Dev diary. Year Results and Plans for 2022!
Hello Plutocrats!
New Year's holidays are just around the corner. Thence, on behalf of the Redwood developers, we wish everyone a Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!
Today's blog will be devoted to how this year went for us, and what events we are preparing in the new 2022.
In 2021, many new features have appeared in Plutocracy - politics, elections, lobbying for laws, stock exchange , updated negotiations, more tutorials and much more.
Of course, you always want to do more, and faster.
But you, dear friends, can be sure - we are working at the limit of our current capabilities, with our small team of enthusiastic developers.
[h3]So what is left for us to take Plutocracy from Early Access to a full release?[/h3]
1. The main thing is a full-fledged story campaign, on which we have already begun work. The story we want to tell will tie all the game processes together and give the maximum understanding of the game and immersion in it.
This story was inspired by the great trilogy of the American writer Theodore Dreiser "The Financier", biographies of the greatest tycoons of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the world's first billionaire John Davis Rockefeller, the king of the conveyor belt Henry Ford, the steel mogul Carnegie, and also films such as “There Will Be Blood” (starring Oscar-winning Daniel Day-Lewis).
The storyline campaign now takes up most of our time, so the introduction of new features is slower than usual, however, work on bugs is still going on non-stop, thanks to your bug reports.
2. Also, we are engaged in introducing various events into the game, which will lead to additional challenges, so that the game is even more unpredictable and gives more immersion in the era.
3. And finally, we would like to introduce the Online Challenges mode into the full version, where all players will be given the same game session settings, and after successfully completing the challenge tasks, the result will be shown relative to other players who completed the same challenge. This will help our community share successes, and develop their economic and other skills in competition with real players, not bots.
This is the main vector that we are working on right now.
Of course, the full release will also include the establishment of holdings, and other types of companies, and 3 new agents that we have not announced yet, and so on, from what is not listed here.
It would be great if you yourself in the comments told us what you expect most and what you would like to see in the game before other functionality. This will help us prioritize correctly.
Also, we remain open to new ideas, although the window for their implementation into the game is getting smaller.
We do not promise that it will be possible to fulfill absolutely all your wishes, because we are not Santa Claus, and not even his assistants, elves ... but just developers from the indie studio. But you can be sure that your voice will be heard!
2022 will be the release year for the full version of Plutocracy.
Therefore, if you like what we do and you see the potential of this project - support us - write your review about the game on Steam, participate in improving translations into your language by joining our discord server, or just wish us luck! We will definitely need it in the new year…
See you in the next Dev Diary!
New Year's holidays are just around the corner. Thence, on behalf of the Redwood developers, we wish everyone a Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!
Today's blog will be devoted to how this year went for us, and what events we are preparing in the new 2022.
In 2021, many new features have appeared in Plutocracy - politics, elections, lobbying for laws, stock exchange , updated negotiations, more tutorials and much more.
Of course, you always want to do more, and faster.
But you, dear friends, can be sure - we are working at the limit of our current capabilities, with our small team of enthusiastic developers.
[h3]So what is left for us to take Plutocracy from Early Access to a full release?[/h3]
1. The main thing is a full-fledged story campaign, on which we have already begun work. The story we want to tell will tie all the game processes together and give the maximum understanding of the game and immersion in it.
This story was inspired by the great trilogy of the American writer Theodore Dreiser "The Financier", biographies of the greatest tycoons of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the world's first billionaire John Davis Rockefeller, the king of the conveyor belt Henry Ford, the steel mogul Carnegie, and also films such as “There Will Be Blood” (starring Oscar-winning Daniel Day-Lewis).
The storyline campaign now takes up most of our time, so the introduction of new features is slower than usual, however, work on bugs is still going on non-stop, thanks to your bug reports.
2. Also, we are engaged in introducing various events into the game, which will lead to additional challenges, so that the game is even more unpredictable and gives more immersion in the era.
3. And finally, we would like to introduce the Online Challenges mode into the full version, where all players will be given the same game session settings, and after successfully completing the challenge tasks, the result will be shown relative to other players who completed the same challenge. This will help our community share successes, and develop their economic and other skills in competition with real players, not bots.
This is the main vector that we are working on right now.
Of course, the full release will also include the establishment of holdings, and other types of companies, and 3 new agents that we have not announced yet, and so on, from what is not listed here.
It would be great if you yourself in the comments told us what you expect most and what you would like to see in the game before other functionality. This will help us prioritize correctly.
Also, we remain open to new ideas, although the window for their implementation into the game is getting smaller.
We do not promise that it will be possible to fulfill absolutely all your wishes, because we are not Santa Claus, and not even his assistants, elves ... but just developers from the indie studio. But you can be sure that your voice will be heard!
2022 will be the release year for the full version of Plutocracy.
Therefore, if you like what we do and you see the potential of this project - support us - write your review about the game on Steam, participate in improving translations into your language by joining our discord server, or just wish us luck! We will definitely need it in the new year…
See you in the next Dev Diary!