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offstimme.com – or
voices.com – Where you can post your own project and invite community and put up a budget proposal.
fiverr.com – Who have direct price calculation and order option what makes it fast.
Dear Space Colonists, our monthly update of Imagine Earth this time adds a background story frame to the campaign and a new additional vegetation set.
Maybe you where one of those who perceived our planets as a bit too normal and not very alien-like. We had the same feeling for some time and saw chance to try something new in terms of vegetation. The whole set of forests (8 bioms + 1 underwater) is now being replaced on two of the six campaign planets to make their themes more diversified. It also triggered us to do another set of vegetation besides trees and mushrooms. Could be giant ferns or totally alienated, glowing crystal plants. Any ideas?
We heard it from time to time and felt the same way. The campaign was lacking a bigger context for the story. We have added this now in the form of cut scenes told in the campaign screen. This links all the missions to a big picture and a real goal that is followed by you and the other companies.
A minimum of 10% goods will always be put into storage if you prioritize a certain resource. That keeps you from waiting for a resource package you wanted to store when the production value of the resource is low.
On the Rounos mission we had a scripted enemy which could finally be replaced by our AI. In addition we have polished the mission on planet Rounos. There were serious balancing issues that are hopefully working out much better now.
You can recognize much easier when there are important events somewhere on the planet. Quest icons have pulsing markers around themselves. In addition these quests are arranged in an own line in the bookmark panel. You can jump to these Events simply by pressing TAB.
Dear Space Colonists. We have released our monthly update of Imagine Earth. In the next days we will also update the Demo version to the latest state.
This release is foremost a beauty and game atmosphere update.
We have implemented a new atmospheric scattering shader that puts every planet into a unique light color situation.
Hover cars fly through the skyscraper canyons of your cities and show how full districts are. They bring some visual life into the so far empty city districts and the whole colony environment at all
This is only the beginning – we plan to have cars driving to all of the supply buildings as well.
It got totally reworked to make the end boss more understandable and assailable. The robotic entity is now attackable not only with astroid strikes but also with gaian fire, volcano eruptions from the temple and bombs as well.
The companions are constantly giving you tips how to attack the assimilators.
In addition we put a lot of work into rounding up the storytelling of the mission. Plus there is now a proper outro sequence thanking you for your great efforts to make it this far 😉
We also had to redesign how temples work. Spells are now available from the beginning as you have to sacrifice anyway to get the construct loaded with gaian energy.
You can now queue sacrifices and load up to four tons of gifts into it that will slowly be turned into gaia one after the other. This makes spells much more accessible and the temples therefor much more use- and powerful.
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Hi there, what a pleasure for Serious Brothers to be at the Reversed Festival for Games in Museumsquartier MQ Vienna! Nice to meet so many interesting people and there latest creations and also some professionals from the industry.
MarZ Rising – Am dollsten gefiel mir Style und Atmosphäre bei diesem Tactical Tower Defense Game auf dem Mars. Vermutlich wäre es mir allerdings zu schwer.
Minty Pic – Eine ebenso witzige wie chaotischer App, die zwei gemeinsam vor der Kamera getroffene Propanden knippst und ihnen skurrile Sprechblasen unterschiebt. Free!
Der Preis für das beste Konzept wurde an Goliath VR. verliehen. Ein mit Kinect verfolgter Spieler miemt einen Giganten, auf dem ein zweiter Spieler Jump&Run mäßig von Plattform zu Plattform läuft.
Das Beste Spiel des Festivals beruht auf Erfahrungen von Abdullah Karam, der aufgrund des Bürgerkriegs Hama in Syrien verlassen musste. Path Out – Gratulation an Georg Hobmeier und Co. von Causa Creations.
I mochte besonders die Idee von “Somewhere” einem Textadventure, welches dir das Gefühl gibt einen Messenger zu bedienen und einer realen Person zu texten und zu helfen, die sich manchmal auch nur alle paar Tage meldet und der du dann mit Recherchen auf Maps und anderen Websiten helfen musst.
