Dark Future: Blood Red States News

Hey everyone, we hope you’re having a great August so far!

For those of you who are interested in all things space, you might have seen our upcoming game Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life where you’ll be leading your space agency to investigate the solar system and collect evidence of life. Earlier this year we announced our partnership with Professor Konstantin Batygin, and now we have another exciting partnership to share with you!

If you're one of those space lovers, you might have seen that the European Space Agency (ESA) are at Gamescom this year, which seems like a fitting time to let you all know that we are partnering with them once more for Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life!

The European Space Agency is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.

We are going to be working with the folks at ESA to make sure we can bring authenticity and real-world science into our sequel to Mars Horizon. As the sequel focuses on The Search for Life, we are excited to talk to them about biosignature detection, sample return, and much more. Their partnership ensures that we can create an authentic game in Mars Horizon 2, as we did with the first!

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Read more about our partnership on our blog!

[h3]The WDC World Oceans Day Sale starts today and runs until 15th June, 10am PDT 2023, and you can save a fin-tastic 50% off Mars Horizon 1 and 90% off Dark Future: Blood Red States. We will also donate 20% of our net profits to WDC to support their conservation work.* [/h3]

[h3]Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life is also included in this event as an upcoming title, make sure you wishlist and follow![/h3]

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[h2]WDC, Whale and Dolphin conservation is the leading global charity dedicated to the protection and conservation of whales and dolphins.[/h2]

Their expert-led teams in the UK, Europe, the Americas, and Australasia work across the whole spectrum of threats, from climate breakdown to accidental entanglements in fishing gear. They bring together, and work hand-in-hand with, businesses, philanthropists, scientists, NGOs, governments and grassroots communities to find solutions to the problems faced by whales and dolphins.

Their aim is to reverse the global decline in whale and dolphin populations by:

• Stopping cruelty from deliberate harms such as whaling and captivity.
  
• Creating safe seas, free from the threat of pollution, collisions with vessels and accidental entanglement in fishing gear.
  
• Winning recognition of whales and dolphins as sentient, socially complex beings, and our allies in the fight against climate and nature breakdown.
  
• Whales and dolphins are awe-inspiring. They are intelligent beings, vital for the health of the ocean and planet. They have suffered from terrible harm - deliberate and accidental - and their homes and populations are under threat. But it's not too late.
  
• Together we can still help them recover and flourish and they can help us reconnect with the wild, and repair the damage we have caused.

If you want to read more about WDC, you can do so here: https://whales.org/

You can find many other amazing games in the sale here: https://bit.ly/OceansDaySteamSale23

[h3]Thank you for joining us and for supporting WDC! 🐳[/h3]

*20% of our net developer revenue from this sale will support WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Whale and Dolphin Conservation is a UK registered charity (no. 1014705)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2281620/Mars_Horizon_2_The_Search_for_Life

https://store.steampowered.com/app/765810/Mars_Horizon

https://store.steampowered.com/app/370870/Dark_Future_Blood_Red_States/

[h2]We're delighted to be part of the Warhammer Skulls Festival again this year![/h2]

Dark Future: Blood Red Sates is our reboot of the cult Games Workshop 1988 game of car combat. Grab the game here or get the Developer Archive DLC - which has a folder full of normally developer-only builds and videos that gives you an unprecedented glimpse into the making of a video game, and also has PDFs of the original 1988 game rules/setting, the expansion rules of White Line Fever and the Golgotha Run PDF!

Make sure to check out Warhammer Skulls Festival main page for loads of exciting announcements and discounts on great Games Workshop titles plus hear from their awesome host Rahul Kohli!



[h2]Dark Future's is four years old 🍰[/h2]

We recently celebrated Dark Future: Blood Red States fourth birthday! What better time to take a look back at the making of the game in our stream for Digital Tabletop Fest:
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You can also check out these links below to learn more and see what goes into making a game:

- We wrote a big article about the ‘car combat’ genre in films, books - and our course - games.

