Welcome to the October newsletter! This month has been extremely productive and insightful, and we can’t wait to talk about it! Let’s dig in!
State of the Game
Although cards are essentially done, as we start to bring more parts of the game into contact with each other, we’ve found a few things here and there that need to be adjusted, sometimes for balance and sometimes because playtesting revealed that a mechanic wasn’t fun or helped us realize a better way to implement said mechanic.
We’ve updated our equipment system to allow for a large variety in weapon choice while not overcomplicating the calculations we have to run on the development side. The way that this version of the weapons sub-system interacts with the cardplay and wargame design elements feels more intuitive and dynamic to play with.
Additionally, card art continues to be produced as we ramp up game production more and more! Matt has been taking the helm creating our card artwork, and does so on our Tuesday art livestreams! If you missed this month’s streams, check out the VODs below!
Fora card art by Matt (10/8/24): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSSV9PJo8pU
Manta card art by Matt (10/22/24): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkyQKoYELRg
Song of Origins
During our Thursday art livestreams, Charles has been making amazing progress toward finishing the artwork for the Song of Origins. If you haven’t come and hung out for them, you should! We’d love to have you hang with us and ask us questions you have about the world of Colony and about our development process! You can check out the VODs of Charle’s streams from this month’s livestreams at the links below!
Song of Origins art by Charles (10/3/24): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFSK5jsLvZ0
Song of Origins art by Charles (10/17/24): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmyATpbN0sI
New Social Horizons
While it’s not huge news, we have removed ourselves from Twitter after their new user terms made it clear they don’t have the protection of artists in mind. So we have moved over to Bluesky! If you’re also sick of Twitter and their antics, we encourage you to come on over and join us and give us a follow! https://bsky.app/profile/worldofcolony.bsky.social
Thank you for reading, and I can’t wait to show off what we have next month!
Cheers,
Isaac Muir
So excited to see how everything turns out super excited to read the novels whenever those drop keep up the amazing work this is awesome