03 Oct 2021Developer post

3571 The Game V. 0.98 is out!

3571 The Game is getting close to its final version with this version 0.98: more than 30 new NPCs with original dialogues, LOD models and implementation for all buildings, Unity 2020 Engine Update and first pass of final polish and optimization! More than 30 New NPCs With the new

3571 The Game is getting close to its final version with this version 0.98: more than 30 new NPCs with original dialogues, LOD models and implementation for all buildings, Unity 2020 Engine Update and first pass of final polish and optimization!

More than 30 New NPCs

With the new 30 NPCs and their unique lines of dialogue, the procedural worlds of 3571 The Game are more alive than ever. Replayability is at its best as you will be able now to meet very different people each time you generate a new world, from ninja soldiers to mutant idiots.

It is now more than a hundred different characters than the game engine can use to populate the procedurally generated worlds of 3571 The Game. Most of the new NPCs will join your journey if you choose the right words with them. This gives funny and surprising gameplay loops between frequent fights to survive against droids and monsters. But be careful ! Keeping your NPC army alive will be a real challenge as they can a little bit too brave sometimes.

LOD Models for all buildings

Among the several performance bottlenecks fixed for this version 0.98, one of the most game-changing was to create several LOD models for each building, which increased performance by a lot, almost doubling the framerate in some cases.

Now when seen in distance, each building 3D model is replaced with a low poly model, reducing the total number of polygons by 40% on average. This means that every single part of the game now is more fluid than ever, without reducing the quality or the number of elements in the game. This was a lot of work as there is a consequent number of different buildings in the game, but the result was worth it.

Unity 2020 Engine update, polish and optimization

Developing this game has been a very long adventure for me, that started back in 2012 when I wrote my first line of code. The first final polish and optimization pass have been done: optimizing the game engine, physics, graphics, gameplay and source code, as well as fine tuning the details and correcting the last remaining bugs.

With new LOD 3D models system the game performance is now really awesome knowing it manages each frame hundreds of NPCs and enemies in a full 3D realtime world. I also did a lot of performance analysis and found several other optimization corrections : better AI management and reducing function calls when possible, physics engine optimization, lighting and textures optimization, and a new ground items collision management that saves up a lot of useless realtime calculations. It is now time for me to work on the final 1.0 version of the game, with the last polish pass and the last content optimizations.

Bug Corrections, polish and optimisations

Fixed: 7 items were impossible to pick up when on the ground
Fixed a physics engine bug causing lags after long in-game sessions
Physics time step have been lowered, objects behave more realistically
Fixed a bug causing the « Guard » button not working at start
Grounded items no longer needs to check if the player is near individually
Sound levels have been balanced
AI combat rework : NPCs are more dynamic during fights
Several minor performance optimizations and bug corrections
Fixed several textures that were too dark or too bright

3571 The Game v0.98 features

Huge performance and stability improvement
New LOD levels for all procedural buildings
30 new NPCs with unique dialogues and items
Updated to Unity 2020 Engine for better performance and compatibility
First optimization and polish pass
More realistic physics and collisions
Bug corrections and engine optimizations

Welcome to the future

Thanks for reading! If you want to try and support the game, or if you want to try time travels, 3571 The Game version 0.98 is available right now in early access on Steam. See you in the future!

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20 Apr 2021Developer post

Levels of Detail Performance Patch and new NPCs !

Hi everyone ! What a year, I hope you are all fine. I'm happy to announce I've finally been able to work on the game again - What's new: - All complex buildings now use 3 different level of detail meshes ( or LOD), increasing drastically the overall performance on all setups. Thi

17 Nov 2019Developer post

v.0.9 Stability Patch

Let's have a look at the new screenshots of version 0.9! And thanks to the latest patch, 3571 The Game version 0.9 is now very stable, and I finally got many positive player feedback about performance. 1. More FPS I implemented a completely new collision detection system. Precisi

Let's have a look at the new screenshots of version 0.9! And thanks to the latest patch, 3571 The Game version 0.9 is now very stable, and I finally got many positive player feedback about performance.

1. More FPS

I implemented a completely new collision detection system. Precision is almost the same when selecting an item to pick or a NPC to hit, but a huge amount of unnecessary calculations in the physics engine have been avoided leading to exponential increase in performance.