- We also did a whole bunch of podcast episodes about the game around release in 2016;

• Part 1 (history of car combat genre)
• Part 2 (about the board game)
• Part 3 (about the video game)
• Part 4 (meet some of the dev team of the video game)
• Part 5 (interview with Dark Future writer, James Swallow)

- 40K Theories pondered the question of the setting of Dark Future

[h2]As part of the Warhammer Skulls Festival you can get the game and DLC for a massive 70% off![/h2]

Dark Future: Blood Red States is our reboot of the cult Games Workshop 1988 game of car combat. Right now you can get the game for 70% off - but also you can get the Developer Archive DLC for 50% off too - which has a folder full of normally developer-only builds and videos that gives you an unprecedented glimpse into the making of a video game, and also has PDFs of the original 1988 game rules/setting, the expansion rules of White Line Fever and the Golgotha Run PDF!

Make sure to check out Warhammer Skulls Festival main page for loads of exciting announcements and discounts on great Games Workshop titles



[h2]An alternative America. In another 2025.[/h2]

Here, the government is non-existent and society, struggling against pollution, stagnation, catastrophic climate change and gang warfare, is at the point of collapse. You are a highway warrior for hire, taking on contracts to keep the few laws that exist, in check. In the game you battle against roving gangs to control the dangerous roads and earn a living in these dangerous times. Tool up your vehicle with a range of weapons and upgrades in this game of both action and strategy that features a unique time-dilating command mode to help you make tactical decisions as metal crashes metal.

Check out our stream of the game for Digital Tabletop Fest to get an insight into the making of:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Want to know more about Dark Future and the game we made? Here’s a few links that will warp your reality;

- We wrote a big article about the ‘car combat’ genre in films, books - and our course - games.

- We also did a whole bunch of podcast episodes about the game around release in 2016;

• Part 1 (history of car combat genre)
• Part 2 (about the board game)
• Part 3 (about the video game)
• Part 4 (meet some of the dev team of the video game)
• Part 5 (interview with Dark Future writer, James Swallow)

- 40K Theories pondered the question of the setting of Dark Future

Dark Future: Blood Red States is our reboot of the cult Games Workshop 1988 game of car combat. We launched our reboot on 18th May 2019, just over two years ago - that anniversary combined with the fact that the game is in the immense Skulls Sale 2021 means that, if you’ve not already got the game and the DLC for it, then today is a good day to drive into the darkest of futures!

[h2]An alternative America. In another 2025.[/h2]

Here, the government is non-existent and society, struggling against pollution, stagnation, catastrophic climate change and gang warfare, is at the point of collapse. You are a highway warrior for hire, taking on contracts to keep the few laws that exist, in check. In the game you battle against roving gangs to control the dangerous roads and earn a living in these dangerous times. Tool up your vehicle with a range of weapons and upgrades in this game of both action and strategy that features a unique time-dilating command mode to help you make tactical decisions as metal crashes metal.

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Right now you can get the game for 50% off - but also you can get the Developer Archive DLC for 50% off too - which has a folder full of normally developer-only builds and videos that gives you an unprecedented glimpse into the making of a video game, and also has PDFs of the original 1988 game rules/setting, the expansion rules of White Line Fever and the Golgotha Run PDF!

(As well as Dark Future, there’s a ton of amazing titles in the Skulls Sale 2021, so you’ll want to check it out too!)

Want to know more about Dark Future and the game we made? Here’s a few links that will warp your reality;

- We wrote a big article about the ‘car combat’ genre in films, books - and our course - games.

- We also did a whole bunch of podcast episodes about the game around release in 2016;

• Part 1 (history of car combat genre)
• Part 2 (about the board game)
• Part 3 (about the video game)
• Part 4 (meet some of the dev team of the video game)
• Part 5 (interview with Dark Future writer, James Swallow)

- 40K Theories pondered the question of the setting of Dark Future

- Finally; we did a play through of the digital and physical games as part of 2020’s Digital Tabletop Fest where we also got to chat with Graeme Davis, one of the board game’s original developers!

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