It's an arms race of interplanetary scale, with each planet developing increasingly powerful weapons. Massive railgun batteries are the backbone of any interplanetary arsenal, but the cunning use of missiles and precision lasers may hold the key to victory. Strategic building patterns, upgrades and defense structures might keep your vital installations standing long enough to give you an edge, but it's only a matter of time until all but one must fall.
Sometimes, your greatest foe is the planetary system itself! Don't let the unpredictable gravitational changes get the better of you - observe your surroundings, use them to your advantage, and blast your enemies back to the stone age!
Key Features
- Challenge your friends in hotseat or online matches or fight skirmishes against the AI.
- Build and manage your planet's infrastructure.
- Gather resources and decide the most efficient use for them.
- Research and develop increasingly futuristic technologies.
- Spy on your enemies to reveal their planets' weak points.
- Use your artillery constructions to aim across the planetary system, avoiding other celestial bodies and their gravity.
- Fire your railguns, missiles and beam weapons to annihilate the enemy and claim the planetary system for your civilization!
The Holidays season is here, and we’re happy to announce that Interplanetary Enhanced Edition is 66% off on Steam Winter Sale!
Until January 4th, you can treat yourself or your friends to a copy of the game.
Mushroom Crusher Extreme , a the retro-styled arcade/action game we helped making, is also on on sale with a 50% discount—for 3,99$ / 3,99€.
Happy Holidays, everyone!
The Holidays season is here, and were happy to announce that Interplanetary Enhanced Edition is 66% off on Steam Winter Sale!
Until January 4th, you can treat yourself or your friends to a copy of the game.
Mushroom Crusher Extreme , a the retro-styled arcade/action game we helped making, is also on on sale with a 50% discountfor 3,99$ / 3,99.
Happy Holidays, everyone!
Hey Interplanetarists,
Tomorrow, December 6th, we are celebrating 100 years of independence of Finland, our home country. It’s a big day, and we would love to share the celebration with you.
Starting today and until December 8th, Steam is holding a special Midweek Madness , offering a selection of games created by Finnish developers. That means that you can get Interplanetary Enhanced Edition with a 66% discount. If you missed it at the Autumn Sale, here’s your second chance :) Remember to purchase through the Enhanced Edition Steam page .
NOTE: If you own the original Interplanetary, you automatically own the Enhanced Edition as well. No need to buy it separately!
The sale also affects Mushroom Crusher Extreme —the retro-styled arcade/action game by our friends at Mushroom Party, which we helped to develop and release. If you’re curious, go ahead and give it a try for 3,99$ / 3,99€.
Happy Independence Day a.k.a. Hyvää Itsenäisyyspäivää!
Hey Interplanetarists,
Tomorrow, December 6th, we are celebrating 100 years of independence of Finland, our home country. Its a big day, and we would love to share the celebration with you.
Starting today and until December 8th, Steam is holding a special Midweek Madness , offering a selection of games created by Finnish developers. That means that you can get Interplanetary Enhanced Edition with a 66% discount. If you missed it at the Autumn Sale, heres your second chance :) Remember to purchase through the Enhanced Edition Steam page .
NOTE: If you own the original Interplanetary, you automatically own the Enhanced Edition as well. No need to buy it separately!
The sale also affects Mushroom Crusher Extreme the retro-styled arcade/action game by our friends at Mushroom Party, which we helped to develop and release. If youre curious, go ahead and give it a try for 3,99$ / 3,99.
Happy Independence Day a.k.a. Hyv Itsenisyyspiv!
A few weeks back we announced our new game—Worbital . We’ve just opened a Steam group for Worbital . From now on, all the game’s development updates and news will be shared in its own hub, not to spam the Interplanetary community. So, if you’re interested in following Worbital, you are welcome in the new group!
In addition to that, we have just released our first development blog article, telling about the origins of Worbital’s concept. When did we get the original idea and how did it turn into a full concept? What did the first Worbital prototype look like, and why did it make us scream in agony? Read in our blog .
A few weeks back we announced our new gameWorbital . Weve just opened a Steam group for Worbital . From now on, all the games development updates and news will be shared in its own hub, not to spam the Interplanetary community. So, if youre interested in following Worbital, you are welcome in the new group!
In addition to that, we have just released our first development blog article, telling about the origins of Worbitals concept. When did we get the original idea and how did it turn into a full concept? What did the first Worbital prototype look like, and why did it make us scream in agony? Read in our blog .
Over the course of Interplanetarys development, we have received a lot of feedback and suggestions from you and implemented a bunch of them. There were some feature suggestions that seemed like fun and we liked them as much as you did, but unfortunately, they just didnt fit the concept of Interplanetary as we see it. But, all of those ideas didnt just go to waste.
Say hello to Interplanetarys little cousin the action-packed planet shooter, Worbital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p07BjLTe41I
Based on the craziest player feedback, Worbital is an attempt to realize gravitational interplanetary war in real-time. The game offers same artillery mayhem, but faster paced with unpredictable chain reactions and set within smaller purely two-dimensional solar systems. Exploding and shifting planets, colonization, moonsall of those are here. Worbital is Interplanetary re-imagined, a chance to relax, let go off realism and simply enjoy the blasting fun!
Worbital is early in development. Gameplay details, visuals and such may still change. The screenshots and video shown are visual targets, not actual gameplay. We are aiming to release Worbital in Summer 2018, for PC and major consoles.
But what about Interplanetary?
As part of the team is developing Worbital, some of us are continuing the work on updating the Enhanced Edition . There are still features and fixes that are waiting for their turn to be completed. So, keep that feedback coming! Were listening and doing our best to support the game.
