Houses of Calderia News

[h3]We're glad to announce that we will be participating in TactiCon, the Steam festival celebrating strategy games. Let's celebrate together![/h3]


What is TactiCon?
TactiCon is a digital convention hosted on Steam celebrating strategy video games, officially supported by Valve. It will feature upcoming and recently released or updated strategy and tactics games across a number of different subgenres (grand strategy, 4X, RTS, turn-based tactics, and similar). There will be unique talks, panels, interviews, and let’s plays given by experts from the genre in addition to showcasing the games themselves in a dedicated sale.

Try our new campaign mode (demo) and let us know what you think! It will have slight changes from Gamescom's one (July).

[h3]During TactiCon:[/h3]
🎤 Jussi, Creative Director of the game, will participate in a panel about "The challenge of designing the core game loop of strategy games". Set a reminder to watch the panel during TactiCon!


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[h3]Juha, our Character Artist, made an accelerated video of the creation process of a unit.[/h3]

In this video, you will see how he's drawing the silhouette, adding colors and lights to make one of the Peasant militia units come to life!

https://youtu.be/bEqRf7dJ9JU
What are units?
Units are used in military conflicts like companions are used in social conflicts. Units can be recruited by the players when building an army. They all give different bonuses to the fiefdom.

Their appearance is based on Renaissance soldiers mixed with classical antiquity and a splash of fantasy elements.


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Did you miss our Summer miniseries about the references used to design our key art characters? Find them here!



We took inspiration from Renaissance-themed TV Shows, but also from History, or even real-life outfits and objects. All the characters have their own episode. Learn more about their face references, and where are their outfits coming from!

[h3]Episodes of the characters and their inspirations:[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1812910/view/3350130288844599327
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1812910/view/3350130288844601175
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1812910/view/3350130288844601943
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1812910/view/3350131733954914272
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1812910/view/3376029156932270779
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1812910/view/3376029156936561385
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1812910/view/3376030426068289756
[h3]Great Houses of Calderia's key art:[/h3]


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During the past few days, you could try the demo and gave us some priceless feedback. To give you the best experience possible in Great Houses of Calderia, here is a new update.

The demo has now received some slight changes and bug fixes. We collect your feedback really carefully. Don't hesitate to share it with us! Fill out this 4min form to help us: Feedback form

We hope you enjoy the demo!

[h2]Patchnote[/h2]
[h3]Additions:[/h3]

• Playground illustrations
  
• Traits have multiple opposite traits
  
• Reputation traits
  
• Timers to traits
  
• Reserve slot as unit card
  
• Special traits
  

[h3]Updates:[/h3]

• AI
  
• Landing unit tooltip
  
• Multiple traits on same row in character info
  
• Only adult starting characters should gain extra traits
  

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• Broken road connection graphics
  
• Camera moving on its own for no reason
  
• Can't drag and drop adults in assigned custodian screen
  
• Caravans are shown above fiefdom widget and fiefdom buttons
  
• Coat of arms creation show wrong icon and background
  
• Crash when no character on events
  
• Crest customization uses previous frame art
  
• Fiefdom input name window grows infinitely with input
  
• Game crash on a specific save
  
• In trade, willingness bar doesn't always update correctly
  
• Loading save causes character skills to go down by -10
  
• Mood traits should not be included in the start character creation traits
  
• Potential crash during event resolving
  
• Profession List Jitter
  
• Relation bonuses tooltip shows incorrect total relation value
  
• Starting location, fiefdoms have wrong hitboxes
  
• Tutorial gives always the same name for your city
  
• Unable to select fiefdom when clicking the back button
  

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[h3]Let's continue our Summer mini-serie on the Great Houses of Calderia characters' creation processes. Learn more about the references, artists' inspirations, and even discover the first drafts![/h3]

[h2]FSixth episode: Leon[/h2]

As the game is located (supposedly) in the Mediterranean area, we had to take inspiration from South cultures and populations. We took inspiration from The Borgias, TV show where a Spanish family tries to control Italy during the Renaissance, and Game of Thrones, a fantastical series about conquerors and royal Houses. Leon is the Master of Arms of the Duke's family.

[h3]Leon's face references[/h3]

The references used for Leon are Charles VIII of France from The Borgias, a picture from Episode 8 - "The Art Of War", and Robert Baratheon, king of the Seven Kingdoms in Game of Thrones. These two rulers fitted the idea we have of the Master of Arms. He should be in charge of armies and have a strong stature. He is openly hostile and someone really cynical.

[h3]Leon and his armor reference[/h3]

Leon is wearing parts of armor from Emperor Maximilian's (son of Frederick III von Habsburg) armor, from 1485. Since he is leading the military forces of the fiefdom, he has to look like he's ready to battle. He wears luxurious armor for special occasions, here the wedding. He doesn't wear full armor because of the situation (feats), but also to be able to move correctly and be comfortable. He has an eye patch to show he has experience on the battlefield. It is probably hiding a scar, who knows!

[h3]Leon doesn't want to be at the wedding feast[/h3]

Leon is the Master of Arms and is here to train the future soldiers but also to manage the fiefdom's army. He is bored being at this wedding and has better things to do. To pass time, he's drinking a lot. We didn't share a lot of information about him yet, but maybe in the next trailers..!


We hope you enjoyed diving into our creation processes. We really like to share some "behind-the-scene content". Please, tell us if you're interested to see more, we plan to post one character per Friday during Summer!

To be part of the development process of Great Houses of Calderia or simply chat with the devs, join us on Discord!
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