2. Less Lags

I finally eradicated two major lags occurring during a game. The first one is when you kill a NPC: initially all the AI of every single NPC restarted to analyse their surroundings to be able to react to any death. This was fun sometimes, but sometimes leading to strange behaviors. Plus this caused this very uncomfortable lag. The second lag I managed to get rid of was when the player increase in XP level. In fact I was saving the whole game currently running instead of saving player stats changes only!

3. More control

I added an option to activate / deactivate the vertical sync, which adds a very short latency on player input sometimes but offers a much smoother screen display rate. The two movement axis of the mouse were slightly different, I changed the settings to have a symmetrical movement rate: camera and character movement are really smoother.

4. True facts about 3571 The Game

You can perform huge fishing rod jumps
High intelligence level allow you to activate quantum superpowers
You can kill stronger enemies using volcanos
You can mount dragons, horses or giant wolves
Many UFO's will randomly appear to drop dangerous beings on earth
You can gather resources and build headquarters, walls, doors chests and bags
You can craft weapons and armors, bombs, tools or deadly traps
Zombie or alien invasions will sometimes happen
You can use pieces of dead animals as armors or weapons
The music adapt in realtime to the stress you character endure
Giant meteorites can end your game in a second
You can compete for the best survivor with players around the world in Official Mode
You can convince human NPCs to follow you and get killed
You can enter in every house and destroy any object to get resources including dead bodies
You can find many vehicles including cars, and crush NPCs with it
You can choose how the game generate in Custom Gameplay Mode
Several parts of letters are missing in the new logotype of the game

5. Welcome to the future!

Thanks for reading! If you want to try and support the game, or if you want to try time travels, 3571 The Game version 0.9 is available right now in early access on Steam. See you in the future!

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13 Oct 2019Developer post

3571 The Game v0.9 available

The most crazy apocalypse generator is now version 0.9! New animals and monsters, volcanos, alien creatures and vegetation, spaceships, new HD GUI and new icon design, new farming system and new game engine 2X faster... What else? Better apocalypses With new interactive environme

06 Oct 2019Developer post

3571 The Game v.0.9 Update WIP #4

The next 0.9 update of 3571 The Game is the most "Natural" Update: You can now grow 3 new types of fruits and vegetables! Simple to use, and priceless when you need long-term food supplies. Radioactivity and Global warming Fortunately, the Earth in the year 3571 is radioactive, a

The next 0.9 update of 3571 The Game is the most "Natural" Update: You can now grow 3 new types of fruits and vegetables! Simple to use, and priceless when you need long-term food supplies.

Radioactivity and Global warming

Fortunately, the Earth in the year 3571 is radioactive, and the global warming flooded 99,99% of the planet. If this can involve potential health issues for your avatar, this also leads plantations to grow super-fast and never need water.

Feel free to plant anywhere and you'll get delicious radioactive fruits in one or two days only! No really! Just put a fruit on the ground with the right click and wait, instead of the left click usually pressed to eat it. After 5-10 fruits, your plantation or tree will disappear quickly.

Three new types of vegan food

If you can kill any animal form of life and get meat from it, now you can enjoy a wider variety of tasty vegetables and colorful fruits thanks to 3 new types of items.

The Peach and Berry cannot be cultivated but still can grow in natural conditions. The three new items, the Lemon, the Tomato and the Corn can all grow in one day if planted.

One of the new animal NPCs is the Bull. So everyone can create a cosy ranch and watch the end of the world eating 100% natural 3-horns bull meat with radioactive tomatoes from the garden:

Next 0.9 "Natural" Update features

This update will add lots of content, new mobs, now survival features, new items, new ultra fast 3D engine and brand new UX design, with HD icons for every item.

Version 0.9 will include:

- Really fast new 3D engine ( 2X faster than v0.8 )

- Plantation system ( lemon tree, tomato plant, corn plant )

- 25-30 new items and weapons

- New GUI and UX design

- New HD icons for all items

- 10 new animals and monsters including the chicken

- General optimisations and bug correction

Welcome to the future

Thanks for reading, if you want to try and support the game, or if you want to try time travels, 3571 The Game is available in early access on Steam. See you in the future!

