30 Oct 2021Developer post

Malmyr Runemagic 2.0 Changelog

Hello there! After months of feedback collecting, ux improving and feature implementing we are finished with the comprehensive Malmyr - Runemagic 2.0 update. Thank you for sticking with us and welcome to the new players! Don't hesitate to contact us on Discord ( or Steam's Malmyr

Hello there!

After months of feedback collecting, ux improving and feature implementing we are finished with the comprehensive Malmyr - Runemagic 2.0 update.

Thank you for sticking with us and welcome to the new players! Don't hesitate to contact us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/7MYwmxp) or Steam's Malmyr discussion forums.

Let's dive into the Changes:

Runemagic

Added 18 runewords. Runewords are combinations of three runes triggering a special powerful effect. Examples: Foundries produce 4 times the amount of resources, but have a 1% chance to explode. Houses have double the capacity for workers. Clicks on buildings are repeated two additional times.
Added a list of available runewords to the ingame wiki.
Added rune "gambling". During missions, you now can convert your coins into random runes, with the result depending on the mission you are in.
Added rune dropping on buildings. Dropping a rune on a building that has space for resources, will create new resources in its stockpile, depending on the rune consumed.
Added an effect to the ruin when activating a runeword.
Improved the ruin UI, so that it is easier to see, how to activate a runeword.
Removed the sub game for upgrading runes between missions. You now just select three runes and upgrade them by clicking the button.

General Major Changes

Added localizations to Russian, French and German.
Reworked router roads. It is now possible to route any combination of resources to the four directions, instead of only one resource.
Reworked stockpile capacity concept for buildings. You can now store each resource in a building with the capacity counting for each individual resource. Originally each resource stack was counted towards a total capacity. This means, that buildings can no longer "clog up" with one resource, even if other missing resources could be delivered.
Added highlighting line when selecting a building, showing all roads and buildings that are connected to the selected building.
Added a speed-up button, allowing to set the game speed to 1x, 2x or 8x.
Added a setting for fullscreen, fullscreen borderless windowed and windowed mode.

Minor Changes

Added a Woodcutter's Hut to the starting setup of mission 1 as a way to show players basic concepts of Malmyr.
Added a splash screen on starting the game, showcasing our new logo.
Added ESC key ingame now opening the main menu.
Added locking function for ingame UI panel positions.
Added multiple new tooltips.
Added a small "hover" effect when moving the mouse over a tile.
Added a shining effect to the build menu for newly unlocked buildings.
Changed the name of the "Freeplay" mission to "The Tower" as it was no real freeplay mode.
Changed the Woodcutter's Hut's output from 8 to 10 and adjusted production chains accordingly.
Improved the visuals of the particle systems used throughout the game.
Fixed all known bugs. If you find new ones, please report them.

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24 Oct 2021Developer post

Malmyr - Runemagic 2.0 Update

On Saturday, 30.10 the Malmyr - Runemagic 2.0 update is ready and will be published. Over the last year we have invested many hours in collecting feedback from the forums, the Discord and from content creators. All the improvements you see in Malmyr 2.0 have only been possible be

On Saturday, 30.10 the Malmyr - Runemagic 2.0 update is ready and will be published.

Over the last year we have invested many hours in collecting feedback from the forums, the Discord and from content creators. All the improvements you see in Malmyr 2.0 have only been possible because of you: Thank you!

Runemagic

We wanted to make the update even more interesting and provide you with new content. Since the rune system was neglected by many, we decided to expand it and to increase the general power level of the runes. For this purpose, we have implemented 18 strong and unique rune words (combinations of three runes each). In addition, it is now possible to easily create resources in stockpiles with runes. We hope that the rune words are not too powerful 😅 you tell us.

Localization

Another big point for many was that they would like to play Malmyr in their own language. After we first wanted to implement this with AI translations, it turned out relatively quickly that this translation does not meet our quality standards. So, we decided to spend money and have the game professionally translated into French and Russian - and of course we did the German translation ourselves. We decided on these languages because we believe that they at least give us a chance to reach the break-even point in a timely manner.