The Lion’s Song – Ein wunderbares Retro-Point&Click-Adventure im Jugendstil-Wien in 8 Farben und 4 Episoden der österreichischen Entwicklern Mi’pu’mi Games gibt es auf der
And so much more games like A Hole New World, Ablaze, Animal Ninja Masters (Kemono Heroes), Asymmetric, Baobabs Mausoleum, C.U.B.E.S., Celaria, Chickens, Close, Crest, Don’t Make Love, Elementary Minute, End Cycle, Erin: The Last Aos Sí, Hushed Escape, Imagine Earth, Ini, Last Days Of Tascaria, Late For Work, LIGHTFIELD, Lingotopia, Live TV Tycoon, Lost Words, Major League Gladiators, makenines, Nongünz, Phoenix, Phombie Flow, Pixel Soldiers, Planetoid Pioneers, Prison: Warden’s Dilemma, Project KNOSSOS, Project L.L.A.M.A., Pushout was great fun. Seeds Of Sol was procedural and beautyful, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun so good looking, Spaceguard80, SPACR, Spinnortality, Splinter Zone, STAY, Subwords, Tales of Tiélor, The Fallen, Tower57, Tscherno Tschump, VEmpire – The Kings Of Darkness, Vintage Story
We wrapped up the most important changes of release 33 and 34 in a devlog clip on Youtube again.
This first point is partly a spoiler. So jump right over it, if you haven’t played the Bora mission yet.
As you know the Bora mission introduces a threat that is kind of an end boss for the campaign. This “Assimilator” (previously “Electronic Employee”) spreads its cables from field to field to reach your City Center in order to assimilate it.
The assimilator now comes with a floating drone monstrosity that increases it’s territory field by field. You can use frontier towers with laser or pulse cannons to defend against it.
Be careful though – the assimilator drone will fight back with a small laser cannon and thus might destroy your defense. And your cannons will only allow you to stop the assimilator from expanding. Meanwhile costing money and your precious attention.
There are several ways to get rid of it. Use asteroid strikes or volcano eruptions. Or expand your territory and apply explosive devices or an ideon bomb.
The laser and pulse cannon now attack all enemies and dangers that approach you. We have change the values for fire and reload duration and damage and defined how each cannon interacts with the different targets.
E.g. the laser will do triple damage to asteroids and thus destroy it with one shot – just because it is optimized for this purpose.
Towers no longer take fire when being damaged and health is over 25%. You can repair them and they go on shooting.
We have put some work into improving our blasting items. Both are now dropped by one of the drones starting from the City Center.
The Explosive Device allows the immediate blasting of mountains, rocks, buildings and ruins in your area and on all fields directly adjacent to it – the later one is especially helpful to defend yourself against Assimilator.
The Ideon Bomb has multiple times the effect of an explosive device on an area of four fields. It also disintegrates big mountains and wakes up sleeping volcanoes.
Blasting single field and big mountains will leave the fields with rocks that may contain the rare resources gold and titanium.
We have added the third bonus mission to our campaign.
Since the outbreak of the pan-galactic plaque in this sector of the Udoxia Galaxy the demand for an antidote has skyrocketed.
On planet Iqunox which was known only for its cold and miserable living conditions, giant coral deposits have been discovered.
You will be one of three contractors who are send to extract the coral antidote for the U.S.U.
Sleeping volcanoes are spread all over the planet. You can use Ideon bombs to wake them up and increase the temperate on surrounding fields a few degrees – enough to get rid of the snow and grow food more effectively.
The Iqunox mission also adds the “Emission balance” as a new victory point type: It starts tracking from 20:00 onward. The leader needs to surpass others by at least 40.
Planetary colonization is foremost about making a backup of humanity and populating new worlds. But there is another important goal: Exploiting resources!
To reflect this point we have added a second main objective to the first mission on planet Tuto. It introduces all the recently added gameplay mechanisms for rare resource harvesting, item crafting and blasting mountains.
The Electronics Factory replaces the existing Mall. It produces complex electronics and needs trained staff. For that reason it is more efficient next to city parts and research districts. It features “Chemical Filters” and “Entertainment Devices” as upgrades.
