Project Planet - Earth vs Humanity News

Thanks a lot to @mshoboslayer for launching Project Planet into Next Fest, playing the game together with the developers and answering questions!

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Project Planet is a strategical party game for up to six players.

Destroy Humanity with horrible disasters as Planet Earth! Or team up with up to five friends and try to survive as humanity!

Think Plague Inc. meets Pandemic (the board game), with JackboxTV-style drop-in-and-play!

We just released update 0.9.1 in preparation for Steam Next Fest that's starting on Monday.

This update introduces a new tutorial video for new player, kick options for the party leader to remove unwanted or disconnected players from the game, and lots of smaller fixes.

Changes:

• Added a Tutorial Video to the game, which the Party Leader can start while in the Lobby Screen.
  
• The Party Leader now has a kick function to remove unwanted or disconnected players from the game.
  
• Kicked players will now be taken over by AI for the remainder of the game, to prevent games from getting stuck when a player has to leave or is unable to rejoin.
  
• Replaced “-4 Population” with “all scores x1.25” in Earth’s final question of Virus Stage 1.
  
• Increased the length of Virus Vaccines Stage by approximately 4 questions.
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where World Leaders wouldn’t always get at least one question in Virus Vaccines Stage.
  
• Fixed an issue where some research tracks were unclear.
  
• Fixed an issue where “Funding received” for Scientists showed 0 when 4 funding was received.
  
• Fixed an issue where a news item voiceover was partially cut off.
  
• Fixed an issue where the answer types for Scientists' negative ability targeting World Leaders would occasionally be incorrect.
  
• Fixed an issue where the wrong News Item was sometimes shown in Virus Stage 2.
  
• Fixed an issue where the icon would indicate players would receive score instead of lose score when bidding on the Crisis (blue squares instead of red squares).
  

Do you love the idea of destroying Humanity using all kinds of disasters as Planet Earth, but you're not sure how this game works exactly? Or do you want to get a better understanding of how you can work with and against your friends to survive as Humanity?

In this Tutorial Video we explain the basics of Project Planet - Earth vs Humanity!

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Hope that cleared things up a little! And don't forget to hit that Wishlist button if you like what you see!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2224610/Project_Planet__Earth_vs_Humanity/

Welcome back for another dev blog!

It’s already been over a week since our demo release, and it’s been a blast hearing all the positive feedback and getting to know some of the early adopters! We’ve also been watching and interacting with some of the Twitch streams and have some exciting news about Steam Next Fest for you today.


The first week of the demo release has been an extremely exciting milestone for us. It’s been great to finally see players engage with Project Planet and provide us with valuable feedback, but most of all enjoy the game! We’ve already seen a steep increase in Wishlists and traffic, so thank you so much for that! We were also able to join the latest edition of #PitchYaGame on Twitter last Friday, to share the game with even more people.


Over the past two weeks we’ve already seen a lot of Twitch streamers picking up the game. We’re incredibly grateful in particular to UserFriendsly for frequently playing the game with his audience and providing us with much needed feedback, as well as FlynnyFae for having us for a dev interview and play session.

Of course a big thanks to all the other streamers that are picking it up as well! Next week we have something exciting planned with Coppersan and Raar Maar Waar, so look out for that. And if you know any streamers that like to engage with their audience, please suggest they have a look at Project Planet!


Finally we have some exciting news to share, as Project Planet will be participating in the next edition of Steam Next Fest! We’re hoping to reach a ton of new players and interact with as many people as possible. Be sure to check out the official livestream (to be scheduled soon) as part of the festival for a developer playthrough and Q&A.

But that’s not all, as Project Planet was selected to showcase at the Indigo Festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands on the 21st of June. We are very proud to be part of the select 22 games that were chosen to participate in this year’s edition and looking forward to meeting press and industry professionals there!


Last but not least, Project Planet will be joining Test & Play for the Test Before The Fest event in Rotterdam on June the 15th at the Poing Arcade Bar. There, we will be testing the game to gather some final feedback and potential issues in the week leading up to Steam Next Fest. So if you’re in the area and want to play Project Planet live with other gamers, come check it out!


That’s it for today. Exciting times ahead!

Be sure to join our Discord community to discuss the game, or if you want to get in touch or ask us questions! And see you at Steam Next Fest!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2224610/Project_Planet__Earth_vs_Humanity/

We're nearly there, only 1 day left until the demo release! We can't wait, how about you?

Make sure to Wishlist the game if you haven't already and Follow the page if you want to be notified when we go live!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2224610/Project_Planet__Earth_vs_Humanity/