Hi Guys!
Depending on where you live you might or might not have celebrated the New Year. In any case I wish to you the best for the next year!
This year past was a year of incredible growth for Rogue Empire. As some of you might know this is a solo project of which I try to live from. It was mid 2016... Gosh how much time... that I decided to leave my job and use my savings to bring Rogue Empire to life. Back then I said to myself in 18 months I got it done... nothing further from the truth lol.
But on the bright side the 19th of January 2018 the game was released on Early Access here on steam! This release went fairly well, but made me realize a lot more was needed, not only the end of the story! So this year Rogue Empire had many more new additions! The challenge dungeon, new baddies, new environments, better UI, new spells, new abilities, altars and artifacts, physical damage types, resistance gear, champions, leader boards, the healthiness system, and so much more! Then by the end of the year the game even made it into the Top 100 of the IndieDB Indie of the year contest! steamhappy
But here I want to do a parenthesis and talk about something else: People. The experience of making this game is really enriched by you who play and care about the game, other developers who support and teach me, friends and family who bear with me. Solo developing is not easy and sometimes I would silently freak out about a bad bug or a bad review but so many would support me :) You don't have an Idea how much this means to me and to my sanity! To all of you who were there this year: THANK YOU!
Now moving on, Rogue Empire will start 2019 getting out or Early Access! When? Late January. I will post about it soon. But I want to let you know I do not plan to end it there. When I decided to make my living out of this I mean it. So unless the release goes really bad (fingers crossed) I plan to continue to work on the game. I still need to wrap some things up, including some new abilities, a druid mechanics improvement and a few more quests/locations for the Dawn of Shadows campaign.
So many things where added to the game, but also many I had to cut for time constrains :(. Some things I plan to add this year are other languages, new classes, prestige classes, modding, new game modes (I am particularly excited about this but I wont say much ;)), more mechanics and more.
I think it is also fair to tell you how I plan to do dlc's. My Idea is mainly to add features with each dlc that add to the base game and other features that are dlc tied. This way I feel you all ways get something new even if you won't or cannot buy the dlc.
Anyway, I truly wish you all a great 2019! I hope you chase your goals and even if you don't accomplish them, most times the journey is so much more than the goal itself! At least for me it was this year :D!
Thanks again! Enjoy life, enjoy your friends and family and as always... Happy Dungeon Crawling! GW