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04 Oct 2019Developer post

3571 The Game v.0.9 Update WIP #3

Alien creatures and vegetation will spread on the last lands of our dying planet in the next 0.9 update: the future have never been so exotic! Alien dwarfs want the world Sometimes, while trying to survive the apocalypse you'll find yourself attacked by a strange small grey dwarf

21 Sep 2019Developer post

3571 The Game v.0.9 Update WIP #2

A new enemy will haunt the procedural worlds of the next 0.9 "Natural" update: in the year 3571 wasps are giant and angry, but also provides brand new useful items. Let's have a look at this new apocalyptic mutant animal! Flying murderer This monster comes from forest biomes but

15 Sep 2019Developer post

3571 The Game v.0.9 Update WIP #1

After 6 months of work on the game engine to get 2X more FPS, the next 0.9 "Natural" Update is on the way ! Let's discover the cutest of the 10 new NPC included in the next version of 3571 The Game: the chicken! The less dangerous forms of life of the future The mutant slug is ac

18 Mar 2019Developer post

3571 The Game v.0.85 "Performance" update new patch

Thanks to your feedback, 3571 The Game version 0.85 have been upgraded again with more FPS, better controls and new features in this new patch! More and more FPS The most demanding graphic feature was the water reflections, as they multiply draw calls by at least 2. So I decided

03 Mar 2019Developer post

3571 The Game v0.85 "Performance Update" - Weeklong deal 40% off!

Weeklong Deal: 40% off 4.03 > 11.03 ! Finally enjoy a 60 fps gameplay experience even fighting a thousand enemies in a huge and very dense procedural apocalypse. Don't miss the new gameplay video at the end! Faster Engine I : Unity 2018 Why so much time before a new update? Ex

Weeklong Deal: 40% off 4.03 > 11.03 ! Finally enjoy a 60 fps gameplay experience even fighting a thousand enemies in a huge and very dense procedural apocalypse. Don't miss the new gameplay video at the end!

Faster Engine I : Unity 2018

Why so much time before a new update? Except the fact that I’m a solo developer with a full-time job, it’s mainly because I needed to switch to new Unity’s version for further development of the game, compatibility issues and of course, performance.

To be short, when a new version is out, Unity automatically updates all your files the best it can, then you game opens with a thousand of red alerts telling you that half of your scripts won’t be able to work like they used to and that your game doesn’t work anymore. Of course, these scripts are connected to all the others, leading to nights of coding and puzzle-resolving. You also need to learn a bit about all new functions to make sure you’ll get the best of Unity. But now, the whole engine is much faster and clean.

Faster Engine II: A.I.

To manage more enemies than ever without freezing your screen, every single A.I. decision or action is now executed in a controlled order which avoid overheads.

When you start playing in a procedurally generated world in 3571 The Game, each building, physical object, resource and NPC is already generated too and their respective behaviors are updated every frame, just like the player. This leads to lots of unusual stories, emerging from the random positions and behaviors of each world object at any given time.

For example you may want to explore a huge forest biome, but at its heart a droid dungeon have been generated close to some human headquarters, leading to a terrible war still happening while you'll walk across these cursed woods.

The counterpart of this system is that every A.I. of the world is permanently kept « alive » to be able to react to any small change in their environment. I managed to speed up the whole process by listing all A.I. tasks and executing them in a regular and controlled order.

Faster Engine III: textures

As the game generates a great and completely random amount of 3D models on a huge 3D terrain, inventing a better global texture management became a useful effort to increase game performance without compressing the HD textures implemented in the precedent version.

Every texture is now part of bigger atlases to reduce draw calls. Most materials now only have diffuse and normal texture layers, for maximum visual effect and minimal processing time. Height maps weren't really adding lots to visuals but could slow down rendering a lot so I decided to remove them. It’s hard to see the difference, except for your frame rate !

Faster Engine IV: shadows

The number of light sources generating shadows also becomes an issue. To be able to keep realtime shadowing of the sun I decided to give a the biggest fps-boost of this update by using a different and cheaper way of lighting the world buildings.

The main sun will still project realistic shadows, helping you to measure the time of the day for exemple. This applies too for the lamp carried by the player, vehicle lights, and other special effects. But for the sake of a very, very huge increase in FPS, torchs, lamps, and every light attached to a building will just illuminate in realtime without real shadow projection. However, I increased the subsurface scattering to keep a good visual atmosphere in any case.

Faster Engine V: scripts

After months of testing, profiling and investigating, I discovered lots of inaccurate settings or repetitive functions that could lead to low performance.

I even discovered that some of the props were duplicating each time the player loads a game, which of course is very, very problematic. This have been corrected ; I also discovered dozens of other small inefficiencies, like launching the same function several times… Millisecond by millisecond, the game engine is now faster and cleaner.

User interface: bigger

When playing at very high resolutions, the main pause user interface may appear really small. I recreated everything in HD to be able to switch for a bigger window if desired.

