Deep Rock Galactic News

[h2]Hello Miners,
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The booze is gone, the jukebox is full of beans, and the Anniversary event is finally coming to an end after 2 weeks of trophy hunting, free beer, and smooth jazz. We hope you have enjoyed the event just as much as we enjoyed making it. And a most hearty thank you to everyone who purchased the Supporter II Upgrade - it has been humbling and encouraging to read all the wonderful reviews.

A small PSA: We will keep DRG Legacy Edition available for an additional week. It was initially meant to go away with the Anniversary Event, but we’ll keep it around until the next patch, which is scheduled for Thursday, March 23rd. More than fifty thousand of you have had a dive into this janky ol’ time capsule and seen first-hand how far DRG has come in the past five years. And if you haven’t had a chance to try out DRG Legacy yet, well, now you have another week to do so.

Thank you again for celebrating these past five years with us, Miners. We are hard at work on Season 04 as we speak, but more on that later as we get further along in development.


Until then - Rock and Stone!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

[h2]Hello, Miners![/h2]

It’s been a bit over a week since the Five Year Anniversary Live Stream - and our hangover is almost gone. So much happened - we had a look at the past 5 years and what’s to come in DRG, announced three games we’ll be publishing, and also announced the winners of the Hiring for Hoxxes competition! It’s this last part we’d like to recap for you, just in case you weren’t able to make it to the grand event itself.

Let’s dive in, shall we?



On January 16th, we announced a community competition to create a recruitment video for DRG. We made one ourselves to illustrate what it could look like.

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Once the competition closed, we looked through all 195 submissions (yes, one hundred and ninety five!) and selected 10 finalists, on which the whole team at Ghost Ship would vote to find a winner. That list eventually ended on 11 entries - we simply could not trim it down any further. The original terms of the competition were that the final winner would get an armful of prizes, one of them a Steam Deck. But when we got to witness the sheer amount of craft you people demonstrated, the sheer quality of the entries, we pretty quickly decided that everyone that entered would get the new Supporter II Upgrade.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2291670/Deep_Rock_Galactic__Supporter_II_Upgrade/

We also decided we had to add a 2nd and 3rd place, both of which would also receive a Steam Deck. Needless to say, we were having a great time watching all the videos - you can see for yourself, as the Lead Designer Mike and Content Producer Mark reacted to the finalist entries on-stream. Fun fact: Mark is the author of the recruitment video posted above.

In any case, enough faffing about - on to the finalists! These are the videos that made it to the final 11:

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Here are the 7 awesome videos that made it to the finals but didn’t quite make their way onto the podium:

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[h2]3rd Place[/h2]

The bronze Medal ended up being shared between Doomer, a well-known figure in the DRG community, and Not Boogie. They were tied in votes from the Ghost Ship team, and both videos are absolutely amazing. Doomer’s over-the-top action shots left us in awe, while Not Boogie’s take on DRG from the Glyphids’ perspective made us guffaw. A round of applause to you both!

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[h2]2nd Place[/h2]

Coming in second, we have another well-known name: Drilling in the Name Of! We are avid watchers of his videos on Youtube, but this video still surprised us. You can still hear people humming the song here at the Ghost Ship office. Check out the semi-finalist video, in all its musical glory!

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[h2]1st Place[/h2]

It was very close between the top finalists. The discussion was long and heated. But in the end, the WINNER of the entire competition is:

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SuperQuaker

We still don’t know how some of these crazy shots were made. Mark is desperate to know. When we started the competition, we never expected to see a video of this caliber, showing off DRG in such an action-packed fashion. Congratulations, SuperQuaker. Your rewards are well deserved!

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What a competition, Miners! And thank you to all 195 of you who submitted a video. And a hearty congratulations from all of us to all you finalists and winners!

Rock and Stone, Miners! Rock and Stone!


With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew


PS - we collected the finalists into a playlist here

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Some of you caught our Anniversary Stream earlier this week, but for the rest of you: We have revealed the first batch of games we are going to publish through Ghost Ship Publishing!

