Hi everyone,
An Alpha game update has been released! All current Alpha players can download the update via Steam right now.
We’ll go over a few of the highlights in this post, but you can find the full release notes at the end.
[Read more…]Today, Alpha was relaunched to the current Alpha players, many of whom have already joined the freshly minted test galaxy and began laying the foundations of their empires!
This is the final stage of Alpha, which will shortly transition into the start of Early Beta! More details at the end of this post 🙂
All future posts will be made to this blog (as well as to Facebook, Twitter and the forum), we’re retiring the Alpha blog.
The game client distribution is now managed via Steam. All Alpha players should have received their Steam key via email by now (any Alpha player that hasn’t received theirs yet, please let us know).
Players that signed up for the Beta (Early and General) will start to receive their personal Steam keys once Alpha has finished and Beta is underway.
Since the last version of Alpha, a lot of improvements and features have been introduced to the game. For those that haven’t been following the Alpha blog, we’ll go over some of these now. You can also check out the full release notes for this update at the end of this post.
Parts of the UI have had a significant overhaul and we hope you can agree with us when we say that the results are impressive 🙂
Hi everyone,
On Friday last week, an Alpha version of Beyond Dark was privately released to a small number of testers! You can find out more about Alpha on our release overview.
Releasing this Alpha enables us to:
Hi everyone,
With the Beta still under development, and many of you understandably wondering when it will be released, we’ve put up our release overview to show where we are with the game and what’s left to complete for each release milestone.
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Hi everyone, just a quick update to let you all know that after a brief stint on Greenlight, we’ve been Greenlit!
A huge thanks to all of you that visited our Greenlight page and voted for us. Your support has been very much appreciated!
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Hey everyone, you may have already seen, but we have recently launched our campaign to get pre-approved on Steam via their Greenlight process! If you haven’t yet seen our page, be sure to do so to check out our new preview trailer.
For anyone that doesn’t know, Greenlight is Valve’s way of determining which games should be accepted for release on the Steam store. Once Greenlit, developers are free to release their game on Steam as soon as they are ready.
We stated a while ago Beyond Dark would be available on Steam, and so wanted to get it pre-approved on there, to avoid any possible delays when the time for release comes. Some games never get Greenlit, while for others it can take a number of months, so fingers crossed it doesn’t take too long!
Please note that we do plan to make the full release of Beyond Dark available outside of Steam – including directly from us. The Beta software though, when released, will be available exclusively from us (we’ll let everyone know when this will be when we can).
[Read more…]Some of you may have already stumbled upon the Leaderboard recently added to Call to Arms. If not, you can access it by clicking here.
You’ll need to be logged in to Call to Arms, and before viewing the Leaderboard and related prizes for the first time, you’ll also need to choose your own Leaderboard display name.
Thanks to everyone participating in Call to Arms. Your help in getting more people to sign up for Beyond Dark enables us to invest more, which in turn enables us to develop more community suggested features from the roadmap!
We added the Leaderboard to Call to Arms as an opportunity to give out more rewards to players that had gone beyond the initial Grand Admiral tier of 50 points.
The Leaderboard is an extension to Call to Arms and will finish when Call to Arms finishes. From that point we will begin to get the rewards out to the people who have finished in the Top 10 positions.
The last month has seen a lot of in-depth discussion and voting on the Feature Board. Once again a big thanks to everyone who has been able to take part and we appreciate your continued contributions!
You can view the board here. If you didn’t catch our introduction post to the board you can find it here.
In this post we’ll walk you through some of the cards which have been approved or completed, and show how your input is actively shaping development.
We recently launched our Feature Board and there’s been a lot of great discussion going on already. We’d like to begin by thanking all of you that have had a chance to access the board so far for your contributions which have proven to be very insightful!
Although the board itself is publicly accessible, the ability to vote and comment has been reserved for Beta signups that have achieved the rank of Commander and above in our Call to Arms.
The Feature Board is provided by Trello so many of you will already be familiar with the Kanban format.
