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Ahoy Chess fans!
We're really pleased to share that the next game from Iteration Games, An Elaborate History of Chess, now has a a playable demo on Steam as part of this month's Next Fest!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3475690/An_Elaborate_History_of_Chess_Demo/
The demo gives you the opportunity to explore the real-time strategy overworld, farming turnips, fighting rats, building castles, and promoting your pieces. Progress far enough in the overworld, and you'll have the chance to experience one of the turn-based dungeons, featuring combat, puzzles, loot, and intrigue.
As an added bonus, there is a special bounty available in Paper Pirates until 31st March 2025. If you have the An Elaborate History of Chess demo added to your Steam library and installed, this bounty will complete and unlock a special crossover outfit for you to use. We don't want to spoil it, but we think it's pretty fun!
If you play the demo, it would really help if you could consider leaving us a review on the demo's store page. Reviews really help with visibility, and will hopefully allow more people to discover both An Elaborate History of Chess and Paper Pirates. If you haven't already, we'd love it if you gave An Elaborate History of Chess a quick wishlist too, so you can find out when the game launches.
Throughout January, were celebrating with the Paper Pirates Seasonal Celebration, Soggy Hogmanay! Running from 1st January - 21st January, celebrate the start of the New Year with a festival of glad tidings, and a whole host of seasonal goodies in Paper Pirates!
Happy new year, crew!
We've started 2024 off strongly, with a really impressive completion time on the Soggy Hogmanay Community Bounty. Because we collectively played 100 games of Paper Pirates in the first week of 2024, there's a unique reward that all pirates can claim in-game now!
Make sure to open Paper Pirates before Wednesday 24th January 2024 to claim the Dragon (Coat). Although the redemption ends in late January, if you open the box and claim your Dragon now, you can keep it forever!
Once you've claimed the Dragon, any pirates joining games you host will be able to equip the Dragon in the Coat outfit slot. The Dragon is super cute, comes in a range of colours, and although their wings are mighty they're not quite strong enough to prevent you from going overboard. They're only a little Dragon after all!
We hope everyone in the Paper Pirates community has a fantastic 2024, and we'll keep you updated with game updates and seasonal celebrations as the year rolls on.
Thanks as always for your support,
Iteration Games
Throughout January, were celebrating with the Paper Pirates Seasonal Celebration, Soggy Hogmanay! Running from 1st January - 21st January, celebrate the start of the New Year with a festival of glad tidings, and a whole host of seasonal goodies in Paper Pirates!
We are thrilled to announce the next game from Iteration Games, An Elaborate History of Chess! [previewyoutube=rztp0qf-4So;full][/previewyoutube] An Elaborate History of Chess is a blend of real-time and turn-based strategy, exploring the history of the popular board game, Chess. Start with just one lowly pawn to begin building your village, and work your way up to an entire kingdom. Keep your farms running like clockwork to ensure a food supply for your pieces, and see how far you can spread your influence. As your kingdom flourishes, you'll attract all sorts of wildlife and monsters looking to checkmate your best warriors and take your wheat for themselves. Don't forget to build your defences, set up your supply chains, and of course, protect the king! When you're feeling brave it's time to turn your attention to the dungeons. You'll need to prepare an adventuring party ready to face the horrors and puzzles that lie in wait in the time-frozen dungeons, where you'll need to show your mastery of chess strategy to overcome the myriad challenges that lie await and steal the very best treasures. Do you have what it takes to become grandmaster of all you see, or will you find your best gambits just don't pay off? You can wishlist An Elaborate History of Chess on Steam now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255020/An_Elaborate_History_of_Chess/
We're super thrilled that Paper Pirates now has a full set of Steam Trading Cards available to anyone who buys the game. Steam Trading Cards are granted randomly to players as they play. We've themed the Trading Cards around the bots, so look out for all of your favourite Paper Pirates characters and make sure to trade with your friends to get the ones you really love! Collecting a full set of Steam Trading Cards awards a badge, which you can display on your Steam profile, and also grants you access to some Paper Pirates themed emotes you can use throughout Steam chat and Steam profile backgrounds you can use to fancy up your Steam profile. You can even collect additional sets to level up your badge, and earn even more goodies! If you're super lucky, you might find a Foil card with a special frame. These are especially rare and definitely worth keeping an eye out for! We hope everyone has fun collecting and trading Steam Trading Cards while playing Paper Pirates, and we'll see you all again soon out there on the ocean!