When the game is set to a resolution wider than 1600 pixels, a small « zoom » icon appears at the top of the screen, allowing you to switch for a much bigger pause window and in-game inventory shortcut bar. Some fonts are also globally bigger, like the AI analysis and the Action tooltip.

At this point I would like to thank my friends for their feedback, and @Maboy on @Steam for his very useful review and suggestions.

Gameplay video: 10 minuts of apocalypse

Last but not least : watch the new game engine in action in this exclusive 10 mn long gameplay video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBAtq9xExMY&feature=youtu.be

Next Steps

I'm waiting for more player feedback. When I'll be sure the engine is perfectly stable and fast in any condition, I'll upload a free demo and start to add the last - but not the least - content before the final release: recruit orders, farming... and hidden secrets.

If you want to support the game and try to create a huge apocalyptic version of the earth, the early access is available: You'll also be able to challenge the best survivors in the world and see if you can survive longer in the Official Gameplay Mode.

Thanks for reading, see you in the future !

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23 Nov 2018Developer post

3571 The Game v0.8 is out • Autumn Sales 25% off!

Future is coming! We're getting close to the final version and this new update will blow your mind if you ever tried 3571 The Game before. If not... then welcome to the year 3571! New World generation: A procedural algorithm of the 4th millenium After years of work, I am finally

Future is coming! We're getting close to the final version and this new update will blow your mind if you ever tried 3571 The Game before. If not... then welcome to the year 3571!

New World generation: A procedural algorithm of the 4th millenium

After years of work, I am finally happy enough with the game mechanics to add new content and variety to the Earth of the year 3571, and a real futuristic and apocalyptic atmosphere. Still no voxels! :D

• RICH ENVIRONMENT: I added 50 random decorative props that will enhance your experience of time travel such as huge rocks, bushes, ruins, temples, alien and mutant plants, flowers... There are also whole new sets of buildings and furnitures ( new droid basements with futuristic furnitures and computers, old abandoned burning medieval houses, savage caverns populated with mutant monsters, alien forms of life... )

• PROCEDURAL BUILDINGS: The number of different building base structures have been multiplied by 2, and each building also generates procedural different architectural and gameplay elements. You won't find the same house twice now. Some small towns can even be generated, and some conflicts and war can arise at any time.

• MICRO-BIOMES ALGORITHM: Procedural world generation algorithm now generates micro-biomes ( urban, forest, desert, mountain, mutant, alien, lake, beach, droid, desolated, etc... ) and different generated elements such as trees, rocks, buildings are now placed seamlessly and naturally across the map.

• NEW DAY AND NIGHT LIGHTING SYSTEM: More realism: sun light now softly turn orange at sunset and pale pink at sun rise. Enjoy a beautifully coloured world in the morning if you survived the night!

New Vehicle System: the only machines that won't try to kill you

Since early access first release 0.6, you can ride horses, giant wolves, and even dragons... But guess what: now you can also ride vehicles that will randomly appear ( or not ) during the procedural world generation.

• REALISTIC VEHICLE BEHAVIOR: Start, accelerate, spin, brake, physically damage enemies or friends, even damage your car and finally explode with it: the new vehicles won't feel like an animal ride. Wheel friction simulation and realistic physics will be your new best friend during the apocalypse.

• WIDE VARIETY OF VEHICLES: If you can find cute, small and slow cars, old wrecks or even convertible rusty sports cars, you will also sometimes find a motorbike or a monodriver droid ship. Each vehicle have different characteristics such as resistance, weight, power, road handling...

Time Travel Graphical User Interface new design

Design and GUI system have been updated a lot to include new functionalities and new game content. But this time, I wanted to define the final look of the user interface: sci-fi, functional and pixel perfect.

• ALL-IN-ONE PAUSE MENU INTERFACE: Everything you need to know is compacted in a elegant unique central window, and using inventory, bag and equipment is really intuitive. It's simplicity is apparent as it includes tooltips, hints, stats, options, and everything you need to interact with the world.

• NEW IN GAME GUI: Now you can see your avatar equipment while playing, also acting as a Mouse control tooltip! As the roguelike side of the game is meant to make you die a lot, I also hided small pixelart skulls on the graphical user interface that are so cool. Sorry. I should get some sleep after this update.

• FUTURISTIC PIXEL PERFECT: I really wanted the GUI to look more futuristic and more appealing: transparency effects and pixel perfect grids, more accurate typographic design and a very precise layout. This interface is used for almost everything in 3571 The Game, and feeling good with it makes the game really more immersive.

