Thank you Greenlight
Welcome everyone to a new Iron Armada development update!
After being successfully Greenlit, we're proud to finally be in the final stages of our official Steam early access release! Iron Armada was one of the last titles to be Greenlit before Valve shut down the program, and as sad as we are to see the Greenlight program desist... we were honored to become one of the last Greenlit development studios on Steam.
Thank you everyone who helped us get our first game on Steam, and we're excited to show you how far we can take our first official game "Iron Armada" with your support.
If you would like to visit our Steam Greenlight page one last time (for nostalgia purposes) you can visit it here! Along with our first official trailer, and older footage of our original builds! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=814094246
Now is time to crunch down, and focus on making Iron Armada into the amazing game we all envisioned it to be. As many of you know, community involvement, a free version of the game, mod support, and dedicated servers are among our top priorities for Iron Armada. So let's discuss those first.
This is something that we want to focus on as much as possible, however since our engine is built from scratch... it can be incredibly difficult. We want to ask for our community's support to help implement this as quickly as we can (and in the most secure way we can.)
We will be opening our development repository to the public sometime near our official Steam release, and there... our most dedicated community members can help us review our code, brainstorm new ideas, and implement deeper functionality.
If you would like to make an account on our code repository in preparation for this, please make an account here! We'll be sure to post another announcement when the repository is opened!
Our community, and our studio, have always believed in being inclusive to our playerbase. We are honored by the financial support we receive from our community members, but we don't want to alienate our players who haven't been able to purchase the game.
Currently we're working to have a free version of Iron Armada available via Steam's "free demo" service. However we're having some issues with multiplayer compatability between free and paid users. This is something we can fix, but will require complete independence from Steam's server framework. If anyone is interested in assisting us with this, register on our codebase!
As any successful community-driven multiplayer game requires, a large priority for us is releasing dedicated servers for our community members to host. We are still concerned about the potential for hackers, griefers, and exploiters of the dedicated server code... but over time we will be opening up our dedicated server executible to our community leaders.
Lastly, I just want to say thank you. To everyone. Everyone who has supported us, and everyone who believes in our game. We don't intend to be the most popular game on Steam, or the most successful, but we want to be true to our community... and make the game we want to play. We're happy you believe in that as much as we do.
There will be more announcements coming soon, talking more about how you can help, what new features we're planning, ideas we want your input on, and how we can make Iron Armada better together. I'm excited to share them with you soon! In the mean time, go download the free alpha of the game and help us test!
Until next time, I look forward to seeing you on the battlefield!
~ Bluedrake42
Drakeling Labs
Successfully Greenlit
After being successfully Greenlit, we're proud to finally be in the final stages of our official Steam early access release! Iron Armada was one of the last titles to be Greenlit before Valve shut down the program, and as sad as we are to see the Greenlight program desist... we were honored to become one of the last Greenlit development studios on Steam.
Thank you everyone who helped us get our first game on Steam, and we're excited to show you how far we can take our first official game "Iron Armada" with your support.
If you would like to visit our Steam Greenlight page one last time (for nostalgia purposes) you can visit it here! Along with our first official trailer, and older footage of our original builds! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=814094246
What comes next?
Now is time to crunch down, and focus on making Iron Armada into the amazing game we all envisioned it to be. As many of you know, community involvement, a free version of the game, mod support, and dedicated servers are among our top priorities for Iron Armada. So let's discuss those first.
- Mod (or Workshop) Support
This is something that we want to focus on as much as possible, however since our engine is built from scratch... it can be incredibly difficult. We want to ask for our community's support to help implement this as quickly as we can (and in the most secure way we can.)
- Community Involvement
We will be opening our development repository to the public sometime near our official Steam release, and there... our most dedicated community members can help us review our code, brainstorm new ideas, and implement deeper functionality.
If you would like to make an account on our code repository in preparation for this, please make an account here! We'll be sure to post another announcement when the repository is opened!
- Free Iron Armada
Our community, and our studio, have always believed in being inclusive to our playerbase. We are honored by the financial support we receive from our community members, but we don't want to alienate our players who haven't been able to purchase the game.
Currently we're working to have a free version of Iron Armada available via Steam's "free demo" service. However we're having some issues with multiplayer compatability between free and paid users. This is something we can fix, but will require complete independence from Steam's server framework. If anyone is interested in assisting us with this, register on our codebase!
- Dedicated Servers
As any successful community-driven multiplayer game requires, a large priority for us is releasing dedicated servers for our community members to host. We are still concerned about the potential for hackers, griefers, and exploiters of the dedicated server code... but over time we will be opening up our dedicated server executible to our community leaders.
Thank You
Lastly, I just want to say thank you. To everyone. Everyone who has supported us, and everyone who believes in our game. We don't intend to be the most popular game on Steam, or the most successful, but we want to be true to our community... and make the game we want to play. We're happy you believe in that as much as we do.
There will be more announcements coming soon, talking more about how you can help, what new features we're planning, ideas we want your input on, and how we can make Iron Armada better together. I'm excited to share them with you soon! In the mean time, go download the free alpha of the game and help us test!
Until next time, I look forward to seeing you on the battlefield!
~ Bluedrake42
Drakeling Labs