Calyx News

We're thrilled that so many of you played Calyx over the RTS Fest period, left reviews and gave us feedback in the Discussion Forum.

It's exciting that so many of you see potential in the Demo, and it's great to receive so much well considered feedback.

We're now working through that feedback, pulling out the common themes, and using them as part of our decision making for the next phase of the project.

If you want to keep up with our progress, please add Calyx to your wishlist!

Cheers,

John, Mark and Phil ːsteamhappyː

This allows you to configure options before playing the demo map:

• Number of Calyx Roots
  
• Number of Ore locations
  
• Difficulty, from Very Easy to Impossible
  

Note, this is not us responding to any of the super helpful player feedback. Skirmish is a small feature that didn't quite make the cut when we launched the demo on Friday, so we're including it today.

Thanks!

John, Mark and Phil ːsteamhappyː

Added settings for:

• Frame rate cap
  
• Motion blur
  

These are in the options dialogue - if you've seen the game maxing out your GPU, you can now impose a framerate cap. We also made some minor UI and audio tweaks.

Thanks!

John, Mark & Phil ːsteamhappyː

Some YouTubers got in touch to say they've been receiving copyright violation notifications when monetisation is enabled on their videos of Calyx.

Although the music we used in v0.0.2.0 was Creative Commons licensed for commercial use, we could see it was going to be an uphill battle for each content creator to get their individual videos cleared to use it.

For that reason we sourced updated music and created a new version.

Any YouTubers who create videos from v0.0.2.1 or later can email us at [email protected] and we'll help get their videos cleared asap.

Thanks!

John, Mark and Phil :)

A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle with an overwhelming alien organism. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?

This demo is an early sample of our vision for the full game. It includes:

• A tutorial level to teach you the basics.
  
• An alpha quality, mid-game level to show how the final experience might feel.
  

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the demo to help shape future development. Please jump into the Discussion Forum and let us know what you think!



Thanks! ːsteamhappyː

John, Mark & Phil – Studio 568