The Factory has been renamed to Machine Factory to make it easier distinguishable.
Dear Space Colonists, the Serious Brothers proudly present alpha release 33. It involves crafting and hacking and we where also present at two conferences during this update cycle – in case you are wondering what took us a bit longer this time. As usual we’d love to hear how all the new features work out for you. Please leave us your comments and ideas.
One of the main new features that come with this release. In the workshop you get a list of special items that you can craft yourself instead of buying them. They are listed with up to 3 resources that you need for the generation of a certain item and it also shows if these are available or not. This will enhance the trading system as well because you can buy most needed resources from other factions. In the future it might become necessary to buy new construction plans or recipes from your trading partners. But for now we have a basic set of strategic things that we will try to balance out.
This plant is a new rare resource used to craft the fertilizer and explosive device items, because it enriches nitrogen and salts. It can be found in mires and cold but fertile biomes – and was also added to the campaign planets.
The Midras are selling more rare resources as they are now needed for many crafting issues. For crafting it was also necessary that goods, energy and food that you particularly chose to lay in and reserve space will no longer be consumed by your personnel in times of shortage. That change was made as well because you couldn’t sell stored things when they are always eaten up by hungry colonists.
We have lately fixed a long time overseen graphics problem concerning texture mipmapping. The whole planet with all the stuff on it should have much higher resolution by now!
Beautiful waves and a soft and organic water line on the beaches improve the look and feel off our oceans now.
Towers do no longer need a field connection to the city center, the land claimed by your towers and therefor the towers them-self remain yours even when your city center is lost.
Buy this item from the tech trader to hack and take over an adjoining tower of another faction. They can defend themselves by use of such a Hacking Kit as well. so it makes sense to keep one in your inventory just for security reasons. The AI will also make use of this, once they feel like this is a good decision.
From now on you can always repurchase your shares for twice the price if somebody else owns them. The shares will be taken from the company owning the most of your shares.
You do no longer have to obtain over 50% off an opponents shares to take over a city that is smaller than 50%. The take over fee has been reduced to 8.000 space coins.
Our AI companies can now use the land claim feature to obtain fields adjoining their build radius. They will eventually use the hacking tool to take over your towers – take care!
There is a new variable range of global planetary temperature that can be defined when creating a new planet for competition mode or free play. The global temperature is raising up to 10 degree until the final climate collapse happens.
This is also important for the health of local flora. Some sorts of trees and plants will not stand a chance in snowland anymore but they will regrow leaves as soon as the temperature raises to positive numbers again. Water temperature is limited down to minus 2 degree Celsius.
You will be able to experience this phenomena particularly well on the new ice planet we are currently working on.
Serious Brothers where present at the international Games Week Berlin and showing Imagine Earth on several Events. Indie Game Expos at Quo vadis and Making Games Festival on Mo – We and at the A Maze Festival on Friday.
Dear Space Colonists, the Serious Brothers will be present at the Games Week Berlin and showing ImagineEarth on serveral Events. Indie Game Expos at Quo vadis and Making Games Festival on Mo – We and at the A Maze Festival on Friday. See you in Berlin next week! Also the German Computer Games Award will be presented in Berlin at a festive gala event this week. Imagine Earth was nominated for Best Game Design 2 years ago. With prize money totaling 550,000 euros, it is the most important sponsorship prize for the German games industry.
As a small feature addon we have lately fixed a long time overseen graphics problem concerning texture mipmapping. The whole planet with all the stuff on it should have higher resolution by now!
Presenting Imagine Earth in two show cases in one game. The festival is an interesting mix of art & game culture.
A talk by Liz George and Peter Buschkamp at the Chaos Communication Congress 2017 that we liked a lot, because it treated some more tangible possibilities of planetary colonization.
Good news for those who where questioning the retro 90s look of Imagine Earth. Yes, not all buildings are state of the art and some will get a makeup upgrade already with the next release in a few days. Finally the cities look like futuristic stuff you would definitely build while you are colonizing space.
We should also see some redesigned farms and get the space port running where you can build rockets and fill them with the resources you produced to sell them on the intergalatic markets…
