Hello everyone

Broken Alliance is now participating in the Lunar New Year Sale 2024! Nice to meet you all, looking forward to seeing you again in the future!

Hello everyone!

Oak here, pleased to bring you some MUCH NEEDED updates! The past *checks notes* quite many months, we have been hard at work to try and finish up the game. We're still a ways away from it, but we are hoping to get a playable demo soon (tm). Hopefully we will have something to share in that regard already next month!

We have been cordially invited to participate in the Storyteller's Festival, so you can see our previous game Death and Taxes, and our other upcoming game CraftCraft around a fair bit. Do give us a wishlist and a follow to stay up to date with interesting stuff going on (the upcoming demo probably being the *most* interesting thing of them all.

Meanwhile I'm happy to show you some more cool art from Broken Alliance ^_^


Here's some concept art for another Faction we have in the game, called Forge:



These folks are extremely tech savvy, and have decided to try and ascend as much as possible into organic-mechanical hybrids, elevating their abilities, but sacrificing their natural evolution in the process.


You might recognize this lil' fella, the Chrysalis, from some of our earlier art!



They're fluffy, but deadly.


Welcoming you to the Paradise faction, we have Pico, one of the most illustrious Herbal Doctors of the history of the clans. Don't worry, they're friendlier than they look. Maybe.




And finally, one of my favourite Champions in the game, who you will also be able to meet and recruit: Yorick the Elden Hog!







And yes, Yorick do go fast, if the need arises.

Hello everyone! Oak here from Placeholder Gameworks.

We've been hard at work with both CraftCraft and Broken Alliance, and I thought I would share some updates with y'all!


We've been setting up the stage for quite a lot of complex systems this year and it's finally coming to fruition. We've made significant leaps and bounds in both the adventure and combat parts of the game, having a lot of new specific skills and events in the game.

Once we start pumping all of the good stuff in there, I will have more to share, but so far, here are a few sneak peeks on what we've been doing!

Concept art for town buildings for the Paradise faction





The Strawman, a Phobos unit, ready to wreak havoc on the battlefield





Character creation options for the Human heroes from Anchorage






And last but not least, our partner Hawthorn Games has given us the chance to participate in the ChinaJoy festival here on Steam! If you're coming from the festival page, here is a warm welcome for you on behalf of both of our teams :)

Also, Artist Life Simulator, a game we helped publish, is on sale right now at -50% off too!


And with that, for this time, I bid you goodbye! Do wishlist Broken Alliance and CraftCraft to keep up to date with how the development goes!

Till next time.

Much love,
-Oak

Hi everyone!

It's Oak from Placeholder Gameworks. We have decided to postpone the release of Broken Alliance to February 2024.

We took this decision because we felt like the game finally achieved the full direction that we want to take with it, fleshing that out took quite some time. We want to ensure that every game we release is at its highest quality in terms of content, stability and gameplay, which is why we decided to keep this one in the cooker for some more time :)

We will start releasing regular updates very soon, as we have accumulated quite a bit of content to share! We have a sizeable chunk of the Champion lineup done, special creatures that you can recruit during your adventure and form relationships with.

Currently we are figuring out the last remaining pieces of design and working hard on the content that has been decided to be included in the game.

I hope you understand our decision!

We want to make really cool games ^_^

I'll keep you posted about the game more now! Since we actually know what the game will be like! More or less. We'll see >_>

Much love,
-Oak

Hi everyone!

Oak from Placeholder Gameworks here. I'm going to try and post more about how the game is going in the coming weeks, months, seasons, and such.

Lately we've been working a lot in the combat section of the game, and earlier this year, we made a pretty big step of going for a deckbuilding style combat.



We haven't nailed down how it will work exactly yet, but day by day we're getting closer to figuring it out. We're also trying it out in the engine (which totally works)



ok maybe it doesn't totally work yet. BUT WE'RE GETTING THERE!



The goal this week is to have the combat in such a shape that we could show it off at a private demo event this weekend, and after that we want to work on a more public demo, something that y'all can try out yourselves, too ^_^


And it turns out that we're going to be at Gamescom! Somehow. And maybe you can even play a demo of Broken Alliance there >_>

...only time will tell.


So, if you like what you see, please do wishlist and follow to keep up with our progress!



Till next time!

Much love,
-Oak