Hey Folks!
Please welcome our new friends at Kitfox Games, community manager Alexandra and director Tanya. Some of you may know them for their publishing work with the devs of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud. We've known them for a while through our indie dev circles. And today we’d like to announce that Kitfox will be helping us reach 1.0 launch next year in 2025. We hope that this new collaboration will not only give us the support we need to focus on developing the remainder of our roadmap, but also entice more people to check out Ostranauts.
We've put together a new trailer to show the latest state of the game, to announce the upcoming launch timing, and reveal the new publishing partnership. Please give it a watch, and share it with anyone you think might enjoy it:
Our Across the System Update 0.14 is now on the Steam default branch. You can read all the patch notes and update information here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1022980/view/6647962234211919914
Speaking of updates, here is the new version of our roadmap, outlining our development plan leading up to 2025, and beyond. Our hope is that by 1.0, you will have a robust feature set and ample content to play with, and that we will be able to continue to update and improve Ostranauts well into the post-1.0 future.
What else can you expect from this new partnership?
Of course we'll continue to post patch notes and other updates, but you might also be hearing more about community events and other exciting things we are doing with Kitfox’s help. You’re welcome to join the Ostranauts channel on the Kitfox Discord server, as there will be many Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud fans who might be intrigued by what Ostranauts offers, and they could use an experienced scavenger to offer tips and tricks.
We will be hosting a special stream on the Blue Bottle Twitch channel to commemorate the announcement tomorrow, September 5th, at 1pm Pacific (8pm UTC). Alexandra from Kitfox will be joining us as we discuss the latest .14 patch and future updates.
If you’d like to ask us questions, there is also an AMA scheduled on r/games on September 10th, from 9-11 am PST. Daniel, Joshu, Corey, and Kitfox will be around, so join us if you’d like to discuss this update, the partnership, or Ostranauts development in general.
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And as always, we’d love to hear what YOU think about this news, the new update, or even what you'd like to see post-1.0. We couldn't have gotten this far without your help, and we'll keep doing what we can to make Ostranauts your go-to place for noir spaceship-life gaming.
Best,
Dan, Tanya, and Alexandra