Gameplay and UX improvements

In the past, there was always questioning feedback about the basic gameplay and difficulties in understanding it. We were able to solve many of these by improving the UI and providing more detailed explanations, but not everything. For this patch we have now approached the problem from the other side. For example: We questioned whether the current solution of stockpiling resources really adds value. Until now, a smelter could "run full" of wood and the player had to manually dispose of the wood so that ore could be delivered to the building again. In Rune Magic 2.0, the capacity of the buildings applies per resource, so that the course of the game should be disrupted much less frequently.
In the end, this means that we went back to the drawing board for some mechanics that were not clear even after explanations, to improve the mechanics themselves. A detailed changelog will be published with the patch.

Giveaway

To celebrate the release day, we decided to start a giveaway for a total of 10 keys on twitter. We would be very happy if you participate. Even if you already have Malmyr, you are welcome to give the key away!

https://twitter.com/zieglergamedev/status/1451952058068779017

Thank you very much for supporting us for almost a whole year now. We have put a lot of time and energy into Malmyr since its release to make sure it meets your and our quality standards.

Stay healthy and as always: Don't forget to review Malmyr 😋!

René

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20 Oct 2021Developer post

Malmyr - Runemagic 2.0 Beta 5 is live on Experimental.

Hey there! Beta 5 is the latest (and most likely last) beta before the full release of the Runemagic 2.0 update. You can access it now on the experimental branch. We finally finished the localization for French and Russian. In addition to that we further improved the game in gene

30 Aug 2021Developer post

Malmyr - Runemagic 2.0 Beta 3 is live on Experimental.

Hello, the newest beta for Malmyr can now be accessed via the experimental branch. With this beta we are mostly feature complete for the upcoming 2.0 patch. Before we get into the changes, we wanted to show our gratitude for the feedback given to us by some of the new players! Th

Hello,

the newest beta for Malmyr can now be accessed via the experimental branch. With this beta we are mostly feature complete for the upcoming 2.0 patch.

Before we get into the changes, we wanted to show our gratitude for the feedback given to us by some of the new players! Thank you so much for your valuable insights and the great discussions resulting from that. You make Malmyr a better game! Some of the new players also already reviewed Malmyr in the store: Thank you too! Every review counts and makes Malmyr more visible. Keep the reviews coming!

Changelog
- Router Road revamp
- Building stockpile revamp
- New runewords

Router Roard revamp
For quite some time we felt, that the router road is a feature a lot of players could make good use of, if it wasn't as cumbersome to use. This revamp should improve the situation. Router roads now no longer only allow one resource per cardinal direction: It is now possible to select on a per resource basis, if it is allowed to go to / come from a direction. So you can actually make one resource bridge a road or split off a resource from an ongoing stream.

Building stockpile revamp
A recurring problem faced by new and experienced players alike was buildings clogging up with a resource, essentially sooner or later stopping production. The only way to mitigate this, was to either perfectly balance out every production chain (making the use of runes VERY hard) or going through all the buildings, clearing out stockpiles manually. We did not like how this turned out so we took a step back and revamped how capacity in stockpiles is handled. A building with a capacity of 512 now can store up to 512 units of each type of resource needed at that building. With this solution we want to accomodate the usage of runes (especially the new rune words) and take the edge off that somewhat annoying micromanagement.

New runewords
There is a plethora of new runewords ready for playing. Some of them surely can be abused in some way, let's see what happens. There is a total of 19 Runewords in the game now. You can look them up in the ingame wiki. Have fun playing with them!

What is still missing for 2.0?
As it stands right now, we should be able to release Malmyr 2.0 in a couple of weeks, but we will see, if we have to jump more hoops before that.

There are some things that still need to be done first:
- Localizations to French and Russian
- An update for the ingame wiki
- General touch ups
- Beta testing and polishing of the new features, runewords and revamps

We are very excited for the feedback regaring all the changes we introduced in this beta! Don't hesitate to reach out to us with any request or feedback you might have!

Thank you for your time and stay healthy!

Yours
René

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12 Jul 2021Developer post

Malmyr - Runemagic 2.0 Beta 2 is live on Experimental.

