Developer posts and news about this game.
Hi Generals!! I was pretty busy in August releasing 5 new versions of the alpha (0.1.18 to 0.1.22). Those updates improved TLG's alpha gameplay and stability, fixed a ton of crashes and brought a lot of new features and quality of life, some new units and a much more enjoyable ex
Hi generals!! Another month has passed and here is the summary of everything that happened with The Last General! ALPHA EXPANDING During July I released multiple new versions of the alpha and also expanded it to 110 players with levels of activity 5 or more on the Discord ! By th
Hello generals! June was awesome and I made a ton of progress on the alpha (uploaded 0.1.12, 0.1.13, 0.1.14 and 0.1.15 a few days ago). The alpha playtest also expanded to a lot more testers in the Discord server, TLG hit 140.000 wishlists on Steam, and some of the Instagram vide
Hello hello hello generals! May was a really cool month with a ton of progress. TLG hit 133.333 wishlists on Steam and the alpha finally starting expanding beyond my family and friends to some of the most active Discord members! Here is some of the stuff I worked on during May: C
Hello generals! This is the classic monthly recap compiling all the little progress updates I do on Discord weekly (or more often). April started with an April Fools joke where I switched to working on The Last Mayor (a city builder) instead of The Last General, causing mass pani
Today it's the 3rd anniversary since I started developing The Last General! Here is a pretty long video compiling some of the videos I captured during those 3 years (some never seen before and some new ones from yesterday and today). What's your favorite part?
Hi generals! February was a veeeery busy month preparing the game to start the first alpha playtest! NEW VEHICLES Added the NAFT4 fuel truck and TM-21 Volley MULTIPLE NAVIGATION MESHES I worked quite a bit on navigation mesh generation to reduce edge cases that were causing some
January was a very productive month! Here is some of the stuff I worked on: INFANTRY WEAPONS, FIRST PERSON CONTROL AND MORE Added a better rifle (R4A), a machinegun (Fermin), anti-tank missile launcher (NPAT), anti-aircraft missile launcher (Scorpion) and a shoulder fired rocket
Happy New Year Generals!! December was a really crazy month, hitting 100,000 wishlists on Steam and also 100,000 subscribers on Youtube! What a way to close the year! This month I continued working on the navigation mesh rework, which took way longer than anticipated, but it's a
November was a busy month! I worked on a ton of different things, getting stuff ready for the alpha to start with family and friends in just 90 days (fingers crossed!): PLAYER COUNTS AND ALLIANCES Some parts of the game were limiting the maximum number of potential players to 4,
Hi! Here I am reporting for another monthly update! Last month I added direct control for all vehicles in the game (yes, that includes helicopters, airplanes, tanks, APCs, AAs, IFVs, Transport vehicles, trucks, everything!). I also implemented some new systems for camera placemen
After working on performance optimizations for a while and learning a ton of new stuff. I took the leap and worked on my own water and terrain shaders, which enable much better performance and support a lot of extra features I couldn't implement with the previous out of the box s
August was a fun month for my nerdy and performance obsessed side. Spent days after days profiling, finding the worst offenders and optimizing them, reorganizing systems, read/write dependencies, parallelizing some more things, unparallelizing some other things, caching a ton of
July is over and completely forgot to post my monthly update, so here I am!! Before recapping what happened in July, the big news are that The Last General just hit 75,000 wishlists on Steam yesterday!! Thanks everyone for that, it's incredible!! Ok, back to July! The month start
What a month! After releasing the new trailer video it went a little viral (170k views so far!) and a lot of new players got to know about TLG! It recently hit the 60000 wishlists and 2000 discord members milestones! I want to thank you all for all the kind messages about it, it'
Another month went by and we reached another great milestone: The Last General has hit 45,000 wishlists! It was a pretty busy month with a ton of nice progress, and rounding up some stuff for the new official video that will be coming out in about two weeks! Here are some of the
Hi everyone! April was a crazy month, with The Last General reaching 40,000 wishlists and 4,000 followers on Steam. Thanks a lot to everyone for supporting my dream project, it really means a lot to me! Here is a small recap of what happened in The Last General since the last mon
After 2 years of development and 6 months since the last trailer video I recorded for the game, let's go over all the new stuff I've been busy working on! UPDATED VISUALS Soon after recording the video I upgraded the project to Unity 6 and HDRP (was using Unity 2022 and URP in th