Throughout January, were celebrating with the Paper Pirates Seasonal Celebration, Soggy Hogmanay! Running from 1st January - 21st January, celebrate the start of the New Year with a festival of glad tidings, and a whole host of seasonal goodies in Paper Pirates!
The Witch - promoted to a permanent Trait! We've had an outpouring of love for our Haunted Seas seasonal trait, The Witch, from all areas of the Paper Pirates community. So much so that we've made the decision to make The Witch a permanent trait, available all year round! New content for Da de Muertos We've made some additions to our Day of the Dead seasonal celebration, full details can be found in the Da de Muertos seasonal celebration event page. Bug Fixes
Ahoy mateys! To celebrate this year's Digital Tabletop Fest, we'll be setting sail, destination: Paper Pirates! Anyone is welcome to join and play along or take part in the audience. Hope to see you aboard!
As part of the Remote Play Together Sale we'll be streaming Paper Pirates! Play along and see if you can guess who is a ghost!
After the launch of update 3.0, the Traitorous Update, we're just pushing some bug fixes that we missed or introduced during the development of 3.0.
New Game Mode: Trait Games!
Our third game mode adds another new way to sail on the seven seas! Returning to the original team-based nature of Paper Pirates, the Trait game mode gives you a whole new way to help your team - whether youre a human, or a ghost!
Traits
At the start of a Trait game, pirates are allocated a unique trait from the eleven traits available. These traits give each pirate a twist on the way they play the game - for example, The Assassin will always vote first in each round of voting, while The Pure cannot ever become a ghost, no matter who they vote for or what actions they take in events. Whether you choose to share your trait with the crew, keep it a secret, or maybe play more sneakily and weave a fishy tale to cover your tracks by lying about your trait, theyre sure to totally change the way that you play.
You can learn about all of the Traits in the Captains Log, and when making a Trait in Custom Games you can also choose to include or exclude specific traits based on your own personal preferences!
Innocents
In each game, a number of pirates may be allocated the Innocent Trait. These pirates have no special abilities, but are excellent scapegoats for mischief. If youre not ready to disclose your Trait yet, or simply want to cause some trouble, you can always claim to be Innocent! In Custom Games, you can use the slider to set a minimum and maximum number of Innocent pirates, to personalise the game to your liking.
Game Spectating
We know that many of you play Paper Pirates remotely, with people who arent - or cant - be with you in person. To help you play together, were introducing a spectator game mode. To spectate a game, enter the games room code after launching the spectator mode from the main menu while theyre still in the lobby.
To join the game as a pirate, youll still need to use the Paper Pirates website (https://paperpirat.es), but now the main screen will be replicated to anyone spectating through their own copy of the Steam game.
We hope that this enables more people to play Paper Pirates together where screen sharing facilities might otherwise be unavailable. Now, to play together, all you need is a copy of the game each and a room code!
Community Bounties
Bounties have levelled up! With 3.0, were introducing Community Bounties to Paper Pirates. When a community bounty is active, youll see it right at the top of the title screen. These bounties have big goals, and must be completed within a limited time - but the good news is, anyone who plays Paper Pirates during the bounty contributes to the Community Bounty! If everyone completes the bounty before the times up, a limited-time reward - such as increased gold rewards - will become available to everyone playing games for the duration of the reward!
The first bounty starts RIGHT NOW, challenging everyone to complete 100 games within seven days. Reaching the goal will unlock a 1.5x coin multiplier to all coins earned for seven days after the bountys completion!
Please note that to participate in a Community Bounty, you must have the Collect Anonymous Usage Data feature turned on in the Options menu, so that we know youve played a game!
And what do the people at home think?
Weve also added a new way to choose your events when playing in Custom Games! Weve heard that pirates love when the audience participates, and some of you were always disappointed when each new day passed and the audiences choice didnt happen. So the new mode - Audience Choice - ensures that, when an event needs to happen, if you have an audience and theyve picked events, itll always choose one of their choices!
If you select Audience Choice and you dont have an audience, or theyre feeling a little sheepish about making choices, youll get random events as normal. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as they say!
A Few Other Things
Find Romance on the seven seas with Valentine Voyages!
This February, were celebrating with the sixth Paper Pirates Seasonal Celebration, Valentine Voyages! Running from 7th February - 21st February, celebrate the season of love with a festival of romance, and a whole host of seasonal goodies in Paper Pirates!
