A Second Dawn ?

The launch of Siberian Dawn in September was a bit disappointing to put it mildly due to a number of different problems that were not directly connected to the gameplay itself, which I believe was perfectly fine. I am not going to go in to extensive detail about the problems but with mistakes made with a test group that I believed wanted to play the game and offer feedback but ended up being mostly a silent front I launched the game having to believe in what I had at that point and see what happened. I also probably foolishly believed that it would get more support from different websites that I talked to but that never happened.



One big mistake I made was with the rules and teaching the game, I treated it like a physical card game and presented the rules in that manner. I am now fully treating it as a digital game and looking at how to present it clearly for that medium, with better Orientation and a new training mission. I have also not been able to present the world of Siberian Dawn fully yet either. There are mysteries to reveal and much more background that I want to present to best show off this game and where it is developing. Narrative and world building are important here so I want to get it right. And as I am now concentrating on this fully being a digital game there are new areas of the game that I can explore without considering it as a physical game.



People may also not be aware that everything in this game is done only by me, so although you are getting one person’s vision with me handling every part of the game you are also getting one person’s perspective, which without feedback might sometimes make mistakes as with teaching players the game. I have had a couple of people offer great comments post launch which have helped improve the game but apart from these it has again been silence, so I have to trust what I am changing is best for the game and that people are interested in playing Siberian Dawn. It also takes a while for me to do all the things I want to do with the game, so I have not abandoned the game as some might speculate but I am busy making these changes.



So at the moment I am currently working on version 2 of Siberian Dawn with a large number of improvements that I hope will give the game a solid base that can then have future expansion easily added, while allowing players to quickly get into the game and fully enjoy the experience. Below are the planned improvements and there will still be an Android version hopefully when version 2 is finished, but obviously I didn’t want to release the launch version of the game on Android when there were problems, mainly with training, that needed fixing first.

New Oversight tutorial missions
Restructured Oversight
1080 HD version of the game
Graphics and art updated
Content Control menu
Game play and world videos
Finish Mission Pack 2
Android version



It would be great to have feedback, and if people talk to me and show an interest then I will talk about the game more, it is the best way to develop this, but obviously if it is still silence then I will not use my time to talk about what I am doing but use it elsewhere instead.

Stephen