Meanwhile, you can check out the following links to keep up with Worbital development and news:
Website: https://www.worbital.com/
Development Blog: https://worbital.tumblr.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worbital
Twitter: https://twitter.com/worbitalgame
Over the course of Interplanetary’s development, we have received a lot of feedback and suggestions from you and implemented a bunch of them. There were some feature suggestions that seemed like fun and we liked them as much as you did, but unfortunately, they just didn’t fit the concept of Interplanetary as we see it. But, all of those ideas didn’t just go to waste.
Say hello to Interplanetary’s little cousin – the action-packed planet shooter, Worbital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p07BjLTe41I
Based on the craziest player feedback, Worbital is an attempt to realize gravitational interplanetary war in real-time. The game offers same artillery mayhem, but faster paced with unpredictable chain reactions and set within smaller purely two-dimensional solar systems. Exploding and shifting planets, colonization, moons–all of those are here. Worbital is Interplanetary re-imagined, a chance to relax, let go off realism and simply enjoy the blasting fun!
Worbital is early in development. Gameplay details, visuals and such may still change. The screenshots and video shown are visual targets, not actual gameplay. We are aiming to release Worbital in Summer 2018, for PC and major consoles.
But what about Interplanetary?
As part of the team is developing Worbital, some of us are continuing the work on updating the Enhanced Edition . There are still features and fixes that are waiting for their turn to be completed. So, keep that feedback coming! We’re listening and doing our best to support the game.
Meanwhile, you can check out the following links to keep up with Worbital development and news:
Website: https://www.worbital.com/
Development Blog: https://worbital.tumblr.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worbital
Twitter: https://twitter.com/worbitalgame
Surprise! The shiny new Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition is available on Steam right now!
What’s New
As we have announced earlier this summer , this is a massive update for Interplanetary. So massive, that, in fact, it is its own game. Essentially, this new version is a re-build of the entire game for the sake of making it more stable, as well as better sounding and looking. It’s still the same old Interplanetary deep down, but better.
As we are taking Interplanetary to the new level, we are also expanding the geography of our community. In this version we are introducing localization into German language. More languages coming soon!
The update also includes a bunch of new features, some of which had been much requested in the last couple of years, like Online AI Bots, Reconnect and new weapons. Find the full changelog below.
How To Get the Enhanced Edition
So, how do you get a hold of a copy? If you already own the original Interplanetary, then it’s all good. The Enhanced Edition should be waiting for you in your Steam library now. Find it and get to installing.
If you don’t own a copy of the original game, you can purchase the Enhanced Edition through its separate Steam page . The initial version of the game is also included in the new version and should appear in your library automatically if you purchase the Enhanced Edition.
What Happens to the Original
The original Interplanetary will no longer be on sale as a separate package. However, for the time being, the store page and the community hub will remain open.
The Future
Though the Enhanced Edition is, in a way, completing Interplanetary, it is not absolutely final as is. Rebuilding a game from scratch hasn’t been smooth sailing, as expected. While we’ve bulldozed over most old bugs, completely new issues have periodically risen. As a matter of fact, we’re already hammering away at some upcoming fixes and we’re prepared to keep working at it for as long as we can. Please bear with us through the initial roughness.
For future patching, it’s essential that you give us feedback on your game experience. As usual, the community forum is the ideal place for that. The Enhanced Edition does have its own forum already , so join the new discussions and be excellent to each other!
Also, you can reach us on Twitter and Facebook .
Our very next feature update will see the light in just a few days and it will include localizations into several more languages: French, Spanish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
Happy blasting!
Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition Version 1.50.1653 - August 2nd, 2017
- Online AI Bots
- Reconnect
[list] - Allows disconnected players to attempt to reconnect into an online match
- AI now replaces disconnected players
[list]
- New Defense building, with defendable weapons and probabilities adjusted for all three
Surprise! The shiny new Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition is available on Steam right now!
Whats New
As we have announced earlier this summer , this is a massive update for Interplanetary. So massive, that, in fact, it is its own game. Essentially, this new version is a re-build of the entire game for the sake of making it more stable, as well as better sounding and looking. Its still the same old Interplanetary deep down, but better.
As we are taking Interplanetary to the new level, we are also expanding the geography of our community. In this version we are introducing localization into German language. More languages coming soon!
The update also includes a bunch of new features, some of which had been much requested in the last couple of years, like Online AI Bots, Reconnect and new weapons. Find the full changelog below.
How To Get the Enhanced Edition
So, how do you get a hold of a copy? If you already own the original Interplanetary, then its all good. The Enhanced Edition should be waiting for you in your Steam library now. Find it and get to installing.
If you dont own a copy of the original game, you can purchase the Enhanced Edition through its separate Steam page . The initial version of the game is also included in the new version and should appear in your library automatically if you purchase the Enhanced Edition.
What Happens to the Original
The original Interplanetary will no longer be on sale as a separate package. However, for the time being, the store page and the community hub will remain open.
The Future
Though the Enhanced Edition is, in a way, completing Interplanetary, it is not absolutely final as is. Rebuilding a game from scratch hasnt been smooth sailing, as expected. While weve bulldozed over most old bugs, completely new issues have periodically risen. As a matter of fact, were already hammering away at some upcoming fixes and were prepared to keep working at it for as long as we can. Please bear with us through the initial roughness.
For future patching, its essential that you give us feedback on your game experience. As usual, the community forum is the ideal place for that. The Enhanced Edition does have its own forum already , so join the new discussions and be excellent to each other!
Also, you can reach us on Twitter and Facebook .
Our very next feature update will see the light in just a few days and it will include localizations into several more languages: French, Spanish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
Happy blasting!
Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition Version 1.50.1653 - August 2nd, 2017
- Online AI Bots
- Reconnect
[list] - Allows disconnected players to attempt to reconnect into an online match
- AI now replaces disconnected players
[list]
- New Defense building, with defendable weapons and probabilities adjusted for all three
Hey, folks. We’ve just put out a small patch, containing some minor fixes.
Interplanetary Version 1.1.6430 / 05.07.2017
- Rearranged Technologies for visual clarity
- Cloning Initiative project adjusted
- Small under-the-hood improvement regarding Action Phase simulation
If you missed out on the Enhanced Edition news, check out our last post . To summarize, Interplanetary Enhanced Edition is basically a big update, fixing a lot of the issues in the original game. It will be released this Summer, free for all the owners of the original Interplanetary.
Hey, folks. Weve just put out a small patch, containing some minor fixes.
Interplanetary Version 1.1.6430 / 05.07.2017
- Rearranged Technologies for visual clarity
- Cloning Initiative project adjusted
- Small under-the-hood improvement regarding Action Phase simulation
If you missed out on the Enhanced Edition news, check out our last post . To summarize, Interplanetary Enhanced Edition is basically a big update, fixing a lot of the issues in the original game. It will be released this Summer, free for all the owners of the original Interplanetary.
Kept you waiting, huh? Well, we’re finally back in action, and there’s a lot of catching up to do! With the help of Team17 and Advanced Interactive Gaming, we’ve had a chance to get back to Interplanetary and devise a cunning plan to finally add the fixes and features we’ve been promising...
Let’s not ignore the gas giant in the room any longer: we’re happy to announce the upcoming Interplanetary Enhanced Edition update! There’s also a small new patch out right now, just to thank you all for your patience.
Interplanetary Enhanced Edition
Interplanetary Enhanced Edition is a sizeable update with a load of improvements and various new features. At this point we are not entirely sure if the Enhanced Edition will be a normal update or appear in your library as a new product, but it will be free for everyone who has already purchased Interplanetary. The main goal of the update is to add the features we’ve been promising since forever, including Online AI Bots and Reconnect, as well as to make the game much more stable. As we explained in our previous posts , we had a lot of issues with the very architecture of the game’s code, making it near impossible to add these features and fix the lingering networking bugs. So, how are we managing to do all that with this update? By completely re-doing the whole game, of course!
For Enhanced Edition, we undertook a huge effort to actually rebuild Interplanetary from the ground up. It’s been surreal being able to have a second go at it, redoing the same game, but better. For you, it will be a hefty update, but for us, it’s actually a whole new game project. Development has been much faster this time around, but it’s definitely not a quick task by any means.
It will still be the same old Interplanetary in essence, but prettier and more user-friendly with new features, big and small. Here are some of the things we’ve been working on:
- Online AI Bots
- Reconnect
- Elliptic Orbits
- Quick Targeting Mode
- Tech Tree Graphical Overhaul
- New Intel Mechanics
- The Ability to Select Building Upgrades On the Build List
- New Buildings
- Rebalance
- Localizations
- Planetary System Navigation Enhancements
- Improved Visuals
- New and Redone Sound Effects
- Overall UI Polish
- Overall Re-Implementation of Systems, Eliminating Old Bugs
- And more...
Interplanetary Enhanced Edition will be out this summer!
Interplanetary Patch 1.1.6426
On to the patch! We thought that it would be nice to actually give you something concrete while kicking off the wait for the Enhanced Edition. Actions speak louder than words, after all. So, we decided to go our of our way to put out a little patch for the current version of Interplanetary. It’s mostly nice little extra features and balance adjustments. Without further ado, here’s the feature list for the pre-Enhanced patch, available right now:
- Navigation Enhancements
[list] - Added the ability to pan the camera by holding Middle Mouse Button
For the full changelog, visit the Changelog-thread on our forums !
Special Thanks to Team17 and Advanced Interactive Gaming!
Whew, it’s been awhile since we’ve had anything concrete enough to make a news update on. While there’s been a lot of preparation and on/off-work on Interplanetary, we only had the chance to get the whole team back on-board early this year. We have both Team17 and Advanced Interactive Gaming to thank for this chance.
As some of you may have noticed, Interplanetary has been moved under Team17’s label a while ago already. We’ve partnered up with them to release Interplanetary Enhanced Edition and they’ve been helping us a lot already with publishing-related business. As the release gets closer, you might also see Team17’s Jonno roaming around our forums, giving us an experienced hand with community management. Be nice to him!
As sad as it is to admit, we can’t run our humble studio with passion alone. Luckily, we also made an indispensable ally of Advanced Interactive Gaming, who stepped in to help us fund the development of Interplanetary Enhanced Edition.
See, we told you we’d figure out a way to add all those features eventually :D
In Conclusion...
The last year was busy for our team, even though we didn’t get to do much for Interplanetary and almost all we did was internal. We went into details about the reasons for that in our last news post . We’ve mostly been occupied with a bunch of work-for-hire-projects, keeping our operations afloat. It’s been hectic, but we’ve learned a lot about different technologies and how to work better than ever as a team. We’ve even been helping our friends at Mushroom Party to release their arcade/action game Mushroom Crusher Extreme , giving us some experience as publishers, of sorts.
It’s been partly refreshing and partly maddening to start reworking Interplanetary from the scratch. We’re very happy we got the chance to do so, since people still seem interested in the game to this day and there definitely are some things we’ve wanted to fix for a long time.
tl;dr:
- Interplanetary Enhanced Edition update is free for all owners of Interplanetary and comes out this Summer
- A smaller patch for the current version is out now
That’s about it! Do drop by our forums if you have any questions or would like to find people to play with. Even if we’ve been quiet on the news front, we’ve been and will continue to check the forums and answer questions whenever we’re able.
Blast you later!
