Hello everyone!
Firstly and as always a huge thank you to our awesome community for your support this year. The hard work of our raid testers, the general enthusiasm and kindness of the community, and the overall reception to the project this year have all been overwhelming.
So you may have seen our End of Year Update video. (If not the video is below!) This video covers our main goals and plans for the upcoming year.
We had hoped to get the new map ready to be played before the end of year, but we decided given our limited time before the EOY, we’d focus on getting our previous maps as bug free before we take a refresh and reset break.
While being insanely blown away by the support we’ve received, I can confirm the effort of this year has thoroughly smoothed brains across the team. Due to team members having family holiday obligations, we decided it was best to take January 1st to February 1st as a break. This will help us take a breath, hopefully massage some wrinkles back into said brains, and overall come back swinging hard in February.
Over this month, we’re going to still try to keep testing going (more for organized fun, then dev testing). Likewise while slightly slower we’ll still be around on our discord, answering tickets, questions and making sure everything is going alright. Indiegogo keys will be sent every week as normal.
When we’re back we’ve got some big plans to expand and crack into the next stage of the game. Without giving away dates (for which I can’t promise just yet anyway) we’re aiming to get what we’re calling “Raid Alpha 2.0” ready to go ASAP. This includes a new larger map, persistent save system and more teams moving into a dynamic team system. After that we’ve effectively got ourselves a survival game.
After we’re feeling confident that the majority of bugs are squashed, and the game is as optimized as we can get it, we’ll be aiming to enter Beta officially. We then plan to use beta to continue squashing and tuning, while adding missing core features such as our Animation Overhaul, Cavalry, Worker Buildings and several of our key ideas that make our game unique.
Till then folks I just want to say another huge thank you to our backers and testers. The fact we’ve gotten this far as a small indie team is testament to the quality of our community and the support you’ve given us. It blows me away to think we started the year with a Basic Combat System Demonstration, and we’re ending it one step away from a real (if still very young) survival game.
On behalf of everyone at RDBK Studios we hope everyone has a great holiday and new years.
Again thank you all so much for an amazing year.