We know that a lot of you are following Deep Rock Galactic for DRG-related news and may not be as interested in what we are doing in terms of publishing. But the news we have to share is still rather DRG-adjacent: One of the games revealed is actually a game in the DRG universe! Allow us to introduce:




DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single-player survivor-like auto-shooter. Wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic, take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!

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The game is developed by Funday Games, and will feature many elements you’ll know from the Deep Rock universe. Procedurally-generated caves, waves of bugs (the enemy kind), and dwarves. Or dwarf, rather, since it is a single-player game.

We are very excited to reveal DRG: Survivor. We love this new and emerging genre, and this project came from us and Funday Games being really passionate about the idea of a survivor-like DRG game. DRG: Survivor will launch into Early Access later this year, and you can wishlist and follow the game already

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2321470/Deep_Rock_Galactic_Survivor/


The other two games announced during the anniversary stream are not directly related to DRG, but we very much want to share them with you anyway. We’re quite picky about the kinds of games we’d like to publish, but we’re very happy to say both of the development teams behind these next two games share our way of looking at things - not to mention the kind of passion for development we like to see and encourage.

But onto the next reveal!




DarkSwarm is a co-op, top-down tactical shooter where you and your team of elite operators use your skills, wits, and teamwork to destroy the alien swarm in daring operations deep inside the hive-infested colonies. It will have procedurally-generated levels, semi-destructible environments, and intense firefights.

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This game is made by Bitfire games, and the Game Director Jonas is actually an old friend of ours - once we saw what he was working on, we had to jump on the opportunity to bring this gem to life. We don’t have a release date yet, as it will need quite a bit more development time before it is ready to release onto Early Access - but don’t let that stop you from wishlisting and following DarkSwarm today!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2303200/DarkSwarm/




SpellRogue is a turn-based, deckbuilding roguelike where you cast powerful spells using dice. You upgrade your spells and gain legendary artifacts as you experiment with potent combinations to annihilate the Voidwalkers corrupting the world.

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We found this project due to a bit of happenstance. We were talking to Tim and Thorbjørn about something different, and they sent us a prototype of SpellRogue to try out. We ended up coming back to work the next week, having played 25 hours of SpellRogue during that weekend. We were sold. And we had to be part of this journey as well.

SpellRogue also doesn’t have a release date yet, but wishlist and follow it and you will be the first to know!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1990110/SpellRogue/


That’s the first batch of games we’ll publish through Ghost Ship Publishing. What will the next games be? How many games do we plan to publish? The honest answer is: We don’t know yet. Our publishing efforts are completely passion-driven, and that means we pick games on a case-by-case basis. You can check out how we approach publishing on our website, and we will let you know when we have more projects to show.

And in case any of you worry: Our publishing efforts are not going to take time or resources away from the development of DRG. The actual development team for DRG is focused on Season 04, and publishing is handled by Management. So do not worry, miners, any potential delays to future DRG updates will solely be a result of our own feature creep - but surely that’s unlikely to happen again! We have learned to limit ourselves this time, no doubt! For real! Right! Right?

Thank you again to everyone who tuned in to the Anniversary Stream and who participated in the trailer contest - it was a blast! And to everyone who have been playing DRG during these past 5 years:

Rock and Stone!
With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

Hello, Miners!

The FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY event is now active, and will end two weeks from now on the 16th of March. Go get that bread while the gettin's good! Here's a short list of all the goodies added:

• The Space Rig has been decked out like never before
  
• The Double Performance Bonus Event is back
  
• Brand new Anniversary Assignment, with a unique YEAR 5 PARTY HAT to earn
  
• Free beers at the Abyss Bar
  
• For funsies, we've added the DRG LEGACY EDITION to the game: Play the original 1.0 launch-version of the game from way back in 2018. You start it via the launch options from Steam - we have a guide for it
• And finally, we've released a new SUPPORTER PACK for purchase - aptly named SUPPORTER II. Is your stuff just not golden and blingy enough? We got you covered, fam.
  

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2291670/Deep_Rock_Galactic__Supporter_II_Upgrade/

We hope you have a blast. :)
Rock and Stone, Miners!

With love,
The Ghost Ship Crew