Kept you waiting, huh? Well, were finally back in action, and theres a lot of catching up to do! With the help of Team17 and Advanced Interactive Gaming, weve had a chance to get back to Interplanetary and devise a cunning plan to finally add the fixes and features weve been promising...
Lets not ignore the gas giant in the room any longer: were happy to announce the upcoming Interplanetary Enhanced Edition update! Theres also a small new patch out right now, just to thank you all for your patience.
Interplanetary Enhanced Edition
Interplanetary Enhanced Edition is a sizeable update with a load of improvements and various new features. At this point we are not entirely sure if the Enhanced Edition will be a normal update or appear in your library as a new product, but it will be free for everyone who has already purchased Interplanetary. The main goal of the update is to add the features weve been promising since forever, including Online AI Bots and Reconnect, as well as to make the game much more stable. As we explained in our previous posts , we had a lot of issues with the very architecture of the games code, making it near impossible to add these features and fix the lingering networking bugs. So, how are we managing to do all that with this update? By completely re-doing the whole game, of course!
For Enhanced Edition, we undertook a huge effort to actually rebuild Interplanetary from the ground up. Its been surreal being able to have a second go at it, redoing the same game, but better. For you, it will be a hefty update, but for us, its actually a whole new game project. Development has been much faster this time around, but its definitely not a quick task by any means.
It will still be the same old Interplanetary in essence, but prettier and more user-friendly with new features, big and small. Here are some of the things weve been working on:
- Online AI Bots
- Reconnect
- Elliptic Orbits
- Quick Targeting Mode
- Tech Tree Graphical Overhaul
- New Intel Mechanics
- The Ability to Select Building Upgrades On the Build List
- New Buildings
- Rebalance
- Localizations
- Planetary System Navigation Enhancements
- Improved Visuals
- New and Redone Sound Effects
- Overall UI Polish
- Overall Re-Implementation of Systems, Eliminating Old Bugs
- And more...
Interplanetary Enhanced Edition will be out this summer!
Interplanetary Patch 1.1.6426
On to the patch! We thought that it would be nice to actually give you something concrete while kicking off the wait for the Enhanced Edition. Actions speak louder than words, after all. So, we decided to go our of our way to put out a little patch for the current version of Interplanetary. Its mostly nice little extra features and balance adjustments. Without further ado, heres the feature list for the pre-Enhanced patch, available right now:
- Navigation Enhancements
[list] - Added the ability to pan the camera by holding Middle Mouse Button
For the full changelog, visit the Changelog-thread on our forums !
Special Thanks to Team17 and Advanced Interactive Gaming!
Whew, its been awhile since weve had anything concrete enough to make a news update on. While theres been a lot of preparation and on/off-work on Interplanetary, we only had the chance to get the whole team back on-board early this year. We have both Team17 and Advanced Interactive Gaming to thank for this chance.
As some of you may have noticed, Interplanetary has been moved under Team17s label a while ago already. Weve partnered up with them to release Interplanetary Enhanced Edition and theyve been helping us a lot already with publishing-related business. As the release gets closer, you might also see Team17s Jonno roaming around our forums, giving us an experienced hand with community management. Be nice to him!
As sad as it is to admit, we cant run our humble studio with passion alone. Luckily, we also made an indispensable ally of Advanced Interactive Gaming, who stepped in to help us fund the development of Interplanetary Enhanced Edition.
See, we told you wed figure out a way to add all those features eventually :D
In Conclusion...
The last year was busy for our team, even though we didnt get to do much for Interplanetary and almost all we did was internal. We went into details about the reasons for that in our last news post . Weve mostly been occupied with a bunch of work-for-hire-projects, keeping our operations afloat. Its been hectic, but weve learned a lot about different technologies and how to work better than ever as a team. Weve even been helping our friends at Mushroom Party to release their arcade/action game Mushroom Crusher Extreme , giving us some experience as publishers, of sorts.
Its been partly refreshing and partly maddening to start reworking Interplanetary from the scratch. Were very happy we got the chance to do so, since people still seem interested in the game to this day and there definitely are some things weve wanted to fix for a long time.
tl;dr:
- Interplanetary Enhanced Edition update is free for all owners of Interplanetary and comes out this Summer
- A smaller patch for the current version is out now
Thats about it! Do drop by our forums if you have any questions or would like to find people to play with. Even if weve been quiet on the news front, weve been and will continue to check the forums and answer questions whenever were able.
Blast you later!
Ho ho ho! The jolliest holiday greetings from Team Jolly Roger! Hope you've been well, our dear Interplanetarists, and everyone else interested in our misadventures in game development!
It's been a while since we've been actively putting out status updates, blog posts and such. But now, right before we set out for a quick Christmas holiday, would be the perfect time to quickly go through what's going on over here and write about our general thoughts on the passing year.
Interplanetary Musings and Thoughts for the Future
May 12th 2015, we released our first big PC game, Interplanetary, on Steam after a year of open development on Early Access. It was a roller-coaster of fun and horror, as these things tend to be! In the end, everything went much better than expected, a lot of which is thanks to the enthusiastic and warm reception of the game. You guys are the best!
That said, not all the features we planned made it to Interplanetary. As most developers nowadays, we didn't simply throw the game out there and were done with it, but had great plans of supporting Interplanetary by fixing things, adding things, balancing things... Maybe even a bit too great, it turned out.
Some bumps on road to release caused a lot of trouble with our subsequent support of the game. Shortly, we discovered some difficult online networking problems affecting some of the players around the launch time. You can read more about it in our July status update. We had to push back the bigger, funner features on the list and concentrate fully on critical fixes. We even put on hold some of our regular events, such as Whack-a-Dev's , until it was certain that no player would lose progress over a networking hitch. But, as it turned out, fixing the networking problem would require diving deep into the roots of the game, re-writing the code extensively; and the schedule was tight.