New craftable bag: Carry more, loose more.

In 3571 The Game, you can carry a very realistic (low) amount of objects on your inventory. But this was so frustrating that I created a new craftable bag item, which will allow you to carry up to 20 more items.

• NEW GUI SYSTEM FOR BAG & CHESTS: With the new GUI design also comes a new and more intuitive system to pick objects from your bag, or from one of your chests: now their content is integrated directly next to your inventory in the main all-in-one interface window.

• NICE LOOKING BAG: The new craftable bag will require 8 leather hides, and will suit you very well: you can wear a full armor and and your bag at the same time, no problem! You can't put your bag in your inventory ( pockets! ) or in another bag, as it would allow infinite bags in bags in bags and would result in a global paradox that would eventually destroy our universe.

The Game Engine enters the 1990's

Lags. Low FPS. Frustration. Anger. Sadness. Forget all these things from the past and enter a new era: the game engine have been completely optimized, and I'm really happy to say that the game will finally do justice to your hardware.

• 1990's LOW POLY DOESN'T MEAN UGLY: Now every texture in the game is HD, better lighting, camera settings are better, and the smooth-1990's-low-poly textured visuals of the game never looked so good.

• HUGE PERFORMANCE INCREASE: Game engine have been globally optimized, each step of launch is now faster and more stable. Pooling NPC models instead of destroying and creating them was a hard but useful work. No more lags.

• STORYTELLING GENERATOR: The new richness of the generated earth and the exponential number of possible random situations is really fun, and most of the time will kill you too. So just press "Play" and see where very dense procedural level design, realistic physics, random cataclysms, zombies, evil droids, magic powers and inter-NPC autonomous wars will bring you.

Time travels have never been so affordable

New awesome update! Black Friday! Steam Autumn sales! It's definitely time to invest in a 3571 Time Travels © perpetual membership : 3571 The Game is 25% off!

• SUPPPORT INDIE DEVELOPMENT: I never wanted to launch a Kickstarter campaign to finance 3571 The Game. Instead I wanted to make the game fun to play as soon as possible and give players the opportunity to get the actual version of the game for a low price while being able to download every later update.

• ENJOY AN ALREADY VERY COMPLETE GAME: Huge content & replayability, lots of random events and game options, you're not buying a simple demo or pre-alpha version of a prototype.

• STORYTELLING GENERATOR: The new richness of the generated earth and the exponential number of possible random situations is really fun, and most of the time will kill you too. So just press "Play" and see where very dense procedural level design, realistic physics, random cataclysms, zombies, evil droids, magic powers and inter-NPC autonomous wars will bring you.

Next Steps

I'll upload soon a gameplay video to reveal all version 0.8 new stuff. I hope you'll enjoy playing 3571 The Game! Next Updates? Version 0.9 will be about nature, animals, growing wheat... and the final version will concentrate on micromanagement aspect of recruiting NPCs: New character models, and a Recruit Orders Menu to build a real empire and survive the apocalypse longer than ever!

Thanks for reading, and see you soon in the future!

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17 Nov 2018Developer post

New Droid Dungeons - v0.8 Work in progress

"A droid basement! I have a full equipment and God-level skills... Awesome, let's loot!" • • • "They have Tripods too? I may have underestimated their number." • • • "Leave me alone! Let me loot your headquarters in peace!" • • • "Go away stupid droid! Enemies on the first floor

10 Nov 2018Developer post

Graphical User Interface - v0.8 Work in progress

As an art director during the day, I worked a lot on 3571 The Game design elements during the night. I am finally happy of the result after many years and many versions. I really like the new futuristic look and it is still very effective and fast to use, combining all RPG functi

21 Oct 2018Developer post

World Generation - v0.8 Work in progress

New world procedural generation with +100 new natural and architectural elements, micro-biomes, all textures are now in HD with a better camera rendering. Let's have a look at our brand new apocalyptic Earth! NEW WORLD PROCEDURAL GENERATION More variety means better game stories!