Hey there, we just uploaded the second beta for the next Malmyr patch to the experimental beta branch. You can access it via Malmyr's properties in your library under "Betas". Changelog - New mechanic: Rune rolling - Three new runewords Rune rolling This Patch introduces a new me

06 Jul 2021Developer post

Malmyr: State of the Game - New Beta and finally Rated on Steam (06.07.2021)

Hello there! Wow, already one month went by since I wrote one of these the last time. For today, I have two points I want to talk about. Let's dive right into it! Finally rated on Steam A couple of days ago we got our 10th (by now 11th) review on Steam by buying customers. That m

Hello there!

Wow, already one month went by since I wrote one of these the last time. For today, I have two points I want to talk about. Let's dive right into it!

Finally rated on Steam

A couple of days ago we got our 10th (by now 11th) review on Steam by buying customers. That means that we now have a rating and are actually a bit more visible in searches, discovery queues and so forth.

We really can see the difference in the number of impressions Malmyr is getting right now. This for sure is boosted by the summer sale, but we assume that there was a clear growth. For now that means: We need to make Malmyr even more relevant and increase the number of reviews to fall into the next rating category.

If you can make the time a short review would help us out immensely!

First beta for Malmyr - Runemagic 2.0

There is a new beta available for Malmyr on Steam. If you have bought Malmyr, you can get it by opening the properties of Malmyr and go to "Betas". There is a drop down list, where you can select "Experimental" and it should be downloaded automatically.

There are already quite a few changes in the game. Here are the most important ones:

German localization:

This beta introduces the first version of the German localization of Malmyr. French and Russian will follow at a later date.

New Runemagic features:

In addition to Terraforming and applying passive effects, runes now have an additional ability. You now can drag and drop a rune on any building that has a stockpile (so almost all of them) to create resources depending on the rune used.

We also removed the clicking minigame for crafting runes. Runecrafting now simply creates a new rune that is slightly rarer than the average rarity of the consumed runes.

Down the road of this beta we will add another feature: You will be able to roll for random runes in the game for your surplus coin. There will also be a good amount (~18) of new runewords coming up and it will be easier to learn about how to combine runes to make runewords.

UX- and QoL-Improvements:

You now can speed up the game up to 8-times the normal game speed.
Clicking a building now draws a line along connected roads, to give a better overview where the resources of that building can go.
Revamped the "resource-jumping-arch" effect, to make it less intrusive.

We will keep you posted on further updates to the beta.

As usual, you can contact us on Discord or the Steam community forums, if you want to report a bug or just say hello.

Yours
René

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06 Jun 2021Developer post

Malmyr: State of the Game - Localization and Malmyr 2.0 (06.06.2021)

Hey there! We hope that you are well and managed to stay sane facing the current challenges! After over two months we wanted to give you a sign of life and tell you about the things happening for Malmyr behind the scenes. As mentioned a couple of months ago, we both have a "norma

Hey there!

We hope that you are well and managed to stay sane facing the current challenges! After over two months we wanted to give you a sign of life and tell you about the things happening for Malmyr behind the scenes.

As mentioned a couple of months ago, we both have a "normal" day job to be able to continue work on Malmyr and upcoming games. Even though we would love to put more time into gamedev, all in all, the plan is going fine.

Localization

In our last State of the Game post we detailed our plans on localization and that we wanted to provide machine learning based translations as a cheap and fast solution.

The plans changed.

After long discussions about what standards we would like to achieve and seeing how the machine learning translation performed on the English -> German test, we decided to use it, if at all, only as an emergency solution. As a result we are opting for professional localization instead.

For now this means, that after reviewing player numbers and getting a lot of quotes, we will most likely release Malmyr for three additional languages: German (translated by us), French and Russian.

We do know that there are huge and awesome communites that speak other languages, like Italian, Spanish or Brasillian Portuguese! Sadly we just cannot afford translating the game into more languages right now. But, depending on how well the first localizations perform, this may change in the future.

Major version: Malmyr 2.0

With the same patch that will deliver localization, we want to improve Malmyr even more. There is still one major point that players have a hard time to grasp: How the marketplace and food delivery to houses works.

After reviewing the mechanic we decided that it is actually not bringing much to the table. So we will remove it. That means that you are now free to place your houses wherever you want, they will get their food from the global food storage. The kitchens now will produce food globally. There also will be a couple of other smaller improvements. One example would be that Malmyr now finally has a speed up button.

