Project Planet - Earth vs Humanity News

We just released Update 1.2, our largest update so far!

This introduces the all-new Solar Flare disaster, as well as new turn and read time customization, notifications when someone used an ability on you, and lots of balance changes and bug fixing!

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Changes:

• Added the Solar Flare disaster to the game!
  You can now play a large solar flare and coronal mass ejection, causing the destruction of satellites, energy grids and other ground technology. Humanity will be left without power, communication and eventually even food and water for months or even years.
  
• Added turn timers to the game.
  You can now select how long players have to answer a question, ranging from 10 seconds to 3 minutes, or completely disabled. When the timer reaches 0, a random answer will be selected for the player. This should help keep the game moving along in case someone is AFK or not paying attention.
  
• Added Read Times to the game.
  You can now customize the duration of notifications and news items to align with your reading speed. Opt for "Very Fast" settings to swiftly dismiss messages for an accelerated gaming experience.
  
• You will now receive a notification when you are targeted by another player’s ability. Tap the notification for more information, or dismiss it by pressing the X-button.
  
• Introduced a new option for Earth’s final decision in some stages, with a random (positive or negative) effect on Population at 0 Force cost.
  
• Reduced the length of the Virus disaster’s first stage by ~3 questions on average. This brings the disaster more in line with the other disasters’ lengths.
  
• Ability options now have titles. The tooltip explaining the effect (cooperative/hostile, self-interest or environmental) that was previously shown in the title is moved to just below the answer title.
  
• Added an overview of active and past Stages in the question screen on web.
  
• Made a wide range of improvements to existing texts.
  
• Changed the unlockable

Balance changes:

• Decreased the impact of minus Population decisions by 3% to offset the previous change.
  
• Nerfed Earth and the Media’s impact on Population in Stage 3 and 4 of the Asteroid Impact, while increasing their impact on Ecosystems & Pollution. This should make it easier for Humanity to survive this disaster.
  
• Slightly nerfed Earth in the Hurricane disaster.
  
• Slightly nerfed World Leaders in the Asteroid Impact disaster, but buffed World Leaders in the Hurricane and Locust Plague disasters.
  
• Slightly nerfed Scientists in the Locust Plague disaster, but buffed Scientists in the Asteroid Impact disaster.
  
• Nerfed the Industry in the Virus disaster.
  
• Buffed the Public's endgame in the Virus and Asteroid Impact disasters.
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where an A.I. Earth could use more difficult Crises than human players.
  
• Fixed an issue where certain news items in Locust Plague stage 1 had incorrect titles and voiceovers.
  
• Fixed an issue where two decisions had no cost for a Scientists track in Asteroid Stage 1.
  
• Fixed two small issues with Earth Incident values.
  
• Fixed a blurry font in the settings menu.
  

Happy Holidays everyone!

With the festive season in full swing, we wish to provide you with a glimpse of the exciting developments underway for Project Planet!


If you're on the hunt for the ideal gift or an engaging activity with friends and family in the upcoming days, look no further! Project Planet is now available at a 30% discount as part of Steam's Winter Sale.




Just in time for Christmas, the all new Solar Flare disaster will be released this weekend! In this disaster you’ll face a large solar flare and coronal mass ejection, causing the destruction of satellites, energy grids and other ground technology. Humanity will be left without power, communication and eventually even food and water for months or even years.

After all, what screams “Christmas spirit” more than a whole new way of eradicating humanity?

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Lastly, don't forget to tune in tomorrow for a special Christmas Community Dev Night streaming live on Twitch. We'll be conducting a final test of the Solar Flare before its public release. Join us on our Twitch channel for the excitement!

In the spirit of the holidays, we're feeling generous and will be giving away a free copy of the game to one lucky viewer. Don’t miss out!



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So from all of us at Fifth Harbour Studios, Happy Holidays and a brilliant 2024!

Keep an eye out for the many streams by joining our Discord community. Here you can also stay up to date on the latest updates, find others to play with, join our playtests or get in touch and ask us questions!

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

Welcome back for another Dev Blog!

Today we’ve got some exciting footage from the upcoming Solar Flare disaster, info on how you can help us playtest it, as well as Project Planet’s very first award!


The Solar Flare starts with the detection of increased solar activity, where Scientists need to discover the flare’s potential impact on society and where its weak points lie. The rest of humanity needs to decide between spending their resources to prepare for the flare’s arrival or continuing business as usual for as long as possible.

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The second Stage is all about the outburst hitting Earth, with beautiful auroras appearing all around the planet, power grids going offline and satellite destruction spiraling out of control. Players will be figuratively and literally in the dark until they manage to restore power and communication channels. A perfect opportunity to secretly prioritize your self-interests without other players finding out!

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If these videos got you excited, you may want to join us for our first official playtest of the Solar Flare disaster. Saturday November 9th at 9 PM CET / 3 PM EST, we will be holding our next community dev stream on our Twitch channel, where we’ll be trying out the new disaster. We hope to see you there!




Project Planet is the perfect game to play during a chill night with your friends, but sometimes you need to amp up the tension and stress levels a little. In the upcoming Update 1.2, we will be adding adjustable turn timers as well as animation speeds. Turn timers give players a maximum amount of time to make decisions, ranging from 3 minutes (or completely disabled) all the way down to only ten seconds for a crazy speedrun.

The animation timers determine how long messages about decisions will stay on screen. Perfect for slow readers or those who prefer to skip every text with more than three words (are you even reading this?).


Last but not least, Project Planet has received its first official award! Back in June, we playtested our game at Game Taste’s Test & Play event in Rotterdam, which earned us a nomination for the “A Taste of Success” (best playtest) award. We’re incredibly proud to share that last Saturday, we won the award!



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That’s it for today. Keep an eye out for the many streams by joining our Discord community. Here you can also stay up to date on the latest updates, find others to play with, join our playtests or get in touch and ask us questions!

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

We're happy to announce that we just launched the first public Project Planet Playtest! We received lots of requests from players who wanted to help us playtest upcoming builds, so naturally we had to make it happen!

Starting right now, you can request access to join our public Playtests. Playtests will be available for a limited amount of days or weeks, until we've gathered enough data and feedback to create a new iteration of the build or we're confident it's ready to go live!

For a full changelog of this first Playtest, see:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2409300/view/3883853682973381868

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