Occupy Mars: The Game News

While waiting for the prologue version, here’s a new devlog for you! ːsteamhappyː

Today we would like to talk about vegetable cultivation inside your Mars Base, which will be a crucial part of your mission. As a colonist, one of your main tasks will be to establish a reliable food source on Mars.



Inside the Main HQ, you can grow potatoes and beetroots, but before you start cultivating plants, you need to build devices, which will allow you to do it, e.g. hydroponic shelves and optionally plant incubator. At your disposal you’ll have a seed tool used for planting seeds. Besides, you have to make sure that your base has power and water connection because your plants need light and water.🌱



The next important step is planting seeds, but you have to choose if you want to plant seeds directly on hydroponic shelves or plant them in plant incubator first, which will speed up germination. The choice is yours!



If you would like to plant seeds in an incubator first, remember that once the crops have germinated, you have to replant them into hydroponic shelves. Growing potatoes and beetroots on hydroponic trays from the beginning won’t require replanting them later but it will take longer. In the full game there will also be additional steps where you can replant your crops into fields and greenhouses.

While cultivating, you have to monitor the parameters (like: temperature and water level) on an ongoing basis and manage resources wisely if you want to grow food successfully. 🥔



The prologue is close to launch. Stay tuned for upcoming updates. If you have any questions or just want to talk with devs and other future colonists, feel free to join our Discord server!

Best Regards,
Occupy Mars Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/758690/Occupy_Mars_The_Game/

[h3]It's time to summarize The Steam Game Festival![/h3]

First of all, we would like to thank you for playing Occupy Mars Demo during the summer festival! We've gathered tons of valuable feedback and suggestions that we couldn't have collected in any other way.

For us, the demo was a great success: over 50k people downloaded it in 10 days, and our wishlist numbers almost doubled! Moreover, our developers' stream had almost 4k concurrent viewers! We didn't expect so much interest in our game. It motivated us to work even harder on improvements.

To make sure we didn't miss any important feedback, we've prepared a special survey for you. Click on the image below to fill the short feedback form:


To sum up - thank you! To all of you who played, who shared their feedback with us, who sent bug reports. Thanks to your help - we will make Occupy Mars great!

[h3]Don't worry about the dust storm![/h3]

The Prologue is now in the final testing stage to be released this month. This free to play version will give you more playtime, more features and a way to verify if we are going in the right direction with implementing your suggestions.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310520/Occupy_Mars_Prologue/

Remember to add the Prologue to your Wishlists. After the Prologue, we will only focus on the final polishing of the main game.

[h3]Exciting future[/h3]

We have more good news coming up in the next weeks, as we are working on our Development Roadmap. Make sure to Follow our community so you won't miss any update. Stay tuned!

Yours sincerely,
Occupy Mars Team

We'll be hosting a Q&A session on our Discord server today: June 18th, 2020, at 6.30 PM CEST. Feel free to ask us anything about Occupy Mars. We're ready for your questions! ːsteamhappyː





Be sure to ask your questions on Occupy Mars: The game - general discussion channel.

See you there!
Occupy Mars Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/758690/Occupy_Mars_The_Game/

We would like to invite you to our developers' stream of Occupy Mars Demo today: June 18, 2020, at 5 PM CEST / 8 AM PDT. ːsteamhappyː

Be sure to join on one of the channels below:

• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/758690/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePyramidLab/
• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pyramid_games

During our live stream, you can ask us anything, chat with developers and have fun! 🚀




Feel free to join an amazing community on our Discord server and visit our social media. Don't forget to play the demo! We're waiting for your feedback. :)

Occupy Mars Team

The Steam game festival starts today: June 16th, and will last up to June 22nd!
Our demo mission continues so if you haven’t tried out Occupy Mars Demo yet, you can still do this! Play the demo and have fun!





Occupy Mars Demo is a small introduction to the world of Occupy Mars. As a member of one of the first successful Mars colonies, you have been sent to Remote Research Station located inside the Gale Crater. You have to complete your tasks and do everything you can to survive!


[h3]How to download a demo?[/h3]

You can download the demo from Occupy Mars steam store page during the Steam Games Festival, it will be available until June 22nd. If you encounter any issues, please contact us on our Discord server.




During the Steam Game Festival, you can expect more streams, a chat with developers and more! More information will follow in a few days so stay tuned!

In the next few weeks we will launch the Prologue (which will be a longer version of the demo).
The Prologue will give you more playtime, more features and a way to verify if we are going in the right direction with implementing your suggestions. Remember to add the Prologue to your Wishlists.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310520/Occupy_Mars_Prologue/




Occupy Mars Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/758690/Occupy_Mars_The_Game/