The third part of the Malmyr 2.0 upgrade will be about the magical runes you can find in Malmyr. All in all runes have been received well and people like the idea, but they are still not used enough. We think this is due to them not being powerful enough and not offering the player enough meaningful ways to actually make use of them.

Therefore we are revamping the whole rune system. Parts, like terraforming and using them as a passive buff, will most likely stay. Other parts, like the way runes are currently crafted will see bigger changes. As of now, it is not clear how exactly the system will change, but we will keep you posted.

This also means, that now you have the chance to leave your footprint on Malmyr: Tell us what you would change, add, remove or improve regarding the rune system in the comments!

One last thing: We just started a small giveaway for three keys of Malmyr. If you want to join in or just help us out with some reach, retweet and comment on this https://twitter.com/zieglergamedev/status/1401604930608193537.

As always, thank you for your time.
Stay healthy and don't forget to review Malmyr :D.

Yours
René

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07 Apr 2021Developer post

Malmyr: State of the game (07.04.2021)

Hello there! As you can see in the subtitle of this post, we want to give you an overview regarding our Steam reviews, what the progress of Malmyr's localization is and that we will launch a Patreon page soon. Review situation One of the biggest aspects of being visible in Steam

Hello there!

As you can see in the subtitle of this post, we want to give you an overview regarding our Steam reviews, what the progress of Malmyr's localization is and that we will launch a Patreon page soon.

Review situation

One of the biggest aspects of being visible in Steam is having a review rating. This rating (sth. like "Very Good" or "Mixed") will be awarded by Steam, as soon as a certain amount of "organic" reviews have been given. Only reviews made by players who actually bought the game on Steam are taken into account.

Currently we have less than 10 reviews, that means, if someone sorts their search "by reviews", we will be far towards the end.

If you want to help us out: Tell us what you think about Malmyr with a review on Steam. While we obviously love positive feedback, we want you to be honest with us first and foremost. Only that way we can do better. So, no matter if your review is positive or negative, we appreciate it. You are helping us out a lot. Thank you!

Progress of localization

People following our Twitter account @zieglergamedev might already know, but we started working on localization a bit earlier as planned. So here are some details on our concept.

As it looks like right now, there will be localization for 10 languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Czech and Russian). We don't have any budget for a professional translation, so the plan goes as follows.

The English to German localization will be done by ourselves (duh!), all other localizations will have two steps. Frist we will be using machine learning based translation, followed by a second proofreading. For the proofreading we will try to get help by volunteers from our community.

If you are interested in helping us out: Contact us on our Discord, the Malmyr Steam forums, via Twitter or by E-Mail ([email protected]).

Upcoming Patreon page

As we want to continue working on Malmyr and new games, we need to get continuous funding. In the near future, we will be opening a Patreon page for the two of us. This seemed like a good way for you to support us and for us to show our gratitude.

Here you are asked: What would interest you? How could we win you over as a patron? Get in touch with us with suggestions, even if they seem absurd at first glance! Sometimes that's how the best ideas come about!

Sidenote

A good amount of people had fun with the Spring Festival Event we held earlier this year. Don't forget that the event map is still accessible through the "Single Missions" menu. You still can get those three event Steam achievements!

Thank you for your time and thank you for helping us to make dreams come true!

Yours,
René

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07 Feb 2021Developer post

Lunar New Year Event and a small sale

Hello there! The Chinese New Year festivities are approaching and we would like to have a small celebration with you. There will be an event update next week on Thursday (11.02.2021) adding a new mission and three new achievements to the game. To make it available to even more pe

06 Feb 2021Developer post

The UX-Improvement-Update 2 is now available.

Hello there! We have great news: The second UX-Improvement-Patch already is available, eventhough it initially was planned for later this month. Since we will have a small Chinese New Year event in the game next week, we wanted potential new players to already have access to the

Hello there!

We have great news: The second UX-Improvement-Patch already is available, eventhough it initially was planned for later this month. Since we will have a small Chinese New Year event in the game next week, we wanted potential new players to already have access to the new UX-Improvements and bugfixes.