With all the patches and trouble, we blew through the time we wished to spend on more interesting things. Eventually, most of the team needed to move on to different work-for-hire-projects, thus, having to leave Interplanetary support to the background, which was quite disappointing for all of us.
Now, although we're heavily occupied by other work and can't give you any sort of sensible timeline yet, we are looking forward to continuing to support Interplanetary once we are able. We do eavesdrop on the community all the time and are very grateful to the players, who are still sending us excellent feedback!
tl;dr
Things didn't always go as planned and we ran out of time. Now we're really busy with other work. We want to update Interplanetary, but don't know when it's possible. Hopefully soon!
Of course, it wasn't all pain and disappointment. After all, Interplanetary was our first significant project and, as tough as it was at times, it let us learn a great deal of things. Not to mention the confidence we found in the friendly reactions from the critics (even got to appear in printed press!) and eager participation of the community - great morale booster!
Speaking of morale boosters, even though enthusiastic players are the best prize any game developer could ever ask for, getting an actual award also feels pretty great. And that's how it felt to win Nordic Game Indie Sensation Award last May in Malm, Sweden! Unexpected and absolutely overwhelming, such recognition from peers, only days after the release gave us the strength to go on and the public attention to get Interplanetary noticed by new audiences.
Aside from the Nordic Game Conference, we got to tour inside Finland and all across Europe, showing off Interplanetary and meeting some of you guys! Among the events we got to attend in 2015 are: Paris Game Connection, Slush in Helsinki and Unite Europe in Amsterdam. Pretty out there, huh?
[u]To round up:[/u]
Patches released: 6
Events attended: 11
Coffee packs consumed: Countless.
Yeah, quite a busy year! It's been mostly behind the scenes, out of the public eye, working on secret projects and such. Makes for a kind of a boring retrospective when we can't talk much about the things we're been working on, but we hope we've been nicely transparent and answered some questions.
Thank You For Your Patience!
And now it's time for us to take a little Christmas break. We'll be back in business early next year. Enjoy your respective holidays, everyone! Take it easy, play lots of games and we'll see you again soon!
May the Blast be with you!
Ho ho ho! The jolliest holiday greetings from Team Jolly Roger! Hope you've been well, our dear Interplanetarists, and everyone else interested in our misadventures in game development!
It's been a while since we've been actively putting out status updates, blog posts and such. But now, right before we set out for a quick Christmas holiday, would be the perfect time to quickly go through what's going on over here and write about our general thoughts on the passing year.
Interplanetary Musings and Thoughts for the Future
May 12th 2015, we released our first big PC game, Interplanetary, on Steam after a year of open development on Early Access. It was a roller-coaster of fun and horror, as these things tend to be! In the end, everything went much better than expected, a lot of which is thanks to the enthusiastic and warm reception of the game. You guys are the best!
That said, not all the features we planned made it to Interplanetary. As most developers nowadays, we didn't simply throw the game out there and were done with it, but had great plans of supporting Interplanetary by fixing things, adding things, balancing things... Maybe even a bit too great, it turned out.
Some bumps on road to release caused a lot of trouble with our subsequent support of the game. Shortly, we discovered some difficult online networking problems affecting some of the players around the launch time. You can read more about it in our July status update. We had to push back the bigger, funner features on the list and concentrate fully on critical fixes. We even put on hold some of our regular events, such as Whack-a-Dev's , until it was certain that no player would lose progress over a networking hitch. But, as it turned out, fixing the networking problem would require diving deep into the roots of the game, re-writing the code extensively; and the schedule was tight.
With all the patches and trouble, we blew through the time we wished to spend on more interesting things. Eventually, most of the team needed to move on to different work-for-hire-projects, thus, having to leave Interplanetary support to the background, which was quite disappointing for all of us.
Now, although we're heavily occupied by other work and can't give you any sort of sensible timeline yet, we are looking forward to continuing to support Interplanetary once we are able. We do eavesdrop on the community all the time and are very grateful to the players, who are still sending us excellent feedback!
tl;dr
Things didn't always go as planned and we ran out of time. Now we're really busy with other work. We want to update Interplanetary, but don't know when it's possible. Hopefully soon!
Of course, it wasn't all pain and disappointment. After all, Interplanetary was our first significant project and, as tough as it was at times, it let us learn a great deal of things. Not to mention the confidence we found in the friendly reactions from the critics (even got to appear in printed press!) and eager participation of the community - great morale booster!
Speaking of morale boosters, even though enthusiastic players are the best prize any game developer could ever ask for, getting an actual award also feels pretty great. And that's how it felt to win Nordic Game Indie Sensation Award last May in Malmö, Sweden! Unexpected and absolutely overwhelming, such recognition from peers, only days after the release gave us the strength to go on and the public attention to get Interplanetary noticed by new audiences.
Aside from the Nordic Game Conference, we got to tour inside Finland and all across Europe, showing off Interplanetary and meeting some of you guys! Among the events we got to attend in 2015 are: Paris Game Connection, Slush in Helsinki and Unite Europe in Amsterdam. Pretty out there, huh?
[u]To round up:[/u]
Patches released: 6
Events attended: 11
Coffee packs consumed: Countless.
Yeah, quite a busy year! It's been mostly behind the scenes, out of the public eye, working on secret projects and such. Makes for a kind of a boring retrospective when we can't talk much about the things we're been working on, but we hope we've been nicely transparent and answered some questions.
Thank You For Your Patience!
And now it's time for us to take a little Christmas break. We'll be back in business early next year. Enjoy your respective holidays, everyone! Take it easy, play lots of games and we'll see you again soon!