Limited Time Costumes
During Valentine Voyages, Sam Sherbot has some new outfit options available to unlock in the Outfit Shop! If you buy an outfit option during Valentine Voyages, you can wear it all year round - but the items will be disappearing from sale when the event is over, so dont delay and buy today!
The full list of outfit items available during Valentine Voyages is:
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Adventure Events
Patch 2.8 brings with it a grand sense of adventure, as we introduce a new type of event to Paper Pirates! When an Adventure Event occurs during your journey, the crew temporarily takes a pitstop, engaging in a mini-adventure.
During an adventure, the crew have the chance to pick and choose which events take place, and multiple events will happen in quick succession. Its an all new way to experience events - and the things that happen on an adventure dont just stay on the adventure, theyre going to affect your game when youre back on the ship too!
The Island Adventure
The very first Adventure Event is the Island Adventure, where the crew explore an island they discover way out in the seven seas! Together you have enough resources to explore two regions of the island, so pick wisely which bits of the island you want to see each time you visit!
The island has nine regions in total, which means there are nine new fun-filled events for you to experience as part of the Island Adventure. From fishing off the docks to diving for treasure, whichever activities you try out on your trip to the island its sure to shake things up in your game!
As an extra bonus, there are five new achievements relating to the island. Work hard when youre on an adventure, and maybe you will discover a new hat for your efforts!
Dress for Adventure in the Outfit Shop
Our resident shopkeeper, Sam Sherbot, is already well acquainted with the island, and has stocked up the Outfit Shop with a whole new range of island-themed goodies for you to browse and purchase using the coins earned for playing Paper Pirates.
Continuing on the theme of dress-up, why not make an explorer outfit for your pirates - or go undercover and try to mingle with the local wildlife!
In total, there are over forty new outfit shop items, so theres plenty of new ways for you to customise your pirates.
New Outfit Customiser
As the number of things Sam Sherbot has on sale grows, weve overhauled the outfit customiser to make it more manageable when you have a large wardrobe for your pirates! The new outfit customiser is visible immediately when connecting to a game, and lets you start customising your pirates look right away. Dont worry - the randomise buttons are still there for those of you who love to leave your look all up to chance!
Additionally, a new option on the outfit customiser lets you save your current outfit to a code, which you can then store and paste into the outfit customiser again to recreate your current look with one simple button press! This gives all pirates a great way to share dress-up tips, store a full range of outfits, or bring your outfit from one persons game to another. If the owner of the game doesnt have all the items in your outfit unlocked yet, theyll get swapped out randomly for something they do have, so you might even uncover some new variations on your outfit that you love!
Daily Sales at the Outfit Shop
Sam Sherbot has been feeling generous of late, so theyre going to start offering a daily sale in the outfit shop. Each day a few categories from the shop will have a select number of items on sale, sometimes for as much as 75% off! The sales are the same for everyone, so if you see an item thats a total steal, dont forget to let your friends know so they can visit the Outfit Shop and pick it up for their game too!
A Few Other Things
Weve got a few little extra updates, features, and bug fixes ready for release a little earlier than usual - so were bringing them to you in the 2.5.1 Paper Pirates Bonus Update!
As we prepare to say goodbye to the Haunted Seas event, were setting sail for destination 2.5! The focus of this patch is improving the Paper Pirates user experience, and hopefully making it so that everyone who plays can get a better understanding of the rules. Dont be too sad about the end of Haunted Seas - keep an eye on the Steam updates for more seasonal events as they happen!
Hey pirates! After last weeks dev stream, we realised that Paper Pirates was missing some cool features that could make life so much better for playing while streaming. So, we added them! Theres a full list below, but headline features include the ability to turn down the voice acting (so you can add your own commentary), and letting pirates send their own messages which will display above their heads its super cute! You can check out our first dev stream on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxzqKL6SUOw Keep an eye out for more opportunities to play with the devs in the near future. Weve got more updates coming soon, so if you have an idea for something that could make Paper Pirates more fun, let us know on the Discussion forums! Full changelog: - Added options menu both in-game and in the main menu - Added options for turning down the voice acting, music and SFX - Added option for extending timers to help with stream lag - Added chat functionality so that pirates can talk to each other in-game! - Added a profanity filter for the in-game chat - Added an option to turn off the profanity filter! - Added an option to skip the intro
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