So let's get started:

Changelog v1.3.3 (UX-Improvement-Patch 2)

UX-Improvements

Added new build "Workshop" (starting in mission 7) allowing automated clicking and improving the production of buildings next to it. Placing it next to a building that you normally would have to click manually, will automatically do so. Next to production buildings, the Workshop increases their production capacity (increases needed input and produces more output). The Workshop's upkeep increases with the upkeep of the buildings next to it and can be upgraded up to 5 times.
Renamed to Town Center to Royal Trading Post. Hopefully this makes it easier to understand, that it is NOT storing resources, but selling them.
The Royal Trading Post (formerly Town Center) now will automatically already spawn with tier 2 from mission 5 and tier 3 from mission 10
Revamped the ingame Rune display. It now stacks runes of the same type.
Socketing Runes now only works by dragging and dropping a Rune on a Ruin with empty sockets.
Added resolution settings to the settings menu.
Added vsync option to the settings menu.
Added the story journal. You can now read up the dialogues of the current mission by opening the journal in the ingame menu.
Added some slight wind-like movement to trees.
Added multiple particle effects to give the game some more life.
Added rarity colors to runes.
Improved the particle effects for spawned runes to reflect their rarity.

Bugfixes

Fixed some typos in the ingame wiki.
Fixed missing colliders for hills and mines.
Fixed some typos in mission dialogues.
Fixed some typos in ruin descriptions.
Fixed a bug where lightsources of road variants were visible, even if the variant was not active.
Fixed a bug where the mission objective list could no longer be moved.

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17 Jan 2021Developer post

Malmyr: State of the game (17.01.2021)

Hello there! Until UX-Improvement-Patch-2 is released, we are trying to give you regular updates on its development. Let's dive right into it. Reviews We are very happy that all reviews we got are positive, but sadly 2/3 of them are from press and beta testers. Since they did not

10 Jan 2021Developer post

Malmyr: State of the game (10.01.2021)

Hello there! I hope you all had a great start into 2021! First things first: We are on track with our plans detailed late last year ( The future of Malmyr ) and will continue following that path. UX-Improvement-Patch 2 The second UX improvement patch is taking shape and the first

Hello there!

I hope you all had a great start into 2021!

First things first: We are on track with our plans detailed late last year (The future of Malmyr) and will continue following that path.

UX-Improvement-Patch 2

The second UX improvement patch is taking shape and the first small features are now available for testing on the experimental branch. We have put some more settings (resolution and vsync) into the settings menu and added a new building: The "Workshop".

It will be unlocked in the "Into Darkness Mission" and gives players who don't like clicking on the Dwarven Light all the time a building to do that for them. For now the icon of the Workshop only uses a default icon, so don't be confused by that. We took the feedback we got on that issue to heart and decided to make the workshop even more useful. Putting the Workshop next to a building that produces something will "buff" the amounts that can be produced there.

Try out the Workshop and tell us, if you like it and if you find any bugs!

On-Board graphics card crashes

We have collected multiple reports of people using an on-board Intel GPU from the 5xx or 6xx series. After some research we found out, that there is a general issue with the render pipeline we are using and these GPU's. Even though we do know, that these GPU's are not in our "Minimal hardware configuration", we at least would like to try to allow those players to play Malmyr. But right now there is no real solution apparent. We will keep you posted on that.

A side note on localization

As our roadmap shows, we will make it possible to translate Malmyr. After getting some quotes on professional translation pricing we quickly found out, that there is no way we can get this done professionally for this project. So we are exploring other possiblities. One idea we MIGHT go for, for languages where we are not able to get an actual translator, could be AI based translations. These have become very good by now and will be better than no translation at all. If we do this, we will make clear what languages have been translated manually and which languages we translated by AI. We will update you on this too, as soon as we decided more.

If you are happy with Malmyr and want to help us out, don't forget to leave a review in Steam. We still don't have enough reviews to even get a rating. Should you have some issue with Malmyr and are holding back on your review because of that, don't hesitate to contact us. We can only solve problems we know about!

As always: Thank you for reading and you are making dreams come true!