May the Blast be with you!
Greets, Interplanetarists!
We've just put out a new Interplanetary patch, including some fixes and balance tweaks.
Interplanetary Version 1.0.6383 Changelog
- Fixed the occasional UI breakdown caused by opening and closing Codex
- Railgun fragment amount reduced from 4 to 3
Happy Friday!
Greets, Interplanetarists!
We've just put out a new Interplanetary patch, including some fixes and balance tweaks.
Interplanetary Version 1.0.6383 Changelog
- Fixed the occasional UI breakdown caused by opening and closing Codex
- Railgun fragment amount reduced from 4 to 3
Happy Friday!
Hey, folks! Another patch coming your way, this time primarily fixing the AIs tendency to sometimes get lost in thought during long matches.
Interplanetary Version 1.0.6355 Changelog
- AI Fixes
[list] - Fixed the AI getting stuck during long games
- Increased AI building speed
Hey, folks! Another patch coming your way, this time primarily fixing the AIs tendency to sometimes get lost in thought during long matches.
Interplanetary Version 1.0.6355 Changelog
- AI Fixes
[list] - Fixed the AI getting stuck during long games
- Increased AI building speed
It's on now! Look for Interplanetary matches named "Whack-a-Dev", or something simlar, to face off against us! The devs playing today are:
- Chibitus[dev]
- Jeo[dev]
- Graah![dev]
- Reddie[dev]
- SmallFry[dev]
Whack-a-Dev is a special time when the developers host matches of Interplanetary and get their butts kicked by the players! Each time one of us is defeated we post an Interplanetary Steam Key on our Twitter!
Happy blasting!
It's been some time since the last one! In honor of the Humble Weekly Bundle , let's have a little Whack-a-Dev!
Whack-a-Dev is a special time when the developers host matches of Interplanetary and get their butts kicked by the players! Each time one of us is defeated we post an Interplanetary Steam Key on our Twitter!
Join the fight this Saturday, starting at 5pm GMT, 10AM PDT! Matches hosted by Team Jolly Roger are usually titled "Whack-a-Dev"-something, so look out for those! Blast you soon.
Greetings, Interplanetarists! Team Jolly Roger here, with another little patch that should greatly increase the joy of demolishing AIs. Also, we'd like to give you a quick update on Interplanetary's state, the pace of future updates and such. Let's get right on it!
AI Speed Up!
As some of you have pointed out, the AI can sometimes take its sweet time calculating attacks. The more AI players and the higher the difficulty, the longer it takes.
To alleviate the frustration, we've made changes that should make turn processing much faster. The AIs now start their calculations already during the player's turn, which in the ideal situation can make turns lightning fast! This is something that people on our forums have suggested, and while we initially had to keep it simple, this is obviously the better way to do things.
On top of that, we have some little tweaks, but nothing massive.
Interplanetary Patch 1.0.6378
- AI performance optimizations[/*]
- Minor Load Game performance optimizations[/*]
- Fixed typos on Event Log [/*]
Situation Report
Overall, Interplanetary 1.0 launch went quite well! We got a nice burst of new players and the added features were well received. Having given it a little time, we determined that the launch was indeed successful enough for us to continue updating the game, but not quite on the scale we originally thought we might. All promised features are still planned, but the timeline had to be expanded. Of course, possible fixes of all sorts take priority over features.
Some new issues were discovered, as is customary when releasing a game, but we did and are doing our best to handle them. The most persistent and serious problems have had to do with the game getting stuck on turn processing. There have been different reasons that have caused this to happen: networking problems, AI issues or just unrelated bugs causing the game get confused.
While we've done our best to try and eliminate as many of these problems as possible, we've wanted to also add two fail-safe features: Reconnect and Online Saving. Both features have been promised multiple times and reconnect was technically ready when we discovered a huge problem. The system, as it's currently made, works, but it is very slow. In common cases, reconnecting to a match can take over 10 minutes, which brings the match to a halt for all players.
Needless to say, this doesn't work. Not only is it possible to accidentally get the game stuck, but this feature would also be very easy to abuse. Since Online Saving is part of this system, we've had to push back both features. Sincere apologies for the inconvenience! The features are still coming, but we've passed our internal deadline for them, so their programmers have to move on to different tasks. We can't say exactly when it will be possible for us to patch in reconnect and online saves, but it will be a while.
Basically, the pace of updates won't be what it was during Interplanetary's Early Access run. Even though many of us need to switch to other tasks, we will still keep a close eye on the forums and use every possible chance to continue work on the planned features. There's still a nice big list of goodies planned!
If you have any questions, concerns or bug reports, the forum is a pretty good place to find us! You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter or just shoot a traditional email to info@teamjollyroger.com. Another nice way to keep updated on the development is to join our mailing list at www.interplanetarygame.com .
Keep on blasting!
Greetings, everyone! Here's another small patch to tide you over until the next update, which will contain some actual, interesting features! This one mostly should bring relieve to network issues some players have been having, but there are other little fixes also.
Interplanetary Version 1.0.6355 Changelog
- Networking fixes
[list] - General network stability improved
- Fixed issues with game getting stuck on Action Phase when players
disconnect during turn processing/simulation
Hope this fixes things! If you have any issues or questions, don't hesitate to drop by over to the forums . We'll be checking it as often as possible!
Bombs away!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS0rm4GyVUo
This is it! Interplanetary has spread its wings and left the cozy Early Access nest!
It's been quite a journey. Back in 2013, when we first started active development, we were still working from school, with no idea what would be in store for us. Our first alpha testing campaign, with a homemade key code system, was really the first thing that started drawing large scale attention to the game. This is where the ride started to get wild: the founding of our own company TJR Games, our Steam Greenlight adventure, Early Access release, development, development, development!
