Alaskan Road Truckers News

Fire Commander, a tactical RTS about firefighters, is finally here! We have prepared for you a host of attractions for this day, including a launch discount, a premiere stream, and game bundles.

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See what it means to face the fire. Command a firefighting unit in an exciting tactical RTS. Save lives, manage your water supplies and care for your team in 30+ missions.

Right now, we’re offering you a 15% launch discount. You will also be able to save extra in numerous Complete the Set bundles with fantastic partner studios. The available games include:

• Gas Station Simulator
  
• The Tenants
  
• Drug Dealer Simulator
  

All bundles will be available at a 15% discount. Bundle discounts do stack with individual games’ main active discounts.

Ready to become an everyday hero and lead your firefighting squad on missions? Get Fire Commander now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1362560/Fire_Commander

Truckers!



During the last few weeks, so many of you played the demo, we were truly astonished. You’ve given your feedback and we took notes diligently.

Because we’re getting closer to the premiere, we want to fully focus on finishing the full game and implementing fixes and improvements we have after your comments. This means that, for the time being, we will close the demo, as it does not fully reflect the game yet. Your feedback will make it all better!

The demo closes at 5pm CET/8am PST today.

Once again, thank you for playing and sharing your thoughts with us. Stay tuned!

Look what we’ve got:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/849100/Alaskan_Truck_Simulator/

Look closely at the page *wink wink*

Hi, Truckers!

It’s the 4th of July, and since our game is set in the United States, it’s only fitting to celebrate this day. But how? With fireworks? No, with something much, much better: the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis! It’s also in the sky, it’s colourful, but it lasts longer, and frankly–looks way more impressive. See it for yourself:

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Remember Greg, our Tech Specialist and Enviro Artist? We posted an interview with him a few months ago. He’s the one behind making aurora for Alaskan. We really want to show it to you and talk a bit about how we created it.

The so-called northern lights are a mesmerising light show put on by the electrons emitted from sunspots bombarding the upper atmosphere after being guided toward the poles by Earth's magnetic field. When the particles get to the poles, they deposit their energy while interacting with the ionosphere (the aforementioned upper atmosphere) and it causes the fluorescent effect in the sky.



The colours of the aurora depend on the chemical composition of the Earth’s atmosphere. Each type of molecule or atom produces its own unique colour. For example, oxygen will produce green light, and nitrogen will have a reddish hue.

Before we started working on our aurora, we did some research: we read about what is aurora and when it occurs, we also watched a lot of YouTube videos and browsed google images so hard we started getting ads for tourist trips to see it in real life.



It’s brilliant, isn’t it? Our aurora is a 3D model with an emissive material. It’s also accompanied by a particle effect – if you look close enough you might notice the shooting stars. And it wasn’t that easy to create. We wanted to make it look as close to the real thing as we possibly could, however, it needed to look good in the game, first and foremost. We think we achieved a good balance here.

Where in the game can we see the northern lights? Just like in real life – in the winter and at night. The best spot to watch it is quite close to our base, near the bridge. If you spot it in the sky, we encourage you to take a break, get out of the truck and just admire the view.

We’re happy to report you like the demo!

A lot of you have filled in the survey, for which we’re very grateful. The overall feedback we’ve received from you is expressly positive. Thanks to you we’ve identified some initial bugs and were able to fix them on the fly. You also had fair bits of criticism about different aspects of the game. We see it all and we took your remarks to heart, and we will do our best to remedy it!

Meanwhile, take a look at the stats:



See you soon, Truckers!