Hi everyone!
It was great to receive so many positive messages after the previous devblog, thanks for your support! We are working like hell on our game, and the pace is picking up. This is partially due to the fact that we have taken quite a number of new staff on board. You will see results of their work very soon.
Let’s take you through a number of steps we have taken since the last update.
Engine upgrade
The engine generated a lot of questions (pun intended) when we indicated that there will be many new possibilities. These have to be tailored to our game, which is what we are doing at the moment. Thanks to the BestWay programmers adding many new features, we were able recently to show a new animation type on our YouTube channel and we will produce many more of these in the future.
Cinematic trailer
Many community members want to see a trailer of some sort, and so we are working to make that happen. This depends on a number of things we are working on, such as new textures and animations. We are on it at the moment.
Store page
We also want to do a total remake our store page pretty soon - it’s been a long time since we last updated it so that would be a good idea. The content on our current store page is a bit outdated and we want to get rid of the placeholders that suggest we are building a mere sequel to the MoW series using old 3d models; this is not the case and we want the store page to reflect this. To be continued.
What’s next?
What’s in store for the next updates?
We plan to give you a “catalog” devblog soon, that shows you just about everything we have made so far. This will include all of the tanks, vehicles, artillery, infantry, support vehicles and more. We will present another new mission. We expect to be ready to start the beta. We will be working on a trailer. You name it, there’s lots of stuff to do in our summer holidays!
Workshop support
Another question that is asked very often is about workshop support.
Gates of Hell will have full steam workshop support and you will be able to use all of those new objects in the editor, which will be included in the package.
Gameplay and testing
The reason you have not seen any in- game footage is that we are porting to the new engine, which includes us getting a new user interface. The one we use for testing the new engine is a placeholder interface. We think it does not look good enough to show you, and besides that, it would be kind of misleading and people would not comment favourably for sure. However, as soon as we can, we will show you loads of gameplay screenies and videos.
The community
We were slightly surprised to find out that many Gates of Hell followers didn’t know we are an indie studio. Maybe we were not open enough about that in the past? Well, now that it’s in the open, we also realise that many of you have been following and supporting us for quite long. This is highly appreciated, so we keep pushing to get you the best and most realistic game ever that was built on zero budget. Thank you all!
Your comments
We appreciate the support we get! We also value your opinion. The best place to make sure we see what you think about the game and how you would like it to be is our community forum. Feel free anytime to give us your views and ideas. Many of them have been put in the game already!
That’s it for the moment, but before we go, here’s some stuff we want to show you:
Meanwhile, this is where you can find other posts and stuff we don’t put on Steam:
- Vkontakte https://vk.com/gates_of_hell_game
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/gatesofhellgame/
- Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMrTBgEINlBPIAKwUieLwtw
- Twitter https://twitter.com/gatesofhellgame
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/18888916/
That’s it for now. Thanks for checking us out! We think we’ll have a new update for you next month. In the meantime, enjoy your summer…