Now, we can finally say that Interplanetary has reached the point we determined to be "1.0", in the early days of development. It's actually more, since the ideas have expanded and our stay in Early Access gave us the chance to develop the game more towards the direction the players wanted.
Like we said before, we will keep supporting the game with patches and updates, as needed. There are even a couple of bigger features that we promised at various times, but which couldn't make it to the launch. Features, such as online save games, online AI bots, ranked matches, LAN game and the third superweapon, will be added in a later update.
Thank you for playing! We hope you will enjoy the 1.0 version of Interplanetary and do keep sending that feedback. Just because it's finished doesn't mean we're going to leave it!
Get the darn thing here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/278910/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS0rm4GyVUo
It's finally happening! After a year of hard work with Interplanetary on Early Access, we're getting ready to release the 1.0 on May 12th, 2015! Celebration!
Major Added Features
- Online Matchmaking[/*][list]
- A quick way of starting online matches with a push of a button[/*]
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Naturally, we have a lot of fixes and other improvements in store as well, but these are the most visible features for most players. After the game is finally released to the world, we won't just abandon it! No, we're going to watch over it and keep up the support! There are still a couple of relatively big features, such as ranked matches, online bots and online saving, that we have wanted to add, but didn't have a chance to do that before release. It's not really too late to give us some feedback either, just like you've been doing so far.
Speaking of feedback, as we're getting closer to the end of our Early Access adventure, all of us would like to once more thank all the players and testers who have been involved with the project! Whether you came aboard last month or you've been following us since pre-Early Access public testing, you've all been a massive help, in one way or another. Giving excellent feedback, building the community or just silently supporting the development of Interplanetary are all things that we are genuinely grateful for. We hope you will enjoy the end product, and even if you don't, send some more feedback our way!
One more thing. Starting from May 12th, Interplanetary will cost $14.99/€14.99. Don't panic! There is still one more week to get the game for yourself and friends for $9.99/€9.99, before it leaves Early Access.
Thank you!~Team Jolly Roger
We're living exciting and busy times. As some of you may remember, we've been throwing around "The Early 2015" as the release date of Interplanetary for a long time. If our watch is correct, it IS the early 2015 already!
We are now scrambling to finally get Interplanetary to version 1.0 and out of Early Access! A huge amount of progress has been made since the last public version and we're hoping to get this thing released soon. We'll announce an actual release date a bit further on, but when we say "soon", we mean in about a month or so! Scary.
The reason why we haven't released a lot of patches and updates recently, is that we've been working hard on adding all the final features and fixing them in place. This means we've had to spread the game open in such a way that packing it back up into nice updates would've slowed down the development too much.
We've now managed to implement pretty much all the main features that were a part of the initial plan. Being in Early Access, however, slightly expanded the scope of the game according to player feedback.
Some of the features available at release:
- Ranked Matches and Online Matchmaking[/*]
- Custom Game Setup [/*]
- Saved Games [/*]
- City Projects[/*]
- AI Difficulty Levels [/*]
- Damage Area Visualizations[/*]
- New Event Log [/*]
- New Tech Tree[/*]
- New Upgrades[/*]
- New Intel Mechanics[/*]
- New City Growth/Science Mechanics [/*]
- Achievements [/*]
- Improved UI and Graphical Touches [/*]
And then some! This is just a little sneak peek of the upcoming features and we'll be revealing a more detail list later.
We've added a lot, but unfortunately, a few of the features we've explicitly promised to include, will have to wait until after the release of Interplanetary 1.0.
Promised features that will be added post launch:
- Grey Goo, the third superweapon. Includes some pretty unusual mechanics.[/*]
- The return of LAN Game. We had to disable LAN matches during the network overhaul. There are simply more vital features to add before launch, but we haven't forgotten about this one.[/*]
- Online AI Bots. Needed to be pushed back so we could finish other features.
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Uncontrollable problems, such as some particularly terrible in-office flu seasons, have sometimes slowed us down dramatically, but the good news is, we will not abandon the game once it's released. We want to keep patching it and updating in the features that just couldn't make it to the initial release.
Now, this is another good opportunity to sincerely thank all of you who have been with us during our stay on Early Access! All the game testing, suggestions and bug reports from the players have definitely improved this game and we would have never been able to develop it to this point without your support. It's not too late to send us some more feedback, though, even if we are going to leave Early Access! We will have a good opportunity to add more things to the post-release updates.
Anyway, this is where we are, at the moment. We'll be making a proper release date and feature announcement sometime closer to the date. Look forward to it!
Happy new year, interplanetary warlords! Here's a little patch we put out in honor of 2015.
Bugs have been fixed, UI has been smoothened. Go check it out and do tell us if you find anything unseemly!
Interplanetary Version 0.7.5470_EAC_7.2 / 16.1.2015
- AI can now only build one superweapon of each kind, as intended
- Missiles and Lasers do not fire anymore if targeting is not properly finished
- Upgrade related turn processing bug fixed.
- City health bars now update properly on city icons and population bar
- Hotseat victory conditions fixed
- Intelligence View no longer cycles through dead planets
- Building health bars now change color according to the damage level
- Added scaling indicators to health bars
- Codex updated
- Minor AI fixes
- Online Lobby UI fixes
If you have any comments on the new patch, head on over to the forum post: http://steamcommunity.com/app/278910/discussions/0/616199347853495416/
For more details, there's our devblog: http://teamjollyroger.tumblr.com/
Happy holidays everyone! We're off on a short holiday break, so we thought to put out a little patch to tide you over until we get back to business. It's mostly bug fixes, but the major thing is that the AI should be acting much more human now.