13 Oct 2018Developer post

Game development video - Vehicles system

Time travel to the end of the world in the year 3571 and find old cars from the 1990s to smash droids and zombies in the next version 0.8! Version 0.8 will be available soon: Vehicles, new buildings and NPCs and more. Thanks for watching! Music: 3571 Orchestra / FRAPPA STUDIO 201

09 Oct 2018Developer post

Cars & Vehicles - Work in progress

3571 The Game version 0.8 coming soon Hi everyone, I'm back to work! Lots of new features to come with the v0.8: vehicles, new buildings and enemies, better graphics and lighting, FPS increase... Today, let's have a look at the vehicles! Unlike mobs using a pathfinding algorithm

15 Apr 2018Developer post

3571 THE GAME v0.7 - The BIG Update is out

Welcome to a brand new version of 3571 The Game. Players, I’ve heard you! Afters months of work on the core game engine let's discover an updated user-friendly combat system and these 2 new gameplay modes! CUSTOM GAMEPLAY : 18 new game options in a brand new Custom Gameplay Mode:

Welcome to a brand new version of 3571 The Game. Players, I’ve heard you! Afters months of work on the core game engine let's discover an updated user-friendly combat system and these 2 new gameplay modes!

CUSTOM GAMEPLAY : 18 new game options in a brand new Custom Gameplay Mode: world size, difficulty level, more rare items... Create your own apocalypse and choose your style! You can even disable permanent death. Yes you can.

OFFICIAL GAMEPLAY : Of course, you can still try to beat the score of the Best Survivors in the Official Gameplay mode. Difficulty here is locked in hard but I've made a lot of gameplay balance improvements, thanks to player's feedback. Melee combat are now really challenging and fun. Impossible fights are a thing from the past. You'll always have a chance to survive now.

And also plenty of new cool stuff! Let's start:

NEW « CUSTOM » GAMEPLAY MODE

Welcome to the new customizable year 3571 parallel dimensions! You can choose to set the world like you want, explore every game possibilities, and find you own kind of fun. You cannot set a new highscore when playing in custom mode, but you can do everything else :

No permadeath:

You can now load your last save if you don’t want to loose your nice game because of a stupid meteorite and a bad luck.

No random events:

Speaking of, you can now disable these meteorites, and also these stupid droids spaceship attacks. No more random disasters!

Be careful though, this also means additional NPCs will never spawn and the world population won’t renew itself when everyone will start to die ( I mean when the game starts )

Zombies every night:

if the game isn’t hard enough for you, you can add zombies spawning every night.

Starting Equipment:

Start your game with a really futuristic medieval equipment ( 1 helmet, 1 chest armor, 1 shield, 1 sword and some food )

Hostile humans:

Funny option! With this option you can’t recruit NPCs anymore. In fact they will all try to kill you. You won’t have no friends anymore.

More Rare Items:

Trees won’t spawn guns, but items you will find in buildings will have 50% greater chances to be rare items. Who said lightsaber? What? A legendary samurai sword? Wait, wait. A Must click option provided by 3571 Time Avatars services.

No droids:

Make these metallic annoying creatures herited from our time disappear from the year 3571.

No humans:

You always wanted to try a « Last Survivor on Earth against all calamities » scenario ? Now you can. Horses will be your only friends, if you can find a peach.

No monsters:

Tired of dragons, werewolves and other strange aliens with helmets? Now you can focus on killing droids. ( And mutant animals )

New world creation options:

Big world, Small world and Medium world options have been added. Smaller maps means less space between NPCs and buildings, meaning lots of fights, and lots of fun.

New character options:

starting skills points levels Normal, Knight and God starting point options have been added. You can now start with the power to kill enemies. No, really.

New difficulty level options:

Hard, medium, easy difficulty level options have been added. Lower difficulty means : you need to eat and drink less, enemies are weaker, random events are less dangerous…

New density options :

Crowded, Medium and Sparse population density options have been added. You can choose how many friends ( and enemies ) you will have to kill.

Don’t worry if you like difficulty. The official gameplay mode is still alive! With good old permanent death! Start with a very weak avatar in a maximum-difficulty procedurally generated world and try to survive longer than the best players around the world.

NEW COMBAT SYSTEM & GAMEPLAY EVOLUTION

Most players like high difficulty, but they noticed 2 problems: too much impossible combats, and a lack of fun during melee fights. I worked weeks on a new combat system and interface.

The combat gameplay have been deeply transformed and balanced : I wouldn’t say the game is really easier ( it’s an apocalypse after all ) but it will feel more glorious to die as you can now hit most enemies with chances to do consistant damage, and see your enemy’s health level when fighting.

Damage points processing have completely been reviewed, to allow the player to damage stronger enemies if he fights perfectly and if he’s also lucky.