Yours,
René

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08 Jan 2021GamingOnLinux

Malmyr is a thoroughly charming city-building logistics puzzler out now

Blending together city-building, resource gathering and logistics into a fine puzzle game Malmyr is worth taking a good look at with a wonderful relaxing atmosphere. Read the full article here:

31 Dec 2020Developer post

The UX-Imrovement-Update 1 is now available.

Hello there! We collected all that valuable feedback we received since we launched Malmyr and came up with this patch fancily called The "UX-Improvement-Patch-1". Read the changelog carefully. We tried to sort it well and put the most important stuff to the top. Tell us what you

Hello there!

We collected all that valuable feedback we received since we launched Malmyr and came up with this patch fancily called The "UX-Improvement-Patch-1".

Read the changelog carefully. We tried to sort it well and put the most important stuff to the top. Tell us what you think!

There are still two bigger bugs hitting Linux users in the game. We think it might be some issue related to our rune display at the right of the screen. The display will be revamped in Patch UX2 and hopefully this solves these bugs.

Wave 2020 a goodbye and welcome the new year =). Stay healthy and take care of your families AND yourselves. <3

Yours,
René

Changelog v1.2.2 (UX-Improvement-Patch 1)

General

Happy new year! There are fireworks on the roads now that can be triggered by clicking.

UX-Improvements

There are now difficulty settings, accessible in the main menu. Customize the game to your liking.
Placing of base resource producing buildings now no longer destroys the resource it was placed on. This counts for Woodcutter's Huts, Clay Pits, Quarries and Mines. Example: Selling a Clay Pit now leaves Clay Soil on the tile rather than wasteland.
Buildings that are not yet finished now can no longer accept resources not needed for build costs.
Added production information to the building tooltip.
The Town Center's radius (and other buildings that have an area of effect) display now is emphasized more.
The story dialogue panel now no longer is also closed when closing the settings menu with ESC.
The building information panel now shows cleary, that a building has no upkeep as long as it is paused.
Improved the upgrade and sell buttons in the building information, to make them more recognizable as buttons.
Placing of base resource producing buildings now no longer destroys the resource it was placed on. This counts for Woodcutter's Huts, Clay Pits, Quarries and Mines. Example: Selling a Clay Pit now leaves Clay Soil on the tile rather than wasteland.
Renamed the Town Center to "Royal Trading Post". This hopefully clears some confusion whether it is a storage or selling resources.
Renamed the in-game Quit button from "Quit Game" to "Quit Mission".
There are now difficulty settings, accessible in the main menu. Customize the game to your liking.
Moved building cost to the center of the building information panel.
Added a setting to allow switching between WASD- and ZQSD-Scrolling for AZERTY-Keyboard users.

General Bugfixes

Fixed multiple typos throughout the game.
Fixed Keyboard-Scrolling being FPS dependant.
Fixed a lighting issue with the character portraits in the dialogue panel.
Fixed a display error of the rune crafting subgame on ultra wide displays.
Fixed a bug were corrupted savegames could cause the save menu not to load properly.

Mission 1

Improved description of mission objectives.
Added an additional mission objective splitting up the process of building the first town, to make it easier to grasp.
Removed the build limit on roads.

Mission 2

Increased the spawn ratio of Copper to Tin from 4:1 to 4:2.

Mission 3

Made Storage available for building from the beginning of the mission.

Mission 8

Reduced Iron Mines needed for mission objectives from 2 to 1.
Reduced Silver Mines needed for mission objectives from 2 to 1.

Mission 9

All mines are buildable now. Just in case if the corresponding hill magically appears.
The Alchemists now no longer produce raw resources. Now they make Wood, Brick, Stoneblocks and Ingots directly.
The Dragon Oil Spring in this mission now automatically produces Dragon Oil. We want the difficulty of this level to be the logistics, not the clicking on the Spring.

Mission 11

Clicking on the fire notification icon now jumps to burning buildings. This also works in mission 12.

Mission 12

Fixed timer not triggering events correctly after being set back.

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27 Dec 2020Developer post

The future of Malmyr

Hello there! I hope you all had lovely christmas <3. We wanted to take the time to inform you about our future plans. Malmyr wasn't sold thousands of times, but it sold better than we expected our first game ever to do. After all it is a niche game, that also is very complex a

Hello there!