So long, insane aiming skills! I already linked this, but here's that tribute to the AI and its targeting prowess: https://imgur.com/a/PH3nN
Interplanetary Version 0.7.5435_EAC_7.1 / 19.12.2014
- Shot difficulty now affects AI accuracy, which has also been generally lowered
- Weapon damage to cities increased
- Player turn status markers re-implemented
- Victory screen bug fixes
- Event log performance issues fixed
- Action phase simulation accuracy increased (less zigzag movements for shots and the
- chance of appearing to go through the planets is minimized)
- Timeout for AI calculations added, fixing AI getting lost in thought
- Missile bug fixed
- AI turn message spam fixed
Have a good one! Remember to play a lot of games!
-Team Jolly Roger
Sorry to keep you waiting, but here it is finally! Single Player AI, fixed networking, new UI, music, the works! Hope it was worth the wait.
Remember, the AI is still young and inexperienced and as this update is quite sizeable, there may be some unexpected issues with it. Do contact us for anything and we'll get to fixin'.
Oh, there's also an option to now send us anonymous user statistics while playing the game. This helps us a lot at developing the game further and squishing bugs. The information includes bug reports, hardware and gameplay data, such as session length and the most popular weapons. The info is not personally identifiable.
Interplanetary Version 0.7.5394_EAC_7
- Simple Single Player mode with early AI bots added.
- Networking overhauled.
[list] - All previous online connectivity issues should be fixed!
- Mobile broadband connections (and all other kinds of obscure things) now supported.
- LAN multiplayer temporarily disabled due to new network structure.
- Player turn status markers temporarily disabled. Will be back soon.
http://tjrdev.blogspot.fi/2014/12/interplanetary-update-7-ai.html
We're starting our Saturday whacking programme right now! Join any of us for a match or two of Interplanetary! The devs in-game tonight are:
- Jeo[Dev]
- Graah![Dev]
- kingofcomsos[Dev]
- Aether[Dev]
- WickerDude[Dev]
For every dev you defeat, we shall give away free Interplanetary Steam keys on our Twitter and Vkontakte pages. Make sure you're quick enough to grab them!
Also, join us for a cozy stream on our Twitch channel .
Happy blasting!
Greetings, Interplanetarists! It feels like today's a great day for a new Interplanetary patch, don't you think? Today on the menu: balance tweaks and network and structure graphics fixes. Finally, no more game crashes while turn-processing and building graphics are once again tied to intel!
Check the full change log:
Interplanetary Version 0.6.4981_EAC_6.6
- Fixed online games crashing at turn processing due to Laser weirdness
- City and Building graphics are now visible only if the player has enough intel
- Camera now centers on the player planet when entering Targeting View
- Material production upgrades changed to consume Planet Material
- Cities now get destroyed when population reaches 0, as opposed to 1/6 of maximum
- Sun gravity increased
- Laser effects made slightly more visible
- Defense building Visibility increased
- Railgun Visibility slightly decreased
- Missile Population damage increased
- Laser Population damage increased
- Defense Energy consumption increased
- Upgradeable Intel amount for Data Security Hub decreased
- Upgradeable Counterintel amount for Telescope Array decreased
Also, this Saturday, October 4th we shall celebrate the fresh patch with a Whack-a-Dev and a nice cozy Twitch stream. The whacking will start at 6pm GMT/11am PDT - be there!
Watch our stream of the event on our Twitch channel .
As usual, for each developer you manage to defeat, we will give away free Interplanetary Steam keys on our Twitter and Vkontakte pages.
See you there!
Whack-a-Dev VIII is happening right now! The developers in game tonight are:
[list]
As usual, every time you defeat one of us, we give out free Interplanetary Steam keys on our Twitter and Vkontakte pages.
Tonight's event stream, for the very first time is happening on our very own Twitch channel . Come watch and join the discussion in the chat!
Happy blasting!
We are happy to announce the triumphant return of Whack-a-Dev this Saturday, September 20th! Join us at 6pm GMT/11am PDT to rejoice in the fine tradition of Saturday whacking.
We missed you so much and this Saturday we want to be closer than ever, thus, we will be hosting the Whack-a-Dev stream in our very own, shiny and new, Twitch channel . Some of us will be playing a match and streaming it online, and anyone of you, if quick enough, can joing the game to play with us.
"Whack-a-Dev" Day is a special day, when Team Jolly Roger hosts games of Interplanetary and invites players to beat the living snot out of them!
- Whack the devs!
[list] - Now's your chance to prove your superiority! Beat the devs at their own game and become a folk hero!
Blast you soon!
Whack-a-Dev VII is taking off! The devs in game tonight are:
[list]
If you want to try out the Interlanetary AI, look for Mitorah!
Every time you manage to defeat one of us, we'll post Inteprlanetary Steam keys to our Twitter and Vkontakte . Catch them all!
The main hub for socializing and matchmaking is our Steam Community Chat.
Jolly Whack-a-Dev to you all!
Minimum Setup
- OS: Ubuntu 13.xx
- Processor: DualCore AMD/Intel 2.3 GHzMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon 4850 / Nvidia 8800 GTS 512 Mb or equivalent
- Storage: 1024 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Linux users with AMD graphics cards may experience issues with game crashing at various points. This can be remedied by changing the graphics card drivers to a different version. including to the open source driver version. Please consult the forums for more information.
Recommended Setup
- OS: Ubuntu 13.xx
- Processor: QuadCore AMD/Intel 3.0 GHzMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon 5850 / Nvidia 9800 GTX 1 GB or equivalentNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 1024 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Linux users with AMD graphics cards may experience issues with game crashing at various points. This can be remedied by changing the graphics card drivers to a different version. including to the open source driver version. Please consult the forums for more information.
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