FIRST UPDATE FROM THE NEW DEV TEAM
Hello Tribesmen,
Drowne’s here, the new Game Director of Voodoo. As you might remember from my last update, the game changed developers and Indiegala had entrusted my team to continue Brain in the Box’s legacy.
The update you long waited for is here. Thanks for the patience and the incredible trust we have received from you all! The game has now an open server in Europe and the new version is available.
We strived to maintain the original feel and core of the game while addressing some hard pressed issues. As such, the game is now called TITANS: Dawn of Tribes and the art direction had changed significantly to match what we had in mind. The new name reflects better, in our opinion, where this game is going. The Titans will be the core of the game as much as the sense of community (“Tribes”, from the name).
We loved the naiveness of the original concept and kept some of its distinctive elements while addressing data streaming and lighting quality. This required a total overhaul of the Izimu, scrapping the old map and models - something that will be addressed over and over again in the next months as we collect gameplay data - and a full code rewrite. At the same time we developed a more definite background and story to support the emerging gameplay we envisioned. More on that with future updates, but fear not: the player and his choices are still central to our experience.
It’s your world, your village, your people.
If you are looking for a new wallpaper, check this one out:
Good hunting and godspeed.
Changelog:
- Changed the game name. Now it’s TITANS: Dawn of Tribes.
- Changed the team. Now it’s 34BigThings, the guys behind Redout, and the fresh blood of Event Horizon Studios.
- New art direction, old design and flavour.
- Changed the map. This is a new iteration but it’s far from final. As we said many times so far, we want to keep iterating on this one until we are satisfied with it and then move to expanding it as much as possible.
- New character, tattoos and skins. We presented some concept art about it in the last update, now you can play with it and let us know what you think!
- Changed the resources. Removed a lot of animals, except the gazelle because it moved us to pity.
- We temporary removed the Izimu (now called Titan) from a game named TITANS because we love them and wish to provide the best combat experience. It will be back in the next major update (crossing fingers for February).
- Changed all the Buildings, Armours, Weapons, Tech and props.
- Extended the gameplay, refactored the game crafting system.
- Refactored all the code. Down to every single bloody comma.
- Refactored all networking. Burned down the servers and sowed new ones in their ashes.