New small windows allow you to see health level of NPCs in range of a melee attack

New illustrated labels allow you to see when you perform special combat tricks ( parry, push attack, combo… )

Your avatar will still start with very low stats, but you always have a chance to hit with damage when attacking an enemy ( minimum is 33% chances to succeed )

Minimum hit damage set to 1% of enemy’s maximum health when your hit succeed.

You have some chances each hit to make a critical hit, depending on your speed or intelligence level

Attack damage depends on your energy ( white bar ) level. 100% energy means 100% damage, and 0% energy means 50% damage

Fall damage now decrease according to the player’s resistance level and have been decreased ( 20% ) and jump height before being injured is a bit higher.

Energy level regenerates 5-10% faster, according to your resistance level

Hitting with a melee weapon uses 20-40% less energy, even when performing a triple attack combo or a jump hit. Damage level you can inflict decrease with your current energy level ( white bar ), so this is a very good new for smoother combats.

Now you can parry ranged attacks with your buckler but it will decrease its durability

You can also parry ranged attacks by protecting yourself with your melee weapon but with limited chances of success based on your skills and shooter’s skills.

I’m really trying to find a very difficult, hazardous and challenging gameplay that would still be pleasant, interesting and fun. Tell me if you feel the difference ! And of course if you feel 3571 The Game have a good fun potential, please feel free to leave a comment, or even a Steam Review! This would be awesome.

NEW « SKIP TUTORIAL » OPTION

Now you can jump directly into hell, without having to spawn in the 3571 Time Avatars Company’s comfortable and enemy-free « Reception Desk of Tutorial ».

FIRST PLAYERS IMMORTALIZED

As the Official gameplay difficulty and mechanics have change for the best, I immortalized the first 3571 Best Survivors directly in the game credits for their bravery.

They were the first to believe in the game and they’re now part of it. I will reset the leaderboards score end 2018 for the official release of the version 1.0. You can still try to start with all your stats at 15 to feel what it was to play 3571 The Game in the first version. ( just imagine your weapons are doing absolutely no damage most of the time before days of constant fight and training )

( Oh, yes you can improve ( very slowly) your combat skills abilities when you hit trees, objects or rocks. During the 5 years of development I’ve hidden a lot of stats management secrets like this one :) )

IMPROVEMENTS & BUG FIXES

World map ground texture generation have been improved: better design and more render layers with systematic normals and bump mapping
NPCs should all be able to launch correctly idle animation when reaching their home locations after a fight
When customizing your character’s appeareance, or when pausing the game, a symbol appears at screen to show if you play in either custom or official gameplay mode.
Loading time of both new and saved games have been reduced by 10-20%
In-game FPS rate have been increased by 5-10%
Low population rate and/or world size and Simple Water option activated can now drastically improve performances for low-end computers
Player character Force level increase the player’s melee attack faster by 5%
NPCs stop attacking the player when the player is dead
Human NPCs that were attacking you now still attack you after saving and loading your game
Bug corrected with water rings when a NPC is in coma
Game credits added
New illustrations and design for the main menu

This update will be available this week on Steam!

I also decided to start a new price promotion to launch this update, and to create a free demo this week: I still lack of player’s feedback about the current state of the game. Please share your maps, your bugs or your needs! Thanks for reading and see you soon in the future, I hope you’ll enjoy testing all these new options!

Original post

24 Mar 2018Developer post

Next Update Roadmap - Gameplay Options ( April 2018 )

Hi everyone, and thanks for all the feedback. I think the next most important challenge for 3571 The Game is to give players more gameplay options while keeping the spirit and the difficulty of the original game alive. I started to work on this "Custom Gameplay" option: The actua

24 Mar 2018Developer post

Next Update Roadmap - Gameplay Options ( April 2018 )

Hi everyone, and thanks for all the feedback. I think the next most important challenge for 3571 The Game is to give players more gameplay options while keeping the spirit and the difficulty of the original game alive. I started to work on this "Custom Gameplay" option: The actua

01 Feb 2018Developer post

3571 The Game v0.63 "NPC Wars" Update available

Planet Earth is at war! NPC A.I. have been upgraded: enjoy crazy random battles everywhere, an easier combat system with less one-shot kills and a few corrected bugs. I. GAMEPLAY - Combat A.I. update: Each non player character now have a fully independant decision and pathfinding

Updates & announcements

3571 The Game is getting close to its final version with this version 0.98: more than 30 new NPCs with original dialogues, LOD models and implementation for all buildings, Unity 2020 Engine Update and first pass of final polish and optimization!

