Secret Government News

Hello everyone,

As we announced earlier this year, our plan was to launch Secret Government in Steam Early Access this October. While development has been shaping up quite well so far, we feel that the game hasn’t yet reached a level that will deliver a satisfying player experience. Our goal with Early Access was not only to involve you in development, but also provide a game that is fun right from the get go. Τherefore we’ve made the decision to extend our launch date to 2020.

We know this news is disappointing, but by delaying the release we can focus on bringing you the best experience possible. In the meantime, we will make sure to keep you updated on the progress of Secret Government.

And remember, we are watching….

Hello everyone,

For the first time ever we will be at Gamescom! We are of course bringing Secret Government with us to showcase it to the press. We are super excited about it and we are also bringing some very cool merch that we will be giving away there so make sure to stop by our booth, grab a drink, win some merch and chat with us :)

Hall 10.1, Booth A20!

Looking forward to see you there!

Hello everyone,

we got some amazing news for you'll! Secret Government is coming out of the shadows and onto early access this October! But wait there is more. We signed a deal with publisher 1C Entertainment that will allow us to make the game even bigger and better than previously anticipated while being able to market it to more people! We are really excited about it and hopefully you will be too ːsteamhappyː We will be updating you with additional information in the upcoming days :)

Also, for the first time ever we will be at Gamescom in Germany showcasing the game to the journalists so expect some juicy first impressions coming out in August/October!

Also also we prepared a brand new trailer to celebrate this glorious occasion:

https://youtu.be/wHDjzjMTo4k

We have updated the beta version of the game. During last iteration, the main task was to demonstrate the future game model, based on already existing mechanics.

A new game loop scheme has been developed:
• the player performs quests and infiltrates into the institutions to earn domination points
• the player invests points in the selected research
• research opens up policies for use by countries and affects other mechanics
• the policies adopted by countries and the actions performed by the player (through the mechanics) influence the values of the classes and their support of the ruling and opposition parties
• at a certain ratio of support to the ruling and opposition parties, the player can make a revolution and change the political system in the country (which is the purpose of the mission in the current plot mode)
• data on the situation in the world is shown to the player (which may be the purpose of a mission in the free mode (free mode has not yet been implemented))

What is included in the version:
• The tree of ideas: the tree of ideas that are in the air, the study of ideas, the discovery of new actions, quests, political regimes.
• The mechanism of values and needs of different classes of society: the relationship of significance and satisfaction of the values of classes with party policies, the influence of various game mechanics on modifiers to the level of satisfaction of values, the ability for the player to influence them by performing actions
• Game mechanics updates and additions in connection with the mechanism of values and policies: the ability to influence the level of mobilization, the allowances of the military, the volume of trade, etc. calculation of public order mechanism change
• Creation of the policy change algorithm in the country and the dependence of the country's AI logic on the policies chosen by the ruling party
• The output of information in the window of the world about the current relationship in the world of policies in states and values.

We have updated the beta version of the game.
The main and most important thing is that the release of the game in the early access was postponed to October 2019.
We want to finalize the game to our original idea.
In the coming days, we will publish a list of what will come into play at the time of entry into early access.
In this version:
1. New interface design of the main screen, game menu, other colors of the map.
2. Processing of all filters (now they can be played).
3. New tutorial at the start of the game.
4. Reworked all atmospheric texts, added text explaining the tasks of fraternity at the start of the game.
5. A division appeared on the plot and free game.
6. In the story game added a list of all the missions that we plan to add to the full version of the game.
7. Ability to set the level of difficulty in the free game
8. Cloud saves allow you to play from different computers under one account.
9. For most of the interface elements added tips and hotkeys.
10. Added new music theme.
11. Mechanisms of riots / civil war / separatism have returned to the game.
12. Updated map, finished sushi pieces.
13. Countries began to spend the treasury on the actions of the government (now the country may not have enough money to spend).
14. A link has been made between public order and the complexity of fraternity actions in the country.
15. The relationship of public order and economic processes of countries.
16. A mechanism for the development of institutions
17. A link has been made between the level of the institution in countries and the effectiveness of the actions associated with it.
18. Quests become available for a limited time, disappear if not completed.
19. Now it is possible to be implemented at several levels at once in institutions.
20. Changing the balance of resource extraction fraternity
21. New mechanics of mobilization
22. Now it is possible to influence how much the military will maintain public order, and how much to participate in wars.
23. Added new item of expenditure - the authority of the ruling party
24. Each action has tags, quests have bonuses that affect actions with a specific tag.
25. Fixed a lot of old bugs and added new ones;)