As we are building up to the EGX show in Birmingham next week, we’ve put together another playthrough of our demo. In this one, we are showing off a couple of new features: children – what we settled on in regards to their equipment allowance, and their growing up mechanics; character progression – we will show you how the new lvl up feature where you get greater control over how your characters gain skills and stats works; combat vs concept and a couple of new quests.
We’ve been having a lot of team meetings and progress reviews (sounds all formal, but we’ve just been assessing realistic goals and targets that still need hitting) and we have a few announcements to make this month.
So firstly, as you know, our policy has always been to only release our game into early access once it is feature complete and fully playable. Not only do you not get a second chance at a first impression, but more importantly, we’d hate for our fans to pay for something they cannot fully enjoy yet.
With that in mind, we set the date for the Steam early access release for November 2018. We then hope to fully release the game in the first quarter of 2019.
Hi everyone.
So we’ve had a chance to show a short demo of some pre-alpha gameplay for Thea 2 at Digital Dragons last month and today, we want to share a play-through from that.
Now, the video is a bit long, but we wanted to show as much as possible.
As you can see, the game is finally taking shape and since the demo was made, we’ve already updated and improved the crafting and recipes and added more content, so things are going well. We got some good feedback from the players, and we were pleased to see all three modes(physical, mental and spirit) working really well in the card game. The crafting, especially cooking, was fun as always and we had some positive words about our new UI and the general direction we’re heading, which is great.
We’re painfully aware that we’re not keeping the website up to date, but we’re not dead, just too busy to remember about updates 😛 This month, we’re going to share some of our internal team mechanics and struggles with all of you who care.
So, the problem we’ve been having recently was floating foxes and seaworthy bones – it turns out we have visual issues with our resources when they spawn on a shoreline.
As you will see below, we have some water-loving foxes next to some aqua vegetables, goats having a swim and some bones floating happily in the sea.
Holiday break is now but a memory, and after a bit of laziness, we got back to our normal work mode. Figured out it might be time for another post to show off some bits we’ve been doing recently.
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I’ve just realized that our website updates have fallen somewhat behind… I was never particularly good (or speedy) at writing news but this is unacceptable. A’vee – you’re fired!
Oh, wait…
So first, I wanted to share a brand new character art (only one for now, just to tease you :P). I asked our amazing artist Finn to make a couple female gatherers to resemble some old ones from Thea: The Awakening. Below is a T: TA gatherer on the left and T: TS on the right:
But of course, much more stuff happened over the last two months than this 🙂
Hi all!
Finally, Thea 2: The Shattering Kickstarter campaign is live!
[www.kickstarter.com/projects/muhagames/thea-2-the-shattering]
Numbers change pretty quickly, so I’ll use this handy Kicktraq widget below to show the funding progress and remaining time.
If the current trend continues, we’ll hit the goal before Khash says Mississippi 😀
EDIT: Yee-haw! We’ve crossed the funding threshold, so it’s time for stretch goals!
If anyone would like to support us but doesn’t have a credit or debit card – we’ve opened up a small “pledge store” here: www.theakickstarter.bigcartel.com
These pledges won’t be visible on totals on the KS page, but every penny will go towards them. We’ve got 5 tiers available – £15, £30, £60, £90 and £500, with the £90 limited to 5 copies (because it contains limited rewards).
Thank you to all our backers and supporters so far, you guys rock!
The holiday season is over and after some of the not-yet-deserved-rest, the whole team is running around like mad. Why? Because the month of September will be very eventful!
We finally managed to lock down the Kickstarter campaign’s start date to 18th September. Continue reading
Hi, it’s been a while since we’ve given some progress update here, so today, I will showcase our event editor for Thea 2.
Those of you who tried the one from Thea: The Awakening may find some familiar features, but the tool has been done again from scratch and has some amazing potential, especially for those willing to do some scripting too.
Please keep in mind that this is still very much WIP this is certainly subject to change.
It’s been a long road and not always smooth, but finally, our game is ready to launch on both XBox One and PS4 at the end of this month!
A full version of the single-player game will be out in time to be enjoyed during the long summer holidays.