I hope you all had lovely christmas <3. We wanted to take the time to inform you about our future plans.

Malmyr wasn't sold thousands of times, but it sold better than we expected our first game ever to do. After all it is a niche game, that also is very complex and challenges the players to think out of the regular building games patterns. Thank you again for that. You made our holidays in these troubled times very special!

Onwards to the informational part of this announcement!

General information on our Team
Both of us would love to do games full-time, but we simply cannot sustain that for now. So from January on we both will have to work our 9 to 5 jobs. Philip already was during the last half of 2020 and I will start doing so. This means that we will have to slow down on game development. It just would not be fair to our employers, if we would pour all our energy into Malmyr and underperform at work. So sorry for the lower cadence of news, patches and so forth from our side.

That being said: We do have plans for Malmyr that I want to outline.

Bugfixes and UX-Improvements
The most important message is, that we will work on Malmyr as long as neccessary to get it to run bugfree and smoothly on as many systems as possible!

In addition to that we are observing your feedback on multiple channels very closely to be able to get the balance of accessibility and difficulty for Malmyr to a point where we want it to be.

We hear you!

Language support
We decided that we will go for localization on Malmyr. This means, that we will need to do some changes to the way ingame text is handled. Combined with the actual translation work, we will have a lot of tasks to do. It is sure not yet what languages will be delivered in the first localization patch, but it will at least be in english and german.

Very rough schedule

In 1-2 Weeks: UX-Patch-1
In ~2 Months: UX-Patch-2
In ~6 Months: Localization-Patch-1

Bugfixes will be applied when ready and stable for the main branch of the game. The first UX-Patch will go live on the experimental branch in a couple of days. You would help us out a lot, if you could play that version and give us feedback on it. I will open a topic on the Steam forums for that.

TL;DR: We need food, so we need work. Malmyr sales ok, but not enough $$$, so development = slower. Will continue patching, see "Very rough schedule" above. Localization might only be german and english in the beginning. UX-Patch-1 will be on experimental in a couple of days: Feedback plx.

You are Making our dreams come true!

Yours,
René

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25 Dec 2020Developer post

Hotfix for campaign deletion bug (v1.1.1)

Hey there, we were told, that there were players losing their campaign progress with the last patch. This patch should prevent that from happening. If your progress was already lost and it was too much for you to do again, contact us via the forums. We will help you unlock your p

24 Dec 2020Developer post

Happy Holidays, a small gift and a big thank you!

Hello there! Let's start with a big thank you! Thank you for buying and playing Malmyr. Thank you for bringing issues to our attention so that we can make the game better. Thank you for being awesome! We got two gifts this year. The first one is the by far bigger amount of people

21 Dec 2020Developer post

Malmyr is out now!

Thank you all for being there with us on this journey! Have fun playing Malmyr and don't forget to leave us a review. Don't hesitate to come to us, if you think there is something we could improve. We want to work on Malmyr as long as needed, to make it as good as it can be. We w

20 Dec 2020Developer post

Changelog for Version v1.0 (Now on the default branch!)

Hello there, this is the changelog for the final Version of Malmyr before the release. Let's see if it was the right decision putting it on the default branch :D. Changelog v1.0 General: - Increased resource spawn density for freeplay from 0.2 to 0.3. - Increased resource spawn d

15 Dec 2020Developer post

Final release information on Malmyr

Hello there! Let's start with the most important information: As most of you already know, we will be releasing Malmyr on Monday the 21.12.2020 at 21:00 CET. The regular prices for Malmyr will be: USD $14.99 EUR €12.49 GBP £11.39 And for the first week after the release we decide

Updates & announcements

Finally rated on Steam

First beta for Malmyr - Runemagic 2.0

German localization:

New Runemagic features:

UX- and QoL-Improvements:

Localization

Major version: Malmyr 2.0

Review situation

Progress of localization

Upcoming Patreon page

Sidenote

Changelog v1.3.3 (UX-Improvement-Patch 2)

Reviews

New version on experimental

Warning: Savegame compatibility

UX-Improvement-Patch 2

On-Board graphics card crashes

A side note on localization

Changelog v1.2.2 (UX-Improvement-Patch 1)