So... we've been one of the upcoming games at TactiCon 2023. We participated unsure of our results, but were blessed by an awesome response and left in a daze among the most popular games. Thanks to an unbelievable audience, we appeared on the first page of Popular Upcoming titles since the first day of the event, and we were proud to represent our beloved "Grand Strategy / 4X" subgenre in it's top 10! It was a humbling experience in the best possible ways.
We owe it all to you! If you were in that crush of gamers joining our little project, we want you to know that we appreciate you! And of course thanks to the organizers, Hooded Horse and Firesquid, who found us suitable to participate in such a heavily curated event.
Of hiccups
The success we saw at TactiCon was so sudden that we were taken a little by surprise and had to scramble to create additional test games, each bigger than the one before. This meant that our capacity for hosting new test games was being stretched. We sincerely apologize if you have had any inconvenience regarding joining a new game, even though waiting is still always better than joining an empty multiplayer session. :)
Our Discord is integrated with the game and new games always get announced there, so in case you didn't get a chance to try it then, want to see how we're doing or be the first to know about updates and new game worlds, we recommend you joining it!
On What's Next
With the rush of new players, we also received -among a host of suggestions - a bunch of feedback about missing instructions and tutorials. Though this is a pre-early access demo, we heard those criticisms loud and clear and are working to create something to help with those first steps. We and our community are working on some additional guides, as well as an in-game advisory system, which will be included in the demo before the next big feature group, diplomacy. The last thing we want is to turn you off from the dream we're working on!
Thank you again for this wonderful experience! See you in-game!
Join our community on Discord to chat, get more info about the game and participate in pre-EA testing! https://discord.gg/QgERDnU Support the development of Feudums on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/feudums