More than 30 New NPCs

With the new 30 NPCs and their unique lines of dialogue, the procedural worlds of 3571 The Game are more alive than ever. Replayability is at its best as you will be able now to meet very different people each time you generate a new world, from ninja soldiers to mutant idiots.

LOD Models for all buildings

Among the several performance bottlenecks fixed for this version 0.98, one of the most game-changing was to create several LOD models for each building, which increased performance by a lot, almost doubling the framerate in some cases.

Unity 2020 Engine update, polish and optimization

Bug Corrections, polish and optimisations

3571 The Game v0.98 features

Welcome to the future

Thanks for reading! If you want to try and support the game, or if you want to try time travels, 3571 The Game version 0.98 is available right now in early access on Steam. See you in the future!

The most crazy apocalypse generator is now version 0.9! New animals and monsters, volcanos, alien creatures and vegetation, spaceships, new HD GUI and new icon design, new farming system and new game engine 2X faster... What else?

Better apocalypses

More life to kill

Welcome to the future

The next 0.9 update of 3571 The Game is the most "Natural" Update: You can now grow 3 new types of fruits and vegetables! Simple to use, and priceless when you need long-term food supplies.

Radioactivity and Global warming

Three new types of vegan food

Next 0.9 "Natural" Update features

Welcome to the future

Alien creatures and vegetation will spread on the last lands of our dying planet in the next 0.9 update: the future have never been so exotic!

Alien dwarfs want the world

New organic forms of life

Next 0.9 "Natural" Update features

Welcome to the future

A new enemy will haunt the procedural worlds of the next 0.9 "Natural" update: in the year 3571 wasps are giant and angry, but also provides brand new useful items. Let's have a look at this new apocalyptic mutant animal!

Flying murderer

Ready made wasp equipment

Next 0.9 "Natural" Update features

Welcome to the future

After 6 months of work on the game engine to get 2X more FPS, the next 0.9 "Natural" Update is on the way ! Let's discover the cutest of the 10 new NPC included in the next version of 3571 The Game: the chicken!

The less dangerous forms of life of the future

Looting is caring

Next 0.9 "Natural" Update features

Welcome to the future

Thanks to your feedback, 3571 The Game version 0.85 have been upgraded again with more FPS, better controls and new features in this new patch!

More and more FPS

Accurate mouse movements

Random Apocalyptic Storytelling

Next Steps

Weeklong Deal: 40% off 4.03 > 11.03 ! Finally enjoy a 60 fps gameplay experience even fighting a thousand enemies in a huge and very dense procedural apocalypse. Don't miss the new gameplay video at the end!

Faster Engine I : Unity 2018

Faster Engine II: A.I.

Faster Engine III: textures

Faster Engine IV: shadows

Faster Engine V: scripts

User interface: bigger

Gameplay video: 10 minuts of apocalypse

Next Steps

Future is coming! We're getting close to the final version and this new update will blow your mind if you ever tried 3571 The Game before. If not... then welcome to the year 3571!

New World generation: A procedural algorithm of the 4th millenium

New Vehicle System: the only machines that won't try to kill you

Time Travel Graphical User Interface new design

New craftable bag: Carry more, loose more.

The Game Engine enters the 1990's

Time travels have never been so affordable

Next Steps

"A droid basement! I have a full equipment and God-level skills... Awesome, let's loot!"

"They have Tripods too? I may have underestimated their number."

"Leave me alone! Let me loot your headquarters in peace!"

"Go away stupid droid! Enemies on the first floor too! "

"Another tripod? I definitely don't feel welcome here, let's go away from this metallic hell."

"I'll be back with an army! Guns, bombs and a tamed dragon, you'll see! Humans will resist!"

LESS IS MORE WORK

INTERFACE HISTORY

MORE ABOUT THE NEW DESIGN

NEW WORLD PROCEDURAL GENERATION

NEW BUILDINGS

NEW HD TEXTURES

NEW NPC SPAWNS

Welcome to a brand new version of 3571 The Game. Players, I’ve heard you! Afters months of work on the core game engine let's discover an updated user-friendly combat system and these 2 new gameplay modes!

NEW « CUSTOM » GAMEPLAY MODE

NEW COMBAT SYSTEM & GAMEPLAY EVOLUTION

NEW « SKIP TUTORIAL » OPTION

FIRST PLAYERS IMMORTALIZED

IMPROVEMENTS & BUG FIXES

I. GAMEPLAY

II. CORRECTED BUGS